Ma Guoxi was silent, to be honest, he couldn't figure out what Wang Dou was going to do, and as Li Banghua said, in the future, Xuanfu Town, Anbei Metropolitan Protector's redundant officials and redundant officials are indeed true. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Strengthening local control is what Ma Guoxi agrees with, but the current situation is obviously developing toward redundant administration.

In the early days of the dynasty, a few officials and some small officials could govern a huge area, but now, the number of officials in the country is not only ten times that of the beginning of the country? It is a heavy burden to collect money and grain every year and support the officials alone.

Now watching Wang Dou act, the officials have been more refined.

In the case of Baoanzhou, in the past, there was only one member of the officials, six officials, six officials, and one member of the undertaker, and then the rest of the Confucianism, Yin and Yang Division, Medical Department, Monk and Taoist Division, Yongxing Cang, Beihuang Cang, etc.

But up to now, I am afraid that the number of people who eat Yulu has increased many times, and Ma Guoxi does not understand how Wang Dou will feed these officials in the future.

As for Li Banghua's concern about the treachery of this generation, Ma Guoxi disagreed, the reason why the officials were so harmful was because they had been in the local area for a long time and had no hope of promotion.

Many people have worked all their lives, and they are still small officials who are not in the stream, and they don't even have a grade, so they are cooler about money. In addition, the entrenchment of the localities, from father to son, from son to grandson, generation to generation, has become a deep-rooted powerful force, so that officials can be fooled and run the locality.

In fact, this point is easy to solve, such as officials can work in different places, Guan Wang Dou also did this, every time he recruited officials, he always did not serve in the castle and city, but transferred to other places. Although it is not as necessary for officials to avoid one or several provinces, or even switch between the north and the south, it is sufficient.

Moreover, these officials still have the hope of promotion, and they climb up one level at a time, from the section level to the ministerial level, which is enough for these small officials to struggle.

The highest official is not from the ninth grade, if the officials are the same, they have their own direction of struggle, Ma Guoxi thinks that this is Wang Dou's genius.

He didn't want to deny it entirely, and finally said: "Yongning Hou is not completely astray. I look at the meaning of Yongning Hou. It is clear that there is an eclectic heart, expanding the recruitment of talents, and even paying more attention to the law, calculation, and calligraphy, which is a general and practical material for the local government. ”

He said: "The imperial examination has come to this day. There are many drawbacks. At the beginning of the country, for example. It is still possible to be eclectic and to enter talents through recommendations, imperial examinations, and officials. After that, it gradually dedicated to the imperial examination, and the imperial examination was especially important. Lifting people, Gongsheng suffered greatly, and the disadvantages of Jinshi were heavy, accumulating two or three hundred years, and the Marquis of Yongning was uprooting the chaos anyway. ”

Li Banghua opened his mouth, but finally listened, after all, what Ma Guoxi said was also the truth.

I heard Ma Guoxi say in a deep voice: "Moreover, the pro-people officials should be familiar with local affairs, and if they are like the county orders of the Han Dynasty, those who take more county officials are not invincible because they are accustomed to their affairs." However, at present, the selection of the country is too narrow, and most of the scholars do not understand practice, so how can they be local powerful opponents? ”

He said: "The affairs of local state officials are still particularly complicated, and as a county magistrate, tens of thousands of households are in charge of taxes, and the color is twice as much as in the past. Yongning Hou is familiar with the local officials as officials, and all the common real materials can be used to suppress the local evil officials and squires! ”

He finally said: "Although I still have doubts, I am afraid that in the future, redundant officials and redundant government, but at present, it seems that the policy of Yongning Hou is a good way to change the shortcomings of the dynasty, and I will wait and see what happens in the future." ”

Speaking of this, Ma Guoxi picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all.

Li Banghua's eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but stand up.

Indeed, until now, the system of selecting and appointing officials in the Ming Dynasty has accumulated many drawbacks, and the special imperial examination system has been criticized by all sides.

The Ming Dynasty has come to the present, and all the Jinshi are precious, but these Jinshi are all familiar with the Bagu Wen, and the candidates for local state and county officials are basically served by these scholars who have just released the brown, among these people, there are not ten or two who are familiar with the affairs of the officials, and the weak and incompetent are eight or nine of them.

