You are not a white lotus at all [Quick Transmigration]

"Some people want Cangxi County to maintain the status quo, and are willing to pay for it. So, Cangxi County has always been like this."

Briefly talk about the situation caused by human beings, and then Ye Simian began to explain: "I just said that when I first arrived in Cangxi County, the people were reluctant to go to the county government office, and the servants in the county government office often sneaked away because of this. In Cangxi County, the county government office in Cangxi County was useless—no one came to report the case, and no one left the county government office to find work, so the government office was just a building located in a certain place. What will happen to whom, and what will be judged against no one."

The emperor nodded, a county government that no one cares about and does not come out of itself, is just a thing to eat the imperial salary, not to mention serving the community.

Ye Simian continued: "If it is nothing but nothing, it will be unpopular and unpopular, and it will be difficult for the various orders and rulings in the county government to be recognized and implemented. Therefore, a county government that manages a county can be called only those who really support the court. Salary government servants, this is because there are no people who are obedient to others, no lazy and slippery people, and no people who are afraid to do things. After all, there are very few people who can really be used, and the people who can be used Here, there is no one who can really be called to do some hard work, tiring work, or even dangerous things:

Even if there are people who are brave enough to dedicate their lives, I can't let the few servants who have taken off their official uniforms and are ordinary people with seniors and juniors do everything, right?And there are only a few people, not enough to carry out all orders.

Therefore, when Chen first arrived in Cangxi County, he was faced with this kind of situation where no one was available.Among the officials who served before the minister, if it comes to officials who want to have some ambitions, the situation is probably the same. "

After talking about the facts that existed objectively before, Ye Simian analyzed and explained the main points: "This kind of environment is definitely not good for the imperial court. For the people in the area under its jurisdiction, it depends on the specific situation. But for the local gentry, But it couldn't be better.

If there is no one above them, the local gentry can do whatever they want to a certain extent, and in order to maintain this kind of 'freedom', they will definitely try their best to maintain the status quo: giving gifts to corrupt officials, letting mediocre officials fool around, and stuffing money to fight against them The ability to transfer away.

In this way, they can follow the usual one-stop approach to make huge profits: lending money at high interest rates to ordinary people who have encountered accidents, taking away the fields or houses after the money cannot be recovered, and recommending thugs, slaves and even prostitutes to desperate people , to obtain slaves for one's own family business, and thus become more powerful and wealthy-if some of them have to pay money or some people have skills to become craftsmen, then it doesn't matter, and they will not lose money. "

"For the benefit of the local gentry, they continue to use means so that no one in Cangxi County can restrain their behavior. This is the reason why Cangxi County has always been like this as I said, and it is also the reason why I can't leave:

Just increasing the output of the field can only ensure that some people will not be as hungry as before without changing the interests of the local gentry or even obtaining more benefits for them. But if you are only satisfied with this, stop everything. Here, once someone has a problem in the future, the previous story will be repeated.

Who will lose their fields or houses, who will be reduced to beggars or slaves, who will commit suicide in despair, and Cangxi County will slowly return to its previous state: the poor people will get property , but there are new people standing in their previous positions.

Everything seems to have changed, but in fact, some people have only changed their positions. In fact, the overall situation has not changed. "

"That's why I said, I can't go, I'm gone, everything stops here, and Cangxi County will be just like it is now, or even return to what it was before." After stating the reasons in detail, Ye Simian concluded, "Agricultural reform is indeed true. It will make the harvest of the entire Cangxi County better, but this kind of goodness that does not remove the real hidden dangers is only a temporary good. It seems that the flowers are blooming, but in fact they are superficial. In order to make the efforts during this period not in vain, Cangxi The county will indeed continue to develop in a good direction in the future, I can only live up to the wrong love of the Holy Majesty, I implore the Holy Majesty to let me return to Cangxi County. I also hope that the Holy Majesty will forgive me."

After finishing speaking, Ye Simian saluted again, while the emperor was contemplating after listening, and didn't say a word, he raised his hand for the eunuch to help him up after a while, "I see."

Ye Simian stood up, waited for a while, saw that the emperor was still thinking about something, and said, "So, before carrying out the reform, I divided the things I want to do into three stages according to the actual situation."

The emperor nodded: "Speak."

"In the first stage, reforms are used to increase the harvest of those who own the land, and to allow the people without land to contribute to the reform process to obtain rewards, so as to use actual benefits to win the hearts of the people and prepare for future actions;

In the second stage, through strict investigation of tax evasion and tax evasion, merchants with rich families but unscrupulous backgrounds are reined in, and the county government is used as a guarantee to encourage them to lend money to ordinary people with legitimate reasons.

The third stage is to spread education widely. After the people are no longer poor enough to eat enough to eat, encourage children to go to school. At the same time, use stories, legends, dramas, lantern riddles, etc. to subtly influence other people who do not go to school, and express their responsibility. And the bottom line that cannot be touched, waiting for the change of thinking after years and months. "

After talking about the three stages, Ye Simian added, "So, before I started farming and reforming, I had already made preparations to stay in Cangxi County for ten years, and I also hoped that I could use ten years to make sure that Cangxi County will get better. I hope the Holy Grail will grant it."

