Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2672 Hiding and looking for a way

  Fame and fortune.

   Indeed.

  After Ma Heng got the inspiration, he immediately grasped the key point.

  In the Han Dynasty without cameras and information network, inspection and detection was undoubtedly a very difficult thing. This is the problem that Ma Heng encountered before.

After all, if you want to screen most of the officials, if you track and monitor every official according to the old method, or search for written files, then naturally you need a lot of manpower, but if you grasp the core points, you will be invisible. A lot of people will be reduced.

   You don’t need to stare at everyone, just the important points.

   This is the inspiration Ma Heng got.

   It seems simple to say, but in practice, it is often disturbed by complicated affairs, and then loses its way.

  Ma Heng wore a dark blue Gebu robe and a blue crown on his head, with a serious face.

  『From today onwards, all personnel will be brought back first, and a thorough investigation will start from Chengdu! 』

"Personnel re-deployment, first check three types of officials, first, those who were in office before the Lord came to Sichuan and those who left the official, second, those who were involved in related crimes, or relatives and friends were punished, third, Behaving abnormally these days...」

  『Focus on monitoring commercial banks, caravans, silver shops, restaurants, restaurants, and brothels, investigating the changes in personnel, and the entry and exit of officials...especially the situation of caravans heading to Jingzhou...』

  『Report the progress every six hours, and complete the above inventory within three days! ”Ma Heng assigned several of his subordinates specific projects to be responsible for, and then said in a deep voice, “This is the first battle of the Chuanshu Youwen Division! Never slack off! Those who have made great achievements will be rewarded, and those who have done wrong will be punished! go! 』

  Everyone in the Youwen Division agreed to the promise, and then dispersed one after another.

  Anti-corruption and spying are really hard to say.

  Because people's desires are endless, they may be tempted and become others' pawns at any time for this or that reason.

  But it is actually very easy to fight corruption and spy.

  Because no matter what you do, you cannot get rid of the relationship between fame, fortune, love and hatred.

   For example, corruption. The essence of corruption is the transaction of power and money, so it is even easier to keep an eye on power and money. You only need to install some eyeliner among a few large local merchants, and you don’t even need eyeliner. You only need to keep an eye on large and super large Whether it is spot checks or accounting, as long as you keep an eye on these financial changes, it is easy to know whether someone has tampered with them.

  Of course it sounds simple, but there are still practical problems in actual operation, but for the current environment of Dahan, this arrangement is enough.

   Soon, Ma Heng collected a large number of lists and documents related to the specific situation.

  『Yuan De, formerly a member of Liu Jiyu, later served under the hussars, and now he is the Cao Cao of Chengdu Jincheng. Every time he drinks, he always complains.

  Ma Heng thinks that Yuan De should not be a spy, but it is very likely that he will become a spy. Because most spies are guilty of thieves, unless there is a special purpose, such as when the enemy needs incitement and riots, they will generally not publicize their dissatisfaction with rewards and punishments and the injustice of the system in public.

And Yuan De has been making such remarks for a while, and he must say it every time he drinks. This can only show that Yuan De does not agree with hussars, is jealous of the promotion of other officials, and has overestimated his own value. High cognition, so Ma Heng thinks that such a person should not be a spy, but he can easily become a new spy. Maybe that day when he suddenly stops complaining and starts to care about government affairs, he should be careful.

  Ma Heng thought for a while, "Continue to pay attention and check his money. 』

  He made a mark, and then looked at the next submitted file.

  The second file is an official in Chengdu, Zhang Yes, he is also considered to be from Guanghan, because Guanghan County is on the edge of Chengdu. Previously, the Yang family was purged because it was involved in treason, but some Yang's daughters were not included in this purging list, but their husbands would inevitably be affected, and naturally they would not be promoted or even demoted.

   This person married Yang's daughter.

  Chaos and abandonment?

No no, on the contrary, because Yang's daughter was dissatisfied that Zhang Shi failed to fulfill the responsibility of a son-in-law during the Guanghan County incident, and then felt that Zhang Shi was incompetent and could not be promoted, and Zhang Shi himself was a bit softer. A person with a unique personality, almost makes a lot of troubles, and there are small quarrels every day, which makes Zhang Shi very embarrassed...

  Ma Heng froze for a moment. He didn't know why his subordinates reported this as an abnormality, and after thinking about it, he marked it aside and threw it aside.

  Perhaps the subordinates think that Yang's daughter is suspected of being a spy?

  Ma Heng shook his head, then looked at the next file...

Anti-espionage and spies investigation are not things that can be drawn to a conclusion in a flash of inspiration, let alone guessing the result by slapping your head. This is an analysis based on a large amount of data, and then it may be useless in a large amount Among the information, it is generally the process of finding useful things by peeling off cocoons.

Sometimes this kind of analysis does require keen intuition, to find out useful things from seemingly useless intelligence, but keen intuition is a kind of ability, a kind of talent, rather than forcing it together, it is more in the The boring work of finding in complicated information.

