From the day he left Chang'an City, Suning knew that this world was completely different from the past. The world he saw was no longer a miserable world, no longer a world where corrupt officials were rampant. Suning has always been worried that in ancient dynasties, no matter how determined the emperor was to fight corruption, its effectiveness was always to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. The emperor who killed officials the most ruthlessly in history was Zhu Yuanzhang. You could not imagine the punishment for corrupt officials, but he could not invent it. But were corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty extinction?

If power is not restricted, corruption is difficult to eliminate, but an absolute balance of power is impossible. The so-called water is clear and there is no fish. How can corruption be killed? The so-called democratic system only curbs corruption within a relatively small range, allowing more people to supervise the users of public power and have the right to remove public power users. But can corruption be completely avoided? With the emperor's power of life and death, it is impossible to eradicate corruption. No matter how hard the emperor is, he cannot do it. In many cases, the emperor will only turn a blind eye because severe anti-corruption will threaten his throne.

Suning has thought of many ways, from expanding the number of censors to revising the law, he has tried everything he can do in this era, trying to do the best. However, in the era of His Majesty Li Er, corruption incidents at three major ports still occurred. His Majesty Li Er started a massacre, killing nearly a thousand people, abolishing hundreds of officials' positions, and the vigorous and vigorous sailing operation almost died. With the level of the political clarity of the imperial court in the era, it is difficult to curb the occurrence of corruption incidents, so how can we talk about other eras?

When His Majesty Li Er was in power, Suning dared not say something, and His Majesty Li Er would never accept it, but Li Chengqian, whom he met since childhood, was different. Compared with His Majesty Li Er's growth and experience in swords and conspiracies. Li Chengqian received orthodox education and was greatly influenced by Suning during his growth process. In terms of behavior and affairs, compared with His Majesty Li Er, he was more inclined to use moderate negotiation methods to solve the problem rather than using swords and swords. This is Li Chengqian's advantage.

Therefore, during the period after Li Chengqian ascended the throne, every time he made a match with Li Chengqian, Suning would instill his ideas into Li Chengqian bit by bit, telling him that top-down repetitions will ultimately treat the symptoms but not the root cause. The emperor's personal words, deeds, likes and dislikes can only play a temporary role, but cannot play an eternal role. If he wants to play an eternal role, first of all, he must determine these provisions in the form of law and make them national law. Secondly, he must work hard on means and methods.

In the past, when Zhuge Liang governed Western Shu, the first step was to convene ministers such as Fa Zheng Huang Quan to formulate the strict "Shu Ke". Some people said whether this was too severe and could easily hurt the feelings between the Liu Bei group and the Shu people who were still based on the unstable position at that time. However, Zhuge Liang said that in troubled times, he focused on tolerance and used heavy punishments. In peaceful times, he lost the threat of war. After the productivity increased, people's living standards improved, and food and clothing level reached, he would naturally pursue higher levels of things, and corruption and crime would breed.

At this time, if people's behavior is not regulated by strict laws, the people's hearts will be corrupt and morality will be degraded. Liu Zhang's governance of Shu was called dark and weak. That's it. Although the outside world is turbulent, Shu is peaceful. The entire Shu is a breeding ground for corruption. After decades of governance by Liu Yan and Liu Zhang, Shu was captured by Liu Bei within two or three years. So many people surrendered to the enemy. This is the reason.

However, Suning extended the explanation of Zhuge Liang's words. Suning told Li Chengqian that our external environment is not stable enough, but internally, China is already quite stable and peaceful, the economy is developing rapidly, and the people's lives are getting better and better. It seems that it is time to use the Divine Practice, but don't forget that the people are our foundation, and what we are most worried about is the people's rebellion. If there are no external factors, it is hard to imagine that the people will rebel actively. Since ancient times, people have said that officials force the people to rebel, but officials do not, and people's lives have a solution. Why should they rebel?

The people who really need to use heavy punishments are not the people, but the officials. The civil laws we formulate can be tolerant and gentle. We can adopt more Huang-Lao techniques to rest with the people and try not to disturb ordinary people. But what really needs to be controlled and dealt with is officials from all over the country and powerful people. In the early Han Dynasty, because of the use of Huang-Lao techniques, they accumulated strong national strength for the Han Dynasty in decades and laid the economic foundation for counterattacking the Huns. But what followed was the rampant tyrants and the government colluded with them, making the people not aware of the court or an emperor.

Therefore, we need to use heavy rituals on officials and powerful people, and use the art of legalism to deal with them. For ordinary people, use the art of gentle Huang-Lao to rest with the people. Try not to disturb them. If you pay enough taxes and do not commit crimes, then you can let them reproduce, have more children, accumulate manpower and material resources, and hide them from the people. When they really need them, they will be grateful for the kindness of the court and will naturally serve them. As for the powerful people who already have a lot of wealth and power, they must be suppressed and cannot be allowed to be fished in the countryside. For the governments that hold great power, they must be supervised and cannot be allowed to rush around the countryside. The fished and meat people must be guarded against them and unite with the powerful and cover the sky with only one hand.

It is easy to say but difficult to do. It is very simple to deal with merchants. Merchants and their descendants are not allowed to be officials. One person does not allow businessmen to do business. The whole family and relatives within the three tribes are not allowed to enter the officialdom. Officials who learn the Legalism skills act as local officials and officials of the Maritime Department to strictly prevent merchants. However, dealing with local tyrants and government officials is a very serious problem. Carefulness is required. If the officials force the people to rebel, should we suppress them or not?

Although the art of the Legalists and the art of Huang-Lao are used alternately, what should we do in practice? There are too many uncertain factors that the court officials will find it difficult to grasp. Therefore, this power should be delegated to the locals and organized the public to elect respected people to serve as the three elders in the countryside. It does not necessarily mean that they are old, virtuous, talented, famous, and fair enough, so that they can be the three elders, be representatives of the people, and govern the local area with the local government.

Locals always take care of local people, which is different from foreign officials. If the government makes decisions that are not conducive to local development, the three elders can refute it. Just like the Menxia Province refutes the emperor's will, the three elders can refute the government's government orders. Even impeach county officials, or even state officials, and directly sue the emperor. The three elders can directly report to the emperor on behalf of the people, punish local officials, etc.

This is the most primitive and oldest democratic supervision policy, and it is also the highest level that Suning can do at present. Suning does not know whether it is feasible to do this, nor does it know whether such a decree will be thoroughly implemented and implemented when it is pushed to the local area, nor does it know what problems will happen during the implementation. So this time, Suning left Chang'an City, and also brought Li Chengqian's order to "scan the world on behalf of the emperor" and did not tell the officials' specific whereabouts to shock officials.

The main revisions of the Chenghe Dynasty were targeted at officials, especially local officials, and it was difficult to ensure that local officials were very resistant to the imperial decrees and were lip service. Suning himself was also a little worried. Although he could no longer make any decisions in the imperial court, he could still use his remaining energy. Du Ruhui chose to be a teacher to use his remaining energy. Li Jing chose to write military books and make textbooks for military universities to use his remaining energy. Suning chose to travel around the world, patrol the world, and shock the world, so as to make use of his remaining energy.

More and more elderly people will retreat and give power to young people to exert their abilities, but the experience and abilities of the elderly are unquestionable. Under the guidance of the court's employment policy that pays more and more attention to the ability of hard work, it is hard to imagine that in the future, there will be many officials who only know how to talk but not hard work. Everyone is very capable and can warm up to play. Death in old age is not the best choice.

Headed by Du Ruhui, Li Jing and Suning, the ministers of the Tang Dynasty also had an unwritten rule. Corresponding to the royal abdication inheritance, once the ministers were in poor energy, they should take the initiative to resign from the emperor and give up their power to the younger officials, and they should retreat to the second line. It is not to completely retire, but to choose to learn from Du Ruhui, Li Jing or Suning, choose to be a teacher, write memoirs or their own experiences to leave the future generations, or to travel around the world, patrol the world, and use their remaining energy, even if they leave the court, they can play a role.

Li Jing, Du Ruhui and Suning's approach inadvertently prepared another path for the ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

Suning didn't know how much impact his approach would have on the future. He only knew that his current approach was the most appropriate approach. He went south to the south of the Yangtze River, crossed the Huai River and entered the place where he had fought. Here he saw the river where Xue Rengui had fought to the death, and saw the battle of the river bank that had broken the enemy. He arrived in Lujiang. In front of the tombstone of Zhou Yu, who had been drunk more than ten years ago, he once again drank with the old governor Zhou. Governor Zhou met the Mingzhu, but unfortunately the Mingzhu left too early, and the successor master obviously did not have the mind and courage to accommodate Zhou Yu.

Suning felt very lucky. He met Li Shimin and Li Chengqian. Li Shimin was very talented and courageous. Even if there was a mistake, it was unquestionable that he had created the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He did not kill the heroic officials. He had enough mind and courage to control the ministers. Under his command, the heroic officials had a good start and end well. This was extremely rare among the emperors of all dynasties. It was almost a theorem to kill the heroic officials. There were not many emperors to avoid it. Li Shimin was one of the few.

