Chapter 135 - Determined to Reform
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Speaking of this, Zhang Yun saw that Lin Juan wanted to speak and stopped, so he stopped his tirade and encouraged her to put forward different opinions!
And after receiving Zhang Yun's encouragement, Lin Juan bluntly expressed her scruples......
"Master Hou, the idea of setting up a school in every county you mentioned is very good, but my subordinates feel that it is not enough."
"After all, the county-level government under our Patriotic Army system is even the least ...... It also has tens of thousands of people, and among such a large number of people, only a very small number of people live near the county seat! β
"Most of the rest of the population lives in remote villages, so do my subordinates think it's a bit too little to set up a school in a county?"
Zhang Yun was stunned!
Seeing that Zhang Yun was silent, as if he was thinking deeply about some issues, Lin Juan didn't dare to disturb, so the whole tent fell silent again!
At the moment, Zhang Yun is thinking about whether it is necessary to integrate the government at all levels below the provincial level, and Zhang Yun has also considered the previous idea......
It's just that because the conditions are not ripe, they didn't do it, but now it has reached this point, and the current problem has even affected the implementation of a series of policies in the future.
Zhang Yun can only recalculate whether he can make a compromise...... Don't move the administrative planning map of the eight southern provinces for the time being!
However, if all the following prefecture, county, and town governments are merged, there is no need to move at the village level, so that the resources are integrated.
There should not be so many prefectures and counties in the eight southern provinces...... It's a lot of trouble!
But as long as it is integrated, the convenience it will bring in the future will also be obvious, whether it is education, medical care, infrastructure, water conservancy projects, etc.
These things need an efficient government to be able to carry them out, Zhang Yun felt that he was also dizzy before, and he actually wanted to implement the nine-year compulsory education first, but did not consider its feasibility and the difficulty in the middle!
Fortunately, it is still too late to change it, so it is imperative to replan the administrative division map now......
Thinking of this, Zhang Yun immediately asked people to invite Yang Feifei over, and at the same time asked the guards to find out all the maps of the eight southern provinces from the precise maps he brought from later generations.
After a while, all the preparations were done, and Zhang Yunye, Lin Juan, and Yang Feifei stood in front of the map wall arranged by the guards......
As the work that followed, the senior officials of the Patriotic Army were given a ...... by Zhang Yun One by one, they called back, and even the two spy leaders reappeared in front of Zhang Yun.
It was really because of this redivision of the administrative area, which involved all aspects of the process, that after the half-day meeting, until the first time the lights were on, there was still no clue.
In this rezoning of administrative areas, he has to take into account the population distribution of the territory, as well as its traffic problems......
It's as if the territory of one of the counties extends directly into the territory of another prefecture, and the straight-line distance from this county seat to the capital of another prefecture is more than 100 kilometers closer than to the prefecture of the prefecture above it.
Therefore, logically speaking, this county should be divided into another prefecture, but in front of this county to another prefecture, it is separated by a mountain of hundreds of miles, and the transportation is inconvenient!
However, the government that governs this county has an official road that directly connects the county seat and the prefecture city......
This is also the phenomenon that all the maps of provinces and cities shown on the maps of later generations are intertwined, and your territory extends into my territory, and my territory extends into your territory, which abounds......
Of course, there are still many historical problems, not just traffic problems, but this redivision of administrative areas needs to be arranged as a whole!
Therefore, Zhang Yun also had to obey, and the only way out of the existing administrative division was to merge from a dozen towns into one county, and then dozens of towns into one county.
Of course, this is also the case at the village level, because many villages are natural villages, not administratively planned villages in the real sense......
After expressing his thoughts, others did not express any strong opposition, except for Yang Feifei and Chen Gui, who were born in traditional officials, who were more resistant to this new method of division.
After all, Zhang Yun's approach turned a dozen or so towns below a county into dozens of towns...... A dozen or so counties under a prefecture have become dozens of counties, let alone a village!
If this is carried out, the interests of a class will be touched!
