At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

But Guo, as the top ruler, always starts his policies at the national level. His policies are not aimed at a specific person, but at the entire country, or at least a certain type of people.

This category of people must include at least hundreds of thousands to millions of population levels, which is the population quota that national-level policies need to cover.

Further down, some local policies are implemented, and the implementation of his policies requires the implementation of local officials. It is impossible for Guo to manage a village in person.

Therefore, the existence of grassroots officials is very important, and the governance of officials is also very important.

A certain Guo carried out two political actions in the third year of Yande and the fourth year of Yande, but the purpose of these two political actions was not to combat the corruption of official administration.

The purpose of these two political actions is to seize more power from the scholars, strengthen their own power, consolidate their position, strengthen the centralization of power, and by the way, crack down on nepotism, and use the pretext of cracking down on corrupt officials to sit down some officials.

Regardless of whether he is corrupt or not, as long as he threatens Guo's centralization of power, he must be attacked.

After these two blows, the central politics of the Wei Empire was basically controlled by someone from Guo.

After military power and financial power, personnel power was also basically controlled by Guo, and Guo's status and political power were also guaranteed, and the political situation of the Wei Empire tended to be stable.

But this is not an action to crack down on corrupt officials. The crackdown on corrupt officials is only incidental. The main purpose is political struggle, not anti-corruption. Corruption is still a secondary issue.

If we talk about corrupt officials, there must be more local officials. Central bureaucrats care more about power. They are more enlightened and greedy for power.

According to what Guo has learned, the problems that have been exposed at the local level in recent years are no less than those at the central government, but they are basically related to corruption and cannot affect the political situation.

When Mr. Guo manipulated the political situation and profited from it, the issue of corruption was temporarily put aside by Mr. Guo and ignored him.

But this doesn't mean that Mr. Guo doesn't care about these things. Sooner or later, he has to deal with them, so that some people can't think that they can get away with eating what he has and taking what he has.

So now that Mr. Guo has freed up his hand, of course there is a score to settle the score.

Future wars will require money, and a lot of it.

Corrupt officials have money in their hands, and profiteers who cooperate with corrupt officials also have money in their hands. They have a lot of money that Guo needs.

Killing a group of corrupt officials and profiteers can not only get money, but also quell public anger and gain popularity.

To put it bluntly, in the era of feudal monarchy, businessmen were the pigs raised by the emperor. When they were fattened up, they should be slaughtered.

Mr. Guo does not need these merchants beyond his control to develop so-called capitalism.

So someone Guo is going to rectify local officials for future mobilization wars, and take local officials seriously.

At the beginning of October in the fourth year of Yande, someone from Guo learned that Cao Xiu, Zhao Yan and Ma Yuan had fulfilled his order.

They used various methods to cause the civil war in Wusun, causing Wusun people to kill each other, and stirred up the situation in the Western Regions. They launched the seven countries in the north of the mountain to crusade against Wusun Xiaokunmi and won a complete victory, successfully establishing the prestige of the Wei Empire in the Western Regions.

This war not only halved Wusun's strength, but also caused the seven countries in the north of the mountain to lose a lot of soldiers, horses, food and grass.

They will definitely not be able to recover in a short period of time, even if they are given money, because it is people who lose.

Because of this war, Wusun Xiaokunmi, the envoy stationed in Luoyang, was arrested and killed by someone Guo on charges of treason.

This guy was also unlucky, he was arrested and beheaded without doing anything, and he was tried in front of the envoys in the Li Fan Court, and then he was chopped off.

Although he kept begging for mercy and kept saying that he was not wrong, he was still cut off.

Ambassador Da Kunmi was very happy about this.

Because from then on, he was the only Wusun envoy, and there was no distinction between big Kunmi and small Kunmi. Xin Limi was canonized by Guo Peng as the only Wusun Kunmi, and he was given the seal and ribbon of Wusun King.

Since then, no one else has competed with him for the right to speak.

Who is happy if he is not happy?

He was still applauding for Guo's killing of Xiao Kunmi's envoy.

Later, envoys from Wusun and the seven countries in the north of the mountain were rewarded by someone from Guo.

Because they assisted the Wei army in quelling the Little Kunmi Rebellion, maintaining the peace and stability of the Western Regions, and maintaining the unshakable leadership core of the Wei Empire, this is commendable.

Someone from Guo generously rewarded them and their country as a sign of encouragement, encouraging them to continue throwing their heads and blood for the Wei Empire.

In Guo's opinion, spending money to buy one's life is the most cost-effective.

In this era when productivity has not exploded, human life is definitely more valuable than money.

