Seeing that at noon, Du Zhongxiao ordered a few dishes to be served and drank with Tao Qiqi. This is the person who has been with him for many years, and there is no one more suitable to know the news than him. In the face of himself, he will say everything and will not hide it.

After drinking two glasses of wine, Du Zhongxiao said: "You have been in Baiting Prison for many years, to be honest, what do you think of here?" ”

Tao Qiqi thought for a while and said, "How to say, when I first started working here, I didn't dare to think that there would be such a day and such a scale in the future." I now have a few hundred yuan of money a year, and I can be regarded as rich among officials. However, I always feel that this place is getting too fast day by day, and sometimes I am a little panicked. Many things, just familiar with them, have changed again, and they are not the same as before. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "It's inevitable." The fastest changing place in the world is the Baiting Supervisor. Many things came out here first, and then spread all over the world. It's not right if nothing new comes out. However, for the people, it has become too fast, and they always feel that life is unstable, right? ”

Tao Seventeen said: "Yes, especially in the past few years, I have become a family business, and I am a little scared to become so fast." However, the Iron Supervisor makes a lot of money a year, and we have more money in hand, and I think it's very good. ”

Du Zhongxiao picked up the wine glass, drank a glass of wine with Tao Seventeen, and said, "This is normal. People, always thinking that they have money in their hands, and when they go out, everything is the same as yesterday, and they are getting old day by day. But how can that actually be? We must always keep moving forward to have a better life. The people of the previous generation got married, gave birth to children and grandchildren, and the population increased day by day, and if they could not continue to develop, wouldn't they become poorer and poorer? In the past, when I farmed the land, I could only produce so much food in the field, but I got poorer and poorer, and finally I couldn't support it. Opening a factory is different, the bigger the factory is, the more it opens, the more people will naturally use it, and the children and grandchildren may not become poorer. ”

Tao Qiqi smiled: "I don't understand what the officials said. Now raising children, carefully calculate how much money they have to save, so that they can have no worries about food and clothing. Most of the people in the prison who worked with me were like this. ”

Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "It has only been seven or eight years since the iron prison was built, and everything in the future is unknown, so it is normal." Speaking of which, the population of the Iron Supervisor is concentrated, the management is strong, and the Iron Supervisor is rich, so it can build schools and the like, so that future generations can have a better income. ”

Tao Seventeen said: "Speaking of which, the school there is a good job, and you can learn literacy for three years free of tuition." If you study well, you can go to various schools. In the past few years, in those schools, there are still many children in our iron prison. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "That's how to let the next generation have a better life, so that we can live up to the development of these years." By the way, the next year is the year of Dabi, and a few days ago, I was relieved, how many people have been lifted by the iron prison. ”

Tao Seventeen said: "Speaking of this, everyone thinks it's inappropriate. The current Baiting Supervisor is only in Xiazhou, and more than 30 people have been relieved, and they all feel that it is too little. There are nearly 100,000 households in Baiting Prison, which should be more than that of a large state, and there are more people to be relieved. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Most of the people who come to the iron prison are workers and business people, and there is nothing to solve for a while. I'm here this time, and after seeing this, I understand how many unreasonable things there are, and let's play together, hoping to change it soon. There is always a process for emerging things to be accepted by the court and the people. In fact, there is nothing there in the iron prison, and Ye County has been too chaotic in the past two years, and it will not work if it is not rectified. ”

Tao Seventeen said: "The official is right, everyone here knows that Ye County is not as good as the Iron Prison." Especially in recent years, a large number of people have lived outside the city walls, hiding thieves, who can find out? In the evenings, there are few people except for the lively bazaars. ”

In fact, no one can say how many households there are now, and a large number of households have not been registered. The government levies taxes, because it is for all kinds of field work, and the number of people who work in the field work cannot be counted. It is generally estimated that there are 10,000 or 20,000 households in Tiejian, and it is not clear here in Yexian County, and it is not clear whether there are 30,000 or 40,000 to 670,000 households. Because Yexian County is too small, a large number of households live outside the city, and the government's security forces cannot be managed, and the local security is very chaotic. For the people, the intuitive feeling is that it is a gibberish word. In fact, for the government, there are many things to manage.

Du Zhongxiao asked Tao Qiqi, listening to him talk about the situation nearby, thinking in his heart. When he first established the Iron Supervisor, the focus was on the government-run Iron Supervisor, and Ye County did not pay attention. I didn't expect that after so many years, Ye County has developed.

There was strict management around the Iron Prison, and there were a large number of government-run factories, and there would be many restrictions on private factories there. Yexian County is close to the main railway line, the transportation is convenient, the county government is unable to manage the surrounding area, a large number of factories settled here. With a large population and a large floating population, there will inevitably be social chaos. In this situation, society develops rapidly, but it is also easy to get out of control.

