Out of the Donghua Gate, the sun is already setting. Looking at the sunset on the horizon, Du Zhongxiao breathed a sigh of relief. This deliberation is more tiring than commanding a big battle by yourself. In the final analysis, the new military structure and new forms of warfare have not yet been widely accepted, and it is not easy to discuss the facts of warfare.

Hanlin bachelor Wang Qi said: "There is no early dynasty tomorrow, and a few of us discussed in the same year to go to the nearby Fan Building to drink and play, in order to wait for Xiao to come back from Ye County to catch the wind." It's not early, so let's rush over. Many officials there drank and feasted, and they wore nothing in the morning newspaper. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's not a secret, when I was an official in other places, except for official banquets, I had never entered the restaurant in official clothes. In the past, I was really unaccustomed to it. The customs in the capital are many different from those in other places. ”

Wang Qi said: "I don't know how many officials in the capital, and many things are not strange. ”

Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "And the capital is too big, when you go out of the palace, where is it convenient to go home and change into civilian clothes." Let's go, don't keep them waiting. ”

After saying that, the two of them took their entourage and headed east. After turning two intersections, you will arrive at the gate of Fanlou.

Fan Lou is the largest restaurant in Tokyo, and of course it is also the largest restaurant in the world at this time, and its pattern is the standard of restaurants in the world. Outside the door, there is a tall colorful building, below which are flowery female prostitutes, and there are two rows of small houses in front, which is very prosperous and lively.

Seeing Du Zhongxiao and Wang Qi coming, a small servant stepped forward and said, "The two fathers are hard. Several officials have been waiting inside for a long time! ”

After speaking, he led Du Zhongxiao and Wang Jue into the door, all the way to the backyard, and into a small pavilion. Wang Anshi, Han Jiang, Su Song, and Han Zongyan were already inside, and hurriedly got up to greet each other.

A few people sat down, and Han Jiang said: "We are here to discuss, if you discuss too late, we will drink and eat meat and wait." As soon as he finished speaking, you came in, and what a coincidence. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Today's discussion on how to attack the party is actually nothing serious, but there are many people and a lot of talk." ”

When it comes to major matters in the imperial court, the rest of the people don't ask more. At this time, the food had already come up, so Du Zhongxiao led him to drink a glass of wine and gossip. After chatting a few words, he went to the recital that Du Zhongxiao had performed a few days ago.

Wang Anshi said: "I went to Ye County a few days ago, and when I came back, I made a concert, saying that I would make a big change there. When the recital came out, the courtiers talked a lot, and they said everything. I waited for a few people, except for Zirong, who were not very familiar with the affairs of the iron prison. I asked Zirong just now, when he was there, the main affairs were all iron prisons, and Ye County was nothing special. I don't know what it looks like there now, so that Du Xiao feels that he has to change? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "When Zirong knew about the Baiting Prison, the Iron Prison had just been built, and of course there was nothing special about Yexian. In the past few years, especially after the railway, Yexian County has gathered many industries and commerce, of course, it is different. When the railway superintendent was first established, Yexian County had only a few thousand households, and it was an ordinary small county in the Central Plains. At present, there are 50,000 or 60,000 households there, and the government still has insufficient statistics. Relying on the iron tools sold by the iron supervisor, I don't know how many factories have been opened in the territory, from all kinds of agricultural machinery to needles and threads, everything can be produced in the factory. Households gathered, and there were countless factories, of course, it was not the same as before. ”

Han Jiang said: "Even so, it is just bigger than before, and the county will be promoted to a state, and it will be good to increase the number of officials." ”

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Zihua, where is the matter so simple!" Yexian and Baitingjian are linked, and the two places are combined, totaling about 100,000 households. These 100,000 households are not scattered, but gathered together along the banks of the Li River. In addition to Kaifeng Mansion in this dynasty, where is there such a big place? How many officials are there in Kaifeng Prefecture? How many soldiers? What about Ye County? It's not just the people who have a lot of people, they also have a lot of factories there. To exaggerate, most of the factories in the world are around Yexian County. Factories are different from farmers and shops, how are they managed? How are taxes charged? None of this has ever happened before. If you don't change it now, if you don't try a reliable way, you will definitely suffer a lot in the future! ”

The rest nodded together and did not speak. What does it look like for 100,000 households to get together? They couldn't think of it for a moment. With such a large number of households, in a place like the capital that is the best in the country, it is different from being in a local area. The local government does not have the political resources of Kaifeng Prefecture, there is not so much manpower to govern it, and there are no superior conditions for the whole country to provide for it, so it is really not easy to properly govern it.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Wang Anshi said: "Waiting for Xiao Zuozhang, Yexian County now has a lot of money and grain, and it doesn't seem to be difficult to govern." ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "That can be said, but the current official system is very difficult to do. Strictly speaking, the money and grain collected by the county should be sent to the state, and there is no money to spare. It's hard to do things without money. When a few households get together, they rely on a few officials such as the county magistrate, the county lieutenant, and the chief bookkeeper, how can they manage it? If you increase the number of officials, you must always have a name, and there is a way. ”

Everyone nodded in unison. The current political system was formulated by Taizu and Taizong to prevent local separatism when the country was founded, and the general principle is to make the local government virtual and the central government in reality. If the local government has no power and no strength, how can it govern the local government well? Delegating power to the localities and how to prevent secession has become another issue. Everyone has been an official for more than ten years, except for Wang Qi, they have all been trained at the grassroots level, so they naturally know that it is not easy.

