Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1885 Small habits, old problems

Regardless of Wei Dan's young Mu Ai's behavior of reporting the news to Zhen Mi first when he got the news, but Fei Qian, who announced such a news, is now sitting in the water pavilion in the backyard of the General's Mansion, looking at the pool The big and small fish swim and compete for food, seeming to be leisurely, but actually they have many thoughts in their minds.

  Chang'an was originally grand in structure, almost like a metropolis in later generations. The main body of Chang'an is like the sun, and the surrounding mausoleums are planetary satellites around the sun. To be honest, even in later generations, to some extent, there will inevitably be a huge demand gap in terms of living materials. , and such a gap will inevitably lead to price fluctuations, and the profit gap brought about by the fluctuations is like blood dripping in the deep sea, which will inevitably attract sharks to surround.

Just as later generations often gave special subsidies to Kyoto, causing the capital to be obsessed with oil, salt and all kinds of meat and vegetables all year round. Like the national average, Fei Qian has always invested a lot in order to maintain the stability of Chang'an and increase the attractiveness of Chang'an. Especially the stability of basic living materials such as rice grains, but this is not a benign normal state.

After the establishment of Luoyang as the capital of Chang'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the city of Chang'an has declined. Even if Fei Qian worked hard to manage it, the time is still short and cannot catch up with the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty. Therefore, the people living in Chang'an now , most of the activities revolve around the Fiqian regime, and the ordinary people are still relatively weak.

The weak number of people cannot support enough off-duty public servants, and if the gathered off-duty population is too large, it will in turn be limited by grain production. For example, if the production area encounters a disaster, or if there is any loss on the way, it will inevitably lead to supply problems in Chang'an City. Let alone the impact, it is estimated that the Shandong gentry will be able to laugh over it.

   Therefore, Fei Qian still needs to gather the population, on the one hand, the children of the gentry, and on the other hand, the ordinary people.

Although Feiqian has obtained the Xijing Shangshutai, it does not mean that the people can be completely separated from the Shandong area, and they will not communicate with each other. Instead, they still have to continue to attract the population of Shandong to move to Guanzhong. However, if they want to attract these people, they must It must reflect a stable, peaceful and prosperous light and shadow, so that people can't help but cast their eyes on Chang'an.

   To put it simply, it is tossing, and it takes a lot of effort.

  The sealing ceremony is the first step.

These middle and high-level officials who have been promoted have moved the school's buttocks to a bigger pit, so many of the original pits will inevitably be vacated, and these pits are naturally the fragrant buns in the eyes of many people. Big question.

Killing is not difficult, the knife rises and falls, and after the white knife enters, no matter whether it is a red knife or a green knife, it is basically the end of the game, but if you want to build and develop, you are not simple-minded, just know how to kill. You have to move.

Cao Cao is such a shrewd little guy, he suffers dark losses in personnel appointments, prevents loosening in the early stage, and the dams that the previous generation worked so hard to build, all collapse under the **** of his descendants, and finally the sweet fruits are held up under the tree Sima, who was pretending to be demented with his head open, took it straight.

Liu Bei is the second sword who became a monk halfway. He couldn't settle the veterans and natives in his whole life. Say something if you can or not, and work hard until you swallow your last breath.

As for Sun Quan, he is even more disrespectful, he is considered to be the third generation, and he still can't even control the local family. Most of the time, he is carried away by the Jiangdong noble family, although he is usually arrogant and always says he wants to kill this person , to cut that one, in fact, the mouth is finished, and I feel aggrieved that I was drunk and said that I didn't take it seriously, and I scolded Lu Xun all my life. Famous, so maybe it doesn't matter.

   Therefore, for Feiqian to become a new city in Xijing, it is necessary to lay the foundation stone first, determine the personnel norms, and even use them as regulations, so as to contribute to the overall political construction and regional development in the future.

  In the corridor, there was a slight figure swaying, Fei Qian looked up, nodded, and beckoned.

  Zhuge Jin bowed his hands in return, and then walked from the corridor to Fei Qian.

