I watched Er Chuang’s short video, and everything went numb!

[In the 38th year of Qianlong's reign, officials withheld rice for disaster relief. They first cooked porridge with rice and gradually inserted white mud to make up the number. ]

[Then, they cooked with tree bark. The people affected by the disaster eventually died in pain. They were really inhuman. ]

The barrage flew out:

"The person who did this is really a piece of shit. Did Heshen do it?"

"Reply - No way, Heshen just added sand to the porridge for disaster relief. It's not that outrageous."

...

Qianlong dimension of the Qing Dynasty.

Heshen looked at the giant screen in the sky and was stunned.

Adding sand to the porridge for disaster relief? ?

He didn't do this!

How could people in later generations think that he did this?

……

The comments are still going on:

"This is really outrageous. In comparison, Heshen was a great philanthropist when he mixed sand into the porridge for the victims."

"Reply--Uh, you must have watched this on TV. In history, Heshen didn't actually do this. The person who actually did this was the famous minister Fan Zhongyan of the Northern Song Dynasty."

"Reply--Hiss! I didn't expect this. It was actually the idea of ​​this famous prime minister."

"Reply--Wow, it's really interesting to put the work of a great official on a treacherous official."

"Reply--There's no way. When he was providing disaster relief, people with surplus food at home pretended to be seriously affected victims to get porridge. This method can be used to screen them."

"Reply--People who are starving to death won't care about mixing some sand into the porridge. People who care prove that they are not that hungry."

"..."

The plane of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin thought about it for a moment and felt that this was indeed a solution.

During the famine years, the most important thing was to ensure that the victims who were really seriously affected could have food.

During the famine years, food was limited. If a large number of people who had food pretended to be victims to receive porridge, the food might be eaten up quickly.

During the famine, there was a shortage of manpower, and it was impossible to verify one by one.

As long as people came, porridge would be distributed.

In the end, the food was quickly eaten up, and the victims who really had no food to eat would suffer.

Once these victims were desperate, large-scale civil unrest would follow.

Choose the lesser of two evils.

Porridge mixed with sand is indeed unpalatable.

But because of this, people who had surplus food, not desperate people, mostly could not eat it.

This can, to a certain extent, prevent these people from pretending to be disaster victims and snatching food, and can leave more food for the real disaster victims.

After all, in times of disaster, it is better to have bad food than nothing to eat.

……

At the same time. 25 In many other dynasties.

Many ancient people are also thinking about this problem at this time.

When they first saw Fan Zhongyan mixing sand into porridge to relieve the disaster, many ancient people thought that Fan Zhongyan was too much and was abusing and insulting the disaster victims.People, unworthy of being a famous official.

However, take a look at the explanations in the barrage.

They reacted.

This is indeed a good strategy in extraordinary times.

In times of great disaster, staying alive should be the most important thing to consider, not dignity.

……

[And the disaster-stricken people under your rule wake up from the ruined temple in the wasteland every morning, smell the fragrance of coarse rice porridge, can't help but burst into tears, and kowtow to you crazily. ]

[They admire that they have met a good official and will not die because of eating too much. ]

The barrage flew out:

"What do you mean? Why would you die if you are full?"

"Reply-because there is nothing to eat, you can only eat Guanyin soil, which is indigestible and you are full to death."

"..."

Some ancient people in all dynasties looked at the giant screen in the sky, and their faces showed sadness.

They are all people who have experienced the great famine and survived by chance, and have witnessed this kind of tragedy with their own eyes.

……

[When you are promoted and are about to leave the local area, the people who suffered from the disaster at that time will actually "carry silk and silk to send you" and compete to give you the "Umbrella of Ten Thousand People". ]

[As Kangxi said, "The so-called honest officials do not mean that they do not take a penny. For example, county officials only take one cent of the fire consumption, and do not take anything else. They are good officials."]

[The rampant corruption in ancient China can be imagined. ]

[Do you think that emperors like Qianlong knew that local officials embezzled relief grain? ]

[Of course he knew, but it is difficult to find evidence for this. As long as there is no popular uprising, the emperor will turn a blind eye. 】

The barrage flew out:

"Is it possible that many emperors actually don't want to investigate corruption at all."

"Reply-Why? Raise pigs and wait for slaughter later?"

"Reply-Yes, raise pigs, and get a handle on your subordinates."

"Reply-There is another reason. Official corruption is actually a way of distributing benefits in the feudal dynasty."

"..."

The Hongwu plane of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head slightly, and a look of disdain flashed in his eyes.

He was extremely contemptuous of those emperors who indulged in corruption.

What "only taking one point of fire consumption, and not taking anything else, is a good official" is simply nonsense.

Even if only one or two silvers were embezzled, it would be an unforgivable corrupt official.

...

[In this way, with the emperor's connivance and the officials' corruption, disaster relief gradually became a formality. 】

【In just sixty or seventy years, the relief that the victims could get has dropped sharply from 70% to one-third. 】

……

"Damn corrupt officials!"

Many common people in all dynasties cursed with anger.

The victims were already miserable enough.

