I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 256 Governing a big country is like cooking fresh food~
"Layer apportionment..."

"Layer apportionment..."

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

From time to time, he let out a sound of "spreading in layers" from his mouth, and Liu Sheng's frown, which was already frowning, frowned even tighter.

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

To give 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 places in Guanzhong.

And this 'task', after the decision of the court meeting, will begin to go through the hands of officials at the first level, through the apportionment layer by layer, and finally be pressed on the heads of the people at the bottom.

For example, the task assigned by the court is to dig out the silt at the bottom of the canals and rivers, clean up the accumulated garbage, and dredge the river;
As a result, when this task reaches the 'county' level local unit from the imperial court, there is a high probability that it will become: Your Majesty said that all the old canals in this county should be repaired to be the same as the new canals!
When the county magistrate said this, the local county magistrates who came to the meeting nodded their heads, and called the entire county government after returning: The county government said that no matter whether there is a canal in our county, a new canal must be opened!
Then to the county and township administrative units below, the order issued by the court to 'clean up the silt and garbage accumulated in the canals' in order to improve the irrigation of the fields will most likely become: all places in Guanzhong must Build a new canal each...

What followed was naturally the core and most jaw-dropping part of the drama.

——Since the canal is going to be repaired, it must cost money, right?
But this canal was not ordered by the court to be repaired, and the court would definitely not allocate the money for repairing the canal;
How to do it?

A: Continue to apportion.

Chaotang said: It doesn't cost much to clean up the garbage in all counties and counties, so don't collect money from the people, organize some people to dig up the silt 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 be able to improve the shortage of agricultural water in the county at all;
Since it is necessary to clean up the garbage, let's renovate the canals in various places by the way. All the people in this county will be charged [-] yuan per household.

When it was passed to the county-level units, the story changed again: To dig a new canal must require a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources~
These things need to be prepared by our county government~
So~
order to go down~
Farmers in this county, every household has a male, and each pays another [-] yuan to repair the canal~
In this way, apportionment is made layer by layer. In the end, the people at the bottom will probably need to send out all the men in their families and spend more than half of the money in their hands to respond to the call of the court, county and county governments to repair that one. A canal destined to be impossible to build.

—Those canals never existed and never will.

In the past, the court never asked people to build canals;

Now, the court does not know that there is such a new canal;
In the future, of course, the new canal will not be seen.

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 canals in the houses of the officials and lords?
Don't the pockets of officials at all levels need to be enriched so that they can have a solid year?

Furthermore, when the court instructed to 'clean up rivers and ditches', the local government had to put on a show, so as not to be called a 'palace' by the court in the next year's audit.

In this way, layers of exploitation were taken down, from the height of the temple, the officials of the imperial court who were [-] shi and above, to the counties and townships, the unranked officials with less than [-] shi, all ate their stomachs in this feast. Fat intestines;
Everyone is full, which naturally means that everyone will not reveal this matter.

Naturally, no one cares about the sufferings that the common people suffer...
For such a situation, Liu Sheng had of course expected it before.

——Local officials pluck wild goose feathers, and take a chicken feather as an arrow. Even after thousands of years, this problem is still a human catastrophe that cannot be properly resolved.

Of course, Liu Sheng thought about the need to arrange corresponding measures in advance while promoting a certain policy, so as to prevent the good policy he wanted to promote from being changed by local demons into the evil and tyrannical governance of Wang Anshi's reform in later generations.

It’s just that Liu Sheng, no matter what, never expected that the problem of apportionment among local counties and counties in the Han Dynasty has become so serious...

"Father knows that there is such a thing and such a situation, but he does not shy away from saying that he is helpless;"

"Those old farmers also talked about this matter in front of the father without any scruples. After the father said 'no way', they didn't show any overly disappointed expressions..."

"—like this situation, has existed for many, many years, so long that it has become a 'supposed to be' thing?"

"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..."

Full of melancholy, he let out a long sigh, closed his eyes inexplicably tired, and lay flat on the couch quietly;
After an unknown period of time, Liu Sheng opened his eyes again, sat up straight with a "hey yo", and dropped his legs down on the couch.

Stretching out his hand, he grabbed a roll of bamboo slips from the case table, pulled it to the front and spread it out.

He let out another short sigh, and finally sat up a little bit, picked up the pen, and wrote his unique 'special' handwriting on the blank bamboo slips.

In the words of Queen Mother Dou: Liu Sheng's handwriting is undoubtedly "Liu's Grass";
The "Liu family" here, of course, only refers to Liu Sheng...

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"Tsk tsk..."

"Take time to practice your word well!"

"Like a dog crawling..."

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

A while later, in the palace and bedroom, looking at the scroll of bamboo slips with hundreds of characters written crookedly in his hand, Emperor Qi frowned and grumbled uncontrollably.

Liu Shengzi was inevitably a little embarrassed when his handwriting was disliked, so he lowered his head in a little shame, and smiled perfunctorily twice.

When Tian Ziqi's attention shifted from Liu Sheng's dog climbing Liu's grass to the content of Liu Sheng's "Memorials", the atmosphere between the father and son finally had some seriousness that should have been.

Slightly tired sitting on the couch, holding the bamboo slips sent by Liu Sheng with both hands, lowering his head, and roughly scanning from beginning to end;
He raised his head slightly again, closed his eyes, and savored the writing in Liu Sheng's bamboo slips;
Finally, he opened his eyes, lowered his head, and checked the scroll of bamboo slips again. On Tianzi Qi's face, there finally appeared a touch of solemnity and solemnity that made people subconsciously straighten their waists.

