Chapter 186: Fortunately, very lucky
What should we bring to this Great Song Dynasty?
What kind of institution is the imperial court, or the government? Governing body? Or a service agency? Everyone has their own opinions, and Ganchi has his own opinions, and the government should be both a governing body and a service agency.
Do citizens and society need to be managed? Obviously, it is needed, and this problem can also be taken from the dynasty of Renzong Zhao Zhen, who overindulged the society and the people, resulting in rampant gangsters in the rivers and lakes, and at this point, it is poor management.
service, not to mention. In general, the state should provide life and property safety services for the people and society, and in a small way, the state should build roads and bridges to provide convenient travel services for the people.
In fact, the source of this problem can also be found in ancient Chinese history. For example, Legalism focuses on management. Confucianism, on the other hand, is more service-oriented, uh...... At least Confucianism is biased towards service, and opening and closing one's mouth means that the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light.
It can also be extended a little here, such as Wang Anshi's change of law, Wang Anshi is the Legalist style. The conservative Sima Guang, in his remarks against the reform of the law, represented Confucian thought.
Here we will not talk about the issue of personal words, deeds, deeds and morality, but only the core ideas of the reformers and conservatives.
Wang Anshi's core idea is that the country should increase its income through reform and make the country stronger to cope with internal and external troubles.
Sima Guang's core idea is that there is a fixed amount of production in the world, and what is produced is either in the people or in the officials, if the country wants to increase income, the people will naturally reduce their income, and the country should not compete with the people for interests. This is the core idea of Sima Guang's opposition to Wang Anshi.
In fact, there is no logical error in the core ideas of these two schools. In fact, in later generations, this problem is still there, but it is not on the table. Moreover, there is a little difference between the later generations and the Song Dynasty, the difference is that the total amount of production in the world is not a fixed number, under normal circumstances, this is a growing number.
However, the issue of the distribution of interests between the state and the people has always been a big issue under the table, which has always changed and compromised with each other, and there will never be the best distribution plan. This is true in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.
Of course, there is also a major premise in it, the management of the state is itself to serve. The service of national security, the service of personal security, the service of building roads and bridges, and even the service of street lights at night.
Whether it is management or service, in fact, in the final analysis, the essence is the distribution of benefits. When it comes to distribution, in the final analysis, it is a math problem.
Of course, Gan Qi will not talk about reform directly, nor will he really teach mathematics, what Gan Qi can do is to start from the subtlety, and want to subtly change the operation mode of the imperial court.
The stage, that is, Ganch's podium, brought up a small board at this time, and Ganchi wrote two words on the board with charcoal.
Budget, final accounts.
The system of budgets and accounts was a common thing in later generations, and Gan Qi knew this kind of thing too well.
The real budget and final accounts, in general, are to make the whole country have a plan for everything, and to ensure the effective implementation of the plan and cost control.
To put it mildly, it is also a very important point for administrative transparency. Of course, this is not a cure for corruption, but it can control it to a great extent.
It is a very big project to make the entire Great Song Dynasty, from the second government and the third division to the county and township, carry out the budget and final accounts in everything, and it is not something that can be done overnight.
A professional management team must implement a set of professional management methods, which was learned by the underworld Gan Qi when he ran a company, this set of systems seems simple, but if it is really successful in the Song Dynasty, the benefits it brings, naturally do not need to say more.
In fact, what Gan Qi thought was that after comparing the ancient and modern, he felt that this imperial court was very unprofessional in management. In particular, the management team of the Song Dynasty was far worse than that of the Qin and Han dynasties. Compared with the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is also much worse.
China also started from the Song Dynasty, and the imperial power did not go to the countryside, what does it mean that the imperial power did not go to the countryside? There is no grassroots party organization. Compared with the Qin and Han dynasties, there are also official positions such as pavilion chiefs and chiefs, and the imperial court can directly mobilize the villagers of each village. At the grassroots level of the Tang Dynasty, the government soldier system could also be directly mobilized to everyone.
But in the Song Dynasty, the model of grassroots gentry autonomy began. The imperial court could no longer directly mobilize the people at the grassroots level, and even the collection of taxes had to be carried out through the gentry. The mobilization ability of such a court is much worse than that of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, especially the mobilization ability for war, which is even worse than 108,000 miles.
Zhu Yuanzhang's guard system in the Ming Dynasty was also to make up for the war mobilization method that the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and in the early Ming Dynasty, this guard system was very effective. However, after a long time, it was also rotten.
A country's mobilization capability is actually a war capability, and in the era of cold weapons, when there is a real enemy outside, this capability is extremely important.
said a thousand ways and ten thousand, that is, Gan Qi felt that the Great Song court, or the management team of the Great Song Dynasty, was unprofessional.
Changing this will obviously not happen overnight.
But Gan Qi began to work on this problem today, from small places little by little, little by little. What Gan Qi wants to do is to really save the country and the people, and the way to save the country and the people is not to do any specific thing, but to redesign the country at the top level.
As long as the top-level design is steadily advanced, other things, such as how to strengthen the army, will be easier to do.
Fortunately, there is still enough time, and this Great Song Dynasty will still be dead for decades.
Gan Qi looked at the people in the clouds, with a pair of puzzled eyes, and began to lecture: "The budget method is like the ministry, how much money should be paid in a year, how many people are in each grade, and how much food is paid to each person...... It's like the forbidden army, how many people there are, how much food and salary each person pays, and how many new armaments are expected to be purchased...... If you can't need money, you can ask for it, the court will give it if you have money, and if you don't have money, you will delay it, everything must go according to plan, and the court must also leave spare money and food to deal with emergencies...... Budgets need to be reviewed...... How to audit ......"
A few hours passed, and it was getting late, but Gan Qi didn't even finish the topic of budgeting.
Wait for Ganchi to leave after class.
The students in the classroom seemed to have forgotten that they had to rush to the city gate.
One by one, overjoyed, someone jumped up and said: "Mr. Gan has finally begun to talk about the way of governing the country, this is the way of governing the country, this is the real way of governing the country, fortunately, fortunately." ”
"What is the difficulty of listening to Mr. Gan's high-minded remarks and making decisions in the examination room in Japan? In the past, I studied with teachers and studied more sage classics, but how could anyone have taught the way of strategy and theory like this? After I have finished learning Mr. Gan's budget and final accounts, I will be able to talk about the topic of the household department in the next day. ”
But some people asked with a blank face: "Everyone, I want to ask, what is Mr. Gan talking about today?" Why didn't I understand at all? ”
As soon as these words came out, some people immediately echoed them: "I can also hear it in the clouds, the budget that Mr. Gan said, there are different opinions in the next, the court has money, where can I spend manpower and material resources to budget such a budget?" If the imperial court has no money, the budget will come and go, and it won't be able to come up with money? ”
Immediately, some people despised a sentence: "Stupidity and lack of strategy, what Mr. Gan said, is like living at home, how much money you have, you can do as much as you want." The poor have a poor way, and the rich have a way to live a life, everything has a plan first, so that it can be in order, and it can be more long-term planning. You can even get better and richer your life. That's the way to budget. ”
"Dare to ask who is it in person? Can you explain Mr. Gan's high theory in such a simple way? ”
"In Xia Quanzhou, Cai Qu, Mr. Naigan's disciple, I have seen you."
"Mr. Gan's disciple? Come on, come on, hurry up this way, please! ”
"Mr. Gan's disciples are here, come and see, come and see......"