After Xun Yu woke up, he shouted "misunderstood", and hurriedly ran to see Liu He, asking Liu He to send a medical team to Yanzhou to guide the epidemic prevention.

Although Liu He and Cao Cao were two camps, he didn't want to see the people of Yanzhou and Yuzhou suffer from the plague, so he readily agreed, and began to distribute manpower in front of Xun Yu, without dragging his feet at all.

Xun Yu saw that Liu He did not mention any additional conditions, and he had a further understanding of Liu He's chest and bearing. Since the things entrusted by Cao Cao have been completed, he asked Liu He to resign and go to Youzhou to visit Wèn.

Liu He also felt that Yecheng was all the foundation left by Yuan Shao at the beginning, and there was nothing to show Xun Yu and them, so he sent his "Foreign Minister" Chen Yi to accompany Xun Yu to the north.

Before leaving, Chen Yi came to see Liu He and asked for instructions on the precautions for this trip. Liu He said to Chen Yi: "Except for those few places that are listed as top secret, they can go to see other places as long as they want, and don't hinder them from inquiring and inquiring, and act as soon as they see the opportunity." ”

Chen Yi asked a little puzzled: "Childe, I heard that Xun Yu is not a simple person, not only has a smart mind, but also has a good memory, if the freedom given to them is too great, in case the set we did in Youzhou is learned by him, wouldn't it be a big loss?" ”

Liu He shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't worry about this, even if they want to learn, they may not be able to learn it." I wish Cao Cao had done the same thing as us in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, so that they wouldn't have to lead troops to fight them, and they would be able to come over themselves. ”

Chen Yi kept Liu He's instructions in mind and accompanied Xun Yu on the road with ease.

At this time, it was late autumn, and the visiting group from Yanzhou traveled along the road from Yecheng to Gaoyi, where towering haystacks and farmers were busy in the drying fields on both sides of the road. Ten-year-old Cao Zhi asked Xun Yu with a curious expression: "Sir, didn't you say that there was a big drought in the north this year, how can you still see the harvest of farmers?" ”

A simple question. But Xun Yu was stumped. He didn't know how the peasants could still harvest food in a drought year, so he got out of the carriage and walked into a village. Chen Yi didn't stop him, and followed behind Xun Yu, seemingly wanting Xun Yu to find the answer by himself.

Xun Yu came to the edge of a drying field and asked an old farmer who was sitting next to him catching birds: "Uncle, how can your family still harvest so much grain in this year's drought in the north?" ”

The old man who was questioned seemed to have seen the scene, although he saw Xun Yu's group dressed gorgeously, and there were guards behind him. But he didn't panic much, but replied calmly: "This is all thanks to the Taifu and the general!" Jizhou has indeed had a severe drought this year, but during the drought a few years ago, the old and young masters of the whole village were mobilized, dug more than a dozen ponds to store water, and built a large canal from the Xinghe River to the village. So even though there was a big drought this year, the grain harvest in our village was not in arrears. ”

"Uncle, what's going on with this mutual aid club?"

"Mutual aid society, I heard that it came from Youzhou. Joining the cooperatives is entirely voluntary for the peasants, and they do not need to pay any money or grain, that is, they gather the lone peasant households in the surrounding areas and elect those with brains. In charge of the farm tools and seeds purchased by the society with the funds raised, when someone is in trouble, they will reach out together to help. I can't read, old man. I don't understand, if you want to listen to the details, you can go to the township office, there are people on duty every day. ”

Xun Yu was very interested in this mutual aid society, and he had only heard that it was going on around Luoyang before, but this time he had the opportunity to find out, so he didn't want to let it go. He turned around and asked Chen Yi: "Hengzhi (Chen Yizi), can you accompany me to the township office?" ”

Chen Yi nodded. "If Mr. Wenruo is not in a hurry, go and see."

The old man is also a hospitable person, seeing that Xun Yu was really going, he went to call his half-eldest grandson to watch from the drying field to prevent birds and birds from stealing food, and he himself led the way in front and led everyone to the township office.

The so-called township office is naturally from Liu He's handwriting. This is his plan for the future reform of the administrative division of Dahan, and the layout carried out in advance.

The administrative structure of the Han Dynasty was inherited from the Qin Dynasty, and was originally composed of four levels: the central government, the county (state), the county and the township. At the end of Emperor Ling, Liu Yanjian delegated power to the state, and from then on, the state pastor became a major member of the military and political power, and the warlord troubled times also began.

At this time, the administrative single below the county level is a township, a pavilion, and a li, which is roughly one hundred households for one mile, ten miles for a pavilion, and ten pavilions for a township. The governor of the township is the rank and the husband, and the order is that you are in charge of public security, the township is in charge of taxes, and the three elders are in charge of education; The pavilion chief is in charge of public security, and there are pavilion marquis and pavilion pawns; The governor of the league is the likui. Officials in townships, pavilions, and districts are generally appointed and dismissed by higher-level organs such as counties and counties. Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, was a small pavilion marquis, that is, the director of the village committee.

