从《醒世姻缘传》晁思孝发迹过程看明代后期官场的腐败

Study on Officialdom Corruption in the Late of Ming Dynasty Through Chao Sixiao Making a Large Fortune in Marriages to Awaken Common People

《醒世姻缘传》中的晁思孝从做官的消息传出后,就通过投献和诡寄拥有了很多房产和田产、仆役丫鬟之属,通过借贷得到大量活动经费,购置起了大宅和家具之属,一跃而成为富家大户。做官以后,通过征收火耗和羡余、搜刮属吏百姓、贪污公款、巧取豪夺等手段聚敛了巨额的财富,是一个不折不扣的的贪官。晁思孝做官后的贪腐发迹现象,在明朝后期并不孤立,而是一个普遍现象,揭示了明代末年的社会危机,预示了明王朝覆亡的必然命运。

After the news that Chao Sixiao,a fictional character of Marriages to Awaken Common People,would be appointed as the county magistrate spread,he got a lot of house property,landed property,menservants and housemaids through active offering and fake register,loaned a lot of activity funds,bought mansions and senior furniture,quickly became a rich man.After being the county magistrate of Huating and the governor of Tongzhou later,Chao accumulated a great deal of wealth through levying additional tax,exploiting his subordinate and people under his jurisdiction,embezzling government public funds,grabbing and keeping countrymen’s fortune as his own.In the late of Ming Dynasty,such things like Chao making a large fortune was an universal political phenomenon,it reveals the social crisis in the times,indicated the inevitable fate of the fall of Ming Dynasty.