"Brother Liu, the current situation is very clear, if you want to adopt the model of our Wannian County to transform the farmers in Xianyang area, let them also form this cooperative, and then work together to carry out division of labor management. But your Xianyang County Commander there is a dull old man, and he is waiting for Zhishi, and it may be difficult to expect this kind of person to support you. This kind of old man, it is generally better to have more than one thing, anyway, he is almost done, and he naturally doesn't want the evening to be unsafe! So let him support you, that's impossible. But you won't be able to get enough power for a while, so it's going to be hard! So, if you want to realize your idea, you have to have rights. If there is no power, then in the end it is all empty talk. ”

"However, if you want power, it's not that easy. Especially those old men are old-fashioned in their thinking, unwilling to make progress, and have no idea of progress. Even if you convince him this time, he can take back your power at any time next time, isn't that very unsafe. This time I was also almost, I did a good job, the county commander Zhang Hong actually wanted to pick peaches, and I almost worked hard to make someone else's wedding dress. The power of this county is indeed not safe, and if it is to be completely guaranteed, it must be fundamentally changed. ”

Liu Renliang asked: "Brother Shi, how can we change?" Go to the court and let the emperor order changes? I'm afraid this is too ......."

Shi Bufan hurriedly shook his head and said, "What is it just by you and me?" We're just two people, petty officials of the eighth grade. Even after we have written a book, according to the normal process of official documents, we must first go to Shangshu Province. But will Shangshu Province pay attention to us? We are just two small Bapin County Cheng, Shangshu Province will not pay attention to it at all, and may even be 'flooded', and the court officials will not be able to see our concert! ”

"I heard that you have a ...... relationship with the emperor," Liu Renliang tried to ask.

But Shi Bufan hurriedly shook his head and said, "Back door, you can't just walk around!" ”

Liu Renliang's meaning is very obvious, that is, he hopes that Shi Bufan will directly tell Emperor Li Shimin and let Li Shimin order a change. But Shi Bufan was reluctant to do this, because Shi Bufan was also a lecturer in the university back then, and his status was not bad. He knows that many times you can go through the back door, and you have a good relationship with the leader, but it doesn't mean that you can go through the back door casually. This kind of opportunity to have a good relationship with the leader is used once is one less time, and once you use it more, you will be in trouble.

If you are a leader, what do you mean by having a subordinate who doesn't go through the normal process to talk to you every day and walks through the back door all day long? It's a love to take care of you, not an obligation! If you use this thing once, it will be one less time, and if you abuse it, you will suffer in the end. It's not appropriate to abuse these feelings and use them on something that is not too big.

What's more, if you go to your boss for support in everything and don't go through the normal official process, don't you let your boss see that you are incompetent? A person who encounters problems and finds support all day long, that person will think that you are an incompetent person who can't even solve a little thing, so what's the use of asking you as a subordinate?

So Shi Bufan doesn't want to go through the abnormal process of everything, otherwise Li Shimin will hate it. Shi Bufan was able to have a good relationship with Li Shimin, which was based on the fact that Shi Bufan was his daughter's teacher, and once saved his woman's life, and finally participated in the Xuanwumen Revolution together. This kind of is just affection, not how important the personal relationship between Shi Bufan and Li Shimin is, if it is abused to some ordinary things, it is not worth it.

Although Liu Renliang didn't know what "backdoor" meant, he quickly guessed what it meant by contacting the context, that is, whether the abnormal process could not be left or not. Maybe the future generations are keen to go through the back door, but the potential risk of going through the back door is also very large, once the top falls, you are finished. After walking through the back door, he will inevitably be tied to him, and life and death are also in his hands.

"Well, it's really not appropriate for the two of us to be soft-spoken. We can try to bring all of our counties in the Gyeonggi region together and jointly submit a letter, so that the influence will be greater. I think what we have encountered is not only a matter of the two of us, but I am afraid that all counties in the world also have such problems. All kinds of counties in the world are encountering this kind of being hollowed out by the chief official, and then being bullied by the scribes below, an official is very aggrieved, and it is difficult to do things. So since we have this kind of thing, it is not an isolated case, so we can try to get the county officials in the Gyeonggi region to jointly write a letter, hoping that the imperial court will redefine the scope of power and responsibility of local county officials. So that we can let go and do things. Shi Bufan said.

