Chapter 196: Conscience in the heart, good and evil, life and death.
Huang An's writing skills are as fast as flying.
He is using the power of public opinion and building momentum.
The news that he wants Senior Sister Zhao to come to Feng'an City and make decisions for the people will spread throughout Feng'an City in the shortest possible time.
At the same time, while using this incident to scare the snake, it also paralyzed the big families in the city, especially the Yang Family Martial Arts School, the Li Family, and the Yunshan Chamber of Commerce.
Let them think of themselves as their own means, nothing more.
At the same time, we should first put a layer of cloak on Senior Sister Zhao to make decisions for the people, gather her reputation, and gain a good reputation.
The quality of reputation is not only important in his hometown, but even more important in Ming Dynasty where traffic is congested.
After writing hundreds of eloquent words, Huang An dried the ink and handed it to Liu Yun.
"Find someone to copy it. Post a few more copies in places where people gather in the city. Within two days, I want to hear that everyone in the city knows about it."
Although Liu Yun was confused, there was no need to refute, since they were all working anyway.
This matter is still very easy. Maybe I can use the opportunity of bribing the green-skinned gangster to get some profit.
After all, no matter how harsh Mr. Zhao Yan and Brother Huang An were, they wouldn't blame him for robbing a green-skinned gangster of money, right?
Therefore, after Liu Yun took the paper, he hurried away and went as ordered.
After sending Liu Yun away, Huang An turned to Chen Yu and Zhang Yi beside him and said:
"Come with me!"
The two of them shouted in unison and followed Huang An's footsteps.
The direction they were going happened to be the warehouse where the account books were kept.
Luo Feiyao followed behind without saying a word.
Huang An took a look and thought for a while before letting her follow him temporarily.
It's not that I don't want to do it, but I can't physically drive her away, so I just let her go.
On the way, he asked his brother Zhang Ren, who was waiting aside, to find a team of ten people to follow them.
A group of fifteen people walked into the courtyard where files and account books were placed.
At this time, there was a steady stream of people carrying account books to the warehouse.
What Huang An wants is the account books and files within ten years, which are huge in number.
However, despite the large number, Meng Yun, who is responsible for this matter, is still very capable.
Under his command, the account books were placed in an orderly manner.
Classify them according to their age and put them away one by one.
When Huang An and his party entered the house, the sour smell of paper hit their faces.
It was bearable outside the hospital, but when I walked inside, the smell was too overpowering.
Frowning slightly, Huang An forced himself to hold it back.
It seems that Yang Chao, the chief bookkeeper in charge of all accounts and files in the city, is indeed arrogant.
The imperial court has its own laws and regulations on the process of file preservation. If there is a fixed process, people will be sent to inspect it almost every year.
However, the storage of account books and files in Feng'an City was so perfunctory that even the procedures for drying them were omitted.
"Sir Huang, most of the accounts from the eighth to the tenth year cannot be seen clearly and are very badly rotted. The younger files from four years ago and earlier are also seriously damaged."
A senior officer under Liu Yun stepped forward to report the situation cautiously.
Huang An's previous warning was still close at hand, and he did not dare to slack off at all.
Seeing Huang An coming, he immediately went forward and reported the terrible actual situation.
Obviously, he didn't want to take the blame for the people in the city lord's palace who were responsible for protecting and guarding the ledgers.
Huang An frowned slightly when he heard this.
He took a step forward and glanced at the account book he had visited.
Then he casually took out the top booklet from a pile of account books two steps away.
When I opened the account book, I could tell at a glance that it was from December five years ago. After a rough look, the fonts were blurry and many of them were hard to read clearly.
Even the last few pages of the ledger were stuck together, making it impossible to see the fonts clearly.
The situation is worse than imagined.
Fortunately, the account books he asked for were only for the last three years.
Putting away the melancholy on his face, Huang An regained his expressionless expression, glanced at his eyes again, lowered his head, gave a long and timid glance, and said calmly:
"I understand, you go ahead and do your work!"