When the officials were appointed, they were not carefully selected, and often used the method of exploration and planning as the method of selection, which finally created a situation where "the untalented people who were paid with the life of a hundred miles not only harmed the people, but also killed themselves".

It stands to reason that local officials should be appointed by people who are familiar with local affairs, but looking at the above-mentioned eight-share clerks, it is obvious that they are not qualified, they do not understand the real thing, and the local control is in the hands of officials and squires, which can be understood.

And even if the Ming Dynasty is still taking the three subjects of Ming Law, Ming Calculation, and Ming Characters, their status is far less noble than that of Jinshike, and the selection of these professionals is only in institutions related to their majors after admission.

Just like Guozijian's Ming Arithmetic Department, responsible for the entire country's engineering, budget, finance and other matters, things are very important, but the status is very low, and the promotion space is narrow, so every student is unwilling to take these three subjects.

On the contrary, the scholars who are good at Bagu Wen have a broad space for employment and rapid promotion, which of course results in thousands of troops and only being admitted to the Jinshi.

The country and the dynasty have accumulated disadvantages, how can Li Banghua not know? But where does the reform start?

Speaking of the ethics of officials, in fact, it is not much better, not long better than the officials, the scholars who have read the books of sages and sages, when they finally become officials, are also greedy and arrogant, without the slightest desire to serve the country.

There is also a strange situation, the poorer the background, the harder the people who study hard, in the end, they are often more greedy, and they have the tendency to ask for money and not die.

Li Banghua has been in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for many years, and he actually understands the minds of these people.

Officials from wealthy families are like well-fed wolves and leopards, and they must also pay attention to their appearance, these officials from poor families don't care about it, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, first get back the past investment, like a vicious wolf on an empty stomach!

And they only read the books of the sages, and they don't listen to the things outside the window, they are usually nerds, and when they get to the place, in addition to cooperating to make money, what ability do they have?

After thinking about it, Li Banghua finally sighed, perhaps, you can see where the official assessment system of Yongning Hou will go in the future.

Although he believed that there were many problems with this law, the ethics of the special officials did not reassure him. After all, officials at all levels and parents are the officials closest to the people. Its moral character is directly related to local chaos and people's livelihood suffering.

He chanted: "If you want to be close to the people, you must first be close to the officials of the herdsmen, and then the merit of peace can be expected...... I'll wait and see! ”

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Li Banghua decided to stop the journey of the private interview, along the way, the continuous stimulation has made him unbearable, the kind of "Longtan Tiger's Den" in the state city, and he doesn't want to go, for fear that what he hears and sees will make him vomit blood.

Next, the two of them ordered a meal to eat. Talk about something light. Ma Guoxi ordered a table of dishes, two people drank together, a few entourage, and another table was opened next to them.

Look at the fish and meat on the table. The meals were very generous. Li Banghua said: "Why spend so much? ”

Tsushima Seal. Li Banghua became more and more appreciative, although the two had different factions and conflicting political ideas. However, although Ma Guoxi's words and deeds made Li Banghua feel that he was loyal, filial and righteous, and Ma Guoxi was stationed on the East Road, which also made Li Banghua feel a little relieved.

And the old official system like them, now that they have no gray income, it is not easy to accumulate some money and food on weekdays, and along the way, they eat and drink with their own group, and Ma Guoxi is paying for it privately, which makes Li Banghua a little unhappy.

Ma Guoxi said with a smile: "It's okay, in fact, although this banquet seems to be rich, it doesn't cost much, even the entourage table, a total of only one round and five corners." The most expensive is these wines, after all, Xuanfu Town has a law, and winemakers are heavily taxed. ”

"A circle and five corners?"

Li Banghua was surprised, the meals on the two tables were only one or two or five dollars in total?

Of course, he knows that a silver dollar in Xuanfu Town is "nine into five with silver", and it can be really discounted into one or two gold and silver. Because almost every piece has the same shape, color, and weight, one can be used as a piece, not to mention in Xuanfu Town, but now in Beijing, the value is very strong.