  The news department personnel selected by Ma Heng are still very active, but being active does not mean that everything is fine.

When Ma Heng focused all his attention on Chengdu, he suddenly discovered that in fact, in Chengdu, many officials have this or that problem, and they may become targets of enemy infiltration, become spies, But Ma Heng knew very well in his heart 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 Sichuan are short of people, even more so than Chang'an. The gap is huge and 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, these officials can only be used temporarily...

This is a very helpless question, just like if there is a highly religious and organized public group, even if there are no officials, the people will spontaneously form corresponding organizations, and then gather together, leaving small The family contributes to everyone, but if you are used to looking at money, everything is for profit. If there are no officials, you can sell everything that can be sold in minutes. Believe it or not? Even the officials in charge of management will end up doing business themselves.

   Therefore, the most troublesome thing now is that although Ma Heng has collected a large number of related questions about these officials, he cannot link these officials with the Nanzhong labor service incident or spies.

   It is obviously impossible to catch all of them, and it is not sure to catch a few.

   As for such a large-scale inspection, although Ma Heng has ordered to keep it as secret as possible, in fact...

Three days later, the effect of the raid and verification will be basically zero. If the official with the problem cannot be found by then, he will probably scare the snake, and then retreat into the hole. If he wants to find it again in the future, it will be troublesome. up.

   Time is tight and tasks are heavy, Ma Heng feels Alexander.

  …(▽)/…

  In the official residence of Chengdu.

   Zhang is complaining to Zhang Xi in a low voice.

  『Before I married her, I heard that she was very virtuous... 』 Zhang Shi sighed, and said listlessly, 『I didn’t expect it to become like this now...』

   Zhang Shi had a **** on his face. He said that he was accidentally caught by a cat, but everyone knew that he was caught by his wife. When he spoke, the wound was involved, and it hurt a little, so he stopped talking quickly, and just sighed lowly.

  Zhang Ye glanced at Zhang Shi, and then said softly, "Brother Ziping, why don't you take a rest first?" I will help you with these documents, and I will call you if there is any problem. 』

  There are small partitions in the Shuzuo room, and each partition is blocked by a screen. Generally, if you don’t go around the screen, you can’t see what’s going on inside.

  Zhang is a little hesitant.

  Zhang Ye said softly: "Brother Ziping, this document cannot be wrong... You are not in good spirits, if you make a mistake..."

  Zhang Shi sighed again, put down his pen, "I'm sorry to trouble you, brother, I'll take a short rest, just a short while..."

What Zhang Ye said is correct, although it is not a good thing to be lazy, take a rest, fish and mess around in the officialdom, but Zhang is so noisy at home that he can't take a good rest. If there is any problem, such as lack of concentration and wrong writing, it will be more troublesome.

   "Don't worry..." Zhang Ye said, "It's nothing serious these two days..."

  During this period of time, there were really no major events in Sichuan and Sichuan.

Because the matter of forced 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 what labor is like, whether it is alive, sick or dead Already...

  So Zhang was lazy for a while, and Zhang Xi covered it up, so there is no problem.

   After all, most of the work of the secretary is basically copying, sorting, and filing, all of which are written matters.

  Zhang lay on the table and soon fell into a deep sleep.

  Zhang He lowered his head and copied, listening to Zhang Shi's heavy breathing, and when he calmed down, he reached out and took some documents from Zhang Shi's desk, and flipped through them.

  Jiangdong needs the defense map of Sichuan and Shu.

  For this deployment map, Jiang Dong is willing to pay a large price.

  Even when the horoscope has not been written, I am willing to pay part of it first.

  Zhang Ye is not in charge of military affairs, let alone the dispatch of soldiers, but he feels that he can still get relevant information.

  Because everyone needs to eat, so do soldiers.

  So as long as Zhang Ye grasped the key points and recorded all the money and food dispatches, he could slowly infer that there were soldiers stationed there for a long time, and he had a general estimate of the number.

  Among Sichuan and Shu, the vicinity of Chengdu is fertile land, but after leaving the Chengdu Plain, there is very little cultivated land in the area of ​​Bajun and Badong, so if there are a large number of soldiers stationed, it is necessary to mobilize and transport a large amount of grain and grass from Chengdu.

This is the delicate work of ants moving bricks, and it needs to be pieced together a little bit, so Zhang Ye is very happy to help Zhang Shi with the work, and he can even put down his own affairs first, and first check whether there is anything relevant in the writing that Zhang Shi is responsible for. information.

Zhang Ye pushed away the desk case, he was writing down half of the documents, and then pulled out a piece of paper from the bottom, and looked up at Zhang Yes who was sleeping, and started to transfer the food that he thought was important The information is recorded.

  Since ancient times, China has said that it has archives habits, and it does have them, but it doesn't.

