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Chapter 257: Empire (20)


Ten days later.

The secret guards sent out by Cao Chong basically returned.

Soon, the palace was lively again.

And Cao Chong's anger, he didn't deliberately hide it, in fact, in the morning of the past few days, Cao Chong began to be angry.

In order to send a signal to these courtiers, I, Cao Chong, will now start punishing these unfavorable people, so you should be mentally prepared.

In the main hall of the Imperial Palace.

The dark yellow bamboo slips are piled up, and after a busy day, these bamboo slips are divided into five piles.

Among the five piles of bamboo slips, there is a pile of bamboo slips that are many, and the other four piles of bamboo slips together are not as much as this pile of bamboo slips.

The most of these bamboo slips are the people who Cao Chong does not punish, and these people are the ones who diligently complete the road repair work arranged by Cao Chong for him.

Among them, the least is the construction of 50,000 meters of roads. 50,000 meters is definitely not a long time for a county, and according to the construction speed of a construction team in later generations, 10,000 meters will not take a month for them.

Of course, considering that later generations will be mechanized production, it may be faster.

But in this era, the government deployed, and the roads built in a county were not as good as a construction team You have at least tens of thousands of people in a county, which is not as good as 100 people In fact, Cao Chong wanted to take all the roads that were less than 80,000 meters over to punish one or two, but if he really did this, this pile would not be the most among the five piles.

It is much smaller than the largest pile, but it is the most numerous of the other four, because these are too many to build the road, but the repair is too short.

Even if they are not corrupt, in Cao Chong's opinion, these people have to be punished.

Not only do you have to punish, but you have to punish it heavily Inaction is a crime in Cao Chong's heart.

You want to go down in history OK Do the work for me Give me thy house more prosperous than it used to be, and a greater population than before, more land to cultivate than before, and more taxes to be paid every year than before.

As long as you meet the above three points, no matter how much the Imperial Observatory impeaches you, I will protect you with all my might.

But these people are not.

The reputation of these people is not bad, and some of them are famous Confucians in the Wei State.

But these Confucians actually think that building roads and connecting the county with other places is a waste of money for the people Don't they know that after the road is built, not only will the central government have better control over the localities, but the localities will also develop better?

If you want to build roads first, don't these Confucians know yet?

Or, their reputation is just vain, and the reason why they don't want to build roads is to make it more difficult for the people in the center to get to them, and then they can be a soil emperor with peace of mind Cao Chong didn't mind maliciously guessing their psychology.

As for the other three piles, one pile is the bamboo slips that Cao Chong, an official released by the clan, will be punished, and the other is the only remaining children of the Wei family.

As for the last pile, there is too much corruption and little background.

The rice should be eaten one bite at a time, and the persimmons should also be picked up and pinched softly.

He was going to do it to the people inside the last pile of bamboo slips today.

And this is Cao Chong's first step.

After punishing these people, Cao Chong can be regarded as an example of killing chickens and monkeys, if the other children of the clan family still have a fluke mentality, or directly regard their own words as a deaf ear, Cao Chong does not mind attacking them.

Clansmen, families As long as the law is broken, it will be punished At this point, it was useless for them to go to Cao Cao's side to complain.

"Wen Zhi."

Cao Chong called Zhou Budo lightly, and the latter nodded lightly and asked, "What did His Highness call me for?"

Cao Chong's face was gloomy, but he still had some smiles on his face when he looked at Zhou Budo.

"Dismiss all the people in the bamboo slip at the back and exile them to the land of Liaodong."

Although Liaodong was pacified at this time, there were still many ethnic minorities, and those ethnic minorities went crazy, but it doesn't matter who you are.

It just so happens that the land of eastern Liaodong is not developed, and the three eastern provinces have not yet been developed at this time As one of the granaries of later generations, if the Northeast can be developed, it will definitely be good news for Wei.

To the west, Cao Chong's gaze extends to the English Channel, and to the north, it is the northeast.

As for the farther place, Cao Chong hadn't thought about it yet.

Siberia was strikingly cold at this time.

With the warmth measures of this world, there will be no development over there.

As for oil, there is no technology to use it yet, even if Cao Chong knows that there is oil in some places, he can't exploit it without technology, and even if it is extracted, he can't use it.

Zhou Budo's brows furrowed slightly.

"Your Highness, although these people are greedy for ink and money, but they are exiled to Liaodong, this punishment is a bit heavier" It's heavy Cao Chong was stunned for a moment, and then knew that he had entered a misunderstanding.

The earliest code of law on corruption in ancient China was the Book of Law during the Warring States Period, in which there were six prohibitions on miscellaneous laws.

The "six prohibitions" are: prohibitions, cunning bans, city bans, hip bans, prison bans, and gold bans.

Prohibition: On the fight against bigamy, adultery and other crimes.

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Cunning: On cracking down on crimes that endanger the state.

City ban: On cracking down on the crime of entering and leaving the city illegally.

Hee Ban: About cracking down on gambling and other crimes.

Ban: On cracking down on criminal acts such as "group living".

Gold ban: On cracking down on crimes such as bribery of officials.

The miscellaneous law said: "The prime minister receives gold, and the left and right are punished, and the rhino head is below the gold, and the gold is punished from the eridium, and the punishment is not punished."

Although the Western Han Dynasty also had relevant legal codes, what was really disposed of was done in accordance with the ruler's own will, and there was no specific charter.

The people Cao Chong wanted to punish, of course, the amount of money they embezzled exceeded one eridium gold, but this was not receiving money, this was corruption.

"They are corrupt and pervert the law, it's a good thing that they didn't want their lives, and they should laugh out loud if they were exiled to Liaodong."

Zhou Budo's mouth opened, and the last words were stubbornly held back.

"Then the minister will do it."

It is conceivable that if these dozen or so Taishou are exiled together, it will definitely set off a lot of waves in the court.

Although these people have no background, they are not simple people who can become Taishou, and at least they have connections.

It seems that tomorrow's early dynasty has its own suffering.

But Cao Chong wanted to know who dared to intercede for them.

Cao Chong has more people to punish in his hands, if the first step is to encounter obstacles, then Cao Chong is not standing up, but his prestige is trampled on by these ministers, and this is definitely not allowed by Cao Chong.

Fortunately, he did not face these ministers and clansmen alone.

There is also Boss Cao behind him.

From some points of view, as long as he didn't disappoint Cao Cao, he could toss whatever he wanted while Boss Cao was alive.

The sky fell, and there were tall men on top of it.

From this point of view, Cao Chong really needs Boss Cao to live for a few more years.

Although the weight of his imperial palace in the court is getting heavier and heavier, they are all young people after all.

And it is never the young people who hold the power in society, but the middle-aged.

Step by step, take control of the country first, and then talk about changing the country Cao Chong looked at his body, which was still growing recently, and knew that he still had a long way to go: