Soon, the court staff also left, and Zhang Chao was also ready to conduct an audit of those officials who were about to leave. Because this matter was contracted by himself on his own initiative, it is natural that he should be responsible for bringing people to audit. However, this is obviously a job that offends people, but Zhang Chao is not afraid. Because Zhang Chao knew that he was destined to be incompatible with the mainstream officialdom, if he wore a pair of pants with them, he would definitely be used and betrayed by them. He has a bad background, just a poor family, and he is not a scholar. The Hanmen was looked down upon by those scholars in terms of blood, so it was naturally impossible for the scholars to give him a good face. Therefore, since he wants to take the road of overthrowing the scholars, it is natural that even if he pleases the scholars, it will not be beneficial. Zhang Chao carried out the outgoing audit, that is, he hoped to clean up a group of corrupt officials of the scholar clan, and then support the poor to go up. This is the only way to gradually promote officials from poor families, and if we rely only on those so-called means of struggle, the effect is still too slow.

"Zhang Yushi, you are beautiful this time. Still, I want to tell you that you'd better be careful. What's more, if the water is clear, there are no fish, if you make the water in this officialdom clear, then what is the point? When the water is clear, there are no fish, this is the teaching of the ancients! ”

Zhang Chao saw this guy, that is, the official of Guanglu Temple, who should be a Guanglu Cheng. And Zhang Chao heard this, saying that if the water is clear, there will be no fish, as if it is very reasonable. However, Zhang Chao will not listen to this.

"The people pay taxes to feed us court officials, and we are not allowed to be corrupt. As for saying that if the water is clear, there will be no fish, and the people pay taxes not to let our court raise fish, so the water in this pool is really clear. I haven't heard that the people pay taxes to raise fish! Each of our Jiupin officials needs more than 20 families to feed, and everything else is not simple, so do any of you have a reason to be a 'fish'? Zhang Chao snorted coldly.

Zhang Chao is simply unreasonable for this kind of talk. It has been said for thousands of years that the officialdom is destined to be unclean and full of corruption. The so-called lies have been told a thousand times and have become the truth, and the so-called water is clear and there are no fish, which have been accepted by many people, believing that officialdom is destined to have some corruption, so that it is a normal officialdom, otherwise there will be no such situation of officials. However, this is an out-and-out lie, which is just used by those corrupt officials who have ghosts in their hearts to perfunctory the people, and as a result, they themselves have deceived themselves.

Just think about why people pay taxes to feed officials, don't they want them to have access to public services and make their lives better? When the people pay so many taxes to feed the officials, do they also have to feed the insatiable officials? As for saying that if the water is clear, there will be no fish, it must be a false proposition, but it is just a statement that corrupt officials fool the people. The people pay taxes to feed the officials, not to let them be "fish", but to let them do things well. What's more, the salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty were very high, and the salary of a lowest-ranking official in one day was already the income of ordinary people's whole family for five or six days, and even various benefits were not comparable to ordinary people. But isn't it unreasonable to be corrupt in this case?

As for saying that later generations said that officials' incomes were too low, so they would be corrupt, this is even more of a false proposition. Many people say that the income of North Korean officials is low, but where is it actually low? The income of a Jiupin official is supported by more than 20 families, and this income is definitely not low, which is enough for them to live a middle-to-upper-class life. As for the low income of North Korean officials, it is just that they are insatiable. When they became officials, they naturally wanted to live a good life, so they married wives and concubines to enjoy life, and those legal incomes were certainly not enough. is like Hai Rui, who has never been corrupt, the reason why he is poor is because he has raised several little wives and several servants, all of whom spend his money on nothing, so in the end, why didn't Hai Rui die by himself when he was poor?

Therefore, there is no dynasty in China where the officials have low incomes, but they are insatiable and have to enjoy a luxurious life that is much more than their own income, which is the reason why they think that their income is low. Therefore, it is simply a false proposition to say that officials have low incomes and are corrupt. In China, no official can justifiably claim to be corrupt, especially in ancient times. The income of officials in ancient times was higher than that of officials in later generations, and their various benefits were much better than those of later officials, so if they could all have a reason to embezzle, wouldn't the state servants of later generations be doomed?

Later generations of officials earned much less than in ancient times, but why were they still able to live? Isn't it because the officials of later generations don't have to support the three wives and four concubines of a large family, or a dozen servants or the like? Therefore, it is just that those officials are greedy for pleasure and insatiable greed that causes their own income to be low. Otherwise, with their income, they are enough to live a life of the lowest and middle class, and even better than the vast majority of the people.

