At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 18, stand on the right side

In April of the thirty-fifth year of the First Emperor, Yang County.

When there were signs of rebellion in Yang County, everyone in Chen County paid special attention to it. County Supervisor Yu Shi Meng Shao led 500 soldiers into Yang County and then tortured Pang Hui.

At the same time, a strict investigation was conducted within the entire Yang County in order to find useful clues. Unfortunately, Xu Fan was very cautious, and the criminal investigation methods were not developed in this era. It was already five days after Meng Shao came, and even some clues disappeared. There was no trace, so Meng Shao found nothing and only arrested dozens of innocent people.

Yang County Government Office. Meng Shao, the county supervisor and censor, looked at the evidence of Pang Hui's corruption and perversion of the law in recent years.

"This Pang Hui is a bit capable. In less than five years since he came to Yang County, he has made a fortune and purchased 5 acres of land." Of course, this corrupt wealth was not noticed by Meng Shao. Now in the officialdom of Daqin There is no corruption without officials. Corruption is no longer a crime. If officials are really arrested for corruption, there will be very few officials left in the entire Qin Dynasty.

The First Emperor was the first person responsible for the corruption in the officialdom of the Qin Dynasty. When the First Emperor was talented and bold, the officials below were naturally cautious and dedicated to serving the country and the people.

But now the First Emperor himself is recruiting beauties, building palaces, and is so happy about his achievements that he seeks immortality. As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, the officials below will naturally start to recruit beauties, collect treasures, and purchase land.

You, the First Emperor, did the first grade of junior high school, and naturally the officials below followed suit and did the fifteenth grade.

The world has been conquered, shouldn't they, the heroes, enjoy themselves? You, the First Emperor, didn't even grant you a kingdom, so it's not too much for me to embezzle a little money. With the First Emperor as an example for officials, officials in the Qin Dynasty corrupted extremely quickly.

The bureaucrats of the First Emperor's thirty-fifth year and the bureaucrats of his twenty-fifth year were completely different species. The bureaucrats of the twenty-fifth year still had some ideals of unifying the world, but after they became successful, only those selfish bureaucrats were left.

Therefore, for Meng Shao, the small amount of money Pang Hui embezzled was not even a crime. His real purpose was to find those who wanted to rebel.

Judging from the current evidence, Pang Hui should have been framed, because Pang Hui was unprepared for the rebellion, had no food and grass, and did not even bribe his subordinates. Pang Hui was even the last one among the officials in Yang County to know that he was Rebellious people. He was caught by the county captain without any resistance. Such rebellion was simply a joke.

But he couldn't find the person who framed Pang Hui. From the intelligence point of view, Pang Hui was one of the most mediocre bureaucrats in Da Qin's officialdom. He usually had a good relationship with his subordinates and colleagues, and had no conflicts with the local wealthy families. , the tasks assigned by the county can be completed, there should be no forces in Yang County that want to frame him.

This is where the contradiction lies. He has no conflicts with his colleagues or wealthy families, nor does he want to rebel. Who would frame him as the county magistrate?
  The last information Meng Shao saw was Pang Hui's order in March to recruit civilian husbands.

If there was a contradiction, these people must hate Pang Hui, but he didn't think that a group of ordinary people dared to plot against Pang Hui.

Finally, Meng Shao checked Yang County's information for this year and found that during the autumn harvest last year, Yang County warehouse officials wanted to fight for corruption, but a commoner named Xu Fan used it to rebel against Qin and restore Chu, and they were too scared to act rashly.

"Go against the people!" Xu Fan's behavior made Meng Shao unhappy.

The corruption of officials in Da Qin was punished by supervisory censors like him, but Xu Fan's actions were resisting the entire Da Qin bureaucracy, which made Meng Shao, a Legalist bureaucrat, unhappy. Even in Meng Shao's view, this is more serious than the corruption of warehouse officials. If ordinary people in Qin dare to resist the authority of officials like Xu Fan, this will shake the foundation of Qin. is an even more intolerable crime.

The bureaucrats of the Qin Dynasty liked the most submissive people. They disliked the unruly people like Xu Fan the most, and even wanted to kill them. Meng Shao became murderous towards Xu Fan.

But in a flash of inspiration, Meng Shao suddenly felt that this matter was probably caused by Xu Fan, a cunning man. Other grassroots people did not have the courage, but Xu Fan, who dared to speak out against Qin and Fu Chu, had the courage.

Not long after, Meng Shao's men came in to report the situation. Meng Shao asked calmly: "Did Pang Hui recruit?"

"After recruiting him, he also bitten 32 officials including the county lieutenant and county magistrate of Chuyang County!"

"Report the imperial edict to the imperial censor's office. Except for the county captain of Yang County, all the remaining officials were arrested and sent to the county seat."

Although he also knew that Pang Hui was wrongly accused, since such a rebellious thing happened in Yang County, Pang Hui was definitely guilty of unfavorable supervision by the county magistrate, so this could not be regarded as an unjust accusation against him. But for such a big thing as rebellion, it was impossible to arrest only Pang Hui. Yang County officials were all small fish caught by the way. Anyway, based on their guilt, no matter how they were convicted, it would not be unfair.

After thinking for a while, Meng Shao said to his men: "Go find information about Xu Fan from the Chen family."

"promise!"

Three days later, Meng Shao obtained all the information about Xu Fan during the year he came to Chen's house. He was powerful, could kill wolves and wild boars, could read and write, but he was not familiar with hundreds of classics, was good at domesticating poultry, and had poor farming skills. Well, in less than half a year, he went from nothing to a big family business. Xu Fan most likely made the Quyuan Plow, and he also knew how to use the instrument.

farmhouse?

Mohist family?

Miscellaneous?

The more he saw what Xu Fan did in the Chen family, the more Meng Shao became confused about Xu Fan's identity, but he was sure that Xu Fan was not an ordinary person. He had the ability to frame Pang Hui and the motive to frame Pang Hui.

Of course, although Meng Shao realized that Xu Fan might have done this, he did not arrest Xu Fan. After all, it is self-evident who deserves more credit for a county magistrate's rebellion or a grassroots rebellion.

But when escorting Pang Hui and others back to Chen County, Meng Shao said to Li Zhang, the county captain who had escaped and was now the fake county magistrate: "Find a way to arrest Xu Fan."

Li Zhang immediately said: "No!"

And just on the side of the street, Chen Gang looked solemnly at the county magistrate and officials who were detained in the prison car. They used to be the gods of Yang County, but now they have become rebels who are despised by everyone, and even his whole family will be beheaded. Head, he felt uneasy.

When he returned to Chen's house, he approached Xu Fan and said, "Isn't it too much for us to frame the county magistrate like this and have his whole family executed?"

Xu Fan said solemnly: "Chief, you have to take a correct stand. How many people in the Chen family have died doing corvee service over the years, and it was the county magistrate who issued these orders. The county magistrate and we are life and death enemies. Now you feel that the county magistrate is pitiful." , but Widow Qin in the village had her husband die less than three years after she got married. She is not pitiful, nor are the dozen or so families in the Chen family who have disappeared."

Chen Lin also followed up and said: "Xu Fan is right. These corrupt officials deserved to die. The county magistrate has been arrested, and everyone no longer has to do corvee service. Not only did we not do anything evil, but we did a lot of harm to Yang County."

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