As an administrative organ at the level of the state capital, the state Buzheng Cao was not set up in Yanzhou, which is the meaning of Li Wenge, and unlike the previous Jiedu envoys, Yanzhou's three Cao and 12 branches are a kind of local administrative organs, not in the strict sense of the Jiedu envoys. In a literal sense, whether it is the "main affairs" of the prefect of the three Cao or the "main book" of the twelve branches, they are consciously or unintentionally emphasizing the word "master", which seems to be to show the meaning of taking power and being the master behind these two official titles that are not of high rank. The directors of each Cao were called Zhu Cao to participate in the military before, and the word "sen" almost locked the bureaucratic nature of these positions.

As the head of the state capital, the location of the Buzheng Cao Office was not located in Yan'an County, which has always been the administrative center, but in Fushi County, Dongcheng, and co-located with the Fushi County Office.

Since Li Wenge took over as Jieduliu, Yanzhou has formed a situation in which the military and political system is divided into two cities, with the Jiedu Mansion located in Xicheng mainly handling military affairs, while the Observation Embassy Mansion (i.e., the original Observation Palace) located in Dongcheng mainly handling civil affairs. In fact, Li Bin did not interfere much in civil affairs, he only had a certain say in personnel issues, and at the same time was responsible for supervising all officials and officials in Yanzhou. During the Five Dynasties period, warlord politics prevailed, and whoever controlled the army would have the leading power of the regime, so there was no big objection from top to bottom of Yanzhou.

However, this situation has also caused a certain amount of embarrassment, the most typical example is the implementation of the tax system reform of the integration of mu and Ding. In the whirlpool of this reform, the heads of the major families in Yanzhou had to walk a short distance to the Dongcheng Buzheng Cao Office to participate in the meeting held by Qin Gu, the head of the state administration.

This kind of meeting has been held three times in succession, and the resistance of the Yanzhou people to this kind of law change with the fundamental purpose of harming the interests of all ethnic groups is extremely obvious. Although some small families such as the Fenglin and Qin families have expressed their willingness to transfer the land in their hands at the price determined by the government, these families are relatively small, and most of the land owned by the clan is less than 1,000 hectares, and the land purchased from them is far from meeting the land needs of the current Yanzhou population.

The policy issued by the Yanzhou government is to use both carrots and sticks, and for families who can respond to the government's initiative to sell land, the Yanzhou government will provide some additional benefits to these families in addition to the redemption money. For example, for family-owned commercial trading stores that actively respond to the government's call, they can enjoy the special treatment of five years of exemption from commercial tax in Yanzhou. Even those families who do not take the initiative and are reluctant. As long as the property is finally transferred, the shop can also enjoy a two-year tax exemption policy.

The vast majority of families in Yanzhou are both agricultural and commercial businesses, and although this policy cannot fundamentally compensate for their losses, it can be regarded as giving them a way out. Whether it is Li Wenge or Li Bin, they are not willing to kill these local predators, otherwise they can only rely on killing to solve the problem. That was a situation that neither of the two top governors of Yanzhou would want to see. On the premise that it is possible, it is better not to resort to the use of force to achieve a peaceful settlement, and the method of losing both sides is an absolute best policy.

Of course, there are a few families who only have land and no commercial property, and for these families, selling their land is equivalent to asking for their lives, and the Gao family is an example. The elders of the Gao family in the past dynasties competed for power in Yanzhou in addition to occupying territory, and rarely made any achievements in the commercial field. In the two counties of Yanzhou Prefecture alone, there are as many as 8,000 hectares of land belonging to Gaojiadi. This is something that no other family can match. However, there are almost no commercial transactions and shop horses under the name of the Gao family.

For this kind of family, which belongs to a small number but is absolutely significant. It is not a scare that can solve the problem, once the patriarch of any Gao family sells 99% of the family's land, the patriarch will immediately lose his position or even be executed in accordance with the family law.

Li Wenge also had a policy that was ridiculed by Li Bin and Qin Gu as selling official positions. It is to clearly mark the price and award officials according to the place.

The civil and scattered officials of the Tang Dynasty, from the sixth grade to the ninth grade, a total of four grades, eight orders and sixteen levels, these scattered officials have long lost their role in the Five Dynasties period, and they have not been removed for many years. It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that these loose officials were reactivated as Jilu officials.

For example, if a family sells 100 hectares of land, the family can be allocated five generals and two Wenlinlang officials and one general, depending on the family's own distribution.

Li Wenge's authority to confer officials is from the court council lang on the sixth rank to the sixteenth level of the general Shilang under the ninth rank, according to this authority, he can directly grant anyone an official title below the fifth rank.

Of course, for the family that owns more land, his power is not enough.

However, Li Wenge publicly stated that as long as these families were willing to sell their land, he would honor the court for granting to these families

Yuansu has some higher loose official titles, so that these people will be awarded by the imperial court to the general council doctor, Taizhong doctor, middle doctor, Zhongsan doctor, court discussion doctor, court invitation doctor, Chaosan doctor, etc., from the fourth rank to the fifth rank and the eighth rank of the lower rank.

