5. The foundation of the beginning of politics (5)
When the defeat fell to Niuweiju, Yan Xing was pretentious, full of indignation, and Yan Shi talked to help him dissipate the anger on his body.
Now that the two of them are alone in the wing room, listening to Master Yan point out their mistakes, Yan Xing's heart has reduced a lot of pride that has been growing since Dinghedong.
At the end of the day, I am a special person and an ordinary person.
In the future, whether you are in charge of a county or a state, you will have a lot to learn, and you will inevitably make mistakes in the future.
What needs to be remembered is this sincere and indomitable original intention.
After listening to these political mistakes pointed out by Yan Shi for himself, Yan Xing sincerely confessed to Yan Shi:
"I have heard it today, I am willing to change it, and I will end up in the good way!"
Subsequently, Yan Xing personally copied down his mistakes in politics one by one, and prepared to paste them on the screen of the place where he handled political affairs, so as to warn himself at all times.
Yan Shi was also relieved when he saw that Yan Xing frankly admitted his mistakes and was willing to take substantive actions to correct his mistakes.
If Yan Xing couldn't listen to the advice and advice, then according to Yan Shi's temperament, he would have to stab Yan Xing in front of him, and then hang up the seal and abandon the official and return to the mountains and forests again.
Thankfully, things haven't gotten worse yet.
After leaving the county government, Yan Shi did not go back to his home first, but went to visit Xi Zhicai's illness, and specially left a prescription for Xi Zhicai.
The days passed like this, and half a month passed in a blink of an eye.
After Yan Shi took up the post of county commander, he was busy making up for the gaps in Yan Xing's previous decrees. If the county government issues a document that says that the county that has already collected the money and the tax is to be sent to the county government of Anyi together with the tax of the current year, the people of the county can be exempted from the next year's oral money.
In the case of assembling a crowd to cause rebellion, Yan Shi dismissed the dereliction of duty of the prison officials, asked Yan Xing to dismiss and promote new officials, personally interrogated, interrogated, checked the crimes recorded in the case file, and convicted the prisoners in turn in accordance with the Han law, and sentenced them to death, flogging, and imprisonment for the punishment of the city and the ghost. The rest of the innocent people will be released.
Internally, they will work with the right Cao officials of the county government, such as Gong Cao Weiqi and Wuguan Peng Peiqian, to assess the history of Cao Peng of the county government, meet with the officials of the counties, proofread the account books and documents, and rectify the honor guards and chariots of the county government······
During this period of time, Yan Xing read a large number of cases, documents, account books, and files of the county government in recent years, and learned in detail about the acres and household registration of the Hedong county government.
Since Jia Kui was appointed as the post governor of the south, he has not been able to inspect the southern counties. Now that he has seen the history of Cao Peng in the mansion, and he is also familiar with the history of the postal superintendent, it is time to send him out.
This time, Yan Xing specially commissioned him to serve the county, collect wind and inspect the counties in the south, to ensure that the orders of the county government really reach the counties, and at the same time, it is also to observe the people's feelings, and to supervise the officials who are greedy for ink, arrogant and illegal and other things that are traitorous and criminal.
Then, after consulting with Yan Zhu, Wei Qi, Pei Qian and others, Yan Xing issued a new clerical order to the county government.
The first is a document ordering the collection of bones in the south, and ordering each township and pavilion to report the death and loss of population to the county.
Yan Xing looked through a large number of field books and household books in the county government, and found that there were many omissions in them, and the lost population in the past years of war and chaos had not been liquidated, and he had the intention to order the counties to recalculate the acres of land, population, and household wealth in the whole county, but because of the beginning of the government, it was not appropriate to be in a hurry, so he only ordered the liquidation of the dead, lost population and ownerless fields in the past few years.
The second decree is about the pacification and resettlement of displaced people, now not only there are displaced people in Hedong, Sanfu suffered from the war of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, there are also a large number of people displaced, Yan Xing ordered Ganling to appease a large number of Sanfu displaced people, instead of the current Hedong pacification, liquidated the lost population and ownerless fields, Yan Xing is ready to settle these displaced people in batches in the south and north of Hedong.
The third decree involved both the shogunate and the county government, and Yan Xing's army was to divide troops to protect the counties in Hedong. Although there are dangers of mountains and rivers in the east of the river, there are also potential opponents on all sides, Li Dao and Guo Yan in the west, Ganling in the west of the river, and Cao Yuan in the north, all of which are guarded for the time being.
Zhang Ji, who is separated by the big river in the south, after entering Hongnong, is also a strong soldier, and it is not clear where its soldiers are pointing, but the strong neighbor is on the side, and it has to be guarded. Therefore, Yan Xing ordered Zhai Hao's troops and horses to deploy to defend Hebei, Dayang and other cities in the south.
In the east, there was Zhang Yang of Hanoi, and Yan Xing ordered Xu Huang's troops to be stationed in Jiangyi, taking into account the military affairs of the cities of Huze, Duanshi, and Dongyuan.
