Scholars in Qing Dynasty: Corrupt officials hate that everyone knows honest officials, especially those who don't.

? Scholars in Qing Dynasty: Corrupt officials hate that everyone knows honest officials, especially those who don't.

Brief introduction of Liu E: Liu E (18571kloc-0/October18? 1August 23, 909), a novelist in the late Qing Dynasty. This name has a long history, formerly known as Meng Peng, and the words "Yun Lu" and "established". Later, it was renamed as E, with the word Tieyun (Liu Tieyun [1]), and the word was agreed, and the name was old and disabled. Signature? Hongdu Bailiansheng? . Han nationality, Jiangsu Dantu (now Zhenjiang), Yang Shan (now Huai 'an District, Jiangsu). Liu E worshipped Taigu School Li Guang (Longchuan) as a teacher since his youth, and advocated "taking" all his life. Education? As the key link, develop economic production, educate after getting rich, and support the people as the foundation. In order to realize Taigu school, he devoted his life to industrial and investment education? Raise the world? Purpose. The thought of Taigu School can be said to be the spiritual pillar of his perseverance and repeated defeats.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the condemnation novel Travel Notes of Lao Can put forward a very novel point of view. Corrupt officials are hateful, and everyone knows that. Honest officials are particularly hateful, and many people don't know it. ? The author Liu E mentioned it? Honest official? , refers to the infinite expansion of ambition and lust for power, and officials are eager to be big officials, thus doing whatever it takes. What is the difference between them and corrupt officials? Corrupt officials know that they are sick and dare not do anything wrong in public; Honest officials think I don't want money. Why not? ? Therefore, Liu E believes that these people are willful and domineering under the mask of integrity and incorruptibility. Honest official? In fact, he is a cruel official, which is actually more harmful than corrupt officials.

Historically, like this? Honest official? There are too many. Amin Langying wrote a story in the Seventh Revision: During the Tianshun period in Ming Yingzong, a man named Shen kept a thrush, which was good at fighting. An Anhui businessman once offered twelve taels of silver to buy it, but the owner refused to sell it. This story is widely circulated. One morning, Shen went to the West Lake for a bird walk, and suddenly he had a sharp pain in his stomach and couldn't go home when he was lying on the levee. Just then, a familiar Cooper passed by, so Shen asked him to take a message to his family. When Shen's family arrived at the West Lake, he was already dead and his head was cut off. After inspection, it was found that it was made with a hoop bucket knife, so the Shen family caught the hoop bucket maker and reported it to the official.

The presiding judge directly extorted a confession by torture without asking indiscriminately. Cooper beat him into a confession, saying that after killing him, he would sell the seized thrush to others and discard the cut head in the West Lake. The presiding judge sent someone to the West Lake to look for the head of the deceased, but it was never found, and the case was deadlocked. The presiding judge and each pay a share of money to find Shen's head. Soon, a pair of fishing brothers came to receive the reward with their heads. Due to being soaked in water for many days, their heads are highly decomposed and their faces are difficult to distinguish. However, officials eager to win the honor of closing the case took it as evidence and beheaded Cooper.

A few years later, someone saw Shen's thrush in Suzhou, and asked the owner about the origin of this bird. The shopkeeper said he bought it from people in Hangzhou. Witnesses told the Shen family about it, and the Shen family reported the bird seller to the government according to the clues. After the torture, the bird seller admitted that he killed the man himself, and his head was hidden in the hole of a Yang Zheshu tree near the West Lake. Take a quick look at the definite position, and the head is indeed included. The government continues to track down the fishermen's brothers who took the lead in taking credit. After being arrested, they confessed. In order to get the reward of silver, they cut off the head of their father who had just died, soaked it in water to rot, and then got the reward from the government. All the truth came out, the murderer and the fisherman's brother were beheaded, and Cooper's grievances were also reported. However, the government's abuse of torture leads to unfair cases, and it is harmless to kill innocent officials.

In the Qing Dynasty, Liang's "North Garden" also recorded a cruel official. Song, the county magistrate of Xianyou County, Fujian Province, has always claimed to be strict in handling cases. In a village, a rich man named Wang Jiansheng committed adultery with his tenant's wife. Because her husband was in the way, he bribed a fortune teller to tell the tenant that his time at home was unfavorable and he had to travel far to avoid disaster. The tenant believed it, so he borrowed some money from Wang Jiansheng and went to Sichuan to do business. He hasn't come back for three years. The villagers who learned about * * were told that the tenant had been killed by Wang Jiansheng. These rumors reached the ears of the magistrate of a county in the Song Dynasty. In order to gain the right to political discourse, he is determined to solve the case.

A county magistrate in the Song Dynasty visited the village one day and said that there was an evil wind blowing from the wellhead in the village and sent people to dig wells. There really is a male body. Song magistrate thought that the tenant was killed, so he put him and his wife in prison. After torture, they were forced to admit that they had plotted to kill the tenants, and both of them were beheaded. It caters to the villagers' temporary quickness and is called by the villagers? Song Longtu? , comparable to Bao Gong, there are also good artists who put the process of solving the case into a script and perform it along the village.

After a year, the tenant returned to Xianyou County from Sichuan. When he first entered the city, he saw the story staged on the stage. Only then did he know that his wife had died, so he went to the provincial capital to complain. After the trial of judges in various provinces, the confused Song magistrate was finally found guilty. To this end, Xianyou also compiled a slang song:? Talking nonsense about the adulterer killing Benfu, the real dragon plan will become a fake dragon plan. We should be cautious in conveying the information of grazing to the people, and don't expect the official to be clear and courageous. ?

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In fact, the culture of honest officials is just a veil of tenderness. Because honest and upright officials are not necessarily good officials. Liu E thinks:? What's going on in the world is worse than treacherous court official. Six or seven out of ten people are worse than unsophisticated gentlemen. ? Quite insightful.