Wang Qi said: "The music to be seen, our people in the academy have seen it and discussed it. Tiejian Ye County is actually connected, so it is better to combine the two and become a big state. According to the method of Kaifeng Prefecture, each party will set up a box and send officials to manage it. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "This is also a way. It's just that after setting up the compartment, how to set it up for officials is still a big problem. Just like Kaifeng Mansion, the following compartment can manage civil affairs, and the prison can be debated. ”

Kaifeng Mansion is divided into two counties, namely Kaifeng and Xiangfu two counties, the county government is in Kaifeng City, with the royal street as the boundary. However, the affairs in Kaifeng City are not under the jurisdiction of the two counties, and the city is divided into several compartments, and the two counties are in charge of things outside the compartments. The construction of the box has changed back and forth, and there has been a magistrate, because of the management of the prison has caused many problems, the prison still received the government.

The chamber in Kaifeng City, which is somewhat similar to the district in the city in later generations, is a special construction. Wherever there is a box, it is considered to be in the city, including several outside the city. The outside is under the control of the counties, and there is another mention of the official affairs of the counties and towns, which governs the suburban counties, and the status is far lower than that of the Kaifeng prefect.

The only thing that can be compared with Ye County is Kaifeng Mansion, and now the rest of the big cities in the world are far from the scale there. It's just that the status of Kaifeng Mansion is too special, and the functions of the lower compartment level are constantly changing, which can be used as a reference by Ye County.

Several people were drinking and talking about it. Everyone knows the situation in Kaifeng Mansion, and after discussing it for a while, they all feel that it is not suitable for Ye County.

Su Song said: "At that time, when the railway prison was built, because it was an official camp, and the people who went there were battalions and fields, it was not difficult to manage. But I don't want the people to open factories now, but there are endless incidents. If there is no way, how about turning all the crisps into official camps? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Zirong, it is impossible to do all the official offices. It is precisely because the government is simple to manage that the things it produces must have rules to follow. And many of the things produced by the factory, when they first came out, could not be measured by common sense, and must be privately owned. If it is run by the government, many things will not come out, and the people will not buy them. Only by combining the government and the private sector can the people meet what the people want. ”

Wang Anshi said: "What I said is true. The way it is now must have its own reason, and it is not formed casually. You can't just ignore it because it's difficult, but just think about it. We, the officials, are doing exactly this kind of thing. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "What Jiefu said is that you can't be afraid of difficulties, you have to face it head-on." However, in order to do this well, you have to really understand it before you can figure it out. I only stayed in Ye County for more than ten days, and I saw the problem, but it was difficult to come up with a solution for a while. ”

To solve the problem, we must first investigate and study, and not pat ourselves on the head. I saw the problem, and there were still 108,000 miles to solve it. Du Zhongxiao himself knows that how to carry out new industrialization and how to manage the government cannot be solved by relying on the experience of his previous life without long-term research and practice. The reason sounds simple, but there is still a long way to go before it can be put into practice.

Wang Anshi sighed: "I was free to serve as a general judge in Shuzhou, and later Changzhou became the governor of Zhou, and what I did on Jingxi Road was done with my heart and mind, and I realized that I already knew local affairs." But I don't want to, in a few years, there is such a place in Ye County, which is completely different from the previous one. ”

Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "Things in the world are ever-changing, and this is the way it is. The only thing is that as long as you pay attention to the people's livelihood and know how the people live, how they think, and how they do, you will always be able to come up with a way. ”

Wang Qi said: "In the recital to be known, there are many questions about Ye County, but what to do is unknown. We sat down in the same year, so we might as well talk about it. Everyone brainstorms and may be able to come up with a solution. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Now the imperial court governs the place, and it uses three kinds of people. One is an official, sent by the imperial court, and all of them are rogue officials. One is said to be an official, hired by the government, mostly for local people, to do things specifically. One is poor, recruited from the people, in fact, it is a service, and it really contributes. In the past, the financial resources of the imperial court were insufficient, and many local officials could not give them money, so they were also sent from large local households. To govern the locality, we must find a way to do it from these three kinds of people. ”

Several people nodded yes, silent for a moment.

Du Zhongxiao had thought about this question when he discussed the army with Wang Gongchen before. In the army, there are liuguan officers, who are effective, and there are soldiers, which actually correspond to local officials, officials, and poor. Their responsibilities are also similar to some extent. Because the officials are liuguan, they hold the actual power on behalf of the imperial court. The utility in the army, the local officials, is actually doing things. The soldiers of the army and the errand of the local government are responsible for making specific contributions, and under the leadership of the officials, they really do things.

The difference between the two is that one is done externally and the other internally. External warfare and internal governance are completely different work contents, and of course there are different operating procedures. The local errand servant is also the object of governance, and when he is on an errand, he can supervise the officials, which is what Du Zhongxiao said when he played the right thing.

In this era, China has China's national conditions, and the political structure is actually different from that of later generations. The political structure of later generations, because the structure came from Europe, with their characteristics, was very important to be self-government. Of course, there is no local autonomy in a unified China, but all kinds of factory autonomy, school autonomy, and so on still carry their characteristics.

In Chinese tradition, there is no autonomy, and officials are tied to the imperial court and have their own system. Due to the vastness of the country, it is actually difficult for local forces to influence the central government. When politics is stable, once there are forces that influence politics in the localities, unless there is someone from the central government to support them, they will inevitably be hit by political forces. This is the characteristic of the great unified regime, and it has become a tradition since the Qin Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, this feature became more pronounced due to the disappearance of the gate valve. Du Zhongxiao's clear distinction between local governance forces as officials, officials, and poor officials is adapted to this.