Chapter 480 Ideal and Reality
Li Xin looked at Guo Hao who began to openly express his true feelings, and finally found Guo Hao's shadow in his mind.
He was one of the young men in Liangzhou who had been trained by Guo Hao. He had done a lot of trade with the Hu people in Beiliang City. Guo Hao had concealed his appearance before and he couldn't recognize him. Now that Guo Hao has changed back to his original appearance, how could he not recognize him?
"Greetings, General! I am Li Xin, a student from the first batch of archery cadets!"
Li Xin half-knelt down. He could be said to be one of the people who benefited the most from Guo Hao. Guo Hao did not feel any pressure at all when he knelt down.
"Get up, the candy business is a big deal, just focus on doing business with him!" Guo Hao comforted him. He didn't recognize Li Xin. There were so many people who trained with him back then, how could he recognize him at this time.
Li Xin stood aside obediently. He knew that he had struck lucky today. A project that was recognized by the general was worth his entire investment.
Guo Hao nodded and stood at the door of the candy shop. He wanted to see today how rotten this county town could be.
Then not long after, Guo Hao saw a flash of blue internal energy in the southern sky, and his face became even gloomier. Zhao Yun went there with an imperial edict that stamped the country's destiny, but in the end he still had to take action.
About a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Yun returned with a group of people with a grim look on his face.
"General, the county camp has been captured!" Zhao Yun said with a fist salute.
"How many people are left in the camp?" Guo Hao asked directly.
"Only five thousand people!"
Zhao Yun's tone was complicated. You know, a county town should have at least nearly 10,000 people. Where did the missing 5,000 people go?
Although he was a hands-off boss, Guo Hao never relaxed his guard over the city defenses of all the county towns in the Central Plains.
He can ensure that the defense force of each county town has at least 10,000 people. Even if they are not elite, this number is enough to crush any mountain bandits.
"Wait for E Lai to come back, and go get some people to notify the person in charge of the Zhen family!" Guo Hao casually led a team of soldiers to go find the people from the Zhen family. He wanted to see how brave they were.
After a long while, there was finally some movement on the street. The street that was originally cleared by Zhao Yun and his soldiers began to become bustling again.
“Here it comes!”
Guo Hao looked at the team appearing in the distance and said softly, with such a big commotion, if the officials of this county city did not take any action, it would not only be bad, but also incompetent.
"Do you know me?" Guo Hao looked at the leader on the opposite side and could feel the other party's despair and resistance, but he had to face the mentality.
And the fact that he knew the city guard was enough to prove one thing, that is, this city guard came from Luoyang and was sent there by him personally.
In order to unify the political policies of the whole country, he basically rotated the city guards of all states and counties, and also selected a group of scholars in Luoyang and sent them to various counties.
It can be said that every scholar has been certified by Guo Hao and Chen Xi, but in just over a year, they have fallen so quickly that Guo Hao could not even imagine it.
"I remember now, you are Lin Bo?"
After observing for a while, based on the manifestation of the luck behind Lin Bo, Guo Hao finally found Lin Bo's shadow from the corner of his memory.
The scholar who used to be thin but with bright eyes has now suddenly grown bigger. If it weren't for the confirmation of luck, he would not have been able to recognize him at all.
"I have no face to face the general!"
Upon hearing this, the city defender Lin Bo's face turned pale and he sighed helplessly. He then knelt down in front of Guo Hao in front of everyone, holding his sword in his hand and ready to commit suicide, not wanting to say a word in defense.
"Bang!" Guo Hao released a stream of internal energy and knocked the sword out of Lin Bo's hand.
" Why ?" Guo Hao's face calmed down a little. He knew that if he committed suicide, it meant that he could still be saved. He wanted to hear why.
“……” Lin Bo’s lips moved slightly several times.
"Alas~" Guo Hao directly mobilized the national destiny to trace back everything Lin Bo encountered.
A country's fortune has multiple functions. It is itself a collection of all its citizens and naturally records the past of all its citizens.
Bribery, luxury, banquets, and depravity, a story that could not be more vulgar. Lin Bo, who came from a poor family, could not withstand the erosion of reality and turned from an ambitious scholar into a corrupt official who was greedy for pleasure.
He drew a salary without doing any work, accepted bribes, and acted as a protector for unscrupulous businessmen. However, what made Guo Hao most gratified was that Lin Bo remembered his previous wishes, and the county town prospered under his governance, and at least the common people were not harmed.
The robbers on the road were not as cunning as Guo Hao thought. They just used Lin Bo's name to drive away the caravan. The so-called bandits were all black gloves created by Lin Bo to make money. They only wanted money and did not want to harm others.
Perhaps this is Lin Bo’s last conscience, and it is also the order that Lin Bo has repeatedly demanded.
If it weren't for the national destiny, he would never have imagined that Lin Bo could balance good and evil so perfectly. It was simply unbelievable.
In other words, Lin Bo colluded with the upper class to exploit the interests of the middle class, and finally provided benefits to the lower class.
Guo Hao looked at the sky speechlessly. Lin Bo was like the overlap of reality and ideal. On one hand, he was a corrupt official who deserved to die, and on the other hand, he was an honest official who appeased the people.
"You really put me in a difficult position. You are greedy but you still have a bottom line. How should I deal with you?" Guo Hao sighed to the sky.
If Lin Bo was a pure bad guy, he would have just killed him and been done with it, but Lin Bo stepped on both black and white.
"Lin Bo, I'll give you three days to find all the officials involved." Guo Hao finally shook his head. He couldn't judge Lin Bo according to his own preferences. He decided to hand Lin Bo over to the people for trial.
"Zilong, you follow him in person. After you get all the evidence go find a thousand people and collect their opinions to decide his fate."
A farce came to an end, and Guo Hao felt a little disappointed. Lin Bo’s degeneration made him feel a little melancholy. Could people really change so quickly?
The ideals he once had became meaningless in just over a year. If it had been two more years, what path would Lin Bo have taken?
Lin Bo is not an exception. In places where Guo Hao can't see, there are definitely officials who do worse than Lin Bo.
"We must push forward the construction of official administration! It's time to transfer Yao Chong back to Luoyang!"
Guo Hao thought for a long time and decided to find someone to replace Yao Chong in Liangzhou. Yao Chong was also famous in history for his rectification of the administration of officials. It was just right to transfer Yao Chong back at this time.
But if Yao Chong is transferred, who should be sent to take charge of Beiliang? That place is his hometown and it is also a direct hub connecting the Western Regions and Luoyang. A reliable person must be in charge.
