"Daming under the Microscope": Why are the county orders unwilling to correct the mistakes of a hundred years ago?

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The plot index of "Daming under the Microscope" is that there is a problem with the existence of the human silk tax silk, but the tax is a mistake left over from a hundred years ago, and when the problem arises, the characters in the play have not yet been born, and the current officials are not responsible.

But when Shuai Jiamo raised the question, the officials of the eight counties quickly formed an offensive and defensive alliance, tried their best to suppress his complaint, and even refused to correct the mistake, in order to settle the case, they did not hesitate to kill people and destroy materials.

Many viewers are puzzled by this, it is obviously not their responsibility, why do all the staff refuse to correct the mistake?

Could it be that these county orders and main books are "all wicked"?

Not really.

The oldest boss is Bo. He is a former best friend of Shuai Jiamo's father, and he is miserable in the public court to delay time, but he is indeed a poor and small official under the public court, and he still retains a shallow regret for the son of the deceased.

Deng County Ling, who was born as a child prodigy. In the public court, he used arithmetic and Shuai Jiamo to constantly find logical loopholes in Shuai Jiamo, but under the public court, he cherished Shuai Jiamo and was a science and engineering student with real knowledge.

At least half of the eight county orders are not big criminals.

So, did they benefit from the silk tax silk?

Nor is it.

The direct victims of the Renhua silk tax are the people of Renhua, who bear the tax revenue of eight counties in one county, and if they do not correct their mistakes, Renhua will continue to be the main culprit, and the Fang County Order, as the parent official of the bitter masters, will at least not be able to profit from it.

More than 3,000 taels of silver a year is also a drop in the bucket for the county order with the support of Fan Yuan, a squire from Lanxi County, and if they only calculate the cost, the money they spend covering this case may be more than the tax every year.

Neither all the evil people nor the direct beneficiaries of the human silk tax, why is no one willing to investigate?

This question, in fact, the second episode has already told the audience through the mouth of the county order.

For these officials, three thousand taels of silver is a minor issue, and upsetting the balance they maintain is a big problem.

At the beginning of the story, there are two factions in the officialdom ecology of Jin'an Province.

One has been integrated into the local officials of eight counties of Jin'an Province.

Another Huang Ning Dao lowered from the middle.

Switching to the real workplace is the pattern of old employees and airborne troops.

Local officials did not want to be manipulated by Huang Ningdao, and Huang Ningdao needed an opportunity to quickly establish his power in the local area, so the local officials of the eight counties automatically formed an offensive and defensive alliance, and Huang Ningdao was in a state of isolation.

Although the mistake was a hundred years ago, the inventory needed to be done by current officials, and once the eight counties agreed to a thorough investigation, it was equivalent to handing over the achievements to Huang Ningdao, making him a prefect with real power and prestige.

The old local officials will lose the advantage of breaking their heads, and Huang Ningdao, who tastes the sweetness, will continue to investigate other problems?

Some people are afraid of trouble, some are afraid of being tossed by new superiors, and some people are afraid of being investigated by the old bottom, each with its own calculations, and finally reach an offensive and defensive alliance, so as to protect the interests of local old officials, forming a confrontation at the beginning.

It's not a reluctance to correct mistakes, but a fear of losing the balance that has been maintained for years.

Local officials are on the same front, but at the same time have different small camps.

For example, Fang County, a lazy political faction from the second generation of officials, does not seek merit, but only no trouble.

On the other hand, Mao Xianling and others are backed by the squire Fan Xian, and in terms of the silk tax, out of the consideration of the community of interests, the local officialdom needs to maintain the status quo of Fan Xian, which is naturally one with the local old officials.

Therefore, Fan Xian sent Cheng Renqing behind the scenes to intervene in the Ding Silk tax case.

According to Liu Jing's intervention, there was another faction: the reformists.

Liu Jing is not an official of Jin'an Prefecture, not only does he not need to be responsible for any problems found in the local area, but he can also borrow the Ding silk tax to find a target to kill chickens and monkeys from his Zhang Juzheng clique.

The reason why Fan Yuan feared that the local officialdom would lose its balance was also solved.

He has already controlled the pattern of local old officials, once the balance is broken, the whole body is involved, and a small case may find out big problems, because these squire groups are too difficult to withstand investigation.

If you want to correct the silk tax, you have to recalculate the proportion of each region's share.

Once calculated, a large number of problems can be involved.

For example, Hidden Field.

The squire group forced the people to sell the land through various methods, but when the land was in their hands, the amount was not necessarily reported truthfully, and only 40 mu of 100 mu of good land could be registered, so as to avoid taxes.

But the total amount of taxes in various places every year is there, and the fields of the squires are hidden, who pays the taxes?

Or the people.

Pull the progress bar back to the shot of Shuai Jiamo measuring the field in the first episode, the land deed is four acres, but the measurement is only three acres and six points, and the field hidden by the squires is moved to the people little by little in this way.

In the long run, it has become a vicious circle.

The people could not afford the taxes - sold the land to the squire - reclaimed the land - the squire concealed the transfer of the field - the people could not afford the tax - sold the land to the squire - opened the land - the squire continued to conceal the transfer of the field.

Correcting mistakes, correcting not only a wrong tax, but also a problem closely related to it: the squire group.

Through the plot, it can be found that Shuai Jiamo is not the first person to discover the problem of human silk tax, his father died because of this, and even, maybe before Shuai's father, there were many discoverers.

Some people choose silence, some people die because of this, why don't local officials clean up the local chaos without the intervention of foreign officials? There are two reasons, one is the bundle of interests, and the other is that it is too difficult.

Mao County Ling is a typical example of the binding of interests, the local people are poor, the squire group is powerful, he borrows the power of the squire to create political achievements, and borrows the power of others, he needs to use the other party as an umbrella to return and form a new alliance.

The difficulty is high because the squire group has been operating for a long time and has formed a larger offensive and defensive alliance.

Fan Yuan once said in a line that there are many people in Lanxi County, and the squire group constantly provides and supports officials with the benefits stolen from the people, and when these people have power, they can become their umbrella.

The Ding Silk Tax Case still ran into a wall when the two major officials, the prefect Huang Ningdao and the Inspector Liu Jing, were sitting in formation.

You send out a Huang Ning Dao, and the squire group produces a group of Mao County Orders that they offer.

You produce a Liu Jing, and the squire group will produce a Ma Wencai, who is born in their press.

The duel of power has not yet been so, how can ordinary people without backgrounds shake this interest group? In the face of the cobweb-like squires, a new vicious circle has arisen: the supremacy of interests.

In the play, even the officials of the non-squire group are in a state when dealing with problems, and the first thing they consider is not to calculate 1 + 1 = several, and speak with data, law, and truth.

But what can this thing do for me?

If it is profitable, it will participate, and if it is not profitable, it will be refused.

If it is not beneficial to local officials, they refuse, such as Ren Bo, whose miserable lines are hypocritical but realistic, and if the local people find out that there are new taxes to pay, they are unsustainable, and they are likely to cause riots.

If they find that they can benefit from it, they will actively promote it, such as the airborne troop Huang Ningdao, who showed Shuai Jia Mo the way to appeal, not to seek justice, but to use this to ask Zhang Juzheng for credit.

Almost all officials in the play have asked Shuai Jiamo a question: It is not beneficial to you, why file a lawsuit?

It can be seen that the way of thinking of these officialdom elders, they are not considering right or wrong but interests, not fairness to the people, but the so-called interpersonal relationship and the way of "yin and yang reconciliation" in officialdom.

It has long been forgotten that mistakes should have been corrected, that they have nothing to do with interests, only right and wrong.