Chapter 2672: Hiding here and there to find a way
fame, wealth, love and hatred.
That is indeed the case.
After Ma Heng was inspired, he immediately grasped the key point.
?In the Han Dynasty, when there were no cameras or information networks, inspection and detection were undoubtedly very difficult. This was the problem Ma Heng encountered before.
After all, if you want to screen most of the officials, if you follow the old method of tracking and monitoring each official, or searching for official files, then naturally you will need a lot of manpower. However, if you grasp the core points, it will be invisible. This will reduce a lot of personnel.
You don’t need to keep an eye on everyone, just focus on the important points.
This is what Ma Heng was inspired by.
It seems simple to say, but in practice, we are often disturbed by complicated matters and lose our way.
?Ma Heng wore a dark blue Gebu robe and a similarly green crown on his head, with a serious face.
From today on, all personnel will be withdrawn first and a thorough investigation will begin from Chengdu! 』
"To redeploy personnel, we will first investigate three types of officials. First, those who were originally employed before the Lord came to Sichuan and those who have resigned. Second, those who have been involved in related crimes or whose relatives and friends have been punished. Third, Those who have been acting abnormally in recent times...』
“Focus on monitoring trading houses, caravans, silver shops, restaurants, restaurants, and brothels, and investigate the changes in personnel and the entry and exit of officials...especially the caravan going to Jingzhou..."
"Report progress every six hours, and complete the above inventory within three days!" Ma Heng then assigned specific projects to each of his subordinates, and then said in a deep voice, "This is the first battle of the Sichuan-Sichuan Youwen Division!" Never slack off! Merits will be rewarded, and delinquencies will be punished! Go! 』
Everyone in Wensi agreed to the promise and then dispersed one after another.
Anti-corruption and spy investigations are really hard to say.
Because people’s desires are endless, they may be tempted and become other people’s pawns at any time for this or that reason.
But if we really want to fight against corruption and espionage, it is actually very easy.
Because no matter how you do it, it cannot escape the relationship between fame, wealth, love and hatred.
For example, it is corruption. The essence of corruption is the transaction of power and money. It is even easier to keep an eye on power and money. You only need to place some informants among a few large local merchants. You don''t even need an informant. You only need to keep an eye on large and very large amounts. Several transactions in the amount, and then screening them, whether it is spot checks or accounting, as long as you keep an eye on these financial changes, it is easy to know whether anyone has done anything in them.
Of course it sounds simple, but there are practical problems in actual operation, but for Dahan''s current environment, this arrangement is enough.
Soon, Ma Heng had a large number of lists and documents with relevant notes on specific situations.
“Yuan De, formerly Liu Jiyu’s courier, later surrendered to the Hussar, and now serves as the Congcao of Jincheng, Chengdu. He always complains every time he drinks. He boasts of his merits but has not received any rewards…”
?Ma Heng feels that Yuan De is not a spy, but he is very likely to become one. Because most spies have a guilty conscience, unless they have some special purpose, such as when the enemy needs to incite and cause riots, they generally will not publicize their dissatisfaction with rewards and punishments and the unfairness of the system in public.
Yuan De has been making such remarks for a while, and he would say it whenever he was drinking. This can only show that Yuan De does not agree with the hussar, is jealous of the promotion of other officials, and has an overestimation of his own value. Because of his high awareness, Ma Heng felt that such a person should not be a spy, but could easily become a new spy. Perhaps that day when he suddenly stopped complaining and started caring about government affairs, he should be careful.
Ma Heng thought for a moment and said, "Continue to pay attention and check his money transactions." 』
He made a mark and then looked at the next submitted file.
The second file is from an official in Chengdu, Zhang. He can also be considered from Guanghan, because Guanghan County is right next to Chengdu. The Yang family was previously eliminated because of treason, but some Yang''s daughters were not among the ranks of the purges. However, their husbands would inevitably be affected, and then naturally they would not be promoted or even demoted.
