Chapter 408 Being a prime minister or president is not as good as being a president—2

In fact, it is very easy to identify the old-school scholars, but the difficulty is that even if their identities are recognized, it is not necessarily possible to conclude that they are related to this public opinion turmoil.

Because most of the scholars are low-level intellectuals who have honestly moved here, while others have more enlightened minds, and they have come here to study.

After several oolong incidents by the grassroots security organs, Suning finally realized that there was no point in carrying out such screening work, and instead of searching for targets all over the mountains, it was better to seize the targets of their incitement and carry out a diametrically opposed propaganda and education.

So Suning's propaganda machine finally opened up a new battlefield, they can no longer be satisfied with the shouts in the newspaper, but to carry out a more colorful, and easy to be accepted by the common people of the propaganda activities, a set of books called the ideal country, in Suning years of brewing, smoothly published, different from the ideas of Greek philosophers, Suning in this series of books directly expounded what kind of country to talk about the development goals of the Liangzhou system.

After the publication of this book, it immediately aroused the rush of middle- and upper-class intellectuals, so that in the bookstores at the grassroots level, there was almost no shadow of him, only his advertisements could be seen, but the common people did not care, after all, they still did not understand some of the terms in it, even if they took it back to their children who went to school, according to their current school experience, they may not be able to understand it.

So they still prefer to go to art programs such as opera, and anyway, there are many things in it that coincide with that series of books.

So this group ended, and the common people were accepted, and finally found a good way to pass the time of boredom, even if Wang Anshi forced the people under his rule to participate in the training of Baojia, it could not stop their enthusiasm for watching related operas.

Among them, there is even a special opera used to ridicule Wang Anshi, which has aroused strong support from the local people. The general content of the story is as follows: an official was worried that the training results of the militia under his rule were terrible, so before they finished the autumn harvest, they were dragged to the training ground, but this move caused strong indignation among the local people, but according to the system of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it was simply an unshirkable responsibility to recruit the children of good families to join the army to fight, and whoever dared to resign in this regard could easily be charged with treason.

Of course, this matter is different, please don't say that there is no relationship between training and fighting, just saying that this official has damaged the harvest of the common people because of his own political performance is enough to make the local people dissatisfied, so they united and went to an institution called Goshitai to report this matter, and soon. Yushitai sent Wen to investigate the matter and reported the results to the imperial court. The Privy Council immediately issued an order to halt the military training that had begun in advance, and the government office sent him a letter through the ministry, first reprimanding him, and then transferring him to a more remote place as a local adjutant officer.

In the end, the people here ushered in another magistrate, but his level of governance was not much better than the previous one. So the group of people confronted the new magistrate because of the problem of paying taxes.

The magistrate was an old-school scholar. He believed that he had the right to levy all kinds of exceptional taxes in the areas under his rule, so as to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction activities, after all, this is also a thing advocated by the two systems, and if there is no money, it is difficult to spread out infrastructure on a large scale, and it is very convenient for the common people to cultivate this kind of technical construction suitable for water conservancy, so the magistrate, through his superficial economic reasoning, believes that the common people are not obliged to pay more taxes to themselves.

Because of the experience of going to Yushitai to complain last time, the people of Zhou Village immediately went to Hanyang County in groups to complain, but what they never expected was that this new local official had a very strong hand, at least their family was powerful, and there were thousands of people in the tribe alone, so he immediately sent people to arrest all these guys who were going to complain, and threw them into the local prison, and many people became frightened and did not dare to confront this new official. In addition, with the help of the Liangzhou system, they also succeeded in obtaining a better harvest, so they simply handed over the extra taxes, which made the official suddenly have an extra income, but this money did not go into the official account, but into his private small treasury, as for the excuse he used to collect taxes, which was to build water conservancy projects, it has never been really practiced in this land.

In response, the common people accumulated more resentment, but unfortunately, the official was so powerful that anyone who had ever resisted his taxation was restricted from leaving the local territory.

But this situation did not last long, those relatives who often came and went saw that no one had been here for a long time, and they couldn't help but wonder, out of health concerns, they quickly took a few children and nephews to come to check the situation, and saw that most of them could live a good life, but their faces were sad and even some smokers were indignant, so they asked about the situation here in peace of mind.

Because it doesn't matter, the matter of the local officials collecting more taxes was soon over, and the people in several other counties knew about it, and there were a few county orders from the Liangzhou system that immediately sent official letters to ask whether the local county orders had these things, and the old-school scholars, of course, strongly opposed it. And they claim that they are ready to recruit enough people to carry out the water project, and those who have been arrested and imprisoned for resisting taxes are very good laborers.

For Suning's retail system, there is a fine tradition of using prisoners as labor, so the statement of this county magistrate is not entirely unreasonable, but the careful surrounding officials quickly observed the trick, that is, the place where this group of criminals were arrested was not in their local area, but in the jurisdiction of several other county magistrates.

So these people finally found a way to deal with this county magistrate, and they immediately brought the matter to the political hall. Claiming that this county commander crossed the border to enforce the law, violated their judicial rights, and believed that the people who arrested the murderers were not trained professional security personnel, that is, the county commander illegally used private soldiers, and the closer he came to other counties, to some extent, this large-scale paramilitary operation can already be regarded as an invasion of the local area, and there are several stubborn minds, and even insist that they should activate the national defense emergency response.