  『How is the discussion in the city? ’ Fei Qian first took the note from Zhuge Jin, looked at it for a while, and then asked. When you cast a bait, you always want to see the fish jump up, don't you? As a relatively middle-level person, Zhuge Jin is naturally more likely to have access to a lower level of information than Pang Tong.

  Zhuge Jin replied: "A report to Huqi, although there is some discussion, but there is no slander... Maybe because of the previous school competition, it was just to test and distinguish talents..."

   Fei Qian smiled, indicating that Zhuge Jin didn't need to be so restrained, and let him return to his seat. This can be regarded as expected. After all, in the Spring and Autumn and Qin and Han Dynasties, the supply of talents was less than the demand. Because of such a shortage, basically speaking, all virtuous talents must be welcomed. With the growth of the population, especially the dissemination of knowledge, although the aristocratic families have repeatedly controlled it, the diffusion of culture is like a smudge of ink, which is permeable and cannot be completely controlled. Therefore, slowly, people with knowledge The number of people is increasing, and it gradually becomes an oversupply.

  One of the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty, and deducting those places where there are positions but few people are willing to go, such as Jiaozhou and Youzhou, how many county magistrates are there in the whole world?

   Radish pits are limited.

For example, Jingzhaoyin, that is, under the jurisdiction of Fengming, Baling, Nanling, Duling, Lantian, Xinfeng, Xiagui, Zhengxian, Huayin, and Huxian ten radish pits, and some important ones will be deducted. Locations, such as Lantian close to Wuguan, Huayin close to Jingfu, etc., are impossible to give to ordinary gentry children, so how much can be left after this calculation?

  Even if the whole world is included, there are only a few hundred sheriffs and thousands of county magistrates. How can such a small number of official positions be enough in the face of an increasingly large group of nobles?

One monk drank until he was full, two monks shared the water, and three monks fought, not to mention that there were so many radishes waiting for the warm and humid pit with bare legs, so those who desperately wanted to gain fame and get a wave three times Tricks emerged endlessly in the middle and late Han Dynasty, and even extended to the later feudal dynasties, such as jumping carp in springs, begging carp lying on ice, etc. Seriously, why do you have to have trouble with carp? Can't silver carp do it? Crucian carp is fine too! This is simply blatant fish discrimination!

  Then the children of the other aristocratic families saw it, and suddenly realized, can they do this? I used to think that even if I did this kind of stupid behavior, no one would believe it, but now some people really do it! Immediately, they winked at each other and clapped their hands in praise, while wondering whether they could do something even more obscene...

  Fame and popularity are gained through doing things that anyone who sees or hears thinks they are stupid. Then, after such a person becomes an official, will he do practical things? The so-called bad money driving out good money is not only found in the financial field. No one is more stupid than the other. If one person succeeds in seeking fish, there will be thousands of fish seekers behind him.

   They all take sidewalks and get used to jumping in line to get on the bus, so who would line up obediently?

  Will the sons of the gentry who were pushed in the front and pushed in the back complain about it?

  There must be, but due to the tacit understanding and face of the gentry children, Dingduo could only secretly scold those idiots who begged for fish behind the scenes, and then left the queue himself, planning to find a "fish" too.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Fei Qian's "Testing Talents" has a certain popular base, but it is only a little bit, not absolute. The reason is very simple. After all, the overall literacy rate in the Han Dynasty was still very low. , the knowledge popularization is only a little bit, and most of them are still among the children of the gentry.

  However, it doesn't matter, because the focus of Fei Qian's attention is not the result of "trying", but the process of "trying"...

"Ziyu let out the wind, as far as this additional test is concerned, it will focus on the use..." Fei Qian gently tore off a small piece of bait, and then threw it into the pond, which immediately attracted many fish to churn scramble.

  『Focus on use? 』Zhuge Jin was taken aback for a moment, then nodded and accepted the order, and then reported some other trivial matters, and retreated after getting the reply.

Fei Qian quietly broke up the ball of bait on hand, threw it out several times, and finally clapped his hands slowly, and slapped the dregs left in his hands into the water, and then watched the big fish tumbling and scrambling endlessly He and Xiaoyu smiled slightly, turned around and walked forward slowly.

