Wu Yan promoted the imperial brand, and the celebrant assigned her a 'fire man', which means junior eunuch, with an ebony belt card. When she needs to run errands, it is this 'little fire' who does errands for her inside and outside the palace.

Now the ebony card of this 'small fire' has been changed from a belt to a hanging, which means that it has risen by one level. Xiaohuo is very young, in fact, he is still the age of a boy, he does not look smart, but fortunately, he is diligent and has sharp legs and feet, which Wu Yan is quite satisfied with, just like her apprentice Ayi.

Xiaohuo Lala said a lot, and Wu Yan roughly guessed why His Majesty and the ministers were still discussing it so late yesterday. Recently, many of the books piled up by the emperor have been returned to the cabinet for re-examination, some of which are new, and some of them have been left in the past, which makes the cabinet feel pressure, so I want to simply call the relevant personnel to His Majesty and deal with it in person.

In addition, Emperor Yongming also asked the governors of various places to return to Beijing in advance, and they were supposed to return in August.

All of these actually revolve around one thing, but there are many places involved in this matter, such as Shandong, Henan, Zhili Huai'an, Zhili Fengxuchu, Su Songchang and other prefectures, Zhejiang.

Without exception, these places are all provincial capitals and counties closely related to the canal, and last night's deliberations were more like an edict, and the officials involved were also related to river control and water transportation.

For example, the Ministry of Households, in addition to the banknote customs, the Yunnan Branch under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Supervision and Warehouse Department also supervises the five major water warehouses in Linqing, Dezhou, Xuzhou, Huai'an, and Tianjin; The Ministry of Water Resources, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Water Resources, is responsible for water transfer and irrigation; The director of the shipyard is stationed in Qingjiangpu; In addition, there are also the director of Guan Helangzhong, the director of Guan Hong, the director of Guan Gate, etc.; The Ministry of War assists in the management of Caoyun, one is stationed in Linqing, and the other is stationed in Qingjiangpu, responsible for urging grain storage; The Criminal Department also has a subordinate officer stationed in Caoyun, named the Chief of Punishment and Punishment, stationed in Huai'an.

In addition to the six departments, there is also Henan Province to supervise the imperial history, in charge of Yangzhou; Jiangxi Province is in charge of Huai'an; Shandong Province is in charge of Fengyang, Xu and Chuzhou. Although the Cao Governor, who was born as a constitutional minister, was sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, in fact, the two did not have a relationship between superiors and subordinates, but had a closer relationship with the officials.

As far as the place is concerned, Huai'an, the location of the Yamen of the Governor of Caoyun, not only the general Cao, but also the river, salt, Yan, post and other yamen are located here, as well as Huai'an Mansion, Shanyang County Yamen, Huaihai Road Yamen, Caoyun Criminal Department Chief Yamen, Salt Inspection Office, Qingjiang Changyingcang Yamen of the Ministry of Households, Caochuan Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, Banknote Yamen, etc., more than 20 yamen, large and small, are located here, which is rare in the world.

Susongchang, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places, as well as Henan and Shandong in the north, are the main exporters of grain without exception, as well as Suzhou and Songjiang, whose gold and silver payments are the sum of all remote places, and more.

Caoyun is a 'behemoth'-like existence, in which the interests involved are intertwined, local and central, local and local, official and official, official and civilian, official and business, etc., it is like a mess that cannot be solved.

Therefore, land transport from last year to the post reform as the beginning, has been a year, is still in the discussion stage, the reason is self-evident. In fact, the 'hardware' conditions for the implementation of land transportation have long been met, such as the funds and technologies for the transformation and upgrading of post roads have been implemented; tools, four-wheel steering trucks, and now the most popular ones in the capital are four-wheeled carriages; Horses, the new deal of Taifu Temple, can solve the source of horses, the establishment of the feed trading market, and the production and supply of high-quality feed.

However, there is only one thing that cannot be done, and that is that a strong 'executor' has not yet appeared, or there is still a lack of a great opportunity......

Wu Yan is also anxious, because the land transportation is not implemented for a day, and the travel speed cannot meet the requirements, her 'stupid bird station' plan, her fresh logistics plan, will not be realized, and her Haidilao expansion plan, that is, on paper.

Of course, she was anxious for the emperor, because the emperor was not in a hurry......

Wu Yan sat at her small table and remembered a famous saying in her mind: Marx believed that the more time capital invests in production and the less time it invests in circulation, the greater the capital appreciation. She silently recited this sentence twice, and then decided to add a lot of firewood to the emperor!

So she picked up the account book and walked to the emperor's big table one foot away, handed it out with a smile, and said, "Your Majesty, the accounts are ready, please look at them." ”

"Well, let it go," Emperor Yongming said without raising his head.

Wu Yan didn't move for a long time, Li Dongyan looked at her for a while, frowned slightly, thought about it, or came to pick up the account book in her hand in person, but the account book was dragged by Wu Yan, and he didn't pull it? Dragged again, still not moving......

Li Dongyan's eyes and eyebrows were raised, and his chin was pulled down, with a subconscious surprised expression. Wu Yan was close, and he saw it really, this little expression...... Emma!

Wu Yan was laughing inwardly, he couldn't imagine that Li Dongyan, whose expression had remained unchanged for thousands of years, was actually betrayed by his micro-expression...... He must be complaining!

