Zhao Yu became an official after coming to this world, and in order to facilitate his work, he also made up for the social structure and administrative system of this era. After the opening of the mansion, he dealt with Kumon every day, and with the teachings of the three teachers, he had a better understanding of the ruling methods and systems of the Song Dynasty.

In the state and county yamen of the Song Dynasty, in addition to the officials appointed by the central government, there were also a large number of officials. In the state-level government, there are Confucian officials, hook officials, demolition officials, detention officials, grain officials, and so on; In the county yamen, there are charges, records, hand divisions, stickers, etc.; Below the county level, there are also townships and li, and the government sends the landlords of the villages to be the lizheng, the head of the household, and the elderly. Li Zheng and the head of the household are responsible for "supervising and paying taxes". The elders specialize in "chasing thieves". In short, these villages are the most basic officials in the bureaucracy. It can be seen that officials are an important and non-negligible part of the ruling group, and their names are numerous, and their main duties are to collect taxes and handle prison lawsuits.

And some of the sources of officials are recruited, some are sent, and some are hereditary, and the father dies and the son succeeds. But the vast majority of them are selected from the situation households. According to the system of the Song Dynasty, the rural households were required to serve in the service, that is, the official service of the state and county yamen or the head of the rural grass-roots political power. Although the criteria for dividing households vary from place to place, rural households often own more than a few hundred acres of land, and in modern parlance, they are landlords and rich peasants.

It can be seen that the situation household was the basis of the rule of the Song Dynasty, and the emperor relied on the courtiers to govern the country, and relied on local officials and situation households to manage the country and maintain the rule of the people. Legally, the officials in the situation households do not have specific rights, whether they are in rotation or voluntarily vote, and most of them have no employment money. After the implementation of the conscription law, officials such as the Tui Si paid more money, but the standard was very low, while most public officials, such as the head of the head and the bucket, still did not pay the hired money. In addition, there is a lack of effective incentive policies such as evaluation and promotion, and there are fewer opportunities for them to enter the office. Therefore, he acted as a servant and was regarded as a heavy burden by the upper households.

The workload of these officials is heavy, and the punishment for any transgression is heavier. And because the remuneration is meager, they try to be harsh, take advantage of the opportunity to run errands for personal gain, or assist the chief to act as a traitor and make a profit. Therefore, on the one hand, they are the targets of extortion and contempt by higher-level officials, and there are even those who are bankrupt for this. But on the other hand, they also use power to gain power, and these two phenomena also reflect the characteristics of traditional Chinese grassroots administration.

Where you can't figure it out, you can make up "Water Margin", Song Jiang was born into the house, and was conscripted by the government to serve as the central detention department of the yamen. He has no salary, but he lives well and has spare money to support his outer room. When encountering 'heroes' in difficulty, he often received dozens of taels of silver in funding, and won the name of timely rain in the rivers and lakes. It can be imagined that his boss, the magistrate, has a monthly salary of only about 30 yuan, where did he get so much money, and he may not be able to withstand his squandering with the income of 100 acres of land at home, and there is only one way to make money - to collect money with power and loot the people.

Chao Gai is a fellow villager of Song Jiang and a small official, but his status is even lower, just a Baozheng. During the time of Shenzong, the law of protecting the armor was implemented, stipulating that every five households were one guarantee, fifty households were one big guarantee, and five hundred households were one metropolitan guarantee. He is in charge of a village, and he is estimated to be a capital baozheng, specializing in collecting money and dispatching workers, and arresting thieves. Even so, the little official can call the wind and rain in the village, can enslave the villagers to his home to help for free, lead the township soldiers to arrest people at will, and even if he commits a crime, he can coerce a group of people to kill the official with him and rebel, which shows that this official is really not big, but the energy is really not small!

Some people say that modern China is a humane society, but in fact, it was even more so in the Great Song Dynasty, which was an agricultural society. These officials at the bottom of the administrative system have the power to collect taxes and send money to workers, and some will exempt relatives and friends from servitude, and will also give each other a green light to flee after receiving gifts. No one in the big hometown knows what's going on, and this kind of unfair thing happens from time to time, which will make other people have opinions and turn to passive confrontation, or even direct confrontation.

In addition, in this era of manpower and lack of medical treatment, whether it is a township soldier or a civilian husband, it is life-threatening to accept conscription, and it is possible that you will not be able to come back if you go; In addition, those who serve in the conscription not only have to contribute their own money and efforts, but also often lose livestock and tools, but the losses can only be borne by themselves; In addition, conscription not only works quite hard, but also may delay farm work, which can be said to be laborious and unprofitable; Finally, once they are recruited, they will leave their hometowns, and how willing they are to be small farmers who like to go around at home.

Therefore, Zhao Yu felt that it was normal for the people to have a tendency to escape, but he not only had to defend Qiongzhou, but also to build Qiongzhou in the future, and it was impossible to complete it without the support of the people, so it was necessary to have strong control and mobilization efficiency over human and material resources in order to mobilize huge manpower and material resources. However, this is not always possible with executive orders and coercion alone, which requires the re-establishment of a coherent system of power at the grassroots level. Now that the root cause has been found, how to solve it is the key......

Now that the rectification of Qiongzhou officialdom has entered the final stage, those who stand in the pit and don't, those who stretch their hands everywhere, and those who are full and have nothing to wait for death have been cleaned up. And Zhao Yu knew that the chief official was only the beginning, no matter how capable he was, it was impossible for him to bow to everything, otherwise he would not be able to finish it if he was tired, so a lot of specific work still needed to be done with the help of officials from the upper and lower levels. However, if no change is made and the old practice of requisitioning officials is still used, the result will be that the same mistakes will be repeated in a few days, so the existing system must be reformed.

Now that the key point has been found, what can be done to build a team of officials who can recruit and fight? He knew that the reason why the officials were not active in their work, or even treated them negatively, and that the phenomenon of violating laws and disciplines was endless, was nothing more than several reasons: First, the wages were too low or none, making it difficult for them to guarantee their basic livelihood. Therefore, the wicked officials used their power for personal gain to extort the people, and some of them treated them negatively or picked on them. The two are that there are many officials without establishment, that is to say, they are temporary workers, there is no pension for work-related injuries and war deaths, there is no pension for retirement, and there is no bonus for good work; The third is that the rising channel is blocked, and it is difficult to climb to the sky if you want to turn dry, so it is inevitable to give birth to the idea that doing good and bad is the same, and making a little more is a little more...... (To be continued.) )