Local officials also want a disaster, which the average person doesn't know. Only when there is a famine can the officials show their importance, and the people will beg them.

This is not only a matter of face, but also a matter of attitude. Guotai Min's local gentry began to stop asking for officials, and would use their prestige to try to interfere with the decisions of local officials.

Besides, who's coming back to be an official? To be an official is to get rich, who wants to come to the place to suffer if not for money?

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"Thousands of miles of food and clothing for officials."

"Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion 100,000 snowflakes of silver."

"Learn literature and martial arts, and sell goods to the emperor's family." They have been instilled with a kind of thinking almost since childhood, studying in order to be officials, being officials in order to glorify their ancestors, and making fortune in order to become rich and rich.

Not only the children of rich families think so, but even the children of some poor families think so. Even some poor families force their children to do this in order to change their fate.

Coming to the local government to be a local official is not only to be the parent official of the common people, but also to get benefits and benefits from the common people.

Only when the time of famine can officials use their power to withhold materials, raise prices, use shoddy goods, and embezzle disaster relief money and food.

Without these benefits, these local officials would not be able to make a fortune, and they would not even be able to solve their own living problems.

Therefore, these local officials are also desperately begging for disasters in their own territory, preferably every year, so that they can make a fortune in a few years.

In contrast, the idea of the military attache is even more jaw-dropping to the common people, and the idea of these imperial courts to support soldiers and officers can be said to be too dirty.

The imperial court did not raise these soldiers for nothing, and the attitude of the imperial court was not very polite when there was no war.

Civilian officials have always looked down on military generals, whether in the central or local government, the civilian officials in charge of money and food will not give military generals a good face, and even train these generals like their own subordinates.

It is said that when Zhang Juzheng was a servant in the military department, he took advantage of his position to let a large group of generals bow their heads in front of him and listen to his lectures for a long time.

Because these generals did not fight, they were looked down upon by civilian officials at all levels. The only way for them to get ahead or make others look up to them is to make meritorious contributions.

Frontier battles are not only dangerous but also uncontrollable, so local grievances are an opportunity for them to make money, get promoted to official positions, and make a fortune.

Military generals can make meritorious contributions by taking advantage of public grievances, and soldiers can use the opportunity to suppress public grievances to make a fortune. Military attachés are even more likely to expand the results of the war and implicate some irrelevant ordinary people, which is what military attaches often use

"Kill the good and risk the merit". If there is no famine in the place, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, there will be no resentment. If there is no public grievance, there will be no mob, and if there is no mob to make trouble, how can the official army be dispatched to suppress it?

Therefore, the generals also prayed for a famine, as long as there was a famine, the common people would suffer, and if the common people suffered, there would be troublemakers.

Once the troublemakers injure or kill local officials, it will be their chance to make meritorious contributions as military attachés.

After making meritorious contributions, they will not only have practical benefits, but will also be rewarded by the imperial court, and they can be promoted and rich, which is what they hope for.

The ideas of these military attachés and soldiers are really too dirty, and if the common people knew all about it, an uncontrollable situation would definitely occur.

The so-called insider's remarks were actually secretly manipulated by someone, and although they were not completely rumor-mongering, they were also exaggerated a lot.

But this kind of rhetoric is not only believed by the common people, but they also agree with it in their hearts. Think about it from another perspective, if they were Beijing officials, local officials, or military attachés, maybe they would do the same.

More and more people knew about these things, and more and more people began to resist the court and the government.

However, there was no excesses, because there was no large-scale famine in various places, and the contradictions were not completely activated for a while.

But this phenomenon is not simple, and if a disaster occurs, it will be exploited, and the victims will become victims of these manipulators.

It may be because of the relatively smooth life in recent years, or it may be because the people need a certain amount of spiritual sustenance, and it is more likely that some people have had a lot of non-governmental organizations in various places over the years because of their lives.

In addition to the most common worship of Buddha and burning incense, there are many more gods in various places, and there are various sayings, covering almost all the gods.

This cola has damaged the temples and temple masters in various places, and the number of people who become Taoist monks has also increased.

Compared with Taoist priests and monks who cannot live like normal people, get married, and have children, some so-called divine sticks and goddesses are more common and common.

These people are usually ordinary people, even farmers, but once they put on the clothes of the gods, they are the folk spokesmen of various gods.

They either work alone or as husband and wife, or even several people work together, using some knowledge of religious beliefs to absorb the vast number of people as their followers.

These people indirectly control some ordinary people, and their words are more effective among the common people than the words of ordinary government officials.

The local officials also had nothing to do with these mass organizations, and by the time they learned about them, the organization had already grown stronger, and it was not an ordinary yamen that could be curbed immediately.

In order not to arouse the disgust of too many people, and in order not to be laughed at by their colleagues, the adults of the yamen tried not to provoke these people, which indirectly fueled the arrogance of these people.

Due to the indirect influence of the local government, these organizations without the consent of the local government or even on the table have become a common phenomenon in various places.

What harvest temple, dragon king temple, land temple, mountain temple, city god temple and so on, have risen from the ground, in a few years everywhere everywhere.

Due to the different customs, scales and beliefs of these organizations, these organizations indirectly and directly control some believers in various places.

The annual membership fee and incense money alone is also quite substantial, not to mention what organization does not have some gray income?

So these organizations are actually very rich, and some god sticks and god women can be said to have become rich and powerful people.

These people were originally peasants who did not have much education, and they made a fortune by daring to do things on their own.

So not only do they not know how to restrain their behavior, but they also do lawless things. These people have a serious hatred of the rich and a mentality of eating, drinking, and having fun, and when they are poor, they hate the rich, and they only know how to enjoy themselves when they have money, but they still look down on the poor.

They are dignified in front of the public, and they will only desperately enjoy and make money in private, and after they have money, they dare to do anything that violates the law and discipline.

These people became the minions of the local gentry, and even the new local evil forces. They take advantage of the respect and trust of the believers to cheat money and sex, and even cause the believers' families to be ruined.

It is not uncommon to take advantage of the believer's affection for them to undermine or slander the opponent and break up the other party's family.

For example, the county government of Wan'an County once received such a complaint, and the wealthy Zhang said a few unpleasant words because he was unwilling to pay the incense money of the Fengshou Temple, and was cursed by the temple of the Fengshou Temple on the charge of disrespecting the gods.

Soon after, a large number of believers rushed into Zhang's house, taking things when they saw them and beating them when they saw people, and Zhang and his wife were injured by these people.

No doctor dared to treat them, and both husband and wife died soon after. Their only daughter, Qiao'er, did not escape the disaster and was kicked out of the house by a group of people and robbed of the family property.

Half a month later, Qiao'er appeared in a brothel, and she became a ** who was toyed with. Qiao'er, who is only fifteen years old, lives a life that is worse than death in a brothel, and there is no one to help her.

Although an old woman who pours night incense sympathizes with Qiao'er very much, she has no ability to save Qiao'er. Qiao'er begged the old woman to go to the yamen to sue for her, and she wanted to sue the temple of the harvest temple.

Because this temple Zhu personally admitted to her that all this was instigated by him, her home was destroyed by this temple Zhu, and she was also occupied by this temple Zhu**.

However, this complaint was not accepted by the Yamen, because the evidence was insufficient, and the old woman was not a victim, and Qiao'er had committed suicide after the old woman promised to sue herself.

In fact, the yamen didn't dare to offend the temple of this harvest temple, so they suppressed this matter.

In the past year alone, Wan'an County has received no less than 15 cases of suing Fengshou Ancestral Temple, including seven cases of misappropriation of other people's property, six cases of misappropriation of other people's wives and daughters, and two cases of missing persons.

This kind of thing is common in Wan'an County, and there are seven or eight such organizations in Wan'an County, and this kind of thing often happens all over the country.

Some of the local officials dare not manage it, some of them can't manage it if they want to, and some of them are useless, and the yamen dare not speak out against these people.

They usually do not show anything about it, but when something happens, not only will they have a tough attitude, but they will also be very united, and even people from several organizations will unite to force the yamen to put the case down.