The carriage drove smoothly on the wide gallop road, although the weather was hot, but in the closed carriage, it was cool, and a large basin of ice cubes was bubbling white, making the inside and outside of the car completely two worlds.

Opposite Li Ze, sat Zhang Xun, who had been supervising the government for two whole years. Compared with Li Ze back then, the current chapter has a neat little beard, and he looks a little more majestic than in the past.

In the past, when he was a confidential secretary by Li Ze's side, although the position was extremely important and everyone gave him some face, all the people who came and went to Li Ze's side were high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and Zhang Xun was naturally cautious. But after being in charge, as the leader of the governor of Shandong, the appearance of being in a high position was fully revealed, and in his every move, he may not feel it himself, but Li Ze felt his changes.

It's a matter of location.

Raising the body, moving the qi, the current Zhang Xun, and the scholar next to Li Ze are completely two people.

"The road has been repaired well, and in two years, the main road from Qingzhou to Jiaozhou Bay has been repaired, which is very good." Feeling the stability of the carriage, Li Ze nodded in approval.

Zhang Xun smiled and said: "The chief executives in Shandong are basically from Wuwei Academy, everyone is a person who has been influenced by Li Xiang for a long time, for Li Xiang's six-character remark that if you want to get rich, you must first build a road, everyone is in mind, after taking office, the first thing is always to build a road, in the first place." Now that the main roads in various places have been largely completed, the next step is the branches, and in another five years, I think I will be able to connect the whole Shandong with a thoroughfare. ”

"When the road is good, the flow of people will be easier, the circulation of goods will reduce costs, the trade of goods will be prosperous, there will be more people, and the knowledge of local people will naturally increase day by day, which is a matter that involves the whole body." Li Ze said with a smile. "Look at all the lands of our north, it's all like that."

"One more thing, I think it's more important in terms of the new places that belong to us." Zhang Xundao: "After repairing the highway connecting various places, the government's control over the local area has also been greatly strengthened, and we only need a small number of armed forces to control a large area, and when the number of armed forces is reduced, the effect of control will be greatly strengthened." Today, along these gallops, we have built a post station every fifty miles, and the speed of information transmission has been greatly accelerated. ”

"It's a lot of money to maintain these stations, right?" Li Zedao.

"Basically, there is no need for the government to allocate money." Zhang Xun said with a smile: "The post stations around the country can basically be self-sufficient, and some big post stations even make a lot of money. ”

"Oh?" Li Ze was interested, "How did you do it?" ”

"We gave the station a lot of autonomy!" Zhang Xun said with a smile: "These post stations can deliver letters and send items on behalf of the people, and some houses can be used as inns, teahouses, taverns and so on. Some small post stations can basically earn back their operating expenses, such as the cost of raising horses, and the salaries of those messengers, and the big post stations have been able to make money since this year. ”

Li Ze was stunned.

Suddenly, I felt a little ashamed, over the years, I have rarely used my brains in this regard, the main reason is that the court is now gradually loosening up on finances, and I no longer worry about money, but I have faded a lot of thoughts about making money, and I have lost all of them to the following. And Xia He, who is in charge of finance, is naturally a master in finance, but when it comes to these matters, she doesn't know why.

"It's a good idea." Li Ze nodded again and again: "It can be extended." As you know, our post station in the north relies on the imperial court every year, and the cost of the next year is really a lot. ”

"When I first started doing it, it was because I didn't have enough money." Zhang Xundao: "At that time, Zhang Guo, the county magistrate of Gaomi County, put forward this idea and began to implement it in Gaomi first, with remarkable results, and then I promoted it throughout Shandong. ”

"This Zhang Guo is a talent!" Li Ze smiled: "You can come up with this method!" ”

"Zhang Guo graduated from the School of Finance of Wuwei Academy." Zhang Xundao: "At that time, he was in Gaomi, and he was also short of money everywhere, and if he was poor, he thought about change. Now Zhang Guo is already an official in charge of this part of our entire Shandong Province. ”

"Since they can make their own money and run their own business, how can they ensure the integrity of officials and their enthusiasm to make money?" Li Ze thought of a question and asked.

"Li Xiang really thought far-reaching, and suddenly pointed to the key point of the problem." Zhang Xun nodded again and again: "Zhang Guo is now struggling with this problem. This year, there was a case, which was inside the post station system. And the person who had the accident was Zhang Guo's old subordinate back then, and he was also the first batch of officials to run the post station. At the end of last quarter, the chief officer of this post station was found to be guilty of corruption when he left office for auditing. ”

Li Ze nodded thoughtfully.