That is the existing official class, after all, many official offices have been covered by other official offices, so it is impossible for everyone to stay in office, right? I don't need so many officials!
As a result, many officials will lose their jobs and go home to eat their own ......
Therefore, Yang Feifei and others, who are high-level civil officials, are very fierce against Zhang Yun's strategy, and always try to give the people below their heads!
It's a pity that they didn't know that Zhang Yun had already had this idea a long time ago, and he wanted to try it a long time ago, but he never made up his mind to change it, this kind of existing administrative division map!
But now, in order to let the government below thoroughly implement his political ideals and governance concepts, Zhang Yun can be regarded as open-minded! What if you are the enemy of the whole world?
If we don't take advantage of the fact that the Patriotic Army is still on the rise, and thoroughly carry out this matter, will we wait until the official class in the future is completely stabilized! Do you want to slaughter the butcher's knife again?
I'm afraid that the resistance will be even greater!
What's more, every dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of the country, will always carry out various reforms that touch the interests of the nobility, and basically they will succeed, which shows that this path is at least feasible.
And when a dynasty reaches the middle or the end of the period, if you want to reform in a big way, you are killing yourself!
Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty and Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty...... These are all bloody lessons, and they are all the consequences of reforms carried out in the middle of the development of the regime!
Therefore, Zhang Yun made up his mind that the reform must be successful at this time, otherwise there will be greater resistance in the future......
In this way, this matter, under Zhang Yun's strong insistence, finally suppressed all the opposing voices and was able to implement it!
Next, Zhang Yun began to divide the specific administrative planning map by comparing the map with various existing materials......
There are different places, different places, different terrains, so you can't generalize!
Therefore, Zhang Yun took the current map and the administrative division map he brought from later generations, and compared it carefully, for fear of making mistakes!
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It was busy until late at night, Zhang Yun took everyone to divide the new administrative planning map, of course, it is just a rough sketch, and with the specific implementation process in the future, it will definitely need to be constantly modified, or even completely overturned, and it is not a strange thing to start over!
Zhang Yun has also been prepared for this kind of psychology, after all, the sketches drawn by finger and finger strokes on the map must have huge flaws, because there has been no field investigation.
But now Zhang Yun doesn't have so much time to go to every place, so he can only do this first, plan first, and implement it according to the plan.
In this process, there will definitely be various problems, and it is not a big deal to revise them slowly when the time comes......
It wasn't until this matter came to an end that Zhang Yun raised his head and looked at the wall clock on the tent wall, only to be stunned to find that it was already three o'clock in the morning!
I glanced at everyone here again, and found that everyone was red-eyed, but they were all holding on and not showing it......
Seeing this, Zhang Yun said with a smile: "Everyone has really worked hard today, and they have been busy until midnight, but they haven't eaten a drop of rice...... If I put you home now, I don't know what others are going to say about Ben Shuai? β
"Well, Benhou asked the guards to make some food...... Anyway, except for Yang Feifei and Tie Niu, all of you have been promoted today, so Ben Hou should be helping you celebrate! β
As soon as Zhang Yun's voice fell, Zhou Wei took over and said: "Master Hou, you are too worried, if you don't have this eyesight, then how can your subordinates be mixed?" β
"As early as seven or eight o'clock last night, when it was already dark, my subordinates ordered the people in the kitchen below to prepare all the time, and there were several dishes, which had already been prepared, and they had been placed on top of the steamer, constantly keeping warm."
"Now you can just bring it over, and eat it directly, in addition, the subordinates can also let them stir-fry a few side dishes immediately, anyway, it won't take a few hours, and they will be served soon!"
After Zhou Wei finished speaking, he immediately asked his men to pass the food up, and at the same time beckoned the guards outside to come in and clean up the inside of the tent......
Zhang Yun saw that the guard was about to go to the kitchen to give orders, and hurriedly shouted loudly behind him: "By the way, let the kitchen send a few more jars of wine, it's a rare joy today, Ben Hou wants to celebrate with his subordinates......"
