At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Guo Chengzhi was full of doubts.

"This is very good, but the problem is that it can't be done. The ideal state we envisioned has been changing since the decree left the court. When it is implemented in the local area, it has long been far from the original intention, and it is not even the same idea.

The relationship between officials and officials is by no means a concerted effort. There are not no people who work together, but they are extremely rare. They are more intriguing and fighting for power and profit. They do not hesitate to magnify the mistakes of their colleagues for their own self-interest. To bring down colleagues. "

Zhuge Liang told Guo Chengzhi the true taste of the world with a face of regret.

Guo Chengzhi was hit hard.

"This... this is a complete bastard! This kind of official should be severely punished!"

Zhuge Liang shook his head again and again.

"Although this is said, how can such an official find out? He just did not act, but did not make a mistake. The law punishes those who make mistakes, but generally does not punish those who do not act. Inaction means that there is no mistake.

If you didn't make a mistake, how should you punish it?Under such circumstances, not to mention a small county, even a small village, such things happen. In the eyes of some officials, the people are just chips for them to fight for power and profit. "

Zhuge Liang talked about the fundamental problems of the local politics of the Wei Empire in one call.

Chapter 1535 One thousand four hundred and fifty-five

Seeing such a subversive real world for the first time, Guo Chengzhi frowned and couldn't say a word.

Guo Peng remained silent.

Guo Chengzhi is young, has just received a complete elite education, and has that set of ideal practices in his head.

That set of teachers told him the ideal political ecology and ideal country.

He has never experienced officialdom, does not know such things, and has insufficient understanding of people's hearts. He does not know that the ideal state of the country is imagined by people, and the bad state of the country is also caused by people.

When ideals and reality collide, illusory ideals often cannot compete with heavy reality.

The reason for everything is people.

Guo Chengzhi didn't understand, but Da Wei understood Huang Guo clearly.

He has come all the way from the officialdom of the former Han Dynasty, and has worked in officials large and small.

He has worked as a Lang Guan, public security work, civil affairs, and military affairs. It can be said that he is not only an emperor, but also a general, and he is also a super bureaucrat who has been up and down for countless years.

No one understands bureaucracy and bureaucracy better than him.

This has been the case since his birth.

Maybe no one cared about it, but Mr. Guo was also born in an official family.

His father, Guo Dan, was the county magistrate at the beginning, and Guo Peng was the son of the county magistrate's family. The county magistrate does not seem to have a high status, but he is also the ruler of the county. He is an official, not an official, and there are many officials and subordinates who work for him. official.

So he has lived in a small officialdom since he was a child.

Under the influence of his ears and eyes, he saw with his own eyes how the officials and officials in the county government were intriguing, just to fight for the insignificant interests in a county in his eyes now.

The county's land, tenants, taxes, commerce, any aspect can become their arena.

Even if they have nothing to do, usually just eating, drinking and chatting, they can have bad mouths and eccentricities with each other, all of them are great onmyojis, and they put all their energy into putting eye drops on others.

As soon as there were any vacancies in the county, they immediately started to move, jumping up and down, scrambling to work hard by Guo Dan's side, just to get those positions with no future.

If there is no one in the government, a powerful family is digging their own grave, and the whole family is buried alive without knowing what happened.

If you have someone, you must be able to fight against other people, so that you can cover the sky with one hand in a county and protect your own interests to the greatest extent.

After all, the officials are flowing water. Although the status of the local officials is low, they can be succeeded by their fathers and sons. They are controlled by a family for a long time.

So how are they willing to do so?

The ugliness when they fight each other is really...

Guo is still fresh in his memory.

Guo Dan also ridiculed in private those who are willing to fight for petty gains, saying that they are short-sighted, that they do not seek to make progress, and that they can only circle around in the quagmire for the rest of their lives.

But when it's Guo Dan's turn, he may not be so clean and holy.

In the early years when he hadn't given up his aggressive mind, he did everything he could to fight for a chance to reach a higher level.

He fought with several other county magistrates in the county, poured dirty water on each other, put eye drops on each other, knelt down and licked Pei Guoxiang desperately, just to get the appreciation of the Guoxiang.

At that time, the county was still the time when the country was the country. The authority of the county guard and the state minister was very heavy, and they had great dominance over their subordinates.

