Chapter 233 Sweet dates after a stick

The purge lasted only three months, with no more than 100 officials killed, thousands of people imprisoned and sentenced to residential surveillance (mainly low-level officials and vice-officials at the grassroots level), and tens of millions of yuan of confiscated stolen money and illegal proceeds from auctions (the reason why the crossers had to eat a large number of auctioned land and real estate at low prices was not because of black box operations, but because there were too many unsuccessful auctions caused by panic), all of which enriched the Imperial Anti-Corruption Fund.

The social atmosphere is invigorated, of course, there is no continuous follow-up action, and this state will also be like the rapid transition to the state you know at the beginning of the new dynasty in the past dynasties. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is just a tool on the table, and there is a huge system of public scrutiny and public opinion supervision behind the scenes. As soon as there are signs of public outrage, the person in charge may have to say goodbye to officialdom.

In terms of the means of encircling the central government at the local level and encircling the cities from the countryside, I am afraid that few people in this era have been able to make two moves in the hands of the traversing people who have experienced the all-round three-dimensional bombardment of the brainwashing tide such as pyramid schemes. When the forces in various places have to be subdued by money, land, status, and more opportunities for advancement, a small number of stubborn ultra-conservatives are insignificant. Although the Great Purge after the founding of the People's Republic of China did not kill a few people, it made them more uncomfortable to take away the positions of these old-fashioned literati, doctors, and bureaucrats who could only write moral articles and play tricks with real political achievements than to kill them.

It's not terrible to lose your seat, but you're afraid of losing the chance to turn over forever. These good-for-nothing mediocre officials and the sons and daughters of gentlemen who relied on their grandparents' relationships to become officials naturally quickly disappeared into the crowd. A very small number of officials who relied on the connections and internal resources of the government in the old Song Dynasty quickly recognized the situation, quickly changed their past habits, and became indispensable cadres in the new government. On the contrary, the speed of promotion is far faster than that of those disciples who have not touched the seal, the officialdom, the raw melons and eggs and the disciples who have crossed the public. The opportunities are equal, and those who can only write articles naturally can't compete with the execution and experienced old officials.

Under the guidance of the Travelers, the new team of officials erupted with great enthusiasm, and an unprecedented system mobilized all the principles, consciences, morals, and self-discipline of the officials of the empire. That is, if you obey the rules set by the traversals, you will be promoted and rich, and if you don't obey them, you will lose everything (including freedom and life).

Of course, the benefits of being an official are not in vain, if you want the shepherd dog to do a good job, you must give them enough treatment, and if you want the horse to run fast, you must give the horse more feed and tender grass. Don't think about the high salary in the Song Dynasty, the people who traveled through the public originally used the rising redundancy to drag down the finances, and were forced to issue treasury bonds to make the Song Dynasty finish. It is naturally impossible to commit suicide if you are in charge of your own house.

After greatly reducing the burden of eating idle meals, in order to promote consumption and marketization, all officials' salaries were changed to cash payments, and material benefits could at least ensure that officials could feed a family of more than a dozen people, and live a life of fish, meat, houses, and cars. Of course, these benefits are not one-time in place. Houses and pensions are the bulk of income, and the housing of government officials during their tenure is a large house with a symbolic rent of a little rent, and there is a knighthood and an independent yard, and only after retirement can they get a private pension villa. The pension is a stable and high income that is doubled according to the model of the standard national pension insurance. The actual power of middle- and lower-level officials cannot be exchanged for more bribes than these. Therefore, after weighing it, it is natural that I dare not do this kind of loss-making business. Not to mention the treatment of the top. However, almost all the power that can be exchanged for money is held in the Senate, and the functions of various departments of the Government Council carry out the decisions and approvals of the Senate. All you have to do is keep an eye on the few hundred people in the Senate.

The possibility of more corruption is extremely low due to all-round supervision, and the opportunity cost of small corruption is so high that the cost of corruption and bribery is unacceptably high and can be easily eliminated.

