Junfu
After becoming a feudal lord, for Jiang Hua, the changes in all aspects were actually not big, that is, the prefect's mansion was changed to the monarch's mansion. There were not many changes in other places. He still went to the virtual world every day to handle government affairs and sat in the I handle important government affairs in the study, and occasionally go out to bask in the sun and go fishing. You have to study the latest journals every day. If you don’t understand something, just ask someone to come over and explain it to you.
Yes, many Taoists are sometimes invited to go to the Prefect's Mansion to tell Jiang Hua the principles of a certain spell, or the concept of a certain magical power or a certain magic weapon, so that Jiang Hua can continue to learn and improve.
In the past, this matter was mainly explained by cabinet members. Now that Jiang Hua's cultivation level is high, the cabinet members' cultivation level is not enough, so he often invites Taoists to give lectures.
Handling government affairs is very important, and improving strength is equally important.
Even in a sense, the latter is often more important than the former.
As long as you are strong enough, you can rule from the top. If you are in good governance, you will be rewarded. If you are not good in governance, then you will be cut off and replaced with another one.
In the study, Jiang Hua was checking the latest issue of yellow-level journals.
Today, there are more and more types of yellow-level journals. In addition to official journals, there are also many journals published by unofficial groups after filing and review.
For example, the one in front of me is a yellow-level journal run by the Academy itself.
The contents inside are all new ideas born by the magicians and Taoist priests within the academy. At first, these new ideas would be submitted to the yellow-level journal sponsored by the cabinet. However, as time went by, the cabinet was short of manpower and the review process was too slow. Everyone in the academy discussed it over wine and decided to do it themselves. Well deserved.
Then Jiang Hua agreed.
After agreeing, a certain Jijiu in the academy who was responsible for the gold industry started to make a report, saying that in order to better develop the gold industry, he wanted to set up a journal specifically to publish the gold industry, so that the focus would be on Prominence is also conducive to everyone's research and progress.
Jiang Hua saw the report and approved it.
In this group, more and more people began to make reports.
Today, there are more than 40 yellow-level journals, and they continue to grow.
"Nowadays, some people are gradually publishing periodicals and newspapers privately..."
"Many ministers, some suggested the full opening of journals and newspapers, and some suggested a comprehensive investigation..."
Having said this, Feng Yi took a stack of documents, which were all discussions between ministers on this matter.
Those who agreed with openness were placed on the left, those who agreed with investigation were placed on the right, and those who were neutral or mixed were placed in the middle. There were hundreds of them, and Jiang Hua was stunned for a moment.
"Are these ministers so busy? With so many government affairs every day, they must be very busy..." Jiang Hua asked directly.
Having been with Jiang Hua for a long time, he knew what kind of style Jiang Hua liked, so Feng Yi said it bluntly: "Many of these petitions are following the trend and taking the opportunity to show up in front of the Lord."
"As for what this matter is like, many ministers actually don't care. What they care about is whether they took this opportunity to show their faces in front of the Lord and whether their names were remembered by the Lord."
"For many ministers who have not been able to see their master for many years, writing a letter is also a way to strengthen the memory of their master."
Hearing this, Jiang Hua remembered the memorial between a certain official and the emperor Lao Tzu during the Qing Dynasty in his previous life, which was a strange thing.
Minister: How are you, Emperor?
Emperor: I'm fine!
After a few days, the minister continued to write: How are you, Your Majesty?
Your Majesty: I am fine!
A few days later, the minister continued to write: Your Majesty, how did you eat today?
Emperor: I am very good and my food is very good!
A few more days passed, and the minister continued to write: Your Majesty, it’s a wonderful day today. How are you?
Emperor: I am very good!
At first glance, you may think that the ministers are doing nothing and wasting time, and the monarch is also wasting time.
But in fact, isn't this a way for the monarch to trust his ministers and make them feel at ease?
If one day the monarch feels that you are really annoying and should stop writing to me, then the minister will probably feel that he has lost the trust of the monarch, and will feel a drum in his heart when doing things in the future.
Jiang Hua flipped through these memorials, and it was exactly as Feng Yi said: "Your Majesty, I heard recently that we are discussing whether to liberalize journals and newspapers."
