Chapter 149 The maladministration and serious illness will cease from now on

Cao Cao gave an order, and the two hundred strong men took their positions.They smashed and demolished a new shrine that had just been built and this person was still alive in an instant.Before the unlucky shrine master could enjoy a year of incense, the portrait was overturned and turned into muddy waste. He only donated money to build a pontoon bridge, and the government took the opportunity to collect money and build a temple. Cao Cao studied the details of the temple owner: Zhang Qian had a strong background, his adoptive father is a prominent figure today, the emperor's father, Zhao Zhong's "husband", and the head of the twelve permanent servants - Zhang Rang.

People in the world are wondering why Cao Cao fired at the eunuch's family and started a rebellion in the den?actually not.It is because the eunuch has too many family members and followers.They are like nails on a wooden boat, nailed all over the dilapidated ship of the Eastern Han Empire. Cao Cao was really stunned to choose such a shrine master to make a head shot. He didn't seem to have thought about the impact of doing so, and what harm it would do to him. In Cao Cao's words: I don't care who you are, the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people.To capture the thief and capture the king, to attack the chief villain, what is needed is the deterrent effect!

Cao Cao went all out, and the rich and powerful in Jinan would never show mercy.He believed that what Qian Shan said was not just to intimidate him. Being falsely accused by Dunqiu Haoqiang, Cao Cao has experience this time.Knowing that the dignitaries were going to send letters to the capital to report, they even sent guards to intercept the servants of the dignitaries from going to the capital to report the news, buying time for destroying temples and punishing evildoers. The streets and alleys in Jinan were instantly turned into construction sites, and destroyed temples were everywhere.The demolition of the temple encountered almost no obstacles, and Cao Cao stepped up to eradicate many other serious illnesses and bad policies.

Cao Cao summed up the disadvantages of Jinan as follows: private salt is prevalent; iron smelting of national strategic reserves is in the hands of tyrants; farmers pay water benefits every year, the Yellow River floods every year and no one cares about it, rivers are silted up, and irrigation is not smooth, leading to agricultural drought and floods intensified ;The tax issued by the state, Jinan state officials colluded, collected several times more, harmed the country and the people; the farmland was withered, pests, wind and snow disasters were frequent, the agricultural supervisors did not care about the poor and weak, and blindly harmed people and enriched themselves; merchants can buy two thousand shi The official clothes are worn, the singers are kept privately, and the instruments of ritual and music are used privately by leaps and bounds; The lesser "false five baht", such a heinous crime, the court will not avoid them, and the people's grievances cannot be appeased!It will lead to the resurgence of thieves, the destruction of the homes of the people, and the disaster of the country!

Cao Cao immediately wrote to Liu Tai, requesting the dismissal of the following eight people, and the list of those who were dismissed: the director of salt industry (Fu De), the director of agriculture (Qiu Lian), the director of forestry (Huang Chong), the director of handicraft industry (Tong Yan), the director of water conservancy (Li Hui), Public Security Supervisor (Ning Ye), Taxation Supervisor (Jinsi), and Household Registration Supervisor (Zhang Qiu).Among them, Qian Shan, the director of the metallurgy industry, resigned, or else he was also included in the memorial. When Liu Tai received Cao Cao's list of exemptions, it was difficult to deal with.Among them, Qiu Lian and Tong Yan are related to him, and Li Hui and Ning Ye get along well.The others didn't have to turn a few corners to find heavyweights to intercede.

Liu Tai's pretext of being ill is useless, Qiu Lian and Tong Yan have already broken into Liu Tai's bedroom.Liu Tai simply took off the cloth towel on his forehead and sat up to welcome the guests. The two asked Liu Tai why he let Cao Cao mess around. Liu Tai said a lot of reasons, and finally had to play his hole card. Cao Cao was sent by the emperor, that is, the emperor's minions.What can he do as a vassal monarch, maybe even his fief and title will be confiscated. Qiu Lian and Tong Yan belonged to big families in Jinan, and they were able to climb up to Liu Tai as relatives, and they were also quite related in the court.Seeing that Liu Tai's road was blocked, they made an appointment to find another way.

The work to bring down Cao Cao is urgent. The temple demolition troops commanded by Cao Cao worked day and night, demolishing more than 200 large and small temples in just ten days.The dignitaries convened the clansmen and the people to kneel down to petition, asking to leave the temple of the living person, and to sacrifice to him after his death. Cao Cao tore down a statue of a living person in public, and ordered the people not to worship living ghosts and gods, let alone go to these so-called temples to worship.It also issued a notice that anyone who builds a temple in the future will not be allowed to collect money from crowds, and those who violate it will be beheaded!

The ancestral temple was destroyed. Seeing that Cao Cao dared to offend ghosts and gods, did the rich and powerful in Jinan still regard them as living beings?Quickly organize family members to smuggle money and flee to other counties. In view of this situation, Cao Cao sent special personnel to guard the pass.Let people pass to other countries, and all property will be detained after registration.After it is found out that the owner of the property has not committed crimes such as embezzlement and breaking the law, the temporarily detained property can be returned intact. Cao Cao didn't kill people this time, just like his father said, he wanted him to know how to respect life.But Cao Cao's moves were so terrific that the rich were almost desperate, but there was nothing they could do.They knew that Cao Cao would never give up after doing this.If Cao Cao followed the vine, who would not have corrupted the law?Except for the dozen or so families who escaped earlier, none of the later wealthy households could escape, let alone their belongings, but they couldn’t sit still and wait for death either!

Rich households took the initiative to gather, and violent incidents such as attacking checkpoints and beating servants occurred. There are more than 600 ancestral temples. After one and a half months, all the family temples built by clans were preserved, and most of the other living temples were destroyed. Only a dozen historical records and evidence-based ones remained.And several ancestral temples were left in the southeast and northwest respectively for running schools. Since then, the state of Jinan, as Cao Cao said in "Rang County Self-Ming Ben Zhi Ling", "so he exempted eight of them; prostitution sacrifices were banned, traitors fled, and the county borders were awe-inspiring."

Just like Qiao Xuan's own experience, wherever Cao Cao goes, what he cares most about is education.Education can make people confident and strong, and education can remove confusion and humbleness from their eyes.In the years to come, what is far more important than the national unification plan is the education of the people.What he cares about is not only the fate of the empire, but also the future of the nation. Cao Cao sent special personnel to organize people in Jinan to send their children to schools, but there were very few students at first.Cao Cao resorted to tricks, and the school provided two meals for free. For a while, the schools in Jinan were overcrowded, and twelve schools had to be opened temporarily and urgently.

Where does the capital to supply meals come from?