At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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He needs to do a lot.

Like Yu Jin, Zhang Liao didn't care as much about this matter as Zhao Yun, and had more work to do, so the anti-corruption work in the quartermaster system was not done well.

So the situation he faced was similar to that of Yu Jin. He was taken away to assist in the investigation, and then the specific situation was directly reported to the emperor, who asked the emperor to judge.

There is a problem in the southeast, and the southwest cannot escape. The problem in Lejin is not small. The investigation team entered Yizhou through the repaired main artery of the Shu Road, crossed the Sichuan Basin, arrived at the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and entered Yunzhou.

Yunzhou was the last state set up by the Wei Empire. It has only been two or three years so far. The time is short, the infrastructure is relatively poor, and most of the projects are still in the process of repair.

Logically speaking, the possibility of corruption is unlikely.

However, the Yunzhou garrison had been stationed in Yizhou before. During the garrison in Yizhou, it had interests in certain local forces.

It got better afterward.

But this is not the reason for not investigating. For Le Jin's problem, it needs to be carefully and carefully investigated. This is what Cheng Yu specially ordered.

Le Jin's military affairs are much busier than Zhang Liao and Yu Jin's.

As a state that had just been attached to the Wei Empire, Yunzhou had a very complicated composition of residents. They were originally barbarians who were not taught by the Central Plains. The only language they could understand were swords, bows and crossbows.

So when the largest Yongchang County was pacified at that time, Le Jin led the army and fought fiercely with the local aborigines of Yongchang County.

They used fierce fire oil cans to burn a large number of forests and cut down trees on a large scale to destroy the living soil of the barbarians and cut off their large-scale threat to the Wei army.

It is very difficult to conquer the barbarians with a scale of over one million, but it is not impossible. Facing the absolute strength of the Wei army, the barbarians in Yongchang County gradually surrendered.

After Tian Feng arrived in Yunzhou and took up administrative work, he implemented a kingly education policy for the barbarians who returned to Yongchang County. They were allowed to live in houses and farm fields, and taught them to know Chinese characters and speak Chinese, so as to gradually change their lives. way and wildness.

After several years of hard work, the situation in Yunzhou has gradually stabilized.

However, there were still barbarians who were still resisting, and there were many dense forests that had not been opened up. They hid in these places and attacked the Wei people from time to time, which was quite annoying.

Due to terrain factors and climate factors, for a long time, the effect of fierce fire oil tanks was not very good, and Wei Jun's offensive efficiency was compromised.

For this reason, Le Jin had to lead the army to persist for a long time, confronting these barbarians, gradually reducing their living space through confrontation and development, cutting down trees, etc., trying to force them to a point where they had to come out for a decisive battle or surrender the point.

Such an approach works.

As time went by, more and more barbarians were so desperately short of supplies that they had to stand up and confront Wei Jun in order to snatch the living supplies, which happened to be Wei Jun's strategy.

Few of those who confronted head-on had a good end. Basically, the entire army was wiped out and they could not continue to fight.

The resistance of the barbarians became weaker and weaker, and they became less and less climate-friendly. They came out day and night, trying to take advantage of the cover of the night, but the Wei army also worked in two shifts, and a group of soldiers guarded the property all night. Do not fight with the Wei army.

Then fail miserably.

The army led by Le Jin was one of the few elite Wei troops who maintained a fighting state and did not enter a peaceful state.

And here, it has also become an important place for recruits recruited from Yizhou and Yunzhou to train. After the one-year training, the recruits will be pulled to such a battlefield for actual combat exercises.

Seeing blood, killing people, and exercising the spirit of the elite.

So Le Jin's contribution is still great.

The two generals Zhang He and Huang Zhong also made a lot of contributions under Le Jin's command. They got rid of the disadvantaged status of surrendered generals and firmly entered the core group of second-line generals.

It can be said that they all pointed at Le Jin and followed Le Jin for promotion, so when the anti-corruption storm hit Yizhou, and even Le Jin, the entire Southwest Front Army was a little surprised, and the morale of the army inevitably fluctuated.

Then Le Jin appointed Zhang He to manage and command the army on his behalf to stabilize the morale of the army, and he followed the investigation team to assist in the investigation.

After arriving at the site of the investigation team and beginning to assist in the investigation, Le Jin found out what those military supplies guys had done behind his back.

They simply don't regard military expenditures as military expenditures, and simply treat military expenditures as their own things.

Many of the things they bought were shoddy, or the quantity was secretly reduced. The technique was very delicate, so delicate that the soldiers could not notice it.

Especially when it comes to eating and drinking, these guys can always find cheaper alternatives.

Anyway, in the hands of the Huotou army, these things were cleaned up, and the stew was so rotten that the soldiers couldn't tell what was what.