He met Li Shimin, just as Zhou Yu met Sun Ce, and Suning was also lucky. Li Shimin did not die early, and his successor Li Chengqian was not as cunning as Sun Quan. He was too cunning, magnanimous on the surface, and short-splendent on the inside. Therefore, he could live to this day, live so freely, and even not give up on Li Chengqian in private, but still called him as a young man. He was the only one in the court. He was very grateful to this family. The family that had been changed always knew that without him, such a thing would never have happened.

He came to the mansion he had lived in, met the people who fought side by side with him, inspected the people who settled here because of his own policies, and the people of Jiangbei who settled in Jiangnan because of their land policies. They all lived well, no one tortured them, and the policies were well implemented here. The abundant funds brought by the Dagang brought sufficient capital to the construction and development here. On the faces of the people here, they could see their uplifting fighting spirit and expectations for the future.

With expectations for the future, there is a future.

Suning continued to go south and paid homage to the 500,000 Qin soldiers who had gone south to expand their territory at Meiling Pass, and to pay homage to the Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng, who had developed this precious land for China. He personally erected a monument for it, so that future generations would not forget the 500,000 Chinese Qin army that had been majestic. No matter what his other actions were, merits were merits and faults were faults. It could not be generalized, and it was pioneering Lingnan and immigrated millions. The First Emperor's mind and far-sightedness were shocking and immigrating.

Turning to ancient Chaisang, Suning unexpectedly found that there were already many people living around the monument he had erected. People here believed that the inscription written by Marquis Su personally could bless them. So with this as the center, the refugees who moved south automatically lived here, reclaimed land, farmed land, built houses, and recuperated. The officials of the prefecture were naturally willing to open up land here, increase county governments, and increase taxes. The request for the people here to call the name of the new settlement "Ning".

Ning County, a new county with an earliest population of 60,000 and a radius of hundreds of miles, gradually developed in the barren southern country. More than ten years later, in the third year of Chenghe, the permanent population has exceeded 300,000 and a radius of thousands of miles. It is a famous county in the southern country, the first Yangzhou area developed in the north, and the Lingnan prefectures and counties that developed rapidly with the help of maritime transportation in the south, connecting the past and the future, becoming a famous transit station. Suning's Marquis's temple is also one of the most famous landscapes here, with endless incense. When Suning arrived here, there were thousands of people and people went to pay homage to Mr. Su... Now it should be called Mr. Su's true appearance...

Suning stood up openly, had a cordial conversation with the people here, and personally went to see the Su Hou Monument, which was well-carried and the Su Hou Sheng Temple, which was incense-prone. Seeing his statue as "magnificent" as the Tang people's might seem to be full of flesh, a beard, and glaring at the scoundrel... Suning was a little depressed. He had red lips and white teeth. Even if he was not very handsome, he was still good-looking enough to gain a foothold in the court with strict requirements for appearance...

Many years later, Su Qingzhi, the youngest son who was following Suning, wrote a memoir to describe the excitement on his faces and the heartfelt respect of his father when he arrived in Ning County. Since then, this expression has been his longing, and a person like his father is his longing...

Suning stayed in Ning County for two months, and people built a villa for him here. Suning accepted it happily and led his family to live in. In the two months before leaving, he visited all over Ning County. Accompanied by Ning County's county officials, he inspected the surrounding terrain of Ning County, and then wrote a detailed development blueprint and handed it to Ning County County Government, telling them how to plan Ning County and plan the development of the entire surrounding area. He also wrote a development blueprint for the entire surrounding area and handed it to the provincial government, asking them to act carefully.

Your own blueprint has certain reference value, but don’t stick to your own blueprint, adapt to local conditions, and choose the most suitable method. Many officials here are practical talents selected for the new imperial examination, and there are also graduates of the University of Political Science and Law. Suning warns them that as an official, remember to protect the country and the people, make political achievements, and do not do things that the people hate. The cycle of reincarnation in heaven has its own fixed number. If you don’t want to harm future generations, don’t do things that go against your will. If you don’t believe it, look up and see who will God let go?

Two months later, Suning left here and continued to go south. Before leaving, there was another visit with thousands of people. The county prefecture and county officials led all the county prefecture officials and the people to send them for more than ten miles. Suning spoke kindly and advised them to go back, cultivate the land and develop the local area. In the future, he would come back. He liked that villa very much. If possible, he would choose to be here, with his family, accompany everyone here, and live a lifetime in this place named after him...
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