  The earliest archives should be the oracle bone archives with oracle bones as the original record carrier. These oracle bones, which were mainly used in divination activities in the Shang Dynasty, basically recorded some sacrificial activities of praying to the gods and seeking answers, and then they were preserved.

  As for why these tortoise shells are kept, it may be to prove to ordinary people in the tribe that a certain activity is blessed by heaven, or to strengthen some control over authority...

   Subsequently, the laws made with tripods and the law codes carved with stones may also be regarded as a kind of archives.

   As for the use of silk and high-grade brocade as the carrier of some documents and maps, it existed in the Warring States Period. Until the Han Dynasty, brocade and silk were used as carriers for important documents and maps, and of course bamboo and wood were used as carriers.

   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 exploits. What battles everyone has fought, how many heads they have won, and what promotions they have received, everyone knows clearly, so at that time, everyone in the Qin Kingdom upgraded online for all members, and they were happy when they heard the battle.

  In the Han Dynasty, there was an investigation system. In the process of implementing the inspection system, the government formed a recommendation letter to record personal virtues, achievements, property, etc. in order to understand the relevant conditions of the candidates. The assessment, investigation, reward and punishment materials formed during the examination of serving officials were consciously preserved as the basis and evidence for future examination, which is the recommendation file.

   But these simple files are not enough.

  Hussar generals want to carry out talent assessment and local political performance evaluation, so they will definitely need a lot of files as support, and the records of the original Han Dynasty journal model are obviously not enough.

   What orders each official issued, what he did, how much manpower and material resources he used, what gains he made, etc., must be recorded to form a document that can be compared with each other. Generally speaking, the local government checks once a year, and then the county checks once every three years, and the stored files are written off after more than 15 years.

  So under the hussars, there are more files, and then naturally more books are needed...

   After a while, Zhang Shi didn't seem to know what he had dreamed of, so he trembled and raised his head, which also surprised Zhang Xie.

  "Cough...Brother Ziping..." Zhang Ye said softly while carefully pressing the copied paper under the rest of the text, "But it's better? 』

"Ah... ah, it's better... it's better..." Zhang didn't dare to say that he dreamed that he was beaten and scolded by his mother-in-law again, but he forced a smile, then sat upright, sorted out the desk documents, and was ready to continue working .

  『These documents are all transcribed by me...』 Zhang Ye handed over the transcribed documents that he had prepared long ago, and said, 『You can save some things...』

  『Thank you, thank you! Zhang Shi hurriedly took it over, "This month's salary is paid, I will treat you to a drink!" 』

  Zhang Yan smiled, didn't say anything, then while Zhang was not paying attention, he folded the copied paper 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 subordinates are too powerful?

   Or does it mean that there are still big problems in Sichuan and Sichuan?

   What is even more troublesome is that Ma Heng did not find any strong clues.

  Those listed officials can only prove that they have grievances at most, or they are dissatisfied with the hussars or Xu Shu, and there is still a distance from the so-called spies.

   At the end of the day, it cannot be said that there is no gain at all, but the result that Ma Heng wanted was not achieved.

It is impossible to press for too long on the Nanzhong labor issue. Before the information is disseminated, it is best to find the relevant personnel. Otherwise, after the information is transmitted, the water will be muddy, and it is not clear where the fish and shrimp are. .

  Ma Liang came, looked at Ma Heng's expression, and then sat down, "Brother, is there something wrong? 』

  Ma Heng glanced at Ma Liang, waved his hand and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Ma Liang, "Brother, if there is something to do, don't reveal it, you don't have to say it, but please don't dismiss me like a child..."

  『…』Ma Heng was stunned for a moment, then smiled wryly, “Fourth brother, I’m sorry…”

  In Ma Heng’s impression, Ma Liang is still the little kid back then, but in fact Ma Liang has grown up, not a toddler running around with his nose dragging his nose and his **** naked.

  After pondering for a while, Ma Heng decided to pick up something to say, and then covered up the name and affairs, and told Ma Liang.

  Because Ma Liang did provide Ma Heng with some ideas yesterday, and it did have some effect.

  Ma Liang thought for a while, "Although I don't know what you are doing, second brother, it sounds like you are looking for something..."

  『Well...almost...』 Ma Heng nodded and said, "If you want to find something that is hidden, what is the best way to find it..."

  『Letting the person who lost things look for it is ineffective, and it’s time-consuming and troublesome,’ Ma Liang said without hesitation.

  『A person who hides things? ’Ma Heng said, and then thought about it.

Ma Liang nodded and said, "That's right, the place is so big, if something is small, you can hide it anywhere, even if there are many people, you may not be able to find it, but the person who hides it must know where it is hidden, just find a way for him to find it." That's it! 』

  Ma Heng rubbed his chin, "It makes sense, but how can we let the person who hides things find it?" Pretending to lose it... No, no, people who hide things just want their things not to be found... Oh, I see, let me think about it...』

  (end of this chapter)