Liu He compared the administrative structure commonly used in later countries, and felt that the six-level administrative structure was more suitable for the current national conditions. If it is administered according to the six levels of the central government, prefecture (province), county (region or prefecture-level city), county, township and village, the existing thirteen prefectures of Dahan are obviously too large. Like Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou and Jiaozhou, one state is in charge of the territory equivalent to three or four provinces in later generations, which makes it easy for the state pastors of these large states to become the emperor of the soil.

In addition to splitting up large states, Liu He felt that some counties were too large to manage. Large counties such as Nanyang County, Runan County, and Huiji County are almost equal to the area of a province in later generations, and if you only rely on the county guards to sit in the official office to manage affairs, you will definitely not be able to be deaf and clear. Only by breaking down these large counties can we be more conducive to management and control.

Compared with the division of prefectures and counties, Liu He felt that the three-level grass-roots administrative structure of township, pavilion, and li below the county level was too cumbersome, so he planned to remove the two levels of pavilion and li and turn them into villages, and at the same time adjust the power at the township level, and set up administrative institutions such as township offices, which correspond to counties at the top and manage more than a dozen villages below.

The top-down reform of the administrative structure was too much of a movement, and the resistance encountered was also great, so Liu He did the opposite, first trying to establish the most basic administrative units at the two levels, the township office and the natural village, on his own territory, and if the effect was good, it could be extended.

When the group came to the township office, they happened to see the head of the township convening a meeting of the heads of the villages below the township, so Xun Yu stood outside the door and listened quietly for a while.

"It's about to enter the winter leisure, the villages hurry up and hand over the public grain that should be handed over, I will say the ugly words in front today, if the village is shoddy, mix the inferior grain in it and hand it over to the township office, don't blame me for not showing you mercy! Our township has a good grain harvest this autumn, and the county wants to send the grain collected from our township to the border as military rations. ”

"Township Chief, don't worry, we won't do such a conscience-defying thing! The army guards the country for us at the border, and does not let the Hu people go south to harm us. ”

"Don't blame me for being in a hurry, the county commander just went to the county seat for a meeting a few days ago, and I heard that this year, in order to relieve the disaster, the general took out all the grain in the Changping warehouse. Now that the autumn grain has been harvested, all counties are in a hurry to close their warehouses and replenish the grain as usual, so as not to delay next year's affairs. ”

"Township Chief He, can you go to the county for a trip and purchase a water mill and two keel waterwheels for Dahuaishu Village?"

"We in Fengzhang Village also want a water mill and a keel waterwheel!"

Xun Yu listened carefully to the conversation inside, and felt that although the person called the township chief spoke a little more urgently, he didn't seem to have the meaning of making things difficult and oppressing. And the village chief elected by each village can also try his best to fight for the interests of the village, unlike those servants who are supported by big families, who only know how to oppress people.

After the conversation inside was over, Chen Yi went in and called out the township chief surnamed He, and asked him to give Xun Yu a detailed introduction to the operation of the mutual aid society in his hometown. As soon as the head of the township looked at the posture outside, he knew that the scribe standing in front of him must have a great background, and in addition to being excited, he told the story of the establishment of the mutual aid society in Hongxiang like a few treasures.

By the time Xun Yu finished asking, it was already noon, but he was in time to go to the next post station to eat, and Chen Yi instructed this Township Chief He to find a way to buy a meal for the two hundred or so people who accompanied him. This Township Chief He is also a capable person, he immediately mobilized dozens of families around the town, asked each family to cook a pot of food, and then came to the township office to bring a table of people to his house to eat.

More than 200 people were divided into pieces, and they went to each family to eat an authentic Jizhou "farmhouse".

"I really didn't expect that farmers in Jizhou can not only eat a full stomach, but also have eggs and meat to eat!"

"The family I went to eat in the granary was full, and I heard that as long as the public grain was paid, the rest would be all their own, and if they wanted to sell and save, they would do it according to their own wishes, and the government should not interfere."

As Xun Yu, Cao Hong, Cao Zhi and others, there was naturally no shortage of food and clothing when they were in Yanzhou, but they could tell from the soldiers who came with the team that the living standards of the peasants in Jizhou were obviously higher than those in Yanzhou.

There is another small thing that also makes Xun Yu feel the difference between the north of the Yellow River and the south of the Yellow River.

Before leaving the township office, Chen Yi took out a few "food stamps" from his arms that were said to be able to pass in the north, and handed them to the township chief surnamed He as food money. The township chief did not shirk, and accepted it generously, and it seemed that he wanted to use this grain stamp to offset part of the public grain to be paid by the township.

Xun Yu thought in his heart, this is only in Jizhou, what he saw and heard along the way is so thought-provoking, if he arrives in Youzhou, will there be more surprising things to see? (To be continued......)