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Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, and suddenly regretted it a little, he came out this time, but he only brought an escort, at most an imperial doctor, and he didn't bring any of them who were erudite and could be consulted. Next time you go on patrol, you still have to bring one with you.

However, it is also fortunate that there is a chat group. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen directly entered the chat group and chatted privately with Wen Tiren, the first assistant: "I want to change the practice of the government not going down to the county, what good way does Wen Qing have?" ”

Wen Tiren couldn't help but be startled when he saw this private chat coldly, and after a little pondering, he replied: "Your Majesty, if the government is in the county, you can't control it." ”

"Why can't you manage it?" Emperor Chongzhen immediately asked again.

Wen Tiren didn't know what Emperor Chongzhen had encountered outside, so he tried to be as conservative as possible when answering: "Your Majesty, I have so many officials in the Ming Dynasty, within a county, there is also a county order, and the county lieutenant ......"

When Emperor Chongzhen saw this, he immediately interrupted: "If there are not enough officials, it would be better to add more!" ”

"Where's Yulu? The imperial court doesn't have that much money! ”

"If you don't have it now, it doesn't mean you won't have it in the future!" Emperor Chongzhen replied without hesitation, "Otherwise, below the county level is the cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty, and if the cornerstone is unstable, how can the house be stable?" ”

Wen Tiren listened, understood a little about what Emperor Chongzhen meant, thought about it, and then played: "Your Majesty, in fact, most of the people below the county level are autonomous, and the government also intervenes, so I don't care about it at all!" ”

The problems that Emperor Chongzhen realized were thousands of years in China, excluding the previous time when the population was not large, and it is said that since the Tang and Song dynasties, some people have realized the problems. Therefore, as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Lü Dajun, Lü Dalin and other brothers formulated the "Lü Township Covenant" in the ninth year of the Northern Song Dynasty Shenzong Xining, that is, the Lantian Convention, which set a system in black and white for neighbors and villagers to exhort each other to abide by each other and to assist each other for the purpose of relief. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi rewrote this township covenant.

After the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shouren paid more attention to it when he was the governor of Tingzhang and other places in the 12th year of Zhengde, and promulgated the "Nangan Township Covenant" in the 15th year of Zhengde, which is about 16 articles, stipulating the moral convention that the people of the whole township abide by, which involves military training, political education, moral cultivation and other contents.

During the Jiajing period, the ministry ruled the world and held a township covenant, which greatly increased and damaged the teaching of Wang Wencheng. If the "Lü's Township Covenant" is an automatic rural organization of the people, then the "Nangan Township Covenant" promulgated by Wang Yangming in 1518 is a rural organization supervised by the government, which belongs to the official rule tradition.

When Wen Tiren explained all this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be very curious, so he asked some more questions. It was found that the "Nangan Township Covenant" made detailed provisions on the organizational structure, the responsibilities of the person in charge, the mode of activities, the meeting procedure, and the etiquette system of the "Township Appointment".

Among the same covenant people, one person who is senior and virtuous is the chief of the covenant, and there are two deputy chiefs, and four people who are upright and decisive are about the right, and four people who are knowledgeable and discerning are the history of the covenant. Whoever makes the covenant must make an appointment with the chief to judge with the person who has made the covenant, and if he is convicted of evil sin, he shall sit on the covenant with all the people.

I have to say that Wang Yangming is really powerful. This system also involves the implementation of military training, the reform of customs, and the promotion of morality. The Ming Dynasty has a dynastic lifespan of nearly three hundred years, and Wang Yangming's contribution is not small. Unfortunately, this system was not well enforced, and a hundred years later, almost all aspects collapsed, allowing the Manchus to easily seize the world.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it for a long time, and finally said what he meant, including the matter of children's education, and asked Wen Tiren to think of a way to connect it with the township covenant. In addition, the appointment chief, which is similar to the township mayor and town mayor in later generations, can also be considered as a formal official position.

This is a major event, and like the previous reform of the etiquette system, Zhou Xiang must be planned, anyway, Emperor Chongzhen is not in a hurry.

After discussing this matter, when Emperor Chongzhen withdrew from the chat group, he found that it was already dark, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Hey, it's so dark so fast?" ”

"Hehe, master, it's been more than half an hour!" Tian Guifei was still with him, and said with a smile, "It's a shame that the weather is still cold and there are no mosquitoes, otherwise the old man is afraid that he won't be able to sit for so long!" ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help laughing, stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go to dinner!" ”

He and Tian Guifei walked through the side door, and suddenly saw Chen Youming and his wife waiting there with a child in their arms, and when they saw them coming, they all pulled the child and knelt down, among which Chen Youming was a little cautious and said: "Master, my child is not sensible, and I also ask the prime minister to be able to support the boat in his belly, and the adults don't remember the villain, just ......."

Emperor Chongzhen was speechless when he heard this, looked at them who were panicked, and then turned his head to look around, and then understood, and immediately interrupted with a smile: "What are you doing, all get up, all get up." You don't care what my identity is, just remember that I am a guest who came to Nanxun Town to invest in the store, and it was you who kindly lent it to prevent us from staying. We should be grateful to you, and we don't care about anything else. Got it? ”

Chen Youming originally only thought that this old man was a rich man, and he might or may not be a little powerful. This is here in Nanxun Town, and there are many wealthy businessmen who come and go, and they are not very surprised. But after the real contact, especially after arriving at home, he found that all the expenses of this old man were taken care of by his subordinates, even the food. It can be said that except for this house, everything else is handled by his men.

What's more important is that Liu Xingzuo's words made his daughter-in-law feel a little, and then looked at these subordinates, all of them were closely protecting this master, and when there were all those subordinates standing around, they felt that this master was definitely not a wealthy businessman, and it was very likely that he was a high-ranking official in the imperial court.

With this understanding, Chen Youming dragged his son back and asked, and learned that his son was going to ask the old man for someone and was going to call back or something, he was a little frightened, and he didn't know what the old man would think, and at the suggestion of his daughter-in-law, they brought the child over to ask for guilt.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's attitude made Chen Youming and his wife confused again. If you are a high-ranking official in the court, will you be so easy to talk about? They could feel that this old man was telling the truth, without the slightest anger or malice.

In this way, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and stood up as they said.

"Tomorrow, walk around the town with me, or your eyes will be black, won't you?" Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile.

Chen Youming listened to what he said easily, so he also relaxed, and hurriedly nodded in agreement. But what I didn't expect was that early the next morning, before anyone went out, someone came to the door.