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"Li Ji is really a good person."

Although Lan Ting was not unaware that Li Ji had instructed his wife Ding to show favor to Chungui, and he also sent a concubine to test such an inappropriate behavior, he had always had no curiosity in the inner court of other families, and after listening to Chungui's narration, he did not make any comments on the Shen family, only frowned and expressed his resistance to Li Ji.

"Since Hu Duan was not successfully promoted to the position of Fenyang Zhizhou, Li Ji should have realized that there may be changes in the DPRK, but after his father took office, he did nothing for a while and let him be lucky, until Rong Guogong was frustrated and I still held on to Shi Liang's bribery, he was like a frightened bird, if he didn't have the bad behavior of enriching his own pockets, how could he rush to defect as soon as there was a stir?"

"The implication is that Li Ji is also in the same league as Shi Liangxing?"

"A governor is greedy for money, and it is really difficult for his subordinate officials to be good to themselves, and now it is no longer the discipline of Taizu to severely punish corruption and punish the party, and it is often only the first evil and the most serious crime, such as Hu Duan's crime of harming the innocent in order to flatter the official will not be indulgent, but like Li Ji, if he only accepts stolen goods, he is often punished with a small punishment and a big punishment, but Li Ji's idea is that he does not even accept a small punishment, and he wants to rely on the wind to make the rudder fight for greater benefits."

Knowing that the mistakes are not only not repentant, but also iron-hearted to make mistakes again and again, how can there be such officials in the people to be happy, but what makes people helpless is that although Taizu severely punished corrupt officials during the reign of the emperor, and even ordered the torture of peeling and filling the grass on corrupt officials, but Mo said that the future generations of monarchs, even in the Taizong Emperor's own dynasty, corruption is also repeatedly prohibited.

"Then how are you going to treat Li Tongzhi?"

Lan Ting thought about it again: "Although I can't purge the official system immediately, if I encourage such an atmosphere, it will be against my grandfather's deathbed teachings. If Shi Liangxing used the name of apportioning grain chiefs to force bribes from wealthy families such as Wang Jiugui, and there were all kinds of crimes of collecting miscellaneous labor under false pretenses, a subordinate official like Li Ji must also take a share of the benefits from it. I will not promise him any benefits, if he does not confess for this, then wait for Shi Liangxing, Hu Duan and others to be impeached and prosecuted. ”

For Lan Ting's tough attitude, Chungui did not have any intention of admonishing, although she was sympathetic to Ding Niangzi's situation, but one yard to one yard, she could not promote the atmosphere of corruption and perversion of the law for the sake of sympathy for personal reasons, so Chungui did not have the slightest intention of interceding for Li Ji, and also pondered whether she should give the insatiable person a warning through Mo Wenxiaodao's mouth.

Unconsciously, the wind and rain had stopped, and Chun Gui went to light the lamp by herself, so that there was a slight light in the room, but she and Lan Ting's conversation was obviously still vigorous, so the two of them were still leaning on the kang to talk, Chun Gui asked a question that puzzled both her and Yin Xiaomei during the day: "I really don't understand why Jiao Manshi died of a sudden illness and the male in the family only had an only son who was not crowned, but he still wanted the young Jiao Xiaolang to be the grain chief, but he was charged with fleeing and disappeared, and the family could shirk the responsibility of the grain chief?" ”

"How much does Hui Hui know about the system of grain chiefs?" Lan Ting did not answer the rhetorical question.

"I know that the system of grain chief was formulated by Taizu time, and it was originally undertaken by rich families, but now more and more households are resistant to serving as grain chief, and even think that it is a catastrophe that bankrupts the family and try to shirk it." But the authenticity of these rumors is not very clear, her family is a squire, and she has never worried about being apportioned as a grain chief.

"Huihui is right, the system of grain chiefs is indeed a national policy formulated by Taizu when he was in power, specifically the state and county are divided into a number of grain districts, and each district is apportioned a grain chief. The grain chief is not only responsible for the collection of summer and autumn enslavement, but also responsible for transporting the enslavement into Beijing, Taizu was born in poverty, before the establishment of the industry was persecuted by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, not only witnessed, but even experienced the corrupt officials forced the poor people's families to die, which forced riots to break out, so that the former emperor collapsed. Therefore, Taizu hated corrupt officials and strictly prevented corrupt officials from persecuting civilians. At first, the grain chief was not selected by local officials, but directly appointed by the imperial court, and could not be an official gentry household, and must be a wealthy owner, Taizu thought that governing the people with the people could reduce the risk of excessive taxation, and Taizu would personally summon the major grain chiefs to ask them about the public conditions in various places, and find out whether the officials were guilty of corruption and oppression. ”

Lan Ting was very patient to explain the origin and purpose of the detailed grain chief system to Chungui: "Therefore, although the grain chiefs in various places will bear certain responsibilities and have to contribute money and efforts to send taxes to the capital, they can be summoned by the emperor himself, and they will also be feared and feared by local officials, so that they can have considerable prestige in their hometowns, and there are even many who have been directly appointed as officials by Taizu because of their meritorious service in reporting corruption." During the period when Taizu was in power, the grain chief was hot, and the rich families competed for it. ”

Speaking of this, Lan Ting's expression became serious: "However, when it comes to the future generations of emperors, almost no one can do everything like Taizu, and because he has not been persecuted by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, he gradually no longer attaches importance to the people's feelings, the grain chief is not summoned, there is no honor and privilege, and there is a serious imbalance between pay and income, so it has evolved from competing for it to shirking it, and the hereditary system can no longer be carried out, and it needs to be apportioned twice a year, and it is no longer possible to be elected by the imperial court, so this responsibility is delegated to the locality. State and county officials were given the authority to apportion grain chiefs. ”

