"Da Tingshi, I suggest that we can conduct a poll in Bozhou to find out what the people need, and that we can improve governance as a result. And we can also use public opinion polls to let us know how much support the people have for the imperial court, and see how many of them are willing to support our imperial court. If the people think we're not doing well, then we can improve our choices. We can even change the direction of our governance and then prepare to win more hearts and minds. Chen Fei said.

Chen Fei and Da Xishu took the initiative to propose a public opinion poll, that is, to help the government understand their satisfaction with governance. In later generations, many governments would conduct public opinion polls, whether it was a sincere survey or a fake coping relationship, it was all to be investigated. If there are no polls, it is probably a very authoritarian and corrupt government. Therefore, in order to embody their own "democracy", they must conduct investigations, even if they are mixed with water, they must also come out.

However, in ancient times, there were no public opinion surveys at all, and the so-called public opinion polls were all made by certain officials or even emperors who went down to the towns below to make an appearance, and then visited the people. And this is not a specific system, and it cannot be used for real purposes. This kind of emperor and officials going to the countryside and villages is actually more for show than in reality. On the contrary, public opinion polls are the real way to understand public opinion in the long run. As long as public opinion polls can form a system, then they will be able to continuously grasp public opinion for a long time, and then change their own governance according to public opinion.

However, in ancient times, they often did not pay attention to these, and the ancient government had a high-minded posture, and they thought that what they did, the people must inevitably accept it. And they are all blindly arrogant, thinking that they are for the good of the people, and the people must accept it. This kind of thinking is simply unreasonable in the future generations, and it will harm the people. And those who think they are for the good of the people, in fact, they are also ungrounded guys. They thought it was for the good of the people, then patted their heads to decide, then patted their chests and promised, and finally patted their butts and left. This kind of person is called a three-beat cadre in later generations, and he is not grounded and detached from the masses.

Chen Fei now wants to gradually change this situation, and he must establish a system in Bozhou that can conduct public opinion polls, which will be very helpful for future governance according to local conditions. In this way, many situations of detachment from the masses can be avoided, and the problems of ancient officials who were separated from the masses can be improved. The main thing is to give the people a channel to give advice to officials, after all, the people in ancient times did not have the qualifications and power to put forward conditions and suggestions to officials. And the biggest problem of antiquity. In fact, to a large extent, there is no communication channel between the people and the government and even the emperor.

In ancient times, when the government collected taxes, it constantly exploited the people, but the people did not have a channel of communication and opposition. And ordinary people can't make their voices heard in politics, so naturally they can only let those corrupt officials and corrupt officials loot hard, and finally they can't stand it anymore. Once the people can't stand it, the last choice is to revolt, until the country returns to the cycle of chaos and rule again. If the people can be given a channel to report problems to their superiors, it is one thing for the government to listen or not, but after all, there is a communication channel.

And every class has a group of elites. They can make their voices heard in the government as representatives of the class. Although this poll seems that the government is free to choose whether it is acceptable or not, it also represents the establishment of a long-term communication channel between the government and the people, which can greatly ease the relationship between them. And then the people were dissatisfied. It will not be backlogged and then finally unified. And the government can also understand the people in a timely manner, so as not to force the people to the point of rebellion. This poll is actually a reasonable and legal channel for the people to scold the government. Let ordinary people have a chance to "vent". If they complain and you don't let them say it, then in the end they can only continue to accumulate and force the people to rebel.

Of course, Chen Fei will not expect this poll to avoid exploitation forever, but this poll can give those "exploiters" a sense of how they should be exploited. to get the best results. As long as the people are not forced to rebel, and to what extent the people will be forced to rebel, then a corresponding policy of exploitation can be specified.

"Is this necessary? What can ordinary people understand? Da Xishu asked.

Chen Fei sighed helplessly in his heart, these ancient officials really despised those ordinary people too much. Since ancient times, not many officials in China have been able to pay attention to the people, and even those officials who claim to be the masters of the people have treated the people as incompetent. It is precisely because the people are "incompetent" that they want to make decisions for the people, because in their eyes, the people cannot make their own decisions. So even those clean officials despise the people from the bottom of their bones.

Although Da Xishu is not a corrupt official, he still has the problem of despising ordinary people, which is a common problem of ancient officials. It is precisely because they despise the people in their bones and ignore the power that the people can burst out that one dynasty after another will eventually fall.

As a descendant, Chen Fei certainly knew that once the people were awakened, the power they could burst out was earth-shattering. Later, the army established by our party was able to gradually rise up and finally dominate the world by mobilizing ordinary people. But many people despise the people, and this is the reason why they have lost the hearts of the people. If nothing else, the Tang Dynasty will eventually become a dynasty doomed. Because many of their officials are scholars, even if they are scholars from poor families, they all look down on the people.

Chen Fei deeply knows that the vast majority of those scholars from poor families, no matter how hard they lived before, even if they were scholars from farming, once they become officials, then they will not hesitate to betray their class. This is also the tradition of those scholars in ancient China, all of whom are people who have forgotten their roots. Although they say that they will not forget their roots, what they do is for their own wealth and prosperity, and for themselves to maintain their status as the ruling class, not for the ordinary people.

"Da Thorn History, we can use this to win the hearts of the people!" Chen Fei said. (To be continued......)