Of course, the government hall was reluctant to agree with their radical statement, so the matter was delayed in the dispute between the two sides, but the county magistrates were also very worried about the innocent people who were arrested, so they hoped to solve the matter as soon as possible, so they took the initiative to put forward suggestions to those ministers to continue to report.

When they saw this, almost all of them thought that the ministers of the political hall met and reported the problem to the emperor, but in this play, the emperor was still the supreme head of the entire empire, but the ministers of the political hall walked through the gate of the palace without entering when they reported to the top, and entered another courtyard next to it, which was called the president's mansion.

The so-called president here is, of course, Suning, which the people of Liangzhou are very familiar with. His official title is now President of the Military and Political Affairs of the Empire. The word president is nothing more than its abbreviation.

As for the power of the emperor, after the establishment of the constitutional monarchy, he has become a commodity, and he is only allowed to receive visits from the courtiers in the imperial palace every day.

When the common people could see this paragraph, they couldn't help but be surprised again and again, they couldn't imagine that the future emperor would be like such an ornament, but some people soon pointed out that when the powerful ministers brought disaster to the country, the emperor was really just like a decoration, for example, Huo Guang in the Western Han Dynasty once made the emperor like a puppet for a long time.

But one thing that has to be mentioned is that in this play, Suning gave no less than a dozen reasons and analyses for the emperor's power.

One of the most important is that not all descendants of the royal family are able to be knowledgeable enough to be a good emperor. Even he pointed out sharply that those emperors who had performed well in history were just standing on the cusp of the tide of the times, so even if he was a turtle, he would become a god-level existence similar to a meteorite from the sky under the impetus of this wave.

Although most of the people are reluctant to take over the latter statement, they also have to admit that some emperors are not as good as the generation, such as Liu Hongtang, the Emperor of Han Ling, who had just driven the crane to the west, bought officials and lords, connived at eunuchs to interfere in court affairs, and only cared about their own pleasure for a long time, but did not care about the safety of the people, so that the peasants revolted everywhere, even in this case, he also ordered people to build fortifications, in an attempt to show the world that he is still the proud son of heaven with great prestige, but unfortunately, even with all these efforts, It came to pass, but nothing changed about his fate.

At least his position in the minds of the people has not improved because of this, on the contrary, Suning has risen rapidly in the Liangzhou region with his various innovations, and brought more benefits to the local people, so his prestige has been rapidly improved in a short period of time. And finally after the Yellow Turban Uprising, he became the state pastor of Liangzhou.

You must know that his age at the time was only 19 years old, although she acted steadily and was quite old-fashioned, but it is undeniable that she was able to achieve so much at such a young age, I am afraid that only the hussar general Huo Qubing can be compared with it throughout the ages.

However, this version of Huo Qubing in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was not ready to train his younger brother to become a generation of powerful ministers, because he had no younger brother at all, so he could only carry two arms and walk on the stage of history by himself. It's just that instead of becoming a generation of emperors as some people predicted, he threw away that cumbersome throne and created a new power president for himself. The name of this throne actually follows her previous title, that is, president.

Of course, when Cao Cao in Xuchang was also preparing to bring the Son of Heaven to order the princes. He was surprised to find that Suning did not find a position for himself that could control the government within the existing bureaucratic system, but simply recreated such a courage for himself, which made him a little surprised, because at that time, he still hung the title of Sikong and coveted the position of prime minister. It's a pity that Suning, who had this idea almost at the same time as him, has already tailored a new power structure for himself, and even more unfortunate things, Cao Cao and the local people, each, after hearing the name of the president, were a little surprised and wondered, because this is the same as Suning's position in Weishui Company, is it possible that Suning is ready to stuff the company's management system directly into the court?

With the staging of this big drama, the answer to this question was quickly revealed. Suning did apply the set of management in the company, even including the rank of officials, to the imperial court, which surprised some local middle and low-level intellectuals to find that the original Weishui Company had already been able to smoothly transition to the court management system.

The people of Liangzhou District don't have much understanding of this, they only know that if they have any needs and need to get the help of the imperial court, then they can go to those corresponding officials as before, which institutions were before? Which names are still like that now, has not fundamentally changed for him.

And only when he found some clues, it turned out that Suning had been planning for this day for a long time, and he had already taken this into account when he established the Weishui Company, so he could so smoothly put his management system in a certain court, and remove all the original official positions of the court. Those important officials who had previously held some positions in the imperial court also found excuses for him to be dismissed, and some of these excuses were very interesting, that is, he accepted the appointment of Cao Cao's puppet imperial court.

It really made him a little crying and laughing, if you talk about the hypocrisy of the two Han courts, then there is no doubt that Suning's team is even more untrustworthy, because there are no strengths in their team, and there are no official positions such as Sikong Sikou, and some are just some titles that have never heard of the name, for example, the Pingzhang matter under the Tongzhongshu Sect, such as the governor's political affairs.

However, the common people recognized this system, because they were already familiar with this set of titles in the company days, especially the titles of the Li village officials who dealt with them.