Yang Lian and Lu Governor's Mansion already knew each other, because they both had a common organization that was Donglin Academy, and this official of Lu Governor's Mansion was obtained through Gao Panlong's special care. In the past, people said that gentlemen are not parties, Wei Zhongxian in order to pour some dirty water on the people of Donglin Academy and stink on his body, so he directly said that they are Donglin Party, fortunately, the people of Donglin Party do not engage in money and power transactions and advocate meritocracy, and Tianqi has no bad feelings towards the Donglin Party, just remind them to pay attention to the influence and not to miss the major events of the imperial court↓ It is for this reason that Lu Zhifu said that when Yang Lian was in a hurry to increase people in the auxiliary political institutions, Yang Lian was not unhappy, and it was normal for his own people to put forward some opinions.

Governor Lu saw that Yang Lian was not unhappy, but just asked himself lightly what he meant by this, and knew that Yang Lian really wanted to hear the opinion, so he nodded and said: "Whether it is in the county or in the state, although there are auxiliary political institutions, there are not many people, first, it is difficult to find personnel, and secondly, there is no need for that." If there is no strong supervision measures, it is likely that in the end the people who represent the common people will speak for the powerful and the rich, which may not be the original intention of the imperial court. ”

Yang Lian nodded and said: "There is some truth in Governor Lu's words, but I think that as long as we find a way to find a way to truly represent the ordinary people, we can find people ♀ who really represent ordinary people, and the establishment of auxiliary political institutions is personally requested by the emperor, if we can't meet the emperor's requirements, even if the emperor doesn't blame us, we will be embarrassed." Only those who truly represent the interests of the people can help solve the problem, and the representatives found out, as Lu Governor said, will eventually represent the powerful and the rich, and officials at all levels will certainly be deceived, and if they really think that doing good things for the people will turn into bad things in the end. ”

Yang Lian's words were to let Governor Lu know that it was the emperor's intention to find a few people to enrich the auxiliary political institutions, and he should think about what to do now instead of thinking about whether he should do it. Moreover, the people you are looking for cannot be indiscriminately filling up the numbers or selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and if you really represent the people, you can really speak for the people, and from a high point of view, you can make everyone more and more equal, and from a low point of view, you can also avoid the antagonism between the people and the officials. There are many phenomena of hatred of the rich and hatred of officials in the Ming Dynasty, if it is really as Lu Governor said, on the surface, it represents the ordinary people, but in fact, it represents the powerful and rich people, then the gap between the rich and the poor will continue to widen, and the relationship between the government and the people will become more acute.

At that time, not to mention becoming more and more equal, in the situation of the widening gap between the rich and the poor and the increasingly tense relationship between the government and the people, the common people will be separated from the court even if they do not rise up, and the court will not get the strong support of the ordinary people in the face of internal and external troubles, and some people who are extremely disappointed in the court may hope that the enemy will come in. This is not a simple sentence, and many times if you don't pay attention to the details, you are likely to have a big loss. During the Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms, if Cao Cao could guard against a series of fire attacks, the ending of the Three Kingdoms would probably be rewritten.

After understanding what Yang Lian meant, Governor Lu thought for a while and said, "Since the adults have decided to do this, the lower officials will tell you what you have seen and thought for your attention, which may be of some help to the adults, but it may not be." At the beginning, the adults also said that they should find a way to produce representatives, but the lower officials thought that this ordinary person was not suitable to be the representative in person, and that someone else had to be found to represent them. ”

Yang Lian said: "I know about this, when I was in Donghu County, Lu County Ling said that ordinary people are not very reasonable because they have no education, even if he is really unreasonable, he will be stubborn and unconvinced." But sometimes when they are really upright, they will be unable to speak because of excitement or grievance, either shouting or crying, and they speak incoherently, and it is difficult to understand the real meaning of their sentences. I've been thinking about it all the time, if I can find some articulate people to represent the people, talk to the government on behalf of the people, or explain the meaning of the government to the people. ”

Governor Lu smiled and said: "Your Excellency's meaning is clear, your lord is looking for a person like a civil lawyer, but people like a lawyer don't have a good reputation among the people, and if you want to use such a person, I'm afraid that the people won't trust them, and our magistrates don't dare to entrust them with important tasks." Lawyers are annoying because they go through the city for money and not for justice and justice, but then again, people who are not for profit but only for justice and justice cannot survive, even if they run errands and write a pleading, they have to use money, and it is unforgivable but understandable that lawyers do things only for money. ”

Yang Lian nodded and said: "Nothing is perfect at the beginning, it is the right way to have it first and then gradually improve, if you can really ask for perfection from the beginning to do it, then there are few things in the world that can be done∫ a few people on behalf of the people into the auxiliary political institutions will talk about this, I will report the situation I learned to the imperial court for a while, now can the Lu prefect say that there is a shortage of people to do farm work after the factory and mine recruit people, it is because of the letter of Donghu County more than two months ago that so many things were caused, And I learned that Hezhou is based on East Lake, and the East Lake accident is not much better than the rest of the state. ”

Governor Lu said: "The lower official is trying to report this matter to the adult, even if the adult doesn't mention the lower official, he will mention it." In fact, whether it is a mine or a factory to recruit people, there will be no shortage of people in the field, the main reason is that people are not used reasonably, and the officials themselves have thought about this matter for a long time and discussed it with people many times, and found that only the division of labor in the prefecture and county can completely solve the problem. ”

Yang Lian said: "The Lu County Order of Donghu County also said that the current solution is a temporary solution, and this year's method will not be used when this kind of thing happens next year." What does Governor Lu say about the division of labor between prefectures and counties? Why haven't I heard of it? ”

