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Chapter 62 - Overthrow

Xiong Jing did not care about Chen Bi's life and death. Chen Bi's advice may make sense, but it is definitely not suitable for the current Chu State. It would be fine if he died, but Xiong Jing always felt that he wanted to say something to express his position and express the position of the Yingdu court. After he coughed a few times, the order beside him immediately shouted that the king had been exterminated, and everyone bowed.

"What sinners say is the policy of fooling the people. The traitor governs the country, and the people are close to the king; use the weak to get stronger, and weak people are strong. The people of Chu are descendants of Zhurong, the descendants of the God of Fire, and Taiyi, who are born to be nobler than the people in the world. How can they do this policy of fooling the people?" Xiong Jing looked at the people who were vain, and felt a sense of embarrassment in his heart - I wonder if this kind of fooling the people is vain?

"I am just willing to be strong but not weak. I am just willing to be rich but not poor. I am just willing to be smart but not stupid. Therefore, the government of unscrupulous people is a policy of strong people. The people are strong and the country is strong. If there is no people of industry and commerce, how can there be great iron skills? If there is no heroic and heroic people, how can there be good warriors? If there is no scholar who has learned, how can there be a handed down from the world? If there is no minister and witch, how can I become a Chu person?

Sinners say that a strong people will be weak. It is not a weak soldier, but a few soldiers. So what if there are few soldiers? A wolf will be afraid of a flock of sheep? A spot will lose to a flock of deer? The policies of Chu State, the policies of the strong people, the soldiers of Chu State, the soldiers of Chu State, the soldiers of brave soldiers. Why are the Wei people afraid? The Wei people were driven out of the city after entering the city; Why are the Qin people afraid? The Qin people were defeated in Qingshui last year, and this year they will be defeated in Chen Ying."

In order to let more people hear what they said, Xiong Jing used his strength to make money. Unfortunately, no one applauded and cheered after he made a big statement. What he didn't expect was that these people couldn't understand. He was talking about Chu Yu, and the common people of Chen Ying didn't quite understand Chu Yu.

"Buying knows, you don't know what it means to strengthen the people, but after the new policy is implemented, you will know what it means to strengthen the people?" Xiong Jing said that, and then waved his sleeves and returned to the palace. Everyone dared to get up after he entered the sect. With the order of "execution", the people who were still panic became excited and angry. The screams made by the prisoners when they pulled their ribs were something they could understand.

"Report to the King, what Chen Bi said is Qin's government." There was no one in the Mingtang, and Xiong Jing couldn't read the draft of the Chu History for the time being. The Right Historian said with advice when he saw this.

"Is this Qin Zheng?" The State of Chu did not collect legal works, and no one studied Qin Zheng.

"That's right." The right historical man nodded deeply, "If the traitorous people govern the country, the people will be in charge; everyone is weak, so the country is strong."

"So..." Xiong Jingming, the logic of the traitorous people governing the country, is just a double act.

The traitor, that is, the officials must be vicious and bullied, and they must be shouted that life is worse than death. Only in this way can the people expect the innocent and be grateful to the emperor's kindness. Therefore, throughout the dynasties, officials have always been evil and corrupt, and the innocent and emperors are always good and kind.

Little do they know that corrupt officials are part of the governance system. If the emperor really listens to what wise ministers say and eliminates all corrupt officials, he will poach himself and cut off his vitality. He can kill some officials in time to relieve the common people and make them lively and lively, and creates the fantasy of this emperor being a good emperor, but he must never subvert the entire ruling system.

Wu De in Linggaoli managed prisoners, in order to let Fuyoudi, who has the potential to be a traitor. This not only caused conflicts and struggles among the prisoners, but also made all prisoners become thoughts such as "The adults are deceived by the traitors, and the adults are good. Please make the decision for us and uphold justice."

This is "the people who treacherously govern the country, and the people who control the kings (the kings)". People who really have social experience and those who really read history books know this trick, but Xiong Jing was surprised that this trick was created more than two thousand years ago and more than two thousand years ago.

"Chen Bi said: 'The people are strong, the country is strong, and the people are weak, and this is even more absurd! It was like this in ancient times, but it was like this in the Middle Ages, but it was definitely not like this today. Why? The people's hearts are hateful!'" Xiong Jing said another passage from Chen Bi, "Shi Qing, what does this mean?"

"What does it mean?" The Right Historian was still thinking, and the Left Historian said: "I wish the king: Chen Bi's words mean that the rituals and music in today's world are broken, and the house can be punished. I heard that Mencius once said: 'The goodness of human nature is like the water'; Xunzi said: 'The evil nature of human beings is false'. This shows that the people's nature is getting worse and worse..."

"Rumor!" The Youshi was older and the same generation as the father of the Zuoshi. He dared not say anything when he scolded the Zuoshi. "The king, there is indeed a collapse of rituals and music. If you force a house to be punished, it would be different. Xunzi said, 'The nature of a person is evil, and the good is false'. This is to say the hearts of the people of the Qin and the Three Jin Dynasties, not to mention our Chu State."

"Then what do we mean by the people of Chu?" Xiong Jing didn't care about the three Jins of Qin, but only about Chu.

"The State of Chu is not China, and it has no disadvantages of China." The people's hearts are the fundamental reason for whether to implement the double act. If the people are evil, they naturally have to govern the country with treacherous people. If the people do not hate it, it will be otherwise. The right historical knows this truth well. "The State of Chu has no system of counties, and although there are counties below, it is actually like a feudal state.