These corrupt officials wanted to embezzle so much, which was simply not giving the victims a way to live.

……

【Even some counties and prefectures fabricated natural disasters when there were no natural disasters.It has become a routine. 】

[In Shandong, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Henan, Hubei, Anhui and other places, there are famines and deficits every year, and there is no delay or relief every year. 】

[But this is not something you need to consider. You are a great contributor to the relief. 】

[On the surface, you have contributed to the people by not letting them starve to death, and secretly you have contributed to your corrupt clique, allowing them to follow suit. 】

[After years of operation, you have risen to prominence and finally become a local middle- and high-level official. 】

……

The plane of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Che watched with great interest.

This narrative method based on the perspective of an official in the officialdom is exactly the same as the previous video of traveling through ancient times to establish a corrupt clique.

He thinks it is quite interesting.

……

[Your corruption career has also ushered in further development. 】

【As the backbone of the ruling class, there are countless ways to make money. 】

【You have too many cards, but you can't give up your bright future just for a little bit of profit. 】

【You have a main idea: we don't take the emperor's money because it's disloyal (dare not); we don't take the poor's money because it's not righteous (not enough). 】

【Then we have to take the money of Huang Silang (bureaucrats, gentry and landlords), which is both loyal and righteous. 】

The barrage flew out:

"Good guy, this is both loyal and righteous, right?"

"Really, this idea is quite clear."

"..."

Many corrupt officials in the past dynasties smiled slightly.

Sure enough, he is an expert.

……

[Go down, you force your subordinates to "voluntarily" buy the rotten ginseng and miscellaneous jade bottles you bought at a low price at a high price, and extort 6,200 taels of silver. ]

[In addition. ]

[You also acquiesce in your servants to use their power to make friends with subordinates in the government and extort money and property. ]

[Buy ginseng and jewelry in various shops without paying a penny. ]

[Among the people, you forcibly occupy farmland and enslave the people. ]

[Emida of the Qing Dynasty once allowed his servant Niu Er to make friends with officials and occupy private mines. ]

……

The plane of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty.

Yongzheng looked at the giant screen in the sky and his face turned cold.

This Emida is so bold!

Among the many emperors of the Qing Dynasty, he was the most resolute in his anti-corruption attitude and the most severe in his methods.

……

[Remember that safety is your first rule of corruption. ]

[If you are unfortunately caught, you should immediately take the following actions. ]

[First, run! Destroy the evidence quickly, send your family and staff to take the stolen money and flee to live in another place. ]

[Second, cut off your arm to survive. ]

[If the government has conclusive evidence, the servants will have to take responsibility for their masters and confess their crimes. ]

[Because they know that they will not be able to escape the death penalty and there is no chance of survival.. 】

【But if the master is saved, his family may still be taken care of by the master. 】

The bullet screen flew out:

"This depends on the master's character. If the master has bad character, it is more likely that the slave's family will reunite with the slave who took the blame in the underground."

"Reply-this kind of thing, as long as the master is a little clear-headed, he will not do this. Who will work for you in the future if he is so unethical?"

"Reply-betting on unreliable character, it is better to keep some tricks for yourself. If the master does not take care of it, then let the family explode and everyone will die together."

"..."

Looking at the various discussions in the bullet screen.

Many corrupt officials and their trusted servants in the past dynasties have their own thoughts.

Different people have different ideas about the various suggestions on the giant screen.

……

【Third, insist that you have no knowledge. 】

【Try to show your innocence, kindness, loveliness and innocence, and resolutely draw a line between yourself and the servants who took the blame. 】

【For example, when investigating the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou during the Qianlong period, Zhang Bao, "the government reported that he was a family member, and the clerk was properly employed, and his master was completely unaware of it."】

【As long as you don't find out, you are not corrupt. 】

【Apart from the facts, aren't you an honest official? 】

……

Seeing this.

Many ancient people in all dynasties were confused.

What does it mean to put aside the facts? ? ?

It's simply far from the truth.

……

【You escaped legal sanctions, proved your ability to make money and protect yourself, and continued to rise to become a governor. 】

【Sitting on the position of governor, whether you are honest or not is of course very important, but what the emperor values ​​most is loyalty. 】(To read the exciting novels, go to Flylu Novel Network!)

[No matter how good you are at talking, learning, joking and singing, it is not as good as the word "loyalty". 】

[Don't be like Yin Zhuangtu during the Qianlong period, who was loyal to the dynasty, regardless of personal safety, bravely advised against bad policies, and finally ended up resigning and returning home. 】

[For the emperor, no matter how greedy or evil you are, as long as you can understand the emperor's mind, you are a loyal minister. 】

[What is the emperor's mind? 】

[It's like Qianlong and a large number of other emperors, who want to make money but don't want others to know that they make money, and the main idea is "being a whore and building a memorial archway". 】

...

"Looking for death!"

In the plane of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong's face was ashen and he shouted angrily.

His chest was heaving, and his anger reached the extreme.

He was the ruler of a country, the supreme emperor, but he was called by name and cursed: "You are a whore and you want to be a saint."

