Hunchun once heard a sentence from Sister Wu in a casual conversation that was still fresh in his memory. She said how could the end of a dynasty be considered coming? It means that all good people cannot survive. This is a typical doomsday fate. 81中 Δ文 网
Hunchun felt the same. Of course he did not want the Qing Dynasty to end, but he knew very well that good people could not survive in the current officialdom.
Corrupt officials and honest officials have been two forces since ancient times. Due to the selfishness of human nature, it is naturally easier to accept the concept of corruption than to accept the concept of incorruptibility. This is the saying that it is easier to learn from bad things than to learn well.
A dynasty is emerging, and the society is in a period of recovery after the war. At this time, the people and officials retain deep and terrifying memories of the previous troubled times, because they are afraid that they will not let themselves and their descendants live back to that era. , so when it comes to the officials at the beginning of the dynasty, you don’t need to talk nonsense. They are naturally timid and easier to learn.
No one dares to say whether he is a capable minister, but at least he is an honest man who is cautious and cautious. At most, he can take advantage of the public family. If you really ask him to sell his official position and get a title, but if he goes to jail for injustice, he is really Don't dare.
Just be honest. If the officials restrain themselves and the people know how to be grateful, then they can live a good life for a few days.
As time goes by, the dynasty begins to enter a mature stage. At this time, the old people gradually die, and there are fewer and fewer people and officials who have seen the troubled times. After a long period of peace, people naturally do not know how to respect and have enough food. If you eat too much, you will definitely want to drink, sex and wealth. At this time, officials will gradually become bolder.
But fortunately, the first three or four generations of emperors in a dynasty are basically quite promising, and their luck is still there. Once the saintly kings and famous ministers are refreshed, and after a few big prisons, the officials can restrain themselves a little.
At this time, officials began to consciously look at forming cliques, especially corrupt officials who needed to form cliques to protect themselves. However, most of the officials at this time were corrupt within their duties and did not dare to be too inhumane. .
For example, when the imperial court was running a river project, he embezzled funds for the river project, or when building a city wall, he embezzled some materials. This kind of corruption is relatively hidden, with ordinary officials and a few cronies making false accounts to make money.
If there are colleagues who cannot be circumvented, most of them are bought with money, and everyone benefits.
This is the characteristic of official corruption after the dynasty entered the middle period.
The last period of the dynasty was very embarrassing. Hundreds of years had passed, and the memory of the founding of the country had long been forgotten. The society was experiencing great growth in population, and wealth had been hoarded for hundreds of years. At this time The streets of every city are filled with the light of silver and filled with the smell of money.
At this time, people have been completely obsessed with material desires, arrogance and extravagance have become the norm, and people's tendency to compare is growing day by day.
Officials at this time were no longer as cautious as in the past. After hundreds of years of recuperation, the bureaucracy had the strength to compete with the imperial power.
In the dynasty of this period, it was very common for the emperor to not leave the Forbidden City when issuing decrees. There were many ways for people below to deceive the emperor. Corruptors colluded with each other to form factions, and ruthless people began to fill the court.
At this time, there is basically no way for an honest official to survive, because if you want to be alone and cannot maintain your position, you will block the way of others, and it will destroy people and money, just like killing your parents.
At first they will use money to bribe you, but once they find out that you don't want to do this, the corrupt officials will never be polite to you like their predecessors did, or go around you, but choose to eradicate them violently.
Smashing black bricks and making false accusations are all trivial, and it is common for you to die unexpectedly. If your death can help another group of people benefit from one hundred thousand taels of silver, do you think they will do this?
What's even more frightening is that the dynasty has gone through hundreds of years of development, and society has accumulated a huge amount of money. Sometimes what you block is not a path of wealth of one hundred thousand taels, but a path of wealth of millions or even tens of millions of taels.
With such a huge wealth, someone would dare to kill your whole family, let alone one of you.
Sister Wu heard this truth from Xiao Letian's small class. Manchus and Chinese all know the prime minister's hobby. As long as he has free time, he likes to teach people. Sometimes he goes to the military academy to give lectures in the lecture hall, and sometimes Sometimes it is a small high-level class with dozens of people.
Everyone knows that all useful information is hidden in the small classroom. Any officials who are qualified to listen to the Prime Minister's small classroom will have an unlimited future.
Sister Wu was lucky enough to listen to three lectures, one of which was about corruption in the Qing Dynasty. The more than 40 officials who listened to that lecture were dazzled by the formation, development, and peak of the corruption culture and what would happen next. After repeated repetitions, Xiao Letian stripped him clean.
Sister Wu told Hunchun these truths, and Hunchun verified this truth from Tepuxin today. The dynasty has really entered the doomsday passage, honest officials have no way out, and the era of comprehensive corruption has already arrived.
Tepuxin is a living example. To be honest, this person is not a good official and is also a corrupt official. However, one of the characteristics of this person is that he is afraid of death and pain. He said it himself just now.
In fact, even if such a person is corrupt, there will be a limit. He would not dare to commit such a major crime as treason, because it is Ling Chi's crime.
But he had no choice, because he was valued and supported by Yishan little by little. By the time Yishan asked him to do big business, he had already integrated with Yishan's interest groups.
You have me I have you! If Tepuxin dared to say even half a word of rejection, he might be beaten to death with black bricks.
Such a large smuggling network has an annual business volume of more than 10 million, and there are countless high-ranking officials who profit from it. How dare you, Tepuxin, take the blame for these people? You can't survive if they have even the slightest suspicion of you.
He had no choice but to go downstairs with his head covered. After the signing of the Aihui Treaty, the cession of territory outside the customs, Yishan recommended him to take over, and then the imperial court secretly ordered him to let go of the country... I knew that in the end he became a big scapegoat. .
In this series of events, Tepuxin had no right to choose at all. In fact, he had lost the power to make decisions about his own life since he jumped on the ship of those in Yishan.
Tepuxin cried and said, "Brother! Do you know how lucky you are! If I had known what would happen to me today, I would have found a poor place to guard... Why am I doing this? Huh? Am I stupid..."
At this point, Tepuxin slapped himself in the face. He really regretted it. Being cut into pieces by a thousand cuts was really terrible.
"Brother, I still have several secret accounts in my hand, which contain records of cash withdrawals by Prince Gong, Prince Chun, and even Li Lianying and An Dehai..."
"I'll give it all to you, can you give me a happy death in exchange? Those accounts are very useful to you, and they are also useful to the emperor! I just want a happy death... Wuwuwu!"
