Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 219 You are so crazy!
The current problems of commercial banks cannot be solved by corporate methods. The problems of legal corruption and illegal corruption are stacked together and become a super monster.

There is nothing we can do about shareholder supervision. After all, the largest shareholder only holds less than 2% of the shares, and the equity is too scattered. In essence, no one has any shares.

The upper, middle and even lower levels all put too much emphasis on decentralization and have done a good job in decentralization, but due to the dispersion of shares, it is difficult to centralize power at the bottom.

Decentralization has its advantages, but there are actually more disadvantages. After all, the biggest advantage of centralization is that no matter how greedy the people below are, if something goes wrong, at least there will be no situation where the person in charge cannot be found. If there is a problem that cannot be solved, If so, it would be right to directly deal with the top leader below.

But decentralization is difficult. You push me and I push you. In the end, you can’t tell who is at fault. The result is that everyone is wrong and has no responsibility.

Since there is no responsibility, then just be greedy.

The blatant corruption problem is indeed much better than that of local governments, but hidden corruption has almost everyone involved. After all, the money belongs to the shareholders and the country, and there is no greed.

The larger the company, the more unsolvable such problems become. Eventually, vested interest groups will eventually become entwined. Even if they do not hold a large number of shares, they will certainly influence the general meeting of shareholders.

To put it bluntly, when state capital corrupts and degenerates into bureaucratic capital, it will naturally become a cancer for society and the country. When the cancer is large enough, it is connected to the aorta, and it cannot even be cut off.

Use the knife now while you can still cut.

He thought about it, as long as the various factories, engineering teams, and commercial banks can hold about [-]% of the shares below, it is enough. It is best to leave the rest to social capital. At the same time, Qian Bank warmly welcomes landlords from all over the world to use their land. Mortgage or simply sell the land to a commercial bank, and then buy the companies in the commercial bank.

For a commercial firm, it is enough to only hold the core production factors.

He can even ask money banks to provide low-interest loans to various shareholders, and let these shareholders use the money to purchase shares of various companies and become the real controllers of each company. In this way, those shareholders will naturally not object.

As long as the enterprises below have even one actual controller, this corruption phenomenon will naturally be much better by then.

Zhao Guangyi, on the other hand, was responsible for the output of firepower and killed all the middle management of the commercial bank.

Doing good things by yourself, doing bad things by your second brother, and finally achieving your goals. Is there anything happier than this in the world?

Similarly, the problems of the judicial system are no longer just simple tinkering problems such as corruption and lazy administration. They are definitely systemic construction problems. After the founding of the Song Dynasty, in order to maintain the so-called centralization of power by strong cadres and weak branches, If it is too powerful, it will inevitably lead to all kinds of ruins in the place. This was the case in the Ming and Qing dynasties that followed the Song Dynasty.

Of course, if "maintaining stability" and the survival of the regime are the primary goals, many things do not matter. The collapse of the building is not a matter of decades. Just trusting future generations to direct these things has nothing to do with your own generation. , in the future, the two brothers, or even the three brothers, may still be praised by the Mingjun. This set of things... will definitely last for 80 years. By then, it can be repaired and dealt with for 50 years. Left and right, there were only 60 years left to survive, and finally the remnants of the entire dynasty were divided as warlords for 50 years. After more than 200 years, the Song Dynasty was still a great dynasty.

But as a time traveler and a member of the founding generation, how could Zhao Guangmei be willing to be a paper framer?What's the difference between that and the original coward?
As the saying goes, severe diseases require strong medicines. Even if Zhao Guangmei, as the first generation of the founding generation of the Song Dynasty, would have such a good opportunity to prescribe strong medicines, there are not many.

Zhao Guangyi grimaced and said in frustration: "It's like this again. It turns out that you are like this again. In order to solve a small problem, you will not hesitate to cause chaos in the world. And then? What are you going to do after the chaos in the world? You... you didn't tell me in advance. Let me discuss it."

"Is it a small problem? I don't think it is a small problem. In fact, it's good as it is now. You deal with the commercial banks, and I deal with the civil servants. You know, any system will have the instinct of self-preservation. Officials protect each other for the sake of officials. Human nature, there is no system in this world that has the ability of self-examination and self-correction. Only by mutual examination and working hard to hurt both sides can we really find out a bright and bright future. So, second brother, don’t be soft, I will do the same. I won’t be soft-hearted, I’m not kidding, I won’t let go of anyone I can get this time, even if I have to arrest all the local officials.”

"You are a madman!"

