"Layer upon layer of apportionment ······"

"Layer upon layer of apportionment ······"

Back in the palace, lying alone on the couch in the side hall, Liu Sheng only put his hands under his head and looked up at the top of the palace.

From time to time, a 'layer of apportionment' came out of his mouth, and Liu Sheng's already depressed brows wrinkled even tighter.

Apportionment, as the name suggests, is that the government forces a certain group to share and share a certain task in a certain name.

Here's a very simple example;

-- This winter, the court decided to repair the water conservancy in Guanzhong on a large scale and clean up the canals and rivers in various parts of Guanzhong.

And this 'task', after the decision of the court is passed, will begin to pass through the hands of first-level officials, through layers of apportionment, and finally press on the heads of the people at the bottom.

For example, the task assigned by the court is to dig up the silt at the bottom of the canal and river, clean up the accumulated garbage, and dredge the river;

As a result, when this task is lowered from the court to the 'county' level local unit, there is a high probability that it will become: Your Majesty said that all the old canals in the county should be repaired like new canals!

As soon as the county guard said this, the local county magistrates who came to the meeting nodded their heads, and after they went back, they summoned the entire county government: the county government said that no matter whether there is a canal in our county or not, a new canal must be opened!

In order to improve the irrigation of the acres of fields, the order originally issued by the court to "clean up the silt and garbage accumulated in the canals" will most likely become: All parts of the Guanzhong must build a new canal······

followed by the core and most jaw-dropping part of this drama.

- If you want to build a canal, it will definitely cost money?

But this canal is not asked by the court to repair it, and the court will definitely not allocate the money to repair the canal;

What to do?

A: Continue apportionment.

The court said: It doesn't cost much to clean up the garbage in various local counties and counties, so don't collect money from the people, organize some people to dig up the mud and garbage.

As a result, when the word spread to the county-level units, it became: if you just clean up the garbage, it will not improve the shortage of agricultural water for irrigation in the county;

Since we want to clean up the garbage, let's renovate the canals in various places by the way, and all the people of the county will collect 200 yuan per household.

When it was transmitted to the county-level units, the words changed again: to dig a new canal, it must take a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources~

These things all need to be prepared by our county government by themselves~

So~

Summons the order to go down~

The farmers in this county, every household has a man, and they pay 500 yuan to repair the canal~

In the end, the people at the bottom are likely to need to send all the men in their families and take out most of the surplus money in their hands to respond to the call of the court, county and county governments at all levels to repair the canals that are destined to be impossible.

- Those canals never existed and never will exist.

In the past, the court never let people build canals;

Now, the court does not know that there is such a new canal;

In the future, naturally I will not see the new canal.

As for the labor and money paid by the local people, there is no need to ask too much.

- Don't you need someone to repair and dig the canal in your lord's house?

Doesn't the pockets of officials at all levels need to be enriched and enriched so that they can have a down-to-earth year?

In addition, the court explained that 'cleaning the ditches and canals', and the place always had to behave, so as not to be audited in the following year and be called a 'palace' by the court.

In this way, the layers were peeled down, from the height of the temple, the middle of the court and the central ministers of 2,000 stone or more, to the far away of the county and township, the rankless officials below 100 stone, all ate in this feast full of fat intestines;

Everyone is full, which naturally means that everyone will not reveal this matter.

Naturally, no one cares about the suffering of the people······

For such a situation, Liu Sheng certainly expected it before.

-- Local officials pluck their feathers and take a chicken feather as an arrow, and even after thousands of years, this problem is still a great problem of human nature that cannot be properly solved.

Of course, Liu Sheng thought about it, and at the same time promoting a certain policy, he should arrange the corresponding measures in advance, so as not to let the good policies he wanted to promote be changed by local demons into the evil and harsh government of later generations, when Wang Anshi changed the law.

It's just that Liu Sheng never expected that the problem of apportionment at all levels in the local counties of the Han Dynasty has become so serious······

"My father knew that there was such a thing and such a situation, but he did not shy away from saying that he was helpless;"

"Those old farmers also talked about it in front of their father without any scruples, and after their father said 'there is no way', they didn't show too disappointed looks······

"—It's like this has been going on for many, many years, so long that it's become something that 'should be the way it should be?'"

"Or, like the Huns."

"Everyone knows that the Huns deserve to die, but everyone also knows that the Huns are not so easy to kill······"

He let out a long sigh full of melancholy, and closed his eyes inexplicably tiredly, and lay quietly on the couch;

After a long time, Liu Sheng opened his eyes again, sat up straight with a 'hey', and hung his legs down on the couch.

Stretching out his hand, he grabbed a roll of bamboo slips from the desk and pulled it out in front of him.

With another short sigh, he finally sat up straight, lifted his pen, and left his own unique 'special' handwriting on the blank bamboo slip.

In the words of the Empress Dowager Dou: Liu Sheng's handwriting is undoubtedly 'Liu's grass';

The 'Liu family' here is, of course, only Liu Sheng······

·

"Tut-tut······"

"Take the time to practice your words!"

"Crawling like a dog······"

"Tut-tut······"

A moment later, in the palace dormitory, looking at the bamboo slip with hundreds of crooked characters written on it in his hand, Tianziqi only frowned, and his mouth couldn't stop complaining.

Liu Shengzi was inevitably a little embarrassed when his words were disliked, so he lowered his head a little ashamedly and laughed perfunctorily.

When Tianziqi's attention shifted from Liu Sheng's dog climbing Liu's grass to the content of Liu Sheng's volume, the atmosphere between father and son finally had something that should have been so serious.

Sitting on the couch a little tired, holding the bamboo slips sent by Liu Sheng in both hands, bowing his head, and roughly scanning from beginning to end;

raised his head slightly, closed his eyes, and savored Liu Shengjian's book;

Finally, I opened my eyes again, lowered my head, and re-examined the bamboo slips, and on the face of Tianziqi, a solemnity and solemnity that made people subconsciously straighten their waists finally emerged.

"Local counties and counties are apportioned at all levels, not all for the purpose of enriching their own pockets;"

"There are also quite a few of them, just for political achievements and promotions."

"In principle, these officials who do not enrich themselves with apportionments and only want to make political achievements should not be blamed."

"Because as long as they do these things that are used to gain political achievements and fame, then they are all capable ministers······

The slightly lonely words made Liu Sheng anxious!

was about to open his mouth to refute, but saw Tianzi Qi raise his hand slightly and stop Liu Sheng's actions;

When Liu Sheng reluctantly closed his mouth, Tianzi Qicai shook his head with a wry smile, took a deep breath, and let out a long sigh······

"My Han family, since the time of Emperor Taizu Gao, has always pursued the governance strategy of Huang Lao Wuwei."

"At the beginning, Emperor Taizu Gao did this, originally to rest with the people, so that the local counties and counties would not disturb the people, and not give the local counties and counties the opportunity to disturb the people."

"—In the very first years, the situation was indeed as Emperor Taizu Gao had predicted;"

"The court advocates the rule of inaction, and the local counties can only honestly shrink in the government and let the people recuperate."

"It's just that over time, the inertia formed by the words 'rule by doing nothing' began to make the local government of my Han family more and more complicated······"

···

"It is said that in Guanzhong today, there are officials in all local counties and counties, and they don't know anything about the situation under their rule."

"The county guard, the county order, I don't know how many households, mouths, and acres of land I have under my rule;"

"County lieutenants, county lieutenants, I don't know how many young and strong people and township warriors I control, and how many troops I can mobilize in case of necessary emergencies."

"For these people, no matter what happens, they can be blocked back with the sentence 'rule by inaction, and recuperate with the people'."

"-Just like this, these people will not be dismissed, and they will even have a chance to be promoted!"

"And in this situation, my Han family, it has come time to change······

Saying this, Tianzi Qi couldn't help but smile miserably, then stood up and walked to the imperial couch with his hands in his hands.

Facing the side of the hall, he spontaneously stayed for a long time before shaking his head and smiling bitterly, and then let out a lament.

"The local apportionment at all levels has indeed turned many good policies implemented by the court into harsh and evil policies that oppress the people;"

"But at the very least, the place is starting to do things."

"—regardless of whether the local county wants to use it to enrich its own pockets or make political achievements;"

"At the very least, no one uses the phrase 'rule by inaction' as a cover to cover up their incompetence······"

···

"In the final analysis, the biggest problem that currently exists in the governance of my Han family is that there are a large number of corpses who are vegetarian and unworthy of morality, holding high the banner of 'ruling by inaction', but in fact they are 'incompetent and unable to govern'."

"When Emperor Taizu Gao and Empress Dowager Lu, my Han family was in ruins, and it was the only right choice to do nothing;"

"By the time of the first emperor, although the world had gradually recovered from the war, it was still based on rest and recuperation, and it still made sense to rule by doing nothing."

"-But in my generation, my Han family has come to make every effort to prepare for the decisive battle against the Xiongnu!"

"If we let those who do nothing to occupy the position of the local county and county under the guise of 'ruling by doing nothing', drag down my Han family······"

···

"Alas~"

"The decisive battle against the Xiongnu requires the unity of my Han family, the common hatred of all countries and local counties in the eastern part of the country, and more than 60 counties and thousands of counties in the world are like an arm;"

"If we do not acquiesce in the apportionment of local counties and counties, so as to mobilize the enthusiasm of the localities, the day of the decisive battle against the Xiongnu will only be pushed farther and farther······"

"It's not that I can't see the disadvantages of layers of apportionment, or I can't see through the purpose and intention of the local counties and counties to achieve the apportionment;"

"But if you don't do this, it will be difficult for the local county to abandon the habit of 'doing nothing' that has been cultivated over the years;"

"If we do not use layers of apportionment to stimulate and mobilize, the officials of local counties and counties will never be diligent in government affairs if they are not profitable······"

In the end, the Son of Heaven let out another long sigh, and then shook his head a little helplessly and smiled bitterly, turning around to look at Liu Sheng, who was still looking distressed on the side of the royal couch.

"Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh."

"The meaning of this sentence is that to govern a big country, you need to be like a very delicate cooking of fresh food - step by step, step by step, step by step to achieve your goals."

"It's like a fish that needs to be scaled first, then deboned, then sliced, blanched, and finally stewed – governing the country also needs to be done step by step."

"-- The focus now is to change the situation in which local counties are accustomed to laziness and neglect of administration, and to arouse the enthusiasm of the localities."

"When will no one shout anything about 'rule by inaction', and local counties will no longer be proud of 'rule by inaction', it will be the time for the court to take action and thoroughly rectify the local and local counties to apportionment and exploit the people."

As he spoke, Tianzi Qi did not forget to turn around, and pointed to the bamboo slip full of dogs climbing Liu's grass on the top of the imperial case.

"That's a good idea;"

"But it's not time yet."

"I promise you: When the time comes, I will definitely use your method to rectify the problem of local apportionment."

"But now, with your sparse recital, I can only stay in the middle ······"

After saying that, Tianzi Qi let out a long sigh again, staring at Liu Sheng's figure standing beside the imperial couch for a long time.

After Liu Shengman slowly turned back from his thoughts with unwillingness, he nodded reluctantly, and accepted Tianziqi's statement that it was not time yet, Tianziqi sat back on the imperial couch with a strange smile.

grabbed the bamboo slip in front of him and threw it to the eunuch Ling Chuntuo beside him, and the Son of Heaven did not forget to ask: "How are you thinking about money?" ”

"- Unified currency system, what kind of money is used?"

"Qin half tael, Han half tael, or Empress Dowager Lu eight baht, Emperor Taizong four baht?"

"Or will it be a new coin, completely replacing the old money that has been circulating in the world?"

···

"Also: unify the currency system, how to do it exactly?"

"How to recover the money in the hands of the people of the world, and how to ensure that when it is melted into new money, the Shaofu will not lose, nor will the people of the world lose too much, so as to resist the unification of the currency system?"

"—these things have been given you a long time to consider."

"Even if you haven't completely figured it out, you should have a general idea???

Sent at 11 o'clock in the evening on the 29th, there may be a shielding word, and the review has been until now...

Hi~

Let's change it first.

Dizzy, go to sleep first.

Good night, great fathers

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