Chungui heard a serious question: "Although Jiao Manshi is not poor, he is only a family with less than 100 acres of fertile land, and he can only ensure that his family has enough food and clothing, how can he be assigned to the post of grain chief?" ”

"If it weren't for my father's release from the foreign post, I wouldn't have known that the selection of the grain chief would have become like this!" Lan Ting's eyebrows frowned: "As far as Fenyang is concerned, there is no shortage of rich owners, but in order to shirk the grain chief, these rich families often cling to the powerful and noble families, and take means such as dedicating Feitian to exempt from servitude, for this kind of people, Shi Liangxing did not dare to force the faction when he was in office, so he targeted businessmen like Wang Jiugui, although they are rich but have no real power to support them, they can only choose to bribe the state officials to get rid of the envoys, Shi Liangxing and others rely on this to fill their own pockets, in the end, the grain chief can only be apportioned to Jiao Manshi and other portals, they have no connections, and without this lot of spare money, he bribed officials every year, so he could only do his best to complete the duties of the grain chief and lose the wealth and family business, but after serving as the grain chief, most of them can also ensure peace for several years. ”

Speaking of this, perhaps because he heard righteous indignation, Lan Ting felt irritable in his mouth, he got up and poured a cup of tea to moisten his throat, and sat back on the edge of the kang: "On the system that the grain chief has long been not replaced by his father and son, and he died of illness when he died before the completion of the service, and the official office should be re-apportioned, but the people have regarded the battle of the grain chief as a disaster and avoided it. Even if they can temporarily shirk the annual service, they have to use most of the family wealth to bribe the servants, and there is no guarantee that they will not be apportioned again in the coming year, so most of the families have to be responsible for the death of the parents who served as the grain chief, and they have to still complete the duties of the year's conscription, which has become a common practice in Fenyang. ”

"But if you run away......"

"It's different when they flee, officials like Shi Liangxing, of course, they are aware of the disadvantages of such apportionment, and they may not be unafraid in their hearts, and most of them dare not let the court know. But if the people can live and work in peace and contentment, how can they choose to flee for no reason? Shi Liangxing did not dare to report as a fugitive, which would affect his political performance, so he did not dare to persecute too tightly, and often left the relatives of the fugitive family a glimmer of life, which is why after Jiao Manshi's death, his family would lie about fleeing. ”

This Chun Gui fully understood: "It's a pity that the Jiao family's plan happened to be debunked by Hu Duan, threatening them to prove that Jiao Manshi was committing adultery with Jiang Niangzi and killing people to flee in fear of crime. ”

Clearly, he understood, but Chun Gui still felt ridiculous: "People like Jiao Manshi never covet the side door and rely on diligence and thrift to keep their families, and they will suffer the evil robbery of bankruptcy, if it is not for this anxiety, it may not cause heart disease to die of incurable death, but the hateful thing is that even if they die of illness, they still cannot escape the loss of the hard-earned family business, if they are not forced to be helpless, how can the Jiao family lady and Jiao Xiaolang hide the news of their deaths, and they can't even serve the funeral coffin for their relatives in Zhengda Guangming!" ”

In her opinion, Taizu really formulated the grain chief system for the sake of people's livelihood, but now it is obviously the opposite, and the grain chief system has become a shackle that makes the common people tremble, and the disadvantages are so clear, why not simply abolish it?

Before this dynasty, the manpower and material resources for the conquest of grain could be borne by the imperial court, and would not be transferred to the households under its rule.

Thinking of this, Chun Gui expressed his opinion, but Lan Ting shook his head again and again this time: "Taizu has taken the lead in setting the apportionment of grain chiefs as a national policy, and the kings and ministers of the imperial court have also been accustomed to transferring the affairs of conquest to the people, and now it is proposed to abolish it, and let the imperial court bear such a heavy loss, it is impossible to be adopted, unless...... Another method was taken to make up for the losses, so that the deficit of the treasury could be controlled within a range acceptable to both the emperor and the ministers. ”

But it is easy to say, it is naturally very difficult to plan feasible good policies, and these practical methods are not taught in the books of sages, not to mention that it is impossible for a student like Lan Ting, who has studied hard in the cold window but has not had the opportunity to travel around to study the people's situation in detail, and even how many officials who have been in the office for a long time may not be able to figure out how to improve the best of both worlds.

"Just continue to let the officials use this malpractice to squeeze the people, and there will definitely be endless troubles in the future!" Lan Ting sighed and said: "We are in the capital, all we see are flowers, prosperous and peaceful, how do you know that even if the emperor does have the ambition of Haiyan River, in fact, how many people are still struggling in the dire straits, I don't know, if I don't ......know, I don't care about it" He actually got up and walked out: "Huihui will settle down tonight, I won't stay in Fenyang too long, I have to find Brother Yin Ren to discuss this matter first." ”

Chun Gui moved his lips to dissuade Lan Ting, because he was worried that he would be too tired, but he swallowed the words when he came to his mouth.

And earlier, because of Ding Niangzi's situation, those women were rarely unbridled after all, and they almost disappeared at this time.

Life in the world, each has its own responsibility, such as Jiao Manshi, Wu Dagui and other people live more arbitrarily than the family of the world, which seems to be enviable, but who would have thought that the family would be ruined in a blink of an eye, and it is a catastrophe that is unavoidable. What's the point of her being depressed in comparison? If she is as lucky as her, she can't be optimistic and open-minded and moan without illness, this is a lack of greed.

Another example is Lan Ting, even Chun Gui can see that in fact, what he yearns for more is a quiet and inactive life, and his ambition may not be in the court, but he is not also given up because of the responsibility on his shoulders?

Chungui suddenly felt that he should pay more attention to the words of that Laoshizi Yuyang Zhenjun, if he could really save the lives of the people......

It seemed like she should give it a try.