"As for the world being in chaos, it should not happen. If the central government is not in chaos, Kaifeng is not in chaos, and the army is not in chaos, the world will not be in chaos. The conscription system has the benefits of the conscription system, and the recruitment system naturally also has the benefits of the conscription system. In an era when local power is overwhelming, It’s already over.”

Seeing that Zhao Guangmei was pretending to be confused, Zhao Guangyi covered his head in despair and curled his lips and said: "You seem to be selfless, but in fact you are clearly selfish. In order to build up your heart In the ideal government system, you can do anything, and you don’t even think about it. If the officials are not able to make a living in the process, how can the people stand up? If the officials live their lives worried about gains and losses, the people who are under their control will not be able to do anything. I'm afraid it will be a big disaster. Believe it or not, if you act like this this time, at least tens of thousands of people will die across the country, at least 10,000+, or even tens of millions of people will be destroyed. Maybe you do have You have the ability to make remedial measures afterwards, but will the new system you establish definitely be better than the current one? These hundreds of thousands of people are the price you pay for implementing the New Deal."

Zhao Guangmei was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but she did not refute Zhao Guangyi's accusation. On the contrary, she nodded with deep understanding.

"Not to mention hundreds of thousands, even if millions of people died because of this, I would believe it. What you said is indeed correct. However, I have never claimed that I am a good person. I only know that I have sinned. In the Spring and Autumn Period, let future generations decide on the merits and demerits of right and wrong."

Zhao Guangmei is not a naive idealist. Of course he does not think that civil servants will have no destructive power without military power. Everything in this world must be done before doing evil. He basically agrees with what Zhao Guangyi said, whether it is the local system of the imperial court. It is still the business system of commercial banks. The chaos in the next period of time will inevitably lead to people's livelihood being miserable.

Only a fledgling person would think that the life and death of local civil servants has nothing to do with ordinary people.

People die for money, and birds die for food. If a local official learns that he is being investigated by Cao Bin, and has even been regarded as a thorn in the side of His Majesty the King of Qin, what will he do next?Are you taking the initiative to divulge the stolen goods that you have stolen for many years, surrender yourself, and hope that His Highness can grant you leniency?
Or... do your best to delay the progress of the investigation, and then use the last period of power in your hands to be greedy and greedy, trying to leave a legacy to your descendants before get out of class is over, which will last more than eighteen lifetimes. Money?

If everyone else in the system is a normal official, and he is the only one who wants to be greedy, then there is a high probability that his greed will have a limit, because after he has finished being greedy, his other colleagues will have to continue to live, or even continue to be greedy. You'll ruin everyone's meal by eating too much alone.

Cutting the leek but not the root is the biggest unspoken rule in the world of corrupt officials.

However, when all this becomes a systemic problem, when people who cannot live like this and want to have a good meal at last become the majority of the system, when all local officials with real power begin to cooperate with each other to cut leek roots. when.

Don't worry, they will be able to uproot all the leeks in this area in a short period of time, and no grass will grow. Even if someone forces the people to rebel, what does this have to do with officials like them?

This is also the reason why in all dynasties, the tighter the front is, the tighter the rear is.

The less money there was when Chongzhen was suppressing bandits and the more money they had to raise, the less likely officials around the world would donate their family assets. Instead, they would try their best to embezzle every penny they could get their hands on. Send it back to your hometown and find a place to bury it. The country will never forget to worry about other people's nonsense.

The imperial court is about to die. This money may be the last one. If you don't get greedy, you won't have a chance.Anyway, the imperial court is about to die. What can we do if we are corrupt? The imperial court no longer has the ability to investigate corruption.

Even if Li Zicheng is a murderer, even if he tortures me to extract confessions, it doesn't matter. As long as I can stand it, even if I only hand over a small half of the hidden silver, as long as the other half can be left to future generations, I will It's worth dying for.

The essence of the matter is the same. His large-scale investigation is essentially no different from the official tightening in the late Ming Dynasty. It is not even clear yet. Officials in the late Ming Dynasty had nowhere to escape. In the early Song Dynasty, However, officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Southern Han Dynasty, Wu Yue and Liao Dynasties could escape.

Therefore, for local officials, they are even eager to have Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in their territory. If they can't, they will have to force the people to become Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

Because of this, they can be greedy for more before they die.

Because they were killed by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the money they had gained was nowhere to be traced. Even if they put on a show, they could die in the king's affairs and gain the reputation of a loyal martyr. Their wives, daughters, and descendants would all become loyal martyrdom and feel at ease. With these people's wealth and money, in the future, when children study in the imperial examinations and become officials, they can also search for new people's money and money.

At least in the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, most of the local officials who died loyally and even went down in history because of this came from this.

