Snapped!
Yang Gao closed the memorial and slapped it heavily on the table.
During the Gonggao Civil Rebellion, thanks to Wang Anshi and Yang Shiqi's rigorous work, they found out from the escaped county officials and government officials that Feng Chun and others were guilty of selling relief grain, and the whole thing came to light.
"Pass an edict, summon Yue Feifei to quickly send out troops to quell the Gonggao civil uprising, and only kill the culprits. As long as the followers lay down their weapons, they will not care about their previous sins!"
Hebei has just stabilized and must not see another large-scale civil uprising. The momentum of rebellion must be nipped in the bud.
"It is decreed that the magistrates and magistrates of Gonggao County, as well as other officials, gentry, merchants, and government servants who are involved in corruption and reselling of grain, will all be beheaded, their property confiscated, and their descendants will not be allowed to take the imperial examination or serve in official positions for three generations. Anyone who embezzles and donates grain in various counties in Hebei This will always be the case!"
Troubled times require the use of heavy codes. There are many examples in history of officials forcing the people to rebel. For the sake of stability in Hebei, Yang Gao did not hesitate to imitate Zhu Yuanzhang's methods of combating corruption in history. Officials who embezzled more than sixty taels of silver were shot without mercy. Those who committed the most heinous crimes took " The torture of "skinning and pulling grass" was used to intimidate officials. Implement the imperial edict and allow the common people to petition.
It has to be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's intensity and determination in dealing with corruption issues were extremely severe and resolute, which gave Yang Gao a lot of experience to learn from.
In addition, Yang Gao also followed Wu Zetian's example in setting up a bronze chariot. Anyone could put words into the chariot according to their wishes, and they could complain or report grievances.
These two measures were all intended to encourage people to file grievances against the government. The imperial decree had clearly been issued, but Gonggao County had never released food to help the refugees. The refugees had no way to appeal, which led to serious consequences.
Of course, in addition to increasing the channels for people to go to school, it is also extremely important to strengthen education. Even if the court promulgated laws and regulations, many people at the bottom did not know how to use the laws and regulations to protect their own rights and interests, and eventually embarked on the path of violent resistance to the court.
Yang Gao used Hebei as an experimental point to establish the Department of Academic Affairs and encouraged scholars in the Hanlin Academy to promote popular education at the grassroots level. In order to suppress the empty talk in the Hanlin Academy that harmed the country, Yang Gao issued a random and rigid rule that for scholars who had not been admitted to the imperial examination within five years and were unwilling to work at the grassroots level, the imperial court would cancel all their treatment in the Hanlin Academy. The country's tax revenue is not used to support the worms who derail the country with empty talk.
The incident in Gonggao County also made Yang Gao realize that the power of the county magistrate was too great. According to the reports of Wang Anshi and Yang Shiqi, the Gonggao County magistrate embezzled nearly 5,000 shi of grain. Almost all officials in the county were embezzled. You know, but everyone is frightened by his lustful power and no one dares to stop him.
In order to prevent this phenomenon of covering the sky with one hand from happening again, Yang Gao decided to gradually reduce the powers of county magistrates and raise the status of county captains and county magistrates to compete with county magistrates.
The last one was proposed by Jia Xu, which allows deputy officials to report official officials. If the report is verified to be true, the deputy official will be directly promoted to a full-time official to succeed his predecessor.
This article not only allows officials to report each other, but more importantly, alienates officials. For example, in the case of corruption in Gonggao County this time, the county magistrate and the county magistrate colluded with each other to divide the accounts 30-70, and no one in the entire county government dared to speak out.
Jia Xu's plan was to sow a seed of suspicion between the county magistrate and the county magistrate or county lieutenant. The county magistrate who was afraid of being replaced would only work hard to prevent his deputy from impeaching him. Not to mention colluding together to embezzle money and pervert the law.
Of course, in order to prevent similar phenomena in the late Ming Dynasty when officials from the party and government made false accusations and spread rumors, Yang Gao also stipulated that once it was verified that the accusation was false, the deputy official would be dismissed from office and given a lighter or heavier sentence depending on the circumstances.
"It is decreed that starting from next month, the salaries of officials at all levels will be doubled."
Zhu Yuanzhang's efforts in combating corruption are worth learning from, but he also set the lowest salaries for Ming Dynasty officials in history. This is something Yang Gao should learn from. After all, officials also need to support their families. When they work for the court, the court naturally has to relieve them from worries. In addition, Yang Gao followed Yongzheng's example and created the honest silver system.
Under Yang Gao's will, political orders were implemented vigorously and resolutely in Hebei's officialdom. Hebei's officialdom ushered in a purge. Many corrupt officials were exposed one after another. They were imprisoned by the Ministry of Punishment or fled to Guanzhong because they had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.
In order to send troops to Youzhou as soon as possible to challenge the Turkic Jurchens, Yang Gao did not carry out a major purge of Hebei's officialdom. He only ordered the Ministry of Personnel to mobilize alternate officials to fill the gaps in Hebei's officialdom. Most county magistrates, especially those at the grassroots level, were inherited from Zhu Yuanzhang's rule or even earlier.
Hebei has experienced years of war, and many county and county officials have lost the supervision of the court, and corruption has become common.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to rectify the administration of officials, with the Sui army eyeing him in the south and the Turkic Jurchen barbarians invading Youzhou in the north, his focus was still on the army, and the corruption of county officials was not much curbed.
Now that the situation in the north has stabilized, Yang Gao used the incident in Gonggao County as an entry point to conduct a large-scale inspection and purge of Hebei's officialdom.
The civil uprising in Gonggao County was quickly quelled, but the resulting storm in Hebei's official circles lingered for a long time. Under the supervision of Jinyiwei and Yushitai, they followed the clues and traced the source. Two county guards, nine county magistrates, more than 40 government officials, more than 100 local powerful families, and more than 20 aristocratic families were uncovered. Discuss sin according to law.
Despite the ups and downs in the officialdom, people's livelihood in Hebei is gradually recovering, and food shipped from the south of the Yangtze River continues to flow, because the homeless refugees from the war are rebuilding their homes under the leadership of the newly appointed officials.
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Sa Shui, here is the pain in the hearts of countless Sui soldiers. In June of the eighth year of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang ordered Yu Wenshu to lead an army of 300,000 people to cross the Liao River and cross the Goguryeo cities to attack Pyongyang with the navy. They were defeated by the Goguryeo general Ulji Mundeok.
Eulji Mundeok ordered people to build a dam to store water. When the Sui army crossed the Sa River and reached the middle of the river, Eulji Mundeok ordered the gates to be opened and the water released. As a result, a large number of Sui soldiers were drowned by the water. Then Eulji Wende led the already ambushed Goguryeo army to launch a fierce attack on the Sui army. When the 300,000-strong army returned to Liaodong City, only 2,700 people remained.
But now, the sound of war drums sounded again on both sides of the Sa River. The Goguryeo troops were stationed on the south bank, while the Jurchen elite led by Wanyan Aguda were stationed on the north bank.
Originally, Cao Cao took advantage of the fact that Wanyan Aguda's main force was pinned down by the Sui army in Youzhou, and led the Goguryeo army to conquer Liaodong, with overwhelming momentum along the way.
But after Wanyan Aguda led the female main force back to the army, the situation changed drastically in an instant. Cao Cao's military command ability is not weak, even better than Wanyan Aguda. However, the Goguryeo soldiers under his command are really disappointing. In several battles, middle-level generals fled the battle, which affected the overall situation and led to defeat.