After the guard who gave the order turned around and left, Zhang Yun turned his head to Zhou Wei and said, "I didn't expect our Minister Zhou to be such a meticulous person, it is really a blessing for Benhou!" β
After Zhang Yun finished speaking, he didn't wait for Zhou Wei's answer, but said to Yang Feifei and the others below: "This time, most of you can be said to be proud of the spring breeze, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day. β
"So wait a minute, you have to get drunk before you can rest, don't be polite to Benhou, you should eat, drink, just let go!"
"Haha......"
Zhang Yun's words caused a burst of laughter below, after laughing, perhaps seeing that Zhang Yun's mood was also extremely good, Yang Feifei even tried to make Zhang Yun's joke, "Master Hou, if you don't go back at this time, Mrs. Hou Ye has to wait until her heart is broken?" β
As soon as Yang Feifei's words came out, the people below saw that Zhang Yun's face had not changed, and they became even more presumptuous......
Fortunately, their ridicule did not last long, and because of Zhang Yun's identity as the monarch, they did not dare to be too presumptuous, and the wine and food came up very timely, which helped Zhang Yun relieve the siege.
Next, it is natural to change the cup with a piece!
Especially the few people who have been promoted today, such as the guard division commander Zhou Wei, Lynch, Xia He, Lin Juan and others, are the targets of everyone's drinking.
Drinking on an empty stomach is more likely to get drunk, not to mention, everyone is busy for half the night, so this banquet has not lasted long, and several people have been lying down.
As a result, when he drank until four o'clock in the morning, there were only Yang Feifei and Tie Niu left on the wine table, as for Zhou Wei, he didn't drink in the first place, not to mention that he was duty-oriented, and he was stuck just by coming up for a drink!
Seeing this kind of time, Zhang Yun didn't plan to continue to sleep, anyway, there was still an hour before dawn, and when it was noon, he would take a nap......
Therefore, Zhang Yun asked the guards to remove all these remnants, replace them with a few cups of strong tea, and prepare to talk with Tie Niu and Yang Feifei at night, and finalize some details that had not been finalized just now.
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"Master Hou, this strategy of yours is worthy of a trick to draw salaries, but have you thought about it? This reform, if it is really implemented, how many people will be offended! β
"You must know that if you reform according to your reform strategy, Master Hou, all the grassroots governments in our eight southern provinces will be abolished at least seventy or eighty percent ......."
"This offended person will go to the sea, and his subordinates will really be afraid of accidents at that time!"
"What's more, if you are so lean and streamlined, the local taxes will not be collected at that time, and what kind of education and medical care will you talk about...... Reforms like that! β
After listening to Yang Feifei's somewhat pessimistic words, Zhang Yun put down the teacup in his hand and said: "Now the reform is just a piece of flesh from the body, although it will hurt, but it will not endanger the fundamentals. β
"If we wait for our Patriotic Army to really unify the whole country, and I, Zhang Yun, will also ascend the throne as the emperor, if we reform it at that time......"
"Then it is to cut off a internal organ from the body, it may be a heart, it may be a lung, it may be a liver, but no matter which part of the internal organs, it will endanger the stability of an empire!"
"To paraphrase a common saying, the most that the words of reform now are to squeeze out a pustule on the body, although it will hurt, but it will be fine after a while!"
"If the system is rigid and the staff is bloated in the future...... At that time, if we come to reform again, it will not be such a simple matter as squeezing out a pustule, but to put your own blood......"
"This is an act that endangers the safety of human life, so the lesser of two evils, Ben Hou has already decided to reform, streamline the government, this general direction cannot be changed, some other inconsequential subsections, Yang Feifei You can watch the change, that doesn't matter!"
Seeing that Zhang Yun's heart is as strong as iron, he can no longer shake it!
Yang Feifei was still unwilling to fail, and after thinking about it, he threw out another question.
"Okay, even if you want to reform, but Master Hou, you have abolished all those government institutions, and it would have taken so many people to do things well, such as collecting taxes, so many people would have been needed...... Then they will definitely not be able to do it. β
"For example, there are ten counties in a prefecture, and now Master Hou has abolished it to only three counties, so how should this tax be collected?"
