Chapter 548: The investigation is incredible
In the second half of the decade, Datang has been very chaotic. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info officialdom is chaotic, because of the bold actions of a local wealthy family, Li Chen braked on the official. The purpose is to operate on the system of the Tang Dynasty. Although he abolished the feudal town, Li Chen knew that a dynasty had its inertial power.
Some habits that are too good to be followed, but bad habits, once they have begun, are very difficult to eliminate, unless there is a change of dynasty. A dynasty is like a person, too good to learn, but too bad to learn quickly. is like a eunuch interfering in politics, Li Chen in order to avoid the recurrence of this situation, and now there is no eunuch in the palace. Only in this way will those descendants not have the example of their predecessors to learn from. There are no juniors, depending on how you learn.
And the same is true of the feudal towns, which gradually formed a climate in the Tang Dynasty, although they were completely restructured. But Li Chen is very worried that there will be a resurgence in the future, anyway, there is a precedent, and future generations will remain the same. Therefore, he wants to completely reform the official system and let the Tang Dynasty completely form a model of centralizing power in the imperial court.
In ancient China, local rights were too heavy, and they were often the source of chaos. Many people have a mentality that they would rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the cow. When the local power is heavy, and the authority of the imperial court is no longer there, it begins to be chaotic. Like the Han Dynasty, when the authority of the imperial court was lost and the local counties were weighted, everyone was ambitious and no longer took the Son of Heaven in their eyes.
However, it is not a good thing to centralize the imperial court too much. The local government loses its autonomy, and everything has to be decided by the imperial court. This will be slow to respond to many things. By the time the reaction came, things were all too big. Like a rebellion, like disaster relief.
Therefore, Li Chen wants to let the local government have a certain degree of autonomy, and the imperial court can still manage it, and some ideas will be gradually started in the future.
From the county level, local supervisors are directly subordinate to the imperial court. They will no longer be accountable to local heads. Whether it is a county order, or a history of assassination, or a newly established one, it belongs to the provincial level, and in order to learn about the state, the provincial officials cannot control the local supervision, and they are directly subordinate to the imperial Shitai people.
In addition, he also plans to carry forward the original township old system of the Tang Dynasty. This system seems to have originated in the Zhou Dynasty and was practiced in successive imperial courts. For example, in the present generation, the village elders have the duty to recruit the people regularly and preach and educate.
Li Chen's plan is to enhance the power of the village elders and become a protector similar to Rome, who specializes in asking for the lives of the people.
Roman tribunes, established far before the fifth century B.C., the original purpose, is to ask for the people's lives, protect the rights of the people, and later, developed into a very powerful position, Wu Dawei, the first emperor of Rome, he served as a lifelong tribune, but he also deprived other tribunes of their rights.
Li Chen hopes that there is really a person who can speak for the people and speak for the people in his position. After all, officials are corrupt, and the first victim is the people. Rely on officials to supervise officials? Regarding the results, Li Chen can only say hehe.
There are only one or two clean officials, and it is useless to get rid of some corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Corrupt officials cannot be killed, and the spring breeze blows and grows again. One or two clean officials, their energy is limited, they can manage it, that is, they can reach the place, the world is so big, how can one or two officials prevent it.
So in all dynasties and dynasties, there are so many virtuous emperors, and no one has come up with an effective way? No. Lao Zhu relied on killing, killing, killing, and killing a lot. Peel people and fill them with grass to stop them. Does it work?
In fact, there is another way, some emperors rely on party struggle. Take the Ming Dynasty as an example, if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is wise, he relies on party struggle to restrain those officials, uses this party to govern, and the other party supervises, so that they can fight, on the one hand, let the emperor's position be stable, and fight to get officials, and have no energy to interfere with him as an emperor. Second, it is similar to the supervision of later generations, one party is in power, and the other party is specifically finding faults. Did it work?
There is a good saying that there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. Those officials in the Ming Dynasty don't look at how hard they fight with each other, but when it comes to reality, they will immediately unite together. Riding on the heads of the people to make a fortune and lying on the country to suck blood, this is the consensus of all officials.
