Chinese pay attention to the way of moderation, whether it is for people to live in the world, or when the official judges the case, everyone pursues this set, accompanied by the culture of moderation is born of the phenomenon of corruption that is repeatedly prohibited, in history, there is no non-corruption in the Chinese officialdom, no matter how strict the law is, there are people who are corrupt, and they are in groups, they cannot be stopped, for ordinary officials, non-corruption is often more miserable than the fate of corruption, corruption is like a name, corruption is also a way to maintain relations, some dynasties control corruption within a certain range It will not affect the major affairs of the country, but some dynasties are born of corruption.
During the Shang Dynasty, it was already mentioned that it was necessary to strictly control the phenomenon of official corruption, "Shangshu Yixun": "But the three winds and ten sorrows, the secretary has one in the body, the family will be lost; the state king has one in the body, and the country will perish." "The three winds and ten yans, that is, the ten sins caused by the three bad winds, and corruption is one of them." Throughout history, at home and abroad, there have been phenomena of corruption in various countries, but the corruption phenomenon of the Chinese dynasty seems to be more serious, not only repeated prohibitions, but also more and more intense, in the eyes of many people, where there is no corruption in the officials, but corruption to a certain extent, will endanger the stability of the entire country.
During the Hongwu years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang used extremely heavy codes in order to control the corruption of officials, and in the end he embezzled dozens of taels of silver to raid his family and exterminate the clan, but when he killed Zhu Yuanzhang, he would not understand why the more he governed, the more serious the phenomenon of corruption in the official field, if Zhu Yuanzhang raised the salaries of Ming officials a little, perhaps such corrupt officials would not appear during his reign, but being an official under Zhu Yuanzhang's hands was really a kind of torture, and a few days a month, he could only ensure that he would not starve to death, but the other family members would not live? If the Officials of the Ming Dynasty were not corrupt, their lives really could not go on, and their salaries were too low, and Hai Rui certainly did not covet a silver or two, so his family's life was worse than that of the common people.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, all the officials breathed a sigh of relief, although the salary was still very low, but at least the corruption was more confident, not afraid of being killed at any time, the Ming Dynasty officialdom was seriously corrupt, officials cleverly set up names, earned all kinds of daily necessities, such as when collecting grain, they would use that kind of special container to make it, after the people submitted the grain, the officials would use the strength to eat milk, kick at the hu, and then shake the grain, which is the official's own. There is no way, the use of energy is small, maybe the whole family will be hungry. There is also fire consumption, when the silver is reforged, there will be a lot of loss, how the loss is generated, how much loss, is the official's decision. The last people to buy it are the common people.
There is a Ming Dynasty, everyone is desperate to grab food in their own bowls, the Donglin Party is the most typical landlord class alliance of the Ming Dynasty, how to maximize the interests is what they consider, as for the major affairs of the state, it is not at all the core of their thinking, it is not easy to emerge a Zhang Juzheng, the final outcome is not very good, Zhang Ju is in power during the period of hard work to dig out the land hidden by the landlord, within a few years, the land was hidden by the landlord, the land is not reported, the state can not collect enough taxes, In addition, it will lead to a series of problems, it can be said that land annexation is the main reason for the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, and behind the land annexation is naked corruption.
The Ming Dynasty is only a most typical example, corruption within the controllable range will not cause any major incidents, but corruption has become a compulsory course in the official field, the foundation of the state will inevitably have problems, the same is true of the Qing Dynasty, the large-scale corruption of the Qing Dynasty officialdom began with Qianlong, and Qianlong is also the largest corrupt official of the Qing Dynasty, he Yan can only rank second, the crime silver system is even more to put corruption on the surface, since then, the foundation of the Qing Dynasty has rotted, and there are countless dynasties that died of corruption, but for thousands of years, this disease has never been cured.