"That's it!" Emperor Yongming spoke up at this time.

Li Dongyan let go first when he heard this, and then changed back to his poker face that had not changed for thousands of years, and returned to his original position, while Wu Yan successfully attracted the attention of the emperor.

Emperor Yongming was speechless, looked at her, and said, "Have something to say?" ”

"Hehe," Wu Yan organized his language and said, "Your Majesty will rest first, and listen to the ministers give you a lecture on the scriptures and relieve your fatigue, what scriptures will you speak?" Hey! Let's talk about business. ”

"Ahem," Emperor Yongming coughed lightly twice, twisting his head slightly to the side.

A gentleman surnamed Dao once said that when a certain rule is enforced, the selfishness of the government and interest groups as the enforcer will conflict with each other, and the rule will be violated from time to time, and the key to the continued existence of the rule at this time lies in whether a correction and punishment mechanism has been established. If the transaction costs of the rules remain high and cannot be fully and rigorously enforced, then it has entered the threshold of major change......"

Emperor Yongming looked back at her, smiling rather than smiling: "What did you talk about?" This expression seems very strange, but it does not prevent you from guessing what she means at once.

Wu Yan secretly praised that he was really the emperor, and he understood it as soon as he said it!

"Your Majesty, the system is the rules, not dead, it will always change, and in the long-term transmutation, it will gradually show a kind of uh...... 'sticky' effect, that is, the rules and people will be combined more and more tightly, and the result is that the rules will become more and more conservative and rigid."

"Really?"

"Yes, combined with the above sentence, the error correction mechanism will correct the rigid rules, but the cost it pays, that is, the cost will be high, and the consequent efficiency will become more and more inefficient. This is also the reason why Cao Yunwei is not big, it is not subject to human will. ”

"What is efficiency?"

"Let's put it this way, time and money are all costs, just like doing business, investing capital, but not getting the results you hoped for, or the results you should have. Moreover, the cost of time and money cannot be recovered, not only that, but because of inertial thinking, it will continue to affect people's judgment of it. ”

"Then according to your meaning, I invest a lot of money every year to control the floods, dredge the Cao River, and govern the officials, but I have not received any benefits, but the grain is decreasing every year, and the corruption is increasing, is this what you mean?"

"Ah, Your Majesty, you are so clever! It's all over the place! Wu was indeed a little surprised by his ability to understand.

"Hmph~" Emperor Yongming snorted lightly, and a smile flashed in his eyes.

"Cao Yun is not far away, from Emperor Gaozu to the present, hasn't the law of Cao Yun been changing? That's what the executor is always correcting. However, it has become more and more difficult to correct and difficult to govern, because there are waves of people who are 'sticky' by the rules, and they don't want to change the status quo, even a little bit. Just imagine, the more you want to correct your mistakes, the more he doesn't want to correct them, and the twisting force in the middle will get bigger and bigger, and you have to make more efforts every time. ”

"So that's the sticking point?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, if there is such a set of rules for land transportation in the future, it will be the same. In fact, everything is good at the beginning, and the more time passes, the more corrupt it becomes. ”

"So what do you say you should do?"

"Hmm...... Xiao Chen can only think of two things: one is to maintain the ability to correct errors and strictly enforce them, and the other is to flatten the setting of the organization. ”

"Flattened?"

"It's about being as simple and straightforward as possible between the decider and the implementer. By the way, there is another one, remember the 'catfish' effect mentioned by Xiao Chen? Put a catfish into a body of water, it will stir constantly, will arouse the desire of all the fish in this water to survive, and Caoyun is a big pond that needs such a 'catfish'. ”

"Well, you're interesting, but I've got to think about it......"

Wu Yan couldn't help nodding in his heart when he heard this, Your Majesty, you really have to think about it.

Emperor Yongming saw at a glance what she was thinking, and he was slightly disgusted, and said: "Okay, Wu Yan, don't keep dangling here, you said that your accounts are finished?" Drop it down and get out of here. ”

When Wu Yan heard this, he thought to himself, oh, it's just right! So he hurriedly put down the account book, said goodbye to the emperor again, and ran away happily......

Emperor Yongming looked at it, snorted, and then said to Li Dongyan: "I suddenly thought of 'catfish head'......"

Li Dongyan understood in seconds, and immediately returned: "Yes, Emperor, there is a cook under the minister who is best at making chopped pepper fish heads, why don't you come here?" ”

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Wu Yan came out of the Qianqing Palace, found Xiaohuo, and asked, "Xiaohuo, have you seen Master Li today?" ”

Xiaohuo replied with a smile: "Yes, Lady Officer, I saw Xiao at Donghua Gate around noon, and I said hello." ”

"Noon? He went to the cabinet to eat again? ”

"Hehe, they all say that the food in the cabinet is delicious, and maybe the food in the Hanlin Courtyard is really not as delicious as the cabinet."

"You know what? The best thing to eat is the celebrant! ”

Wu Yan had no intention of telling Xiaohuo more, and asked him to find a female palanquin man.

Not long after, came a sedan chair with a green mantle, the sedan chair with green silk for the sedan clothes, with four female sedan chair husbands, this is the specification of the sedan chair taken by the female official, and from the inner court to the outer court, it is generally to go by sedan chair.

Wu Yan sat in the sedan chair, and the female sedan chair husband was quick with her hands and feet, and soon the sedan chair walked to the outer court.