In the city of Yangzhou, Li Xing looked at the new plaque hanging on the prefect's yamen and smiled. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the great victory of Huai'an, Li Xing sent a large army to occupy the provinces of Jiangbei and Nanzhili, and then reached Yangzhou.

After all the places were occupied by the Tiger Ben army, Jianghuai Province could be formally established. Yangzhou City, as the key point of the Yangtze River and the prosperous place where businessmen from the north and south gather, is the most prosperous city in the north and south of the Yangtze River. Li Xing and Li Laosi prepared to follow Li Zhi's order to change Yangzhou Prefecture into the provincial capital of Jianghuai Province.

Outside the prefect's yamen, the people and gentry of Yangzhou were already gathered.

For such a thing as Yangzhou Mansion becoming a provincial capital, the people of Yangzhou are very happy. For the people, becoming a provincial capital, Yangzhou City will naturally become more and more prosperous day by day, and the income will be greatly increased at that time. And for the gentry, it will be much easier to do some business in the future when the provincial capital will be prosperous.

The gentry were better informed than the common people, and had long heard that the gentry in Tianjin and Shandong had now lost their land rent income and lived mainly on their original savings. And the most important thing to revitalize your savings is to buy stocks. If Yangzhou becomes a provincial capital, there will naturally be stock trading institutions to settle in, which will greatly facilitate the investment of the gentry.

The gentry were about to lose their land income, and at this time they looked sad. But they thought about the rumored considerable income of the Tianjin and Shandong gentry from stock investment, and they had some comfort.

The plaque above the yamen was covered with red silk, and Li Xing and Li Laosi stood on both sides of the plaque and pulled the red silk down with force.

"Jianghuai Provincial Governor Yamen" several gilded characters were revealed.

Even if Jianghuai Province was formally established, one town and six provinces would have become one town and seven provinces.

The onlookers applauded in unison, as if they saw their future good life from the plaque.

Dozens of guards standing at the gate of the yamen raised their rifles and fired their guns into the sky in unison. Then crackling firecrackers rang out, and the lion dance team began to perform, and the scene was very lively.

Li Xing waved his hand, and the soldiers took out stacks of books from the governor's yamen. There were two kinds of books, the blue cover was "The Law of the King of Tianjin" and the white cover was "Gongde", and the soldiers distributed these well-printed books to the surrounding people and gentry for free, so that they could study and study.

Now Li Zhi has revised the "Da Ming Law" too much, especially the part of the civil law and commercial law, and it is impossible to say that his own law is the perfection of the Da Ming Law. Li Zhi simply made a "Tianjin County King Law" out.

As soon as this kind of name is taken out, it smells of rippling the earth. In the past, it was not possible to openly implement such a law, but now there is no problem in changing it. Even if the Son of Heaven is unhappy when he finds out, there is no way to take Li Zhi.

As for the public morality textbook, it is something that everyone should learn, and Li Zhi has always provided it free of charge.

Li Xing looked at the people and said loudly: "These two books are things that everyone should learn. If you are illiterate, you must pay close attention to literacy and literacy. If you know how to read words, you must hurry up and learn these two books. Only after learning these two books can you get ahead under the rule of the county king! ”

The common people were very happy to see that the officials had well-printed books for them. They grabbed the two books one by one and cheered in unison!

####

Li Zhi sat on the throne of the third hall of the palace, looked at the Tang newspaper sent by Li Xing and Li Laosi, and took a breath.

Now the south of the Yangtze River north of the Yangtze River has been completely controlled by the tiger army, the eight provinces in the north of the Yangtze River, nearly 20 million people are all incorporated into Li Zhi's territory, the north of the Yangtze River South Zhili has been changed to Tianjin County Wang under the command of Jianghuai Province, Li Zhi under the rule of the Ming people doubled at once.

The expansion of the territory means more financial revenue, more soldiers, and more places for Li Zhi to exert his strength to transform the country. But at the same time, it has also brought many problems, and the most acute problem is the urgent shortage of civil servants.

Nowadays, Li Zhi no longer refers to government administrators as officials, but as civil servants, to show the purpose of serving the people.

Li Zhi's officials are all trained by middle schools, but there are only more than 100 middle schools in Tianjin and Shandong, and there are only 60,000 or 70,000 graduates a year. In the past two years, Li Zhi has annexed Henan and North Korea, which need about 300,000 civil servants, which has made Li Zhi feel that civil servants are stretched.

For more than a year, Li Zhi could only make up for the officials and civil servants in Henan, and the DPRK has been in a state of serious shortage of civil servants. In North Korea, Ri Sik was basically limited to a few dozen officials per county for the most basic management, and at the grassroots level, he relied heavily on the autonomy of the Huben soldiers and villages.

After the 20,000 Tiger Ben troops withdrew from Korea and entered the Japanese war, Korea was effectively in a state of anarchy.

The basic requirements of government administrators are literacy, being able to read and understand files, and being able to record and report things with pen and paper, so it is not something that any farmer or citizen can do. In North Korea, due to the lack of new-style civil servants, in order to maintain basic social order, many aristocratic literati of the two classes who should have been abandoned by Li Zhi re-entered the government and became temporary civil servants.

This made Li Zhi feel a little passive—he finally annexed Korea from two classes of nobles, but in the end he had to rely on these people to govern the country. These two classes of aristocratic children were Confucian literati, and they were bound to bring the Confucian set of things into the new officialdom of Joseon Province, and even change the culture of public morality advocated by Li Zhiyi.

But North Korea's problems are not the most serious, the most serious is the newly acquired Jianghuai province.

Jianghuai Province, with a population of nearly 20 million, needs 100,000 officials and civil servants, let alone 400,000. This kind of serious shortage of people's hands makes Li Zhi feel a sense of embarrassment without rice.

Hong Chengchou sat at the bottom of the three palaces of the palace, and arched his hand and said: "Lord, at this time, it is impossible to use the middle school students trained by me in one town and six provinces to manage the territory. Secondary school graduates can only be used in the positions of officials, and the most basic management is carried out by Confucian students who are able to use literacy at the grassroots level. ”

Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Zheng Kaicheng shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate! There are a lot of problems with this operation. First of all, it is very inappropriate for a freshly graduated middle school student to become an official without training at the grassroots level. Officials do not understand anything, and they are easily deceived by Confucian scholars at the grassroots level, and if they make a mistake in making a decision, they will affect thousands of people in one township and one town for several years. ”

After a pause, Zheng Kaicheng said again: "And it is really dangerous to use Confucian students as civil servants at the grassroots level. Whether all systems can be observed and maintained, the most important thing is people. If all the officials in the yamen are Confucians, in the end, the set of Confucian things will replace the prince's public morality and dominate the culture of the yamen. ”

"I'm afraid that when the time comes, our yamen in Jianghuai Province will still pay attention to loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness."

Li Zhi listened to Zheng Kaicheng's words and frowned.

Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, in the final analysis, is the private virtue of being good to me and being good to you. The development of this culture of private morality means that they form a party to protect each other and even engage in favoritism, irregularities, and bribery. If Li Zhi had made Confucianism the mainstream of the Jianghuai Provincial Government, I am afraid that there would be no difference between the Jianghuai Province under his rule and the Nanzhili under the gentry.

If the grassroots are all Confucian students, under the influence of Confucianism, I am afraid that the middle school graduates who have worked hard to cultivate will gradually forget what public morality is.

It is not advisable to use Confucian scholars as civil servants.

Li Zhi took a few steps back and forth in front of the throne, and said in a deep voice: "Now that there are not enough middle school graduates, and there is no way to recruit enough civil servants by relying on school education, then the civil service examination can only be used. ”