"At present, according to the survey statistics of the Statistics Department of our General Office, there were more than 300 land ownership disputes in Taiwan the previous Monday, an increase of more than five times compared with the same period in the past. Many owners of land in their names have begun to complain to our government about the patriarchs of those families, and they want to not continue to pay grain to the family, but to give it all to themselves. And our courts at all levels follow the regulations related to real estate, and whoever has their name is their own, and they all have the right to dispose of the land, the right to benefit and so on, so they don't have to continue to pay grain to the original family. ”

And Wang Guorui listened to Kang Tongwei's words and showed a smile that couldn't be hidden. The clans in the townships below have completely lost their soil, and the clan ideology that has lasted for thousands of years has been forcibly split up and dismembered under the real benefits. In the future, it will be difficult for everyone to continue to form a big family, because this kind of clan is attached to the land, and if the land cannot be concentrated, then they will not be able to form a big family. But now that Wang Guorui has imposed heavy taxes on those who own a lot of land, they can't concentrate the land at all. However, once the land is dispersed, the final struggle for land ownership can destroy the entire family. Therefore, this ensures that the family is relatively weak, but it is mainly family-oriented, not family-oriented.

"Have you figured it out? I plan to set up a first-level government under our county-level government again, called a township government. The township government is our lowest level of government organization at present, and their personnel issues are all appointed by our government, and we will directly manage them at the township level in the future. Wang Guorui said.

Wang Guorui began to convene everyone for a meeting, and the main topic of the meeting was the establishment of a township government. In the past, the political power of the feudal era did not go to the countryside, that is, it was only managed to the county level, and it was not directly managed under the county, which also caused a strict hole. Let the rise of many so-called squire classes. And those gentry class took advantage of helping the imperial court to collect taxes, and their own tax exemption took advantage of the common people. And their own tax-free privileges caused a large concentration of land, and some relatively short-sighted people would also give their land to the squire, and then rent their land instead, and finally the other party would charge less rent.

And these townships have become a relatively huge strength, and even if they don't cooperate with the county's policies, they can't do it. These squire forces are still good. If they oppose the local government, then I am afraid that the county commander will also be hollowed out. Therefore, this situation is very bad, and the establishment of a township-level government is inevitable.

In later generations, Wang Guorui also resented those officials who directly managed to the township level, so that many people could not feel free. But now that Wang Guorui has personally come out to be the leader of the Taiwan region, he really knows that sometimes the more detailed the management, the better. As for the so-called democracy and freedom of Westerners, it also depends on the national conditions and cannot be copied. Since ancient times, China has not had a democratic market, and it is impossible to achieve results without hundreds of years of cultivation and evolution. The township level government is an important responsibility for maintaining national stability. They can solve many problems, and once the people have any contradictions, they can directly solve them in the townships and towns, without having to make trouble at a larger level. And the townships and towns are all dealing with trivial things, but they are also things around many people.

If these matters are handled at the county level, then I am afraid that the government agencies at the county level will also be more troublesome, and it will be difficult for the government agencies at the county level to deal with them at all. In particular, the times are advancing, and the future society is more complex. There are more and more things to deal with. In ancient times, it may have been necessary to deal with the issue of grain taxation, but in later generations, all kinds of affairs have been suppressed. If more levels of government are not established, the pressure on the county level government will be very great, and in the end, it will often be overwhelmed.

Therefore, no matter what, the township-level government must also be established as much as possible, otherwise it may be that those squire bullies will rise quickly, which is definitely not a good thing.

"Lord Wang. If we set up a township-level government, then we need a geometric increase in the number of state civil servants! Will we be able to afford it? Ouyang Xuan asked.

