The weather in November changes.
The snow that had stopped for a while just now began to fall again in less than an hour.
Zhao Jun stood quietly by the Wangfu Pond, watching the fish in the pond gradually disperse as the fish ate up their food. Then snowflakes fell from the sky, the temperature dropped, and the fish in the pond swam deeper. After a while, there was no longer any shadow of the fish.
But even so, he didn't move at all, and still stood there blankly.
Suddenly, a pair of slender hands gently put a black cloak on him and brushed off the snowflakes that fell on his body.
"What are you thinking about?"
Ye Yin's pleasant voice sounded next to him. Zhao Jun turned around and saw that his princess had walked beside him and looked at the pool water, but the question was directed to the people around him.
Zhao Jun slowly turned his head back, looked at the pool and said leisurely: "I once thought that they were corrupt because the salary given by the court was not much, and they had no choice but to make a living and for their family.
So in the beginning, I gave them a salary that was enough to support their family, which tripled their original salary!
Even the four solar terms, silver rewards during the New Year, and various welfare items, Capital King has never lacked them.
The reason is that they can concentrate on political affairs and do not have to struggle for food and clothing at home, so that they can have the mind to let other people live the same life.
but……"
"But they are completely dissatisfied. Even though you have given them enough salary, they still collude with others to sell out the interests of Yunzhou County and obtain the gold and silver that they should not get, right?"
Ye Yin finished what he said for him.
Zhao Jun sighed heavily.
Ye Yin smiled and continued: "There are so many people, I don't know how to deal with them?"
Zhao Jun nodded again:
"According to the investigation by the secret guards, at least 70% of the officials in the county are involved.
The king originally wanted to kill them all, but if he killed them all, the entire Yunzhou County would inevitably be paralyzed and lose so many officials at once. There is simply no way to fill the vacancies in a short period of time. "
"So I can't think of a way to wait for you to feel sorry for yourself here and stand in the courtyard in the snow." Ye Yin suddenly said with a smile.
Zhao Jun shook his head and said slowly: "I just want to be alone."
"That means you feel betrayed by others, so you can't accept it for a while?"
Zhao Jun was silent.
But sometimes silence is the best answer.
"Pfft!"
Ye Yin suddenly chuckled, her smile extremely bright.
Zhao Jun looked at her speechlessly, but heard her say: "Originally, I thought you were a very mature person, decisive and decisive in doing things, and never sloppy.
But I didn't expect that you would feel sorry for yourself because of this trivial matter. Do you know that you are really like a child?
Because the friend who was playing well with him suddenly betrayed him and took away what originally belonged to him.
What you are angry about is not what was robbed, what you are angry about is that someone you trusted was betrayed. "
Zhao Jun was stunned for a long time, nodded randomly, and admitted silently.
Ye Yin then giggled louder, and it took a while before she finally stopped before Zhao Jun's head was almost covered with black lines.
Ye Yin suddenly put on a serious expression and said slowly: "Your Majesty, let me tell you a story."
Zhao Jun was stunned and didn't understand why he was telling him a story at this time, but he nodded anyway.
Ye Yin also began to slowly narrate.
“Our family was not originally from the border, and my father was originally just an ordinary commander in Nanyang County.
However, the Huns seized the border, and the original defenders on the Hedong border suffered heavy losses. The court urgently needed soldiers to fill the vacancies on the border, so it mobilized troops from the interior.
At this time, my father was transferred to the front line of defense against the Huns in Hedong.
It was at this time that I followed my father to Hedong.
When he first arrived in Hedong, my father was eager to start a big fight with the Xiongnu and strive to be promoted as soon as possible.
But when he arrived at the city assigned to him to defend, his heart was half cold.
The whole city is full of greed.
From his deputy to the most ordinary soldiers in the army, officers are greedy for military pay. Soldiers sell their weapons and then tell their superiors about the damage. The superiors also turn a blind eye and the damage is overturned in the blink of an eye. Double the number, then double it, then double it ten times higher, and so on.
By the time the damage was reported to my father, it wasn’t just one weapon that had been damaged, but an entire battalion’s equipment! "
What's more, these soldiers from the bottom city often exploited the local people and took money from them.
It can be said that at that time, there was no one clean in the entire city from top to bottom!
Faced with this situation, your father is just as helpless as you. "
Zhao Jun sighed after hearing this.
Ye Yin ignored him and continued: "If you want to deal with it, if everyone participates and you handle it according to military regulations, it will be useless. You don't even need the Huns to fight, and you will kill all your own people.
But if you don't deal with it, people will think you are a soft persimmon. Ignoring you directly and continuing to be greedy will even become more unscrupulous, and the combat effectiveness of the army will be impossible to mention.
His father thought for a long time and was not discouraged, and finally he came up with a way. "
Zhao Jun's eyes lit up and he looked at Ye Yin.
Ye Yin continued: "It is definitely impossible to kill them all at this time. This is tantamount to abolishing martial arts.
In a place like the border, there is not much time for you to recruit new people to fill the vacancies. The first time your combat effectiveness is damaged, those hungry wolves will bite you hard.
The Hundred Years War between the Song Dynasty and the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu did not know how many spies were planted in the Song Dynasty, and no one was sure that they had none in their own city.
Therefore, this matter must be resolved quickly without losing too much combat power in the city, otherwise the Huns may take advantage of the loophole at any time.
My father's method is very simple: look for role models and apply both kindness and power.
In this case, killing is necessary, but not in large numbers, but in capturing those who are most conspicuous in corruption, are the most corrupt, and have the highest official positions.
Then follow his line, capture the representatives of other classes in his line, and use their heads to kill chickens and monkeys, so that everyone in the city knows that his new guard is not a fool.
Fortunately, my father also brought a former army unit from the pass, otherwise it would be a problem to arrest people.
After killing these people to scare the monkeys, his father lowered the punishment of others to the point where they would not die and asked them to make meritorious deeds, saying that as long as they would not make the same mistakes in the future, he would forget about the past.
But at the same time, a reward and punishment system was also set up in the military. There were rewards for those who committed corruption, and severe punishment for those who were reported and verified.
At the same time, my father also improved the salary in the military. He used the gold and silver from the homes of the middle- and upper-class officers who had been killed to scare the monkeys, and subsidized it to the low-income soldiers at the bottom.
Clarified his own rules.
We will deal with it strictly when someone makes a mistake in the future, but we will not hesitate to reward someone when they make a meritorious deed.
A stick in one hand and a cake in the other.
Everyone was convinced!
The combat effectiveness of the entire city quickly recovered, and the corruption in the army was also curbed.
My father once said that it is impossible to completely avoid greed. People's desires are sometimes beyond their control.
Therefore, if we want to curb this situation, we must establish a complete system, and then effectively implement the reward and punishment system, and use the system to restrict them instead of relying on their consciousness.
Only in this way can corruption be contained within a certain range.
Limit the impact to a minimum!
"So, my lord, do you understand? Killing people cannot solve any problem. At most, he can only solve the problem temporarily, but as long as the root of the problem is still there, you will never stop killing.
What we have to do is to limit it from the source and contain it!
Only in this way can we control it! "
Ye Yin suddenly turned around and said.
Zhao Jun suddenly realized it and nodded heavily!
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(End of chapter)
