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In fact, since Li Chengzhong occupied Liucheng and Yanjun in the third year of Guanghua, under the vigorous promotion of the governor Zhang Zaiji and Zhou Zhiyu, who was the military envoy at the time, the relationship between Pingzhou and Guanwai has been extremely close.
In the earliest shihou, Pingzhou reflected its dominant position as the reserve and foundation of Yingzhou. Everything in Yingzhou relied on Pingzhou's support. Most supplies such as food, ironware, cloth, farm tools, and porcelain needed to rely on Pingzhou.
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As Li Chengzhong gradually occupied the Xiaoling River, Wugu River Basin, and then Huaiyuan Military City, and brought the entire Yingzhou under his control, the status of Pingzhou and Yingzhou began to change. Yingzhou simply used gold, silver, and copper coins.
Waiting for hard currency to purchase supplies from Pingzhou, the two sides are moving towards a change of transporting supplies to each other. However, the Yingzhou of Shihou only transports a small amount of supplies such as horses and furs to Pingzhou. Yingzhou's demand for Pingzhou's goods has also exploded.
With such rapid growth, almost everything produced in Pingzhou can be sold at a good price in Yingzhou.
After Lieutenant General Li Cheng took Bohae Kingdom, Silla and other places into his hands, a huge amount of wealth was brought to Yingzhou. In addition to hard currencies such as gold, silver and copper coins, various materials produced outside the vast customs also rushed into the customs.
Pingzhou and spread to the entire land of Hebei. The essence produced in Pingzhou in this province cannot meet the needs of Yingzhou, and the goods trafficked by Yingzhou from Bohai State, Silla, and the grasslands
The cattle, sheep and horses of Pingzhou can no longer be swallowed up by Pingzhou. This shihou Pingzhou has become the hub of trade within and outside the customs. With the rapid construction of official roads, Pingzhou and Yingzhou have become a hub for trade.
The connection between the states has become closer, and the spirits of both sides are firmly tied together.
In the development of Yingzhou and Pingzhou, Pingzhou gradually became a vassal of Yingzhou. There are three main reasons for this situation. First, Yingzhou spared no effort to support industry and commerce. This support is all-round.
The government forcibly elevated the status of workshop owners and merchants to the same level as farmers and herdsmen, and even selected many middle- and low-level officials and subordinates to employ merchants and craftsmen with business savvy or knowledge of production techniques;
In terms of law, Yingzhou has formulated a number of laws and regulations to protect the development of industry and commerce, creating a good environment for the growth of industry and commerce; in terms of policy, the government has issued industrial development policies that are ahead of the times, promoting the scale of workshops and merchants, and guiding production flow
With the vigorous development of modernized production methods; in trade, Yingzhou is backed by strong force and uses its greatest efforts to ensure that commercial activities do not cause unpredictable losses due to external factors.
On the other hand, with the support of the government, Yingzhou formed two production centers, Liucheng and Yanjun. A large number of workshops and merchants grew rapidly. The quality of the goods produced was not inferior to those in Guan Nei, but in terms of cost and
In terms of quantity, it far exceeds that. Of course, most of these workshops are currently mainly engaged in military industry, and Yingzhou's demand for daily production supplies is still huge, which has also led to the further development of shops and workshops in Guan. This has formed a dominant position for Yingzhou products.
High-end, Guannai products are at the low end of the production landscape in this era. Military armor and war horses are absolutely high-end products!
In addition, the huge amount of hard currency in Yingzhou's hands made Yingzhou a de facto trade center. The wealth gained through war made the government very wealthy. Large-scale procurement mainly by the government became a solid foundation to support the development of industry and commerce.
Finally, the rapid development of Yingzhou's military strength and the continuous promotion of Li Chengzhong's official position are also important foundations for Yingzhou to surpass Pingzhou. It is useless to talk about it as a guarantee.
Because of this close and inseparable connection, Pingzhou has enjoyed a large amount of war dividends from Yingzhou, and this enjoyment has even reached the point of extreme dependence. Whether it is the governor's office or the common people, the remaining money in their hands has gradually become abundant. , there is even an industrial and commercial class in Pingzhou that is only second to Yingzhou. Although the officialdom of Ruguo does not pay enough attention to and protect industry and commerce in Pingzhou, this class is no less than the big workshops and shops in Liucheng and Yanjun. Owners. They are even more flexible and autonomous.