Lu Zhifu said: "Now a county has all kinds of farming, work, mining, and business, which is a good thing, but because various conditions cannot keep up, there will be many problems, and among these problems are the problem of sometimes not enough personnel." In fact, the conflict between insufficient personnel and farming is only a superficial phenomenon, and the real reason is that the distribution of personnel is unreasonable. ”

Yang Lian asked: "According to what you say, there is actually no shortage of people, but the government at all levels does not use people in the right place, right?" How do you see how to use people rationally? Or what are the specific details of the division of labor in the prefecture and county you are talking about? ”

Lu Zhifu said: "The lower officials believe that the county should be in charge of farming, and the state should be in charge of work and mining, so that both officials and the people will be in their respective positions, and there will be no busy and idle death, let alone working for a while and farming for a while." Adults, please think about it, everything you do is to be serious and responsible, and you must continue to learn to do better and better, if you do this today and do that tomorrow, people will not do well in the west. ”

It turns out that the idea of Lu Zhifu, people know that the benefits of work are great, and growing food is important, but it is because it is too important, so it is not so important ♀, and the words sound incomprehensible, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that this is indeed the case, food is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and it is very important, as long as the people have no food to eat, they will take risks and do bad things, and the good people will become the people and even the rioters. Therefore, the price of grain is fixed at one tael of silver in exchange for one stone of grain, and no major changes are allowed at any time, at most there is a floating price, and the grain depots and fan warehouses of the provinces are taken over by the household department and guarded by the Jinyi Wei Supervision and Guards.

If it is true that the state government is in charge of the factories and mines and the matter of growing grain is handed over to the county, it is reasonable from the perspective of division of labor and cooperation, and the people in the government will do their own things. Now a county has a county magistrate who administers the administration and a county supervisor who supervises the work of the county magistrate, and later there are auxiliary political personnel representing the holy academy and the doctoral college, and if a few more people representing the local people are added to the auxiliary political institutions, plus the original canonical history, the lord book, the county lord and others, a county is almost the same as a small imperial court. If the division of labor between prefectures and counties can be achieved, small but comprehensive institutions will become cooperating with each other, which will also be beneficial to the stability of the country.

Yang Lian thought for a while and said: "Your words are very reasonable, but this matter is too big for me to be the master, I must report to the imperial court and even ask the emperor to make a decision himself." I will only ask you one thing, if all factories and mines were to be placed under the control of the state, and only the county was in charge of farming and other affairs, would you be able to guarantee that there would be enough labor in the fields when the farming season was busy? You must know that it is very important to work and open mines, but it is still worse than grain. ”

Lu Zhifu said: "There is certainly no problem with this, as long as the state takes over the affairs of mining and starting construction, it will never allow any mine owner or factory owner to pull people far away, let alone allow anyone to deliberately put people up to watch the jokes of the government." As the adults said, it is absolutely necessary to ensure that the labor force in the farmland is sufficient first, and only when the food problem is guaranteed can we talk about other things to make money. ”

When Yang Lian and Lu Zhifu were talking, Liu Qiao and Qian Qianyi were drinking tea on the side and didn't speak, and now seeing Lu Zhifu slapping his chest loudly, Yang Lian also seemed to listen a little, Liu Qiao was afraid of what happened, so he said: "Lu Zhifu said a few absolutes, but in the eyes of our soldiers, there is no absolute thing in the world, anything is possible, not too absolute." I want to ask Governor Lu, what if there is no one to draw out like two months ago? At that time, even if you, Governor Lu, roll up your sleeves and go out in person, I'm afraid it will be difficult to ensure that the rice sprouts in the field, what will you do at that time? ”

Yang Lian didn't think much about it when he saw that Governor Lu said it at first, but now when he saw Liu Qiao asking like this, his heart was also sudden, and he was afraid of 10,000 if he was afraid of what to do, what should he do when the time comes? Although the most difficult time has passed, no one can guarantee that there will be another large-scale natural disaster one day, and food is precious at all times.

Thinking of this, Yang Lian also looked at Lu Zhifu and asked: "Lord Liu has a point, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, Lu Zhifu can't just say absolutely, but should have a back hand, if there is no back hand, those absolute sure words are likely to be empty words." ”

Governor Lu did not panic, but said confidently: "The two adults don't need to be too much, the lower officials have already thought of emergency measures and emergency people, and these people also have a certain relationship with Lord Liu, that is, the guards of each state." Nanzhi's Weisuo army has been nervous since the arrival of the Japanese many years ago, and they have been living easily for decades, they used to have military fields to plant, and now the imperial court has taken back the military fields and asked them to train and prepare for war at all times. Isn't it just to deal with special events when the lower officials are thinking about fighting? This enemy is coming, and it is a special event, and if something goes wrong with the crops in the field, it is also a special event. ”

Liu Qiao was surprised when he heard this, and said, "How can you, a magistrate, care about the matter of the guard?" Be careful which imperial history knows that you can't eat a copy and walk around. ”

Lu Zhifu hurriedly said: "Xia Guan only analyzed the news he saw in the palace newspaper issued by the imperial court, and he did not deal with the Weisuo army during the peaceful tide period, and this is just an idea, and whether it can be done or not depends on the decision of the imperial court." Besides, it's just a last resort insurance measure, and it's generally better to solve it yourself. ”

Yang Lian thought for a while and said: "This matter has to be asked to the imperial court, and it is certain that the emperor must decide, let's first write to the imperial court to tell the results of the investigation along the way, if the imperial court allows me to go to other provinces to have a look, what do Lord Liu and Lord Qian think?" ”