Many large families like to use the silver yuan of Xuanfu Town, which is simple and convenient, and saves many troubles such as the color and weight of silver in the past.

The acceptance rate of the people is also very high, of course, it is rare to see idlers such as silver yuan, but it is copper yuan, and many small people are using it.

What surprised Li Banghua was that the price here was so low, put it in Beijing, these two tables of food, there were not many silver yuan that could not come down, and there was only one circle and five corners here?

Ma Guoxi said: "Yes, this is because of the high prices in Baozhou, if it is placed in Huailai City, it will be cheaper." ”

He laughs, "If you use food stamps, it will cost less." ”

Li Banghua said: "Food stamps? ”

Ma Guoxi introduced that the price of Xuanfu Town is roughly equivalent to the price of Wanli years, a silver dollar, almost can buy rice and a stone, in terms of the value of the later generations, in Huailai City, it is equivalent to 350 yuan in later generations, and in Baoanzhou, it is equivalent to about 300 yuan.

Moreover, because the credit of food stamps has been affirmed, more and more people use food stamps, especially those local military households and ordinary people in Xuanfu Town, many large transactions are using food stamps, after all, light and fluttering paper money has more advantages than relatively heavy silver yuan.

Only outsiders are still skeptical, and most of them are using silver and copper rounds.

Li Banghua pondered: "The prices here are low, so there will be no merchants who buy grain and rice, hoard them, and transport them to other places for profit?" ”

Ma Guoxi smiled: "Of course, businessmen are all unprofitable and unprofitable, and they are profitable, how can they not see this?" ”

He said: "The key is in the grain store in Xuanfu Town!" ”

He said: "The grain store in Xuanfu Town, according to the law, has the right to buy grain from the military households and the common people first, and every city and fort is fully stocked. When the grain is cheap, it will be purchased at a high price to prevent the grain from hurting the peasants, and when the grain is expensive, it will be sold at a low price to prevent the people from starving. ”

"In the past few years, the market has roughly formed, that is, one or two silver to buy one stone of rice, and the cities have some twists and turns, and they have not moved much."

He said lightly: "As for the unscrupulous merchants, the grain stores have sufficient financial resources, and they rely on the entire shogunate, to fight, there are few merchants who can fight them, if the Jin merchants and the East Road merchants fought back then, the major merchants are all lost, and they dare not underestimate the power of this town,...... Although there is no huge profit, it is better to be stable and long-term, and many businessmen do not want to do much...... What's more, Xuanfu Town now has the crime of hoarding again, and many people are also scared of being killed......"

Li Banghua had to admit that in matters of people's livelihood, Wang Dou had done an excellent job.

Looking at the rest of the Ming Dynasty, merchants colluded with the gentry, and the purchase price of autumn grain was set very low, and when the green and yellow were not accepted, their grain sales were set very high, so the people were miserable, and the price of goods here was stable, which was indeed the blessing of the people.

The two of them drank together. The taste of the wine and food satisfied Li Banghua.

At this time, when it was time to get off work, I heard the noise outside, and groups of workers from the factories hurried to the restaurants in the towns to eat, and the large and small rice shops and noodle stalls were crowded, and the originally spacious streets were also tightly embraced.

The arrival of all kinds of people made the town lively, and Li Banghua looked down from the window. There are also groups of sewing girls outside. All of them have a vulgar face and are rude, and they just go to the noodle stall to eat, causing the same rough man next to them to squeeze their eyebrows. Giggling and whistling.

Those seamstresses are not afraid. Or scolding back. or angry eyebrows, they are also quite strong, and many people are full of "old women". almost made Li Banghua swallow in the face of food.

Li Banghua knew that when the displaced people entered Xuanfu Town, they had to go to the shelter first, and then set up a situation to resettle. Generally speaking, honest people in the countryside who have a complete family and can endure hard work will be admitted to Tunpu to maintain the pure and benign nature of Tunpu.

However, the more people who enter the country, what will happen to the rest? They can only be left to fend for themselves. In particular, people who do not have a skill are the main force of various factories and mines, doing cheap jobs and hard work that locals do not want to do.