Although honesty has been achieved, efficiency is the biggest difficulty. The first two steps of seizing power and cracking down on corruption in the three steps took almost two or three years to complete, but the pursuit of efficiency is difficult to achieve in one step. The hardest thing for a large organization is not to expand, but to streamline itself and maintain efficiency. Just like it is easy for a person to gain weight and it is difficult to lose weight. It is even more difficult to gain muscle and improve energy and stamina. The people-oriented mindset should not only be implemented in the people served by government officials, but also the attitude towards officials. In order to turn the tendency and fact of being an official into a noble value and profession, rather than the object of envy and hatred in the past, it is necessary to start by creating a new image. Material treatment is secondary, and the key is spiritual treatment.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Xinyu started the first batch of national defense projects, including the demolition of large sections of the Great Wall to build a military city agglomeration in the north, the strategic depth of advancing to Lake Baikal, and the appearance of a large number of garrison corps outlets on the Mongolian Plateau. Each small fortress was a military base and logistics center that radiated hundreds of miles around the perimeter, and everything the herders needed could be exchanged from here, without having to travel thousands of miles to the New Mongol City to trade. As the center of the province on the Mongolian plateau, the new Mongolian city has built a magnificent monument to ethnic integration and a martyr's shrine (commemorating the fallen soldiers and unnamed middle and low-level officers), which was ranked on the first page of the first batch of national defense projects by Wang Xinyu. Wang Xinyu, who was baptized by the ideological system of the modern army in the past, was well aware of the role of spirit and faith in combat effectiveness, so he focused on the spiritual aspect of building the army during the period of comprehensively surpassing all countries in the world and dominating the world and the four seas. The necessity and unity of peace, order, and a sense of honor for the fundamental interests of all nationalities and the existence of the armed forces should be regarded as the core of spiritual construction. The belief in the imperial army was gradually established, and the idea of a mercenary who was forced to serve as a soldier in the ancient feudal state and who was good at eating food and not a soldier was good at fighting iron and nails was changed to a modern army with a strong sense of honor and spiritual beliefs.

Since the army has spiritual construction, it can multiply its combat effectiveness, what about the bureaucracy? Obviously, it is the same, imperialism has established a system similar to the sense of honor of the nobility in the past after the fact of the civil service examination system, dedication and initiative need to be driven by faith, and the scholars and bureaucrats who used to be the main faith for the family's property and land increase also reshaped the three views after seeing that the empire gave officials with excellent political achievements can receive the same sacrifice and incense as the generals who sacrificed for the country, and the treatment is almost equivalent to that of a god. This sense of honor is not known how many times higher than the treatment of Feng Wenzheng and Feng Taishi after his death.

The Wu Temple was transformed into a martyr's shrine dedicated to the generals who sacrificed their lives for the country or expanded their territory in the past (including those of ethnic minorities from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, reflecting integration and inclusiveness of the Han nationality). In the past, Guan Yu, the loser, as a representative who adhered to his principles and always stood in line with the Han family and fought against the traitorous Cao Cao and other separatist forces, was accompanied by the statue next to Jiang Shang, the grand strategist and military strategist of victory, was also removed. The criteria for a military attache to enter the Martyrs' Shrine are very simple, that is, military personnel who have persistently sacrificed for the country and the nation in foreign wars. All the generals who sacrificed in the power war who mainly focused on fighting in the nest were downplayed, and Ran Min, the martial mourning king, who was a martial spirit, became the main object of sacrifice.

The Temple of Literature erected in Shenjing has been transformed into a pantheon, and it is dedicated to historical figures who have made outstanding positive contributions to innovation in the fields of culture and art, technology and institutions, and even eunuchs like Cai Lun are alongside the great writer Sima Qian. Confucius also stepped down from the altar and became one of the sages along with the hundred schools of thought, fading the halo of the most holy teacher.

Civil and military attachés are all officials, and since officials have material and spiritual momentum, then the efficiency is not much lower! (To be continued......)