The official style of the Great Wei Dynasty was originally good, and the imperial history platform was set up during the Taizu period, and there were patrol envoys everywhere, and the wind was watched, that is, to picket officials for illegal things.

Coupled with the generous remuneration of the officials and the supervision of the newspapers, the official style was quite good from the beginning to the middle of the country.

Later, industry and commerce developed, but the state revenue became lower and lower, and in addition to the heavy military expenditure, the privileges of officials and the spread of corruption were also important reasons for the decline of national strength.

Speaking of which, there are still too few constraints on officials, and the inspectors are independent of the local system and seem to be able to act independently, but in fact they are also subject to the constraints of the bureaucratic system from the center to the local level.

The patrol envoy is also a human being, and he may also be greedy for money, and his body is not right, how can he be a righteous person?

This system, over time, will inevitably fail.

The anti-corruption system of the Nan'an Hou Mansion seems to be much more stringent than the original of the Great Wei.

"Baihu official, say that I am like you, but I can't do it if I am willing to be with you?"

"It's a joke." He Baihu shook his head and said: "Every time a hundred officials take office, the monarch and the prince have to give a lecture, and wine is not allowed to eat the people, nor is it allowed to eat meat, let alone money." The people are close to the officials, either they are afraid, or they want to benefit, how can there be a reason to give away their own wine, meat, money and wealth for no reason? Where officials get along with the people, not to mention asking for money and property, weddings and funerals, quasi-officials go to the people, and the people are not allowed to come to the officials, such as my family, the little girl is going to get married next year, and can only feast on close relatives, Zhuang neighbors and distant relatives, even if they come to the door, they are not allowed to receive them, let alone receive gifts. ”

Huang Laigui was stunned when he heard this, and said: "This rule is too strict. ”

"This set is set by the prince, called the Nan'an Hou Civil Service Specification, well, it sounds a little strange, but it is getting more and more detailed. But it's okay to have this, as long as we obey the law, the benefits are more than when we were in Dawei. One is that the price is higher, and the other is that there is no need to involve human relations, everything is done according to official norms, and there are a lot less headaches and constraints, and people are calculating. Thirdly, the people don't have to go to us, but we don't have to go to the boss, it's a lot cheaper. ”

He Baihu laughed as he spoke, and Huang Laigui also nodded again and again, feeling that this was indeed the truth.

"Besides, I have something to ask for." He Baihu stood up and arched his hand: "I also want to ask my brother to talk to Lingzun Lingtang, when it comes to voting at the end of the year, you must vote for me with a red bean." ”

Huang Laigui was confused and said, "What does this mean?" ”

"The officials of our Eastern Domain, who are not close to the people, are the officials of the secretary's cabinet, and the officials who are close to the people, that is, the officials of the hundred households like me, must convene all the people of more than 15 households in the hundred households to vote at the end of the year, and the literate ones will write votes, and the illiterate ones will vote. Those who approve of what I do will vote for red beans, and those who don't approve of me, and those who think I'm incompetent, vote for black beans. ”

He Baihu said with a bitter face: "It is said that the wise and the foolish, we don't say so, the last time the meeting was convened, the prince said, how the officials treat the people, the people know very well in their hearts." So at the end of the year, don't wait for the assessment of the officials, the pro-people officials are assessed by the superiors, which is of little use. Or still ask the people to vote, if the red beans are bigger than the black beans, it means that you do things with your heart, there are those confused people who don't understand or don't understand, or because of the management of things offended people, as long as you do things with your heart, in the end there are more red beans than black beans. If you don't care, you will only buy good and well-behaved officials, even if some people are bewitched and vote for him red beans, more people still know through him, and they will only vote for black beans with him. If there is no important fault, he will not be prosecuted, but will only be demoted to the lowest level of officials, and start all over again......"

"Won't the people be able to depose the officials?"

"Exactly," He Baihu said in a deep voice: "This is the meaning of the prince, the patrol officials are not necessarily competent, and the audit officials may also be derelict in their duties after a long time, only the people are so decisive, and the pro-people officials can not slack off, or oppress and oppress the people." ”

"Then it became the people to choose officials......

"Not really." He Baihu said: "Even if I am elected, the people in the secretary's cabinet will send new Baihu to come." The prince said that the wisdom of the people has not been opened in the end, even if they live separately, there will always be people secretly contacting and colluding. If the officials of the hundred households are elected by the people, it is inevitable that there will be people in the big clans, or those who are brave and brave, or even scoundrels and strong people who use inducement, coercion and other methods to force the people to choose them as the hundred households. Yes, it can be exempted, but it can't be elected, think about it, if the hundred households really oppress the people, incompetent, can be dismissed, the Hou Mansion still has to appoint new people, the new hundred households take office, of course, they must abide by the law and try their best to do things, otherwise they may still be elected. ”

It seems that He Baihu has studied this system quite deeply, and when it comes to it, it is the truth, but it is a dizziness for Huang Laigui to listen to, where can he understand these things so deeply? Speaking of which, I couldn't answer at all.

"I'm too talkative, in short, please Brother Huang must bring me a good word."

He Baihu didn't say much, got up to send Huang Laigui out, his attitude was not only polite, but even a little humble.

