Mao Yujian, the superintendent during the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse period, offended Wei Zhongxian by impeaching a traitor, and as a result, he not only lost his official position, but was also dismissed from public office.
Mao Yujian had to roll up the cover and return to his hometown. A few years later, Apocalypse died, and Chongzhen ascended the throne. After the fall of Wei Zhongxian, a group of officials who had been attacked and framed once again came out to serve. Of course, Mao Yujian was no exception, he not only entered Beijing, but also resumed his position as superintendent of imperial history.
Mao Yujian
It stands to reason that Mao Yujian should seize the opportunity to do a good job and achieve greater political achievements. But Mao Yujian has one thing that cannot be assured, that is, his wife is short-tempered and easy to make a fuss at work, and whenever the Hedong lion roars, Mao Yujian will tremble. So that Mao Yujian had the idea of taking a concubine.
At that time, concubinage symbolized personal success and status. Although the Ming Dynasty's supervision imperial history was only the seventh grade, he had a special status, responsible for supervising hundreds of officials, patrolling counties, correcting prisons, and purging imperial rites, and had a bright political future. Therefore, concubinage is not exaggerated for Mao Yujian.
So Mao Yujian took great pains to coax his wife back to his hometown, Hubei Public Security County, to visit relatives. As soon as his wife was born, Mao Yujian, the brother, couldn't wait to marry a concubine. The idea is that after the wife returns to Beijing from her hometown, if the concubine has cooked the food, the concubine will not accept it.
Unexpectedly, the secrecy work was not done well, and the news was quickly spread. One day, suddenly the door "clicked", and his wife appeared, she not only beat the "second milk" with her fists, but also punished Mao Yujian to kneel all night. Mao Yujian was extremely frustrated, why did he return to Beijing so quickly?
Until one day, his wife finally solved the mystery for him: "O post station! 600 leagues urgent! Do you get it? ”
It turned out that Mao Yujian's wife used the country's main infrastructure station with her influence on officialdom.
Ancient post stations on the mainland were institutions for transmitting official documents and military information or for accommodation and horse exchange for officials during their journeys. Mao Yujian's wife hurried back from thousands of miles relying on the then well-developed post station system.
Ancient caravanserai
Mao Yujian's anger caused serious consequences. He stayed up all night writing a feasibility report to the emperor and proposing a plan to abolish the post station.
At that time, after the rise of Jin, Chongzhen believed that it was a problem for his henchmen. However, since the Wanli era, because the imperial court has gone on expeditions every year, it has cost a lot and financial difficulties. Mao Yujian's proposal was exactly saying that in Chongzhen's heart - being cut off from the post station could save 1 million taels of silver, which was enough to fill the gap in military spending and ensure the need for the post-Jin war. Therefore, Chongzhen immediately ordered the country to cut one-third of the post stations and disperse the surplus labor.
Unexpectedly, among the people who were being laid off, there was also a young man named Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng was born in 1606 in Li Jiqian Village, west of Mizhi River, and liked guns and horses and clubs when he was a teenager. After his father's death, he worked as a pawn at the post station in charge of conveying official documents of the imperial court in the Ming Dynasty. Now unemployed, coupled with some difficulties later, led Li Zicheng to revolt and finally became a gravedigger of the Daming Empire.
Chongzhen hung on an old locust tree with a crooked neck at the southeastern foot of Jingshan (formerly known as Coal Mountain), and he never thought that the demise of the Daming Empire was caused by the private use of the official Mao Yujian's family.
Chongzhen
The phenomenon of private use of public vehicles has not disappeared in ancient and modern times.
The manifestations of bus corruption in recent years can be broadly divided into three categories:
First, the issue of "tort" corruption. It mainly appears in the equipment, management and use of public vehicles, which are manifested as over-range allocation, private use of public vehicles and private driving of public vehicles;
The other is "extravagant" corruption. The main problem is that the procurement exceeds the standard and over-production in the process of bus equipment and transformation, and the purchase of official cars and luxury decoration official cars is the main manifestation;
The serious phenomenon is "greedy" corruption. In the bus purchase stage, some purchasers and car salesmen colluded with each other to deliberately raise the purchase price of the car and earn high rebates for their own use.
According to the survey data of the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Bureau of Statistics, the total number of official vehicles used by party and government organs and administrative institutions is more than 2 million, the annual consumption expenditure of official vehicles is 150 billion yuan to 200 billion yuan (excluding hospitals, schools, state-owned enterprises, troops and over-allocated vehicles, etc.), and the average annual purchase expenditure of official vehicles has increased by more than 20%.
According to statistics, the transportation cost of private cars in society is 08,200 yuan/10,000 kilometers, the transportation cost of official cars of party and government organs is more than 30,000 yuan, and the over-allocated vehicle rate in mainland China is more than 50%.