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The 294th chapter is a rare fight in life

By the 47th year of Qianlong's reign, the case of Wang Danwang in Hexi also had a result.

This guy is too brave. Most of the entire Hexi officialdom was involved in collusion between the top and the bottom and falsely disposal of grain relief. This is a big case. After investigation, I found out that the big things he committed were more than just one false report and panic to deceive the state for relief.

Because Qianlong saw that the entire Hexi had been drought for years, and the land had poor harvests and even lost harvests. Not only did he allocate a batch of money and grain relief to Hexi, he also ordered the exemption of money, grain and taxes in some severely affected areas. Then, this was all divided by Wang Danwang and his subordinate officials.

At the same time, Wang Tanwang also started to "donate and commit relief".

This was also allowed by Qianlong.

The so-called "donation of prisons" means to solve the problem of money and food difficulties. The government allows some people to donate grain and money in exchange for qualifications for prison students.

Wang Danwang sold all the food into silver, which was equivalent to selling the qualification of "supervisor".

This is because the superiors are afraid that after receiving reports of disasters, they will see that the momentum is very high and the money and food required for relief are huge, so they will send an imperial envoy to supervise the relief.

Wang Dan looked at the court to report the drought and fabricated that he would use the "maintaining grain" to provide disaster relief. This means that Hexi is self-reliant and self-sufficient. The money and grain allocated by the superiors are far less than the "severe drought" required, so naturally he would not send an imperial envoy to supervise.

But in fact, Wang Danwang divided all the donated silver, and everyone from the governor to the prefecture and county officials. From then on, more than half of all officials in Hexi Province participated in the embezzlement and embezzlement activities of "donation and supervision and relief".

Moreover, Wang Tanwang also successfully jumped from a remote and arduous place like Hexi to a fish and rice town like Jiangsu and Zhejiang based on his contributions.

As a result, Su 43 invaded at the beginning of last year. The Qing army often encountered heavy rains during the rebellion, and the movement of the troops was blocked.

Qianlong was not a fool, so he naturally felt something was wrong. He suspected that Hexi had been reporting drought for years and ordered Li Shiyao to investigate the disaster relief situation in Hexi in detail in previous years.

Li Shiyao went up to investigate and easily caught Wang Danwang's evidence of his crime.

Qianlong was furious and sent his assistant minister Yang Kui to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to listen to Wang Danwang with the governor Chen Huizu, and confiscated his property, confiscated more than one million taels of gold, silver, and a large number of jewelry and jade.

Therefore, Wang Danwang's evidence of guilt was decided in 46 years, but how many officials will be taken down in the entire Hexi officialdom? This is the main task in the second half of the case.

Finally, it was not until the spring of 47 that it was completely concluded that it was necessary for Wang Danwang to behead him. Hexi officials of all sizes were sentenced to death, 57 people were sent to death, 56 people were sent to dismissal, and many were dismissed.

It can be said that most of the Hexi officialdom has been cleaned up.

This major case was a thrilling and alarmed the whole country.

Zhao Liang wrote to Zhao Hui and Chen Tong. Their real shortcomings are already known. It is Hexi!

Of course, Zhao Hui is different from Chen Tong. After all, Zhao Hui is a juren and Zhao Liang's younger brother. If he wants to change his position, it will be very relaxed.

Zhao Hui even replied that there was no need to change it.

First, I think it is not good to do it, and second, I think it is unnecessary to do so.

He has such a solid backer and can be transferred to another place at any time, so where can he not afford to be an official in?

Now that I have just entered the officialdom, what I should accumulate is experience and improve my abilities, rather than going to a good place to lie down and enjoy it comfortably.

Seeing Zhao Hui insisting so much, Zhao Liang certainly had nothing to say.

This is a self-expression of Zhao Huishang's mentality.

He also wants to encourage him.

But even if you go to Hexi, there is a distinction. It is true that Hexi is a place with bitter cold and closed temperatures, but there are good and bad places, and there are safe and unsafe places.

"Although the rebellion in Hexi has been suppressed, the court even dismissed Protestantism and banned its believers from gathering. It also moved the admiral to Guyuan, and then changed the general to Hezhou, and then changed it to a general in Xunhua Department to strengthen the deterrence of force. But according to my words, it is still not peaceful there."

In April, Zhao Hui and Chen Tong all returned to Chenzhou, and the three of them met and talked about it.

As the saying goes, wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. No matter whether this resistance is "correct" from Zhao Liang's perspective, it is no matter how correct it is from the perspective of believers in Tianfang.

After the defeat of Su Sisan, the Qing Dynasty adopted a policy of cutting off the weeds and roots in Hezhou and other places. It was not known how many people were killed and how many people were exiled to southern Yunnan (To put it, the Tianfang Sect Uprising in southern Yunnan during the Xianfeng period was not a hidden danger now). In addition, the Qing court also issued bans to restrict faith activities, especially hostile to believers who have been studying abroad, and prohibited believers from gatherings.

This believer gathering is not allowed, is it still the Tianfang Sect?

Therefore, these policies of the Qing Dynasty not only violated the interests of Protestantism, but even the believers of the old religion became uncomfortable.

There is another uprising next.

But these people arrived in the Qianlong period and when the Qing Dynasty was still in power, I would behead my head when you make trouble and use a knife to suppress the matter. However, the failure to eradicate the roots still left hidden dangers in the future.

After the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom was launched during the Xianfeng period, the Qing Dynasty's military power continued to tilt, and the land in the west of Hexi in Guanzhong was empty, and the violent backlash would have come.

However, in history, Tongzhi was the same thing, and now the uprising of troubled people is another matter.

It lasted for seventy or eighty years compared to the later generations. It was not until the New China army swept across the northwest that the chaos was completely rectified. The current follow-up civil unrest is just a small fight.

"It depends on whether you dare to fight. If you defend the city in the chaos of the people, it will be a great achievement and will be very beneficial to the future. But if you cannot defend it..."

So this decision depends on their own choices, and whether the blacksmith must be strong himself?

Zhao Hui and Chen Tong's faces became solemn.

This choice really concerns their future.

"Mom, don't say it anymore. My child has decided to fight for it once."

When he returned home, Zhao Hui told his parents and his wife about his choice and reasons.

Chen has nothing to say, and Zhao Hui has always been making the decision on major issues.

Uncle Zhao just sighed. His son grew up and had his own opinion, so there was no need for him to care about everything.

Only Aunt Zhao was filled with worry and fear.

"Donating an official position is not the right way to become an official. If you don't make some contributions, why should your superiors be promoted to your official position?"

"My son has already started a family and started a career. He can't rely on his elder brother for everything, right?"

Zhao Hui and Chen Tong both chose to fight this time.

How many times does it take to fight in life?

This is a great opportunity to change their destiny and they don't want to miss it.
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