Cao Xiu, Zhao Yan, and Ma Yuan joined forces and successfully completed the task they assigned. They cut Wusun's strength in half without any effort, and pulled out a nail for the Wei Empire.

Guo was very satisfied with this, and commended Cao Xiu, Zhao Yan, and Ma Yuan, allowing them to continue to stabilize the situation in the Western Regions.

Then I started to deal with the domestic local government issues on my own side.

Anti-corruption storm is coming.

But at this time, no one knew that the anti-corruption storm was coming.

The beginning of all this stems from someone Guo summoning the censor doctor Guo Hong and the censor Zhongcheng Qiaorui on the sixth day of October in the fourth year of Yande.

Guo Hong was injured in the previous Cui Yan case and recuperated for a while. Now he has recovered and started to manage Yushitai again.

Qiao Rui has always been in good health. Because of Guo Peng's deliberate protection in the previous turmoil, he only suffered a slight impact, which is not worth mentioning compared to other damaged people.

Guo Peng summoned Qiao Rui and Guo Hong, called them to the study of Qinzheng Palace, and explained his request to them in private.

"In the first year of Yande, I have never had time to take care of the local officials. I really want to solve some things and punish corrupt officials in some places, but I don't have time or energy, and you don't have time at Yushitai.

But now it's all right, the battles that should be fought are over, and the things that should be done are almost done. Take some time, and you should take care of things that you didn't have time to handle before. It was wandering around Luoyang city. "

When Guo Peng said this, both Guo Hong and Qiao Rui didn't understand.

"Your Majesty means..."

"I mean, I want you to send people to the localities, learn from the Ministry of Officials, learn from the Ministry of Finance, how they organize working groups to work in the localities, your task is to catch and punish corrupt officials, corrupt officials, isn't it only in the center.

There are more local officials, and there are more corrupt officials. Your responsibilities must not only be carried out at the central government, but also at the local level. Select people, and assign them to me state by state. Every county, every county, Walk me through! "

With a big wave of his hand, Guo asked Yushitai to organize an action team to travel all over the Wei Empire from the central government to the local government, and find out every corrupt official hidden in the ranks of officials.

The people have been suffering from corrupt officials for a long time. Some people can be picked out and killed, while others cannot.

Proclaiming emperor for four years without immovable places, the problems in some places are already quite serious.

Someone Guo promoted Li Shu to be the village head, township head, and county official, and also used poor family officials to be the village head, township head, and county official. Guo is the best assistant to fight against scholars.

However, they can also be corrupt.

This is caused by human nature and cannot be solved. The only way to deal with it is to keep moving.

Officialdom is like a water tank, which is full of water and looks crystal clear, but if it is left there to make the water stagnant, the water tank will soon become a paradise for mosquitoes.

It looks clear to the bottom, but in fact it is full of filth and filth, and it is full of mosquitoes. When summer comes, the water tank is full of mosquitoes, and the water can no longer be used.

If you want to prevent mosquitoes from growing in the water tank, you must constantly use up the water in the water tank, and then pick clean water and put it in.

Running water does not rot.

The water tank can't be updated by itself, so someone Guo will be the big hand that stirs the water tank.

It is not good to expect the place to clean up the place by itself, just like expecting the water tank to replace the water in your stomach.

Only by exerting external force, using Guo's controlling hand, to tidy up the water tank, and turn the filthy mosquito paradise into a sweet spring that can nourish the common people all over the world.

chapter 1046 one thousand and fifty-six Guo Peng is really sad

Guo Hong and Qiao Rui didn't understand what Guo Peng meant at first, but they soon understood.

Guo Hong was too old to run around, so Guo Peng allowed Guo Hong to sit in the center to frighten the officials at Shangshutai.

Qiao Rui is relatively young, so let Qiao Rui lead the team to go to the local area to review old cases, try unjust, false and wrong cases, clean up local corrupt officials, and deal with corrupt officials who endanger the people.

At the beginning, there were only more than 100 officials in Yushitai. During the previous major cases, the number of officials in Yushitai gradually expanded to more than 300.

This time when he went out for an inspection, someone from Guo mobilized 400 officials from the Audit Department, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Sili Xiaowei Department to enter Yushitai, and gathered [-] generals for the Yushitai operation team.

Let them be divided into more than a dozen action groups, each with [-] professional planners, and go to each administrative state of the Wei Empire.

In the four years since he ascended the throne, Mr. Guo rarely attacked the place, and he didn't know what the place had become.

Are grassroots officials corrupt?

Were the villagers in the village oppressed?

Do you have a hungry stomach?

Have you ever been bullied but have nowhere to redress?

