古今中外,有所作为的君主,都把严惩渎职官吏作为治国之策。清乾隆皇帝在位59年,出现“乾隆盛世”,是与他坚持严惩渎职官吏分不开的。公元1788年6月20日,万城堤(即今荆州大堤)溃,水冲荆州西门,民房倾圮殆尽,仓库积储漂流一空,百姓淹毙万佘。灾后,乾隆皇帝派翰林院掌学院阿桂和谙习水利工程的德成赶赴荆州“确访详查”。阿桂查明后上奏:“此次荆州被淹,全由堤防不固致使万城大堤溃口。”据此,乾隆帝降旨:“著阿桂到彼后,将十年以內承修堤工官员及分管各上司一体详查严参?苯峁?上至总督下至县丞大小官员以及地方豪绅二十余人分别从严从重治罪。由此可 All monarchs at any time, at home and abroad, who have done a good job, have severely punished officials who have become malfeasance their government. 59 years since the reign of Qing Emperor Qianlong, the emergence of “Qianlong Prosperity” is inseparable from his insistence on severely punishing officials who dereliction of duty. June 20, 1788, Wanchengdi (now Jingzhou embankment) collapse, water rushed Jingzhou West Gate, the private house dumping exhausted, warehouse storage and rafting, the population drown Wan She. After the disaster, Emperor Qianlong sent the Academy of Hanlin Academy and his dean of Jingdeng Water Engineering to visit Jingzhou. A Gui ascertained after the encampment: “The Jingzhou flooded, all caused by embankment does not consolidate Wancheng embankment breach.” Accordingly, Qianlong imperial decreed: "A Gui to Peter, will be within a decade repair embankment Officials and in charge of a detailed investigation of all the senators Yan Sen? Benzene 峁? Up to the governor down to the County Officials size officials and local priests more than twenty people were severely punished severely.