Gao Panlong's meaning is very clear, that is, the officials have grades because they replace the emperor to govern the place, and their official qualities are also given by the imperial court, and those representatives who represent the people are not appointed by the imperial court, so they cannot be allowed to enter the official sequence ‰ Use this site. The reason why these people are temporarily given an eight-grade grade is entirely for their convenience when dealing with affairs, others are all eight-grade and it is embarrassing for them to sit together and do things without taste, didn't the Monkey King in "Journey to the West" also run away because he was a tasteless Bima plague at the earliest?

However, because it is a temporary grade, it cannot be promoted, if you want to be promoted, you can also remove the name of the representative, and enter the officialdom through Zhengchu Dao to worship the boss and rise step by step from the bottom King V listened to Gao Panlong's words and thought about it and felt that it made sense, at this time Xu Guangqi said: "I think the words of Lord Gao can also be understood in this way, we are all people who do things for the emperor, but those elected representatives are not exactly doing things for the emperor." According to the emperor's statement that the world is divided into three parts a while ago, the world belongs to three kinds of people, that is, people in the past, people in the present and people in the future, and those who represent only the present are not all. ”

Gao Panlong nodded and said: "Lord Xu is right when he says this, if we say that the relationship between officials and the court is an employment relationship, then we are the people hired by the emperor, and the emperor represents the past, present, and future, so we have grades that are convenient for the emperor to manage." Those representatives were elected by the people, so it should be said that the people were employing them, because the people were the people of the present, so the imperial court had the obligation to give these representatives a certain status, so they were given a temporary grade of eight grades to facilitate their work. ”

Liu Zongzhou said at this time: "You can look at it this way from the perspective of relationship, but I think it is better to say it from the role of the division, and in the case of a county, it can be seen from the division of labor in those auxiliary political institutions. At the beginning, the senior adults all said that the auxiliary political officials are to restrain and supervise the county order and agree with the assistance, whether it is the representative or the auxiliary political official, it is different from the subordinate members of the county, the county magistrate, the chief book, the canonical history, the teaching, the head catcher, etc., all have to listen to the order of the county order, and those auxiliary political officials can not listen. Auxiliary officials are obliged to assist the prefectural magistrate, but they are not responsible for accepting the prefectural ordinance's assignment, and they are all under the prefectural superintendent. ”

King Xin nodded and said: "I don't have anything to say about the representative, if Lord Xu has no objection, report it to my imperial brother, let's talk about the division of labor between the prefecture and county, according to Lord Gao's statement, it should now be called the division of labor at the provincial, prefecture, and county levels." ”

Gao Panlong said: "What does King Xin think about this three-level division of labor? ”

King Xin said: "I generally don't think there is any problem, but there are some small things I haven't figured out, according to the meaning of Gao and Liu, the province is in charge of commerce, the state is in charge of industry, and the county is in charge of agriculture, but there is no accurate definition of what to divide." If you think, whether it is in the province or in the state or in the county, there are shops that operate business, and which businesses are managed by the province and which are managed by the state and county must be determined, and I don't believe that all the businesses in a province and their trading activities are managed by the province. ”

Gao Panlong said: "This is for sure, not only business but also industry, a while ago I have said that the factory and the mine are in a fixed place, even if it is managed by the state, it is definitely impossible to move these places together, and the small workshops and small shops of several people are also directly managed by the state and the province, and do not laugh off people's big teeth?" My meaning and that Lord Liu and I are to limit the amount of money involved, and the other is to limit the number of workers. ”

King Xin nodded and said, "That's for sure, but I don't know much about business and work, and it depends on what you mean." Didn't you say at the beginning that professional things should be managed by professional people? Lord Xu's doctoral college involves both workmanship and business, so it is better for Lord Xu to share your views. ”

Xu Guangqi thought for a while and said: "I agree with the separate management of commerce, industry and agriculture, one person's energy is limited, and the energy of a department is also limited. However, what Mr. Gao said is limited by the amount and the number of workers, I think two points should be added. ”

Gao Panlong asked, "Master Xu thinks there is anything to add?" ”

Xu Guangqi said: "Think about it, the emperor's big iron company and Chishu company are both related to workmanship and mining, do you think these two companies should be handed over to the Shuntian government or should be managed by the Tianfu government?" Or do you want to divide these two companies into two companies and hand them over to various places? If so, will the emperor agree? If we don't face these two big problems, what will other businesses think and do? I don't know exactly what the emperor does in private, but he cares a lot about the requirements for equality and fairness and the people's opinion of him, and it will be a mess not to handle this matter and hand it over to the emperor. ”

