Chapter 326: The Government Goes to the Countryside
On the southern city wall of Dongping Mansion, Wu Yongmu drove a group of men and horses out of the city. But it was the subordinates of the Xuanzheng Division, and these people swaggered out of Dongping Mansion City, and then they didn't go far, and they were divided into three at a fork in the road, and went to the west, south, and east roads.
If Lu Qian wants to run Dongping Mansion seriously, then the Xuanzheng Division is his 'land reform propaganda team'. First of all, it is necessary to preach the policy of Liang Shanbo to the hundreds of thousands of people under his rule.
The Propaganda Department is Liang Shanbo's 'Propaganda Department'. In the past, when he was in the middle of Naliang Mountain, his status was not very prominent. Fan Rui, the head of the capital, is also the head of the Meteorological Bureau. But now, the meteorological piece has been handed over to Sun Sheng, the Duke of Zhuyun Long, and Fan Rui is fully responsible for the affairs of the Propaganda Division. Lu Qian also added Zhiduoxing Wu to the inside and became the deputy leader. I also hope that Wu Yong can use all the ghost wits in his stomach on policy propaganda, which will complement each other.
This Dongping Mansion is a new starting point for the Xuanzheng Division, as Wu Yong, who is directly responsible for the policy propaganda of Dongping Mansion, looking at the people who drove out of the city, his heart was very excited.
Lu Qian's responsibilities assigned to the Propaganda Department are quite large, and in addition to the Propaganda Bureau, there is also an Information Administration and a Management Bureau. The former, as the name suggests, is the publication and management of newspapers and books, the new form of propaganda mode of newspapers, and the completely upgraded version of tabloids, so that Wu Yong, a scholar in white, only has a fine light in his eyes. As a reader, or a reader full of ghost ideas, how could Wu Yong not see the role of newspapers? This is simply a magic weapon to check and balance Shilin Qingyi.
As for how to understand the other major authority of the publication and management of newspapers and books, it is clear to use the words prison and banned books as the topic.
Don't think that the literary prison only existed in the Manchu Dynasty, but it was the most brutal in the Manchu Dynasty. Yang Yun of the Western Han Dynasty was beheaded because the text in the "Book of Reporting Sun Huizong" angered Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and in the last years of Cao Wei; Ji Kang was beheaded in Dongshi because of the "Book of Breaking Friendship with Shan Juyuan" written by the powerful minister Sima Zhao "heard it and was evil". Literary prisons have occurred in all dynasties, including the Song Dynasty, which was the "prosperous era of Wenhua".
The Imperial City Department of the Zhao and Song Dynasty inspected the family officials, family officials, and law officers were all spies, and these personnel had already existed at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty.
"The ancestors made them circulate among the people, and they served in secret."
"The lawmakers' obsession with the common people, coupled with the capital crime, has put them in prison and poison."
"Those who are sent to slander and listen to the opinions of the people of the market will be punished. He also set up a list of rewards, and recruited people to arrest those who slandered the government. I don't know the government of the Holy Emperor Ming since ancient times, so yes? ”
The literary prison, such as the prison of the Song Palace, the Wutai poetry case, the prison of the Tongwen Museum, the Chegaiting poetry case, etc., is almost well known.
In the Song Dynasty, incidents of book banning and book burning also occurred from time to time, and private history was often the main object of banning. For example, in April of the second year of Chongning (1103), "the edict destroyed and published the "Tang Jian" and the three Su, Qin, Huang and other anthologies. Works such as "Chronicles of Dongzhai", "Xiangshan Yelu", "Liu Gongfu's Poems", and Chao Buzhi's Anthology are all banned.
It's just that behind these 'literary prisons', it is not the suppression of dissidents by the imperial power, but more of the internal struggles among literati and doctors, and it is often the victors who are in charge of the world's handles.
In fact, just look at the encounter of Song Jiang chanting anti-poems in Xunyang Tower in the original work of Water Margin, then you can see it.