Everyone knows that the Imperial Court Cabinet Department will not reject the request for the removal of the four or five rank officials of the local festival degree envoy without very special circumstances, and even the ministry officials will not reject it, and this kind of loose official who is completely in the nature of an honorary title will not be dismissed, so although it is necessary to go through a procedure for the recital, but in fact, Li Wenge also has the power to remove the award of these eighth-level loose officials, which is something that everyone understands.

This policy has a strong taste of philistine, and some old-fashioned old masters may think that it is an insult to the court and the system for the famous weapons of the imperial court to be given so clearly marked prices, but it was in the time of peace, the five dynasties and ten kingdoms of power rotated frequently, and the emperor took turns to do it. In an era when the order of the program has been completely subverted, Li Wenge's seemingly humiliating approach is not worth mentioning at all. Li Bin and Qin Gu are not inflexible people. Li Wenge's behavior since he took power has proved that he is not a person who gets carried away with a little power, and so far no real subordinate has been appointed in Jiedu Mansion, and the backbone of military generals like Shen Chen and Wei Xun are still the rank of seven-rank official, and only one Zhou Zhengyu is more special and has the rank of Wusan of the fifth grade. Li Wenge's cautious attitude towards rewarding officials and lords was very admired by Li Bin, Qin Gu and others, and it was rare for the five generations of local warrior regimes to do so, and the vast majority of people rewarded their subordinates after a little power, and after a little territory, they couldn't wait to claim the title of king and emperor.

Qin Gu and Li Bin thought that this was purely a monkey and had no practical significance. On the contrary, it will attract the attention and hostility of other forces. After all, Li Wenge is a man of the future. His understanding is undoubtedly deeper than that of Qin Gu and Li Bin. He believes that it is a relatively common problem to prematurely claim the country in the Five Dynasties. This is one of the fundamental reasons why most regimes in the five generations have had extremely short lifespans. There are many separatist regimes in the world, and if we want to achieve a certain climate, we must pay attention to two things: we must attach importance to the construction and maintenance of order internally, and we must keep a political low profile as much as possible externally.

Wantonly rewarding and indiscriminately conferring official titles is a fundamental destruction of a regime and a system, and within a system, official titles are the political ecological environment that maintains the normal operation of the system. Once the official system is disordered and the title is indiscriminate, then the ecological environment will be destroyed, the system or the regime will lose the impetus for progress and development, and the regime will not be far from extinction.

For example, the three divisions and three dukes, these are the official titles that very few people can get in the early Tang Dynasty, and the three emperors of the Tang Dynasty, except for the prince, there are only three people who have survived to obtain the title of three dukes. Pei Lian, eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling. The rest of the people have all received a gift from the office after their deaths, and even the thunderous Wei Zheng of later generations only got the official position of a prince and prince from the first rank when he was alive, as for the third division. In the middle and early Tang Dynasty, basically no one obtained it, and Guo Ziyi, the father of Li Tang, who had the merit of rebuilding, also received a gift of Taishi after his death.

But now, the three divisions and three dukes are flying all over the sky in the name of inspecting the school, Li Bin has won the title of inspector of the school as an observer, Li Wenge, a border town that has risen from a slave for only a year, has been added to the title of inspector Taibao, Gao Yunquan was only in charge of less than 2,000 soldiers in nine counties when he was alive, and he was actually a servant, and after his death, he was posthumously presented to the Taishi and enjoyed the same treatment as Guo Shang's father.

Shang Shuling only allowed the prince to serve in the Sui and Tang dynasties, since the beginning of Zhenguan, because Tang Taizong had held it, no courtier dared to hold this position again, and Guo Ziyi resigned from this position with so much credit. However, since the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, Li Maozhen, a local warlord in Guanzhong, was able to obtain the official title of Shang Shuling, which was openly comparable to that of Tang Taizong......

When money is worthless, a country's economy is on the verge of collapse......

When officials are worthless, a country's politics is on the verge of collapse......

Therefore, Li Wenge kept a very tight grip on the ministers, on the one hand, he wanted his subordinates to see the hope of promotion, and on the other hand, he absolutely could not let them be promoted too quickly, even if they were promoted very quickly, they must be promoted level by level according to the order of rank, and the number of officials should be awarded as much as the scale, which was the basic political principle of the Yanzhou regime.

In fact, Li Wenge even attached great importance to the rank of Sansan, and the rank of Wusan was used by him as a military rank, and it was absolutely not allowed to be arbitrarily conferred; The reform of the land tax system was of great importance, and had a bearing on the future development prospects of Yanzhou and the Eighth Route Army.

However, he clearly stipulated that the civil and scattered officials were not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the Cao County Science and Technology Bureau, so as not to cause financial burdens or political disorder. Even the opportunity to elect officials that he originally had was abolished, and the civil and prose officials could not participate in the election of ministers. It can be said that these civil and prose officials can not only wear official uniforms to pose as officials' platoons

, which has little practical significance.

But apparently some people don't think so.

