Since the emperor, there have been inexhaustible corrupt officials and incessant filthy officials. Even the Ming Dynasty, which had the greatest efforts to punish corruption, was powerless against corrupt officials in the late period: every official in the world should be killed, and who would use the knife?
However, if we look at the Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, we will find an interesting phenomenon, that is, in most of the period of the strong Han and Tang Dynasties, there were very few corrupt officials. The rampage of corrupt officials began in the Song Dynasty, which could not be contained in the Ming Dynasty, and was accustomed to it in the Qing Dynasty--there were no regulations on punishment for corruption in the Great Qing Law, and none of the twenty major crimes that Were given to death were related to corruption.
Why do the strong men and the strong Tang Dynasty, who are rich and strong, rarely have corrupt officials? This may be a big issue, we can only visualize it to the two county orders of the Han Dynasty and the two princes of the Tang Dynasty, after the peeping leopard, the readers may come to a more definite conclusion.
The first Han Dynasty county order we want to talk about is called Dong Xuan, that is, the famous "Strong Order", it is very strange that he entered the "Biography of Cool Officials" in the "Book of Later Han" - in the "History", "Book of Han" and "Book of Later Han", the so-called "cool officials", most of them are upright gentlemen and even combat heroes, such as Goshawk Zhidu "does not avoid noble relatives, and the Marquis Zongmu sees that they all look sideways... The Xiongnu heard of the Zhidu Festival, and raised their sides to lead the troops, but they could not go near the Yanmen Gate. The Xiongnu were even as puppet elephants, so that the horses galloped and shot, and they could not be seen in this way. ”
The strength allowed Dong Xuan to enter the "Biography of the Cool Officials" with Zhang Tang, the capital of Zhidu, which is also a kind of glory, and his style of acting is indeed fierce enough: Liu Huang, the eldest sister of Liu Xiu of the Han Guangwu Emperor, can be said to have a nurturing grace for Liu Xiu, but after the slave of the Princess of Huyang killed someone, Dong Xuan pulled out a knife and stopped the convoy of the Princess of Huyang: "Stop the car and knock on the horse, draw the ground with a knife, count the losses of the lord, get off the car, and kill him because of the fight." ”
Dong Xuan's strict law enforcement is worthy of respect, but his law enforcement method is also debatable. But no matter what, Dong Xuan didn't think he was wrong, and the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu couldn't do anything with him--pressing Dong Xuan's head to make him apologize to Princess Huyang, the two little eunuchs exerted all their strength and did not make Dong Xuan bow his head.
Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu smiled and asked the "Strong Order" to do what to do, in fact, Dong Xuan also knew in his heart that this was just an explanation that the emperor wanted to give his sister Princess Huyang: "Brother, I tried my best, but this Dong Xuan's neck is too hard, and you don't want to see him in general." ”
It is estimated that Princess Huyang also saw it: "If you really want him to bow his head, why don't you let Jin Wuwei take a shot?" What can these two little eunuchs do? ”
With the support of the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, dong Xuan's law enforcement was more stringent, and he won a nickname of "Crouching Tiger". In the former, there was the Goshawk Zhidu, and then there was Crouching Tiger Dong Xuan, and the Han Dynasty had a large number of officials who did not evade the powerful in enforcing the law, and corrupt officials naturally had to think twice before acting.
The Han Dynasty had strict law enforcement officials, as well as relatively complete and severe punishment laws, which we can see the "bad luck" of another county order.
The reason for this unfortunate county order was Ding Fei, and the reason why he lost his official post was to exchange one of his own thin cattle for a fat cow in the public family: "I thought that my family cattle were poor, but I was a private official cow, and I was whitewashed, and I was sent to prison and seized the official." ”
The county order changed a cow and lost his official, and this matter was also known to Cao Cao, who not only did not protect his fellow villagers, but joked with Ding Fei: "Wen Hou (Ding Fei Zi Wen Hou), where is your seal?" ”
Ding Fei also knew that Cao Cao was joking with himself, and also replied in a joking tone: "I took it for a large cake (yi cake ear)!" ”
Jokes are jokes, Ding Fei does not think that he has been punished too heavily for changing cattle and losing officials, and Cao Cao did not intercede with Ding Fei's superiors, which shows that they all think that it is a matter of course to take advantage of the public and take off the official hat.
