Chapter 180: The Officials Rule the Five Sparse

Sudden death, in fact, means sudden death.

This term can often be seen in history books, generally referring to a series of political and conspiracy struggles behind the scenes, and historians dare not write the real cause of death.

Therefore, a violent death here is the end of life.

But generally "violent death" = "you know"!

That's why Ye Yu felt that there must be some conspiracy in this, otherwise why would a living woman suddenly die in prison.

But after You Bao's general account, as well as the cell boss's response, there seems to be no doubt about the cause of Lin Weihan's death.

However, Ye Yu was still not very relieved, and asked Xiaomei to examine Lin Weihan's body, and finally made sure that he had not been harassed before his death, Ye Yu let You Bao and the others go.

However, he did not give up on this matter, so he took Lin Weihan's body and went to the medical hall in the city.

And the reason is that Ye Yu never believed that Lin Weihan would die violently, and Ye Yu couldn't believe him in the government's pretenses.

But it's a pity that the doctors in several hospitals in the city have not been able to find out the real cause of Lin Weihan's death, and there is no poisoning in the slightest.

Ye Yu frantically ran to almost all the medical halls, and all the doctors were in agreement.

At this moment, Ye Yu gradually accepted this fact, although he didn't want to believe this result.

In the scorching summer, the weather in the south was extremely sultry, but Ye Yu held Lin Weihan's body and sat quietly on the top of the mountain, overlooking Lin'an City in the distance and fell into contemplation.

Lin Weihan lay quietly in Ye Yu's arms like this, although her body had already exuded a slight smell, Ye Yu didn't care at all.

For the woman in his arms, although Ye Yu has not moved his feelings. But the moment he heard the news of his death, he really felt like a knife in his heart.

Looking at the afterglow of the sunset, the mountain breeze blew, and a tear slipped from the eye, crystal clear, broken in the palm of the hand......

Ye Yu clenched the letter in his hand tightly, and couldn't help but burst into tears. Maybe it's because I'm stumped by another feeling in my heart, and I can't get rid of it for the rest of my life!

"It's a flash in the pan, just for Wei Tuo's ......" Ye Yu stared at the eight words in the letter, shook his head sadly and was silent for a long time.

Legend has it that Epiphany and Venerable Veda under the Buddha's seat have a story of lingering grievances, so Epiphany is also called Veda Flower.

A long time ago, Epiphyllum was the goddess of flowers in the sky, she bloomed every day, and the four seasons were brilliant.

Later, Epiphany fell in love with the man who watered and weeded her every day, and after the Jade Emperor learned about it, he sent the man to Putuo Mountain to study Buddhism, and gave him the name Weituo, which means that he wants to forget the past.

The god of flowers, on the other hand, is relegated to an epiphany that can only bloom once a year.

Many years have passed, and Wei Tuoguo forgot the god of flowers as his name, devoted himself to studying Buddhism, and gradually achieved success.

But the god of flowers can't forget the young man who once took care of her. She knew that every year in late spring, Veda would always come down the mountain to collect morning dew sencha for the Buddha.

So the epiphany chose to bloom at that time, and she bloomed the essence that had gathered for a whole year at that moment.

She hoped that Vedor would look back at her and remember her.

But thousands of years have passed, and Veda has come down the mountain year by year to collect morning dew. The epiphany bloomed silently year after year, but Wei Tuo never remembered her.

How could Ye Yu not know this allusion, but in Lin Weihan's letter, it was affection that made him feel deeply.

Ye Yu knew that this was a metaphor for her past with Wei Tuo......

A flash in the pan, only for Veto;

Wei Han died, only for the front edge;

Is this what is called cause and effect? Ye Yu was asking himself repeatedly in his heart!

The sunset is infinitely better, but it is just near dusk, Ye Yu looked at Lin Weihan who was sleeping in his arms, and smiled faintly: "Sleep, forget all your worries......"

After burying Lin Weihan, Ye Yu has been very depressed, he doesn't believe that Lin Weihan died violently, but the body is decomposing in the hot summer, and Ye Yu can only give up the plan to continue the investigation.

If you can't live in peace before you die, if you can't go to the ground early after death, Ye Yu really can't bear it.

The letter was handed over to him by the maidservant Xiaomei, saying that it was entrusted by Lin Weihan before her death.

And from the letter, Ye Yu also roughly knew Lin Weihan's past experience.

Lin Weihan was born in a jade family, and her father Lin Hong was a famous jade carver merchant in the south of the Yangtze River, and his ability to carve was famous far and wide.

The Lin family has a big business, but Lin Hong's only regret is that he is over half a hundred years old but has no male under his knees.

For the ancient people, it was always unbeautiful to have no heirs to inherit the incense and family business.

But this kind of thing can't be demanded after all, and over time, Lin Hong will accept his fate.

But the appearance of a man completely changed the fate of the Lin family.

Sun Ming is a homeless man begging along the street. Lin Weihan saw that Sun Ming was very pitiful, so she took pity on her and took her home as a housekeeper.

With the passage of time, this Sun Ming is not only good-looking, but more importantly, diligent and studious, especially very talented in carving.

Therefore, Lin Hong couldn't bear that there was no successor to his jade carving skills, so he accepted Sun Ming as an apprentice.

