The civil servants were unwilling to intervene in the high-level factional struggles of Liu Bei's camp, which led to the discussion on the punishment of fraud officials in this wave of reforms temporarily falling into a cold situation.

Liu Bei was not concerned about the details today. Seeing Zhong Yao and Xun You pushing each other, he focused on examining the case again and found out what these people had committed.

However, Liu Bei's math is not good, and Li Su's assessment form is written relatively briefly. At first glance, he didn't understand it thoroughly, so he asked Li Su to explain to everyone: "Boya, let's talk to everyone."

Li Su bowed: "It's like this. The fraud of Fan Jiang and Zhang Da is mainly concentrated on the border transfer between Fengyi County, Shangjun and Hedong County.

As we all know, the south side of this section of the Yellow River is Fengyi County, the north side is Shangjun, and the middle side is Longmenkou of the Yellow River (Hukou Waterfall). Boats below the waterfall cannot reach the coast of the Fen River Basin in the northeast of Shangjun and the river. Boats above Longmenkou cannot get off.

Therefore, in previous years, to transport materials from the waterfall south of the waterfall and north of the waterfall, you have to unload all the goods on the ship in Xiayang County, Fengyi County and walk dozens of miles north by land. After passing the waterfall area with rapid waterfall, wait until the water level is smooth again and after the dangerous shoals, you will load the ship in Beiqu County again-

But the problem is that it was fine in previous years. If you still do this this year, you will cheat. During the actual inspection, I found that when the court sent a special person to Fengyi and Hedong to calculate the freight costs of these two counties to Shangjun, some people deceived them and deliberately increased the benchmark guide price and calculated based on the losses a few years ago.

In fact, the amphibious and land caravan invented last year was popularized near the Longmenkou Waterfall at that time, so that these two loading and unloading fees could be saved without repeatedly loading the ship and loading the car. When encountering a waterfall, just drive the caravan to the shore and continue walking.

However, Fan Jiang made a fake account, and even though he did not use loading and unloading, he also falsely reported the labor service expenses of thousands of dock workers in Xiayang and Beiqu counties, with more than 10,000 people in the two places. As the escort officer, Zhang Da helped Fan Jiang to lie and falsely inspect and accept the accounts without using these labor service. The two shared the debts that were not actually distributed."

The layman may not understand Li Su's explanation, but Liu Bei, Xun You and Zhong Yao all understand. Here we must mention one sentence:

Theoretically, there is a tributary of the Yellow River in Fengyi County, Luoshui, which continues to flow northwest from the west bank of this section of the Yellow River. It can reach Luojiao, Yincheng and other counties, which are the Yan'an area in later generations, and can transport some military supplies.

However, from Yan'an to the north and Yulin, you have to walk along the Yellow River. After the Southern Xiongnu discovered Zhang Fei's northern expedition, the pseudo-Huns in Shangjun also left the coast of Luoshui as soon as possible and fled far away to a place with even more inconvenient transportation to avoid Zhang Fei's pursuit. Therefore, the Luoshui shipping part has nothing to do with the case of this case.

In fact, it is precisely because Fengyi County transports goods north of Luoshui and Hukou Waterfall Yellow River, both roads require corvee service, which is convenient for Fan Jiang to copy part of the accounts of Route A to route B when making fake accounts.

When fighting, thousands of troops and horses were so chasing, the military planes were fleeting. If someone hadn't had secretly investigated, cleaned up accounts, and been confused after the war.

In addition, don’t think that such a fake account can be used to forge a corvee dock workers of more than 10,000 people in the two counties. Because there were no lifting machinery in ancient times, loading and unloading were originally a very labor-intensive link.

For example, during the Ming Dynasty, a small county like Linqing, Shandong could have a population of two million, and most of the strong laborers were dock workers. Because the Grand Canal of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal had a gap in Linqing, Shandong, the river channel had to be divided into two sections. Unloading the low-river section and carrying it to the high-river section and then loading it, it could support two million people, and it could also raise the business environment for "Jin Ping Mei" and Ximen Qing to survive.

Liu Bei stroked it for a moment and asked with a cold face: "Then how much money are these two greedy?"

Li Su: "They lied to 13,000 dock workers, and the average filing period was more than 20 days. According to the "Lease and Message Law", the people are obliged to perform free labor service for the court for 45 days, and the price is 900 cents, so it is twenty cents a day.

The fictitious period of more than 20 days of service was to receive an additional four or five hundred yuan per person. According to my final investigation, they had embezzled more than 6.3 million yuan in total. There were also some other small people who made a clever name, totaling about eight million yuan. Fan Jiang was the mastermind of the account, and he divided 60%. Zhang Da was the accomplice of the confession, and he divided 40%.

