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After the establishment of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, due to social turmoil, the social atmosphere was very bad, and the phenomenon of corruption was very serious. At first, Gao Huan was busy sending troops to fight, so he chose to tolerate corruption. After the Battle of Yaoshan, eastern Wei won the victory and the situation was stabilized, Gao Huan decided to rectify the corruption.
Because the corruption of officials has affected the normal operation of the country, Gao Huan has also encountered a big problem, that is, most of these corrupt officials are his own subordinates. Brothers who were born into death and fought together, as the saying goes, do not look at the Buddha's face, look at the monk's face. He was not good at dealing with these people, so he gave this task to Gao Cheng.
Gao Huan intended to cultivate Gao Cheng as his successor, instructing him to fight corruption
Gao Cheng was Gao Huan's eldest son, and his mother was Gao Huan's wife Lou Zhaojun. Since he was a child, he has been very smart and ambitious, and Gao Huan has liked him very much. After the establishment of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, he held various positions such as Daxingtai and Assassin History. When he was ten years old, he went out alone to recruit Gao Ao Cao into Gao Huan's army, and when he was eleven years old, he went to Luoyang as a special envoy to meet the emperor, and when he was twelve, he married the sister of the Eastern Wei emperor. Moreover, he was often called by Gao Huan to participate in political discussions.
Gao Huan gave Gao Cheng this task on the one hand for the purpose of fighting corruption, and on the other hand, he deliberately cultivated Gao Cheng and wanted Gao Cheng to be his successor.
Gao Huan's father and son have a set of anti-corruption, one singing red face, one singing white face
Gao Huan, the father and son, have a very good set in the anti-corruption action, one singing red face, the other singing white face. Gao Huan's old friend Sima Ziru was imprisoned by Gao Cheng after the evidence of corruption was conclusive. Gao Huan wrote to Gao Cheng: He is my old friend, and you should be more tolerant of him.
So Gao Cheng let him go and personally opened the shackles for him, which made Sima Ziru very frightened. Gao Cheng told him: "It was his father who interceded for him, and he let him go after seeing his father's face." Later, Gao Huan personally went to visit and found that Sima Ziru was old for many years, and finally Gao Huan rewarded him with a lot of things.
After Sima Ziru's affair, Gao Huan wrote to his relatives and nobles in Yecheng. Sima Ziru is an old friend of mine, and I can't save him if he breaks the law, so you must be careful when you do things in the future. Hundreds of officials have been killed in this fight against corruption.
Gao Cheng deliberately elevated Cui Xian's status so as to help him fight corruption
Since Gao Cheng has been mixing with Gao Huan in the official arena since he was a child, he knows that anti-corruption must show a high-pressure posture. So one of the steps he did was to elevate the status of Cui Xian , who was a confidant of Gao Cheng , and he appointed Cui Xian as a lieutenant of Imperial History. One day, Gao Cheng set up a banquet. He asked Cui Xian to attend, and according to his instructions, when Cui Xian entered the scene, two people carried Cui Xian's clothes and saluted Face to face with Gao Huan, and after the ceremony, Cui Xian sat down.
Cui Xian probably drank two glasses of wine and was about to leave, but Gao Cheng left him to drink two more drinks and leave when he was full. But Cui Xian said: The emperor just asked me to go to the Imperial Observatory to check the copywriting. After Gao Cheng heard this, he stopped keeping him and personally sent Cui Xian out.
Gao Cheng and some ministers went out to play, and on the way to play, they saw Cui Xian whipping his horse. When Gao Cheng saw this, he ordered a detour not to hinder Cui Xian from performing his official duties. After these two performances, the ministers speculated that Cui Xian must have received a high degree of authorization. So these ministers were very respectful when they saw Cui Xian again.
Gao Cheng established Cui Xian's prestige and laid the foundation for his own anti-corruption.
Cui Xian and Song Youdao impeached high-ranking officials, and Sima Ziru became the object of "killing chickens and making monkeys"
After Cui Xian's prestige was established, he officially began the anti-corruption campaign. He began to write a letter impeaching Shangshu Ling Sima Ziru, Jingzhou Assassin Shi and others for their crimes. Among the people he wrote to, Sima Ziru was the most corrupt person. After Gao Cheng's investigation, Sima Ziru's evidence of corruption was conclusive. So Sima Ziru was arrested and imprisoned, and in this way Sima Ziru became the object of killing chickens and monkeys.
Gao Cheng "destroyed his relatives in great righteousness", and Gao Huan's brother-in-law Wei Jing was forced to rectify
Wei Jing is Gao Huan's brother-in-law and a man who pursues financial resources. As long as there is a task entrusted to him, he will definitely return with a reward. In the past, when he was serving as the assassin of Jizhou, he was openly corrupt. At that time, Wei Jing gathered the people to go hunting, and finally lost the lives of more than three hundred people. Gao Huan once warned him: Don't be greedy, not only will he not listen to Gao Huan's words. He also confronted Gao Huan and said: Compared with you, who among us is greedy, all I want is high officials and money, but you reach out to the position of the Son of Heaven for it.
Gao Huan did not answer his words after listening. Later, Gao Cheng found Wei Jing's head and sent Wei Jing to his cell. Wei Jing sent someone to Gao Cheng and said, "Don't think that if you are rich, you can kill me." After Gao Huan heard about this incident, he personally entered the palace and said to Gao Cheng: "Without him, there would be no wealth today." After many requests, Gao Cheng decided not to kill him, but demoted his position. After this beating, Wei Jing decided to change his mind.
Gao Huan and Gao Cheng's father and son tried their best to seduce Cui Xian and the corruption of eastern Wei was curbed
Cui Xian was deeply trusted and treated by Gao Huan's father and son. Especially in this anti-corruption campaign, the father and son are even more desperate for Cui Xian. Gao Huan greeted him face to face, Gao Cheng saw that he was teaching the horses, and chose to take a detour, and Gao Huan continued to praise him. Sure enough, Cui Xian did not live up to the high expectations placed on him by Gao Huan's father and son, and he boldly impeached Sima Ziru and others, helping Gao Huan's father and son curb the corruption of Eastern Wei.
Overall:
After the Battle of Yaoshan, Gao Huan decided to rectify the phenomenon of corruption. But because the corrupt people are all brothers who fight with him, he is not good at shooting. So he gave this task to his son Gao Cheng. In this operation, their father and son played a red face and a white face. Cui Xian is Gao Cheng's confidant, and he plays a very important role in this action. Gao Huan's father and son tried their best to please him and elevate his status.
At the same time, he did not fail Gao Huan, and he boldly impeached Sima Ziru and others, making Sima Ziru the target of killing chickens and monkeys. Through the continuous efforts of these three people, the corruption of Eastern Wei was curbed. Cui Xian offended many people in this operation, and many people wanted to kill him. Gao Cheng also wanted to kill him several times to stabilize the overall situation. It can be seen that Cui Xian is also trembling.
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