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Chapter Seventy-Nine: So Great?

After Fan Hongdao asked, there was no movement behind the bamboo curtain opposite. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Miss Zhang Tongxiu Zhang was already speechless at this time, and she also found that since she met Fan Hongdao, language stoppers have almost become commonplace.

She really admired Fan Hongdao's deployment and calculations, and she was sincere in praising Fan Hongdao just now. But under normal circumstances, after a person is praised, shouldn't he continue to be humble? How can there be such a question as Fan Hongdao?

Fan Hongdao's inquiry just now was like when someone praised you for doing a good job, but after hearing it, you responded: "Tell me more about what I did well?"

Zhang Tongxiu held his pink fist and secretly warned himself: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, he is such a crazy life, and he is not worthy of being stimulated by him to get angry." ”

Since Fan Hongdao wants to listen to a few more words of praise, then she will pinch her nose and say a few more words, and a piece of meat is indispensable, so it should be regarded as the retribution for refusing Fan Hongdao's request for help last time.

So Miss Zhang re-spoke: "My eldest son rules all directions and the four seas, and the imperial court decrees are spread all over the world, isn't that the case?"

What is there to question if such politically correct words are? Although he did not understand what Miss Zhang wanted to say, Fan Hongdao replied very politically: "Naturally. ”

"But what about the reality?" Miss Zhang continued, "Mr. Fan, you are also from Weimo, and you have probably heard and witnessed the situation in the countryside. Some people say that the imperial power does not go to the countryside and the government decree does not go out of the county, but this sentence is not nonsense, right?"

Fan Hongdao, as a person who knows a little about history, is certainly no stranger to this sentence. This is not to say that the emperor and the imperial court could not rule down to the village level, otherwise where would the levy of errands and taxes come from?

The true meaning of this sentence actually refers to the fact that the officials sent by the imperial court are basically only dispatched to the county level, and also directly rule to the county level. The vast rural areas below the county level rely to a large extent on self-government.

This kind of autonomy is linked by the clan and led by the gentry, forming a complete and mature set of rules, which have almost the same effect as the letter of the law. In other words, even if there are no Ming laws, rural areas can operate skillfully according to this set of rules.

The gentry, who were active in the villages, became the biggest beneficiaries of this system. The government and the court above need to rely on these gentry to govern the countryside, and the common people below need to rely on these gentry to communicate with the government.

Therefore, on the one hand, these gentry were the de facto rulers of the villages, and on the other hand, they were the figures who represented the villages in their negotiations with the government, and at the same time controlled the monopoly of knowledge, and formed a network of connections that extended in all directions by using the study and imperial examinations as a link.

Fan Hongdao understands all of the above truths, but he doesn't understand why Miss Zhang said it at this time, and what does it have to do with praising herself?

Seeing that Fan Hongdao could understand the state of the rural government, Miss Zhang didn't need to bother with this aspect, and said: "This is the case in the countryside, but it is another in the city.

Most of the residents in the streets and alleys of the city are gathered from all directions, and they are not related to each other, not to mention the clan power, so the people's hearts are far less cohesive than the villages, and there is a lack of local leaders such as the squire. ”

Fan Hongdao nodded, he found that Miss Zhang was very politically insightful, and her analysis was not wrong at all.

Zhang Tongxiu finally stepped into the topic, and his tone gradually became high-spirited: "The concubine didn't pay much attention to the neighborhood before, but Mr. Fan, you were far-sighted and saw the opportunity!"

This is one of them to create a momentum with the help of evil deeds; and then the concubine hears that you want to form a new type of alliance, which is also a clever move! The concubine has already figured out that this kind of alliance can actually be compared to a clan in the village, and if you can control the alliance, it is tantamount to the gentry in the village!

Between the imperial court and the people at the bottom, there has always been a need for an intermediate class. In the countryside, the middle class is the gentry, but there is a lack of such a class in the city, maybe the merchants need heroes like you, as the so-called times create heroes!

Mr. Fan's grand idea is probably to reconstruct an autonomous system similar to that of a village based on the neighborhood outside Chongwenmen! With this solid foundation, Mr. Fan's influence in the capital can be magnified tenfold and hundredfold!

Only now did the concubine see Mr. Fan's deployment clearly, and the concubine refused to help before, she was too short-sighted and regretted it in her heart. In the future, I hope that Mr. Fan will give advice regardless of his past suspicions!"

The more Fan Hongdao listened, the more shocked he became, and finally he couldn't help but be dumbfounded and speechless for a long time, why didn't he find out that he was so great?

Originally, he wanted to brush up his reputation, and then build a mass base on his own, so that when he was politically needed in the future, someone would help him contribute money and efforts, so that he would not be isolated.

But in Miss Zhang's mouth, this has actually become a great social experiment to rebuild the underlying order and build a political ecology?

Fan Daxiu could not only be convinced by this theory, but what else could he say? He wanted to know very much, what kind of family could educate such a political animal-like woman?

Miss Zhang said a little while the iron was hot: "The most important factor for the rule of the rural gentry to be recognized by the people is that the gentry have a strong influence on the government and can be trusted by the common people!"

Take Mr. Fan as an example, the trust of the neighborhood merchants in you is mainly due to the fact that you have defeated Qin County, so the merchants have temporarily recognized and respected you.

However, although Mr. Fan won the first game of Qinxian Cheng, if he wants to complete the idea, he still lacks some influence from the government, and this is your biggest disadvantage at present!"

Hearing this, if Fan Hongdao still can't hear what Miss Zhang meant, then find a place to end it by himself as soon as possible, and there is no need to waste time struggling at all. The meaning couldn't be more obvious - you Fan Hongdao don't have many official connections, but she Miss Zhang does!

However, some words came out of Miss Zhang's mouth, and the meaning was not the same as when they came out of his own mouth first. So Fan Hongdao still asked knowingly: "What about your opinion?"

Zhang Tongxiu did not hide it, and said clearly: "The concubine is willing to work together with Mr. Fan and help Mr. Fan!"

It turned out that Miss Zhang was a little dark, and although she lived in the Chongwenmen business district, she couldn't afford to look down on businessmen who lacked political status. She has always been accustomed to working diligently in officialdom and Shilin, looking for opportunities to expand her influence and control public opinion.

But unexpectedly, Fan Hongdao's birth made her feel her narrowness. After thinking it through, I immediately couldn't wait to cooperate with Fan Hongdao.

Fan Hongdao thought for a while and replied: "I will leave for Shanxi to run an errand, and everything will be discussed after I come back from Shanxi!"