Don't miss any one, don't leave one behind, deal with everything that needs to be dealt with, and solve everything that needs to be solved. If they can't solve it, someone Guo will help them.

Don't be afraid of offending people, and don't be afraid of implicating your family, because whoever dares to implicate their family members will be wiped out by Guo.

Regardless of whether it is a high-ranking official or a general in the army, anyone who is involved will be reported.

Remember Man Chong?

Remember how Man Chong got rid of Cao Hong and got into a high position?

See if Cao Hong still dares to embezzle?

Take Man Pet as an example!

I am your backstage, whoever dares to embarrass you, I will make them unable to survive or die!

Guo personally saw off the members of the action team, gave them a speech, and personally sent them to leave Luoyang to go to various places for business.

As the censor Zhongcheng and the chief of the action team, Qiao Rui is going to Qingzhou, the base camp of a certain Guo. It is Qingzhou where Mi Zhu is the governor, and he has the most important responsibility.

"Qingzhou is the first state where I served as the governor. It is densely populated and the situation is relatively complicated. But after you go to Qingzhou, don't tie your hands and feet and severely punish corrupt officials. Mi Zizhong has no right to stop you. What you need to deal with are those local tyrants."

Guo Peng and Qiao Rui walked side by side, exhorting in a low voice: "Even if it involves the Mi family's children, don't be timid, don't dare to do it just because the Mi family is in my harem, and if something happens, you will cry or make trouble. , I will stand for you."

Qiao Rui nodded and took a deep breath, knowing that Guo Peng was serious this time.

According to some statistics given to him by Guo Peng, the problems in Qingzhou are really not small, and there are problems in various government affairs with special allocations.

In terms of locust plagues, prevention of seawater intrusion, control of saline-alkali land, taxation, and land.

One thing counts as one thing, and he has to verify, deal with, and rectify.

Qingzhou has a very special political status in the Wei Empire. Guo Peng wants to do something in Qingzhou, which means that Guo Peng should already know that there are many problems in Qingzhou, so he is specially asked to deal with them.

Naturally, he was not afraid of Mi Zhu. The governor had only administrative power and no other powers. The rewards and punishments of subordinate officials were not within the scope of the governor's power.

I just don't know how far he is going to deal with the place in Qingzhou.

How many problems and people do Qingzhou need to deal with?

After seeing off Qiao Rui, Guo Peng stood on the wall of the palace city overlooking the majestic Luoyang City, and sighed deeply.

This majestic and magnificent Luoyang City is just like the Wei Empire he built. It does look majestic and magnificent, but how many dirty things are there in the unknown corners?

He has indeed used big data oppression to the extreme, which is the limit of what this era can do. After all, paper and pen are no match for computers, and even in the era of computers, this problem cannot be completely solved after all.

His big data oppression can solve some problems, but these things that are exposed on the surface are easy to solve, but how to solve the things hidden deep below?

Nothing is as simple as it seems on the surface, and the iceberg will never reveal its whole picture unless you dive deep and take a closer look.

In Luoyang, he could not use the big data network created by paper and pen to suppress corruption.

He also felt very sad about the number of suspected and confirmed corruption cases reported by the secret agents of Linziying.

This is true, Guo Peng is really a little sad.

Seeing those who were originally oppressed turn into bullies after taking power, this situation made him feel very sad and even a little tired.

I made you literate and made you officials, not to make you domineering...

Although there are not all such people, there are of course people who have not forgotten their original aspirations and led the villagers to accumulate wealth through labor after taking power. Under their leadership, the village is becoming more and more prosperous, and the wealth accumulated by the farmers' families is increasing.

But every time he saw those corruption reports, Guo Peng still couldn't help but feel sad, because corrupt people still exist on a large scale.

Scholars are corrupt and exercise power at the central government, and people from poor families are also corrupt and exercise power locally. It’s just that the scholars are greedy and play with power, while the people from poor families are greedy and play with small local powers.

They are all human beings, and they won't be different because of their noble births.

Those who should exercise power will definitely do so, and those who stick to their hearts will stick to their hearts.

This is a personal decision, and birth will have a certain impact, but it is not absolute.

As early as the Qingzhou era, Guo Peng punished more than a dozen village officials and township officials who were born in Lishu who oppressed the people. He clearly knew that this situation would continue to occur and spread in a large area, everywhere, and absolutely not few.

Many people don't hate corrupt officials, they just hate corrupt officials not themselves.

It is not me who is jealous of enjoying the glory and wealth. I look down on the incompetence of corrupt officials when they are exposed, and think that I can do better than them, and I must be able to enjoy it more secretly without being discovered.