Whoever can please the Prime Minister will get a better evaluation in the key assessment, and thus rise straight to the top.

In this fierce struggle, Guo Dan has never succeeded, and it can be said that his skills in official struggles are very poor.

In order to please the Prime Minister, he did everything possible to do what he liked, and gave the Prime Minister what he liked, but he was always a step behind.

There was even a case where someone hijacked a gift given to the prime minister to celebrate his birthday, and it was not found out who did it in the end.

One year, the Prime Minister of the State called several county magistrates to go hunting together, and the others tried their best to give the Prime Minister the good prey, so that the Prime Minister could show off the limelight. Fortunately, he shot an arrow to death in front of the Prime Minister. The deer, which the prime minister liked, laughed loudly and showed off his archery skills.

The prime ministers were all ready to take down the deer with their bows and arrows, but Guo Dan was the first to shoot the deer over with an arrow.

It is said that the Prime Minister's expression was not very good at that time, and the atmosphere on the field was also a little awkward.

At this level, you still want to please the Prime Minister?

You don't even have the consciousness to let your boss show off and be a green leaf yourself, and you still want to be promoted and cared for?

Guo Peng, who is well versed in the unspoken rules of officialdom, didn't see it himself.

He figured out why Guo Dan only got a county magistrate post after his grandfather Guo Yong died after he tried everything possible to sue his grandpa.

At this level, if I don't work hard, I don't know when Guo Dan will be framed by someone, let alone a second-generation official, I can't even be a commoner.

As an official, Guo Dan really has nothing to praise.

In terms of political struggle, he is tantamount to a loser, and in terms of governance, he may not be an excellent official.

He may not be able to fulfill the government orders of Luoyang, the governor's request, and the prime minister's request.

Even the face project can't be done well.

There was a prime minister who liked to inspect the counties under his command. When Guo Dan learned about it, he often organized his cronies to carry out face-saving projects.

That's not necessarily a success.

I remember that once Guo Dan wanted to engage in a face-saving project. He wanted to engage in a drama of not picking up lost items and not closing the door at night when the prime minister came to visit, to show his political achievements, to be appreciated by the prime minister, and to gain political benefits.

He arranged a street and some people to stage the scene of not picking up lost things on the road. When the Prime Minister came, he would be brought to this street, so that the Prime Minister could see that the roads in Qiaoxian County he governed did not pick up lost things.

He can say confidently—look, the places I manage don’t pick up lost things!Everyone is rich!

In the end, he pretended to fail.

I don't know who took the lead, the money that was spilled on the road was picked up in front of the Prime Minister of the country, and then the crowd dispersed, leaving only a mess on the ground, and Guo Dan was ashamed.

Later, it was heard that a county magistrate who was at odds with Guo Dan learned of Guo Dan's plan, so he secretly sent people here to make trouble and show him off.

The intelligence work has reached this point, and his hometown has been infiltrated, and Guo Dan is also a talent.

Fortunately, the Prime Minister of the State was also a person in this way at that time, knowing that these scenes were all faked, and that everyone did it like this, but Guo Dan was weak and messed up.

Probably because I was tired of watching the bridge section where the road does not pick up lost items and the door is not closed at night, but I feel very happy to see the scene of the overturned car.

So Guo Que laughed at Guo Dan, saying that he laughed happily, and that Guo Dan was really ingenious, and he didn't make things difficult for him afterwards.

Afterwards, the news of Guo Dan’s pretending to fail and overturned the car on the spot spread in Peiguo Middle School, causing people to ridicule Guo Dan. People even compiled this story into a joke and spread it widely, and Guo Dan was so angry that he didn’t eat it all day meal.

After that, Guo Dan was still ill for a while, which scared his stepmother enough, thinking that Guo Dan was going to die.

If Guo Peng hadn't grown up later, got close to Cao's thigh, and gained fame by making a show of making a show, Guo Dan would never want to get up from the post of county magistrate in his life, and he might lose this post by being framed. The whole family was reduced to civilians and even prisoners.

After Guo Peng became famous, people all over Peiguo said that Guo Dan was a lucky person, he had no skills, but he was very proud of having a son.

Later, Guo Dan was promoted to Prime Minister of Pei Guo because of Guo Peng's credit, and he reached the pinnacle of his officialdom.

Guo Peng still feels helpless when he thinks about this past, and he can't laugh or cry.