From Li Banghua's point of view, these people, whether they are men or women, are all people who lack education, do evil deeds, and are uneven, the source of evil.

In particular, a steady stream of displaced people entered, and they competed with these people for jobs, and sooner or later there would be an incident.

Of course, Li Banghua upstairs watched, he was bitter, but these people on the street would not understand this, one by one, laughing and laughing, in groups of three or five, just eating in a daze.

Although they eat frugally, the price of grain here is not expensive, and there are many livestock farms, even many people have meat and eggs on the dinner table.

Many seamstresses are still eating a kind of pasta called "Yongning City Fat Meat Noodles", Li Banghua once saw the propaganda of this kind of noodles in the Xuanfu Times: "Yongning City Fat Meat Noodles, one copper round can eat two large bowls, there are vegetables and meat, and the Hou Ye said that it was good to eat it." ”

One copper round and two bowls, and the copper circle in Xuanfu Town is generally "ten wen per coin", that is to say, five wen money is made of one bowl of noodles, there are vegetables and meat, and one bowl can be eaten, no wonder many people are eating.

Thinking about the situation in Beijing, along the way, and then looking at the original homeless people who worked in Beijing, not to mention that they were full of food, they could even eat meat, that is, the rest of the Ming Dynasty, the landlords and rich peasants, did not dare to eat like this, Li Banghua couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "The folk customs here are too extravagant, and it is not the way to be thrifty." ”

Ma Guoxi said with a smile: "The small people can also eat meat, and they can't complain that the homeless people yearn for it and come here." ”

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After drinking and eating, Li Banghua, Ma Guoxi and others went downstairs and walked on the street, full of evil deeds and evil people, one by one frivolous women, which made Li Banghua feel quite uneasy, and just wanted to leave this place quickly.

Suddenly, there was a commotion around the corner ahead, and I heard someone shouting, "There's a fight." ”

Then people from all around surrounded them, and even many people from rice shops and noodle stalls ran out.

It is the nature of Chinese people to watch the excitement, and Li Banghua is no exception, he originally wanted to leave, but unknowingly, he walked up, Ma Guoxi and a cadre of attachés, can only follow.

When he went to take a look, the front black pressure circle was already full of people, Li Banghua had to stand in the back wall, he faintly saw that there seemed to be two people who looked like factory owners in the middle, they were arguing and spitting, it seemed to be some kind of commercial dispute.

Then their workers were fighting, but fortunately they were all bare-handed, without knives or sticks.

Unconsciously, Li Banghua stood further forward and saw a group of people beside him, but they were the people from Baoanzhou who he had seen in the restaurant.

Some of them frowned, some drew swords to protect their family and friends, and some complained, "Why are there so many beatings recently, call for patrols." ”

There are also people accusing the two factory owners: "Yang Da, Sun Er, what are you two doing?" Why did you fight in the streets? This is a great sin! ”

"yes, what are you waiting for? If there is anything, you can't sit down and talk about it well, instigate the workers to fight, and be careful of being caught in the patrol room. ”

That Yang Da and Sun Er were also a little timid in the face of the accusations of their fellow villagers, and they were about to call it a day, when suddenly someone shouted: "The patrol is coming." ”

Like birds and beasts scattering, the people on the street roared, scattered in all directions, and the two bosses who were originally together, many people also ran away, Yang Da and Sun Er all screamed: "Don't run, if you run, you will enter the shelter, ah, don't run, I'm unlucky if I run......"

A gust of wind came, and the outer hat on Li Banghua's head disappeared immediately, and one didn't know who passed by Li Banghua and took his hat away, not to mention, another didn't know who hurriedly bumped into Li Banghua, so that he almost staggered backwards and fell out.

"My lord, let's go......"

Ma Guoxi and his attachés rushed up, grabbed Li Banghua, and ran away as well.

It's not a good thing that the patrol is coming, and if you check the documents at that time, it's even more difficult to explain, so you can talk about it after running away.

They were as anxious as lost dogs, busy like fish that had slipped through the net, and ran out of the town in one breath, only then did Li Banghua come back to his senses and find that his shoes had run away at any time, and he was still wearing a drape, which was really sweeping the floor. (To be continued.) )