This man married Yang''s daughter.
Chaos from beginning to end and abandonment in the end?
No, it''s quite the opposite, because Yang''s daughter was dissatisfied with Zhang Shi''s failure to fulfill her responsibilities as a son-in-law during the Guanghan County incident. Later, she felt that Zhang Shi was incompetent and could not be promoted. In addition, Zhang Shi himself was a softer person. A person with such a personality would almost always make a big fuss and have small quarrels every day, which made Zhang very embarrassed...
?Ma Heng was stunned for a moment. He didn''t know why his subordinates reported this as an anomaly. After thinking about it, he marked it next to it and threw it aside.
?Perhaps the subordinates feel that Yang’s daughter is suspected of becoming a spy?
?Ma Heng shook his head, and then looked at the next file...
Counterespionage and spy investigation are not things that can be concluded in a flash of inspiration, nor are they something that can be guessed by just patting the head and guessing the results. This is based on the analysis of a large amount of data, and then it may not be useful after a lot of it. Among the information, it is generally a process of finding out useful things.
Sometimes this kind of analysis does require keen intuition to find out what is actually useful from seemingly useless information, but keen intuition is an ability and a talent, rather than forcing it to be pieced together. The boring job of searching among complicated information.
?The Wen Department personnel selected by Ma Heng are still very active, but being active does not mean that everything is good.
When Ma Heng focused all his attention on Chengdu, he suddenly discovered that in Chengdu, there were many officials who had this or that problem, and they might become targets of enemy infiltration and become spies. But Ma Heng knew very well that Sichuan and Shu were too big and needed a lot of officials.
Although Ma Heng adopted the method suggested by Ma Liang and narrowed the scope of the search, as his younger brother Ma Liang said, Sichuan and Shu are short of people, even more so than Chang''an. The gap is huge, many. So even if it is known that these people have problems of one kind or another, when the academy fails to cultivate new talents to supplement the demand, it can only use these officials temporarily...
This is a very helpless question, just like if you are in a highly religious and organized public group, even if there are no officials, just say hello, the people will spontaneously form corresponding organizations, and then gather together, leaving small Everyone is dedicated to everyone, but if you are used to looking at money and doing everything for profit, if there are no officials, you can sell everything you can in a minute. Believe it or not? Even the officials responsible for management will go out to do business.
Therefore, the most troublesome thing now is that although Ma Heng has collected a large number of relevant questions about these officials, he cannot connect these officials with the Nanzhong labor incident or spies.
?It is obviously impossible to catch them all, and there is no certainty of catching a few.
As for such a large-scale verification, although Ma Heng has ordered it to be kept as secret as possible, in fact...
After three days, the effect of the surprise inspection will be basically zero. If the officials in question cannot be found by then, they will most likely alert the snake and then retreat into the hole. It will be troublesome to find them again in the future. .
?Time is tight and the task is heavy, Ma Heng feels like Alexander.
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Among the official houses in Chengdu.
Zhang Shi was complaining in a low voice to Zhang You.
"Before I married her, I heard she was very virtuous..." Zhang Shi sighed and said listlessly, "I didn''t expect it to be like this now..."
Zhang Ye had a cut on his face. He said he was accidentally scratched by a cat, but in fact everyone knew that he was scratched by his wife. When he spoke, the wound was involved and it hurt a little, so he quickly stopped talking and just sighed.
Zhang You glanced at Zhang Shi, and then said softly: "Brother Ziping, why don''t you take a rest first?" I will help you make these documents. If you have any questions, I will call you. 』
There are small partitions inside the study room, and each partition is blocked by a screen. Generally, if you don’t go around the screen, you can’t see what’s inside.
Zhang was a little hesitant.
Zhang You said softly: "Brother Ziping, this document cannot be wrong... You are not in good spirits, if you write something wrong..."