Sure enough, it's still the same old problem.

"This person, is Zhang Guo's old subordinate, capable, and has also made a lot of contributions to the promotion of the post station, you say how much he is greedy, I can't say, every month, he gets more than 100 taels of silver for himself, more than a year, greedy for more than 1,000 taels." Zhang Xun shook his head.

"It's not a question of quantity, it's a matter of principle." Li Ze interrupted the chapter.

"Yes, that's exactly the case, so even if Zhang Guo is a pity, he didn't intercede, this person has gone to prison now." Zhang Xundao: "The great future was ruined in one fell swoop, and this time he left office, which was supposed to promote him." Through this incident, Zhang Guo was thinking about how to ensure that the post station could be operated well without such a corruption problem. At one time, Jingguo wanted to completely auction off these post stations and hand them over to the private sector to operate, but these post stations were still responsible for a lot of correspondence between the government, the army and even the internal security system. It is also unrealistic to hand it over to the private sector completely, and it is not possible to hand it over to the private sector and only think about making money. ”

"There can be a certain incentive mechanism." Li Zedao.

"Incentives?"

"Not bad." Li Zedao: "A special institution like this can be distinguished from ordinary officials. For example, if they can earn 1,000 taels of silver every month, then they will take out 1 to 20% as a reward for this team, and the more they earn, the more rewards they will have. Of course, the premise is that on the basis of ensuring the normal operation of the channel, you can't miss your business. ”

Zhang Xun was stunned for a moment: "Is this okay?" The post station officials are all official court officials with rank. ”

"They're a special group of people." Li Ze pondered for a while: "You reminded me of this matter, such a system can be implemented on top of all the businesses run in our country. In the past few years, the places where corruption has been high have been in our business system, and the officials of this high-density post station have only been greedy for a thousand taels of silver, and they are really not ranked. But if we give these people a certain reward, I think, although we can't eliminate corruption, we can always reduce it significantly. These people have an incalculable amount of money every year, but what they can get is a pitiful fixed salary and some official benefits, and the people who deal with them are some big businessmen who have a lot of money, and it is inevitable that there will be an imbalance in their hearts. ”

"Li Xiang, the salaries and benefits of our Datang officials are not low at all."

"People and people know differently, and you can't use your moral standards to demand from others." Li Ze shook his head and said. "Tell Zhang Guo to let him try this mechanism in Shandong, forget it, you have someone call him, and when I have time, I can talk to him about this matter, if it works, then it can be promoted on a large scale."

"Okay." Zhang Xun nodded.

Letting go of this matter, Li Ze looked at Zhang Xun with a smile and said, "How does it feel to be in charge of one or two years?" ”

"Walking on thin ice, trembling!" Zhang Xun said honestly: "In the past, when I was by Li Xiang's side, I didn't have this feeling at all, when I was by your side, although I also heard about important matters, but in general, there were some macro-level big policies, big strategies, even if I sometimes made mistakes, there were Li Xiang, and so many ministers and ministers, they could always point it out to me in time." But on the side of the governor, big and small things have to be heard, and I am the supreme leader here, I am wrong, but no one can necessarily point it out to me, that is to cause a lot of harm. Sometimes my inadvertent words are passed down to the bottom, but they become the instructions of the officials below to carry them out seriously, and it also makes me very distressed, and now I have to turn around in my head several times before I say any word. Think about whether this sentence will cause some bad effects, far from being happy in front of Li Xiang! It's hard, it's too hard. ”

Li Ze laughed: "This is normal, the same feeling as me." But you're still doing very well in Shandong. Zhang Gong is very proud of you! ”

"I learned a lot by doing this by Lee Sang's side." Chapter Follower.

Li Ze smiled and turned his head to look out the window, on both sides of the road, there were large wheat fields, it was already harvest season, and in every field, there were countless people fighting with their sickles. Some of them made Li Ze's eyes light up, although those people were basically naked, but they all wore a red scarf around their necks, even if the weather was so hot, they didn't take it off.

That's a member of Yee Hing Society.

Following Li Ze's gaze, Zhang Xun said: "In the past two years, the development of Yixing Society in Shandong has been very fast, this is a mutual aid group organized by Yixing Society to help the people harvest. The harvest is only a few days old, and if it is missed, the harvest will be greatly affected when the rain comes. ”

"It looks like a bumper harvest this year?"

"It's a good harvest!"