After the Fucheng affair was over, Li You took a boat back to his home in Xujiang County, and went to work after cleaning up. Since then, Li You has not seen outsiders, and calmed down and carefully thought about his appointment.

Ordinary people who have not even been magistrates may not have much concept of county government affairs, and think that a county can be a big deal?

In the past few days, Mr. Li has listed all the government affairs he can think of on paper, and summarized them as follows:

Land, household registration, tribute, forced labor, post transmission, inspection, house, school, armor protection, disaster relief, worship to the gods, customs, lawsuits, arrests, warehouses, transportation, salt law, customs and markets, expropriation, dissolution, science field, rituals, horse administration, river work, construction, and the assessment of the county's officials, the tasks assigned by the boss, etc.

Looking at this dense watch, smart as Master Li is also a little clueless. Although he is familiar with the affairs of the county government, he has a little confusion about how to oversee the overall situation while sitting in the main hall. Although the sparrows are small, they have all the organs, and there are more than 100 big and small things in the county government, and they don't know how to catch them. Not to mention that Jiangdu County is still a big county with complicated affairs.

It can only be said that there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and a scholar who has no experience can be a county magistrate once he is in the middle of the move, why should he Li You be bad?

He called Zhang San and instructed him to go to the street to find a fortune teller to divinate a zodiac auspicious saying.

Before Zhang Sanying could leave, he saw Menzi come in and report: "Master Yuanrong is visiting..."

"What Taoist monks, I don't see! I have some eyes in the future! Master Li lost his temper and said.

Menzi said cautiously: "This Yuanrong Master is none other than Old Lady Liu. ”

Li You was stunned for a moment, the old lady Liu referred to in his family must be his father-in-law, Liu Lao, who was inspected, and it turned out that his legal name was Yuanrong. But what did he do all of a sudden?

Invite the Yuanrong mage in, Li You took a closer look, he hadn't seen it for more than a year, and Old Taishan was a little thinner than he was at the beginning, and his head was shiny. At this time, for some reason, he was full of energy, his long beard was fluttering, and he didn't see the decadent appearance when he became a monk.

"I heard that the virtuous son-in-law is in charge, congratulations!"

For his father-in-law, Master Li is very wary, and all kinds of difficulties at the beginning are still vivid. asked cautiously: "Old Taishan went to Beiqiu Temple to become a monk, and the son-in-law has a lot of official business, so he has no time to meet..."

Venerable Yuanrong corrected: "The poor monk is not a monk in Beiqiu Temple. ”

Li You was embarrassed, and immediately pointed at Zhang San and scolded: "Stupid! Even the name was misplaced! ”

Zhang San said in a loud voice: "The old man spared the small one!" ”

But it doesn't matter where the monks live. The poor monk came to teach him what he had learned in his life! Master Yuanrong didn't pay attention to Li You's interruption, and said straightly.

What can you learn in your old man's life? Li You was skeptical and asked his father-in-law to sit down and have tea, but he couldn't stand and talk all the time.

Master Yuanrong tasted the tea, "The tea here is much stronger than back then. Although the poor monk has been doing inspections and is not in the county office, he has been watching coldly for many years, studying and strategizing, and he has also gained a lot. I heard that you are going to be the lord of a county, so you should use it. ”

Li You looked at his nose and nose and heart, and let Lao Taishan say it.

"There are three thousand methods, and the only one is Daoji! There is another thing to say, cooking a small fresh is like governing a big country..."

Li You was too lazy to correct Old Taishan, and continued to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

"After more than ten years of research by poor monks, it was found that the small county government is actually the same as the imperial court, and the inner principles are all the same! The Son of Heaven sits in the Jinluan Palace, and the magistrate sits in the lobby. The six-room officials are like the six departments of the imperial court, the third-class officials are like the guards and sergeants, and the county master is like the princess! ”

This is reasonable, Master Li raised his interest and listened carefully.

"How can the Son of Heaven govern the country on his own? With the cabinet, with the middle officials! And the county chief of staff is the cabinet of the county, and the county chief is the county lieutenant! ”

The front is okay, the latter metaphor makes Li You can't help but be amazed, this metaphor of the staff and the long-term entourage is too appropriate!

It is fitting to compare the staff to the cabinet. Both are unjustifiable, and both are institutions that are not clearly defined in the statutes. Moreover, most of them are privately appointed by the Lord, and their main responsibilities are to assist the Lord in handling official documents and government affairs, and the auxiliary color is strong.

Changsui is indeed like an inner supervisor, and his power also comes from his intimate relationship with his master, and he acts outside with the master's trust.

Thinking about it this way, the county government that works up and down is almost a miniature version of the imperial court!

Li You sighed for a moment, this is the power of the great unified centralized dynasty, and the template of the imperial court has been applied to the most basic yamen. Lao Taishan is not wrong, it is really cooking a small and fresh like governing a big country... After hearing Lao Taishan's words, Master Li immediately felt that the county government was clearly organized. After all, he had just come out of the court, and he was still very familiar with the structure of the imperial court.

