One morning a few days later, Xu Guangqi, who had not been to the Supervision Yuan for many days, came, and he had received a notice from Gao Panlong and others. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. The person sent by Gao Panlong said that because there was an important matter, several people should be present to discuss, and the result of the discussion would be reported to the emperor for ruling§ Guangqi listened to the words sent by Gao Panlong, and knew that important things must be waiting for him, otherwise it would be impossible to say that he would have to report to the emperor for a ruling in the end, and the matters that could not be solved by the General Affairs Council could be decided after a few people in the Supervision Council after discussion.

After Xu Guangqi received the notice, it took two more days to come over, so he came to the prison and greeted everyone, and as soon as he sat down, King Xin asked him why he came two days late: "It's the end of October, the winter moon is approaching, King Xin is weak, put on a thick robe early, and a young man is dressed as thick as several middle-aged and elderly people, so everyone feels that King Xin should really take care of his body." Seeing that King Xin asked why he was two days late, Xu Guangqi said: "Because there are a few very important things when it comes to the most critical time, I have to explain a few words to them before I can rest assured, so I came two days late." ”

Everyone knows that the Bo Academy is doing experiments but don't know what they are doing, listening to Xu Guangqi say that several things have reached a critical moment, everyone is very interested, King Xin first asked: "It seems that Lord Xu is going to do something big again, what kind of sweet potato, potato, corn and other high-yield and drought-tolerant crops you have made are very useful, at least I haven't heard that there are large-scale starvation deaths, Lord Xu, you have contributed a lot." I sometimes hear local officials who report to Beijing mention that the people are asking if they can increase the yield of wheat and rice. ”

Gao Panlong and Liu Zong all looked at Xu Guangqi when they heard Wang's question on Monday, everyone knew that corn, sweet potatoes and other things had a high yield but a poor taste, which was far worse than the taste of rice boiled rice and steamed dumplings and pancakes made of flour. If the Doctoral Institute really increased the yield of rice and wheat by a large margin right now, wouldn't it make everyone happy? And according to the earliest promise of the Apocalypse to Xu Guangqi, when the time comes, Xu Guangqi should be crowned the prince of the country☆ At first, several hereditary princes such as the British Duke still disagreed with the promise of the Apocalypse, thinking that it was too child's play for the literati to be crowned the king, and later saw that the new varieties of crops could really save so many people, and everyone recognized the emperor's words as a bit reasonable.

Who knew that Xu Guangqi shook his head and said: "To the disappointment of King Xin, rice and wheat decided to start experimenting with the method of hybridization the year before last, following the example of a mule with both strength and stamina after crossing a horse with strength and stamina. Unfortunately, last year's and this year's two four-season trials failed, and not only did they not produce high-yielding varieties, but the yields were not as good as the usual crops. I don't understand the reason now, but there are some ideas that are being summarized, and I am confident that I can finally do it, but I dare not say whether it will be completed in my hands in the end. ”

Everyone was slightly disappointed when they heard Xu Guangqi's words, but they all praised his determination not to give up, King Xin nodded and said: "I heard that there are many young and knowledgeable people in your doctoral college, and Lord Xu means that even if your generation can't do it, the later people will definitely be able to do it, I love to listen to it, and there are many difficulties in the ± that cannot be completed by one person, and the children and grandchildren will do it endlessly, giving people a feeling of endless life, we are all waiting for this day to come as soon as possible." Since it's not for food crops, what is Lord Xu busy with? ”

Xu Guangqi said: "One is the use of coke to refine iron, and the other is the refining of poisonous flower and grass juice to kill insects proposed by Lord Yang Lianyang, both of which require a certain amount of time, and it is also necessary to record various successes or failures. There are also some things that are busy, but these two things are the most important, and now these two things have not been completed and are continuing, I am afraid that they will not understand that they have done a bad job, so they specially explained that they came over for two days. ”

King Xin asked, "It sounds like it's just charcoal burning on fire, and what kind of perfume poison or something like that, how can Lord Xu say that it's very important?" ”

Xu Guangqi said: "King Xin doesn't know, the refined iron smelted from coke is different from the iron smelted from ordinary coal, as for the wood charcoal, it can only be smelted pig iron and can't be smelted with fine iron ♀, tell King Xin, the iron smelted with ordinary coal in the past is very brittle, too soft and not tough, used to cast muskets and artillery is easy to blow up and hurt their own people, now the use of fine iron casting cannons is both hard and tough, not easy to blow up the chamber and not easy to deform, it is really the first choice for making guns and cannons" insect water is to kill the pests on crops, Now the harvest in each field should be subtracted by about 10% by the pest, if it really has an effect to benefit the people, it is not a big deal. ”

