Pang Nuan is in Zhao State and is the Zuoshi.

This position is not something that ordinary people can hold. He has two requirements. First, age must be older. In terms of age, not to mention in Zhao State, even in various countries, Lao Pang has no opponents. Lou Yan is ten years younger than him. Zhao Kuo speculated that this Pang Gong should be nearly eighty years old. The second is to have qualifications. In this regard, Pang Gong is also an existence that looks down on the heroes of Zhao State. He was an important official during the reign of King Wuling!!

The specific work of Zuo Shi is actually to give the king some advice, which is equivalent to the king's personal consultant.

Pang Nuan and Wei Wuji met King Zhao at the same time and suggested to King Zhao: Let Ma Fujun inspect various parts of Zhao State and find out the evil officials who were causing trouble. King Zhao was a little confused. Why did they care so much about this? Not only King Zhao, but also the ministers in the palace were also a little confused.

King Zhao asked, "There are evil officials in the country. I can just ask the county magistrates and magistrates from all over the country to investigate them strictly. Why do you still need Ma Fujun to investigate them personally?" Pang Nuan frowned, looked at the ministers, and said, "Because the county officials colluded with the country officials, ignored the king's orders, did evil, and asked the thief leader to deal with the thief. What do you think will be like?"

King Zhao was furious and asked, "How can you compare my ministers to thieves?"

"Aren't officials who harm three or four people, and officials who harm more than 100,000 people more hateful than thieves?" Pang Nuan said bluntly: "Shangjun wants to absorb more talented people. When these talented people arrived at Handan, would they still be willing to follow you? When Xunzi left Zhao State, he told me: He did not see a good official on the road, because he was unwilling to join these evil thieves, so he had to leave."

King Zhao widened his eyes and almost burst into anger. He stood up, walked back and forth a few steps, and said with gritted teeth: "So that's the case. I respect Xunzi very much, but he left Zhao and served as the county magistrate in Chu. I have never understood why. Now I know that it was because of these thieves in the country. They dared to force my talent away! Okay, let Ma Fujun go to investigate! If you meet a bad official, Ma Fujun can kill them!"

"From the county to the countryside, no one is allowed to violate the orders of Ma Fujun. This is my king's order!!!"

King Zhao shouted angrily.

The ministers lowered their heads and did not dare to speak at all. Lou Yan looked at this old friend and shook his head helplessly. If he was in the palace today, he would definitely make him an enemy of the local officials of Zhao State. Those officials would feel that they had been insulted. Alas, why do you need this? Not only him, but also the important officials here, do not understand Pang Nuan's behavior. Pang Nuan has many friends, and he has never said offending others like today.

Only Wei Wuji, who was standing not far away, understood Pang Nuan's idea. He wanted to replace Zhao Kuo and attract all hatred eyes.

All the things Wei Wuji wanted to say had been said by Pang Nuan, and he had to add: "I heard that in Qin State, if the recommended officials make mistakes, the recommended officials will be punished the same. Therefore, the officials of Qin State dare not recommend villains with bad morals and lack of talent, for fear of being implicated. Please ask the Lord to implement the law of joint position in Zhao State... In addition, if you can detect the evil of the lower-level officials and deal with them, you can avoid being implicated. If you sit still, even if you are not the officials you recommend, you will be punished the same."

The ministers couldn't help but take a breath of air. Xinling Jun was vicious. As soon as his system of duty was released, officials from all over the country would rush to kill the evil officials in order to avoid even duty, so they would not dare to protect them. In the future, if they wanted to recommend anyone, they would not dare to report to Shangjun casually, which caused them to lose a lot of "gifts" that they could easily get.

Bribery is an insult to the nobles. If you find the nobles with money and ask him to help you, most of the nobles will kill you. However, if you give gifts to the nobles and become his friends, then he can blatantly protect you without being condemned by morality. This is a distorted and pathological society based on the basic moral concept of the nobles. The crimes of protecting friends and relatives are regarded as moral society.

Qin State was regarded as a barbarian and was denounced as ignorant because it encouraged villagers and family members to report each other.

Wei Wuji's behavior is also subject to insults from the nobles: What's wrong with protecting our friends and family? You don't praise us, but you want us to sit in a row?

Of course, not all nobles would think so. Many years ago, there was a iron-blooded official in charge of taxation. He killed many friends who were close to him, even Pingyuan Jun, and was recommended by Pingyuan Jun, who called Zhao She.