No matter what the Zhejiang Party, that Party, Donglin Party, and Eunuch Party, they fight fiercely with each other, that's their business. If the emperor, or any official who doesn't know each other, wants to correct the source of chaos in the country and eliminate the malpractices from the root, then all the officials must be united, and if the emperor wants to do it, then fight the emperor, and the officials want to do it, and even without uniting, a few officials can pull him off the horse. So, want to rely on officials to supervise officials? Hehe.
These officials all have the same position, and they belong to a few outliers who really serve the country and the people, and they cannot save the country at all. In order to achieve this goal, only by relying on a person who is different from the official position and who truly stands on the position of the common people has the right to supervise and correct it in legal theory, can this trend be truly curbed.
Therefore, he thought of the protector of the people, to elevate the function of the village elders, and become an official position that can speak for the people. In order to achieve this goal, they would rely on the election of the people, not the court appointees. In this way, you will really contribute to those ordinary people, instead of relying on any morality, telling those people that you must be obedient, and you can't resist even if the officials kill you.
Officials represent the country, and officials have relatives who are also representatives of the country, and they are blessed to look at your wife and daughter. It's your pleasure to look at your property. If you are insulted or scolded, you have to accept it with a smile, and then tell the officials that the officials are all parents of the people, and they should treat the people under their rule as if they were their own children.
This kind of thing is very funny, relying on officials to supervise officials, relying on morality to restrain officials? As a modern-day traveler, he doesn't believe in such stupidity. He only believes in his position and interests, and only when the interests of officials really come from the people, will he work for the people and truly treat the people as children.
Well, that's ideal. Even if it is elected by the people, there is also the kind of person who is in front of him and behind him, who just relies on his mouth to call the people, but in fact he still thinks that he is superior to others. It's better than relying on morality to restrain officials. Otherwise, rely on the emperor's heart and be diligent at all times? In a situation like the Ming Dynasty, the emperor could not do anything.
It's just that Li Chen is also hesitant to do this. Because he is the emperor, he sits at the bottom of the fart valley. The ass decides the head. It's true that he's doing it for the good of the country, but he doesn't want to make a doctrine that he doesn't know what it is.
When the time comes, a bunch of rebels will be cultivated, and they will ask for their lives for the people to cut off the heads of his descendants. Originally, China didn't have that kind of soil, but it was born by him, which is funny.
This is far away, and in the near future, he is afraid that someone will take advantage of this to make trouble. With this action, he dealt a great blow to the local wealthy families, and suppressed some of the more and more powerful people.
He took this opportunity to initiate rectification and severely crack down on lawless tycoons in some localities. It was carried out together with the Spring Breeze project, which was a great blow, and the Tang Dynasty gradually became a local hero. They often rely on their power, collude with local officials, and control local affairs, don't forget, Li Chen is in Xuzhou, and he is quite endangered.
These people were swept to the end of the typhoon, and they didn't do anything about them, but Li Chen remembered what he had suffered, and asked the local government to clean them up together, and wanted to resist? Welcome, the new army has been formed, and I am looking for someone to try the knife.
The magistrate does not clean up? It doesn't matter, the new ones have to drive, and there are county-level master books, and they will be happy to deal with them. In addition, the newly incorporated into the regular establishment of the imperial court will be eager to come up with achievements. In the end, these people will be exiled to the south. Contribute to the development of the south in full swing for Datang.
However, Li Chen, who made Datang nerve-wracked, was also worried about the poor implementation of the census and the armor protection law. He was very worried about the resistance to the census and the difficulty in implementing the armor protection law, so he could only come up with some countermeasures.
He was a little surprised by the resistance to the census, but not too surprised. For modern people, getting a hukou is a very common and common thing. If you don't have a hukou, how can you study? How to work, how to get married? However, even so, modern society still occasionally hears that some people do not have a household registration.
After the child was born, he didn't register for him, so the child was so big that he didn't even go to school, which is incredible.
But in the eyes of the ancients, it was nothing to report the household registration or not, and it was even better not to report it. If you report it, you have to serve as a conscription, and if you don't report your account, you can still live, anyway, they don't go to school, they don't need to do bank card transfers, and they are all paid real salaries. Whatever you see, the medical staff will not look at whether you have a hukou or not.
