In an unknown small courtyard on the shore of Dayan Lake, Wang Jian and Gao Yuan formally signed an agreement, clarifying the relationship between the two sides, and the Han also officially owned his first subject country, so far, the most important task of the two sides is completed, and the next some bilateral cooperation, naturally brought by Wang Jian subordinates and Gao Yuan's subordinates to negotiate, Wang Jian pretended to be Gao Yuan's entourage with great interest, and followed Gao Yuan to start the official inspection of Dayan County, for Wang Jian, the current Han Dynasty, all the time to give him a great impact, Whether it is the development of the Han Kingdom or the concept of the Han people.

He saw the infinite support of the people of Dayan County for Gao Yuan, that kind of respect from the heart, which made Wang Jian's heart tremble, but at the same time, he also observed that the people here did not have any special fear of officials, but those officials were a little deliberately trying to please ordinary people, at least in Wang Jian's opinion, he saw those big councilors in Gao Yuan's mouth, one of whom Wang Jian also recognized, it was Tian Yuan, who was once powerful in the former Qi State, and this big councilor was in a small-scale exchange, openly refuted the high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Capital Protectorate Sun Xiao, and made a big deal of criticism of some of his policies, but Sun Xiao always smiled and kept explaining to the parliamentarians present, and Gao Yuan, who was on the throne, obviously stood in a middle position, and did not favor Sun Xiao because he was his henchman.

This made Wang Jian very incomprehensible, if the Han Dynasty was like this everywhere, how could the authority of the government exist? How can we herd one side and rule the world?

Wang Jian saw the latest issue of the Han Weekly, and saw the big case about Liaolin County from there, which was a case that shook the Han Dynasty, and the county guard Mao Dewang was dismissed from his post and transferred to the Third Military Region to serve in front of the army, which was an out-and-out debasement in the Han court. And hundreds of officials from the three counties of Liaodong lost their posts for this. What shocked Wang Jian even more was that Mu Tu, the great hero who exposed this big case, was finally sentenced to death by the circuit court sent by the Han court to the three counties of Liaodong, and the dozen or so leaders who followed Mu Tu to launch the riot were also sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from ten to twenty years one by one.

There are too many things in the Han Dynasty that Wang Jian doesn't understand, and there are many ideas that are contrary to Wang Jian's rule of the country and the world. According to Wang Jian's cognition, such a country should be chaotic and on the verge of collapse, but the fact is that the country's national strength is thriving, and the strength it has displayed is beyond its reach.

He sent someone to collect every issue of the Dahan Weekly since the date of its publication, and collected all kinds of laws and regulations issued by the Dahan, and he was going to take these things back and study them carefully. Leaving its essence and going to the dross, Wang Jian thinks that he is a good scholar who is not afraid to learn the strengths of others, and over time, he will definitely create a world that is not inferior to the Han Dynasty.

Ten days later, Gao Yuan ended his inspection of Dayan County, and the king set off and returned all the way. It will pass through Liaoxi and go to the river. After detouring to Yuyang and entering Qianzhaodi, and then returning to Jiyang, Wang Jian's trip was also a successful end.

After sending Gao Yuan away, Wang Jian returned to the post house where he lived, and Huang Xiao, who was in charge of the specific negotiations, was also waiting for him tiredly.

"Good work." Looking at Huang Xiao, who had almost lost a lot of weight, Wang Jian said.

"This is the duty of subordinates." Huang Xiaodao: "It's just a general, these Han people are too treacherous." Even a word has to be carefully picked, and even a copper plate has to be considered, which is really speechless. ”

"This is the characteristic of Dahan!" Wang Jian said with a smile: "Two days ago, I attended a meeting of councilors in Dayan County with Gao Yuan, do you know what I saw? Their parliamentarian was in front of Sun Xiao. The Eastern Capital Protectorate, which directly questioned Sun Xiao, spent far more than the budget on entertaining guests in the first half of the year. ”

"How do these councillors know about Sun Xiao's expenses for entertaining guests?" Huang Xiaoqi said.

"Because every quarter, these expenses of the government have to be announced, and any member of parliament has the right to request an audit." Wang Jian said: "How is it, it's very strange, right?" Moreover, this excess part was originally spent on Gao Yuan's current inspection, and in last year's budget, there was no such expenditure, and Gao Yuan's current inspection was temporarily decided because of our visit. ”

"Isn't it over? Sun Xiao didn't put it in his own waist bag or eat it in his stomach! Huang Xiaodao.

"The problem is here, some councilors, especially that Tian Yuanyuan, said in front of Gao Yuan, if there is no budget, it should not be spent, and the king's trip will cost a lot, which will inevitably bring great difficulties to the operation of the Dayan County government next year, guess how it was solved in the end?"

Huang Xiao really felt a little incredible, leading the shore of the land, it was not the king's land, Gao Yuan came to Dayan County for a trip, the officials of Dayan County should be excited Mo Mingcai, why did Gao Yuan spend their money?

"In the end, Gao Yuan promised that this time the expenses would be paid by him privately." Wang Jian stared at Huang Xiao and said.