Wang Guorui affirmed: "The township-level government is responsible for maintaining the stability of our countryside, and in order to maintain public order, we have always paid attention to stability. If someone needs anything, they can solve it as much as possible. This is a well-established institution. Therefore, even if the number of civil servants increases, it must be established, after all, if there is a big problem, then we are afraid that we will spend more money. And if you think about it, since ancient times, many of those who have rebelled and rebelled have come out of the townships, and if the township government at that time could survive, then they might not be able to rise. Moreover, with the township-level government, this can maintain the finances of the imperial court. ”

"You should know what the squires were like, they used their right to help the court collect taxes, and then increased the tax revenue of the court a lot. A penny tax is collected from the central court of the imperial court, but at the bottom, it is several times more. Of course, we are not going to investigate the greed of those officials in the past, this is a problem of the system, and we will strengthen supervision in the future. But we can all see that these squires are also very terrible. They are not officials of the imperial court, and our imperial court cannot supervise them. However, they have the right to help the court collect taxes, so they are actually responsible for collecting taxes. Who knows how much they raised the tax of a penny from the imperial court, and then collected it from the people? And at that time, the people were overcharged several times the taxes for no reason, but these taxes fell into the pockets of the squires and officials at all levels, and the court did not get a single one. ”

"Therefore, there is no need for the tax-collecting privileges of these gentry classes, we just want to unify those tax-collecting rights to the government. In this way, we can put an end to the vast majority of additional assignments, even if a small number of officials dare to increase them, then our supervision department is not vegetarian. In fact, this is reducing the burden on the people, and without the exploitation of the squire, their pressure can be reduced a lot. ”

And everyone also understands the virtues of the squires in the past, they increased the taxes of the imperial court several times to collect them, so that the ordinary people were also miserable, and finally they were forced to rebel. And Wang Guorui has also heard of a situation in later generations, and the village chief is often the most important link in later generations. In later generations, although the village chief was elected by the people, the village cadres represented the image of the national government in the hearts of ordinary people. If the village cadres are honest and enthusiastic people, then the people have great trust in the national government. But if the village cadres are a bad guy, then the whole country is a bad guy in the hearts of the people.

After all, the vast majority of ordinary people are not able to travel around the country and see with their own eyes how the vast majority of officials work seriously. Although village cadres are not state officials in many cases, many people regard them as state cadres, and the behavior of village cadres has a great relationship with the impression of the government in the hearts of the people. And in ancient times, it was even more miserable, because in ancient times, the squires were managed, so that the vast majority of those squires also exploited the people with the help of the right of the court to collect taxes, and they exploited the people in this way, which will also make many people think that the national government is also so exploiting the people, and the whole world is as black as a crow.

Although it is not possible to manage directly at the village level, it is still necessary to manage it at the township level. Why did later generations often send those college graduates to serve as various village officials in the village, in fact, they didn't want to gradually encroach on the township power? And there is an old saying in later generations, that is, the village cadres are typed, and you can imagine how dark the management organization is at the lower level. Although it is not good for the government to have this or that, it is at least much better than those local tyrants and inferior gentry, and it is still more scrupulous in doing things. If the so-called democracy is really completely released, I am afraid that in the end, we can only get one bully after another to come to power. In later generations, the village was democratically elected, but in the end, the village cadres were all "beaten", which can be imagined how tragic it was.

China is not suitable for a thorough democracy in the short term, and it will not be able to leave the precise jurisdiction of the government for at least the next 100 years, otherwise the consequences will be very severe. After all, the Chinese have been accustomed to being governed and led for thousands of years, and if they are allowed to make their own democracy, it will be easy to be manipulated and used by some powerful people.

"Okay, let's immediately select people who are honest and honest to serve in the townships. And we must let them really maintain the stability of the townships and towns, and help us collect local taxes, so that we can have enough financial resources to develop. Ouyang Xuan replied.

Soon, the major departments drew some people from their own departments and began to form township governments. Taiwan's civil service examination immediately began to recruit a large number of township and town civil servants, which made many people happy, because it was obvious that there were more officials doing it. Wang Guorui also stipulated that if any official wants to be promoted to the county department level, he must have more than two years of work experience in townships and townships, otherwise he cannot be promoted to an official at or above the county department level. In this way, civil servants in more large organs are rushing to go down to the townships to take up posts, so that there is no shortage of officials in the townships and towns. (To be continued......)