With control over the Taiyuan Administration, Suiyuan, and North and South Mongolia, as well as a large number of talents still coming, and a large number of industrial equipment waiting to be installed, Song Zhewu was immediately faced with a large-scale construction task that was unprecedented in China since the end of the Qing Dynasty.

In order to complete any large-scale renovation and construction quickly, it is necessary to have a leading organization and organizational system with correct direction and high efficiency to guide the coordination of human, financial and material resources in all aspects of the organization, especially such a large-scale construction.

As the command organ of this vigorous large-scale construction, it is naturally the Northern Construction and Development Committee, because the vast majority of its members are experts and scholars, and it is very good to have them preside over such an unprecedented scale of construction.

With the leading body in place, the rest of the work is how to coordinate and organize it, and absolutely ensure that all the decrees issued by it will be implemented and implemented as soon as possible.

The basis for ensuring the implementation of the decrees is naturally the mobilization of non-popular organizations. You know, the current engineering infrastructure, but not as many construction machinery as in later generations, at this time the vast majority of infrastructure work is completely completed by hand.

First of all, what must be involved is the organization and mobilization of the Taiyuan Administration and the people at the grassroots level in Suiyuan, North and South Mongolia. In order to successfully mobilize the people to participate in this large-scale construction, it is absolutely not enough to have a leading body such as the Northern Construction and Development Committee, which needs to be supported by many grassroots and efficient organizations.

Grassroots organizations in Shanxi are doing the best in the country, at least for now. And all this is the result of Yan Xishan's vigorous promotion of village-based politics over the past ten years.

Regarding Yan Xishan's so-called village-based politics, Song Zhewu has always admired it.

Yan Xishan believes: "The denser the administrative network of all countries in the world, the better and more progressive their politics are. ”

Therefore, Yan Xishan was keen to start with the village system, which constituted the most basic system of a strict administrative network, and intended to start with the administrative network from one village to the next, and then to ensure that no one village was missed, and one family became one person. Yan Xishan believes that only when the network can be dense here can there be politics at all.

As far as the county government is concerned, Yan Xishan presided over the formulation of the "Brief Outline of the County and Village System" and said: "The villages are surrounded by a county, and the land is open to the people, and it is difficult to spread all over the country only because of the awareness of the governor's ears and eyes. In addition, there are many important governments in a county, and the governor instructs the governor, and there is no one under the governor to provide a finger, and the ability will be exhausted from time to time, and the reason why this village system cannot be delayed. ”

It is not difficult to see from this that the purpose of Yan Xishan's implementation of the "village system" is to strengthen the role and strength of grassroots administrative organizations so that government decrees can be implemented and implemented smoothly. In order to make use of a tight administrative network, effective governance is carried out.

Yan Xishan attaches great importance to the construction of village administration. He believes that the village is the most basic place where the people live, and if the government does not reach the villages, the administration will have its name; If autonomy does not stand at the village level, it is equivalent to a tree without roots; When it comes to politics, it is tantamount to empty discussions.

Therefore, he strictly promoted the village system throughout the province as an experiment in "employing the people's politics". Yan Xishan envisioned:

Implement the village system: its law is very good, and its effect is very widespread. In the realm of a county, there are no less than 100,000 households, and there are 50,000 or 60,000 households. It is not easy to make the affairs of a county as if it were in the palm of your hand. If the accumulation of households into a village, the accumulation of a village into a district, the district in the county, then up and down, such as the body to make the arm, the arm to make the finger, the governance of a county is based on this, the foundation is not established, although there is good governance, can not see the implementation also.

There is no greater trouble than thieves, and the village system is easy to inspect, and there is no way to harbor, and the bandits can be eliminated. The harm is greater than being stubborn, the village system is practiced, and the axiom is open, and the instigation is impossible, then the sticksters can collect traces. The poison is worse than opium, the village system is lined, and the revelation of someone, the investigation of Yi Zhou, the line of March, can reap the effect of clearing. The beetle is more than the nomad, the village system and interfere with the people, the comprehensive core is the most dense, and the line can be carried out in March, and the benefits of probation can be obtained. Compulsory education can also be promoted by inspecting school-age children.

Since the people of Sri Lanka can know that the burden of taxation is purely for the purpose of the state's conservation and administration, they will be anxious for the public, and the obligation to pay taxes will not be fully fulfilled by the people of China. Since the people can know that the matter of defense is to be guarded by others, it is not as close as self-defense, and the idea of wealth and property of the children and grandchildren is important, then it is clear that defending the country means self-defense, the courage to fight, and the will to be a soldier, and the courage to fight can be drummed, and the obligation to be a soldier is not a Chinese person, and it cannot be done. All kinds of politics do not start from here, and the law is good.

Based on the above understanding, Yan Xishan began to implement the "village system" throughout the province after he took up the post of civil affairs in Shanxi. After years of village administration, Shanxi has formed a village-based unit, which is also the most efficient ruling organization in the country.

In order to do a good job in the construction of village administration, Yan Xishan has put a lot of thought into it.