Zhang Shi sighed again and put down his pen, "Sorry to trouble you, dear brother, I will rest for a while, just a moment..."
What Zhang You said is right. Although it is not a good thing to be lazy and mess around in an official house, Zhang was so noisy at home that he could not take a good rest. Although he said that he was holding on at the moment, but if something happened If there is any problem, such as lack of concentration and writing incorrectly, it will be really more troublesome.
"Don''t worry..." Zhang You said, "There has been nothing major in the past two days..." During this period, there has indeed been no major incident in Sichuan and Shu.
Because the matter of hard labor in Nanzhong was limited to a small area by Xu Shu and Xu Huang, and even if the news spread, not many people would care about the hard labor, whether it was alive, sick or dead. Already…
So if Zhang was lazy for a while and Zhang You was covering up, there would be no problem.
After all, most of the work of a scribe is basically copying, sorting, and archiving, which are all written matters.
Zhang Shi lay on the desk and soon fell asleep.
?Zhang You lowered his head while copying, listening to Zhang Shi''s heavy breathing. When it calmed down a little, he reached out and took out some documents from Zhang Shi''s desk and looked through them.
?Jiangdong needs the military defense plan of Sichuan and Shu.
For this defense map, Jiangdong was willing to pay a large price.
Even before the horoscope has been written, I am willing to pay part of it in advance.
?Zhang You is not responsible for military affairs, let alone the dispatch of soldiers, but he feels that he can still get relevant information.
Because everyone needs to eat, and soldiers also need to eat.
?So as long as Zhang You grasps the core points and writes down all the money and food arrangements, he can slowly infer that there are soldiers stationed there for a long time, and have a general estimate of the number.
Among Sichuan and Sichuan, there are fertile fields near Chengdu, but after leaving the Chengdu Plain, there are very few cultivated fields in the Badong area of ??Bajun. Therefore, if a large number of soldiers are stationed, a large amount of grain and grass must be mobilized and transported from Chengdu.
This is the delicate work of ants moving bricks, and it needs to be pieced together bit by bit, so Zhang You is happy to help Zhang Shi do the work. He can even put down his own affairs first and check whether there is any writing that Zhang Shi is responsible for. relevant information.
Zhang You pushed the desk away. He was memorizing half of the documents. Then he pulled out a piece of paper from underneath. He looked up at Zhang Ye who was sleeping and began to transfer the grain that he felt was important. The information is recorded.
Since ancient times, China has said that it has had archiving habits, and indeed it has, but it has not.
The earliest archives should be oracle bone archives, which use oracle bones as the original record carrier. These oracle bones were mainly used in divination activities in the Shang Dynasty. They basically recorded some sacrificial activities to pray to the gods and seek answers, and then they were preserved.
As for why these tortoise shells are preserved, perhaps it is to prove to ordinary people in the tribe that a certain activity has been blessed by God, or to strengthen some control over authority...
The laws that were subsequently made using tripods and the codes carved in stone may also be regarded as a kind of archives.
As for the use of silk and high-end brocade as the carrier of some documents and maps, they existed during the Warring States Period. Until the Han Dynasty, important documents, maps, and so on were all made of brocade and silk, and of course bamboo and wood.
It’s just that these files are relatively scattered and unsystematic.
??The earliest talent files were created by the Qin State, and they were for military merit. Everyone knew clearly what battles each person had fought, how many heads he had captured, and what promotions he had received. Therefore, everyone in the Qin State was happy to hear the battle in order to upgrade everyone online.
The Han Dynasty had the Chaju system. In the process of implementing the Chaju system, the government formed recommendation letters that recorded personal virtues, merits, property, etc. in order to understand the relevant circumstances of selecting candidates. The assessment, investigation, reward and punishment materials formed during the examination of serving officials are all consciously preserved and used as the basis and voucher for future examinations. This is the recommendation file.
But these simple files are still not enough.