Not to mention, in addition to the Propaganda Bureau and the Information Bureau, there is also a management bureau under the Propaganda Department. The latter is aimed at the management constraints of the people who tell stories and sell their arts, don't underestimate the influence of those who tell stories and sell their arts, no matter what dynasty they are in, entertainment is what the broad masses of the people like to see.
Wu Yong was refreshed, as if he had returned to his youth, and he only felt that he was inevitably working day and night, and he also had endless energy all over his body. But this beautiful future and great prospects ......, and it can only be said that power is the best golden gun for men. Although all this depends on the actual effect of the propaganda team. If the effect is not good, it is difficult to guarantee that Lu Qian will not use the knife against the authority of the Xuan Zheng Division.
Let's say that the propaganda team was divided into three, and one of them went south to the first village. First of all, the gongs and drums were beaten, and the copper trumpet shouted loudly.
"The old and young masters are all listening, starting today, Ding money, grain and rice consumption, head money, Yicang tax, agricultural tool tax, cow leather tendon and horn tax, entry tax, silkworm salt money, Quyin money, market money, ...... will all be abolished."
"If the per capita acre of land is less than one acre, the agricultural tax will be exempted from ......"
"Scrap and move. I Liangshan set up grain stations in the townships and towns of the county, and the people paid taxes nearby......"
"Scrap to ......"
Once such a cry is heard, how can the people not be moved? The old Zhao family's summer and autumn taxes, only look at the proportion is less than the eleventh of the acres of land production, but the grain and rice consumption, the head money, the Yicang tax, the agricultural tool tax, the cow leather tendon and horn tax, the international tax, the silkworm salt money, the Qu Yin money, the city money, etc., are several times the positive tax.
It is only said that the grain and rice are consumed, and the county enters the state, the state enters the road, and the treasury on the road is all consumed. Positive tax one stone, plus a few liters. In addition, there is a righteous warehouse, which collects 1/10 of the regular tax. It is also a tax burden that the peasants have to bear.
Particular attention should be paid to the "transfer", which should have been paid at a fixed location, just like the grain station in later generations, and the rabbit was built directly at the township level. However, the old Zhao family often forced the people [taxpayers] to send the tax to the designated place to hand it in, which is called branch transfer. This reduces the government's transportation costs, but increases the burden on the people. Shaanxi branch relocation once stipulated that the first and second class households should be moved 300 li, the third and fourth class households should be moved 200 li, and the fifth class households should be moved 100 li. If you don't want to spend, you have to pay the money for your feet. At first, in order to save freight, the taxpayer exchanged the tax into copper coins in the same place and took it to the destination of the transfer to pay the tax, but he also had to pay the tax (a type of commercial tax) on the journey. After the Daoli foot money became customized, during the Yuanyou period, the money per bucket of feet on Jingxi Road was as high as 56 Wen, which was equivalent to the positive tax amount in the Yuanfeng period. The Guangde army paid a stone of seedling tax, and the foot money was three buckets and seven liters. The amount is staggering.
The so-called conversion means that the old Zhao family converts the taxes payable by the people into the things that the government needs according to their own needs. This is called a fold.
According to the regulations, the conversion should have been in accordance with market parity, but the government will inevitably lower the price of taxes and materials paid by the people, raise the price of the objects of the discount, and squeeze the people again in disguise.
The Lord Bao Qingtianbao, who was propagated in later generations, once said that the shipping department of Huainan and Zhejiang ordered the tax collectors to pay the wheat at 94 wen per bucket, which was twice the market price. In the second year of Huizong Daguan, Jingxi Road directly converted the miscellaneous money and salt money that should be paid by the households into wheat and paid it, and the market price of wheat was 120 wen per bucket, and the government converted it according to 53 wen per bucket. I got more than twice as much wheat raw.
In the conversion operation, the government officials do not explicitly operate according to the regulations, but often fold it many times, for example, when they should pay cash, the government requires it to be converted into silk silk, and then the silk silk is folded into silk, and then the silk cotton is folded into cash. In this way, the money received by the government has been doubled three times, and it has been more than eight times the original.