He had expected it and was not surprised by it.
It is very difficult to keep the ledger, the process is complicated and time-consuming.
Before Huang An came to Feng'an City, he specifically asked Yu Mao and others.
Generally, the officials sent from Youzhou City to verify files and account books would not really check them carefully.
Say hello and ventilate the place before coming so that they can prepare in advance and hide any "dirt" that should not be seen.
After arriving, many officials gathered together to have a meal, drink, and go through the process.
There are even some lazy officials who don't even know how to follow the procedures. They collect the money, visit the local area for a few days, eat and drink, then take the fabricated verification documents and set off directly to report to their superiors.
Throughout Youzhou, this kind of officialdom is almost universally known.
After all, this is not the case for just one or two officials.
Under such circumstances, the officials below would naturally not pay much attention to it.
However, the account books within three years are enough. What Huang An wants is just the account books within three years.
Or, within a year, just barely.
As the party that controls absolute force and power, Huang An decided to take heavy action against the wealthy families in Feng'an City.
Huang An is well aware of the dangers of aristocratic families controlling local areas if the imperial power does not go to the countryside. This has been proven through bloody history and thousands of years.
Now that Feng'an City has been planned to be brought under control, these cancers in the city must be eradicated.
Zhao Yan originally did not intend to treat the wealthy family with such a harsh attitude and methods.
But who told her to be so soft-hearted that she would change her mind after Huang An blew her off?
Since the junior brother has such ambitions, she will naturally not hold back and will give her full support behind him.
Huang An has a deep understanding of the aristocratic families in Feng'an City.
How can aristocratic families control Feng'an City and lie on the heads of all the people in the city to suck the blood?
They are nothing more than their spokespersons, officials elected by their own families!
The officials in Feng'an City are themselves members of aristocratic families.
After all, it is difficult for warriors without background to be transferred from the military to other places.
Especially a big border state like Youzhou.
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Without anyone to support them, they will most likely have to stay in the military for the rest of their lives.
Unless, like their masters, they put aside their military glory and achievements, withdraw from the army, and then open a martial arts school to rebuild their family business.
But this road is also difficult to walk.
Zhao Dun was lucky enough to meet Huang An.
Otherwise, the grass on his grave now would be ten feet high.
In Feng'an City, there are no more than four officials who serve as the spokespersons and leaders of these aristocratic families.
County Magistrate Lishui, Chief Registrar Yang Chao, County Lieutenant Li Jie, and Dianshi Mashan.
These four people are the leaders of the aristocratic families in Feng'an City.
At the same time, he was also the face of the imperial court in Feng'an City, and the executor and interpreter of imperial policies.
Of course, there are also those who are dependent on them and whose interests are intertwined with theirs, those who are members of smaller aristocratic families, or warriors who are small officials who have given up everything and are willing to become slaves of the aristocratic families.
Huang An saw clearly that if he wanted to kill the aristocratic families in Feng'an City, these four people should be killed.
It is impossible to use force to deprive them of their rights.
It's okay to assassinate one, but it's not okay to assassinate four at the same time.
When you are an official, the most important thing you need to pay attention to is the rules of the officialdom.
The punishment must be clear and fair, so that political opponents cannot find any loopholes if they want to take advantage of it.
To trip up these four people and convict them, we need evidence, evidence that can be recognized by the court.
In Huang An's opinion, this kind of evidence can actually be concocted.
This means not being afraid of thieves stealing, but being afraid of thieves missing you.
Of course, Huang An doesn't think he needs to go to the extent of concocting evidence or making false testimony.
He only needs to secretly guide public opinion, use force in one hand, and money in the other, and all the wealthy families will be as vulnerable as chickens and dogs in front of him.
Based on his understanding of the official governance environment in Feng'an City, he slapped ten officials to death, and eight of them deserved their punishment.
Of the remaining two, one can only be said to have died too cheaply.
There is another one who can barely be considered a human being.
Are there any sages in the history books?
Yes, but very few.
In other words, from a contemporary perspective, there is none at all.
