Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 412: The thoughts of Confucian scholars, cleaning up the school affairs office
Chapter 412: The thoughts of Confucian scholars, cleaning up the school affairs office
Yang Zong continued: "I'm afraid he is not really confused but just pretending to be confused. After all, if this matter can be brought about by him,
He can also leave a good name in the history books and a good reputation for praying for the world, how can he, a Confucian scholar, not want these?"
Cao Shuang thought for a while and then said: "You can't blame Cheng Jiming completely. In recent years, there have been many worms like Lu Hong and Zhao Da in the school affairs office. We just gave them this opportunity to suggest that the imperial court abolish the school affairs office. In the future, we will have to
The only thing we need to do is strengthen the rectification and restraint of the school affairs office.”
Yang Zong continued: "I have taken note of it, and tomorrow I will start cleaning up the bugs inside the school office. A low-ranking and powerful official office will inevitably have such disadvantages, but for those wealthy families, this is just an excuse.
If it hadn't been for this, they would have looked for other reasons."
At that time, there was a saying in the Cao Wei camp: "We are not afraid of Prime Minister Cao, but we are afraid of Lu Hong and Zhao Da."
Lu Hong and Zhao Da were the school officials in the school affairs office. They were equivalent to the status of Wang Zhi of Xichang later.
So how powerful is this organization, so much so that it scares people more than Cao Cao? Let's take a look.
Once, Shang Shulang Xu Miao called himself a saint after drinking, and this was overheard by the school official Zhao Da through his eyes and ears.
After learning the news, Zhao Da immediately told Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was very angry after hearing this. After all, even someone as powerful as Cao Cao dared not call himself a saint. Who do you think you are, Xu Miao?
So Cao Cao immediately ordered someone to take Xu Miao into prison.
If someone hadn't said something nice to Cao Cao later, saying that Xu Miao was drunk and talking nonsense, and after all, Xu Miao had made meritorious service to Cao Wei, and the merits and demerits were balanced, Cao Cao would not have had any more arguments with Xu Miao.
Not only Xu Miao, but also Cui Yan and Mao Jie, the ministers in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, were reported by school officials and were imprisoned. You must know that these two people were meritorious officials of Cao Wei. After being reported by school officials, they were imprisoned.
Death in prison shows the horror of being a school official.
Throughout Cao Cao's life, although he was good at using troops to repeatedly defeat powerful enemies, he often encountered rebellions by his subordinates and assassinations by political opponents.
Although the rebellions and assassinations that Cao Cao experienced were all put down in time, looking at the time of their occurrence, there is no doubt that they all occurred during sensitive periods such as the conquest of Xuzhou, the confrontation at Guandu, and the battle for Hanzhong, which brought great consequences to Cao Cao himself and the Wei State he later established.
big hidden danger,
Therefore, it is very necessary for Cao Cao personally to establish a spy system that can monitor all officials at all times and eliminate rebellion in the bud.
It should be said that in the last years of Jian'an, Wei Xi's conspiracy to revolt was only the Han Dynasty's final counterattack. There was indeed no assassination in the army after Guandu Xu Ta. This can be regarded as an obvious effect of the establishment of the school, that is, at least it ensured
Cao Cao's own safety.
But the dangers of school affairs are also very obvious: Lu Hong and Zhao Da's random frame-up obviously proves that Cheng Xiao's defense for Cao Cao, "the restraint measures of "well-prepared and not indulgent" are just empty words, "
The phrase "Don't be afraid of Duke Cao, but be afraid of Lu Hong" also shows that the atmosphere of terror has spread in the army.
Later, Cao Cao died, and his son Cao Pi succeeded to the throne of Wei. Later, he forced Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to abdicate, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, establishing the Wei Kingdom.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Cao Pi continued to use school affairs to intimidate and control his officials.
You must know that Liu Ci, a school official, reported tens of thousands of times to Cao Pi. This shows that the scope of the school official's jurisdiction is wide and the power is great.
Of course, there are not so many disobedient things in the world. Most of them are exaggerated or fabricated out of thin air.
Under such circumstances, Gao Rou, the prefect of Yingchuan, advised Cao Pi, saying that many reports on school affairs were false, and that Cao Pi had ordered that the defendants be executed and the whistleblowers rewarded, so he suggested that Cao Pi cancel this decree to prevent innocent people from being harmed.
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Because school affairs are to supervise all officials, although Cao Pi adopted some of Gao Rou's suggestions, he did not abolish the school affairs system.
