After drinking, Du Zhongxiao said: "Indeed, officials and officials are different, where officials should be used, officials cannot be used." Officials are rogue officials, who have no property or relatives in the local area, and officials are different, they are all local people. Use officials to manage the factory, and sooner or later the factory will become theirs, and the officials are only named. ”

Wang Anshi said: "Yes, it is true. Now some factories are like Baiting supervisors, with more than 10,000 households under their rule, and they don't know how many things they produce in a year. The court received more money from there than it paid taxes along the way. Not to mention, many of the things they have there are directly transferred to other places by the imperial court. How can such a place be managed by an ordinary prison yamen? ”

Everyone said yes. The development of Bai Tingjian over the years has been remarkable and has expanded rapidly. There is coal and iron there, and it is at the intersection of north-south traffic, so it is convenient to go north and south. In less than ten years, in terms of population, it is already the metropolis second only to Kaifeng Prefecture in the world. It's just that the characteristics of the iron prison are that the population is not as dense as Kaifeng Prefecture, but is surrounded by several large factories.

There is no clear statistic on how much wealth the imperial court gets from the Baiting Prison every year, and no one can say. Because in addition to finance and taxation, a large number of steel materials are also allocated from there, and these physical objects are not counted. Due to the rapid development and the failure of political reforms to keep up, the area around Baitingjian has become a mixed place, and it is now very chaotic. In addition to some large official factories, there are also a large number of small private factories, which are entangled with each other.

Wang Anshi said: "When I entered Beijing, I passed by Baiting Prison, and I deliberately stayed for two days and looked around. There are now factories all over the place, and within a few dozen miles of the surrounding area, there are almost no peasant households, all of them make all kinds of iron tools. Except for the area around a few factories in the Iron Prison, the rest of the place was extremely chaotic. There are only a few officials in the prison yamen, and they can't even manage a few factories in the imperial court, where can they manage the people? ”

Han Zongyan said: "The imperial court only collects money and goods from there, but it doesn't want to set up more officials, isn't that the case." A few years ago, it was also said that there were many redundant officials in the DPRK and the central government, and since they ascended to the top, they often spent half of their time on the road, and it was difficult to be promoted. In the past two years, they have occupied a lot of places, and they have spent less time on the road, but they do not want to increase the number of officials, and sooner or later they will have to make big troubles. ”

Speaking of the fact that there is no corresponding official setting up in the local area because of the opening of various government-run field affairs, several people who have been local officials for many years have complained a lot. Before Du Zhongxiao camped on Jingxi Road, the Song Dynasty had been facing financial difficulties because of the need to raise a large number of forbidden troops. Since the camp on Jingxi Road, coupled with the development of official office affairs such as Baiting Supervisor, especially in recent years, the imperial court's finances have improved rapidly.

It's just that there is money in hand, but the court doesn't know how to spend it. Du Zhongxiao entered the Western Regions last year, and the imperial court readily agreed, which also had this reason. If you have plenty of money and don't fight, what can you do? As soon as he occupied the Western Regions, he was ready to go to war against the party.

Du Zhongxiao said: "In fact, in the past few years, the formation and training of the forbidden army has just replaced the swords and guns in their hands with weapons, and the exchange of money is a big number. These are all weapons in the country, and they are not allowed to be bought and sold, but in the Khitan and the party, these things are very valuable. ”

"Yes, the world has to be fast in the past few years, and the government should also change." Su Song sighed and drank with everyone. He has already served in several iron supervisors, and this time he returned to Beijing to change to another position. In Taijo Rite Temple, it's just a transition.

Several people drank wine while discussing the changes in the world in the past few years. Du Zhongxiao arrived at Hequ Road, and after a series of victories, the world's forbidden army began training. A large number of weapons are needed for the whole training, and until now, only half of the forbidden army has completed the redressing. Most of the muskets and artillery needed were provided by the Bai Ting Supervisor. As long as the imperial court has guns and refuses to give money, the Baiting Supervisor will have special privileges, and the development has been particularly rapid in recent years.

The current Baiting Supervisor, in addition to the strategic materials such as trains and guns that the imperial court does not pay, there are also a large number of livelihood factories. The fastest growing is agricultural machinery, which has been widely used in Lianghuai and Jingxi Road.

The development of industrial and commercial dignitaries, and Jingxi Road faced a shortage of population, as a result of the development of agricultural machinery, the emergence of many large farms. In recent years, in Jingxi Road, because of the development of industry and commerce, coupled with the increase in livestock from the north, various agricultural machinery has been rapidly applied. At present, each household in Jingxi Road generally has more than 50 acres of land, and there are many large farms. Just like Du Zhongxiao's home, there are nearly 10,000 acres of land, a large number of agricultural machinery, and manpower. The new situation has given rise to many new problems, and the original political system is no longer suitable.

The Jinshi in the second year of Qingli is now mostly thirty or forty years old, and he has been in the officialdom for many years, which is the time when he is in the prime of life. As for the future of the country and the nation, with Du Zhongxiao expanding his territory in the north, most of them have their own understanding. In their eyes, the current political reform is indispensable, and if there is no major reform, it will not be able to adapt to the new situation. However, the central government did not have this kind of understanding, and only felt that it was a good time for political clarity due to the continuous external victories and abundant internal finances. This sense of division between the old and the new is particularly strong.