Huang Laigui is also a person who has dealt with officials, but it is the first time he has seen officials so polite, and for a while, his mind was confused as if in a dream, and he didn't slowly wake up until he walked out of the hundred official halls and saw the crowd coming and going.

There are many officials in the official hall, agricultural officials, medical officials, industrial officials, etc., each doing their own thing, and there are also officials to assist, and there are more than ten officials in this 100 households alone.

If it is in Fujian Road, these officials in charge of hundreds of people are Lijia and officials, and they are also economic officials, wearing tender grass-colored official clothes, and they are arrogant.

If it is the county's priest, yaqian, manager, and cang, he is even more high-headed, and his status is far above ordinary people, and ordinary people have no chance to come forward to greet and salute.

In a village, it is difficult to support a single official, and it is necessary to be respectful, and to give benefits during the New Year's holidays, otherwise when the fields are set to go to the fields and fields, or when various miscellaneous taxes are set, a difficult situation can make ordinary people live worse than death.

Here, it was reversed, and Huang Laigui didn't know whether it was good or bad, but he felt a little more relieved.

With a happy mood, Huang Laigui walked east on the east-west avenue that runs through the main axis in the village, but there was some novelty all the way, the front yard of each house was cleaned quite clean, which was called Huang Laigui, who was accustomed to the cross-flow of sewage in the village and the garbage all over the ground, felt quite novel.

And in front of each alley, there is a big drum standing, but I don't know what the purpose is?

When I arrived at the seventh alley, where the seventh flag was located, I walked north from the south of the alley, asked a few children for directions, and found my parents' house in the Eastern Domain.

The same courtyard, the same house, the difference is that there is a house number in the capital of the door, Huang Laigui glanced at it, and remembered it in his heart, but next time he didn't have to ask.

The Nan'an Hou Mansion also allows each family to use different decorations, and even changes the roof tiles, gatehouses, and gates to different colors, but the people are willing to spend effort on such things, but none of them have a family.

A lot of energy has been expended in the farmland every day, and this small courtyard is so beautiful and neat, who is willing to spend more on such a thankless task?

Huang Laigui pushed the door in, first saw some farm tools placed in the gatehouse, as well as grain hoards, there were a few shallow stones of grain in it, Huang Laigui knew that this was the grain borrowed by the Nan'an Hou Mansion first, and each family borrowed grain according to a different number of people, which was also the content of the resettlement plan for immigrants and displaced people.

If you come to the island, you have to look for clothes and food by yourself, and prepare food utensils, I am afraid that the displaced people will still come, but they will complain, and ordinary immigrants will hesitate even if they think about the identity of the official household of Nan'an Hou Mansion, and they will not be like now, a large number of immigrants are still coming one after another.

Treat people with sincerity, then people repay them with sincerity, displaced people and immigrants will also have letters to send out, and even some people will return to their hometowns for a short time, the situation on the side of the Eastern Domain, is also transformed into a high reputation spread in Fujian Road, if not, how can it attract more people to come?

The ground of the gatehouse is also paved with bricks, not mud, and then look at the yard, about twenty steps left and right, not too small, in the southwest corner of the courtyard opened up a small vegetable field, is already full of green.

"Dad, mother." Through the brick and stone paved road, it extends to the front of the main hall, the door of the hall is wide open, but no one is inside, and the furnishings inside are quite simple, only a long offering table, a few simple chairs on both sides, there are no paintings on the walls, and the most valuable thing in the house should be the copper five offerings to the gods.

There was no one in the main hall, Huang Laigui shouted, but there was an answer in the two side rooms on the east side, and the sound was full of surprise.

Two old men in their fifties pushed open the door of the wing room one after the other, and Huang Laigui's eyes were hot, and he took two steps forward.

The two old men are in their early fifties, their bodies look still strong, the south wing room is a stove room, there is a fire, Huang Laigui looked at the weather, it is estimated that it is the end of noon, and the hour is still too early to make dinner.

"Son, see Dad, mother." At this time, people will not have any too intimate movements, Huang Laigui took two steps forward, bowed and crossed his hands, and respectfully greeted his parents.

"Boss, you seem to be a little thin?" Huang's mother was full of smiles, and after looking at her son a few times, she said with some worry: "Is it not good to eat and drink on the boat?" ”

"Not thin." Huang Laigui smiled: "It's good to eat and sleep, why is it thin?" Eating wine is not done, now the rules of Nan'an Hou Mansion are very strict, who dares to eat wine on the ship, immediately drive down, the messenger is lost, the pension is gone, which one dare? ”

"It's better to be strict," Huang's father said in a deep voice: "You used to work on the boat, you made a lot of money, and the official family collected a lot, but you should always save a few, all of them are drinking, gambling money is gone, and you haven't saved a penny, now even if the Hou Mansion will give you retirement money in the future, you still have to save some yourself, how old are you, you didn't even talk about a daughter-in-law, speaking of it is because your father is sorry for your brother, but your brother also has to fight for his own family, poor and small, what can you do?" ”

Huang's father mentioned this, he has always been angry, his family hated that he did not save much family wealth, so that his family was very painful, the two sons have not married, are close to the age of standing, this is actually quite normal in the poor family of Fujian Road, but the father of any family, will inevitably blame himself.

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Honestly, these recent chapters are my own favorite descriptions.