If the Hussars generals want to carry out talent assessment and local performance evaluation, they will definitely need a large number of archives as support, and the original records in the Han Dynasty''s running account model are obviously not enough.
What orders each official issued, what matters were done, how much manpower and material resources were used, etc., what gains were achieved, etc., must be recorded to form documents that can be compared with each other. Generally speaking, localities conduct verifications once a year, and then counties conduct verifications once every three years. Archives stored are not written off until they have been stored for more than fifteen years.
So under the Hussars, there were more files, and more assistants were naturally needed...
?After a while, Zhang Shi seemed not to know what he was dreaming about. He shook his head and raised his head, which also startled Zhang Shi.
“Ahem...Brother Ziping...” Zhang You carefully pressed the piece of paper he was copying under the rest of the text and said softly, “But it’s better? 』
"Ah...ah, it''s better...it''s better..." Zhang didn''t dare to say that he dreamed of being beaten and scolded by his mother-in-law again. He just forced a smile, then sat upright, sorted out the desk documents, and prepared to continue working. .
"These documents have all been copied by me..." Zhang You handed over the transcripts of several documents that he had prepared a long time ago, "This will save you some trouble..."
Thank you, thank you very much! Zhang Shi quickly took it and said, "After this month''s salary is paid, I''ll treat you to a drink!" 』
?Zhang You smiled and said nothing. Then when Zhang was not paying attention, he folded the piece of paper he was copying and stuffed it into his sleeve...
…(;￢＿￢)…
?Ma Heng returned home a little tired.
Ma Heng did not expect that there would be so many officials with problems or doubts.
Does this mean that his men are too powerful?
Or does it mean that there are still big problems in Sichuan and Sichuan?
What’s even more troublesome is that Ma Heng didn’t find any strong clues.
?Those officials listed can at best prove that they have grievances, or are dissatisfied with Hussar or Xu Shu. They are still far from being called spies.
At the end of the day, it cannot be said that there was no gain at all, but the results Ma Heng wanted were not achieved.
It is impossible to suppress the Nanzhong labor force incident for too long. It is best to find the relevant personnel before the information is spread. Otherwise, after the news is spread, the water will be muddy and it will be unclear where the fish and shrimps are. .
Ma Liang came, looked at Ma Heng''s expression, and then sat down, "Brother, something is still not going well?" 』
Ma Heng glanced at Ma Liang, waved his hand and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Ma Liang, "Brother, if something happens, please don''t reveal it. You don''t have to say it, but please don''t treat me like a child and dismiss it..."
‘…’ Ma Heng was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, ‘Fourth brother, I’m sorry…’
?In Ma Heng’s impression, Ma Liang is still the little kid he was back then, but in fact, Ma Liang has indeed grown up and is no longer a toddler dragging his nose and naked **** around.
?After pondering for a moment, Ma Heng decided to pick up something he could talk about, then concealed the names and affairs, and told Ma Liang.
Because Ma Liang did provide Ma Heng with some ideas yesterday, and they did have some effect.
Ma Liang thought for a moment, "Although I don''t know what you are doing, second brother, but it sounds like you are looking for something..."
"Well... that''s about it..." Ma Heng nodded and said, "What do you think is the best way to find something that''s been hidden..."
“Asking the person who lost the thing to look for it is actually ineffective, time-consuming and troublesome,” Ma Liang said without thinking, “We should let the person who hid the thing look for it...”
『A person who hides things? Ma Heng said, and then started thinking.
Ma Liang nodded and said: "Yes, the place is so big. If something is small and hidden anywhere, no matter how many people there are, it may not be able to find it. But the person who hides the thing must know where it is hidden. Just find a way to let him find it." That’s it! 』
?Ma Heng touched his chin, "That makes sense, but how can we get the person hiding the thing to find it?" Pretend to have lost it... No, no, people who hide things do it just to avoid being discovered... Oh, I understand, let me think about it..."
(End of this chapter)