After thinking about it for a while, the emperor said, "I was thinking just now, you can increase the output of arable land in Cangxi County in one year, and change the thinking of Cangxi County in ten years. Wouldn't it be more ambitious if the time difference between the two was used to carry out farming reforms in other places?

I know the importance of folk customs, but it is undeniable that many areas in my country are still very hungry. If you can manage other areas according to local conditions like Cangxi County, then the people in those areas will survive. A lot of them have come down, are their lives more important than the folk customs in Cangxi County ten years later? "

Ye Simian lowered his head and pondered, Chang Yuan was a little bit asked after hearing this: choosing to go back to Cangxi County means not caring about the life and death of people in other areas, and choosing other areas means returning Cangxi County to its previous state, no matter how you choose, some people will lose because of it something--

As expected of an emperor, he would throw problems to his courtiers when he encountered a hot potato.

After thinking about it for a while, Chang Yuan concluded with the emperor's cunning, thinking that he had planned well to throw Ye Simian somewhere, but he hesitated after hearing Ye Simian's subsequent plans. So he gave Ye Simian the opportunity to make a choice, and after that, he still had a share of his recognition of talents, but his faults had nothing to do with him.

Probably not even the guilt of moral condemnation.

The emperor smiled and waited for the answer amidst Chang Yuan's speculation, but Ye Simian finally asked, "Dare to ask the Holy Majesty, compared with other officials, is there anything irreplaceable in the farming reform?"

"One is born in poverty and has no airs. He can share joys and sorrows with the people, so it is convenient to collect public opinion, and he can also go to the field to investigate the specific situation together; the other is to make a lot of friends. Whenever he encounters problems, he can find friends to help him, and he can For a classmate, I borrowed money to cover the debt first, and then used the harvested land to pay off the debt. I have a good ability to solve problems by myself; the third one has already dealt with the problem in Cangxi County, and then went to other places. I still have some experience to learn from. The fourth is, since you can issue a military order for the people in Cangxi County, you should try your best to go to other places, and your character is not bad." The emperor made a lot of boasting, saying that if Ye Simian does not go, no one can do it Come, and only then ask, "So, how are you doing?"

This not only completed the investigation of the matter in Cangxi County, but also almost uncovered the eighteen generations of Ye Simian's ancestors in this life.

Seeing the emperor's biased advocacy, Chang Yuan sighed with emotion that he couldn't find out that the sky was really restricted by race.

Ye Simian asked slowly: "So, in the future, do you need to constantly change the places where you work?"

The emperor smiled and remained silent.

"The superficial problem in Cangxi County is that the county government has no prestige and the people have insufficient financial resources. The fundamental problem is that the gentry lend money privately and persecute others, but the people are accustomed to this and have no awareness of what should exist and what should not exist. The minister has already After dealing with the farming problem, the prestige of the county government will be established, and the lives of the people will also be improved due to the increase in the yield of cultivated land. After that, as long as the problem in Cangxi County is a competent official, as long as the competent official puts his heart into it and can do what the minister has already done. The plan can be solved according to the situation. But the area that the Holy Majesty refers to does not know where it is, but after listing one, two, three, four, the Holy Majesty almost shows that he must be a minister, as if no one else can replace it." Ye Simian analyzed it in this way. Some words, and then saluted, "Although I don't really think so, but since the Holy Majesty advises so, I accept the order."

The emperor nodded and stretched out his hand, and the eunuch next to him came over with an imperial decree, which probably meant that Ye Simian was given a new official position, and he was asked to use this position to carry out agricultural reform. Working together in some places, and he and the merchant (classmate Qian Duoduo) borrowed money and sold products to repay the debt can be clearly accounted for, but the account book needs to be submitted to the account department for inspection on a regular basis. At the same time, there is another correspondence A record or plan of the situation in each place.

In general, he has been promoted, and he is at the fifth rank.

The emperor: "Then Cangxi County was handed over to Chen Zhi County as you said. From now on, the mountains will be high and the rivers will be long, and Aiqing will cherish it."

Before leaving, the emperor added: "Li Zhixian once said when I questioned that an official is not greedy at the beginning because he doesn't know what to be greedy, and after a while he is not greedy because he doesn't know how to be greedy. When you finally start to be greedy, it is after you have figured out the rules of the officialdom and know how to pick yourself out. Although I don't fully agree with this, I hope Aiqing will keep this in mind."

Chang Yuan came back to his senses: Was Li Chengming singled out later? ?What is he whining about again? ?

Ye Simian: "I will keep this in mind. But, about General Ji...?"

The emperor just said: "It's nothing." More is covered up in a smile.

So for the specific things after that, we can only wait for Chang Yuan to run to see the results after departure.