Time flies, Sun Ming stayed in the Lin family for two years, and almost took Lin Hong's skills into his bag.

While Lin Hong was pleased that there was a successor, he planned to let Sun Ming join the Lin family, and Lin Weihan's love for the first time was also a good impression of Sun Mingsheng.

But tragedy happened, and it didn't take long for thieves to sneak into Lin's house.

What the Lin family didn't expect was that Sun Ming was the internal response of this group of thieves. And the purpose of two years of incubation, in addition to learning the art of jade carving, is more important is the heirloom of the Lin family - Thousand-Armed Guanyin!

The thousand-armed Guanyin carved from mutton fat white jade can be described as a priceless treasure, so this heirloom is hidden in an extremely secret place.

In the past two years, Sun Ming has been under the influence of open and secret agents to find out the place where the Thousand-Armed Guanyin is hidden.

Therefore, the Lin family was ransacked, except for Lin Weihan, who was not at home, the rest of the people all died under the knife.

Therefore, Lin Weihan always felt that it was she who led the wolf into the house to suffer such a tragedy.

After that, Sun Ming disappeared without a trace, and even the government did not know the movements of these people......

After cremating his parents, the gangsters didn't know how to save between heaven and earth, so there was a scene of Qingliu River throwing himself into the river.

Leaving Qingliu County, all the way to the capital, unfortunately abducted into the Qinglou, Lin Weihan, who was originally the daughter of a rich family, is naturally talented and beautiful, so he has become one of the three major Oiran of Dark Xiangfu.

thought that there was no hope of revenge for this life, and she could only be a dusty woman, but a man surnamed Xiao appeared and changed the trajectory of her fate.

not only took her as an oiran, but also helped Lin Weihan track down Sun Ming's whereabouts.

Later, I learned that this Sun Ming changed his name and surname, and now he has become a wealthy jade merchant in Jiangnan, and with a lot of money, he donated a small official position.

And that's it, the man surnamed Xiao easily solved the matter, which made Lin Weihan very grateful to the other party......

After Ye Yu read the letter, he really realized what happened to Lin Weihan, and the ups and downs were not far behind himself.

However, what made Ye Yu slightly suspicious was that this man surnamed Xiao was who had such a big hand.

It's a pity that Lin Weihan's letter doesn't describe this too much. After asking Xiaomei, Xiaomei also didn't know the details.

It's just that people are dead, and they still want to do so much.

……

In the blink of an eye, it was autumn, and recently Zhao Yan specially asked Ye Yu about the strategy of governing the country.

Ye Yu put forward the current situation of the imperial court, and put forward the five sparse rules of the officials!

Strict law of corruption, heavy evaluation of officials, elimination of redundant officials, strict selection of officials, prohibition of the style of friends......

One of the most important of the five strategies stated is to eliminate redundant officials.

In Lin'an City, the top high-ranking officials had nothing to do all day long, and they turned a blind eye to the accumulation of more and more documents on their desks, even if they really piled up into a mountain.

Because if you want to work, you will be looked down upon. And the thing that can be looked down on is the mutual pinch between parties.

In other words, it is dog eats dog!

And this situation is the main reason why the official system is bloated, cumbersome, and low-level.

The so-called too many people do not work and shirk their responsibilities, this is the truth.

In the field, officials at all levels do only two things. Drill camp speculation in order to get promoted; Clever taxation is demanded in order to bribe.

The imperial court had such courtiers in large numbers, and what is even more tragic is that the size of such officials is growing rapidly every minute.

There are more than 4,000 officials in Beijing in Lin'an City. This is only in office, and the number of alternate officials remains at about 8,000, ready to join the ranks of the 'civil service'.

The number of local officials cannot be counted, but the incomplete statistics of the seven prefectures of Zhedong Road have reached the total number of registered officials in Lin'an City.

It is conceivable what kind of officialdom world the entire south of the Yangtze River will be.

The bloated accumulation of these officials is like a moth, eating away at the seemingly prosperous and wealthy Southern Song Dynasty all the time.

According to the statistics of the Song Dynasty, the annual income of the Northern Song Dynasty was only 1.5 million, with an average of 12 per month. 50,000 guan; During the time of the Divine Sect, it increased to 360,000 per month;

Zhao Gou's Shaoxing era increased to 800,000 per month, and Zhao Tuan's turn was 1.2 million per month.

The territory has shrunk, the land has become smaller, the officials have increased, and the wages have become inflated!

And that's just the base salary, not counting all sorts of super lucrative rewards.

As for the army, it has become even more outrageous, the Sichuan Xuanfu Division, which is known as a strong soldier, commands more than 70,000 troops, and 17,700 generals at all levels, with an average of less than 4 soldiers led by each officer!

Originally, the people on one side only needed to support ten officials, but now there are not many people, but the number of officials has increased to more than 100 people.

The wool comes from the sheep, and in the final analysis, it is the common people who are exploited. Later historians were idle all day long, and counted the unprecedented wealth of the two Song dynasties.

But they don't know that this kind of abundance is just a façade. The people of the Song and Song dynasties were rich, but it also gave rise to many exploitations by these officials.

Therefore, in order to get out of this vicious circle, among the five strategies, the top priority is to eliminate a number of useless officials.

Otherwise, in the long run, the imperial court will be completely dragged down by these people sooner or later!