At first, Guo Peng still wanted to be a second-generation official with peace of mind, and occasionally cheated his father, but Guo Dan was really not a father who could make him feel at ease. If he was not careful, he might be cheated by his father instead.

In desperation, thinking that troubled times are approaching, and his father will not be able to protect his family at all, Guo Peng has no choice but to go out on his own, hug Cao's thigh, and follow the trend of the times towards the peak of power step by step.

The Han Empire was over. The prime ministers and county magistrates at that time all died in the chaos of war. None of them survived the troubled times. Today, Guo Dan has also passed away.

The people are gone, but the bureaucracy is still there, and the bureaucratic system is still there.

What they did at the beginning is still repeated in this land, playing repeatedly, like a tape that can never be played, repeating the same tune forever.

The prime ministers and county magistrates of the past changed their identities and bodies, and they are still repeating the events of the past in some unknown place.

Intrigue, fight for power and profit, full of ugliness.

It's all so similar.

At that moment, at this moment.

Guo Chengzhi didn't understand, Zhuge Liang explained it to him and let him understand, but even if he understood, he didn't know how to change it.

So Guo Chengzhi looked at Guo Peng.

"Father, is this kind of thing normal?"

"For bureaucrats, it's normal, but for you, it's unforgivable."

Guo Peng took a deep breath and said, "They use all the people of the world as bargaining chips to fight for power and profit, and they are damaging your foundation. Although they seem to have done nothing and made no mistakes, will they really not cause losses if they do so? ?”

Zhuge Liang glanced at Guo Chengzhi in surprise, then immediately lowered his head.

Guo Chengzhi didn't notice Zhuge Liang's gaze.

"However, as Lord Zhuge said, they just don't act. On the surface, as long as the scope of responsibility is not within their scope, they have no responsibility."

Guo Chengzhi was very distressed, and asked: "Father, can you make some restrictions on the law? Chengzhi heard that there were regulations in the Qin law in the pre-Qin period, and it is a felony to refuse to save within a hundred steps, and it must be severely punished.

Even if the people of Qin know that it is a crime to see death and do nothing, how can I, Wei, turn a blind eye to it?Why not set up a law to warn officials that knowing it and not doing it is a felony, and they should sit together! "

Guo Chengzhi hates this kind of mutual harm between officials.

Chapter 1536 One thousand four hundred and fifty six Guo Chengzhi's ideas are destined not to be realized

Guo Chengzhi's idea is very simple, since it is wrong, it must be changed.

He has never considered how big a project it is to make some changes in the political system, and how much involvement it will cause.

And how much money was spent on it.

"It's just one thing to do nothing. It's specific and aboveboard. It's easy to stipulate, restrict, and implement under the watchful eyes of everyone."

Guo Peng looked at Zhuge Liang, then at Guo Chengzhi, and spoke slowly.

"However, matters between officials are not open to the eyes of the public, let alone specific, and involve a lot. Once the regulations are stipulated, it will definitely arouse fear and anxiety on a large scale among officials. They will resist and try to avoid it.

This will also intensify the conflicts among colleagues, endless wrangling, shirk responsibility, and mutual accusations will only bring counterproductive results. More importantly, doing so will greatly increase the court's ability to spend money and energy expenditure. "

Zhuge Liang lowered his head and remained silent, obviously deeply touched by this.

Can such a thing be expected to be corrected by local officials themselves?

It is more likely that officials will protect each other.

At that time, the imperial court will have to send people to solve it, which will greatly increase the administrative cost, and the imperial court will be overwhelmed.

After all, this is not an era when you can understand the local situation with an email or a phone call. You have to send people to see everything, send people to ask for carriages, time, and travel expenses. These are all expenses.

Adding some laws and regulations rashly looks simple, but it is just black and white, but in fact it is full of money.

Without healthy finances, centralization cannot be afforded.

At present, the finances of the Wei Empire are still abundant and healthy.

Guo Peng has a strong grasp of taxation, and continues to increase revenue. The national treasury is abundant and the internal treasury is full. It seems to be very prosperous, but who knows what problems will arise in the future?

Administrative costs must be suppressed and controlled, otherwise such a large country will sooner or later drag down the court's finances.

The strong centralization of the Guowei Empire has already made the administrative costs of the empire very high, and if it continues to increase, it will be very dangerous.