"Hmph, since you are so unreasonable, then we have nothing to say!" That Guanglu Temple Cheng said.

Zhang Chao ignored him, but left the Taiji Palace alone, and then started the day's work. Zhang Chao began to transfer the low-level scribes in the Yushi Observatory, and also invited some account offices, so as to prepare for the audit of those departing officials, so as to find out a few corrupt officials.

"Tomorrow, we're going to start auditing those guys. The first thing I want to do is to go to Guanglu Temple to check! I don't believe it, you are a place where officials are as clear as water! Guanglu Temple is responsible for the imperial banquet of the palace, although it may not be as fat as the Ministry of Industry and the general as a supervisor, but it is also a place with a lot of gray income. I don't believe you can be so incorruptible. If you were as incorruptible as water, would you still object to me conducting an outgoing audit? Zhang Chao thought to himself.

Zhang Chao arrived in the evening, then left the Yushitai, and then prepared to go to Chang'an East City to buy some things. However, at this time, a knife suddenly came to Zhang Chao's neck.

"Are you the palace attendant Shi Zhang Chao?" A woman's voice asked.

Zhang Chao looked at the knife around his neck, and saw a woman holding a knife on his neck, obviously coming for him. And Zhang Chao felt that this woman was still very beautiful at this moment, but her expression was full of coldness, obviously if Zhang Chao acted rashly, he would be killed by this woman immediately.

"Now that you know who I am, do you know what it means for you to do this?" Zhang Chao asked calmly.

After more than 20 years of dangerous officialdom, Zhang Chao has long developed the psychological quality of Taishan collapsing in front of him and not changing his face. So now, although the other party is holding a knife to his neck, he is not afraid in the slightest. However, he heard this woman take the initiative to say her official position, and he already knew in his heart that this woman was definitely coming for him, and she had a political purpose.

"Come with me!" The woman said.

"Okay, I'll go with you!" Zhang Chao knew that this woman was here to kidnap him.

And this woman had no killing intent in her eyes, so Zhang Chao knew that the other party had no intention of killing her, which made Zhang Chao willing to go with him with confidence. Moreover, Zhang Chao knew that this was the East City, although the flow of people was a little denser, but soon someone would find out that he had been kidnapped, and then the officials of Chang'an would send people to search for him and find out the kidnapping criminal. So there is no problem with following him, Zhang Chao is not worried that there will be problems.

Sure enough, after Zhang Chao was kidnapped, someone soon secretly reported it to Li Yuan.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Yushi has been arrested! Could it be a nobleman? Someone immediately said secretly.

"It shouldn't be, the Shi clan has no reason to move Zhang Chao. They will only restrict Zhang Chao's development, but they will not kill Zhang Chao. If they kill Zhang Chao, it will be useless at all, and killing people will not solve the problem. Therefore, of course, the scholars knew that killing Zhang Chao would not only not solve the problem, but would increase the problem. And even if I kill Zhang Chao, I can support another person at any time, so they won't be so stupid. If they were so stupid that they couldn't even see this clearly, they would have been defeated by me long ago. Li Yuan said.

And the person who made the secret immediately said, "Could that be because he is going to conduct an outgoing audit today?" There are people in the court who are afraid that he will conduct an outgoing audit and be found to have shit on his buttocks, so they want to kill Zhang Chao? ”

And Li Yuan's face turned extremely dark, because if someone killed Zhang Chao in order to prevent his corruption from being discovered, it would be a very serious problem. If Zhang Chao is killed because of anti-corruption, how bad it will be to spread it! When the time comes, the matter will be really serious. A clean official is killed by a corrupt official, which will disappoint many people. Especially those imperial histories, the imperial histories are the people who are responsible for supervising the hundred officials, if the imperial histories are killed, it will definitely be a great insult. If Yushi can't even guarantee the safety of his own life, then I'm afraid that Yushi's team is really going to fall apart.

Sure enough, immediately several imperial historians from the Imperial History Observatory came over and began to ask Li Yuan.