"Local counties and counties apportion at various levels, not all for the purpose of enriching private pockets;"

"There are also a considerable number of people who are just purely for political achievements and promotion."

"—In principle, these officials who did not use apportionment to fill their own pockets, but only to gain political achievements, should not be blamed."

"Because these things are used to gain political achievements and fame, as long as they do it well, then they will all be capable officials..."

The slightly lonely words made Liu Sheng anxious!
Just as he was about to refute, Tianzi Qi slightly raised his hand to stop Liu Sheng's move;

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 followed Huang Lao Wuwei's political strategy."

"In the beginning, Emperor Taizu Gao did this to rest with the people, to let the local counties and counties less disturb the people, and not to give the local counties and counties the opportunity to disturb the people."

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

"The court advocates governance by doing nothing, and the local counties can only stay in the government office honestly and let the people recuperate."

"Just as time goes by, the inertia formed by the words 'govern by doing nothing' has begun to make the local government of my Han family more and more complicated..."

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"Let's say that in today's Guanzhong, there are many officials in all local counties and counties, who don't know anything about the situation under their own rule."

"The county guards and county magistrates don't know how many households, populations, and acres of land they have under their control;"

"County lieutenant, county lieutenant, I don't know how many young men and village braves I control, and how many troops I can mobilize in case of emergency."

"For these people, no matter what happens, they can be blocked with the phrase 'govern by doing nothing, and recuperate with the people'."

"—Just being so ignorant and eating vegetarian food for more than ten or twenty years, these people will not be dismissed, and even have a chance to be promoted!"

"And this situation, my Han family, has reached the time to change..."

Having said that, Tianzi Qi couldn't help but smiled miserably, then stood up and walked to the imperial couch with his hands behind his back.

Facing the side of the hall, he was in a daze for a while, then shook his head and smiled wryly, and let out another sigh.

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

"But at the very least, places are starting to do things."

"—and regardless of the local counties, whether they want to use this to enrich their own pockets or gain political achievements;"

"At the very least, no one will use the phrase 'govern by doing nothing' as a cover to cover up their own incompetence..."

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"In the final analysis, the biggest problem that exists in the administration of officials in the Han family is that there are a large number of people who are not worthy of virtue and who hold high the banner of 'government by doing nothing', but in fact they are 'incompetent and unable to govern'."

"During the time of Emperor Gao and Empress Dowager Lu, our Han family was waiting for prosperity, and ruling by doing nothing was the only correct choice;"

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

"—But in my generation, my Han family, it's time to work hard and prepare for the decisive battle against the Huns!"

"If those mediocre people are allowed to occupy the positions of local counties and counties under the guise of 'governing by doing nothing', it will drag my Han family back..."

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"Ah~"

"The decisive battle against the Xiongnu requires the unity of the Han family. The countries and counties in the Kanto region share the same hatred against the enemy. There are more than 60 counties and thousands of counties in the world.

"If you don't acquiesce in apportionment by the local counties and counties in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the localities, the day of the decisive battle against the Huns will only be pushed further and further..."

"—It's not me, I can't see the disadvantages of apportionment by layers, or I can't see through the purpose and intention of apportionment by layers of local counties and counties;"

"But if you don't do this, it will be difficult for local counties to drop the habit of 'governing by doing nothing' that has been developed over the years;"

"If you don't use apportionments to stimulate and mobilize, officials in local counties and counties will never make a profit, so they will never be diligent in government affairs..."

At the end, Tian Zi Qi finally let out another long sigh, then shook his head helplessly and smiled wryly, and turned to look at Liu Sheng who was still distressed by the side of the imperial couch.

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

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

"Like a fish, it needs to be descaled first, then deboned, then sliced, blanched, and finally stewed - governing a country also needs to be done step by step."

"—The focus now is to change the situation where local counties and counties are accustomed to lazy and sluggish governance, and mobilize the enthusiasm of local governments."

"When will no one shout about 'governance by doing nothing' anymore, and local counties and counties will no longer be proud of 'government by doing nothing', will the court take action to completely rectify the apportionment and exploitation of the local counties and counties. when the people."

As he said that, Tianzi Qi did not forget to turn around, and pointed at the scroll of bamboo slips full of dogs climbing Liu's grass on the imperial case.

"It's a good idea;"

"But not yet."

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

"But now, I can only keep this scroll of yours..."

After saying that, Tianzi Qi let out another long sigh, and stared at Liu Sheng's figure standing beside the imperial couch for quite a while.

Unwilling, Liu Shengman slowly turned around from his thoughts, nodded his head reluctantly, and accepted Tianzi Qi's statement that "it's not the time yet", Tianzi Qi sat back on the imperial couch with a strange smile.

Grabbing the roll of bamboo slips in front of him, he casually threw it to the eunuch Ling Chuntuo beside him, the emperor Qi kept asking: "How are you thinking about money?"

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

"Qin Banliang, Han Banliang, or Empress Dowager Lu's eight baht, and Emperor Taizong's four baht?"

"Or is it recasting new money to completely replace all kinds of old money circulating in the world?"

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"Also: Unify the currency system, how to do it specifically?"

"How to take back the money in the hands of the people in the world, and how to ensure that when it is melted into new money, the Shaofu will not lose money, and the people in the world will not lose too much, so that they will resist the unified currency system?"

"——These things have been given to you for a long time to think about."

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

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