The famous historian Mr. Wu Han once wrote: In ancient China, "for thousands of years, the era of careful reading of history, simple government and clean punishment, honest officials, and happiness among the people is simply the voice of Huang Zhong Da Lu, which is pitiful." ”

Since crossing over to the Northern Song Dynasty, Ximenqing has seen this with his own eyes.

At this time, in the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty, corruption almost became a common phenomenon, inside and outside the court, large and small officials, from the faint monarch and treacherous ministers, to the state and county officials, it can be said that ten officials and nine greedy, most of them are traitorous and stolen.

In Jingzhao Mansion, where Pei Xuan worked, the new prefect Wei Fu actually invented a new way of embezzlement - Bao Tho. This Lord Wei Fu was reluctant to use his personal money, but he used public funds to entertain guests and give gifts, and used official money to think for his own selfishness. Officials have passed, or 10,000, or 5,000...... Depending on the person's official position, there is more and less with it. The bold Lord Wei Fu didn't have to spend a penny of his own money, so he bought love for himself and weaved a network of relationships in the officialdom. Under his leadership, Jingzhao officials began to "send each other", small officials to big officials, subordinates to superiors, sent back and forth, and the treasury property eventually became the private money of corrupt officials.

Pei Xuan is a Confucian official, and every hole and every glance must be passed through his hands, Wei Fubao's corrupt behavior can only be hidden from him for a while, where can he hide it for a lifetime? So Pei Xuan first made a direct admonition and persuaded him to return the stolen goods to the official treasury, and since then he has repented and reformed, then the country is very fortunate and Li Shu is very lucky.

For corrupt officials, repentance and rehabilitation are myths; To Lord Wei Fu, repentance and rehabilitation are.

Lord Wei Fu is not only a god hand when making money, but also a hot hand when he is a person, Pei Xuan is shameless, he poked his lung tube repeatedly, and even stabbed his boss at the top many times. If it weren't for the fact that his bosses had been fed by Wei Fu, he, the prefect of Jingzhao Mansion, would have come to an end a long time ago.

Since Pei Xuan is unkind, don't blame Lord Wei Fu for being unjust. Under Wei Fu's secret instructions, the greedy officials of Jingzhao Mansion, who had long regarded Pei Xuan as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, rose up to attack him, and in the blink of an eye, Pei Xuan changed from the famous "iron-faced face" to a corrupt thief who was "secretly greedy for bribes and openly invited reputation".

When you go to Zuihou, even his appearance has become evidence of guilt - if you Pei Xuan is really a clean official, weishenme you don't eat meat and look so white and fat?

Lord Wei Fu's rare mirror was hung high, and he turned out the sword of the Taizu of this dynasty - "Governing the country in the state, and restraining the insatiable seeker with strict laws, if you violate my law, you will have a sword ear", and he is determined to put Pei Xuan to death and never suffer in the future.

But Pei Xuan is a native of Jingzhao Mansion after all, whether he is beautiful or not, his hometown water, whether he is close or not, his hometown, and the local officials see that he is unlucky, so he has to take care of him after all. Therefore, after Wei Fu made the dead document and sent it, he pushed it three times and asked six questions, and changed Pei Xuan's document to life. According to the old practice of protecting the corrupt, those who sit on the stolen goods and die are all given special loans, and they are only given "cane spine, black noodles, and salmon island".

What's more, some people really think that Pei Xuan is a fan of the archway, and he actually came to breathe with him, saying what "the Beijing Dynasty, the shogunate, and the state and county officials have been removed from the names of the states, and even if they are pardoned, they must not be returned, and those who have been released are not allowed to be used, although this is the old practice of the previous dynasty, but if Pei Kongmu is willing to let Brother Kong Fang suffer, Shangxian can also be returned as appropriate; If filial piety is more pious, it can also be reasoned, even if the stolen goods are heavy and reasonable, you can also grant the states to join the army, and the rest of the judgment department, the Beijing Dynasty official, the shogunate, the order record book captain, and the rank selection. ”

Although that guy said that it was a mess, even if Pei Xuan's family smashed the pot and sold iron, they couldn't get enough to send Brother Kong Fang to endure hardship, so they had to let Pei Xuan go to Shamen Island for a while.

When Pei Xuan put on the flail and wore the locks and stepped out of the Jingzhao Mansion in the cheers of the liberation, only a group of people spontaneously came to say goodbye, and that scene was not like sending the prisoners out of the city, but like sending their parents and officials to leave their posts.

This scene fell in the eyes of Lord Wei Fu, and it attracted the jealousy of Lord Wei Fu. Lord Wei Fu is a capable person who believes in "cutting grass without leaving roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows", when he frowned, he had already calculated it, so he wrote a detailed letter to his brother Wei Wen in Dangzhi County, Shandong, and then ordered his henchmen Tan Wu and Fu Bai Xingye to rush to Shandong on business.

The stigma of killing prisoners, Lord Wei Fu will never accept it, but if something happens to Pei Xuan's family of four on the ground in Shandong, then they can only blame them for their bad luck, and it has nothing to do with Lord Wei Fu.

Tan Wufu paid a visit to Wei Fu's secret order, and rushed to see the eldest master Wei Wen in the starry night. Wei Wen opened his brother's letterhead and looked at it, and immediately understood. But Lord Wei Wen is the respect of a county, how can this kind of thing come forward in person? Therefore, with a mouth, the henchman under his command can know the meaning of elegance without listening to the string song, and immediately pulled Tan Wufu out of the county yamen, and ceremoniously introduced Cheng Guan, the leader of the Grass Snake Gang, to the two distinguished guests.