In addition to a few emperors in the late Han Dynasty who sold officials to amass wealth, there really could not find a few corrupt officials, which should be related to the fact that the Han Dynasty had strict laws and harsh judges.
After reading the two county orders of the Han Dynasty, let's take a look at the two princes of the Tang Dynasty, one of them is the Shangzhu Guo, the Duke of Yiguo, and the great general Qin Shubao of Zuowuwei, and the other is Taiwei, Zhongshu Ling, and Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang County.
Many people know Qin Qiong's uncle Bao Yi Bo Yuntian, but few people know that he is also rich in the world, to select the ten richest people in the founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Qiong can definitely rank in the top three: to be sealed as a pillar country, to obtain thirty acres of Yongye field, to be enfeoffed as a winged duke, and to get another thirty-five acres, these fields belong to qin qiong's industry that can be passed down from generation to generation, and there is no need to pay rent and commission to the imperial court - the land area of the Tang Dynasty is converted to the present, which is exactly one hectare equals one hundred acres, and there are 6,500 acres of land for rent, and at least 13,000 buckets of grain can be collected every year.
In addition to the hardcore crops, Qin Qiong also received from Li Yuan, the emperor of Tang Gaozu, a treasure of gold and silver that he could not spend in his lifetime: "Breaking Wei Chi Jingde, Gao Zu sent envoys to give a golden vase; breaking the Song King Kong Yu Jiexiu, giving a hundred pounds of gold and six thousand pieces of miscellaneous color, and awarding him to the pillar state; asking Wang Shichong and rejecting Dou Jiande, shu bao trapped him with dozens of fine horses, entered the Duke of Yiguo, and gave him a hundred pounds of gold and seven thousand pieces of gold -- tens of millions of gold coins." ”
Meritorious service must be rewarded heavily, which the strong Han Sheng Tang has done, so the atmosphere at that time was that everyone was vying for meritorious service: "Why don't the boys take Wu Hook and collect the fifty states of Guanshan." Please go to ling yan pavilion temporarily, if (which) scholar ten thousand households? ”
Many people think that Qin Qiong ranked last among the Lingyange heroes, which is of course incorrect--he ranked twenty-fourth, and the Lingyange heroes later reached as many as one hundred and eighty-four, and Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, as we know it, is also among them.
Guo Ziyi had the merit of recreating the Tang Dynasty, and the treatment he enjoyed was also enviable: "Ziyi has no worries about 240,000 taels of officials. A quarter of the house is in Renli, zhongtong Yong Lane, and the family is three thousand in and out, and they do not know where they live. Before and after the gift of good land, beautiful utensils, famous gardens, kokan katsuki. ”
Qin Qiongguo Ziyi desperately fought for the Tang Dynasty's southern conquest of the north, and the Tang Emperor desperately sent money to the heroes to send houses and land, so that the talents of Fanbang were like carps across the river, and they thought of Tang Seeking an official and a half-post - there was no need for corruption at all, and the rewards could not be spent.
The reasons why the strong men and tang dynasties are rarely corrupt are nothing more than three: they do not dare to be greedy, they are not allowed to be greedy, and they do not need to be greedy. From the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty basically only let the horses run but did not give the horses grass to eat, and the result was that everyone went to nibble on the night grass - the horse had no night grass and no fat. In the Qing Dynasty, it was a three-year Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver.
We don't know whether Dong Xuan's order of strength will change from a strong order to a broken order in the Qing Dynasty, but we can know that in the Qing Dynasty, there was no Qin Qiong Guo Ziyi: Nian Qianyao was given death, Yue Zhongqi was also sentenced to be beheaded and imprisoned, and He Yan gathered the wealth of the enemy country, and was not characterized as a corrupt official.