Yan Xishan first lectured on general subjects, specialized subjects, new political knowledge, and various new technologies at the "Administrative Research Institute." After the completion of the study period, the trainees were assigned to various counties to implement the new policy as specific undertakers of various tasks. Such as undertakers, examiners, comptrollers, county inspectors, industrial technicians, lecturers, prison guards, inspectors, agricultural technicians, etc.

At the same time, in the name of Yan Xishan himself, he compiled a manual of "People's Notices" and printed and distributed it widely. "People's Notice" includes: civil morality, people's wisdom, people's wealth, family, society, country, world, geography and other chapters, 20,000 or 30,000 words, from education to production, from family to society, all aspects. It is hoped that the common people of the whole province can comply with the implementation and smoothly implement the village system.

In terms of the specific establishment of village-level institutions, villages with more than 100 people shall have one village chief and one village deputy each; There are 25 households in the village; There are neighbors under Lu, and every five households are one neighbor.

From the above, it can be seen that Yan Xishan's "village weaving" system, in terms of the administrative organization of the village, mainly imitates the town and village system of the original book, and secondly, imitates the ancient Chinese system. In the method of "organizing villages," a three-level management hierarchy has been set up in the village, which is the most basic unit of administration, namely, the village, the village, and the neighborhood.

And such a well-organized village governance, in Yan Xishan's opinion, is only a rough governance. In the end, through continuous improvement, a total of nine levels were formed, from the provincial chairman to the neighbors, and the 20 million people in Shanxi were firmly controlled.

In addition, Yan Xishan set up a defense regiment, which was divided into five levels from bottom to top: Pai, A, village regiment, district regiment, and general regiment. Take Lu as a card, by Lu long and fill the card long; The number of Lu is a first-class, and the village deputy is also the head of the first; A village is a village group, with the village head serving as the head of the village; An administrative district is a district regiment, and the district chief executive is also the head of the district; A county is a general regiment, and the prefectural governor is also the head of the regiment.

In a word, all men in the prime of life between the ages of 18 and 35 who have a legitimate occupation in the village are allowed to participate in the training of the Corps during the off-season.

In the counties of the mainland, the soldiers in the township are trained nearby; For border counties, the county can ask the provincial department to send coaches. During the busy farming season, the members of the "defense regiment" plough separately and take turns to check the roads and look at the fields; In the leisure time, they carried out intensive training and carried out patrols, sentinels, and investigation of bandits.

After the establishment of the Taiyuan Administration, Song Zhewu did not change Yan Xishan's village governance policy, and even the name of the defense regiment did not change, but the organization of the defense regiment was transferred to the management of the People's Organization Mobilization and Engineering Construction Committee. Since it is necessary to protect the security of villages and towns, it is necessary to conduct military training.

According to Song Zhewu's idea, once the Anti-Japanese War began, the defense regiment would be a justifiable reserve, so in terms of military training, Song Zhewu specially presided over a meeting attended by Xiao Guodong, Han Guangdi, Xu Zheng and others, and made careful arrangements in this regard. The responsible persons of the defense regiments at all levels are all under Xu Zheng's People's Organization Mobilization and Engineering Construction Committee, and are served by officers at all levels of the Fourth Route Army who have been disabled in previous battles. The instructors were selected by Han Guangdi's teaching corps, and military training was carried out in the manner of recruits of the Fourth Route Army.

Because of the strict military training, in terms of age, Song Zhewu is required to be under 30 years old.

With such a tight grassroots administration and a paramilitary security regiment, which can also be said to be a reserve organization, it is convenient for personnel to carry out large-scale construction.

Since Yan Xishan can recognize the important surnames of the people, Song Zhewu, a traverser, will not be worse, but he knows the truth of the sentence "The power of the people is infinite". If he wants to win the sincere support of ordinary people in Shanxi, it is absolutely not enough to save the Jin banknotes. You must know that the vast majority of farmers do not have much money to spare, and the depreciation of Jin banknotes does not have much impact on them.

Therefore, Song Zhewu came up with another plan that he had prepared a long time ago, and at the same time shocked almost everyone.

Song Zhewu announced that the agricultural tax on peasant households with less than 30 mu of land would be abolished in Taiyuan and Suiyuan, Nanbeimeng.

Song Zhewu's move immediately caused a great shock, you must know that the agricultural tax has been implemented in China for thousands of years, and the agricultural tax has been a major source of tax in all dynasties, not only in the current Republic of China, but also in the Taiyuan Administration and Suiyuan. If it is really implemented according to Song Zhewu's plan, the annual tax revenue will be almost six or seven million.

Although it is good governance for the benefit of the people, the loss is too great. Not only Qiu Zengyi resolutely opposed, but even Jia Jingde and Zhao Pilian also disagreed, because they all knew that Song Zhewu's upcoming large-scale economic and industrial construction would require a large amount of money.

In fact, this was not a whim of Song Zhewu, at this time less than half of the land in Shanxi was in the hands of yeoman farmers, and most of the land was concentrated in the hands of large landlords.

In other words, the richest people in Shanxi, except for the big businessmen, are these big landlords......

(To be continued)