Chapter 585: The Law of Suppressing Corruption

Sun Hui's next plan is to use his own strength and the transcendent status of "immortals" to forcefully rectify the corrupt officials of the Song Dynasty, but the specific operation, because he doesn't want to kill people, hasn't thought much about it.

"To rectify corruption, you can't use this form of 'inviting the gentleman into the urn'," Ye Chuchu looked at Sun Hui and said, "We must use strict measures to make them afraid from the bottom of their hearts, dare not be corrupt, and oppress the good." You can't be gentle here. ”

"Chu Chu, what do you mean......" Sun Hui seemed to see that Ye Chuchu already had an idea, and asked a little eagerly.

"Do you know what this Qin Yu did before he went to King Rong?" Ye Chuchu didn't answer him directly, but asked rhetorically.

"It seems to be the master of which official, right? I remember Linlin was what you told me. Sun Hui thought for a while, turned his head and asked Wang Linlin.

"He is one of the eight stewards under Zheng Tingchen, the right attendant of the household department." Wang Linlin nodded and replied, "Tian Tian and I met him when we first came to Lin'an. ”

"You may also have an impression of the specific experience." Ye Chuchu said to Sun Hui, "When Linlin and Tiantian were shopping, they saw several nurses beating a boy, stepped forward to stop it, and then took the child to the inn for treatment, and learned that the child's grandfather was killed, and the family's land was also robbed, at this time Qin Yu came, saying that these people were all officials surnamed Zheng, and the surname Zheng didn't know what they were doing, and after seeing the two fairies coming to Lin'an, he immediately arranged for Qin Yu to bring the murderer who injured the child and the murderer who killed the child's grandfather to make amends, and handed them over to the child to deal with, The boy took revenge by killing the man who killed his grandfather. Have you ever thought about it, why did the official surnamed Zheng take the initiative to hand over the murderer when Linlin and Tiantian didn't even ask for it? ”

"Afraid that Linlin and Tiantian will retaliate against him, right? This guy's brain spins pretty fast. Sun Hui said.

"Yes, this surnamed Zheng, his brain is not ordinarily fast, he knows that if he protects his subordinates, he will definitely suffer terrible revenge, so he took the initiative to hand over the murderer, although he was not necessarily reluctant in his heart. In the eyes of these officials, who are accustomed to acting as a threat to the common people, the life and death of the child and his grandfather are not a matter at all, but in the face of the power that he cannot resist at all, he knows what to do. Ye Chuchu said, "Later, after I learned about this, I also observed him secretly, guess what?" This guy not only secretly sent people to take care of the child many times, but also returned a lot of land that he had robbed and secretly robbed, accounting for about one-fifth of his total assets, in order to avoid revenge, or perhaps to please Linlin and Tiantian, he can say that he has paid a lot of money. I didn't expect that Linlin and Tiantian had such a great deterrent power. ”

Hearing Ye Chuchu say this, Sun Hui somewhat understood, "What do you mean, is it to use the method of 'heavenly punishment' to make those officials dare not be corrupt and oppress the good?" ”

"That's what it means." Ye Chuchu smiled and nodded, "For example, those officials in the implementation of the "Public Land Law" used their power to bully people and force them to buy and sell, secretly oppressed the peasants when collecting rent, and fought big into small fights, so we can bring the 'heavenly curse' to them." ”

"Good way." Sun Hui stretched out a thumbs up to Ye Chuchu, "Chuchu, you are so talented." ”

Sun Hui knew that the "Public Land Law" had made corrupt officials unrecognizable, first of all, to buy back the land that exceeded the limit. Due to the confusion of household registration and books in the Southern Song Dynasty, some big bureaucrats and big landlords relied on their power to collude with local officials and conceal a large amount of land, resulting in a shortage of buybacks. Therefore, the officials in charge adopted two methods to increase the number of buybacks: one was to deliberately exaggerate the number of acres of land of ordinary households and force them to sell more land. The other is that in order to cater to the imperial court in order to obtain rewards, the officials in charge of the field in order to report more fields, all the fields rented for six or seven buckets are reported as a stone rent of the field, and when the rent is collected, the original amount is lost, and the original landlord has to make up for it, and the land is barren or the land rent cannot be collected, and the landlord has to be replaced, thus causing "endless harm".

The second is the brutal exploitation of public land rent. There are also many ways to extract it. According to the provisions of the "Public Land Law", all public land that collects one stone rent only collects eight buckets of rent (later reduced to six or seven buckets), and the second bucket is regarded as "to prevent the disadvantages of other daily settlements, and the first thing is to subtract the yuan", and its consideration cannot be said to be inconsiderate. However, when it was implemented, some officials did not ask about the fertility of the land and the amount of the original rent, and in many places the original rent was only five or six buckets, or even three or four buckets, because of the barren land, and "eight buckets are still the case today." It is called rent reduction, but it is actually reversed.

Although the "Public Land Law" stipulates that it is strictly forbidden to collect more paintings, and to reduce or reduce the rent of land in the event of floods and droughts, these corrupt officials do not seriously enforce it. If there was a serious drought in Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and Jiangyin one year, the local branch officials were afraid of affecting the collection of land rents from the public fields, so they "burned 500 pieces of paper complaining about the drought and set up six long flail and Dabang Prefecture Gate" to intimidate the peasants. In the past, the rent was brown rice, but when Changzhou collected the rent of the public fields, the tenant farmers were required to change to white rice, and each stone was increased by one bucket and eight liters. He also collects rent with a large bucket, usually a bucket collects a bucket of thirty he. There is a magistrate surnamed Zhao in Danyang County, "it is a poor clan of scoundrels who do not learn, and they take advantage of the time to shoot profits", and they are charged at one hundred and sixty yuan per bucket. For this reason, Huang Zhen, who was one of the officials of the Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and Jiangyin branches at that time, said with a sigh: "The purchase of (public land) is not reliable, and it is not prosecuted for drought apologies, but it is inflated to take it. Urging and disturbing, the husband is not strange! As a result, tenant farmers who rented public land suffered greatly. Although all this was not the original intention of Jia Nidao to implement the "Public Land Law", it found more excuse for the bureaucrats and landlords to oppose the "Public Land Law".

"Yes, the people can't wait for them to be struck by lightning, so let's just fulfill the wishes of the people." Xiao Tiantian smiled and said, "Brother Sun, you will become a fire meteor, and it is just right to do this job." ”

"Yes, now we have the supercomputer 'Omniscient Eye', coupled with the detection capabilities of Linlin, Tiantian and Lili, to ensure that the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the Great Song Dynasty have nothing to hide, it depends on whether you can split it or not." Ye Chuchu said with a smile.

"Then I'm afraid that before I finish the split, people will have to die of exhaustion." Sun Hui grinned ugly.

"Will there be so many?" Xiao Tiantian tilted her head and asked with a smile.

"Hmph, there are those who have been wronged to line up these corrupt officials of the Great Song Dynasty one by one, but if they are shot one by one, they will definitely slip through the net." Du Lili replied for Sun Hui, "So Brother Sun's workload is still quite large." ”