Chapter 43 Long-term planning
In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to be an excellent magistrate, you must be all-rounder:
First, "all the servants shall be levied in the year, and the difference shall be the property of the county", and each year according to the population of the county and the amount of land and property, it shall be responsible for collecting the corresponding proportion of taxes and distributing the levy that the county should bear.
Second, when the harvest in the county is not good, or when a natural disaster occurs, you can go to the prefecture or province to request a reduction or exemption from taxes and forced labor for the current year.
Third, "adjudication and adjudication", all cases that occur in this county are tried and sentenced by the magistrate, but it should be noted that after the magistrate completes the trial of the case, it needs to be reported to the state government, as long as it is not a death penalty, then only the provincial criminal department of the province can examine and approve it, such as the Jiangxi case will be handed over to the Jiangxi magistrate department for decision, and the county can only enforce the criminal law after the criminal department agrees.
Fourth, to "persuade farmers to revitalize poverty", the county needs to patrol the countryside in the spring and summer farming season, encourage and urge the people to work hard to farm and raise mulberry, and at the same time, the county needs to relieve and help the poor in the county.
Fifth, "curbing cunning and eliminating traitors", the county magistrate has the responsibility of purging the traitors and villains in the county, and the magistrate must severely suppress those cunning people who bully and dominate the market and prey on the common people.
Sixth, "rejuvenating and nurturing", the county has the responsibility of developing the county's agricultural production, improving the county's living standards, and teaching the people of the county, promoting education, and establishing education.
Seventh, as long as it involves the affairs of the county, the magistrate has the right to have jurisdiction, such as recommending the talents of the county to the imperial court, reading and enforcing the laws of the imperial court in the county, being responsible for providing necessary living materials to the old and capable old people in the county, providing wine and food on time, paying respects to the imperial court, and being responsible for the sacrificial activities of the county.
It can be said that the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty has very cumbersome responsibilities and is almost all-encompassing, as long as what happens in the county, the magistrate has the right to dispose of it, even if it is just some trivial things for the people, only the magistrate thinks that he should manage, he can manage.
Of course, although the imperial court gave the magistrate so much power, it did not expect him to complete it alone, so the imperial court also equipped the magistrate with a lot of assistants.
For example, the county clerk and the chief secretary are responsible for handling the grain and horses, taxation, household registration, and arrest matters for the county, the warden is responsible for handling the patrol and prison matters for the county, the county teacher is responsible for handling the county school matters for the county, and the post is responsible for handling the matters of greeting and sending off for the county.
But when it is really implemented, what will the county do, look at the counties of the Ming Dynasty now, no matter whether the county is capable enough or not, the first thing after taking office is to become the head of a county, everyone must obey his orders, big and small things have to go through the county, even if the county is wrong, it must be implemented.
The county cares about the big households in the county, and the big households may have various connections with the above, once there is a problem, the location of the county may not be guaranteed, and the county should stand with the big households as much as possible.
But it doesn't matter to the people at the bottom, even if there is a problem, they may not have left the county-level area in their lives, and it is impossible for them to threaten the county, so there will be a situation where the county and the big households are exploiting the people at the bottom.
The magistrate also knows that it is necessary to avoid the rebellion of the people at the bottom, but he does not pay enough attention to the people, and how can he know how difficult the living conditions of the people under his rule are.
The people's military government, on the other hand, needs to arrange a county magistrate and a number of deputy county magistrates when administering a county, and neither the county magistrate nor the deputy county magistrate needs to be all-rounder, and the deputy county magistrate only needs to be proficient in managing one thing, while the county magistrate knows a little about all aspects and coordinates various departments in the center.
However, in the early stage of raising the flag, some things need to be handled specially, and emergencies are prone to occur, at this time, the county magistrate has greater power, and sometimes it needs to be arbitrary, and when the rule is stabilized, and will not be affected by the Ming Dynasty army, the power of the county magistrate will be weakened.
Under the county level, there are also towns and villages, and Fang Nan will not continue to use the Ming Dynasty's Lijia system.
In fact, under the combined effect of a series of factors, such as the growth of population and the increase of migration rate, the intensification of the gap between the rich and the poor among members of rural communities, and the impact and impact of commodity economy development on rural society, the original rural communities established on the Lijia system have shown an obvious trend of decomposition.
The social status of local elites such as grain chiefs and lieutenant chiefs has declined significantly, and the dominant power of rural society has been transferred to non-commissioned local elites such as gentry and local tyrants.
The villages under the People's Military Government will be elected by the people, that is, all the villagers will vote for the village chief they approve, and the People's Military Government will send one to two people to the village to serve as deputies, with less actual power, mainly responsible for conveying and interpreting the instructions of the higher authorities to the villagers, and the village chief will be responsible for the specific implementation.
Fang Nan wrote down the things he thought of one by one, and then sorted them out, some of which were to be implemented after the flag was raised, some that needed to be implemented after initial success, and some that were to be implemented after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Well, Fang Nan had already thought about what he needed to do after overthrowing the Ming Dynasty and establishing the country, and he was very confident in overthrowing the Ming Dynasty.
Judging from the current situation of Fang Nan's team or the People's Army, Fang Nan does have this self-confidence, with hundreds of literate members, advanced firearms such as tiger head guns and tiger head guns, and the first army that is being trained.
These are the foundations laid over the past six years, and now with each passing year, the foundation of the People's Army rises dramatically, and the odds of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty increase dramatically.
If it operates in secret for another six years, the People's Army will have laid a very strong foundation, and will even be able to form an elite firearms army of more than 10,000 people.
However, Fang Nan also knew that when people were sent to the outside world to unite the people, there was already a risk of being discovered, and the more people united, the greater the risk of being discovered, and it was impossible to unite hundreds of thousands of people, but the government did not find anything.
Fang Nan didn't want the People's Army to be forced to start raising the flag when the government took the initiative after discovering the clues, but when the government had not yet acted, the People's Army would take the lead in raising the flag and catch the government off guard.
According to Fang Nan's idea, the first target of the People's Army to raise the flag was Yongan County, and after taking Yongan County, it would march south to Haifeng County, which is adjacent to the sea, and as long as the People's Army occupied Haifeng County, it would be able to avoid being attacked on all sides.
When the People's Army takes Yong'an County, it must quickly dispatch personnel to unite the people in Yong'an County and expand the cold-weapon army, the strength of the cold-weapon army is weak, but in the case of a small number of firearms troops, the cold-weapon army is a good supplement, and at the same time, the captured enemy's firearms can be used to arm the cold-weapon army.
There are also blacksmiths and carpenters in Yongan County, as well as some of the captured enemies, all of whom can be sent to Hutou Village, mining for mining, and firearms for building firearms, and increasing the output of tiger head guns and tiger head cannons as much as possible.
These are all plans on paper, and the specific situation will have to wait for that day to come, after all, sometimes plans can't keep up with the rapid change.