Liu Renliang immediately said: "Wonderful, it's really good, once the county officials in Gyeonggi Province jointly signed the letter, it will definitely be a sensation." Our county is elevated, not isolated, almost all over the world. If we are willing to jointly submit a book, then we can send it together, so that the influence is big enough. When the time comes, the court can't hold it back. ”

Liu Renliang quickly realized that the problem they encountered was not all of them alone, but even the problem encountered by all the counties in the world. The legal authority of the county is not clear, so it is inevitable that those county orders will be hollowed out, and in the end, they will be bullied by their subordinates. Therefore, they are the ones who most want to change this situation, and if they can jointly write a letter, then I am afraid that all the counties in the world will benefit from this, so they will definitely support it.

"However, will the central court agree? Will the redivision of the powers of local pro-people officials affect them? Liu Renliang asked.

Shi Bufan replied: "It's actually very simple, these court bigwigs, but a group of 'ungrounded' guys, expect them to care, they might as well be in their eyes at all." At most, what they care about is the level of the state assassin, and as for the bottom, they won't care. A group of county officials, in their eyes is nothing at all. As long as we make a big deal out of it, then we can get them to agree. ”

Shi Bufan knew that this method would definitely work, because according to the promotion history of officials in the Tang Dynasty, county-level officials such as county orders were mainly promoted on the spot. However, the history of state assassins is often released from outside the central government, and except for offending people or committing mistakes in the struggle of the imperial court, it is not that they will not be released as county-level officials. Shi Bufan, this county, in fact, cannot be completely regarded as an external release, because Wannian County is attached to Guo County, and in fact, the office is still in Chang'an City.

Therefore, the history of the state thorn is often released by the central government, but the county order is mainly promoted locally, and even many of them are low-level scribes, and they are older when they are county orders. Therefore, this is the reason why many officials want to be transferred to the central government, if they do not serve in the central government, there is little future, and the officialdom in the early Tang Dynasty was so cruel. As for those who failed the struggle and were exiled, this was an exception, because they could be activated at any time, and their influence was far more than just a county official.

"Brother Liu, next you are responsible for contacting the counties in the Gyeonggi area around us, what do you think?" Shi Bufan said.

Soon, Liu Renliang began to go to several surrounding counties to contact those counties, hoping that they could support this joint letter. This kind of redivision of local power is difficult to accomplish by relying on Shi Bufan and Liu Renliang alone, especially this kind of thing that can not be completed with a single sentence. If every collective behind it is supporting, it is very difficult to get changed. Any reform is a struggle between interest groups behind it, and sometimes a person is in several interest groups at the same time. Now Shi Bufan and Liu Renliang both belong to the "county cheng", so for the person with the identity of the county cheng, it can barely be regarded as an "interest group". If it is said that changing the internal division of power at the county level is beneficial to them as counties. They have legal powers, so that they can also exercise their powers, and they are not afraid of being overturned by the county order, nor are they afraid of being bullied by the scribes below.

This opportunity is very rare, and Shi Bufan believes that those county officials will seize the opportunity. Especially when Shi Bufan came to pick the head, Shi Bufan just took advantage of the situation to give the two prime ministers a blow, so of course they thought that it was beneficial to follow Shi Bufan, because it was Shi Bufan who picked the head.

In less than 10 days, under the rapid running of Liu Renliang, the county officials of several counties in the Gyeonggi region also signed and countersigned this plan for the redivision of local powers, which can be regarded as a joint letter signed by Shi Bufan.