Further investigations revealed that the Huotou Army in the army also colluded with these guys to make money.

This makes me happy.

"I don't know about this matter, I really don't know how dare these bastards... how dare they act in such a way!"

Le Qi was so angry that his teeth were itching, but he never expected that something he had never paid attention to would explode with a very lethal thunder.

It is well known that the emperor hated corruption very much.

When Cao Ren was still there, the Northwest Corps exploded with thunder, killing many quartermasters and collaborators inside and outside, which dealt a severe blow to Cao Ren.

This incident was considered to be the trigger for Cao Ren's resignation. Many people believed that this incident made the emperor no longer trust Cao Ren so simply.

Now Le Jin realizes that he is also facing such a situation.

Looking at the scorching-eyed officials of the investigation team in front of him, and thinking of Cheng Yu's fierce reputation, Le Jin couldn't help feeling a little terrified.

The result of assisting the investigation was nothing. Le Jin himself had no facts of corruption. He was very clean and never embezzled a cent of public funds. However, due to the problem of military expenditures under his jurisdiction, the whole situation has changed now.

As the general in charge, he must be responsible.

Could it be because of this incident that he became the second Cao Ren?

Don't look at Cao Ren's endless joy of traveling in the mountains and rivers every day, but as a general who has spent most of his life in the army, Le Jin feels that he can completely understand Cao Ren's feelings.

You can dream of the time when you were in the army, right?

Cao Ren must have missed his military career, his prestigious reputation of leading troops to conquer the enemy, and the Iron Horse Glacier at that time.

That's what a general should do.

As a general, it is also a cruel thing to die in a rich and gentle village without being shrouded in horse leather.

Although this can protect the family, clansmen, and own reputation, it is also the gentleness of the emperor.

But Le Jin felt that he had no burden, and he had no clansmen who were officials in the court. He insisted on saying something, and only his eldest son served in the Mozhou Army, and his youngest son entered the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall for further studies. Enter the military.

A pure military family.

In such a situation, it shouldn't end like Cao Ren's. There should be a better ending.

Le Jin likes the battlefield, the barracks, and everything here. He loves everything that he led the soldiers to fight with blood and blood. He hopes that he can have a different ending.

Even dying in battle is better than dying in a rich and gentle village.

So after thinking about it, Le Jin felt more and more hopeless, so he simply wrote a letter and asked someone to secretly take the letter to Luoyang and hand it to Guo Jia.

He wanted Guo Jia to help him say good things in front of the emperor, in this case, the ending should be different.

Chapter 1414 One thousand three hundred and twenty four Chen Gong who filled the pit

The best person for help in Le Jin's heart should have been Man Chong.

If Man Chong could go to the central government, he would like to write to Man Chong directly and ask Man Chong to say a few words for him. Maybe this matter will pass like this.

But Man Chong went to Jiaozhou to be the governor of Jiaozhou, and failed to return to the central government, otherwise Man Chong would be his first call for help.

The relationship between him and Man Chong was laid during the war era. The two of them worked together to do a lot of things in Yizhou, did a lot of things very well, and won many awards.

Le Jin feels that this relationship is very solid and the friendship is very strong.

Moreover, Man Chong's wife is also a woman of the Guo clan, and she is very trusted by Guo Peng. Once she returns to the central government, she must be a high-ranking official with a generous salary.

It's a pity that Man Chong is not in the center, so Le Jin can only settle for the next best thing, thinking of Guo Jia.

As the most important minister of the royal family, Guo Jia's status is also one of the best in the entire court.

The royal family, Yuan Cong, started his business with Guo Peng in his teens and made a lot of contributions.

When Liu Zhang's power was wiped out, Le Jin and Guo Jia cooperated beautifully. After that, they cooperated several times, and the relationship was quite good.

Guo Jia's optimistic, cheerful and talkative image left a deep impression on Le Jin. He felt that Guo Jia was a reliable person.

Before, Le Jin never asked Guo Jia for anything, but this time, Le Jin hoped that Guo Jia could make a move.

If nothing happened, that would be the best. If something happened, he hoped that Guo Jia could help him say something nice in front of the emperor, so that he would not lose his due status so quickly.

He's not old yet, and he doesn't want to leave the army early like Cao Ren to retire.

He would be sad to death in that case.

This letter was sent to Luoyang Cheng when the anti-corruption storm was intensifying. It was the middle and late June of the 12th year of Yande.

At that time, the Northeast Corps, Southeast Corps, and Southwest Corps successively broke out corruption incidents in the military supply system, and corruption incidents broke out in the local military warehouse system.

In a rage, Guo Peng refused to listen to the pleadings of the officials, and directly ordered Dong Zhao to be dismissed from the post of minister of the Ministry of War, and sent to prison for questioning and strict interrogation.

