Chang'an, Liangyi Palace, Li Shimin received a report about Lijingmen and bad people. And the bad handsome of the bad guys is also the leader of the face giant, he praised Chen Fei very unsparingly, because Chen Fei is still very talented in terms of agents, and he can actually come up with a lot of distinctive methods, which is obviously the material for being an agent by nature.

"Do you want to send him to the bad guy or to the Lijingmen?" Li Shimin thought.

However, the next piece of music immediately dispelled Li Shimin's thoughts again.

"Go and call the eldest grandson and the house servant to shoot Du Shangshu!" Li Shimin said to the eunuch next to him.

Soon, the eldest grandson Wuji also came and took the initiative to ask: "Your Majesty, what's the matter?" ”

Li Shimin took the initiative to say: "Look at this thing about Chen Fei's performance, he said that when it is suitable in the future, he can let the government lower the management level to the townships below." ”

Then several prime ministers also began to check the content of Chen Fei's official government going to the countryside. In fact, it is suggested that when conditions permit in the future, a township-level government can be established, and the imperial court will continue to decentralize the management level to the township level, so that it can gain very much control.

Lowering the government to the township level is very beneficial to the control of the state, because it is completely possible for the government to collect taxes directly, so as to prevent those towns and towns from taking the opportunity to benefit the people. You must know that the original national tax model was collected by people such as Baochang Xiangzheng below, and then they handed it over to the government. However, it will also give them the opportunity to borrow this privilege to benefit the people, because they have this privilege to assist the government in collecting taxes, and they can in turn divide their taxes among ordinary people. They can even take the opportunity to increase taxes, which will make the people pay higher taxes.

If we look at the later history, the central government increased the tax revenue by one penny each time, but when it came to the ordinary people, it became even ten cents. Because this layer of government can continue to increase. Even the gentry of those towns and villages continued to increase their weight, and then gradually forced the people to the point that they could not bear the pressure of taxes, and then rebelled. And if it can be delegated from the government to the township, then those squires will not be able to do anything in this regard.

In fact, according to Chen Fei's mobile phone to check the information of later generations, those squires are actually the heaviest layer. During the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, one of which was called official collection and official release, that is, everything was collected by the government, and then the government escorted. And in the end, the pressure of the people was greatly reduced, which is enough to show the strength of these squires to exploit the ordinary people. These squires are really just a bunch of harmful things. They are often inferior to the government. Although there may be corrupt officials in the government, they still have corresponding discipline and legal constraints. But these squires really have no law to bind them, and if they pass on their taxes to the people, and increase the taxes demanded by the government a lot, and take the difference in between, then they will be able to eat a lot of money. Therefore, these squire class, which is between the government and the common people, is the most hateful. Moreover, they have privately set up so-called "tribunals" to usurp the judicial power of the state, which is a serious damage to the judicial fairness of a country. Although in many cases, the judiciary of the imperial court may not be able to be fair. But at least it was better than the squires themselves deciding to punish the people. After all, those squires can be said to be both mobilizers and referees, where can there be any justice!

"Your Majesty, it is a very good way for this government to go to the countryside. It can allow the imperial court to control the people more tightly. In this way, there can be a very good way to collect taxes in the future, or to levy conscription and military service. As for the future, we can also carry out more profound management to ensure that the policies of our court will not deviate from the bottom. The eldest grandson Wuji said.

And Du Ruhui also said: "The policy of the imperial court is often once it reaches the ordinary squire. They are able to turn the good into the bad, and the white into the black. Especially for many families, they will implement policies that are beneficial to them. If the policy is not conducive to them, they will avoid it, and even harm the people. And those ordinary people are illiterate, so they can't understand the rules of the court at all. Those big families use the land in their hands and the advantage of financial resources to fish the people from it. And the most terrible thing for them is that they use their right to have culture, constantly distorting the image of the court, they prey on the people on one side, and transfer these grievances to the court on the other, so that the people will become more and more dissatisfied with the court. And when the government goes to the countryside, it must be done, so that the villagers can be directly managed from those squires and big families, and then we can make the rule of the court more strict. It also avoids the existence of those squires who are prey on the common people, and can gradually eradicate the rights of the big families. ”

And having said all this, the last sentence is fundamental. Li Shimin's greatest concern is to be able to solve the problems of the big families, because those big families have mastered the bridge of communication between the government and the people, so that if the government wants to rule, it must go through the big families, and the people can't tell the difference between the big families and the government. Therefore, Li Shimin also regarded the family as a big trouble, they grasped the cultural privileges on the one hand, but on the other hand, they also directly and indirectly controlled many people, this is Li Shimin's headache.

If the government can be directly delegated to the township level, it will be very helpful for the rule of the imperial court. In this way, the survival soil of the family can be gradually extracted, and any rebellion and the like can be quickly responded to in the future. Don't look at the later generations, many people are scolding the government bureaucracy for being bloated, but if you look at the government system of later generations, the reason why the later generations are bloated is that they are not even bloated compared to other countries. A large part of the later governments have delegated these officials to the township level, so the number of officials has increased a lot.

Although it seems that the institution is much more bloated, it has eliminated the existence of some so-called township squires, and those so-called squires have been squeezed into a village. Therefore, later generations have only heard of village tyrants, but they have almost never heard of the "overlords" who can run rampant in a township. And with the continuous decentralization of the management level, it is equivalent to the state completely controlling the entire population, and will not fall into the hands of the village tyrants in those places. This is enough to keep the country at peace without too much turmoil. (To be continued......)