Huang Xiao opened his mouth wide, and he couldn't turn a corner in his mind, "King Han's private payment?" The whole Han is his, he pays, and in the end it is not paid by the treasury, isn't this putting the money in the left hand into the right hand? ”

"No!" Wang Jian pulled out one of the specially selected newspapers in the room, "Look at an anecdote published in this newspaper, it is Gao Yuan who has failed to recover his salary from his finance minister, and he is angry and chased after him, but he has not yet hit it. ”

Huang Xiao read it at a glance and couldn't laugh or cry: "This, this is really a big joke." ”

"It's not a joke!" Wang Jian sighed and said: "Gao Yuan is indeed a holy monarch that I have never seen, so if Gao Yuan is one day, our Great Qin will never turn over, do you understand now, why do I say that I want to lie down and try my courage, and use a generation or even several generations to work hard?" ”

"Or maybe it's just a show." Huang Xiao thought for a while and said: "Maybe that Tian Yuan will be unlucky when he turns his head, he is not clean in the first place, and now he dares to sweep the face of the King of Han like this, even if Gao Yuan is a holy monarch, he doesn't think it is wrong, but I am afraid that there are people below who will help the King of Han clean him up." ”

"You're wrong again." Wang Jian sighed: "Gao Yuan also specially introduced Tian Yuanyuan to me, claiming that he is the most popular candidate for the next Dayan County Guard, do you know how the next Dayan County Guard was selected?" They are elected by the councillors of Dayan County, and those councillors are elected by one vote of all the people of Dayan County, except for men and women who have reached the age of sixteen. You have the right to one vote. ”

"The governor of a county is also chosen like this? Where is the right of the king? How else did he control these local officials? Huang Xiao changed color. Isn't the central government's inability to effectively control local officials the beginning of trouble? ”

"I don't understand either, but at least now it seems that Dahan doesn't have this problem, and I also asked Gao Yuan, this kind of election county guard. It is also still in the pilot, and only no more than ten counties in the first batch of the entire Han Dynasty have adopted this method, all of which are old foundations and old base areas when they started from Gao Yuan in the past. In other places, it is still appointed by the central government. But I think Gao Yuan's meaning is to gradually spread out, we have been in Dayan County for so long, you should have heard that their first assistant this term was also elected by the chief councilor! ”

"I heard. Yan Shenghao and Wu Qi competed, and in the end, Yan Shenghao narrowly won. ”

"I wondered, did Gao Yuan want to engage in the kind of hypocritical policy of the ancient times, but what good did it do him? Could it be that a founding monarch like him was willing to be overturned by his subordinates and made a high wood carving clay sculpture? Wang Jian said.

"Not really, at least the military power is still in his hands."

"Also, this is the only right that Gao Yuan still holds in his hands. Miscellaneous. It's all in his political hall. However, the government hall was elected by the Great Council. Forget it, let's not talk about it. There are too many things that we don't understand, so let's study them slowly after we go back, how are you talking about it? ”

"They gave everything, and according to the procurement catalogue given to us by King Han, the director of the military industry bureau promised to meet the supply. It's just that the price is a bit high, and this first batch of purchases, according to their original estimates, is as high as five million yuan, which is five million taels of silver. Where can we get it? Huang Xiao said distressedly.

"So much?" Wang Jian was taken aback. "How many things did you want?"

"I'm counting it on the basis of 50,000 people changing clothes." Huang Xiaodao: "General, if you form an elite army of about 20,000 and a standing army of about 30,000, this is the lowest number, and I didn't count the rest of the ones you talked about that were purchased by the manor owners themselves." ”

"In the past few years, we have worked tirelessly, and we have only accumulated three million taels in the treasury, and the battle of the invasion of the black-clothed food, the consumption plus the post-war pension, one million taels is gone, where do we find so much money? Can I owe some of it first? Wang Jian said.

"Gao Quan told me that if there is no money, you can borrow from their central bank, but as soon as the interest is calculated, I was shocked again, I was going to pay one million taels in advance, and the remaining four million taels will be paid off in years, but according to their interest, according to our financial income, I am afraid that we will never be able to pay it off, but we will have to buy weapons from them later, many of these weapons are consumables, if it is not for the imminent invasion of the black-clothed food, I really want to leave with my sleeves."

"Isn't there another compromise?" Wang Jian also kept shaking his head: "For example, reduce the interest?" ”

Gao Quan said that this is already the lowest interest. General, there is really no way, after we go back, we can only think of ideas on top of taxes, let's raise taxes, as long as we repel the black-clothed food and beat them to death, we won't need so many weapons in the future. It's always time to relax. Huang Xiao sighed.

"If there's no other way, that's the only way to go." This is the only way that Wang Jian can think of.

There was a knock on the door outside, and a guard walked in and reported to Wang Jianyu: "General, a merchant has come outside, claiming to be a hitchhiker, and wants to meet the general. ”

"A businessman? Where the general has time to see him, send him away. Huang Xiaozheng was not angry, and when he heard that a businessman was visiting, he was immediately annoyed.

"Wait a minute!" Wang Jian stopped: "Huang Xiao, my coming to Dayan County is confidential, and there are few people who know it, how can a businessman know about it, don't you think it's strange?" I'm afraid that this businessman is not simple, let him in, and I will meet him. (To be continued......)