Li Tingzhi and Liao Yingzhong had a heated discussion about the so-called federal empire.

Lu Xiufu occasionally interjected a few words.

Jia Pingzhang listened calmly to their conversation, measuring their abilities in his heart.

Li Tingzhi and Liao Yingzhong talked about "small government and big market".

They saw with their own eyes that there were only a handful of office staff in the so-called city government, and it seemed that there were not as many people as in the county government of the Great Song Dynasty, and that there were not many government decrees, but the whole city was functioning normally.

And the so-called county government office staff is even less, just like a county magistrate leading three or two kittens...... Some people don't even know who the county magistrate is!

Li Tingzhi smiled and said, "Don't be blinded by their city government and county government...... If you go to their police offices, courts, notary offices, tax offices, etc., you will find that there are far more people there than in our state offices......"

Liao Yingzhong sighed: "Exactly, exactly! If we compare it with our street soldiers and servants, they have already outnumbered several times the number of patrolmen...... However, the so-called social management is indeed well organized, and it can even reach the corners and corners, and it does not stop at twelve o'clock and every hour!

It may not reach the level of not leaving a trail and staying at night, but even in the middle of the night, a single woman can still walk at night without worry. ”

Li Tingzhi shook his head and said, "Qunyu doesn't know anything...... Pingzhang and I both had experience in managing the local area, if we hadn't led the people to reclaim the land, build water conservancy, and plant mulberry and farm...... I wonder how many people will be displaced and die of hunger and cold.

I am a big disapproval of the so-called small government and big market...... If you leave it alone, let the people fend for themselves, and you will have no worries for a while, but sooner or later it will become a big disaster!

Those who are the parents of the people must have the same heart as their parents! ”

Jia Pingzhang laughed after hearing this: "What Xiangfu said is extremely true! Word...... Only after loving the people, enriching the people, and teaching the people can we self-denial and return to the courtesy, and the world will be governed!

It is the property of the people of the Ming monarchy, and it will make Yang enough to serve his parents, and he will be able to live for his wife, and he will be full for life, and he will be free from death in the fierce year; Then drive it to the good, so that the people will be light.

In this way, how can we say that there is a small government and a big market?

It imitates the Taoist inaction? ”

Lu Xiufu interjected: "It is definitely not the rule of Taoism's inaction! I've seen how they govern agriculture...... Test it by example, guide it with profit, and then let the people choose freely, from it or not from it. ”

Li Tingzhi and Jia Pingzhang were stunned for a moment, just to guide rather than persuade?!

Li Tingzhi thought for a while, smiled, and said: "I really remembered that the so-called king surnamed Zhang personally designed a grange called what kind of circular breeding and breeding, and was imitated by farmers in the suburbs because of its large production...... As a result, a large city has an abundant supply of vegetables, fruits, poultry and eggs...... Hehe, before I left Xuzhou, I forgot to ask the farmers there to follow suit. ”

Lu Xiufu smiled and said, "Don't worry about Xiangfu...... Before we left, there were already farms around Xuzhou, and such granges had been built! ”

Li Tingzhi's eyes lit up and said, "How do they know?!" ”

"A long time ago, there was a report about the new Grange in the Daily Liuqiu...... If that method is added to make people earn a lot of money, I think some people have already learned it, but we don't need to persuade it...... It is not difficult to understand that it is the way of nature. ”

Jia Pingzhang interjected: "How to educate the people? ”

“…… Only the laws and regulations are used to bind the people! There is no talk of indoctrination ......"

"Could it be that the executor said?" Jia Pingzhang said, "Those who are severely punished are also terrible to the people; Those who are severely punished will be hated by the people. Therefore, the saint shows what he fears to forbid his evil, and sets his evil to prevent his treachery. It is because of national security and cannot afford to riot. I am not enough to be benevolent, righteous, and benevolent, and severely punished can govern the country. ”

After Jia Pingzhang finished speaking, even Liao Yingzhong shook his head this time and said, "No...... The basic content of the law is common sense that the people can understand, and it is also something that ordinary people should abide by, so it is not a cool law.

As for the punishment, except for the murderer, the others are all punishments of hard labor, and they cannot be said to be severe punishments!

It's just that the offense must be prosecuted...... Didn't they write it in the Magna Carta, the king is under the law...... This should be the same thing as what we say about 'the prince and the common people are guilty of the same crime'...... It's just that they claim to do what they say.

Someone once urinated on the street, and he was really punished with a few days of hard labor......"

Well, the more people talked, the more interested they became, and the topic jumped very quickly.

After a while, it was time for dinner.

Without Jia Pingzhang to keep them, the four of them started dinner between the study.

On this night, they pushed the cups and exchanged lamps and had a good conversation...... That night, Li Tingzhi and Lu Xiufu both slept in Xinjia Mansion.

The next day, an ominous message reached the Privy Council via cable cable.

The Tatar bandit group organized a cavalry force of 20,000 men in the area of the Yellow River Loop, with unclear intentions!

This military intelligence flew around the court like a bat in the dark, bringing a sense of foreboding wherever it flew...... The Tatar robbers had received all the supplies they had paid as scheduled, and their henchmen were still in the Shantung region, which was only about two thousand miles away from their capital...... For several years, everything has been peaceful, and after we moved the capital, they gathered soldiers in the Hetao, what are they trying to do?!

Since ancient times, the Hetao area has been an important place for many political powers in the north, and its eastern area was called "Eilechuan" during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was re-cultivated, and there were verses in the Tang poems that "the orchard under Helan Mountain was formed, and the north and south of the Yangtze River were famous", and it was called "Fengzhou Beach" in the five dynasties.

During the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the Hetao was occupied by the Western Xia, the Liao Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty...... After they were destroyed by the Tatar bandits, it became a treasure land for grazing war horses in the west of the Great Yuan.

Let's not mention the panic in the court of the Great Song Dynasty.

Da Yuan's life is extremely aggrieved now...... Kublai Khan, the leader of the bandits, tried several times to revive his strength and go south, but often after some agitation, he had to die down.

If the Liuqiu army is not destroyed first, how can it go south?!

In the past, Kublai Khan once mentioned that since the Great Song Dynasty government has been planned, it is building a new Bianjing and wants to move their capital north again!

In this way, they took the initiative to avoid the land south of the Yangtze River, and if they took the opportunity to send a large army to bypass the Shandong region, and take the Hetao area as the starting point, they might be able to take their capital within a few months!

If there is no emperor in the Great Song Dynasty, the whole country will inevitably be a piece of scattered sand, and it can be broken one by one at that time!

However, this strategic arrangement would have been entirely feasible without the presence of an army......

At the time of Kublai Khan's impassioned agitation, many Tatar nobles were silent, and if the Great Song government had not provided them with various supplies for a long time, everyone would probably have dispersed long ago, and they would either desperately grab a handful from the Great Song Dynasty, or return to the steppe...... Even going to other khanates is a good choice.

Over the years, it has been a great blessing that the Liuqiu army has not been able to leave Shandong...... If we bypass them and go south, we won't be recruiting them to attack Dadu?

Kublai Khan sneered: "When the time comes, I will be waiting for them in most of the city......"