Chapter 92 Chapter 92 The Practical Value of "Fierce"

In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a yellow cover.Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai, one was willing to fight, the other was willing to suffer.This Huang Gai tricked Cao Cao with a bitter trick, set fire to the sky, and defeated Cao Cao in Chibi.However, there was an incident in Huang Gai's early years that was not mentioned in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There is a stone city in Soochow. The officials in the city are all cunning and treacherous, and it is difficult to manage.Huang Gai was still young at the time, and when he heard of this situation, he said, "Let me go, maybe I can deal with them."

So Huang Gai became the mayor of Shicheng. After he took office, he called all the staff members to a meeting and said: "I am not very capable and do not understand administrative affairs. I just came here. In the future, please take care of the official documents in Shicheng. My job is to supervise the subordinates and correct the mistakes of the subordinates. If someone dares to deceive, although I will not beat you with a whip, but the responsibility and consequences , must be borne by yourselves.” After speaking these words, Huang Gai threw his hands away.The bureaucrats started to work.At the beginning, everyone was a little worried, afraid that Huang Gai would pursue their past affairs, but gradually, everyone began to slack off, and seeing that Huang Gai didn't care at all, knowing that Huang Gai really didn't understand, they began to act like Deceive and deceive as usual, and act recklessly.

Suddenly one day, Huang Gai called another meeting of his staff and said: "I have discovered several illegal things. Two of you are openly deceiving and cheating. I will never allow this." When the two staff members were pulled out, they knelt down in fright and kowtowed to admit their mistakes.Huang Gai said: "I have already said that even if you committed a crime, I will not beat you with a whip, but you will be responsible for the consequences. But I didn't expect that you don't care at all, so I have nothing to do. Come on, Let me kill these two staff members who blatantly lied to their superiors."

In the blink of an eye, the heads of two staff members were chopped off, and the rest of them were terrified. Huang Gai is a military general, and military generals handle government affairs, which is the most troublesome headache.Therefore, it is quite in line with his personal style that he uses military law to govern his bureaucrats.And Huang Gai's performance here is just one word: fierce!However, if he is not fierce, the final result must be the complete corruption of the local political style.In this way, the death of those two people was not wronged at all. During the Jingkang period of the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the invasion of the Jin army, the Central Plains were in chaos. At this time, the veteran Zong Ze was appointed as the governor of Kaifeng. When he first arrived in Kaifeng, he found that the prices of all food and goods had increased tenfold. The people complained, but there was nothing they could do. .

So Zongze considered solving the problem of rising prices. He secretly sent people to the market to buy rice and noodles. When he came back, he estimated the price of each portion and found that the price of rice noodles hadn't risen much.Then he asked the chef to cook the rice and noodles, and compared it with the food in the market, he found that the price of the food had risen significantly. So Zongze ordered someone to arrest a pastry owner and asked him, "Why are the prices of the food you sell so high?" The pastry owner replied, "This is because the prices of rice and noodles have skyrocketed. It's over, now is the troubled times, the price is higher in the troubled times, this is a reasonable thing. What's more, all the cakes are sold at the same price, I can't lower the price alone to disrupt the market."

So Zongze ordered someone to bring the rice and noodles, and said to the pastry owner: "You said the price of rice and noodles has risen too high. Is the price of sending people to buy at random on the street even higher? The current situation is like this. The cost of rice and noodles has not increased much, but you have only increased the price of pastries. This is a typical profiteering behavior, so I can’t forgive you. about you." So Zong Ze ordered that the unlucky baker be executed.On that day, the price of food in Kaifeng Mansion quickly dropped back to the original level.

Zong Ze's beheading of the pastry boss was the most obvious manipulation of power, and there was no fairness at all.If the price of pastries has increased, they should be killed, then all pastry bosses in Kaifeng City should be killed.If it is true that the pastry boss deserves to die, then Zongze's killing him is just to make an example of others.However, things like power are about unfairness. If we really talk about fairness, I am afraid that the price of goods in Kaifeng City will never come down.After all, Zong Ze was the leader of the army, and he solved the big troubles of the people's livelihood with the head of the innocent pastry boss.

However, if the officials are not fierce, terrible things will also happen.For example, during the Ming Dynasty, when Zhao Tong of the Hu Mansion went to the county to collect taxes, the people in the city did not want to pay the rent, so they deliberately spread rumors, saying: "The surname Zhao brought three thousand taels of silver from the treasury, which was specially used to help beggars. Hurry up and go to the county government to get the money." Rumors spread quickly, and in a short time, hundreds of beggars groaned strangely and surrounded the county government.Seeing so many people coming outside, Zhao Tongpan didn't know what was going on, so he asked what they were doing through the door. The beggars outside shouted for money, while the tenants shouted not to pay rent.Zhao Tongpan also wanted to reason with the people outside, saying that the tax had to be paid, but it aroused the anger of the villagers and beggars outside, and beat the gate of the government office heavily, scaring Zhao Tongpan's face pale.

Afraid of these people rushing in, Zhao Tongpan had no choice but to agree to the request of the outsiders, wrote a notice exempting the local tax and posted it.But the beggars became more lively, Zhao Tong was helpless, and moved out all the two hundred bean cakes from the government office's warehouse. As soon as they were transported to the door, they were looted by everyone.The person in front ran away with the bean cakes in his arms, but the people behind did not get the bean cakes, and became even more angry. The roar shook the world, and finally smashed the gate of the mansion, and rushed in. Zhao Tongjuan fled by jumping over the back wall. The villagers smashed it up.

After this incident, the local villagers tasted the sweetness and became even more arrogant. No matter what policies the government had, they opposed them all, and corrected the crowd to drive away the government officials and smash the yamen.The incident became more and more troublesome, and finally the officers and soldiers were forced to mobilize, killing the local people in blood, leaving ten rooms empty, and the local folk customs gradually returned to their previous appearance. When the civil unrest in Hufu City was caused by the lack of thunderous means at the beginning, the government blindly tolerated and retreated, which eventually led to the gentle people, who became arrogant and indulgent, and finally became mobs, completely losing their peaceful nature .If the government had used fierceness against fierceness at the beginning to eradicate the people's sense of fierceness, the local people would definitely not have suffered such a catastrophe.

Therefore, fierceness is not an end, but an effective management method.The reason why it was fierce at the beginning was to prevent the great violence after the management got out of control.If evil is regarded as the goal, then it will be reduced to tyranny, and it will lose people's hearts. At that time, it will be too late to repent.