Liu Zongzhou nodded and said: "Lord Xu is reasonable, we forgot that there are these two behemoth companies, the big iron company is distributed throughout the country, and the main industries and businesses have their figures, the red tree company was not conspicuous at the beginning, but now the limelight is stronger than the big iron company, it is said that it is related to the Bo Academy§ Since the lord said so, he must have a good idea, so please talk about it." ”

Xu Guangqi said: "I didn't expect that the red number company would develop so rapidly, at the beginning the emperor said that you were silent when you invested, and now you see the profits in the promotion and application of crops, you don't have a little regret in your heart?" According to the current output, 10% of the income per mu of land is owned by the Red Tree Company, which is similar to the tax revenue of the imperial court. Now the emperor is investing the extra money in the military industry, if the new equipment is successfully developed and loved by the soldiers, then the imperial court will have to make a lot of money for the emperor to purchase these new equipment, and it will continue to make money. ”

Liu Zongzhou shook his head and smiled and said, "Who knows what is going on behind the scenes?" If you really know that there is such a good thing, the ministers of the DPRK and China are not crazy and want to invest? Moreover, the emperor's Chishu Company is mainly in agriculture and military, which is related to the safety of the country and the survival of the people, and it is appropriate to earn as much silver as possible. Although everyone has not invested, there are many people who work here, and Lord Xu was not named the Marquis of Songjiang because he did a good job in agriculture? Let's just say that the better the company is in the future, the safer and more stable my Daming will be, which is a good thing that cannot be desired. ”

King Xin also nodded and said: "Yes, this may be the reason why my imperial brother named the company Chishu, which is evergreen in all seasons and does not wither, which means that the Chishu company will not fall for 10,000 years." ”

Gao Panlong waited for everyone to be quiet and asked: "Lord Xu said that he wanted to add two points, from your words, it seems that it should be aimed at the Big Iron Company and the Red Tree Company, how does Lord Xu want to add it?" ”

Xu Guangqi said: "It is very simple, that is, to change the three-level division of labor into a four-level division of labor, that is, to change the original provincial, government, and county three levels in charge of commerce, industry, and agriculture to a super-large complex ♀ under the direct management of the central government, and it is not entirely for the emperor's pleasure, and logically speaking, the imperial court should also have a strong institution to manage the whole country." When I say this institution, which manages the whole country, I do not mean by administrative means, but by the same means as other businesses, and through the superiority of numbers and technology, it stabilizes the situation and leads the trend of agriculture, industry, and commerce. ”

Xu Guangqi's words silenced Gao Panlong and Liu Zongzhou, it turned out that they also saw the strength of the big iron company, thinking that after mastering the merchants in various provinces, they could form another force opposite the big iron company, in their words, by contacting other businesses to work together, and finally be able to fight against the big iron company. But I didn't expect that in addition to the big iron company, there is also a red tree company, and the vitality of the red tree company is more than ♀ the big iron company, let's just say that the big iron company used the official power of the imperial court, so the red tree company used the intelligence inside and outside the imperial court.

If you really want to leave a place at the top for the big iron company and the red tree company as Xu Guangqi said, it is conceivable that all the capable and promising people and projects will be taken away by these two companies at will, and what is even more frustrating is that those who are recruited and left will be happy, so the idea of Donglin Academy may be ruined. I used to think that it would form another force, as a supplement and also embody the existence of the spirit of Donglin Academy, but now it seems that I still can't escape the ending of hiding behind and being an unsung hero, and this kind of ending will not be happy even if Gu Xiancheng survives.

Gao Panlong and Liu Zongzhou thought about it and had no choice, even if Xu Guangqi didn't say it, the emperor would probably do it, rather than object to making the emperor suspicious, it was better to push the boat down the river and hand it over to the emperor for adjudication, the two had to say that they would add Xu Guangqi's words and let the emperor decide. 、

King Shin also thought about it at this time, and he said: "I always felt that there was something wrong with the mention of the division of labor between industry and commerce, and it turned out that it did not include the two companies run by my imperial brother. When the royal brother ran these two companies, he said that he would compete with ordinary businesses on an equal footing in the system, and he would not have different policies just because they were run by the royal family. Now it seems that there is indeed no other exclusive special policy except for the advantages of manpower and intelligence, if you don't make a set, either the two major companies of the royal brother will be damaged, or ordinary merchants will complain about unfairness in the implementation process, and everyone will have nothing to say in advance. ”

Two days later, in the Kunning Palace, Tianqi and the queen were discussing the report submitted by the Supervision Yuan, because there were also some imperial stores in the palace that they were in charge of, so Tianqi wanted the queen to know these things, so as not to accidentally say that the imperial store enjoyed special policies. When it was mentioned by the way that the imperial court was going to give the representatives elected by the people a temporary eight-grade treatment, the queen asked why, and Tianqi said: "This is caused by the official standard system." ”