King Xin suddenly realized: "I see, one is related to military defense, the other is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, it is indeed a very important matter, it is not ♀ to be delayed, let's hurry up and deal with the matter here without delaying Lord Xu's big affairs, to be honest, there are more capable people to take over my cleaning that day, so that I can remove the mission of the Government Council, I will go to Lord Xu's doctoral college to do those things, and what those people think." ”

Gao Panlong and Liu Zongzhou glanced at each other, then coughed and said: "Okay, I'll take out a few things that have been discussed in the past two days and show it to everyone, King Xin has seen it in the past two days but has not expressed his opinion, mainly to see what Lord Xu thinks." ”

Xu Guangqi picked up a big fold handed over by Gao Panlong, and looked at the form in his heart, Gao Panlong and Liu Zongzhou had already decided, if he and King Xin did not forcibly ask for a change, this letter would probably be handed to the emperor § Guangqi looked at it carefully from beginning to end, lowered his head and thought for a moment and asked: "King Xin has been watching it for two days, and he must have a certain opinion in his heart, I don't know what you think of this?" ”

King Xin said: "I thought about it for two days, and I think that Lord Gao and they said it well, but there are still some subtleties that I don't understand very well, and I need to ask Lord Gao and Lord Liu more." At the beginning, when Mr. Xu talked about things in the Bo Academy, I thought of a truth, that is, professional affairs should be done by professional people, and laymen may interfere if they are not careful, and they will make trouble. Lord Gao, they wrote more about the appointment, dismissal and supervision of officials, but there were some things that needed to be done big, and everyone had to discuss them together and finally let my imperial brother decide. ”

This piece of music was written by Gao Panlong after private discussion with Liu Zongzhou, and it was mixed with some private goods of the Donglin Party, so it was inevitable that he was a little uneasy in his heart. Seeing that King Xin said that he didn't understand some subtleties, Gao Panlong asked, "I don't know what King Xin doesn't understand?" ”

King Xin said: "The first article above says that in order to supplement the composition of the auxiliary political organs of the counties, it is planned to find some people in the local area to represent the local people, these representatives speak for the people, express the needs of the people, and the other role is to replace the officials to publicize policies to the people∴ and it is said that the generation of these people is not designated by the government, nor recommended by the village elders, but by the local people, there is nothing wrong with this, but I have doubts about the fact that the grade of these people is temporarily set as eight grades, why is it eight grades?" And why temporary? ”

Gao Panlong listened to King Xin's question, thought for a while, and said: "This is considered from the relationship between this representative and the local officials, and in order to clarify this issue, we must first clarify the role of officials in the state. All the people in the world are under the control of the emperor, and the emperor has only one who cannot manage the world in all directions, and only the officials appointed at all levels to manage the world on his behalf, from the central to the local provinces, prefectures, counties, and other officials at all levels, forming a power management channel from top to bottom. I think as long as it should be a link between the upper and lower levels. ”

King Xin nodded and said: "This makes sense, after officials at all levels ensure the smooth passage of power, the imperial court can order and prohibit, so that managing the whole country is similar to managing a place." ”

Gao Panlong said: "The central government's issuance of orders to local governments and their implementation is one of the functions of this power channel, and another function of this power channel is to facilitate the upload of information from the bottom to the top. In the final analysis, the orders issued by the court are still to facilitate the lives of the people, if the people below have suffering and the people above cannot see it, it means that there is a problem or even a blockage in this power channel, and it should be dredged and repaired in time to avoid chaos. ”

Hearing this, Xu Guangqi said: "Master Gao's words agree with me, the people's suffering must be paid attention to in time, otherwise the people will suffer, not to mention that the people above are still singing and dancing." There is a story that there is an emperor who does not know the suffering of the people, it seems to be Emperor Hui of Jin, listening to the minister's report that there is no food to eat in a certain place, this emperor actually said that there is no food to let the people eat meat every day, so that the ministers listened to the story and laughed ♀ The story shows that the emperor does not understand the actual situation of the people at all, and it is also one of the reasons for the rebellion of the eight kings later. ”

Gao Panlong nodded and continued: "Since it is necessary to maintain that the decrees above and the voices below can be understood in a timely manner, this power channel must be consistent from top to bottom, and this unanimity is not only the assistance and recognition of the top and bottom, but also the consistent restraint and supervision of the top and bottom. There is a division of labor in the auxiliary political institutions that the emperor requires to be established, and the people in the auxiliary administrative organs are only to restrict, supervise, and assist in the recognition, and they are not subordinates of the officials, so they should not only be given a certain grade to facilitate their work, but also let everyone know that this grade is temporary, and the purpose is to let everyone know that they are only temporarily serving the supervisory and administrative institutions. ”