"The Jackal is in charge, an asks the fox" is related to the anti-corruption of the Eastern Han Shun Emperor, and it is also one of the events in history when the emperor could not fight corruption. Looking back at history, after the emergence of selfishness and control, corruption has material conditions and soil, and it has always been a troublesome thing to fight corruption at the same time. In the long course of history, relatively speaking, Song Zhenzong's anti-corruption and clean government work has done a good job, and the most vigorous force is Zhu Yuanzhang, whose effect is not satisfactory. Zhu Yuanzhang himself knew this, and sighed with emotion.
When it comes to anti-corruption, it goes back to the Yao, Shun, and Yu periods, and by the time of Dayu, he had ordered prison officials to enact criminal laws and punish them. During the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou Gong advocated honesty and honesty, effectively prevented corruption, and officials who fought against evil forces, paid bribes and accepted bribes, and accepted other people's property and property must "read their crimes." Yu, Tang, Wen and Wu combined the prevention and control of corruption, and the effect was still good, and they were praised by later generations as the Famous King and The Holy Lord. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pioneered the system of assassination history, that is, the establishment of thorn history in each prefecture, and the main work of thorn history was to inspect local officials. At the same time, the system of joint sitting was introduced, that is, the relevant officials were corrupt, and the assassins and the county sheriffs had to bear certain responsibilities. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's vigorous anti-corruption campaign provided a strong organizational guarantee for the improvement of the national strength of the Han Dynasty.
"The jackal is in charge, Ann asks the fox." This saying comes from volume 20 of the Book of The Book of The Eastern Han Dynasty: "The attendant Shi Zhang Gang buried the wheel in luoyang duting, saying: 'The jackal is in charge, and the fox is in charge.'" 'So I played. "It is said that in the first year of the Eastern Han Shun Emperor Yongjian, the foreign relative Liang Ji took charge of the military power of the imperial court, and the two sisters were Emperor Shun and Empress Huan. When the internal favor was in full swing, the Liang family was married to the Manchu Dynasty, and the roots were intertwined, making the Eastern Han Dynasty situation a miasma, and the people were miserable.
In order to put on a façade and make a show, the emperor sent eight envoys to tour the world, punish adulterers, and reward Qingzhong. These eight ministers were all well-known Confucians, only Zhang Gang was the youngest and had the lowest official position. Zhang Gang came out of the Luoyang Capital Pavilion for a few miles, and then sighed indignantly: "The jackal is in charge, and An asks the fox?" "That is: the great thief of the evil country is there!" Why catch a thief! Therefore, he destroyed the car and returned to the capital on the same day, and wrote a letter of impeachment to the brothers of the great generals Liang Ji and Yin Liang of Henan, and the imperial court was shaken.
Zhang Gang impeached Liang Ji for fifteen major crimes, including "wantonness, embezzlement and bribery, many trees, and framing Zhongliang." Shu Song, "Kyoshi Zhen Zhen", hundreds of officials are worried. Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han Dynasty knew of Zhang Gang's loyalty, but after all, Liang Ji was a blood-blooded imperial relative, and Liang Ji's pro-party party protected and concealed each other, and finally it was gone.
Compared with the emperors of previous dynasties, Song Zhenzong has done a good job in the work of opposing corruption and promoting clean government. He promulgated the "Seven Articles of Literature and Martial Arts" that warned hundreds of officials: First, be pure in heart, be kind to things, and not influence political affairs for their own joys, anger, love and hatred. The second is to serve the public, be fair and upright, and be honest in ourselves. The third is to cultivate morality, and to subdue people with virtue, not to suppress people with force. Fourth, be pragmatic and do not covet a false name. Fifth, we must be diligent in observing the people's feelings and not being harsh and unjust in punishment. Sixth, we must be diligent in our work, and we must be diligent in government affairs and the affairs of nongsang. Seventh, we must strive to eliminate all kinds of malpractices.
At the same time, Song Zhenzong also established a strict selection and appointment system and a system for supervising officials to prevent dereliction of duty. If an official has a probationary period, a number of formal officials must be guaranteed to be regularized, and if there is corruption, then the road to officialdom is basically over. The Ombudsman is punished for violating the patrol system, and a system of severe punishment for the Ombudsman's dereliction of duty and his own corruption is also specifically stipulated. Song Zhenzong grasped both the building of the concept of clean government and the construction of the management system, and both hands were hard, and the integrity index of officials during the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively high.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was the most forceful in his efforts to fight corruption. In punishing corrupt officials, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted very severe measures. The laws of the Ming Dynasty clearly stipulated that as long as local officials embezzled more than sixty taels of silver, they would be beheaded and displayed to the public. Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty law "Da Zhen", there is a kind of torture called "peeling the grass", that is, the human skin is completely peeled off, made into a bag, and hung in the inside of the straw for public display. Ming Taizu also specially built a temple, known as the Fur Field, dedicated to the "peeling and grass" demonstration place.
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Zhu Yuanzhang also reformed the ancient "five punishments": "flogging, rod, migration, flow, and death". According to the History of the Ming Dynasty and related written records, the Hongwu Dynasty sometimes had a series of criminal laws such as "Ling Chi, Appeasement, Knee Picking, Intestinal Extraction, Cutting, Cutting, Castration, Tin Snake Tour, Toe Cutting Order, Chang Shackle Order, Shackle Travel, and Weighing Pole", and some of these criminal laws now only know the name and do not know the specific function. Zhu Yuanzhang used so many measures, and the final effect even he himself felt helpless and sighed: "I wanted to get rid of corrupt officials, but I wanted to kill and commit crimes, and since the beginning of the country, there will be twenty years, there will be no time to change the law, and there is no one who has not been wrong for a day." ”
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, daming's corruption swelled rapidly, and finally zhu Yuanzhang, who fought corruption with an iron fist, never expected that the Daming dynasty he founded would eventually be included in the annals of history as "one of the most corrupt dynasties" in Chinese history. The difficulty of fighting corruption is the necessity of promoting clean government. Since ancient times, often grasp the unremitting things, but always on the road, the whole society should pay attention, every family and everyone must pay attention to, from an early age, starting from a little bit. Everyone is clear, and the blue sky and white clouds are obtained. (Text/Cai Si) (The picture originates from the Internet, if there is infringement, please inform and delete)