"Your Majesty, we must strictly investigate this matter and find out Zhang Chao. Zhang Chao is the imperial history of our imperial history platform, if the imperial history can't even save his own life, then I'm afraid how can our imperial historians supervise hundreds of officials? ”

If the safety of their lives cannot be guaranteed, and they will be killed by those corrupt officials, then I am afraid that the imperial history will not dare to supervise the hundred officials. This is also the so-called rabbit death and fox sorrow, so at this moment, the imperial history also supports Zhang Chao, and does not let them be wiped out in the future because of the supervision of hundreds of officials? This is something they absolutely can't tolerate, if they supervise hundreds of officials and want to be exterminated by corrupt officials, then what do they mean by this imperial history?

"Okay, I will definitely send someone to find Li Yuan immediately."

In a brick house outside Chang'an, the woman sat down.

"Miss, may I ask you to tie me up, what do you want to do?" Zhang Chao asked.

The woman immediately asked, "You're not afraid of me?" You're not afraid I'll kill you? ”

"What is the fear of death? I don't do bad things on weekdays, I'm naturally not afraid of death, even when I go to Hades, I stand up straight. Zhang Chao said.

Of course, Zhang Chao was not afraid that he would kill himself, because Zhang Chao was sure that this woman would not kill him. Because Zhang Chao knew that the people who instructed her to come were definitely those corrupt officials who were afraid that they would find out the evidence of their corruption. But those corrupt officials didn't dare to kill themselves, and once they killed themselves, they were telling Li Yuan that they were going to kill people in order to avoid being found out. In ancient times and in later generations, discipline inspection and supervision officials were to be protected, and if the discipline inspection and supervision officials were all exterminated by those guys because they found corrupt officials and officials who violated the law, it would offend the officials of the entire supervision system, and he would become the public enemy of the supervision system.

Therefore, Zhang Chao knew that if someone dared to kill him, he would inevitably become the public enemy of all the imperial historians, because the imperial historians would also feel sad about the death of the rabbit and the fox. So as long as he is a normal person, he will not choose to kill himself, otherwise he will also face the revenge of all the officials of the entire Yushitai. This is just like the police being killed by criminals in later generations, then other policemen will also die like a fox and be sad, desperately helping to take revenge. Because if you don't help your comrades take revenge today, tomorrow maybe it will be your turn.

"You're direct? Do you have a clear conscience? The kidnapper lady asked.

Zhang Chao replied: "I naturally have a clear conscience, can I still do it?" Miss, you kidnapped me for a corrupt official, do you have a clear conscience? ”

"Of course I'm worthy of it, because I'm a ranger, and people are kind to me, so I naturally want to repay it." The young lady said immediately.

Zhang Chao immediately asked: "Then what enmity do I have with you, others are kind to you, and you came to kidnap me?" Am I not wronged in this way? Is this your Ranger style? ”

"This ......"

"We rangers have always robbed the rich and helped the poor, hoeing the strong and helping the weak, don't slander us rangers."

Zhang Chao knew that rangers had existed since the pre-Qin period, and they were representatives of the civilian class. However, their style of acting made Zhang Chao a little disagreeable. Because they advocate valuing righteousness over life, robbing the rich and helping the poor, hoeing the strong and helping the weak. Of course, valuing righteousness and neglecting life is worthy of praise, but robbing the rich and helping the poor and hoeing the strong to help the weak means means and methods. And these rangers still have a lot of bad behaviors, what glances are not in line with drawing knives, this is also where they are impulsive. Therefore, Zhang Chao, an official, does not feel very good about the ranger, at least psychologically, he does not agree with the behavior of the ranger.

Zhang Chao asked rhetorically: "How do you rob the rich and help the poor, and how do you hoe the strong and help the weak?" ”

"Robbing the rich and giving to the poor, of course, is to rob the rich people's money and then distribute it to the poor?" Miss Ranger said.

But Zhang Chao asked rhetorically: "Is the rich man guilty?" Although some people accumulate wealth through inappropriate means, the vast majority of people use common sense. Some people work diligently and then add some opportunities to make a fortune, so are they wrong? So you want to rob them of their wealth and give it to the poor? If you think about it from another perspective, you are a rich man, then you did not bully the people to accumulate wealth, then someone came to rob your wealth to help the poor, how do you feel? ”

Miss Ranger suddenly didn't know what to say, the Ranger robbed the rich and helped the poor, and there was still such a saying. Originally, she always thought that she was right to rob the rich and help the poor, but now she was actually asked by Zhang Chao about the idea. If the rich can make money legally, are they at fault? Why do you come to rob the rich and give to the poor?