Liu Bei shook his head and turned to Zhong Yao and the others: "Since they are all so clear, what should we do according to the rules?"

Zhong Yao thought for a while: "If you are just greedy, according to previous years' practice, dismissal and dismissal, and punishment for the left school work will definitely be necessary. Heavier punishments... There is also a lack of conventional rules.

King, please forgive me for being frank. Since Huan Ling, especially the late emperors who sold official positions and titles, as long as they were not noble people who cherished their reputations extremely, there were seven or eighteen greedy people in the court.

How could you not make more than four million in a year if you bought a county magistrate when you were in the late emperor for four million or six million? The crimes of these two people are equivalent to the plunder of two county magistrates when you bought two county magistrates when you were in the late emperor for two."

Zhong Yao quoted the judicial precedents of previous years in an official manner. It was not that he deliberately said it lightly. It was because of the fact that greed for the late Han Dynasty was not considered a serious crime, and many people were not clean and dared to be too serious. This was not the Zhu Yuanzhang period when he had to peel off a few hundred taels of silver (a few hundred thousand yuan off) for hundreds of taels of silver.

Xun You next to him saw that Liu Bei's face was still bad, so he helped Zhong Yao check for the omissions and fill in the gaps: "However, this time they committed crimes against the wind and were slandering the king's new law reform, and the impact was too bad. The king felt that it was OK to add appropriate law and punishment.

As the saying goes, the Spring and Autumn Period, the punishment is convicted by the mind. Those who accept the sins and lose their feelings can be relieved even if they are serious, while those who are wise and decorate should be killed easily. Please ask the king to decide everything by themselves."

Liu Bei nodded, which made Li Su personally express his opinion: "Boya, you specially put these two people first. How severely do you want to punish them? Kill them on excuses?"

Li Su: "A heavy sentence can indeed establish authority for the new law. I also know that greed for millions of dollars by itself, and I will not die in previous years."

Liu Bei shook his head: "Forget it, just establish authority for the new law. But Boya, you have a problem with Gu. Gu should wait for Yide to come back personally, comfort him in person, and then deal with those people."

Li Su was stunned: "Is the king still worried that Yide protecting those people? I think Yide has a bad temper and is already whipping the soldiers, so he doesn't protect these..."

He wanted to say, "I won't protect the minor officials who are from humble origins." However, there were outsiders next to him, so Li Su was not convenient to explain these words to his colleagues too clearly.

Liu Bei: "Boya, Boya, you have been with Gu brothers and others for ten years. Do you still don't understand Yide? He doesn't care about his soldiers and often punishes severely, but heavy punishments are based on delaying military opportunities.

Yide, whoever of the people below would have delayed his victory or missed his affairs, would have been killed or engaged in military law. Although he had been greedy for some money this time, he did not miss the military opportunity. He had just won the battle. After winning the battle, he was still prosecuted for the death penalty of the military officer. He was too shameful. I will handle it alone - don't think too much."

The last half of the sentence was a harsh sentence on Zhong Yao and Xun You. It was obvious that Liu Bei had already seen that they "suspected that Li Su and Zhang Fei were fighting for power and profit", so Liu Bei asked them to give up these doubts.

After listening to Liu Bei's guidance, Li Su realized that Liu Bei was more aware of people than him and had a much higher understanding of Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei's violent temper is also divided into different occasions and targets.

Although the Han Dynasty had never heard the classic saying of Yue Fei in later generations, "Civil officials are not greedy for money, and military generals are not afraid of death", the moral requirements for civil and military officials are subconsciously similar. Military officials must be able to help generals win big battles, and moral integrity requirements cannot be as strict as civil officials. After winning a battle, killing military officials is a bit taboo, and the morale of the military is also slightly unfavorable.

The reason why Li Su felt that there was no resistance was because he had preconceived ideas. He felt that in history, Zhang Fei wanted to fight and kill Fan Jiang and Zhang Da - but without looking at the scene, the two in history delayed Zhang Fei's avenging Guan Yu and delayed the preparation of military goals. Now Zhang Fei's military goals have been completed well.

After Li Su realized it, he also knew that it was necessary to weigh it. It was important to establish authority for reform, but it was also important not to let outsiders imagine factional struggles. He quickly said to Liu Bei:

"It's still the king's wise, so Fan Jiang, the main culprit, will be handled by the civil servant, and Zhang Da, the accomplice of the military officer, can be handed over to Yide for military law. In this way, the main and secondary severity are differentiated, which makes it seem that the offense and punishment are in line with each other, and Yide has also saved his face.

However, I only have one request: Yide has always whipped his soldiers, and ordered him to use them on the left and right sides. Whether Zhang Da’s treatment is dead or not, he will not be able to use it if he becomes a grudge. Even if he survives, he will still be punished to work in the left school.”

