Chapter 342: Checks and Balances

The purpose of Feng Tian's conversation with Shang Zhen, in addition to understanding his own wishes, is mainly to impart some new ideas and concepts, Feng Tian attaches great importance to the construction of the city, because he wants to take the road of urbanization, and will not establish an agriculture-based society, and directly enter an industrialized society from an agricultural society. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In this old era, the present stage is completely an authentic agrarian society, and it is also very backward, and the educated group is frighteningly low.

Northland will need to make considerable efforts to build on this foundation.

To this end, Northland has made a lot of preparations, such as the implementation of compulsory education, but it is not enough, and Fengtian must put in great efforts.

For Shang Zhen, Feng Tian has great expectations, hoping that the green province will start higher.

Shang Zhen went to report to Feng Yong, and Feng Yong would equip him with a team, that is, from now on, Shang Zhen will take office.

sent Shang Zhen away, and Feng Tian called Wu Peifu over.

"Wu Lao, seeing that you are full of red face, you must be in a good mood recently, your body is very important, Wu Lao should exercise more and exercise more, and you must pay attention to maintenance. The situation in the Northland is almost familiar during this time, right? Feng Tian personally welcomed Wu Peifu into the door and asked politely.

Wu Peifu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Hehe, thank you for your concern, during this time in the Northland, the old man and I are in a really good mood, eat well, sleep well, and have a great body." Recently, I have been walking everywhere and looking around, and I feel a lot of feelings! There is such a land in China, I can only say the word magic in amazement, amazing, it really amazes the old man. ”

Feng Tian smiled and said, "Elder Wu, it's not nice to invite you here today, the kid wants to invite you out of the mountain." ”

"Hahaha" Wu Peifu heard that Feng Tian let him out of the mountain, and immediately laughed, and said: "Commander, don't make fun of the old man, just look at the old man and my age, and you still shout for me to come out of the mountain, isn't it a big joke?" ”

Feng Tian knew that Wu Peifu had misunderstood, and explained: "Wu Lao, throughout history, the early days of the establishment of a regime are often not bad, but as time goes by, many ills will inevitably arise, such as corruption is one of them.

Moreover, corruption is often a stubborn disease, which is difficult to completely eliminate, and if it cannot be effectively curbed, its harm will become greater and greater. The lessons of history in this regard are not innumerable, and they are not unmistakable.

I wonder if a system should be put in place from the outset in order to curb the development of this trend of corruption. I'm going to set up a new body, let's call it the Independent Commission Against Corruption for the time being, and I'd like to ask you to be the first governor. ”

After listening to Feng Tian's explanation, Wu Peifu was a little curious, and said: "Well, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, a very novel department, can you tell the old man in detail?" ”

"Integrity corresponds to corruption, and this department is in charge of this one thing. Some public officials were able to keep themselves clean in the early days of their tenure, but after a long time, it is inevitable that some people will degenerate, breed corruption, and put public wealth in their own pockets. or take advantage of their position to provide convenience for relatives and people.

We are not opposed to people who have the ability to earn more money, and we should also encourage them to make money by their ability. And there is no absolute fairness in society, and compulsory fairnessism will seriously hinder the development of society, and unfair competition is also a cancer of society.

The Northland Volunteers must resolutely oppose the use of privileges by certain people with rights for personal gain, and resolutely oppose unfair competition.

For example, in urban construction, the government needs to invite bids, and some people in power will hand over projects to some enterprises whose qualifications and standards do not meet the requirements, which violates the principle of fairness, and over time, corruption will inevitably prevail and shake the social foundation.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is to supervise these public officials and dig out some corrupt elements in the public service. Of course, it is not limited to public officials, and some private enterprises that use improper methods to make huge profits are also among the crackdowns.

Through investigation, understanding, and supervision of some data, the anti-corruption department discovered irregularities in certain departments, interviewed certain people, and jokingly invited someone to drink tea.

It is not a good phenomenon for lovers of the integrity department to drink tea, once the investigation is clear, there are facts of a crime, I am afraid that it will be sent to the legal department to deal with it according to law.

Of course, these are also based on the fact that there are signs of crime, and a clean person cannot be wronged.

In short, public power is owned by the public and cannot be enjoyed by a private person alone.

The specific operation details, you still need to plan carefully, how about it? Feng Tian brought over some of the practices of later generations and told Wu Peifu to listen, and the reason was very simple, I believe Wu Peifu must understand.

Sure enough, Wu Peifu slapped his thigh and said: "This method is good, there is a department dedicated to supervising public officials, which can indeed deter some lawbreakers." Okay, I'll take this errand. ”

To be honest, Feng Tian has been thinking about this position for a long time, and I feel that Wu Peifu is the most suitable for this role.

After all, Wu Peifu was very honest in history, and if such a person is appointed, Fengtian will rest assured.

With a clean government department, Feng Tian also considered setting up a supervision department to manage lazy people.

Some people sit in their seats and are not corrupt and do not make mistakes, but if they don't work or produce results, what do you do with them?