If you report your household registration, the government will not treat you better, and when you go to the tenant's field, the landlord's family will not look at your household registration. For various reasons, reporting household registration was not only unnecessary for the ancients, but even better things if they didn't report it.
However, this will have an impact on Li Chen's future plans. He will not be stupid like Zhu Chongba, who wants to bind and restrict the huge China and hundreds of millions of people, thinking that this will lead to long-term peace and stability. He is at least to grasp a rough idea.
Not to mention 100 percent like a modern government, at least have an understanding of the country, but it can't be like now, everything is rough, almost the same, just be able to get by.
Without a census of the population, the law on the protection of the armor cannot be implemented. In addition to being the foundation of Datang's future defense, Li Chen also has an idea to promote cooperation.
Everyone says that the Chinese are not united, one person is a dragon, and three people are three worms. In fact, this has something to do with the lives of Chinese people. China is an agrarian society.
In an agrarian society, it is self-sufficient, everything is done by oneself, preferably in a small country and widows, where chickens and dogs smell each other, each person has a field at home, grows and eats by himself, and weaves cloth by himself. When it grows big, it's a manor, and everything comes by itself.
Try to come by yourself, those estates, make their own wine, make their own iron, and be completely a self-sufficient society. When a catastrophe comes, for example, a foreign invasion has a great resistance, such as the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, when the Wubao is a typical example. There are also Hakka people, the round Tulou, which is also its representative. This situation continued until the Republic of China.
For the Chinese, if they can keep themselves behind closed doors, they will keep their doors behind closed doors. It really doesn't mean much to unite anything. What is in the field, you can plough it by yourself, with a hoe, and you don't need to ask for it. Harvesting too. Although there are many people and the speed is fast, one person can do it.
Li Chen wants to change this situation, and unity and cooperation are very important. In modern society, whether you can work together with others is also an important indicator. After all, modern society has entered an era of high division of labor, where there is specialization in the art industry, and the strength of the team is better than the individual.
wanted to change this phenomenon, Li Chen thought of letting people enlist in the army. When you enlist in the army, you have a way of sitting together, one is honored, and the other is damaged. Let people recognize the team, generate a sense of community, and learn to obey.
In addition, the armor protection method is also an important part of his future expansion. He planned to set up a fort and open up the frontier.
It is impossible to develop those borders without being harassed by the local aborigines, after all, you have robbed their land. In order to avoid serious casualties due to harassment, the dock fort is necessary.
And if there is a dock fort, it also needs people to defend it, otherwise people will hide in their shells like chickens, and let others attack, which is not equal to zero. So, you need some training, and that's how to protect the armor. It's just that the resistance of the people gave him a headache.
In addition to vigorously publicizing that being a soldier is honorable, and that the armor protection law is not the same as being a soldier. Li Chen also used some means. Deliberately propagandized that taxes should be raised, that slavery should be restored, and that the people should be prepared in their hearts. Then, he lowered some of the requirements, saying that as long as the Baojia Law and the census can be implemented, there will be no tax increases.
When a very bad news comes, and there is the worst expectation, and the final result is not as good as the original one, you will feel that it is not bad and acceptable. Therefore, Li Chen spread those rumors and let people prepare for the worst first.
But these things are not unfounded. Several governors demanded to raise taxes because of insufficient use, and the head of the household department also helped Li Chen carry the blame, saying that he would raise taxes.
Li Chen really considered it, if he would rather raise taxes than accept forced labor, then add it, everyone will be charged more immunity money, not like now, only merchants and Fengyue places. When the time comes, if you are willing to serve, you can deduct your taxes, just like in the past.
Fortunately, before the last step, Li Chen announced that he would not raise taxes, but only conduct a comprehensive census, and after the implementation of the Baojia Law, the people felt that it was not the best, but it was acceptable, and there was a lot less resistance, so that the work could be carried out smoothly.
And this survey, it's amazing..., Li Chen looked at this statistic, it was really amazing, not only Li Chen was shocked, but even those prime ministers were frightened, I believe that in the future, they will not take the census lightly.
'Sage, Mingzhou Urgent. When Li Chen watched Zhang De, a Hanlin bachelor sent a Mingzhou emergency report, and Li Chen jumped up.