When Wei Wuji left the palace, he brought out the order of King Zhao, asking Ma Fujun to patrol the various places and investigate the traitorous officials.

Zhao Kuo returned to the horse service and asked some of his disciples to come back to help him. Li Yu was still busy and could not come back. Fortunately, as his biggest helper, he could not return. In the end, Di, Zhao Fu and Wang Fan had to return to the horse service with sixteen disciples. During this period, Zhao Kuo was still talking to Han Fei about the next thing and dealing with the traitor, which was just the premise for Zhao Kuo to innovate.

He wanted to find these evil thieves out, let King Zhao see the seriousness of the situation, and then change the situation of selecting minor officials in the local area, conduct the "civil service examination" similar to that of later generations, select a group of smart and capable minor officials, change the local official system, and arrange the supervision system for officials, and determine the punishment system. One by one, Zhao Kuo put forward his main idea, and Han Fei supplemented and improved it.

The young Han Fei has shown his extraordinary side, and the way to sit still is what he thought of.

Han Fei was very interested in Zhao Kuo's idea. In addition, he had a very thorough understanding of the current situation in Zhao State. He directly expressed his opinion: He believed that this time, there would be four situations, such as those who would desperately protect their confidants to show their morality, those who would introduce scapegoats to cover up their crimes, those who would not want to be insulted and commit suicide, and those who would tell the crimes and beg for mercy.

Han Fei believes that for those who protect their confidants, they should fight against their reputation because this is what they care most about. For example, King Zhao treats you as a confidant, but you have done something against King Zhao because of your personal affair. Can a person like you still be considered a gentleman? For those who introduce scapegoats, you need to give rewards without having to strictly investigate their past. Chen praised their righteousness. In this way, more high-ranking officials will not choose to protect and get close to each other, which will also be helpful for future innovation.

Those who surrender themselves and beg for mercy can be exempted from heavy punishment. Those who commit suicide fearlessly should read out their crimes in public, take away their property, and let others take it as a warning.

Han Fei said: Punishment is not the purpose, the purpose should be to prevent officials from being afraid to humiliate the people and not deceive the monarch.

Zhao Kuo knew what he was worried about. He was worried that he would deal with it impartially, without mercy, and bring all the sinners to justice, and suffered great resistance and resistance. Of course, Zhao Kuo wanted to deal with these evil thieves in the fish village severely. However, no matter how severe the punishment was given to these officials, it could not be cured. Instead, after such separate treatment, the surviving people would benefit.

Zhao Kuo understands this.

He also secretly swore in his heart: He would definitely change this situation.

His disciples rushed over one after another, and Di was the first to arrive. As soon as Di entered the courtyard, he couldn't wait to talk about Li Yu's situation to Zhao Kuo. Sitting in front of Zhao Kuo, Di said excitedly: "When we distributed seeds and farm tools to the soldiers, they were very excited and kowtowed to the direction of the horse suit..."

Zhao Kuo frowned and looked a little unhappy.

Di hurriedly said: "These things are of great help to them, especially the food we sent. When these soldiers returned home, there was an extra person to eat at home, but they did not prepare in advance. Life was very difficult. Li Yu knew about this and sent us to deliver food everywhere... Once, fortunately, after delivering food, he just went out, and found that his jade pendant was missing, so he hurried back to search. But he saw the local field officials snatched away the food they had just sent in the name of tax collection."

"So he killed that official," Zhao Kuo said.

Di nodded, picked up the water bag and took a sip of water, and said, "It's just that we sent it a little late. Many places have finished spring planting. The seeds are useless anymore, but the farm tools are still very useful. The nobles from all over the country know that we are the disciples of Ma Fujun, and they dare not be rude to us. Some nobles also helped their fiefs and sent some food, livestock, and plum fish recorded the good deeds of these people."

Hearing this, Zhao Kuo laughed, nodded, and said, "This is very good."

"What about you, where are you doing? You can't just look at what they do and come back to tell us?" Ge stood not far away and asked coldly. Di glared at him contemptuously, and then said, "I have also helped a lot. I told those people that these food and farm tools are given to you by Ma Fujun. If someone dares to snatch them, it's just snatching them from Ma Fujun. Ma Fujun will never let you go!"