From today's collection, coupled with Tao Seventeen's narration, Du Zhongxiao feels that he must pay attention to Ye County and solve it here. The iron supervisors in other places are all Xuebai Pavilion supervisors, and due to the different scales, talents and products produced, there has not yet been such a place as Yexian. Ye County is not well solved, and when those places develop, it is likely that new places of this kind will appear.

Listening to Tao Qiqi talking about the new changes in this area, Du Zhongxiao said: "Ye County is so chaotic, have you locals thought of a way?" ”

Tao Seventeen said: "No matter what, what's the use of thinking about it?" ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Just think about it, and don't violate the laws of the imperial court." It's just the usual gossip, has anyone mentioned it? ”

Hearing this, Tao Qiqi became interested and said, "Of course there is." Usually, there are cases around me, and there are always people who say that if this kind of thing happens, it won't happen. But no matter what you say, the core one is to increase the number of officials who really do things. If there is no one in the place, how can it be governed? Now here in Ye County, how many officials are there in the county office? I can't even figure out how many people are under the rule, how to talk about governance! ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Yes, there are too few officials here in Ye County." This time I went back, according to the population, Bai Tingjian should rise to the big state. The place is small, the population is concentrated, and the money and food collected are large, and there should be more officials. In addition to this, there is a fundamental theory of governance. With theoretical guidance, things can be done well. Otherwise, if you come to the east and the west, there will still be problems after all. ”

Tao Shirao said with interest: "What is the theory that the official said? Let's hear it, maybe it will work for us. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "I haven't thought about it yet, I don't have anything to say." I will not be able to conclude it until I have been here for a few days and have learned about the situation in the place. The previous governance method, in the face of a place like Yexian, is no longer good, and other ways should be found. ”

This is not a question of the social system, the previous political structure, which corresponds to an agrarian society, is not adapted to the industrial society. In the face of the sudden outbreak of industry, it is inevitable that it will be powerless. Industrial society has its own objective laws, and social governance should conform to objective laws.

Du Zhongxiao's attention to Ye County is, to a large extent, a vigilance against the impact of industrial society on the current social system. If it can't be solved in time, I am afraid that it will become more serious in the future.

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, Europe was largely laissez-faire, with few restrictions on capitalists. The capitalists develop, and then use their strength to participate in politics and change the political system. Such a trajectory, combined with the political traditions of Europe, led to the emergence of new social formations. The industrial revolution in Europe, along with the development of productive forces, was accompanied by blood and fire, internal repression, and extraterrestrial invasion. As a unified country, China's industrial revolution should not be like this, otherwise it will fall apart.

arranged for Tao Seventeen to rest in the post house, and Du Zhongxiao sat in the study, thinking about future reforms.

In the industrial era that began with the Baiting Prison, a basic principle should be that the imperial court should actively participate in the process. It is necessary to have government-run banks, government-run factories, and government-run businesses to guide the industrial age and share profits at the same time. Industries related to the governance of the country and the people's livelihood should be mainly run by the government, and the private sector should be used as a useful supplement. In this way, it can ensure that the overall situation of industrialization will not deviate from the direction under the control of the imperial court.

Industries that are closely related to people's lives, if they are not particularly important and inconvenient to manage, can be let go of the private sector. It is necessary not to affect the development of the entire industry and to be able to activate the market. Only by combining the government-run government with the private sector can we develop healthily.

The regime needs money, the so-called money food. In the agricultural era, agriculture was the main tax, which is now inherited from the Tang Dynasty. In the industrial age, when a large amount of money was concentrated in industry, the status of agriculture was reduced, and there had to be a way to collect money from industry. Taxation is, of course, the most basic operation, to collect taxes from enterprises and from ordinary people in order to maintain the operation of the regime. How to design taxes in the industrial age, the current officials do not realize this problem at all, or rely on the previous system, resulting in a large loss of taxes.

The current imperial court thought that it had collected a lot of money and grain from the Baiting prison, so it indulged everywhere. But I didn't know that the overcharged money and food were still far from the real ability of Baiting Supervisor. The government has no control over a large number of private factories, and can only pay taxes according to the fixed secondary product, and there are many leaks. The number of officials in the Baiting Prison should be greatly strengthened, and the local factories should be controlled, ideally in terms of production and operation.

This requires a fiscal and taxation system, which is in line with the governance of the regime. In this era, various systems are not perfect, and how to collect taxes from factories is a difficult problem. Even if the currency is not unified, how can we talk about taxation?

The money needed by the government depends partly on government-run factories, businesses, etc., and partly on taxes, which complement each other. The change in the ratio of government and private enterprises corresponds to the cycle of industrial progress.