Liu Bei: "You need to say this! Gu has told Yide many times that a villain is tortured and cannot be ordered to be left. Forget it, Gu will keep a little eye on this time."

After discussing the punishment of these people, there is still a bunch of greed and fraudulent crimes left, so it becomes easier to discuss.

The main reason is that their crimes are basically covered by Fan Jiang, the negative example, and there is no need to explain the crime method again - just like the effect Zhang Ji has in the positive example.

The rest were all punished and died. Three were dismissed and punished for working in the Left School, five were dismissed and seven or eight were demoted.

After all the discussions, everyone will leave.

Three days later, Fan Jiang was taken to Chang'an from Fengyi County. As the only negative example of beheading and warning all officials, he was executed in public in the western city of Chang'an City, which was considered as a resignation for the resignation of the reform flag.

After a while, by early November, Zhang Fei also returned to Hedong County with his troops, leaving only some generals who remained in the newly restored Shangjun.

He also read the private message Liu Bei gave him. As Liu Bei expected, he didn't care whether a person like Zhang Da died or not. He was a little official who was uneducated and slowly became a little official. Zhang Fei was worried about only his morale and face, and he didn't want to disappoint him.

Hearing that Liu Bei and Li Su had given him a little face, he stopped arguing. Zhang Fei asked Zhang Da to take care of him, but he had no treatment for the time being. He kept him for a long time. After the limelight of the reform passed, Zhang Fei found a reason with Xi Ni and "punished multiple crimes" and executed one hundred military sticks according to military law.

There was no clear "several punishment for whipping and sticks" in the Han Dynasty, which was refined only when the five punishments were reformed during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, it was fine to use sticks and whips, which were equivalent to common.

Of course, Zhang Fei used a whip. After whipping for a hundred whips, he found that Zhang Da had been interrupted when he was taken down, so he dragged him out and buried him.

It can only be blamed for not being strong enough. When Emperor Wen of Han was in the reform of corporal punishment, he initially only had to beat three hundred sticks/whip to death. Therefore, during Emperor Jing of Han, the number of broken sticks was further reduced. Of course, Zhang Fei was also blamed for his strong strength, and one hundred whip was more fierce than the three hundred whip of ordinary yamen runners.

From here, we can also see that the Angry whip of the Inspector in history was undoubtedly hit by Liu Bei himself. In the history, the Inspector in history was whipped more than 200 times and was not dead in the end. Only Liu Bei's strength could survive. Zhang Fei's 200 times of strength had already lost his bones.

After the summary of rewards and punishments for the pilot reform was promulgated, the administration of Chang'an City was temporarily purged, and everyone took Fan Jiang as a commandment and Zhang Ji as an example.

At the same time, those officials who are not good at character but have poor abilities have also set off a wave of making up for mathematics classes. Everyone realizes that whether the math grades are good or not will have a greater impact on political achievements in the future. Even if they don’t do it themselves, they have to learn some math knowledge to facilitate the mastery below.

In Liu Bei's camp, Cai Yong was too high and was old, so no one looked arrogant and asked Cai Yong for a lesson. However, Cai Yong's disciples Gu Yong and others, even as governors in remote Dianzhou, heard that they had gathered many officials to learn mathematics later.

Of course, many officials like Li Su and Zhuge Liang, who are famous for mathematics, come to ask for advice. Li Su is also highly powerful and has received less harassed. Zhuge Liang's official position is so low that he can't stand it for a while.

Other old-school Guanzhong mathematicians, such as Zheng Xuan's mathematical mentor Jingzhao's fifth lineage, were already very declining in Chang'an. Now there are many officials coming to Yemen to find the fifth sons and grandsons to study mathematics. (The fifth one has long died. He is Zheng Xuan's teacher and his son is over 60 years old)

The various changes within Liu Bei's jurisdiction also spread to the Guandong princes. The warlords such as the two Yuan and Cao Cao also gave a new round of attention and discussion on this new law.

Everyone realized that this problem could not be avoided because its effect was truly reflected on the battlefield. With this reform of Liu Bei's army, the logistics losses on the Hetao military's use of troops were almost immediately reduced.

Of course, there are also many central officials of the court who talked about, because they are not familiar with the situation in remote areas, and they also think that Liu Bei is so meticulous that he will improve his logistics efficiency. He kills and controls warehouses, households, and transport officials, which is a bit ugly.

For example, moral gentlemen like Hua Xin and Kong Rong, who were the nine ministers in the court, actually had no grudges towards Liu Bei. Kong Rong even admired Liu Bei quite a bit.

But as famous scholars of Qingliu, they have quite a complaint about this:

"How can officials rely on such fine and strict punishments to force officials to improve their logistics efficiency? How can officials waste inefficiency and demotion, and take advantage of loopholes and cut them directly?
Chapter completed!