"I feel that this matter is not simple. Eighty percent of the people behind it are people from other countries who are secretly fueling the trouble. We can investigate it strictly from this angle."
"Now our Yancheng is on the cusp of the storm, and many people are paying attention to our Yancheng. At this time, there must be people from other countries taking a fancy to this."
"Once it is opened up, people from other countries can take advantage of this and use Yancheng to smoothly spread what they want to say to the entire world."
Then, the above content is only the first half of the petition, and the second half is like this: "Your Majesty, the county where I am located is a county under the rule of Chunmu County. The planning of this county is not reasonable. Thousands of years ago, , this county developed very well, but in the end, because of the nobles competing for interests, the county was divided into two, for better development..."
After reading this memorial, Jiang Hua changed to another one. The first half was about his opinions, and the second half was about asking how Jiang Hua was feeling today.
"Moreover, now that Huangtian World is open, many county magistrates, for various purposes, have found an obsession in Huangtian World, opened up a small dream world, and work in the dream world every day."
"In most dream worlds, the time flow rate is still one to ten."
"In this way, one hour in reality is ten hours in the dream world. With enough time, county magistrates can invest more time and energy in handling government affairs, and many things can be handled more accurately. It’s also more effective.”
"As far as I know, some county magistrates have begun to take advantage of this and frequently interview village chiefs in the dream world."
"During the interview, there are often only two people in the dream world, the county magistrate and the village chief. The county magistrate asks the village chief for answers. Using this method, many county magistrates have effectively and quickly taken control of the counties under their jurisdiction after taking office. They have become A county magistrate worthy of the name, not a county magistrate pretended to be by the head of the township."
What is power?
Some people say it is personnel and financial rights.
Others say that it is to make the other person fear you.
Others say that power is the power to make others work for you.
The county magistrate, through a very simple but not simple interview, thoroughly understood the entire county and each township. When the county magistrate himself had first-hand information, the township heads tried to deceive him. It becomes very difficult.
Many of the so-called foolish kings in history actually had no problem with their IQ, but lacked common sense and did not understand a lot of key information, and then they did things that looked like fools.
Just like in the Jin Dynasty, there was an emperor who may have real intellectual problems. When the people suffered from famine, he asked his teacher: Why not eat minced meat?
In the end, some unscrupulous guy actually spread this conversation, and everyone thought that the little emperor had something wrong with his brain and was probably a fool.
It doesn't matter whether the little emperor himself is really stupid or pretending to be stupid. Anyway, after this incident, everyone treated him as a fool.
Essentially, the fact that the little emperor could ask this question shows that he still cares about the victims. If you don't care about the life and death of the victims at all, you won't ask why people don't eat meat when they have nothing to eat.
The little emperor's mistake was that he didn't know what the real life of the people at the bottom was like. No one told him, so he could only rely on others: he could drink meat porridge when he didn't eat.
This is actually the fault of the ministers and the civil servants who educated the little emperor.
However, after this incident spread, the little emperor himself became a stupid emperor and an emperor with intellectual problems.
"It's good, but I didn't go out of my way to issue a commendation. What is the name of this county magistrate? What is his cultivation level?" Jiang Hua asked directly.
"This county magistrate was born as a commoner. His name is Chen Yin Yang. It is said that he was originally ordinary. Later, he was initiated by an old man in Xitou and entered Taoism directly. He became a Taoist priest in one day and night. It is also a great story."
"Before the Dao Extermination Order was issued, he had been in seclusion. After the Dao Extermination Order was issued, he joined us in Yancheng. In terms of merit, he can do what a county prefect can do."
"It's just that on the one hand, his strength is still lacking, and on the other hand, he himself doesn't want to be a county guard and finds it troublesome."
Hearing this, Jiang Hua nodded slightly. He was still quite impressed with Chen Yinyang.
When the Taoist extermination order was issued, Taoist priests had the highest level of combat power in the entire Yancheng.
Then Chen Yinyang originally lived in seclusion in the mountains and had no official position in Yancheng. Logically speaking, he could just run away at this time, but he chose to stay and share the difficulties with Yancheng, and even took the initiative to join the Yancheng Academy at that time. Play for Yancheng.
It's just that Yancheng has changed too much now, and the Taoist priests have changed from high-level to middle-level.