Wang Qi is a bachelor of Hanlin, and he only served as a general judge in the local area after being a scholar, and then he was promoted from a minister to the present. His vision, like that of the ministers of the DPRK and China, is insensitive to changes at the grassroots level. Du Zhongxiao is different, he has been an official outside, and many of these changes have come from his hands, and they can be negotiated with others. Now that he has entered the DPRK as a high-ranking official, others also feel that he is capable of carrying out reforms.

Wang Anshi served as a general judge in Shuzhou and a governor in Changzhou, and knew a lot about local affairs. In his eyes, the current imperial court is facing great changes, and without thinking about change, it is simply a corpse vegetarian meal. It's just that now his position is not high, and he is just talking.

Drinking slightly, Du Zhongxiao said: "The official system is to govern the people of the world. Now that the world has changed greatly, it is actually time to change. It's just that most of the rulers are not officials in these places, and they are not familiar with them. This kind of thing is in a hurry, and now the top and bottom are enjoying themselves, and they don't show chaos, of course, it's dragged on for a while. What we think is a great thing, but in the eyes of those in power, it is actually a trivial matter. Perhaps, in another ten years, some of us will reach a high position in power, and it will not be too late to change. ”

Wang Anshi shook his head: "I'm afraid it may not be." In my opinion of the Bai Ting Supervisor, it is now densely populated, and it does not grow rice and wheat, but only buys it from outside. The court is not strict, and I am afraid that there will be chaos. ”

Han Zongyan said: "That's true. 100,000 households, how many people are in charge of it in the capital? Although there are tens of thousands of families in Baitingjian, there are no corresponding officials. It's hard for the yamen to even make up households, what else can you do! ”

100,000 households is not a big deal in Du Zhongxiao's eyes. It's just a few hundred thousand people, which county in the Central Plains in later generations doesn't have one? This era is different, the population of the country is only tens of millions, and there are tens of thousands of households in a small state, which looks unusual to outsiders. Especially when there are not enough officials there, and they all rely on autonomy, how can they be good? Such a place is not just a Bai Pavilion Supervisor, but it is particularly prominent.

When Du Zhongxiao first established the Iron Prison, because it was owned by the imperial court, except for the managers in the factory, the local government mainly relied on autonomy. Now it's different there, there are a lot of private factories, well managed, and it looks very chaotic.

Du Zhongxiao nodded and said, "If this is the case, there must be a criminal case in the local area, let's take a look." I first entered the imperial court as the imperial history, and I didn't know what was going on in the Central Plains over the years, and I really didn't know that Bai Tingjian had reached this point. ”

Wang Anshi said: "There are tens of thousands of households, and countless things are produced every year, how can it be an easy place to manage?" Not only that, but there are many things such as tax evasion and tax evasion. In the past three or four years, I heard that there are many rich families in Baiting Prison, and Ye County is magnificent, and many people are no less than Jingshi. This is only the Baiting Prison, plus several other iron prisons, most of them are like this. ”

At present, the industrial development is to take the railway as the core and vigorously develop the coal and steel industry. Large factories were owned by the imperial court, while small enterprises blossomed, both government-run and private-owned, with various forms of ownership.

It was a period of rapid development and savage growth of a wide variety of industries. For the first time, the laws and systems of the imperial court were confronted, and many places could not keep up with the situation, and any kind of situation would appear. Just like the Baiting Supervisor, there were too many factories, the original guild system had collapsed, and disputes were reported to the yamen, but the yamen did not have so much energy, and various private institutions appeared, taking away the power of the yamen.

Du Zhongxiao listened to them discuss the local situation and felt that he had indeed entered a new period. From the perspective of the Baiting supervisor, it is imperative to establish a new system, including a new economic and accounting system. But I'm just a royal historian, and I can't control this.

Han Zongyan said: "Actually, it's not just Baiting Prison. Xiangzhou also has an iron prison, but it has not developed so fast after learning from the Baiting prison. Over the years, people from many states and counties on Hedong Road have run there, and now it is also densely populated, and all kinds of things are happening endlessly. Laiwu and Xuzhou have nothing to do now because of their late development. ”

Wang Anshi said: "After curing the Baiting Prison, don't learn from other places." You always have to choose a place to try first, and Bai Tingjian is the most suitable. ”

Su Song said: "The most important thing now is that there are not enough officials, and the local yamen can't manage it at all." As long as the officials are filled, the rest will be taken slowly. As long as the imperial court grasps a few government-run factories and raises the local people's taxes, it can still get by. ”

Wang Anshi said: "If you want to do something, then do it well at one time." These are not that difficult things, so why change them slowly? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Jiefu's words are not right. These things have never been seen before, and they have developed over the years. In fact, no one knows what they are doing, and they can only change it slowly. First of all, change the inappropriate places, little by little. We don't know how to change it appropriately, and if it is too big, it may hinder its development. ”

Wang Anshi did not speak. In his eyes, the factory is already there, the local situation is clear, what is not to change?

Du Zhongxiao knew that Wang Anshi wanted to change it all at once, but it was impossible. Don't say that he has memories of his past life, and he doesn't know how to manage and plan these new industries. China is different from Europe in history, and the most important thing is the domestic market. As long as the domestic market is satisfied, it is a huge industry that can influence the world. Backed by the domestic market, and then expanding outward, is the right way. In fact, there is no precedent in history to do this, and we must slowly explore it ourselves.

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