Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 681 Friendly Communication Between Inmates (Second Change)
"Scholars of my generation have passed down farming and reading to their families. Now I just rely on my own hands and knowledge to earn what I need for life. How can I be considered a traitor?"

Yang He has been around the hammer bandits for a long time, and finally learned a little bit of reason.

"Could it be that you think that after being captured, you have to die to serve the country? If you haven't betrayed, why didn't you die?"

Zhang Fuzhen never thought that Yang He, who has always valued peace as the most important thing, probably had a cautious temper in the past, which made him speechless.

"Scholars of my generation have to take a good look at it. Hammer bandit He Jinchao is finished with one bite at a time. Can he do it?" Yang He stroked his beard and said, "Of course I want to live a good life. Seeing him build a tall building, seeing him building a tall building collapsed."

Hearing this reason, Zhang Fuzhen always felt better: "Governor Yang, have you ever gone out to inspect the territory of the hammer bandits?"

"No, I only stayed in Taiyuan and Hequ."

"Then how does it feel different?"

"Hequ is the place where hammer bandit He Jinchao made his fortune. He built the East Chamber City next to him. I heard that even the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty pretended to be ordinary people to move bricks for him to earn money and eat.

After the city was built, he chose to draw lots to distribute houses, give wives, and reward fields to his soldiers. He even built the Hall of Valor for the soldiers who died in battle, so that they could enjoy incense after death. Every soldier who died in battle has a stone tablet. It records where he died in battle.

I saw many people working in the fields with smiles on their faces.

I heard the sound of many children reading aloud there.

I saw many disabled soldiers being entrusted with important tasks and enjoying the favor of the villagers.

I didn't see a single beggar and starvation there. "

After Yang He finished speaking, both of them fell silent. He really wanted to share what he saw and gained with others, but he never had the chance.

He Jinzhao did not launch a war against Shaanxi, but went to pacify the grasslands, which caused Yang He to say such things to no one.

Fortunately, Zhang Fuzhen is here!

"Is no one corrupt? I don't believe it." Zhang Fuzhen grasped the last glimmer of hope.

"Of course there is." Yang He stroked his beard and shook his head, "The consequences of corruption are very serious."

"How serious is the law?"

"Corrupt officials can't commit suicide, they must be executed in front of everyone, and their homes must be ransacked!
Not only the house was ransacked, but also the wives and children of corrupt officials were punished, and sons and sons-in-law were all included in the camp.

If the money in the family property is not enough to deduct the money for corruption, the close relatives will all ransack the house, and when it is worth the money for corruption, they will stop. "

"So serious?" Zhang Fuzhen's eyes were full of shock: "No one resisted?"

"Resistance? Every time the inspectors go to inspect the place, they will be followed by several candidates.

As long as the inspector accepts bribes and one of the candidates reports the truth, the inspector will be imprisoned and convicted, and the candidate who made the report will be elected to replace him. "

Yang He was also shocked by He Jinzhao's methods of dealing with corruption: "In order to become officials, this group of people will watch the 'imperial envoys' covetously, and the imperial envoys must do their best to investigate and deal with them severely. Whoever dares to corrupt will not show mercy .”

No one dares to bet on the matter of human nature like this prisoner method.

On the contrary, if you do a job well, you will be rewarded, and you can continue to be promoted in the future, everyone is willing to go to a high place.

Zhang Fuzhen remained silent. According to the usual practice, the local officials of the Ming Dynasty would send money to the high-ranking officials of the imperial court.

He thought that He Jinzhao was a rebel leader. What does he know about internal affairs?
But this method of controlling corruption alone made him feel extremely difficult.

Just the fact that officials dare not be corrupt can bring great convenience to the daily life of the people.

Now that He Jinzhao is starting a new regime, you don't want to climb up, because there are people who want to climb up and take the place of corrupt officials like you.

"However, He Jinchao's subordinates have no officials so far. They are all officials." Yang He squeezed his beard and said with a smile: "It must be that he has a very small reserve of talents who can be officials, so he has never dared or had no chance to expand and occupy the territory."

What Yang He said was that it is impossible for He Jinzhao to completely abandon the Ming officials who surrendered in the future, you have a chance.

"You think he can win?"

"The old man was robbed by He Jinzhao, and he has been hanging out for several months. He has been fighting outside, and there is no one to make trouble under the hammer bandits, which is enough to explain a lot of problems."

He Jinzhao made rules for the small officials, they abide by the rules, and the common people follow the rules even more obsessively, because as long as they have a bite to eat, they will not rebel.

Yang He sat for a long time, stood up, and moved his body: "The old man still remembers a sentence he said, don't be an An'an starving to death, and be like a praying mantis!"

"You and I have both experienced the events in Shaanxi, from when the Qin thieves spread all over the place to when you wiped out all the thieves, let me ask you, in the face of natural disasters, did the Ming Dynasty ever provide relief?

Even Liao's salary will be increased, so as not to give the people a chance to survive.

Now that the Qin thieves have been put down, has the imperial court ever wavered in taxes? "

Zhang Fuzhen didn't answer, and there was no need to answer.

"People who are lucky, after eating the bark, sell their sons and daughters, and sell themselves into slavery, they may have a chance to survive.

People who are unlucky just gnaw bark, eat grass roots, eat offspring, eat dead human flesh, eat Guanyin soil, and finally starve to the side of the road, becoming the rations of others. "

The more Yang He talked, the more he wanted to laugh: "But when people like He Jinzhao stepped forward, they told them that the food in the homes of feudal kings, officials, rich households, and gentry was moldy before it was piled up, and the dried meat was still densely hung on the beams of the house. Come on, I can also eat later.

Do you think they have options? "

Zhang Fuzhen opened his mouth, then closed it firmly.

"Let's talk about my Daming's officers and soldiers, forget it, there's nothing to say." Yang He suddenly became less interested: "Besides, the princes in my Daming capital are now full of problems. They, they are still there. Party struggle!"

Ming party struggles are everywhere.

Didn't Zhang Fuzhen experience an "invisible" party struggle and kick him out of Hong Chengchou's command?

After Yang He sat down again, he found that Zhang Fuzhen was crying silently.

"Tisheng, why are you crying all of a sudden?"

"I cry why you were not so clear-headed when you were the governor of the three sides!"

Zhang Fuzhen almost roared and said this sentence, in the current situation, Zhuge Liang has something to do afterwards?
We have all become captives of the Hammer bandits, and if we want to serve the imperial court, will we have a chance?

As a scholar, you have long been stained with being a thief, who would believe you!
On the contrary, Yang He laughed loudly, and then spread his hands:
"Tisheng, I found that I am neither a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, nor did I not work for the hammer bandits. From the perspective of a bystander, I have a very clear mind, so I can see clearly and understand many things.

I believe that in the near future, you will also want to understand many things, and you will not be looking for life and death like you are now. "

"I'm not looking for death."

"But the old man heard that you committed suicide by jumping into the Yellow River."

Zhang Fuzhen was so annoyed that his face was covered, and he didn't want to explain.

(End of this chapter)