Zhang Yun almost laughed when he heard it, and after slamming the teacup on the table a few times, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Who told you Yang Feifei that after Benhou abolished the government agencies, there would be no one to collect taxes?" Aren't you unfounded? β
"Do you understand what Ben Hou means?"
"Ben Hou means that the ten counties under a prefecture will be abolished into three counties, but it does not mean that the officials of the remaining seven counties will be unemployed, of course, there must be people who are unemployed, and this Ben Hou cannot guarantee them."
"But in the seven counties that have been laid off, most of their original officials can take up new jobs......
"Didn't you see Ben Hou reset all the thirteen departments of the central government? Why is that? This means that Benhou also wants the local government to do the same! β
"Yang Feifei, you are a person who once served as the prefect of the Manchu court, you should understand that even if it is a small county yamen, it is like a small imperial court, and there are generally various positions, such as what kind of household, Cao Fang, and so on."
"Aren't these the standards of a small court?"
"And what Ben Hou wants to do now is to clearly stipulate all these houses with a rough division of labor."
"For example, in the past, the county master still needed to go to the private fund to invite the master, but now a county master, Ben Hou will pay his own money to help him invite the master, isn't this good?"
Although Zhang Yun said that the sky was falling, Yang Feifei still felt that something was wrong......
But he couldn't think of anything wrong, so he could only stalk his neck there and express his opposition!
Of course, for his behavior, for the sake of opposition, Zhang Yun naturally would not condone him and force him to give a reason for opposition!
As a result, Yang Feifei had to give in and said: "My subordinates remember that Master Hou once said that practice brings the truth, so let this kind of policy be realistic for a while!" β
"Anyway, my subordinates believe that this kind of policy, which touches the interests of the vast majority of the people, will definitely not be able to be implemented for a long time......
"Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty was reformed vigorously, and when he kicked his legs, he was not a man who died and ...... government"
"Bang!"
Before Yang Feifei's words were finished, Zhang Yun slapped the table hard and said, "Yang Feifei, what do you mean?" Are you saying that Benhou's reform policy will also lead to the phenomenon of people dying and relieving the government? β
Seeing Zhang Yun angry, Yang Feifei was not so panicked!
Because he knew Zhang Yun's character, he wouldn't let people be convicted of his words at all, so he was there with his neck stalked, staring at Zhang Yun in a daze......
Zhang Yun naturally glared at Yang Feifei!
Seeing this, Tie Niu hurriedly jumped out and said, "Master Hou, you will dissipate your anger first, Lord Yang, you don't have to say a word, since this matter has been planned before, then let it be implemented!" β
"As for the future, if you find that it really can't work, how big of a deal will it be to change it back?"
Yang Feifei got the step given by the iron bull, so he naturally got off the donkey, and did not continue to go down with Zhang Yunqiang......
Instead, he looked up at the outside of the tent, and suddenly said: "There has already been a morning star in the east, I didn't sleep all night last night, Master Hou, you should rest early!" β
"My subordinates also have to go back and arrange new personnel work...... After all, the personnel work has just been assigned to the subordinates, and these thousands of subordinates will be a little busy for a while and a half, Master Hou, what do you see? β
"Hmm!"
Zhang Yun hummed this word from his nostrils, and when Yang Feifei saw this, he immediately said goodbye and left......
After he turned around and walked out of the tent, Zhang Yun and Tie Niu glanced at each other and shook their heads at each other!
Tie Niu said: "Master Hou, why do you have to argue with Yang Feifei about these things every time? He's just a donkey, he thinks he's great, he thinks he's right, and it's ...... if you ignore him."
Regarding Tie Niu's words, Zhang Yun only smiled bitterly!
After thinking about it, he said to Tie Niu: "Anyway, it's almost dawn, and it seems a little inappropriate to do something else now, so Ben Hou went back to the factory with you to see how the tractor production was?" β
Tie Niu nodded and said, "It's okay, then Master Hou will come down with his subordinates!" β
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