As for the northwest, Yan Xing ordered Yan Xing, Yang Feng, and Ma Wan to join forces with Wei Xuan's troops in the north to recover Puzi and Beiqu Ercheng.
After consolidating the entire territory of Hedong, the fourth decree was to return to the internal affairs of promoting virtue and promoting education.
In the past, the county government eliminated all the prestigious and talented scholars in the county to serve as the chief officials in the county government, but there were still some vacancies in the county government.
In particular, after the county officials were strictly assigned to evaluate the county officials, and the superintendent Jia Kui patrolled the southern cities, he would expell, depose, and resign some officials, and more vacancies would be created in the county.
Yan Xing wanted to leave some of these positions to those children of poor families, as well as the officials who stood out in the assessment and his original scribes, so he ordered the whole county to recommend talents.
Subsequently, the counties successively have talent recommendations, there are children with strong surnames, there are also scholars from poor families, and even the right Cao of the county government has talents to recommend, Wei Qian recommended Le Xiang, Pei Qian recommended Wu Qiu Xing, Jia Kui recommended Sun Zi, Yan Xing in conjunction with Yan Zhi and other officials, after inspecting their talents one by one, he appointed the best among them, such as Bi Le Shen for the literary Peng, Wu Qiu Xing for the history of the soldiers, and Sun Zi for the secretary of the room.
As for the matter of revitalizing education, although Hedong was initially decided, and all industries were to be developed, after discussing with Yan Zhu, Wei Qi, Pei Qian and others, Yan Xing still decided to allocate money and grain, renovate the schools in the county and the order of the township pavilion, and appoint scholars as school officials to teach chemistry.
First, it is because Bai Bo in the north originally started in the name of the Yellow Turban, and Wei Gu, Fan Xian and others were also demagogues, rebelled against the county government, and Yan Xing entered the east of the river, paying attention to the right name.
The framework needs to be built in advance, and how to reform it in the future is a matter for later.
It can be said that after Yan Xing discussed with Yan Zhi, Wei Qi, Pei Qian and others, these decrees of the whole county were promulgated, and once they were implemented, they were all supported by the people of Shimin. Whether it is collecting bones, liquidating the lost population, or sending troops to guard the cities in the territory, or raising the virtuous and virtuous, promoting education, etc., it is a matter of benefiting everyone, and the government decree is carried out unhindered in the territory, and Yan Xing's prestige for the government is also rising.
However, these latter edicts have been constrained and condemned by various quarters to varying degrees.
In the final analysis, it is still a "profit" word.
The previous things that benefited the people, whether it was sending troops to recover the city, repairing schools, or appointing officials, benefited everyone, and the money, grain, cloth and silk were transferred from the county government, but these things that Yan Xing did later were more like competing with the "people" for profit.
First, the county government has sent a message to all counties, but all the people who have been out of production and exiled due to wars and natural disasters will be exempted from paying taxes on the acres of land and oral calculations for the next year after returning to their hometowns, so that they can rest assured and resume production.
Within two months after the decree was issued, if there were displaced people who did not return within the time limit and were stranded in other places, the counties would send their guerrilles and pavilion chiefs to arrest them and punish them severely according to the crime of loitering and not doing business.
This document has been issued, which immediately caused an uproar among the counties.
In recent years, there have been frequent wars in Hedong, and there are not a few people who have swallowed up the ownerless land in the midst of the local tyrants, recruited displaced people as tenants, and taken advantage of the opportunity to make usury, but the government decrees of the county government have been linked together, and it has become a strategy against them.
How can you not cause them to backlash if you want to hook out the fat they have swallowed and cut off their financial routes?
For a while, among the voices that originally praised Yan Xing for entering Hedong, for good governance and good at soothing the people, there were many other controversies and voices.
However, the document of the county government was not affected, and then it was issued to the whole county.
Large-scale Mintun and Juntun have been implemented in the north before, and the effect of the harvest is very good at present, increasing a large amount of grain and cloth income for the county government and the shogunate, and a complete set of tuntian's operation system, the county government has also explored it, and the officials of the tuntian have also trained and trained a group.
However, in Yan Xing's view, now that the east of the river is pacified, the tuntian in the north is no longer constrained by the county government, and it can still be increased in scale, and this requires the allocation of more abundant manpower and material resources in the south to repair the canal, according to the county plan, the northeast border of the river will be divided into two large tuntian areas, one is mainly in Pingyang, the other is mainly in Linfen, and then relying on the water conservancy and canal irrigation built by Fenshui, it will not be a problem to increase the income of nearly one million stone valleys in one year.
The ownerless land in the south where the Sanfu displaced people are resettled can also be classified as Mintun, and the benefits that the county government can obtain by using the river canals and water conservancy in the south, which are still perfect, are also quite considerable.
And the salt and iron in the east of the river are also under the jurisdiction of the county government in the future. These two are both high-profit industries, and iron smelting and salt boiling require a lot of manpower and material resources, and the big surnames who can share profits from salt and iron are all wealthy families with thousands of servants.
For this reason, Yan Xing specially appointed Zhao Hong as the lieutenant of salt and iron to assist the county to strictly grant the official salt and iron.