A large area of ​​local warehouses exploded with thunder. What do you, Minister of the Ministry of War, do for food?

Not doing work with a salary, indulging his subordinates to act recklessly, causing accidents in warehouses all over the world, seriously endangering the strategic reserves of the imperial court, this is almost a capital crime.

If the officials hadn't pleaded for mercy, Guo Peng would have killed Dong Zhao as a warning to others.

But the death penalty can be avoided, and the death penalty cannot be escaped. All male members of the Dong family were deprived of their school status. Three generations were not allowed to go to school or take the imperial examination.

Dong Zhao was not killed, but Guo Peng's anger was hard to contain, so two servants of the Ministry of War who were also guilty of dereliction of duty were killed.

One of the two ministers was Kuai Yue, a surrendered minister of Jingzhou.

Some Jingzhou people in the court pleaded for him, but Guo Peng refused to listen, and was even more annoyed.

Three generations of the Kuai clan were not allowed to go to school, be officials, and were imprisoned locally.

Almost one-third of the killed officials of the Central Military Department were questioned.

Many officials were crying and shouting, and were dragged out of the military office by the officials of Sili Xiaowei's mansion. They beat and scolded them and drove them away with whips. Let Luoyang people watch.

The surviving officials of the Ministry of War watched their colleagues being taken away so cruelly and never came back with ashen faces. Their hearts were full of horror and joy for the rest of their lives.

Local military officials were also beheaded by Guo Peng with a knife in his hand. Nearly a hundred officials of the three clans were all imprisoned for three generations.

Moreover, men under twenty are not allowed to marry, and women under sixteen are not allowed to marry.

This rule was newly added by Guo Peng in the official law in the eighth year of Yande, because he heard that some criminal officials took advantage of the loopholes in the law to make their children marry early and have children early.

Some families even force their children to marry and have children at the age of twelve or thirteen, trying to spend three generations in more than 30 years before returning to court.

It can be said to be a model of policies with countermeasures.

Guo Peng was furious when he heard the news, and ordered to imprison two more generations of these exploiting families. He also strictly ordered that the men of offenders' families should not marry before their [-]s, and the women should not marry before their [-]th. Otherwise, they would be imprisoned for three more generations. Dare to break the ban.

With the passage of time and the large-scale march of imperial examination bureaucrats, the background attributes of criminal officials have developed into a trend of diversification.

You learn from others, and you learn so quickly.

Guo Peng then expanded the scope and intensity of the attack.

Under the emperor's furious anger, the officials trembled tremblingly and dared not say a word. Seeing the emperor's killing spree, no one dared to intercede again.

Later, Guo Peng compiled the process and charges of these officials' beheading into a book called "Records of Guilty Officials", wrote down all their names, places of origin and deeds, and sent them to Taixue and various schools and schools to warn them. Those reserve officials, when doing things, think about the fate of these criminals.

Then, Guo Peng started a new round of personnel changes,

Then he was transferred to Chen Gong, the governor of Yongzhou, and entered Luoyang to take over as Minister of the Ministry of War.

Mao Jie, governor of Liangzhou, was transferred to governor of Yongzhou.

He was promoted to Shangdang County Magistrate Lu Qian to take over as Governor of Liangzhou.

Promoted to one of the cabinet assistants, Xu Shu, a servant of the South Study Room, took over as the prefect of Shangdang.

After a series of personnel transfers, some political structures of the imperial court and localities have changed.

For example, Chen Gong, who was struggling to seek the opportunity to return to the central government, finally got his wish and returned to the central government, serving as the Minister of the Ministry of War with actual power.

And Mao Jie, who was struggling to find the opportunity to return to the central government, did not return to the central government, but he was one step closer to the central government.

Based on this experience, Mao Jie even began to look forward to who the next Shangshu would fall, so that he could go back and take over.

After serving in Shangdang County for many years, Lu Qian, who has been unknown and diligent, came into everyone's field of vision. He was transferred to be the governor of Liangzhou, and suddenly became a big official in the frontier. The situation is indeed special.

Xu Shu, one of the ministers of the cabinet and one of the attendants of the South Study, was transferred to the prefect of the Shangdang County, which is tantamount to going out to practice.

It is conceivable that Xu Shu, who has both local and central government experience, has a limitless future.

At the same time, because the ministers, doctors, Yuanwailang and other officials in the Ministry of War who were in charge of warehouses in various states were collectively held accountable, Guo Peng aggressively mobilized cabinet members to fill the shortage of officials in the Ministry of War.

Then the front line promoted more than 50 grassroots officials from Li Shu from the Ministry of War below Yuanwailang to grassroots management positions, and assisted the cabinet members to support the daily work of the Ministry of War.

Then, Guo Peng stipulated a large number of brand-new responsibilities for the Ministry of War.