That Cheng Guan wants to figure out his background, and he is afraid that Lord Wei Wen is not diligent, and when he is slipping to a critical juncture, he suddenly has a beautiful difference from the sky, how can he shrink his head? At the moment, he patted his chest loudly, did his best to help the brothers, and received the seven long and eight short weapons prepared by Lord Wei Wen in the Yamen, the big guy's blood was boiling, and he suddenly felt that he was also a member of the public family, and he could run rampant from now on, so under the shouting of the leader of the Cheng Guan, everyone surrounded Tan Wu and went out of the city like Bai Fei, and ran to the field of hope in his dream.

Tan Wu paid a bow to discuss, that Pei Xuanfa was sturdy with forty canes, and along the way, there was a solution who ate black money and abused him, even if he was a tiger, now his teeth have been pulled out, this way, just send one or two people over to give an order, a few serve one, and Pei Xuan will be killed, cut off his nose and ears, go back to make a certificate, and it will be done.

But Pei Xuan's lady has to work a little harder along the way. That Pei Xuan's lady has no power to restrain the chicken, but Pei Xuan's two sons are born like tigers, although they usually don't cause trouble, but a few Huahua Tai Sui in Jingzhao Mansion talk about their discoloration, obviously suffering a lot under the hands of these two brothers. Therefore, Tan Wufu asked Chengguan to pull all the brothers of the Grass Snake Gang here, and he only had to clean up the Pei family brothers, and the family surnamed Pei would be counted as an explanation in this world.

Who would have thought that a group of Liangshan heroes would come out in the middle of the way, and in the face of robbers, the rabble of the Grass Snake Gang was the same as the box army of the Great Song Dynasty, and they couldn't be counted on at all. Tan Wu saw the opportunity quickly, and he couldn't care about paying the worship, anyway, the dead Daoist friends are not dead and poor, let's still have two girls and one girl - sa (three) Yazi run! As a result, he couldn't run well, and as soon as he got out of the woods, he bumped into the locks of the fire-eyed and fierce Deng Fei and the jade banner Meng Kang. Deng Fei and Meng Kang killed and relieved Pei Xuan, and rushed to save the Pei family's mother and son.

When the heroes heard Pei Xuan say this, Tan Wu and Fu Bai knelt at everyone's feet and repented and begged for mercy, asking and answering questions, and betrayed the two brothers Wei Wen and Wei Fu cleanly. When all the heroes heard this, they all sighed and scolded.

Deng Fei said loudly: "Brother Pei Xuan, on weekdays, the younger brother knows that you are a righteous person, so he doesn't dare to seduce you on the underworld with evil intentions!" But today, I have also seen it myself, what kind of dog officials are these dog officials in the Song Dynasty? ! An honest and honest official like his brother can only be stabbed on Salmon Island; Corrupt officials like Wei Wen and Wei Fu occupy the pit and don't, they only know how to harm the people! Such a court does not know that there are people, and the people also regard it as a mustard! If my brother is still a man, this will be the opposite! ”

Pei Xuan smiled bitterly, looked up and looked around, but couldn't speak.

Meng Kang persuaded: "Brother Pei Xuan, the younger brother knows that it is a person, so he easily refuses to take the lower road of the green forest. But the government forced the people to rebel, and they had to rebel! If I fed my conscience to the dogs, teamed up with those corrupt officials, and took the opportunity of building a big ship to be crazy and mean to the common people, I would now be a rich man who can count it! But I can't! Brother Pei Xuan, in this world, if you don't become a corrupt official, you won't be able to survive in that circle, let alone do things for the people! Now, does my brother have to go back and throw himself into the net? You don't think about your own life, for the sake of your sister-in-law with two children, you should also think about them! ”

Listening to Meng Kang's words, Pei Xuan's wife took Pei Xuan's hand, and the tears rolled down like pearls with broken threads. This silent crying is more heart-wrenching than the unbridled howl, Pei Canglong and Pei Canghai brothers knelt down in front of their father, although they bit their lips and didn't speak, their eyes were red.

Pei Xuan held his wife with one hand and his son with the other, and finally looked up to the sky and sighed: "That's it!" That's it! Why avoid it, the world is now half a king! I can see through it -- in this world, officials are bandits, and bandits are officials, even so, do I still care about this meaningless reputation? That's it! Pei Xuan will be a thief in the future - lady, it's just that you and the child are suffering! ”

Hearing that her husband was cut off from officialdom, Pei Xuan's mother finally showed a smile on her face, she held Pei Xuan's hand tightly, as if a person who had fallen into the water grabbed the life-saving driftwood, and just said: "No! I'm not bitter! As long as you leave the fire pit, you will go to the ends of the earth, and I will follow you! Even if you kill people and set fires, I will follow! Because I believe that you will never kill a good person and burn down a good person's house! ”

Pei Xuan said loudly: "If you have a wife like this, what are your regrets?" haha！ haha！ Although he smiled heroically, there were tears in his eyes.

Deng Fei kicked Tan Wu over and asked, "Brother, how to deal with these thieves and birds?" ”

When the black whirlwind Li Kui heard this, he shouted: "What else do you say?" It's broken! "This is exactly what it is:

Corruption has always ruined the fortunes of the country, and prevention has lost the hearts of the people since ancient times. But I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown.