Regarding Yan Wang's decision, Chen Wei and Li Zhi were both a little worried.

Chen Wei weighed it again and again, and still advised, "Your Highness, the old minister thinks that using severe punishment to control chaos can indeed have a good deterrent effect in a short period of time, so as to quickly calm down this chaos, but it is also very likely to bury hidden dangers, which is not conducive to long-term treatment."

Perhaps in order to show his value and loyalty, Li Zhi also said, "In this chaos, many households in the situation participated in and supported, and it is natural to give a certain punishment, but it is too much, no matter what, the governance of the countryside still depends on these people to maintain, too harsh will inevitably make them deviate from the imperial court, gradually drift away, and even go against the grain, then the vast countryside will fall into long-term turmoil and disorder......

After Li Zhi said a lot, Chen Wei continued, "The old minister has learned about the grange system created by His Royal Highness, which has indeed greatly improved the governance of the bottom, but the premise is that the land needs to be centrally managed, but Fujian is surrounded by thousands of mountains and ravines, and the distribution of fields is fragmented, and there is no possibility of centralized management at all.

Hearing these words, Zhao Mengqi frowned deeply and fell into deep thought.

This grassroots governance must not be ignored, otherwise no matter how beautiful the superstructure is, it is just a sand block, which will collapse at any time.

In ancient China, the bureaucratic system usually took the prefecture and county as the lowest level, so the county officials became "officials close to the people", that is, the so-called "imperial power is not lower than the county".

But how could a limited number of county-level officials personally manage all the people under their jurisdiction?

Therefore, it is necessary to have a more basic administrative organization to complete all kinds of errands such as taxation, forced labor, and public security.

In the Song Dynasty, a relatively complete grassroots governance system has been formed, and according to the actual situation of different regions and different groups, the specific model will be different, which can be roughly summarized as Baojia and Township Covenant.

Generally speaking, a group of villagers who do not receive or receive less official salaries hold various positions, that is, the service system, in order to implement the policy of "governing the people by the people".

Although the nature of the commune administrative organization is more self-governing, it also requires capacity and resources to carry out these errands, which the poor obviously do not have.

As a result, this grassroots power was monopolized by the "rich people" such as the township officials, scholars, landlords, rich people, and large clans.

Governing the rural grassroots with the enrichment of the people has indeed achieved good results in helping the state and maintaining social order at the grassroots level, so the society of the two Song Dynasty and Song Dynasty has been relatively stable.

However, there are also many negative influences, such as passing on the assignment of servitude, stealing, bullying the poor and weak, breaking the law and prohibition, etc., and the imperial court's control over the local area is becoming more and more weak.

It is not that the imperial court has not discovered this, but the continuous internal and external troubles have led to the financial income exceeding the expenditure, and there is no longer enough economic resources to strengthen grassroots governance, so it can only be resigned.

And at this time, the scholars no longer focused their energy and eyes on governing the country and leveling the world as before, but put self-cultivation and Qi family in the first place, and began to manage more and more local affairs closely related to their own interests.

They live in large numbers in the countryside, holding power at the grassroots level and becoming "soil emperors", and once the imperial court wants to harm their private interests for the sake of the country, they will disobey and resist it.

If it weren't for Zhao Mengqi's tossing, they would still be able to maintain a relatively peaceful relationship with the imperial court, dragging the whole country to slowly decay.

Now because Zhao Mengqi is ignorant, he has to cut their flesh, so they have adopted a more fierce way to fight.

Zhao Mengqi doesn't intend to get used to them, but at present, purely by force can only cure the symptoms, and it is fundamental to try to recover the power of grassroots governance.

After thinking for a long time, he looked at Chen Wei and Li Zhi and said, "I think that although the original township system can barely be maintained, it has actually reached the point where it has to be changed, and this is the best opportunity to reform the system."

Chen Wei was puzzled, "What does Your Highness mean by this? The imperial court also had the intention of strengthening its control over the countryside, but ......

Zhao Mengqi waved his hand and said, "It's nothing more than the lack of authority of the imperial court, financial difficulties, and the lack of an effective monitoring mechanism.

But now that there is enough force to deter, authority is no longer an issue, and I am gradually solving the financial problem, and finally I need to design a new mechanism, and I have an immature idea, maybe it can be tried in Gutian County."

Chen Wei and Li Zhi were both interested, "I don't know what His Highness has to do, the ministers are listening."

Zhao Mengqi rationalized his thinking, "Basically, it is to organically combine the four of the township contract, Baojia, social studies, and social warehouses, and the specific method is to set up a social school in each mile, and the social science teachers and even students will manage the rural affairs according to the new township contract."

"In the past, the township covenant was mainly moral education, and the people freely entered and withdrew from the covenant, which lacked compulsion, while the new township covenant should integrate the resolution of civil disputes, the punishment of female cadres and thieves, the collection of money and grain from officials, and the cultivation of economic agriculture and mulberry."

"In particular, we should pay attention to economic production, for example, every year before spring ploughing, the social science will post a notice to explain that a certain day of ploughing, and then send relevant personnel to the farmland to supervise the cultivation on that day, and if there is a barren farmland and passive slack cultivation, it will be admonished, and when the grain is ripe in summer, it will be prepared in the same way, and those who go out to save crops will be rewarded if they find that the seedlings on the field of the same soil quality are growing vigorously......

"The imperial court will also collect ancient and modern agricultural books to explain the growth laws of various crops in detail, and then compile them into concise and easy-to-understand books and distribute them to social science, which will promote them to the villagers, and at the same time, social science will also collect the excellent agricultural methods that appear among the people, so as to promote the development of agricultural technology together."

"In this way, by helping the peasants to increase their incomes, sociology will naturally gradually establish its prestige among the people, which will be conducive to the performance of other functions in the township contract, while the taxation, money, grain, and social warehouses will continue to be the responsibility of the rich people, and the social science will supervise it......

"Of course, social studies still has the task of teaching, mainly enlightenment, all children in middle school are over eight years old, under fifteen years old, all need to be sent to social studies, every year in October, March holidays, summer and autumn at home to help, after three years of study, if there is no hope of success, you can go home, if the qualifications are good, you will enter the township school, county school......

"In the case of restraint, the royal education fund will subsidize it in the initial stage, and in the later stage, when the conditions of the farmers improve, the schoolchildren's families will pay for it, and part of the tax can also be used to subsidize it......

「…… Recruiting poor scholars as teachers from the whole society does not require much knowledge at the beginning, and at the same time, following the model of Pingjiang Fuxue, Fuzhou Fuxue is reformed to train subsequent teachers......

"This new system of learning will be different from the past, it will no longer only teach the Four Books and the Five Classics, but will also teach students according to their aptitude, including various subjects such as industry, agriculture, commerce, and medicine......

As soon as Zhao Mengqi said it, it took most of the hour, which made Chen Wei and Li Zhi stunned when they heard it.

Chen Wei muttered, "Speaking of which, the common people generally respect the scholars, and respect the teachers more, the teachers still have a very high status in their hearts, and they should be willing to obey the management, and it seems feasible to focus on and manage agricultural affairs when the society is busy with farming, and to teach and educate people when the farming is not working."

"I don't know, but what is this Royal Education Fund?" Li Zhi asked.

"This time, so many big people who participated in the rebellion, the stubborn, confiscated all their property, sold it and put it into the fund, such as their fields, which can be sold to landless farmers, as for the farmers, if they have no money, it is not difficult to do it, the Royal Bank will provide them with special low-interest loans, and some who are willing to admit their guilt and reform themselves must also pay a certain fine as a punishment, and they will also be charged into the fund,......

Zhao Mengqi has already calculated a set of plans, "The general idea is this, and the specific details will be refined later."

In this design, he did not completely abandon the original rural system, but made sociology the most important part of the power structure.

Sociology, on the other hand, acts as a manager and supervisor at the township level, and at the county and state levels, it acts as a supervisor, and there is roughly a little shadow of the council.

In the past, the imperial court chose to use the imperial examination to select civilians to participate in politics, breaking the monopoly of the family.

But now that the dragon slayer boy has become an evil dragon, and the scholar group has begun to become a cancer, Zhao Mengqi will further promote the popularization of education, starting from the grassroots level, and break the monopoly of the scholars.

To give

In addition to the strong political obstruction to implement this plan, the biggest problem is that it will require a huge amount of economic investment.

But at this time, the Song Dynasty said that there was a shortage of money, but it was only a shortage of the imperial court, while the bureaucratic landlord class held huge wealth.

Originally, Zhao Mengqi just planned to use the pit to deceive and get the money in these people's hands to use.

It's just that these heroes in Fujian died and made a rebellion, didn't they give Zhao Mengqiming the opportunity to rob it?

Of course, after all, it is not a class revolution, and Zhao Mengqi cannot drive all the gentry to a dead end, and he is still prepared to leave room for it.

So he said to Li Zhi, "Li Yunju, I have an important task for you, I wonder if you are willing to accept it?"

Li Zhi was still desperately digesting the information just now, and when he heard this, it took him a while to react.

"Your Highness has an order, and the ministers will not hesitate to go to the soup and the fire."

Zhao Mengqi nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, according to what you said before, this time there are a small number of gentry and powerful people in Fujian who are involved in the chaos, it is reasonable, these people will have to subdue the law in the future, but the killing is too heavy and there is also dry Tianhe, so I hope that you will declare the righteousness to them on my behalf, if anyone is willing to go lost, then they are still good subjects of the Great Song Dynasty, and I will not be too harsh, otherwise when the army sweeps over, they will only end up with ruined families."

"Huh? Let the ministers lobby?" Li Zhi's face turned white.

"Why, you don't dare? Don't worry, I'm not going to send you to death, I'll send a hundred janissaries to provide you with security, and you don't need to go directly to the center of the rebellion, just go to Nanjianzhou, Jianning Mansion, and Shao Wujun first, so that you have a large army behind you, and probably no one dares to attack you, after all, it's no good to kill you......

What Zhao Mengqi said was just to talk about comfort.

Li Zhi smiled bitterly in his heart, and knew that he was not qualified to refuse, "The minister takes the order!"

Zhao Mengqi patted him on the shoulder, "Although the task is difficult, whether you succeed or become a beneficiary, I will never treat you badly."

If you become a benevolent, you still say that you don't treat me badly, can't you use gold to make a coffin for me?

Li Zhizhi slandered, and then listened carefully to the charter taught by Zhao Mengqi.