  『Go to Zhengshitang. ’ Fei Qian put his hands behind his back, and lightly instructed Huang Xu outside the pavilion.

  The Zhengshitang and the General’s Mansion are now only separated by a wall. After passing through the corridor and turning around the outer courtyard, there is the side entrance of the Zhengshitang. When passing through the atrium connected to the Zhengshi Hall, I saw Xu Chu standing at the gate of the courtyard. He was originally a man with a big arm and a round waist, but now he put on a full body armor specially made by the guards, and when he stood in the middle of the courtyard gate, he felt like falling down. Like an iron gate, it is tightly blocked.

  『I have seen the lord. 』Xu Chu stepped aside, revealing a path. Seeing Fei Qian walking by, he followed Huang Xu with his hands and entered the Political Affairs Hall together.

   Along the way, officials, big and small, rushed to pay their respects. Fei Qian nodded slightly until he sat down in the hall.

  『Meet the lord. Xun You, the head of the hall today, came forward to pay respects.

  『There is no need to be formal…』 Fei Qian waved his hand and said, 『Longshouyuan Altar, what is the progress? 』

  Xun You cupped his hands and said: "Now the work is basically completed, and only the finishing touches are left. Pang Lingjun will drive it day and night, and he will definitely not miss the good time." 』

Seeing that the day after tomorrow is the period of the fifth day of junior high school, all aspects are naturally tense, and Pang Tong, who supervises the construction of the altar, basically stays at the construction site day and night except for participating in Fei Qian's religious ceremony on the first day of junior high school superior.

"Five thousand ingots of gold and silver of various kinds, six thousand five hundred bolts of brocade silk, eight thousand three hundred rolls of cloth, five thousand flags, flags, and flags each, two thousand five painted shields, one thousand tools, and five hundred bright armors. , three hundred good horses..." Xun You reported the number of utensils that were going to be rewarded this time one by one. Although he said that each item is not a lot, but when you look at it together, it is quite huge, which is astounding.

  Fei Qian looked at the list, and inevitably felt some pain in his heart, but he still had to put on a generous look, nodded in approval, and said that these are small things, appetizers, and there will be bigger and more things in the future.

  While chatting, while checking, when he turned to the accounts of the Ma Zhengsi that Fei Qian wanted to see, Fei Qian was overjoyed, but frowned on his face.

In any feudal dynasties, there are moths who fill their pockets. Even if there is no direct corruption, there will be more or less a small treasury in each government office, which is generally used as welfare for officials such as cold charcoal, summer ice and other money. .

This kind of small treasury often ends up being used by the chiefs of the various departments. The fake public aid is used for personal gain to win over the subordinate officials. From the account outside the account, it is used to correspond to the verification above.

   Then it gradually became a practice. Everyone knew about it, but no one said anything about it. After all, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. When enjoying extra benefits has become a habit, and the benefits are related to the entire bureaucratic system, it is not easy to abolish it directly.

When Fei Qian first pacified Chang'an, many places could not be penetrated into place, and naturally there was no way to manage them so meticulously. Although some new decrees were implemented, many places were still operating according to the old customary regulations, and now the battle situation is basically Stable, and another large-scale reward is about to be carried out. Seeing that the monstrous small money will be spent, I naturally wonder whether I should find a few fat bugs to kill a wave and get some oil and water back.

Fei Qian focused his attention on Ma Zhengsi, not on a whim, but from an earlier time. This is the root of Fei Qian. After all, Yong and Ma Xiong are the best in the world. Inevitably, the foundation will be shaken. On the other hand, the matter of horse administration, although on the surface it is only about war horses, actually involves a lot of money and personnel, and there are a lot of tricks, which naturally breeds a lot of room for profit.

Horse politics in the Han Dynasty has a long history. After all, since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, horses have been raised all over the country. It is a big place for raising horses, and other places gradually stop raising horses.

  Later, Guangwu established Luoyang as its capital, and vacillated on the issue of Xiliang, resulting in the abandonment of horse breeding land in the entire Northwest. Only Jizhou and Youzhou still had some horse farms, and the number of war horse breeding further shrank.

  And now Fei Qian Jingping Sanfu, so it is natural to resume raising horses in Longyou, Guanzhong.

