"Have you figured it out?"
Fan Zhongyan asked.
"If you want to break this bureaucracy, you must kill people. You must have the power to kill!"
Zhao Jun recalled the indifferent expressions he had seen in the outer city these days and the hateful face of the human trafficker.
"What about the second one?"
Fan Zhongyan asked.
So this is what theory and practice are. I only read about it in books before, but only when I actually saw it did I understand it.
"Killing people is probably difficult. Let alone killing them, even trying to silence them is difficult."
The reason for all this is not that the common people do not work hard to farm and earn money to support themselves, but that their efforts are taken away by those above them, leaving them with nothing.
He suddenly thought of "Marxist Philosophy" and "Selected Works" again.
"To solve a case, this man captured an innocent beggar, chopped off his fingers in public, and forced him to confess. To seize a family's ancestral painting, he fabricated charges, imprisoned them, and then ordered the yamen runners to beat them to death. He also had the people of Wuyou Cave capture some fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls for his sexual pleasure. Do you know what the government did after I impeached him?"
Zhao Jun was shocked by the man's crime and wanted to know how Zhao Zhen would respond, so he quickly asked, "How did he do it?"
Fan Zhongyan said self-deprecatingly, "There was a prosecutor in Kaifeng Prefecture whose crimes were so severe that even beheading would not be excessive. Do you know what he did?"
"What did you do?"
"He was demoted to a county magistrate in another place, and soon he was transferred to another place and became a prefect."
Fan Zhongyan smiled and said, "Examples like this are everywhere in the Song Dynasty. The emperor has actually tried to change things, but every time he does, everyone is in danger. The original punishment of Xia Shouen sparked widespread opposition from both the government and the public. In the end, with conclusive evidence, they reluctantly dismissed him from office and exiled him, but that was all. And that was because Xia Shouen wasn't a member of the imperial examination system. If he had been a Jinshi, I'm afraid nothing would have happened."
At that moment, Zhao Jun felt only a surge of anger and a deep sense of powerlessness. He leaned back in his chair, raised his head and looked at the ceiling with his eyes blank, saying: "Song Dynasty is like this, it is better to destroy it and start over!"
(End of this chapter)
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