Liu Muzhi frowned slightly: "What you mean is that the salary of the officials should be generous, and if they are corrupt and bend the law, they will lose everything they have, right?"
Liu Yu nodded: "Yes, I have been a lieutenant. It was the first time I came into contact with power in my life. Although it was only left to me by my father who passed away early and suffered a tragic fate, I don't like to engage in this work.
This incident always reminds me of my experience of being abandoned by my father and becoming a slave when I was young. From the depths of my heart, I thought this was my father's atonement for this incident, but I did not
I don’t want to accept this kind of atonement, or apology. The pain I have suffered since I was a child cannot be made up for by an official."
Liu Muzhi shook his head: "All living beings are suffering. In this troubled world, who can live a life without worries about food and clothing? Although our fathers were scholars, their families had already fallen into decline.
The difference is that you are a child of an aristocratic family with good land and servants. Your father abandoned you not because he wanted to live a good life, but because the situation at that time was really unable to afford you, so he sent you to your aunt's house. At least you could survive.
, and he later worked tirelessly to support the family until he exhausted himself to death."
Liu Yu's eyes sparkled with tears: "That's something I didn't understand until later. I have never been able to understand why when other people were officials, they could let the whole family eat meat and wear silk, but our family was living in poverty until I joined the army.
Before, I took the risk of offending the Diao family and rescued Bottle and Rabbit. My mother said excitedly that this is the family tradition of the Liu family. People can be poor, but their ambitions cannot be short-term. No matter how poor or hungry they are, they will never die.
You can't lose your faith, fight for ill-gotten gains, and make a good living by hurting innocent people."
Liu Muzhi sighed: "This is also our custom in Jingkou. Folks in Jingkou, our fathers and ancestors often went down together in hardships. They went through untold hardships and narrowly escaped death before reaching Dajin. The northern refugees are not just rural residents."
Neighbors are also comrades-in-arms, so they often support each other in difficult days, instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to line their own pockets like other local officials. Your father never thought of bullying even when he was in the most poverty.
Neighbors, embezzlement of public funds, this is the family tradition of your Liu family, and it is always worth passing on."
Liu Yu nodded: "Yes, except for Dao Lian, the conditions in his family were too difficult when he was a child. His father had just died at that time, and his mother's milk was not enough, so he didn't eat enough since he was a child, so he was born dull. My mother and I saw him like this
, I couldn’t bear to be more harsh on him. Maybe it was because he had lived such a hard life for too long and made him want to eat well and clothe himself whenever he had the chance. After I took power, I wanted to compensate him and let him be the internal historian of Pengcheng, but
But he was influenced by the villains around him and became greedy. I don’t know how he will explain to his father a hundred years later."
Liu Muzhi shook his head: "This is human nature, but on the other hand, it can also be proved that it is very difficult to put an end to this kind of corruption, because most people who are officials are here to seek wealth. Look at those
In front of the gates of big aristocratic families, you can tell by the endless carriages that there are many people who come to seek official positions. For this reason, they offer treasures and land to those aristocratic families, isn't it just to get an official position? These people take office.
After that, how can we not exploit the people twice as much to recoup the cost of buying an official position?"
Having said this, Liu Muzhi paused: "This is also the reason why all dynasties could not blatantly sell their official positions and get titles. Even the system of Qin and Han Dynasties had the tradition of buying grain to pay homage to increase the revenue of the treasury in preparation for war, but it was often only given to imaginary people.
If you don't give real officials nobility, you are afraid that they will do harm to the country after they gain power. Although your idea is good, if you ask scholars to pay money when they enter the civil service school, it will inevitably lead some people to go astray.
You must know that the people who are finally awarded official positions will be the best among these people. They are very smart, proficient in law, and understand the human nature. If they use their intelligence for corruption, it will be a disaster for the country."
Liu Yu nodded: "Your worries are very reasonable, but when the children of aristocratic families become officials, they don't need to spend money to run for office, they can just rely on their background. Don't they become corrupt and run rampant?
Before we gained power, everything in the Jin Dynasty was in ruins from top to bottom, and it seems to have nothing to do with whether the official school charges tuition or not."
Liu Muzhi sighed: "The greed and corruption of the children of the aristocratic families does not mean that there is no problem with the officials and schools. How can you supervise and control the greed of these officials? The Jin Dynasty has never lacked paper.
There are laws and regulations to deal with corruption, but in the end most of them go unchecked and the officials cannot be punished."
Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly: "Tell me, when I was in Jingkou in the past, if I really had a bad idea, I wanted to collect more grain, or I wanted to force my neighbors to do it.
What will be the consequences of honoring me?"
Liu Muzhi curled up his lips: "Then I'm afraid everyone in Qili Township will scold you, and they may even gather to fight you. You have always been alone, and even if you are powerful with fists and kicks, if a group of people attack you, you
I’m afraid it will be difficult to deal with.”
Liu Yu smiled slightly: "That's our Jingkou. We usually don't have troops or policemen. In other states and counties, they collect taxes, but you have to bring the county government officials and even soldiers and horses to collect taxes."
Yes, right."
Liu Muzhi nodded: "Yes, I don't do many good things to benefit the people in normal times. When it comes to collecting taxes and levying taxes, I can only count on the protection of the army. Listening to what you mean, I will also prepare to collect taxes and levy taxes in the future."
What security group should we ask to carry out these things?"
Liu Yu nodded: "Yes, they don't collect taxes directly, they just protect these officials. But in the process of protection, they will know what these officials have done, where they have gone, and how many people have been collected."
, how much grain is harvested, these are all clearly regulated by the court, and once more people know about it, they can’t hide it."
"In the past, when the Diao family came to Jingkou and wanted to bully us, they relied on a lack of information from the upper and lower levels. In the case of Jingkou, it was difficult to bypass them as the governor and go directly to the court. This is also what Diao Kui will do with his Diao family later.
The reason why private soldiers came to suppress the people in Jingkou is that as long as the security group can be separated from the direct control of local officials and instead be ordered by the state, this problem of blocked up and down channels will be solved. Because corrupt officials can bribe a group of people.
Two generals can do it, but it is impossible to bribe all the security officers."
(End of chapter)
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