How could he bear this?

So, Qianlong was directly defeated.

"You are so bold!"

"You have no respect for the emperor!"

"You deserve to die!"

"I will kill him!"

Qianlong cursed.

The anger was burning in his heart.He was furious as never before.

Qianlong hated this person from the future who openly scolded him to the extreme.

But...[]

This person is from the future who lived hundreds of years ago. It is useless for him to be angry. He cannot reach him.

So, he could only be furious.

...

[You can secretly give money to the emperor in two ways. ]

[The first is to pay tribute. ]

[Paying tribute has been an excellent traditional culture of the world since ancient times. ]

[Your dynasty inherited the tradition of the previous dynasty. The governors of each province need to pay tribute to the province's specialties twice or three times a year. ]

[But since the emperor took advantage of his mother, the Empress Dowager's 60th birthday to make a fortune, the tributes from various provinces have gradually changed. 】

The barrage flew out:

"Holding a birthday banquet for the Empress Dowager, the emperor himself made money, what a thought."

"Reply-It's not only the emperor who made money, but also the officials who organized the birthday banquet, such as Mu Zhang'a during the Daoguang period."

"Reply-This guy is really a talent. He used the name of holding a banquet for the Empress Dowager to extort officials and made tens of millions of taels of silver for himself."

"..."

The Daoguang plane of the Qing Dynasty.

When Daoguang saw this, he stood up with a "whoosh" and his face was full of anger.

"Mu Zhang'a, this dog! How dare he embezzle my shadow?"

"I will never forgive him!"

As a famous miser emperor, he didn't light the lamp at night to save oil money, and only prepared a bowl of noodles for his queen wife's birthday.

When he heard that Mu Zhang'a had made millions of taels of silver in the name of celebrating the empress dowager's birthday, it was even more painful than killing him.

"This dog slave must have thought about it long ago. This is a crime of deceiving the emperor!"

410 Daoguang became more and more angry.

In order to save money, he originally did not plan to hold a birthday banquet for his mother, the empress dowager.

But Mu Zhang'a told him that he did not have to pay and that Mu Zhang'a would take care of the whole process.

Of course he agreed.

Unexpectedly, this dog slave Mu Zhang'a actually made money for himself.

This, Daoguang really couldn't stand.

Millions of taels of silver, how many sesame cakes would he eat?

Yes, as a person who was born with the trait of stinginess, even if he was already the king of a country, he often relied on eating sesame cakes to save money.

……

[You led the charge. In addition to the three fixed tributes every year, you also paid tribute on festivals such as Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Lantern Festival. You were crazy about internal competition. ]

[In order to curry favor with the emperor, you catered to his tastes and upgraded the tribute items from local specialties to valuable antiques, gold, silver, jade, and celebrity paintings. ]

[For example, "three golden Buddhas", "a rack of pearl grapes", and "three four-foot coral trees". They were so ostentatious and extravagant. ]

[Under the leadership of you, the king of rolls, the tribute payers also expanded from governors and governors to Beijing officials, Hanlin, and even retired old gentlemen. ]

[These officials were not only bold enough to enrich themselves by paying tribute to the emperor, but also very bold. ]

[After the middle of Qianlong's reign, the uncontrolled tribute paid to satisfy Qianlong's selfish desires almost became the biggest pest that corrupted the administration. ]

[Qianlong certainly knew where the money came from. The indulgence of this anthropomorphic creature was the biggest driving force behind the decline of the officialdom in the Qing Dynasty. 】

The barrage flew out:

"In fact, when Qianlong first ascended the throne, he refused to pay tribute. Later, in the middle and late stages, he began to rush on the road of paying tribute."

"After the 58th year of Qianlong, he accepted tribute almost every month. The large carts waiting in line to enter Beijing would take several days and nights to be delivered to the palace. It was simply outrageous."

"If you don't pay tribute, you can't get promoted. Officials can only make money and pay tribute like crazy. The initiator is indeed Qianlong."

"Wait, anthropomorphic creatures?? Does this mean that Qianlong is not a human? Hahaha."

"..."

The plane of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty.

Yongzheng looked at the giant screen in the sky and shouted angrily:

"Rebellious son! Bastard!"

He was extremely angry at Qianlong's behavior of accepting tribute on a large scale.

This is destroying the foundation of the country.

……

Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.

Qianlong became more and more angry.

People in later generations actually called him a non-human? ?

He was the emperor who was high above.

How could people in later generations insult him like this?

Too much! It was really too much!!

So Qianlong was once again helpless and furious.

……

[Officials bribed Qianlong and embezzled like crazy. 】

[For example, Wulana, in his home in the capital alone, has "more than 100 three-inlaid ruyi, which makes people laugh.]

[Among the governors in the country, the emperor particularly appreciates you.]

[Praise you publicly for "excelling in handling tributes" and give you a high evaluation of "you have served as governors, are sincere about the country, and work hard, which is rare among governors and governors."]

……

Many political elites in the past dynasties sneered.

Such a minister who knows how to deal with things and give money to the emperor will naturally be favored by the tyrant..