Zhang Chao saw that this Ranger Miss had nothing to say, and couldn't help but sigh a little. These are the so-called rangers, and many of the rangers' thinking is actually not in line with Zhang Chao's thinking. When Zhang Chao was young, he naturally longed for the kind of heroic hero, who could rob the rich and help the poor. I think they are happy to take revenge, and it is refreshing to drink wine and eat meat. But when he grew up, he realized how naïve these ideas were. Because those so-called rangers were actually not good birds in ancient times. They rob the rich and give to the poor, but what is the sin of the rich? As long as you can make money reasonably and legally, the wealth of the rich is also legal, so why should it be robbed?

Even if some people will make money through illegal means and do illegal and criminal business, then the law should deprive him of his life and confiscate his property. It's not just a hero to kill them and divide their wealth. This is the difference between civilization and barbarism, and those rangers represent the idea of barbarism. Under the guise of robbing the rich and helping the poor, they use violence to redistribute the wealth of others. Although some of them are indeed rich and unkind, they themselves sentenced each other to death. Are they judges, and what qualifications do they have to make each other die? Their own thinking is to make a law for them, and anyone who does not meet the status of those rangers must also die.

"Your so-called pleasure and revenge are not enough to base your own happiness on the suffering of others. You don't look at each other with a sword, but have you ever thought about it, everyone has parents, wives and children, and if you kill them, what will happen to their parents, wives and children? Zhang Chao asked.

But Miss Ranger immediately said, "We are helping the weak to take revenge!" ”

"Is it your right to help the weak get revenge? Sometimes you kill the other person's whole family because you help a so-called weakling. But how innocent are their wives and children? Besides, do they deserve to die sometimes? Bullied ordinary people, many times the crime is not death, but you killed them without authorization, and even destroyed the door, what kind of behavior are you? If, as you say, it is okay for someone else not to come to destroy your door? Zhang Chao snorted coldly.

Miss Ranger still had nothing to say, and then finally said helplessly: "Then you say, what should I do?" ”

"Quite simply, we should rely on the state government to help ordinary people make decisions." Zhang Chao said.

"Hmph, rely on those corrupt officials?" Miss Ranger immediately snorted.

Zhang Chao said with certainty: "Of course, although the imperial court may not be able to help maintain fairness and justice at present. But I believe that after my transformation, I will be able to make the court much fairer. I believe that through the efforts of my comrades and I, we will be able to make the court much fairer, so that the rights of the weak can be guaranteed. Instead of relying on you rangers to violently defend the so-called fairness, and what you violently defend can only be greater injustice, because your existence is also the greatest injustice. You have martial arts and go to kill at will, aren't you bullying the weak? Therefore, as long as we can establish a court and law that upholds fairness and justice for all, that is the way to truly safeguard the benefits that everyone should receive. ”

"As for what you are talking about, I think it should be to create a world where everyone can have the opportunity to make a reasonable fortune through their own efforts. As long as everyone can make a fortune through their own efforts, Sister Hui is the best world, and the court can also maintain everyone's reasonable property. If everyone is poor, it is because they do not work hard and have no ability, then it is no wonder that others. It is not through you so-called rangers that you can violently rob others of their wealth and then distribute it to the so-called poor. ”

Miss Ranger immediately said disdainfully: "Does this kind of world exist?" ”

As a world where she has lived since she was a child in ancient times, Miss Ranger does not believe that this world can have a fair and just government, a world where everyone can make money legally, and can make a fortune with her hard-working hands. The scholars in this world have blocked everyone's path to progress, so the people of this era do not believe that there will be a fair and reasonable way to rise in this world.

In fact, Zhang Chao believes that the imperial examination system brings everyone not only an opportunity to become an official, but also an idea that can change one's identity and change one's class through one's own talents. This kind of thinking is far more important than the imperial examination system as an official, because before the imperial examination system, blood determines everything, and the blood of the scholar clan is destined to be able to rule. And with the imperial examination system, everyone can change their destiny through their talents. Only after the imperial examination system can knowledge change destiny be realized, otherwise it is the bloodline that determines the fate before, and ordinary people cannot change their fate even after learning knowledge.

However, the imperial examination system has not been implemented for a long time, and many people do not believe that they can change their destiny through their own efforts. This is also an important problem for the scholars to block the channels for ordinary people to advance, because too many people cannot get the opportunity to advance. Even this Ranger Miss would not believe that ordinary people could develop their own careers through their own efforts, because this idea that bloodline determines everything has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it cannot be removed in a short time.