Passive sabotage in an organization is also a cancer, not making mistakes does not mean that a useful person is a useful person, sitting in a certain position and not playing its due role is itself a crime or dereliction of duty, and there must be a special department to supervise it.

To govern the country is to govern officials, and it has been the same truth throughout the ages.

Bureaucracy is always a cancer and an incurable disease, and it does not matter in the early days of a regime, the longer it lasts, the more the cancer of bureaucracy will develop and grow, and finally lead to social stagnation.

Feng Tian doesn't have the guts, one day in the future, kick all the bureaucrats under the table, he is not a great man, he doesn't have that kind of courage, and it is difficult to control that kind of situation, it's just that Feng Tian has more knowledge than others.

Think about it, if there are no officials in the world, who will run the country?

Looking at human society, there is only one person who dares to do this, and he can still control the situation.

No matter what future generations say, this fact does exist, and you have the ability to give it a try?

Anyway, Feng Tian thought that he didn't have this kind of ability.

Feng Tian's idea is good, and there is also a department to supervise.

However, if the supervisory authorities do not act, it is not the same whether there is or is not, and who will supervise these supervisory departments?

As for the re-supervision of the supervision department, this issue is also considered.

The simplest way is to entrust a third-party agency, or a non-governmental organization, to carry out supervision.

This is also a promotion for the development of the tertiary industry, in which the government entrusts certain non-governmental departments from time to time and entrusts them with some affairs that are inconvenient for the government to meddle in, and these non-governmental organizations make some profits from them.

The most important thing is to ensure fairness and accuracy, and there must be no internal and external collusion, or some mistakes.

In this regard, Fengtian believes that it is impossible to guarantee that there are 100% flaws.

However, private research agencies do not conduct a specific survey on a specific matter, but rather a very extensive survey and statistics, and if there is too much deviation when comparing it with the data within the government agency, it will reflect the abnormality.

Either there is a serious distortion in the government data, or these civil institutions are irresponsible, and it is not difficult to find out the cause of the distortion.

If the data of a non-governmental organization is distorted, it will be disastrous for a private enterprise, they themselves rely on the government to eat, and if they smash their jobs, they will be hungry, and the government will hand over the business to a discredited and dishonest enterprise to do such an important business?

Losing one's job is still secondary, data fraud will be punished by law, and people will also be imprisoned, under this dual constraint, the possibility of cost will be reduced.

Checks and balances are the most considered things in Fengtian, and a society without checks and balances will have a rather terrible consequence.

The checks and balances that Feng Tian considered are not like learning from the United States, and the differences between Eastern and Western cultures are only harmful and not beneficial.

Feng Tian is not stupid, he will not copy the Western system, to be exact, he will also adopt a dictatorial system. Especially during the war years, this was a must.

The American system is congenitally flawed, however, suitable for the Americans, after all, they are capital speaking. And for other countries, especially those of the East, it is undoubtedly a trap.

In the East, if you sponsor money, it's corruption, it's crime, and it's normal in the United States. The regime in the United States is at the service of capital, which is almost impossible in the East, and that would be a source of chaos.

Of course, under such a system, some evils need to be prevented in advance, and checks and balances must be put on the agenda.

You can imagine how terrible a society would have been if there had been no police control, many people would have become well-dressed animals, more and more people would commit crimes, and murder and arson would have been everywhere.

Don't expect morality to constrain human beings, although sometimes it does.

However, in a state of increasing interests, the moral constraints will decrease accordingly.

In later generations, Feng Tian has seen too many such things, and in a money society, the restraint of morality is so pale and powerless.

The word "well-dressed" is very appropriate, in fact, a large percentage of humans are likely to practice this word, and the key is to depend on the environment.

If a person is greedy for 1,000 dollars for the first time and 10,000 dollars for the second time, then his greed will continue to develop in this direction forever. Despite his rhetoric in public, his behavior in private is no less than that of a well-dressed beast.

This is human beings, and greed will always be in his nature, unless there is a strong enough restraint to control himself.

Just ask, how many people in this world can restrain themselves?

It's difficult, when you talk about others, you may be high-sounding, and things will happen to you, that's another matter.

Think about it from another perspective, and if you switch places with those who are corrupt, can you guarantee that you will resist the temptation and never be corrupt?

Therefore, human beings, don't say that they are too high and too great, their nature is almost the same, the key is to see what position they sit in.

It is important to tie the cage first, and Feng Tian believes that through moral binding, administrative binding force and legal binding force, the three aspects may have a certain effect.

Exactly how it is will have to be tested in practice.

This is the initial plan of Fengtian, which runs through two words, that is, "checks and balances".

The Northland Volunteers have come out of hardship, they have lost their homes, and their faith is extremely strong, which is why they are where they are today.

Feng Tian believed that his subordinates were very dedicated at this stage, but it was difficult for anyone to decide how long this state would last. In order to ensure that a new regime can remain viable for a long time, Fengtian must be prepared from the beginning.

In addition to establishing some necessary systems, Fengtian is considering the means of checks and balances. (To be continued.) )