Even from the perspective of reward, it can be done for a prefect, but Chen Yinyang is not very interested in officialdom. Now that he saw that nothing was going on in Yancheng, he even had the idea of resigning and living in seclusion. It was County Chengyu who persuaded him to stay.
"This method is very good. I need to learn it. It just so happens that there is a serious shortage of prefects in various counties..."
Maybe this is one of the reasons why these county magistrates are filing letters like crazy.
In the past, before Jiang Hua became Lord Yan, more than a hundred counties were under the direct jurisdiction of the Prefecture. Now, I have just become the Salt Lord. No matter how I look at it, I will appoint ten prefects next.
As for Jun Chengyu, he can definitely be in charge and be responsible for the overall government affairs of Yancheng.
It’s a troublesome thing to decide who to decide or not to decide!
Just when Jiang Hua was immersed in government affairs and troubled by various political affairs, Fu Chai also welcomed the first legitimate son of a great noble: Si, the son of the Wei family.
This young man didn't come here alone, he brought his classmates with him. After eating, drinking and communicating with Fu Cha for a few days, Gongzi Si took his classmates to Hanoi County on the edge of the Chao River.
"What do you think?"
"Let's come here. Let me set a tone first. We are not seeking victory this time. Of course, victory is also important. However, the most important thing about this trip is to find opportunities for breakthroughs. If one of us can take this opportunity to become the first generation Sovereign, then even if you lose this time, you still win.”
"If two of us become the first generation monarchs this time, then this trip will be a win!"
"If two or more people take this opportunity to become the first generation monarchs, then they should write letters of thanks to the other party, and then donate some materials and people to them to help them take further steps."
Sitting on the main seat, Young Master Si said with a smile. He didn't look stressed at all, he was so sunny and gave people an extremely strong sense of intimacy.
Li Kui, his classmate who is also his confidant and friend, and the future ruler he found for himself, handed over his hand and said, "Next, let me talk about the current situation of Hanoi County and our next development strategy."
"The goal of this trip is Taiping County on the other side of the river. Taiping County was the first to start reforms and also received the most attention. The strength of Taiping Taoists is also the strongest after the first generation monarch. There is no doubt that this is a powerful opponent. .”
"Today's Taiping County has six towns under its control, each with a population of about 30,000. They say there are six towns, but they are actually six small counties!"
"Let's talk about our Hanoi County. This county is very large. Thanks to the water transportation business in the past, the population of Hanoi County was originally very large."
"However, since savages can be sent directly to Yancheng to be exchanged for various supplies, a large number of savages have been captured and sent directly to be sold."
"I heard that the total population of Yancheng is almost reaching nine million..."
"Although these savages are not recorded in the books, according to my estimation, Hanoi County still had a population of 3 million last year, but now it is estimated that there are only 1.5 million. The remaining 1.5 million, this They may have arrived across the river now, and some may be training in the camp, and in half a month they will become the population of the ten counties."
"Even for the remaining 1.5 million, there are about 500,000 people who have been secretly decided by the nobles. Wherever they belong, they have been regarded as their own wealth by the local nobles and are secretly raised. Some nobles even started to plunder the population at certain intervals and raise them in captivity on time..."
"How can we achieve hegemony by working with such a group of idiots? If we can't even achieve hegemony, how can we achieve the great cause of unification?"
According to Li Kui's standards, every one of these stupid nobles must be killed!
Anyway, he was a nobleman from Chao State, not Wei State. Li Kui had long planned to carry out reforms and completely abolish the Shiqing Shilu system!
Stupid minister!
Stupid noble!
Kill them all!
Not to mention, Li Kui actually carried out reforms like this in history, and the content of the reforms was quite effective.
However, historically, Li Kuan's success was inextricably linked to the support of Mr. Si, who sat on the high platform.
In this era, behind every outstanding minister, there is an unknown lord who supports him!
Behind Guanzi is Qi Huangong, behind Shang Yang is Qin Xiaogong, behind Li Kui is Wei Wenhou...
Historically, Li Kui advocated the abolition of the Shilu Shiqing system, and then he started selling grain in lean years and harvesting grain in good years, and rewarded meritorious ministers.
It can only be said that Chen Sheng's words were not shouted out all at once, but the foundation was laid starting from the Warring States Period.
(End of chapter)