Kang Youwei, who was praised for advocating monogamy and liberating women, took six wives.
He married his last wife at the age of 58. His sixth wife was a woman who was not yet a minor according to the standards of Huang An's era.
Preserve heaven's principles and destroy human desires...
Had my head shaved...
The people who were praised by generations in the past are considered heinous people from a modern perspective.
Those who can leave their names in the long history, regardless of good or bad fame, are the most popular among the people at that time and the proud ones of heaven.
And more people of the same generation are the green leaves that set off their brilliance.
In the Ming Empire, where laws and supervisory methods were so backward, it was expected that a grassroots official, an official from a family who had controlled a county for generations and was the master of people for generations, was expected to do good things.
The probability of this happening is itself an impossible miracle.
As for Huang An, he didn't believe that there would be such a miracle in Feng'an City.
He is not willing to be a mediocre person and not willing to follow the crowd.
Since he has the ability now, he chooses to use the modern education he has received and the conscience in his heart to measure the good and evil life and death of all officials in Feng'an City.
They deserve to die.
Huang An is not a good person. He has no time to distinguish between the good and the bad of these officials who rose to power with the backing of wealthy families. He is good at beating them to death with a stick, and then looking for others to start over.
After communicating with Chao Mu last night, Huang An completed all preparations for the plan.
It's time to start.
This time, he is going to start a complete revolution in this strange Feng'an City!
Huang An stopped two brothers who were carrying account books and ordered:
"Find all the ledgers within three years."
The two men responded and soon found three stacks of ledgers stacked together.
There are six piles in total, each pile is almost as tall as a person.
"Master Huang, that's it!"
Huang An looked in the direction they were pointing and his eyes moved.
About three to four hundred copies.
The material of the ledger is also the kind of paper commonly seen in Feng'an City.
This amount is within the expected range.
Luo Feiyao frowned as she watched Huang An's movements.
Isn’t this still a stupid idea?
If we check all the account books within three years, what will happen even if problems are found?
How much money can you greed for in three years?
Punishing someone with this method is painless and painless.
I would like to remind you that it is difficult to sort out these account books for half a month.
If we want to find out the accounting problems and hold the county magistrate Li Shui and the chief bookkeeper Yang Chao responsible for the accounting problems, even a month will not be enough.
However, the words that came out of my mouth were eventually swallowed.
She endured it.
Huang An squinted his eyes slightly, focusing on the ledgers stacked in front of him as high as a person, with a smile on his lips.
If you go through the account books one by one and check them carefully, it is naturally impossible.
Time, not that much.
But who said he had helpers?
Although this method of checking accounts is the stupidest and most time-consuming, it is also the most effective.
Because the imperial court recognized evidence obtained through such stupid methods. This evidence would make the officials from the aristocratic families they wanted to deal with speechless.
This is the most powerful weapon to capture the spokespersons of the wealthy families in the city in the officialdom!
When these officials are taken down, the aristocratic family that is poisoning the village will be the catfish on the chopping block, and he will have it at his disposal.
After all, the only way for aristocratic families to rule the countryside was through the power of the imperial court.
As for how long it takes?
That doesn't exist. With Chao Mu and the high technology Chao Mu has behind him, it doesn't even take twelve hours to find out the problems in these more than 300 ledgers.
With a slight curl of the corner of his mouth, Huang An pointed at the two of them and gave instructions.
"Move these things and follow me!"
After saying that, he reached out his hand first and picked up a stack of ledgers.
About a little over one meter tall, there were as many as fifty or sixty books, covering almost half of Huang An's body.
The ledger was thick and heavy, weighing more than two hundred kilograms, but Huang An held it in his arms and it was as light as weight.
Everyone was stunned when they heard Huang An's order and saw Huang An setting an example.
What is this for?
This account book has just been moved here, where should it be moved?
But no one objected, so they immediately followed suit and picked up the remaining ledgers.
Including Huang An himself, a total of fifteen people were arranged to move all the ledgers for the past three years.