On the contrary, if Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did not show up, His Highness the King of Qin would arrest their people, search for their money, and their wives, children, and families would be reduced to the family members of the prisoners.

At this critical moment of life and death, it would be better to hope that Qin Shihuang would be resurrected if we expected officials to have a conscience.

If in a short period of time, most of the officials in the world are working hard to cut the leek roots and force the people within the country to become Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

It seems normal for 100 million people to die in a short period of time.

The one million people who died innocently because of this... are the price.

Of course, the price must be as low as possible, so although Zhao Guangmei is mentally prepared to kill 100 million people, he must still make the necessary efforts in order to save the lives of Song people in this world.

"So, hurry up. The sooner the better. Since I decided to abolish both systems, I naturally have to build two new ones."

"Hey~, tell me how to build it."

"In terms of official administration, we will further relax the restrictions on staff and officials. Anyway, the subordinate officials in the core areas are now eating the imperial food. Starting next year, I plan to add some senior officials in each government, and they will eat the same as the New Deal areas. At the same time, Expand the scale of the scientific examination and increase the number of people admitted to the imperial examination twenty to thirty times, but the scientific examination candidates will no longer be directly awarded official positions, they must start from subordinate officials."

"In addition, this time the investigation will kill officials but not officials. The investigation of subordinate officials will only focus on the criminal Cao line. The meritorious Cao line will not be punished. If the corresponding officials in each prefecture and county commit crimes, they will be punished by merit. When Cao Cao replaced him, he was officially promoted from official to official."

"In addition, I have asked Cao Bin to send people down to lead troops. Subordinate officials at all levels can report to the people in Dongchang. As long as there is evidence, and the reporter himself has not been involved, and has not received illegal money, after verification Immediately put on the yoke, and the subordinate who reported the matter to the superior officer will immediately be promoted to an official, and whoever he names will be allowed to replace him, as an extraordinary measure in extraordinary times."

Zhao Guangyi's eyes widened: "Replacing officials with officials?"

"This is the fastest and most effective way. In this way, they will be able to restrain themselves in the next period, so that there will be fewer Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the world, and the people of the Song Dynasty will die less."

In fact, this is all inherited from the previous administration of officials during the New Deal, but the rectification that originally needed to be done slowly was suddenly carried out with a heavy hand. The basic guiding ideology is to expand the team of subordinate officials and increase the power of subordinate officials.

There are two core logics:

The larger a local government system is, the more difficult it is for collective depravity, because this greatly increases the difficulty for corrupt officials to divide the spoils. The more people who eat the royal food, the easier it is for the spoils to be distributed unevenly.

Secondly, they are officials with a stable subordinate staff. Because the officials are replaced every few years, not only do they have less control over local powerful people, but the risk of corruption and mischief is also smaller. Anyway, the mess of the predecessor can be ignored, and the mess of the successor can be ignored. He can also deny it. One sentence of historical issues and one sentence of trusting the wisdom of future generations can completely shirk the responsibility.

But things will be different when the subordinate officials become stronger. As long as these subordinate officials are not promoted, they are destined to be separated. If they cut the leek root and leave Da Lei, everyone will be sad in the future.

In this way, if local officials go too far when they act recklessly, they will naturally encounter resistance from the bottom up. Even if they are trying to avoid being reported, they will restrain themselves when they are greedy.

This is all a continuation of the previous policy, but this time it is more thorough and has completely offended all the current local civil servants to death.

There are only two reasons why subordinate officials are inferior to officials. First, most subordinate officials have not read much about Confucius and Mencius, and have not been baptized by the thoughts of loyalty and patriotism in the Four Books and Five Classics. They are not as loyal as the official officials.

But to be honest, how many of those who have read the Four Books and Five Classics truly believe in it?Anyway, Zhao Guangmei thought it didn't matter. He just needed to strengthen some ideological education afterwards. Anyway, in his previous life, he never thought that people like Beibang, who always add the word "great" as a prefix to their leadership, would really be better than those in the West when encountering trouble. Those passionate young people who call leaders shit are more patriotic.

This thing is more important in your heart than in your mouth.

Of course, the more important thing is that subordinate officials represent local forces. To put it bluntly, the meeting of subordinate officials affects the centralization of power in the court. If the court wants to rely on subordinate officials, it must let them eat royal food, which will increase pressure on the court's finances.

As long as we control the imperial examination and ensure that every subordinate official is really qualified, and don't engage in so many targeted recruitments, the problem will not be too big. Financial pressure is nothing more than making money. What Zhao Guangmei is best at is making money, anyway. No matter how big the hole is in the few government functions currently shouldered by the Song Dynasty, how big can it be.

(End of this chapter)