  Looking at the number reported by Secretary Ma, Fei Qian tapped on the table, "Has Gongda ever read this form?" 』

  Xun You was stunned for a moment, stepped forward to take a look, and quickly said: "This watch is new, and I haven't checked it carefully yet..."

Fei Qian threw the watch and seal heavily on the table, and with a bang, he almost knocked over the pens and inkstones on the side, which attracted the attention of many officials who were running back and forth in the corridors of the wing rooms on both sides of the hall. The sound of the movement was several times quieter, and there was no sound for a while.

  『Chuan Fei and Fei Zicheng are here! Fei Qian seemed to be holding back his anger, and commanded in a deep voice, and soon there was a loud answer from the guards, rushing out amidst the sound of clanging armor.

  Xun You bowed in the hall, motionless.

   Feiqian's voice was loud, and he rolled out of the hall, "Jingzhao up and down, with hundreds of staff and thousands of bureaucrats, there are many benefits in addition to their duties. Although there are annual checks and checks, there are often people who are missing from the remnants of the treasury! There are also so-called wind and rain damages in the local criminal investigation accounts! In order to seek benefits, there are people who are ignorant of reason, and use Adu as a sentence! I don't know, but I know that all officials have worked hard, and understanding is the top priority, but now there are officials who are ignorant of human relations, violate etiquette, shake the foundation, seek selfish desires, eat away at whales, treat a certain kindness like dung, deceive their superiors, and conspire for personal gain! The crime deserves to be punished! 』

  Many officials in the hall were sweating profusely and trembling.

  Corruption, as long as there is no public power to supervise it in place, and there is sufficient oil and water, needless to say, it will definitely be like mold. It seems that there is only a little bit today, and it will nourish a piece tomorrow.

   What Fei Qian said is actually not just the ills of the big man's current officialdom. The ancients have never been stupid. For thousands of years, some skills that should have been in the officialdom, in fact, the great Han already had them. The rest of the feudal dynasties in the later generations just carried forward on this basis. For example, before the year-end audit, It is a basic operation to raid expenses and clear inventory.

   Another example is criminal matters in various places. There are two main measurement criteria, one is the number of occurrences, and the other is the rate of case closure. It is a good thing if the number of occurrences is too small, but it is not a good thing. After all, if it is too small, it is almost equivalent to having nothing to do. There is no such thing as "banditry", so what is the money allocated? It doesn’t work if there are too many, too much is equivalent to poor governance, so most of the time there is a relatively stable standard, and if there are too many unfortunate things this year, better officials will put it aside first and then move it. By next year, some poor officials will even directly refuse to accept, shirk, kick the ball, and let the sufferer run away. The case closing rate is even more so. In order to increase the case closing rate, it is even more common to carry out surprise arrests and torture to extract confessions leading to wrong cases.

  These are problems, and they are persistent diseases.

   To cure this stubborn disease, it is natural to prescribe the right medicine.

   Feihe is the son of Fei Qian's uncle Fei Min, and he has served as the Secretary of Ma Zhengsi from Cao Cao for a while, and this form is also signed and reported by Feihe as the supervisor of the Ma Zhengsi.

  Fei Qian believed in the numbers in the watch, but Feihe didn't read it carefully, or thought that it was unnecessary to read it...

  『Gongda is stepping down for the time being, and we will talk about it later...』 Fei Qian looked at Xun You and said lukewarmly. Xun You is a good person in people's livelihood, government affairs, strategy, etc., but he has a bad personality when he likes to be messy. Feihe has been in office for a while, and Xun You, who is in charge of Chang'an's economy and trade, must have heard of such issues to some extent, but Xun You did not express anything, nor did he take the initiative to mention it.

Although Fei Qian held back before, and only now has an attack, it is somewhat embarrassing to Fei He, but at present, Fei Qian's own territory has been fought out of blood and fire, and it is hard to get it with great effort. In the current situation, as a person of Fei's family, if he can't contribute to the overall situation, he should stick to his duty, and a life-long support is indispensable. However, it may be due to nature, or it may be deceived by others. Although he has power, he seems incompetent in handling affairs.

  (end of this chapter)