Early in the morning of the second day, Du Zhongxiao unveiled the list at the door of the post house, and allowed the people to surrender. Anyone who has a local official who is lawless, who does not investigate a case, or who has other affairs, can submit a petition to the Imperial Historical Observatory.

This time in Ye County, the retrial of the Bai family's case is secondary, and Du Zhongxiao's more important task is to understand the situation here and propose solutions. The current Ye County is completely different from the last time Du Zhongxiao came. At that time, the main body of Ye County was inside the city wall, and there were only a few grass markets outside the city wall. Now it's different, most of the population of Ye County, lives outside the city walls. And due to the concentration of factories, several large settlements were formed.

Due to the fact that the changes in the system have not kept up with the changes, only one of the several large settlements has a prison town, and the management of the rest of the places is blank. The Yexian county government really does not have the ability to manage all the residential areas under its rule.

There are 100,000 households in Kaifeng Prefecture, among which there are a large number of officials, and the government has a large number of manpower, and due to the concentration of population, there is still a backlog of cases. There are nearly 100,000 households under the rule of Baiting Prison, with a population of hundreds of thousands, how can they manage it only by relying on the prison and county officials? In fact, the government-run field affairs are basically autonomous, and the rest of the localities can manage as much as they want, and the private field affairs basically do not care.

Such a situation has never been encountered before, the local government does not know what to do, and the imperial court does not know either. The requirement for the place is one, nothing. As long as there is nothing to do, even if many local cases are private, it is also a local merit.

After a few years, the local government no longer knows how many unattended cases have been backlogged. This time, Du Zhongxiao came to collect these materials, propose solutions, and form a new situation.

In the post house, Cheng Laiguang came in from outside and said to Du Zhongxiao: "In half a day, I received more than 30 letters, how many cases are there in this place?" The list was posted, but not many people watched it. ”

Du Zhongxiao asked him to sit down and said, "How many cases are there in Kaifeng Mansion in a year?" How much does Bai Tingjian have in a year? ”

Cheng Laiguang said: "Roughly calculated, the cases accepted by Baiting Supervisor and Ye County in a year are not one-tenth of those of Kaifeng Mansion. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "That's it." You must know that in addition to the army and officials of Kaifeng Mansion, the people of Baiting Prison are not much different. Could it be that the people here are so law-abiding that there are no cases? It's just that the government really can't control it, and the ordinary people know that it's useless to report to the officials, and the people just deal with it themselves. We came this time to collect the situation here and go back to report to the imperial court. The wind is heard, and what Yu Shitai hears is only about the capital, and the local people basically don't know anything. It's different now, the people of Baiting Prison, the factory here, is now the most prosperous place in the world, which is not too much, and there are too few officials who can be governed. ”

In fact, it is not only that there are too few officials, but more importantly, the previous governance method is not suitable. Due to the disconnection between the parties, the official and non-governmental departments of the Baiting Prison have been separated, and the officials are not actually in charge of non-governmental affairs. The case of the Bai family, if it weren't for Bai Xian's insistence on suing, it would have been like that.

The development of industry will lead to the concentration of economy and population, as is the case with Bai Tingjian. The earliest factories were built here, and in a few years, with the construction of the railway, a huge domestic market was formed. In addition, Du Zhongxiao has fought several battles in recent years, the army has been reorganized, and the industrial development of Baitingjian has been very rapid, and a large number of people have been attracted to the vicinity.

Now is the rapid development period of Baitingjian, the factory opened to make money, although the people are very chaotic, but the economy is running in an orderly manner. Once industrial development stagnated, there was no such harmony. If the imperial court is just greedy for the money and food collected here, without considering the hidden worries behind it, there may be chaos.

Du Zhongxiao watched with the received form, and the more he looked at it, the more he frowned. The two main themes of these cases are theft, theft, fraud, and robbery, and murder, and many cases are combined. Some of them were suppressed by local wealthy families, and some were reported to the government, but they couldn't be done because of insufficient evidence. Many of the cases are related to nearby factories.

Putting down the situation, Du Zhongxiao decided not to do it for a while. If all these cases are dealt with, many factory owners who have emerged in recent years may be implicated. In the words of later generations, these people are the new bourgeoisie, and they should be encouraged and protected. And if it is not dealt with, this situation will become more and more serious in the future. They have money in their hands, and it is difficult for the government to suppress it when they use it to do things.

What should be done in the end, to find a way to promote the development of industrialization and ease the class contradictions, is a headache. All this knowledge learned in previous lives is based on the history of Europe, and does not correspond to the current reality. The industrialization of Europe, because of its small size, was mixed with foreign colonial aggression, accompanied by blood and oppression. China is different, the first thing it faces is a huge domestic market, and the first thing to do in industrialization is to reorganize domestic resources and open up the market.

Sighing, Du Zhongxiao asked Cheng Laiguang to go out and think about it by himself.

When Du Zhongxiao was meditating, he suddenly heard a voice: "Is it really an official who has arrived?" Why didn't you give me a book earlier? ”

Du Zhongxiao opened his eyes and saw that it was Tao Qiqi, and said with a smile: "I came in a hurry this time, so I didn't inform you." ”

Tao 17 stepped forward and saluted, sat down on the side, and said, "I heard from the officials in the prison that the officials are coming, and I don't believe it for a while. It wasn't until yesterday that the officials in the prison came to greet each other that they knew that they had really come, so they hurried over to see each other today. ”

Du Zhongxiao ordered tea and asked, "All these years, are you okay in Baiting Prison?" ”

Tao Seventeen said: "Okay, everything is fine." In the past few years, the whole army has required a large number of guns and artillery, and the work in the prison cannot be completed. It's just that the Privy Council wants guns and cannons for the whole army, but refuses to give money, which is a bit troublesome. To make money in prison, we can only make more civilian goods to sell, otherwise our money will not know where to go. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "That's not it, you are all officials, aren't you all the imperial court together?" ”

Tao Seventeen said: "How much money is there?" Our trick officials don't have a high salary, so they all rely on the prison to pay for it. ”

"I see." Du Zhongxiao nodded, although he knew about this, he didn't know how much they could send now. "It's been eight years since the establishment of the Iron Superintendent, and it seems that you have put down roots here. This place, can you still be satisfied? ”

Tao 17 said: "We live in the Iron Prison, which is a government-run factory, and everything has its own rules, but it's okay." It's just that Yexian is different here, there are many small private factories, and there are all kinds of people, which is much more complicated than the iron prison. Generally there is nothing to do, and we don't come here much. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "In seven or eight years, the momentum of development is on, of course everything is fine. The government-run factories have their own officials in charge there, and of course they are in good order. Here in Yexian County, everything is developed by the people themselves, of course it is different. ”

Tao Qiqi nodded again and again: "Yes, that's not the case." How much money do those of us who make iron prisons earn? Outside the staff here in Ye County, many families have a lot of money, and they are making money every day, which is not comparable to us. We people, we can't go with them. ”

Du Zhongxiao smiled, the officials are different from the people, this is the case. Although the people of the Iron Prison make less money, they only earn more than the people under the outsiders. Moreover, the people of the iron prison have security all their lives, as long as they do not violate the discipline of the iron prison, they can live there for the rest of their lives.