Moreover, every conquest was sympathetic to the people. In that year, he recovered the fifteen towns on the riverside and sent only 150,000 troops; he lifted the siege of Handan and sent 100,000 troops. Before moving east, he controlled Qi and Wei to save Yan and sent 30,000 troops; in the Battle of Danyang, he sent 100,000 troops, even the Battle of Lantian, which was only 300,000.

The people of the Three Jins of Qin were evil, and after they were all over the country, they fought for years, which led to filial piety and people were disgusted with war. It was not the people who were evil, but the people had to hate them in order to survive. The people became more and more evil, so the rule of the traitors and the power of the Legalists all said this. Chen County was adjacent to Zheng State and now it is adjacent to Wei State. Chen Bi advocated the rule of the traitors, which was all because of this."

"I understand." Xiong Jing breathed a sigh of relief. He liked that his subjects were not evil and did not need to use traitors to rule. "Last year, Jiangyi was defeated, endangering the country and everyone was panicking, so he sent 300,000 troops; this year, he sent no more than 200,000 troops."

"This is the benevolence of the great king." The Right Historian sighed. "The people of our Chu country are so kind. If we do the policy of strengthening the people, the country will be strong."

"Then..." Xiong Jing thought of Chen County. Although it was during the war, the war finally ended. "After Chen Jian left, if all the county officials were gone, they would replace him with honorary scholars..."

"I ask the king not to let Chen Jian take office." The Right Historian advised him. "But all the county officials should be gone and the honorary scholars should be replaced."

"Oh." Xiong Jing was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed. It was better to replace the pillars than to push down and rebuild them. He immediately summoned the chief clerk Jiang and said, "It's been a long time since the statistics are counted, but are there any eyebrows? Where is Lang Yin? Where is the bookkeeper?"

The bureaucrats were mixed, and a large number of Yingdu officials entered Chen Ying was really eye-catching. Xiong Jing, who wanted to completely overthrow Chen Ying's existing system, relied on the people of the temple in the palace. Lang Yin was the official who managed the daily life of the palace under Wang Yin, and the bookkeeper was the bookkeeper of the palace.

"I'll call you now." Chang Jiang quickly summoned Lang Yin and the bookman.

"Reporting to the King, Chen Ying's rule is evil!" The bookkeeper looked through all the accounts in Chen County and knew very well about the finances of Chen County. "The more than 60,000 households in the county reported that the annual income of the Yin Mansion was only 857,500 stones, but in fact, the land rent was collected for more than 2,378,000 stones."

One is 850,000, the other is 2.37 million, almost three times. Xiong Jing shook his head and said, "So much?"

"That's right." After the bookkeeper said that Lang Yin also said, "Report to the great king, our Chu State has a hundred and two taxes, and the tariffs are 11. Chen County is the intersection of Chu and Xia, so the county magistrate colluded with the officials of the city. The tariffs for goods transported to the Chu State were not 11, most of them were 13, and the highest was 100. The municipal taxes were not 12, most of them were 17. The municipal order Chen Biao, and everyone called him Chen Qi. The merchants who entered the market did not pay the taxes of 17, so they robbed and killed them. Chen Bi, the officials and others were defeated, and they all accepted their bribes. "

"How much did they reap the tax on the city?" Xiong Jing suddenly sneered.

"Last year of life..." Lang Yin looked at the bookkeeper and said nothing. Fortunately, the two were eunuchs, otherwise Xiong Jing would have thought that he had greedy for him when checking the accounts and only gave him a fraction of the money left.

"Report to the king, the tax on Shangjiao Grand Prix last year was still more than 8,000 gold." The bookkeeper told the story, even though Xiong Jing was used to being tens of thousands of gold, he was surprised. This is the annual income of a county. It is a normal county, and it is amazing to have 600 gold a year for land rent.

"There is more than 8,000 gold every year, and more than 80,000 gold in ten years, what about the money?" Xiong Jing hurriedly asked. "Where is Chen Jian's money?"

"The king, the county magistrate has no money." The answer from the bookman made Xiong Jingjue fall in love with wine and lust. It is said that everyone in the family is full of fine wine and beautiful girls. A beautiful girl, with a hundred gold coins, and there are beautiful girls, so there should be jewelry and silk brocade..."

The bookkeeper said a long sentence. In short, Chen Jian had no money, and he spent all his money on food, drink, and entertainment. Not only did he spend all of it, he also borrowed a lot of money. In total, he owed the merchants about five or six thousand gold.

"Bastard!" Xiong Jing was so angry that he cursed. He really wanted to cook Chen Jian for a job. The bookkeeper didn't know that he was scolding Chen Jian, so he hurriedly knelt down and said, "I don't care about the little minister's account, please check it out."

"It's not about you." Xiong Jing waved his sleeves, "Where are the Chen Bi family? Or those county officials' families?"

"This has not been investigated yet." Lang Yin replied. The Right Shi hurriedly said, "Please forgive me for all the crimes of my people to avoid unstable morale in the army."

Just as the city was besieged, Zuo Shi and Lang Yin also said, "Please forgive me for all the sins of my people."

"Absolute, pardon, pardon." Xiong Jing said three pardons helplessly, and then said to Lang Yin: "At noon tomorrow, you will carry all the county government's account book to the court, and burn them all in front of everyone. I just say that this case only covers Chen Bi, not the rest."

"Yes." Lang Yin replied heavily, deeply feeling that the king's move was very good.

"Then let's talk about the county officials later." Xiong Jing let go of corrupt people, but he would never let the traitors go.
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