Looking at his father-in-law again, Lord Li's eyes were a little more admiring. He remembered that his father-in-law, who once relied on romance and storytelling, developed a copycat version of the imperial technique and practiced it on his own, although he was defeated by the unknown general trend, it was still remarkable. A certain Liaodong thief who relied on a Romance of the Three Kingdoms to fight the world is nothing more than that... Seeing that his son-in-law was shocked, Master Yuanrong said to himself: "I thought that this little bit of experience would be buried in the soil and not seen from the sky, and I didn't want to have a chance to get ahead, so I asked my son-in-law to use it." ”

Li You personally poured tea and said with a smile: "Why didn't Old Taishan continue to talk?" ”

The former Liu Lao inspector suddenly became energetic, "It's hard to say!" When I take up with you, I will teach you carefully! ”

Depend on! I see... Li You finally saw his father-in-law's purpose. Eighty percent of the old man thinks that he has a dragon slaying skill but has nowhere to go, so life is very boring, and now he is happy to hear that his son-in-law has become a county honor, and he naturally refuses to let go of this stage.

Li You suddenly thought of a big bull figure in the early years of the dynasty, Monk Yao, who was known as the black-clothed prime minister. At this moment, there is not only a copycat version of the emperor's art, but also a copycat version of Yao Guangxiao... Can you let him go? No! This is tantamount to finding a Taishang County Zun, and holding on to it when you are full!

"There is an order from the imperial court, and the magistrate is not allowed to take his father to office!"

"Might as well be a few ancient temples and temples in Yangzhou, you send an approval, I will go to the tour to place a sojourn, no one will know. Can't a virtuous son-in-law not give this face? ”

Facing his father-in-law's stubbornness, Li You gritted his teeth and said, "Old Taishan! You used to say that you taught that there is no other lord in the heavens and the people, and the way is that the side of the couch does not allow others to snore! So according to your judgment, the son-in-law can't take you to Yangzhou, otherwise the son-in-law will be an unqualified county in your eyes! ”

Seeing that he was sternly rejected by his son-in-law, the old inspector who came with great interest was overshadowed, as if he was ten years old.

Li You persuaded: "Your old man is calm and calm, so why do you have to settle in the red dust." ”

"Phew! Clean fart! The monks in the temple, who doesn't raise women in the surrounding villages? Master Yuanrong scolded.

Li You pretended not to hear, no wonder his father-in-law wanted to come out and run the rivers and lakes, he couldn't do anything, wasn't it irritating to stay in this kind of temple.

The kind words sent away the frustrated father-in-law, and Lord Li looked at the government affairs form again, and seemed to be less dizzy.

Although it interrupted Lao Taishan's dream of borrowing his own hand to exercise the copycat version of the emperor's technique, Li You also had to admit that Lao Taishan's thinking opened a channel for him, and he had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

Master Li pondered the system of the dynasty, which is definitely not the most efficient, nor the most incorruptible, nor perfect. But there is an advantage, that is, it can ensure that the "first person" can still operate hard when he does not care about political affairs at all, at most because the lack of parts is not so smooth.

At the same time, under the existing system, even if the "first person" has been abandoned for a long time, as long as he wants to take back the power he should have, he can take it back at any time.

This kind of mechanism is obtained by relying on the huge bureaucratic system from the local government to the imperial court.

Other advantages and disadvantages Mr. Li doesn't care about, "the first person can be lazy" is what the incoming Mr. Li appreciates the most, and the method of being able to easily and not lose power is a good way.

Li knows how trivial and complicated the government affairs of a big county are, but he doesn't want to be a workaholic.

When Dongshan Gong was the magistrate of Xujiang County, he had the help of Master Huang, but he still sat on the county council for almost the whole time, and the future acting Jiangdu County, Lord Li Fushi, was definitely not willing to learn from him.

Although the imperial court system was founded by Taizu and was guided by workaholism, the ancestral law was no match for people's hearts, and the workaholic system gradually evolved into a lazy system. Among them, Master Li thinks that it is very useful to learn from it, and he has served in the central place, so he has a clear understanding of the operation of the imperial court.

The previous generation of the emperor wanted to be lazy, so he set up a palace scholar and a celebrant to contain it. If he wants to ensure sufficient control over the county government and county government, then he must also have enough staff and long-term followers to monitor the local officials in the county government, which is the game of power after the new official takes office.

Li You's eyes fell on the government affairs form again, and he silently calculated in his heart, and found that if he wanted to lift weights lightly, he needed at least four masters who were reliable and had the corresponding experience and ability.

But now there is only one Cui Jiansheng in his hands... Master Li sighed: "Not only in the 21st century, but also in the 18th century, what is most lacking is talent. ”

Searching for reliable "talents" in the county, Lord Li sadly found that he was cocooned... At the beginning of last year, after the great change in Suzhou Prefecture, the government was empty. A certain official in power coveted money and favors, and stuffed all the talents he trusted into the government to fill the vacant positions of officials... Almost all the characters who are a little capable in the wife's family, the Guan family, and the family are included.

Now these people are working as economic officials in the richest government in the world and the most rich and grainy, and it is estimated that no one wants to leave their hometowns and abandon their own bureaucratic establishment, and accompany a former official to go to other places to fight the world. It's not impossible to be strong, but it's not possible to guarantee a very important degree of loyalty.

I knew that I shouldn't have gotten all into the government, and it would have been nice to leak a few spares, but I was short-sighted and made the big mistake of trying my best to catch fish. Li You can only smile secretly at the moment, life experience is like this, step by step.

(To be continued)