Fenglin Qin family is the first Yanzhou family to take the initiative to cooperate, sold 380 hectares of land, according to Li Wenge's policy, the eldest male of the six rooms of this family has obtained the official position of the ninth grade official, and two family elder-level figures were named from the eighth grade of the undertaker, only eight years old patriarch Qin Zhaoduan was given special treatment by Li Wenge, and was simply awarded the court invitation lang of the seventh grade.

With the official in his body, the Qin family, which originally had a low political status in Yanzhou, suddenly became a rather conspicuous role. At this meeting, Qin Zhaoduan, the little patriarch of the Qin family, was dressed in seven-grade costumes and was specially here to set an example.

Presiding over the meeting was Qin Gu, the chief of the political department, and the Yanzhou officials who attended the meeting were Gao Shaoyuan, who was engaged in the transfer of Yan'an County's inspection school, Chen Shutong, the county commander, Cao Sinong, Zhang, the chief bookkeeper of business, and Zhao Liangchen, the chief tax bookkeeper. Other than that. The commander of the middle battalion of the Yan'an Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the Yan'an suppression envoy, Li Hu, also sat on the side inexplicably. Behind him stood two fierce and solemn personal guards, which made the patriarchs of all ethnic groups who came to the meeting even more uneasy.

All the ethnic groups came to participate in the meeting place are the patriarchs, and even a few of the patriarchs who complained of illness and wanted to escape this encounter were also "invited" by the officers in charge of the Yan'an garrison, and only one of the people present was not the patriarch, that is, the hereditary Yanguo Duke Gao Shaoji, although he was not the patriarch of the Gao family, but after all, he had the title of Duke from Yipinguo. Asking the patriarch of the Gao family but not inviting him is polite.

At the beginning of the meeting, Qin Gu exchanged a few words, and Gao Shaoyuan got up and went straight to the ground: "Everyone, regarding the matter of the unity of mu and Ding, the state government meeting has been held three times, and so far there are less than ten families of all ethnic groups in the state capital who are willing to sell land, and the total amount of public land transferred is less than 2,000 hectares. Don't talk about Jieshuai and Lee Sang-gong. Even Qin Buzheng and the lower officials felt that it was really unreasonable. You are all in charge of each family, and you should know that the state capital is not a whim, and the unity of acres and acres is something that must be done. If you are not willing to sell your land. Since this fall, the tax will be paid on the basis of the number of acres. ”

He paused and said: "All the princes have a number in their hearts, there is a lot of land in the house, but now the war is in chaos, most of the tenants have fled the famine, so much land is deserted there and no one cultivates it, and the grain in the field that is cultivated by someone is only afraid that the tax of all the land will be insufficient for a year, and if you keep these lands in your hands, your family will run out of food next year, even if you don't think about yourself, you must plan for the other houses in the clan!" ”

He glanced around at everyone, and everywhere he looked, they all turned their heads and coughed or bowed their heads silently, but no one met his gaze.

The only one who looked at him calmly was Gao Shaoji!

The Duke of Yanguo is now a pure Duke of the Light Pole, although he has the title of a duke, he is useless, not to mention in Yanzhou, even in the family, and few people really take him seriously.

Everyone knows that it was he and Li Wenge who had a conflict, and finally ruined the Gao family's decades-long foundation in Yanzhou, although Li Wenge has no intention of settling accounts after the autumn so far, but everyone knows that this is probably a matter of time.

However, Gao Shaoji looked at it coldly with a smile on his face at the moment, and the things in front of him were no longer directly related to him.

"Duke Yanguo, what do you think?"

Gao Shaoyuan looked at this cousin with a look that didn't matter to him, and he was the first to point to him.

Gao Shaoji smiled faintly, got up and hugged his fists and said: "What the second brother means, the younger brother agrees with it, the land under my third house, the younger brother petitions to serve Qin Buzheng and the second brother, not a penny, to show the sincerity of being a brother!" ”

As soon as his words came out, Gao Shaoyuan and Qin Gu were immediately stunned, when did this Gao Shaoji, who has always been narrow-minded and reckless, change his sex?

didn't have time to think about it, Gao Shaoyuan immediately said: "Okay, Wulang is really a person who understands the general situation, but the money that should be given to you, the state government and Qin Buzheng will not give a penny, if you repay the service, needless to say, the state government is not a robber, and it will not rob your family property and land." ”

Gao Shaoji smiled: "The second brother has a heart, a total of less than fifty acres of thin land, and it is not worth a few dollars to give it to the second brother, if the second brother must give it, the younger brother will not refuse!" ”

With that, he dusted off his sleeves and sat down.

Gao Shaoyuan's face turned blue suddenly, and he sneered: "Yan Guogong, if you are not a good person, you can also be regarded as a member of the Gao family, you still know the inside story, ten years ago, the acres of land belonging to the three houses in the state alone have exceeded 5,000 hectares, even if some were sold a while ago, there are always 2,000 hectares." The brother only sold fifty acres, but are you ridiculing Qin Buzheng and your second brother? ”

"Don't dare to ......"

Gao Shaoji replied lightly, "What the second brother said is all old age, and now the third room is indeed only 50 acres of thin land for his own cultivation and eating, and the rest of the real estate, the younger brother has already redeemed the fourth room in charge of the seventh uncle two months ago......"