The Ministry of Industry will certainly not stop the local chiefs from subjectively wanting to benefit the people.

The new farmland water conservancy law is not in itself intended to hinder local officials from governing the region. Rather, it adds a firewall to the system. We should do our best to prevent those officials who have no ability but are happy to make great achievements hold up slogans for the benefit of the villagers and harm the people.

This kind of behavior is also common in the officialdom of later generations, not to mention, officials who do not understand technology but love to command blindly are more harmful than officials who build image projects, and Fubi's Liuta River project is like this, although Jia Changqi and Fu Bi compete for the position of prime minister, it is not wrong to stop the construction of the Liuta River project itself.

Therefore, the local governor wanted to be recognized by the Ministry of Works.

Two conditions must be met,

First, complete the project plan carefully and in accordance with the requirements.

For fear that local officials would not know how to write, Cai Dao specially wrote a model and printed it throughout the country.

The content includes the purpose of the project, the estimated time and number of people to be used for the whole project, and the total amount of materials and money to be studied. The construction of the Su Causeway at any cost like Su Shi did in the past will not happen in the future.

Second, dare to take responsibility.

No one can guarantee that a water conservancy project will succeed, even if the person who initiated it is indeed well-intentioned. But often good intentions will do bad things, not to mention, these local magistrates are not professionals, they are just dead scholars, they do not know how to use the shortest time, the least materials, and the most reasonable manpower to complete a project.

Merit will be rewarded, and if there is a fault, you will naturally be punished.

Therefore, the new farmland and water conservancy law is not actually to limit the ability of local officials, but to make them deeply realize that rights and responsibilities are equally important.

Capable officials who dare to take responsibility, and with the assistance of technical officials of the Ministry of Industry, when building any project, it is naturally half the effort, but if there is no official who has the slightest willingness to take responsibility, then it is better to stay in his position and wait for the end of his term of office.

The law was also retained, and when Wang Anshi promulgated the new law, its content was that the city of Bianliang set up a city to buy those unsalable goods on the market, and in the market, when these goods were in short supply, the city would sell the hoarded goods.

In doing so, it not only protects the economy of small merchants and small farmers, but also suppresses the hoarding intentions of the super-rich businessmen.

However, this time, Zhang Dian took the initiative to limit the scope of the functions of the city, which in layman's terms, was to limit the scope of the agency's purchase of goods. In addition, like the Seedlings Law, the city affairs are only implemented within the Gyeonggi area, and the city affairs are only available in Bianliang City.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, these are all small matters of people's livelihood, but they are also major national matters.

Clothing and cloth are big things, and the initial stage of the city's trade must vigorously control the supply of hemp, as well as hoard a large number of finished linen.

When Cai Dao promotes cotton cultivation on a large scale, there is no need to do this.

At that time, the women in the capital will also be given a job that is perfect for them to support their families—spinning, weaving, and making clothes.

The city is not involved in the transaction of brocade silk, and the common people are too expensive to buy a handkerchief or head rope made of silk, how dare they make clothes! Therefore, the best way is to let it go, and whoever likes to hoard this kind of commodity, let him be.

In this era, silk is too expensive to make clothes, and the yield of hemp is too low, which may be the best material for making clothes in later generations, but in this era, it is still not as good as cotton.

For those ordinary people, in this era, the most important use of clothes is actually to keep warm.

Food is the top priority, and all localities regulate local grain prices through regular closing, while the capital is managed by the city. The real-time supervision of the operation of the regular closing has become a primary task for the imperial historians stationed in various places.

Housing and travel, for the time being, the city will not take care of it. Because, Zhao Xu had already made up his mind to move the capital to Luoyang. Therefore, in essence, Bianliang City has now lost the prospect of continuing to develop and expand, and it is better to let it go.

However, there is one point that the city has made an extremely strict regulation.

Any merchant who comes to Bianliang to sell timber must show the origin of the timber being transported, as well as an official certificate. The work was very strict, in order to prevent these timber merchants from going to Guanzhong to cut down timber and sell it in the city of Bianliang.

First, because of this era, the northwest region, such as Yulin and Yan'an in later generations, was still a treasure land with many forests, and it was only later in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Ming and Qing dynasties that the continuous cutting of Yulin turned into a desert. Whether it's building a house or a car, you need wood.

After the promulgation of the new law, any business that buys and sells timber must go through legal channels, and once anyone is found to have bought timber traded on the black market without permission, even if the house is pulled, it must be resolutely stopped.

Zhao Xu was able to make this regulation, on the one hand, because of Cai Dao's repeated insistence.

On the other hand, it is because Cai Dao's cousin Cai Xuan has been in the Beiluo River for nearly ten years, and he has done a really good job there, so that when he left office, the people of the entire Beiluo River Basin spontaneously saw off the parent official, and that kind of scene shocked all the officials in the world.

The view of the people is never enough to describe the spectacular scene of that moment.

On that day, the entire Beiluo River suddenly became almost crystal clear, and the so-called Jing River in the clear distinction between Jing and Wei was dwarfed by the comparison of the Beiluo River.

For this point, Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze were also deeply remorseful when they left their posts and passed by the Beiluo River, and when they saw this situation.

On the one hand, the two of them wrote to Cai Xuan one after another, asking him about his experience.

On the other hand, they also wrote to the old man Sun Jue, in the letter, they admitted that they still blamed Sun Jue back then, you know, Sun Ju also gave the two of them relevant advice according to Cai Dao's proposal, but at that time, the two who didn't understand the reason naturally didn't listen.

After that, the two of them even wrote to Zhao Xu, praising Cai Xuan's exploits and confessing their mistakes. If the two of them had done what Sun Jue had suggested, the situation in the Wei and Jing River basins would have been better now, and the situation in the Yellow River would have been greatly improved.

Now that Qin Guan, Li Diao, and Chen Shidao have been acting as Cai Xuan had done in Beiluohe before.

The rest of the law of equal loss has been completely abandoned, even if Cai Dao doesn't say it, Zhang Dian also knows that this new law is completely a deep pit, and whoever implements it will fall into it.

And the last new law, the Fang Tian Uniform Tax Law, is not the time yet, and now the people who change the law are actually waiting, waiting for when the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang of the Western Xia Kingdom will go crazy again.

Once the Western Xia unilaterally broke the peace, they would have a reason to clean up the remaining civil families and local gentry who still occupied a large amount of land in the north.

Cai Dao, who had just taken over the Ordnance Supervisor, also began a major reform of the entire Ordnance Supervisor.