Shi Bufan's orders passed through Shangshu Province, and soon they all arrived in Shangshu Province. Even Shi Bufan played a trick to use the Tang Dynasty's Tang newspaper to send out the relevant news as soon as possible. In fact, this Tang newspaper is similar to the "internal reference" of the country in later generations, and it was sent to various places by the central court to change some policies through some internal newspapers and periodicals of the government, and finally read by the officials themselves. However, only officials are qualified to see this, and the vast majority of ordinary people do not know about it.

Shi Bufan deliberately borrowed the identity of Dugu Daxue's fiancé and hinted to the Ministry of Rites, so that the Ministry of Rites naturally wanted to give Shi Bufan this face, and arranged the typesetting order of this Tang newspaper in advance. In this way, before the Shangshu Province had yet to deal with Shi Bufan's joint letter, a new Tang Bao had already been sent, and the news on this Tang Bao was the content of Shi Bufan and the county officials in the Gyeonggi region who proposed to redivide the powers of county-level officials.

As a result, the officials in the county offices of several counties around the Gyeonggi region received this Tang newspaper, that is, about three or four days after Shi Bufan jointly signed the letter, the county officials of those surrounding counties also received this Tang newspaper, which immediately caused a huge sensation.

Many county officials saw this Tang newspaper and immediately began to follow the letter of support regardless of their position. They also hurriedly sent a copy of the same piece to Shangshu Province, hoping to get attention. This kind of identity determines the position, these county officials have no real power in terms of identity, that is, they have a low level of power, and their county officials have very little authority, and they will be hollowed out by the county order. There is no point in this kind of county officials, not to mention that it is almost impossible for these county officials to have a greater future, if they want to talk about the redivision of powers, they must be very supportive. This re-division of authority benefits all the counties of the country, and if they do not take the initiative to show their support, will they still count on the gifts of others?

At this time, they know that no one can be alone, since someone has taken the lead, can they not follow? The so-called "law does not blame the public", since some people take the lead, if they follow one by one, then nothing will happen. What's more, if someone picks the head, then the one who will be punished at that time will be the one who picks the head, and he is not worried about being punished. On the contrary, the bigger the matter, the more hope there is for success. On the contrary, the bigger it is, the safer the participants are in the end, so it's strange that they don't participate in such things.

As a result, it will be embarrassing, according to the official document processing process, after Shangshu Zuo Cheng Dai Xuan dealt with Shi Bufan's joint letter, the result was that the local county Cheng hurriedly sent support every day, so that Dai Zhou couldn't suppress it if he wanted to, and the whole Chang'an knew about it.

"Who has such a fast mouth, so fast to spread out, so that the world knows?" Dai Xuan couldn't help but scold.

Looking at the fact that there are no less than ten letters of solidarity sent by counties from all over the country every day, even this number is increasing exponentially every day. Because the diffusion of information is circular, each diffusion is a geometric multiple of the rise, so that the local county officials are all in favor of this redivision of the scope of power. Anyway, the bigger the trouble, the safer everyone will be. And the bigger the trouble, the greater the success rate. In the case of improving the success rate and ensuring that everyone is safer, those counties followed the book one by one to see the excitement and not think it was a big deal, and as a result, Shangshu Province could receive a lot every day.

"This time difference is very important, if we just go to the book alone, it is likely to be deliberately 'drowned' by the top, and at that time, it will be troublesome if one of them does not send it. So we might as well just send it out through the pond as soon as possible while the official document processing process has not yet arrived. In this way, when Shangshu Zuo Cheng Dai Zhou handles official documents, he will be able to receive letters of support from many county officials every day. In this way, the pressure on us is getting smaller and smaller, but the pressure on Shangshu Province is getting bigger and bigger. Although the county official is lowly and small, there are enough ants to bite the beast to death, and it is so powerful that it is enough to make the whole Chang'an know. Even if Dai Xuan wants to suppress it, he may not be able to hold it down. This matter must start a big discussion, so this matter cannot be suppressed. Therefore, I took advantage of the time difference in the processing of official documents of the imperial court, and then drilled the difference in the time of sending the Tang newspaper of the Ministry of Rites, which formed a huge pressure. Shi Bufan said to Liu Renliang. (To be continued.) )