readx; Facts have proven time and again that the Chinese nation has never lacked people who are anxious for justice, are righteous, and sacrifice themselves for others. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info even if they are just ordinary people, they may not have read books, and they may not be able to say any big truths, but the national genes of diligence, kindness and courage have been deeply implanted in the bone marrow.

No, Yan Ermei, the prefect of Kaifeng, raised his arms, and at least thousands of people stood up and were willing to be unpaid, working in front and eating in the back. In their simplest words: "If you don't do it, he won't do it, someone has to do it in the end, or when will you be able to eat?" If I don't do it, won't my family have to starve? ”

Yan Ermei was moved to tears, and did not say more, and immediately moved on to the next step: the selection of Xu officials. Because there is no need for so many people at all, now only two or three hundred people are enough. The selection criteria are also very simple: male, over 15 years old, under 50 years old, strong physique is preferred, unmarried is preferred, not an only child is preferred, and those who can read and write are preferred, and everything else is not limited.

Soon, Yama Erme singled out three hundred eligible volunteers from more than a thousand people, of whom only thirty were literate. Among them are poor talents, poor children, and apprentices in the shop. But those who are famous, or the bosses and businessmen who open shops and do business, do not come to them because of their status.

Yan Ermei first summoned these thirty people together, and first took out an account book from the yamen for everyone to look at carefully. Of course, everyone knows the words in the account books, but although many readers have read the books of the sages, they do not know anything about the account books commonly used in life, and they cannot understand them at all. However, there is a guy who is an apprentice in the restaurant who is very familiar with this, and he explains it clearly one by one.

Yan Ermei let this guy be the head of the house, and other talents and children served as other officials, and if you don't understand, you have to ask this guy for advice. As for the chief of the house, it is an old boy in his forties, his name is Dong Zhijian, he is loyal and upright, even a little pedantic, but he is extremely serious in his work.

Next, the newly formed prefect's yamen immediately began to operate. Dong Zhijian took the lead in the bureaucracy, and first registered the 300 newly recruited officials one by one, and made a specific division of labor. Then the people in the bureaucracy found the household registration book of Xiangfu County and began to sort out the population of the city.

It turns out that in this era, whether it is a town or a village, the most basic administrative unit is the "county". For example, Shuntian Mansion, although the government is in Beijing, does not directly manage the grassroots civil affairs in the inner and outer cities, but is managed by Daxing and Wanping counties. The same is true of Kaifeng, there is a Xiangfu County in Kaifeng City, and the civil affairs in the city are under the management of Xiangfu County, and Kaifeng Government is only responsible for the "summary management" of Kaifeng states and counties.

However, Zhu Youzhen was determined to change this pattern, simply put, to abolish the "county within a city" and the government should directly administer the city. It seems that this is just an artificial administrative division, which seems to have little significance, but in fact, the county government governs the city, and still governs the city as a village, which is a typical way of social governance in agriculture.

If Zhu Youzhen wants to change the fate of the times, he will inevitably learn from the advanced countries of the West, abandon the small-scale peasant economy, and take the road of industrialization. And the premise of industrialization is urbanization, otherwise where would there be so many workers? Therefore, Zhu Youzhen attaches special importance to the management of existing large cities, and first of all, he wants to give prominence to the status of cities administratively. Then it would be anachronistic to use counties to manage cities, and they must be administratively upgraded. Specific to Kaifeng Mansion, it is to revoke the establishment of Xiangfu County, and all the administrative functions of the original Xiangfu County are directly assigned to Kaifeng Prefecture.

This was, of course, a major reform, and the conservative courtiers might not easily agree to it. However, Zhu Youzhen decided to do it first, and the reason was easy to find, saying that there was a shortage of local officials, and there were no candidates such as county orders and county officials, so he could only come to Kaifeng Mansion first. When the work of Kaifeng Mansion is in full swing and a fait accompli is formed, it will be useless for the courtiers to make noise.

Cut off and truncate, the people in the office first find the head of each fang, and if the head of the fang dies, find the deputy head or the elders in the fang, and count the existing population of each fang. The Ming Dynasty implemented the Lijia system, every one hundred and ten households were numbered as one li, the countryside was called "li", and the city was called "fang". The government usually only deals with Li Zheng and the head of the fang, and specific affairs such as tax collection and apportionment are generally done through Li Zheng. This is a bit similar to the sub-district office in the previous life, but the Lizheng still belongs to the people, and the Lijia system is a kind of self-discipline organization for residents.

Through these chiefs, the officials quickly grasped the casualties of the people in the city in the war. At the same time, Hufang was also busy receiving the first batch of 10,000 stone grain from Luoyang from the Ming army barracks. There are tens of thousands of people in Kaifeng City, and 10,000 stone of grain is not enough to eat for a month, so it must be carefully calculated and sent to the porridge factory in strict accordance with the ration every day. The ceremonial room is usually responsible for learning, imperial examinations, education, etiquette, sacrifices, festivals and other things, but now there is nothing to do for the time being, and all of them come to the official's room to help.

The barracks managed the local security force. Nearly half of the three hundred officials recruited by Yan Ermei were servants, all of whom were young and strong, enthusiastic, but uneducated. Now the law and order in the city is mainly maintained by the Ming army, so the officials only need to do two things: one is to take care of the government prison and accept the troublemakers arrested by the Ming army; The second is to maintain order in the vicinity of the porridge factory.

The torture room has the fewest staff and the highest quality of the rooms, and they are responsible for sorting out the backlog of files, and if there are unjust or doubtful cases, they immediately report them to the prefect. And he opened the door to accept the cases handed by the people, and those who came did not refuse. In order to make it easier for illiterate people to file complaints, a few people were specially allocated to serve as lawyers and write pleadings for the people free of charge.

There are not many existing personnel in the workshop, and they are mainly responsible for two things: one is to assist the Ming army to quickly repair the important buildings and facilities in the city, such as the Zhou Palace, the prefect's yamen, the city tower, the city wall, etc., which are temporarily used as the emperor's palace; The second is to count the losses of private buildings and register them one by one.

All in all, hundreds of newly recruited officials in the sixth room quickly put into work, enthusiastic, busy but not chaotic. If there is a problem that is difficult to solve, it will be coordinated by the prefect Yan Ermei. Soon, the porridge factory at the entrance of the government will support the pot with rice, and the people will be led by the head of the workshop, and they will enter the porridge in turn, and the brand-new Kaifeng Mansion will start operating!

Why was Yan Erme, an inexperienced new prefect, and hundreds of even more inexperienced new officials, able to form themselves so quickly and begin to perform their duties? The answer is actually very simple: Yan Ermei has a booklet given to him by Zhu Youjian: "Disaster Relief Minutes"!