Zhao Ning has always believed that the moral high ground is full of idiots.

People who really do practical things spend their whole day thinking about how to solve problems, straighten them out, rebuild rules and procedures, and make the situation better.

And truly moral people use morality to restrain themselves and be lenient to others in their daily behaviors.

Even if you apply virtue, you will not stand on the commanding heights to suppress others, but more of being moved by emotion and understanding with reason.

But in the Great Song Dynasty, there were really a bunch of people like this.

Speaking of the formation of these bad things in the Song Dynasty, one person is absolutely inseparable.

who?

Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi.

In the early days of the Song Dynasty, some unexpected events occurred. Emperor Taizu, who was full of martial virtue and calm personality, suddenly died young.

Taizong Zhao Guangyi, who came to power, had neither really fought in a war nor had any political achievements to show, but he felt good about himself.

The rapid rise of the old Zhao family was achieved by Zhao Kuangyin at Chai Rong's place, using real swords and spears.

When it comes to personal force value, Zhao Kuangyin is probably ranked second among the emperors of China. There is a high probability that no one would dare to be ranked first.

A watermelon knife can cut from the north to the south of Bianjing City.

But it happened that it was Zhao Guangyi, who took advantage of his elder brother, who came to power.

Zhao Guangyi himself is a scholar and a top student, relying on his elder brother, he belongs to the category of the favored son of heaven.

As a result, after he came to power, he wiped out all the founding elites, famous generals fell one after another, the Liao Kingdom was in great joy, and the strong Song Dynasty became weak.

After Yongxi's Northern Expedition, the grand strategy of conquering the south and the north in the early days of the Song Dynasty was forced to become "internal defense".

Da Song, unable to stretch out, began to roll inwards.

Zhao Guangyi himself had little prestige in the army. Yongxi personally directed the Northern Expedition. After the defeat was a complete mess, he became even more afraid of the soldiers, so he started the stupid strategy of hiding the army.

The Qiandi army system was spread until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, which meant that the highest generals and commanders were all the emperor's followers and did not need to know how to fight. Those who really knew how to fight had to listen to them.

For example, Zhongshi Dao must listen to Tong Guan, listen to Tong Gonggong when conquering Liao Dynasty, and use the policy of "non-violent resistance".

Zhao Guangyi's series of outrageous actions led to the long-term suppression of military personnel and the large-scale promotion of civilian officials.

The bloated civil servants in the Song Dynasty were caused by the internal defense of Zhao Guangyi and Yongxi during the Northern Expedition.

If the country is governed by civilian officials, if the scale of the civil servants is large and the organization becomes bloated, it will be easy to blame each other, not work, not do things, and just bickering every day.

The first secret to talking nonsense is to quickly climb to the moral high ground, put aside facts and logic at every turn, and just open your mouth.

As early as the Renzong period, the Qingli Reform implemented by Fan Zhongyan and others was to rectify the exaggerated and bloated bureaucracy.

But the Qingli revolution was stillborn.

Later, Shenzong's Yuanfeng Reform and Wang Anshi's Reform actually wanted to solve this stubborn problem of the Song Dynasty.

After all, not only do these people not do anything, but they also get high salaries, they also hinder those who do things, and they ruin the overall atmosphere.

The most important thing is that they are greedy, annexing land and plundering people's wealth.

And this group has one characteristic: they are extremely good at disguise.

If you want to directly lay off employees, you may be deceived by some people's disguise and lay off those who are willing to work.

When Chongzhen was purging the eunuchs, he was deceived in this way, and many people in charge were killed.

Therefore, the knife must be struck with one stroke.

For example, this time, aren't these guys going to resign?

come!

Resign!

Whoever refuses to give up is a dog!

At noon, the Ministry of Civil Affairs sent the list of officials who had last submitted their resignations to the Audit Court.

Let’s start the process!

In order to better enable the resigned officials to cooperate with the audit work, Zhao Ning specially ordered some "military" personnel to accompany the Audit Court.