It seems that the position of school official is extremely harmful, and it is easy for school officials to seek personal revenge. But in fact, the rulers have their own purposes for using school officials.
For example, Cao Cao used school officials to control the army, report corruption and prevent rebellion. After all, in troubled times, people are unpredictable, and subordinates who treat you with respect on the surface may want to stab you in the back secretly.
Cao Cao himself had experienced the Zhangxiu Rebellion, Danyang Mutiny, etc. If the rulers did not take precautions in advance, such a situation would very likely capsize in the gutter.
Moreover, in addition to the above functions, school affairs also have the biggest function, which is to check and balance the noble families. You must know that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the actual rulers were no longer the Han Dynasty, but the traditional noble families.
As a representative of the newly rising gentry, Cao Cao was naturally unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the Han Dynasty and let the gentry control the lifeline of Cao Wei. Under such circumstances, a mysterious organization that was absolutely loyal to him and could monitor the gentry emerged.
Mu Bing, a native of Hejian, was a courageous man who was not afraid of power. When Cao Cao was prime minister, he recruited him to serve as an adviser to the army. After Cao Pi ascended the throne, he was appointed magistrate of Chenggao County.
School official Liu Zhao passed by Chenggao County and sent people to call the county officials to publicly extort grain. At that time, Chenggao County was suffering from a locust plague and drought, and there was no extra food. Liu Zhao's entourage saw that the grain was unprepared and went straight to Mu Bing's gate.
Yelling and scolding officials.
When Mu Bing heard the news, he was furious and led people with knives to arrest Liu Zhao. Liu Zhao fled immediately and reported to Cao Pi. So the imperial court issued an edict to arrest Mu Bing and sentenced him to death, which was later changed to a prison sentence.
After being sentenced, Mu Bing was reinstated, but he remained idle for more than ten years and was no longer employed, completely ruining his official career.
In the two incidents mentioned above, Liu Ci, Liu Zhao and other school officials frequently blackmailed local county magistrates and reported tens of thousands of officials and people. The blame for this must be entirely attributed to Cao Pi as the king.
Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor on behalf of the Han Dynasty. In name, he voluntarily abdicated to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, but in fact he could not escape the reputation of usurping the Han Dynasty. In order to stabilize the throne, it was necessary to use school affairs more heavily to suppress opposition voices, and even the bad words among the people were not compatible. This also made Cao Pi the emperor of the times.
The officials became even more serious.
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People become more fearless.
After Cao Pi ascended the throne, there were many bad words slandering the imperial court among the people. Cao Pi was very angry after hearing this, and ordered a secretary to "kill those who make evil remarks and reward those who accuse them."
At this time, Gao Rou, who was already responsible for the administration of law and the court's impeachment work, once again petitioned to abolish the law of slander, slander and rewards for reporting, but it was still not adopted. As a result, Cao Pi's simple and crude law caused "false accusations among the people to flourish."
", caused social unrest, and the imperial court issued an edict to abolish it.
Liu Ci, the school official at the time, and others used this decree to make false accusations. "In the past few years since the beginning of the Yellow Emperor's reign, tens of thousands of officials and people have been accused of committing rape." These wronged officials and people relied on Gao Rou to deal with them fairly.
Maintained the stability of Cao Wei's regime.
During the reign of Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming Dynasty, school affairs were still rampant. "The Biography of Gao Rou" also mentioned that at that time, a dianongzhonglang general named Liu Gui secretly hunted in the royal forbidden garden, and his subordinate Zhang Jing reported it to the school affairs. Cao Rui heard that
After hearing this, Liu Gui was arrested and Zhang Jing's name was concealed.
Using school officials who are responsible for detecting rape as a tool to protect the private property of the royal family further deviates from the original intention of its establishment.
After that, an even more ridiculous incident occurred in the court: the palace eunuch in charge of court etiquette actually arrested Lantai Lingshi, who was in charge of archives and classics, without permission!
Guanglu doctor Wei Zhen requested that this matter be dealt with strictly. He directly pointed out in his summary that blindly condoning school affairs would lead to the harm of "generals and generals overstepping their duties and even delaying the mausoleum."
That is to say, all departments of the imperial court will act arbitrarily beyond their authority, which will lead to the decline of the entire imperial court.
But unfortunately, from the period of Cao Cao to Cao Rui, they have always indulged, acquiesced, and even continuously expanded the functions of school affairs, allowing these spies to become more rampant. Now Cao Shuang finally wants to restrain them.