In addition, the amount of Dingkou money varies from place to place, ranging from 100 Wen to 700 Wen, from a meter bucket to a stone. That's also a big burden, and it's no wonder that there are many customs of drowning fetuses in people's homes, but they can't afford to give birth.
It can be said that the tax policy of the Lao Zhao family is extremely recent exploitation and oppression. But it is also certain that the tax system of the Lao Zhao family is absolutely scientific and has taken great effort to formulate.
Because they can always deprive the people of the last penny in their pockets, but they can always leave the people with a mouthful to eat.
In the Zhao and Song dynasties, why did every natural disaster come, and the displaced people jumped around? That is because their oppression is so great that the people of Li have no ability to resist the disaster.
The people of the village were already curious about the team that came in under the banner of Liangshan. As a place that has been ravaged by Liangshanbo, the people of Dongping Mansion are no strangers to Liangshanbo. Not to mention that among the hundreds of thousands of people who were rescued in the winter of last year, some of them were people from Dongping Mansion.
Therefore, the expressions of the locals looking at the people of Liangshanbo are far less terrifying than when they saw the officials and soldiers. This can be regarded as a kind of popular base. And since they themselves have a certain popular base, the policy that Liang Shanbo then preached was from the perspective of their interests, so that a large number of people immediately gathered around the propaganda team.
The smiling eyes on the leader's face are narrowed into a line, and it is really good to start like this. "I Liangshan Bo is the way of heaven, how can I oppress the good like the bird official mansion? Under the rule of Dongping Mansion, the acres of land will be cleared in a few days, and the villagers will prepare the land deed. If it is true, and the new contract is strong, not a penny will be taken......"
The team leader took the opportunity to call someone to preach, and at the same time, the villagers led the way, and sent someone to send a letter to the landlord in the village, who was also the local Baozheng. But it was an invitation letter, which was a celebration of the establishment of the local government three days later.
At that celebration, there will be big announcements.
Villages, townships, counties, prefectures, and provinces, this is the general framework formulated by Lu Qian, although this provincial-level organization cannot be seen in a short time. And the village official, he really can't afford it. But at the township level, it can. Because the literacy of officials at the township level is far less than that required by officials at the county level, and such institutions are still a good place to arrange for disabled soldiers in cottages. Of course, the latter also has to be studied by surprise.
Besides, there are only 100,000 people in a county today, and there are only 200,000 in the rich Ruoyuncheng County. The number of 'officials' in Liangshanbo is very small, and considering the actual situation, the township-level government that Lu Qian wants to set up in Dongping Mansion actually has only one township head/town head, a tax officer, a magistrate, and a reserve army soldier, and that's it.
They are just like Li Yunlong on TV, and his subordinate 'task forces' that 'go out' and develop independently, they enjoy relatively large autonomy, but they also have to recruit their own subordinates. The team sent out by Li Yunlong even had only three or five people and two or three guns, but after development and growth, they became hundreds or thousands of people after years.
And so they do.
A township government is not something that three people can play, even in the current system of the old Zhao family, the township official system also has the chief and deputy chief of the capital, headed by the person who undertakes the subsidy, and then there are large and small chief and countless tax collectors as the backbone. It's not something that just three or five people can do.
It's up to them. Lu Qian also asked the township officials to do the same, delegating power to them. They went down to the place alone, and in a short period of time, they didn't think about the support from above, and the armed forces left behind in the prefecture and county were used as a deterrent. The knife hangs over the neck, and the threat is the greatest. It is possible to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, but it must not happen often.
At the level of township officials, everything must be self-reliant in the short term. The prestige in that place, the strongmen in the villages, and the young and strong people who have their hearts set to Liangshanbo can all be taken for their own use. One of the sheriff's reserve troops is the instructor......
The right is given to them, so whether they can develop and grow their 'team' and complete the instructions on time and in quantity depends on their own ability.
It's a big game. The strong will emerge and step by step to the top; The weak can only go with the flow. Wandering in place for a long time, I can't even sit in my original position.