"Yes, it's always your best thing to scare others with the horse and submission."

"You!!", Di and Ge immediately started to squat again. Zhao Kuo ignored the two of them and talked to Han Fei about his plans to go. Zhao Kuo had never told Zhao's mother what he was going to do. He didn't want Zhao's mother to worry about him. He just told Zhao's mother that he was going to go to various parts of Zhao State to see the situation of the people. However, the day after Di came back, Zhao's mother called Zhao Kuo over and asked why he suddenly wanted to investigate the traitors in various places.

Zhao Kuo said: "Whether it is farming or other things, the minor officials should be the support of the people. They should protect the people and lead the people, rather than bullying them. I want to change the current situation, but please don't worry about me. There will be no danger if I bring my disciples." Zhao's mother laughed and she smiled very happily.

She asked, “Is your sword sharp enough?”

Zhao Kuo was stunned and replied: "Sharp enough."

"Your father was a member of the Tianma tribe because his sword was sharp enough that he became a respected official. Now that you want to investigate traitors from all over the country, you must always polish your sword and kill those evil officials who do evil."

"only."

After Zhao Fu, Wang Fan and others arrived, Zhao Kuo got on the carriage, raised the flag of the horse couture king, and set off from the horse couture. He wanted to go all the way north to Yunzhong County, then pass Dai County from Yunzhong, and go back to Handan County. Zhao Kuo's departure with such a big fanfare naturally caused a sensation in the horse couture. Everyone followed the carriage and sent Zhao Kuo out of the horse couture. Everyone bent down in the direction of the carriage and bowed to their heroes, saying goodbye to their heroes.

Sure enough, the news that the king's order in Handan and Zhao Kuo left the horse fu quickly spread to all places. It caused a shock. The officials were both angry and frightened, and the letters accusing Pang Qian of flowing towards Handan continuously, and Ma Fujun's whereabouts became the most concerned thing for all local officials. With the banner of Ma Fujun being cast, Zhao Kuo's itinerary became extremely slow.

When he arrived at a township, the busy people saw the horse-fu flag from afar. They first wiped their eyes, then rushed over without hesitation, knelt heavily on both sides of the road to welcome the horse-fujun. Zhao Kuo rushed to the township and walked down from the carriage, helped the people around them up, asked them about the harvest this year and the difficulties they encountered, and finally asked whether the local officials had oppressed the people.

Facing these people, Zhao Kuo said seriously: "This time, I want to help the people of Zhao State, investigate the local traitors, and ask the villagers not to hide it and tell me the truth. If someone dares to take revenge on his second and third sons, I will take revenge on him with my own hands." In fact, the people do not need Zhao Kuo's guarantee at all. Even if the officials will take revenge and execute them, they will never be willing to lie to Ma Fujun.

At present, someone came out and pointed out that the local townships had privately increased their tax quotas and filled their pockets. The grassroots system of Zhao State, from counties to counties and then to townships, was the problem that the official system was very simple, with only the six local officials, including county magistrates, county magistrates, county magistrates, county magistrates, county magistrates, and county magistrates. The others were all assistant officials, not officials, and they did not need to be appointed by King Zhao, but only local officials.

There are townships and towns in the township, and the gates are set up. One is responsible for public security and the other is responsible for all other government affairs. It is so simple that it is outrageous.

The local township was called Rong. When he heard that Ma Fujun arrived, he happily changed into the best-looking clothes and came to Ma Fujun excitedly. He was about to pay a visit when a burly and strong man walked out of the side and grabbed him. Then Ma Fujun asked coldly: "Why do you know about the tax situation this year?"

Rong was cold all over and shivered. The strong man beside him shouted suddenly: "Speak quickly!"

He collapsed on the ground, weak all over and started to cry.

"Please forgive me."

He quickly explained his crimes, including how to increase taxes privately, solicit bribes from the people by mobilizing the quota of corvee, and contributing money by controlling the ox to control the plowing ox, etc. When he finished speaking, Zhao Kuo was so angry that he couldn't speak. He was just a minor official who had a term of less than three months. He had done so many evil things in a few months! When he saw Ma Fujun's angry look, Rong cried and begged for mercy:

"Please forgive me for my crimes. I am a guest of Dong Chengzi. I have fought with you in Bairen with the Yan army. My head has always regarded you as a close friend. Please forgive me for my crimes in his face."
Chapter completed!