He was the kind of reckless man who could kill three or four civil servants with one slap.

The first one is to go to Zhu Changqing, a doctor in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

At first, Zhu Changqing resisted, but was detained on the spot, forcibly dragged out, and then charged with resisting the imperial court, so he became honest.

The first day of audit work ended in the evening.

Zhu Changqing, a doctor in the Ministry of Industry, had 50,000 guan in cash at home, some antique calligraphy and paintings, a house in the outer city worth 50,000 guan, and a thousand acres of land.

The household registration of the land ownership was forged and taxes were paid according to the tax rate.

Most of the 50,000 yuan in cash was obtained from smuggling salt and tea.

According to the process, once there is a problem in the audit, the judicial office task will be triggered immediately.

As a result, materials were thrown one by one to Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, and fell into Qin Hui's hands.

In the evening of August 17, Qin Hui was working overtime.

"Qin Shangshu, you see, this is just sent by the Audit Court." Wang Ciweng, a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment, presented some documents.

Qin Hui didn't even raise his head and just asked: "What's the matter?"

"The Audit Court is investigating the matter of Zhu Changqing, a doctor in the Ministry of Industry."

Qin Hui then put down his pen and paid attention to it. He took it over and read it carefully, and then smiled.

Qin Hui shook his head and said with a smile: "These people, if they don't want to be good officials, they have to be stupid pigs."

Wang Cienweng said: "How Qin Shangshu said this, I don't understand very well."

"It's excusable that you don't understand. You have just arrived in the capital not long ago. You must remember to stay away from these idiots, otherwise you may lose your official title or even your life at any time."

Wang Ciweng still didn't quite understand, but he was finally promoted to the position of doctor, and he was grateful to Qin Hui. Whatever Qin Hui said, that's what he said.

"People are always self-righteous. This is a common problem and weakness of most people." Qin Hui held the document. "Talented people are self-righteous and can sit still for a while. Talentless fools are self-righteous and will only wander around at the bottom all day long.

They are unable to express their cheap emotions and are being taken advantage of without even knowing it."

"Then what should we do with this Zhu Changqing now?"

Qin Hui thought for a while and said: "Go to Dali Temple to pass the message. Zhu Changqing's preliminary trial will be passed tomorrow. Before dinner in the evening, all the procedures of the Criminal Department will be passed. The day after tomorrow, it will be reported to the Political Affairs Hall."

"yes!"

"etc!"

"Let us know, everyone in the Criminal Department will work overtime this month. Anyone sent over by the Audit Court will be dealt with first. I will provide the overtime meals."

"Yes, I will go and make arrangements right away."

"Wait a minute, why are you in such a hurry? I haven't finished yet."

"Shang Shu forgives me."

"Those people thrown over by the Audit Court should be separated from those who have achieved political achievements and those who have not, and those who have achieved political achievements should be dealt with lightly."

Wang Wengci was greatly puzzled: "Why is this?"

"In officialdom, what is most important?"

Wang Wengci was stunned and said, "Could it be political achievements?"

"Political achievements are a piece of shit!" Qin Hui cursed, hating the fact that iron was not made of steel.

If he hadn't seen Wang Ciweng do things unscrupulously, Qin Hui would not have promoted this guy.

"The most important thing is to understand that you are a superior, do you understand?"

"So what does this have to do with political performance?"

"Our Mr. Zhao is a man who understands the overall situation and understands the general situation. He will definitely not fire all those who resigned this time. Those who have achieved political achievements will definitely be retained. If you want to move up, you must

I understand your superior’s thoughts.”

Wang Ciweng suddenly understood and said quickly: "Qin Shangshu taught you a lesson. Qin Shangshu has anything else to give you."

"Have you delivered King Kang's Mid-Autumn Festival gift?"

"Give it as a gift. Prince Kang likes it very much."

"Go and do some work."
Chapter completed!