In order to better and more conveniently integrate into the vitality of Yingzhou, the Pingzhou Governor's Office fully moved towards the Yingzhou Governor's Office. The official appointments and departmental settings in the Governor's Office began to gradually align with those of the Yingzhou Governor's Office. In the original government office In terms of setting, there are various Cao Cao below the governor to handle corresponding people's livelihood affairs. It seems that each has its own responsibility, which is very different from that of later generations, but in fact it is not the case.
This government system is based on the concept that "under the sky, it is the king's soil, and on the shore of the soil, it is the king's ministers." "Pu" means "watering", and it originally meant watering the garden of Emperor Zhou. Water, that is to say, the vastness of the world is the emperor's garden. The emperor is the owner of all land and property in the world, and the local government, such as Pingzhou, and the governor of Pingzhou are the emperor's agents in Pingzhou and look after it for the emperor. This is three-thirds of an acre.
Under the guidance of this idea, the officials below the governor's office in Pingzhou actually manipulated power. All they did was collect public opinion, forward documents, and implement the governor's decision. All matters must be decided by the governor himself. . Under such a system, according to theory, diligent officials in China will die from exhaustion between paperwork.
But in fact this is not the case, because as the emperor's agent, the governor's focus is only on two things: collecting taxes and keeping the difāng stable. A conscientious governor would consider building water conservancy projects in order to collect more taxes. As for The economic development of the country, the living standards of the people, the progress of science and technology and civilization, etc., are all not taken into consideration, because the official function and the concept of temptation are not taken into consideration, and it is another matter that takes up a lot of the officials' energy. The essence of litigation is to maintain the stability of political power.
The extremely narrow and irresponsible functions of the government allowed government personnel to complete most affairs with very little labor, and they could openly claim to be "ruling by doing nothing" and were commended by the court for this.
This was the practice of the Pingzhou governor's office in handling government affairs in the past, but it is different now because there is Yingzhou around. Driven by Yingzhou, Pingzhou's agriculture, industry and commerce have made great progress, and various new affairs have emerged one after another. , all kinds of government affairs skyrocketed at a geometric speed. Zhang Zaiji, the governor of Pingzhou, discovered that, seemingly overnight, the documents that needed to be processed piled up in front of him!
While processing the documents, Governor Zhang discovered that one of them, Chengdu, was related to Yingzhou. At this time, he began to think about how Shi Fang, the governor of Yingzhou, handled so many government affairs.
Governor Zhang is a man with a broad mind, otherwise he would not have tried his best to recommend and support the young Feng Dao. Therefore, he did not mind learning from this enthusiastic staff member in the past. Through understanding, he found that Shi Fang, the governor of Yingzhou,
Many new departments were set up under the government. The names of these departments were very common, such as office, taxation department, business department, legal department, etc. Zhang did not take it seriously. This was for the convenience of the people and was easy to understand. But he
I don’t think that these new departments can share the heavy workload very well. No matter how many departments are set up, it will not help. It is just a matter of form. In the final analysis, it still has to be reported to Chang Shi himself, and it will not reduce Chang Shi’s own work at all.
Quantity, perhaps the advantage is that the reporting process is more organized.
Then Governor Zhang was not ashamed to ask, and he had a heart-to-heart exchange with young Feng Changshi. He finally got the answer. The answer was to decentralize the disposal power. By delegating the disposal power, each Cao Cao had the actual decision-making power. Specifically,
This is to allow each Cao Cao to obtain the power of approval without the need for superior officials to decide. In this way, every matter that must be reported will be shared among each Cao Cao, and the chief official of the government will be greatly relieved.
Governor Zhang was shocked and confused by such a move. The question he raised was, wouldn't the power of the chief officer be emptied out? In this regard, Feng Dao's answer to him was: Make good decisions and do a good job in finance.
, do a good job in personnel matters. Specifically, what the chief official needs to consider is the development direction of a place, formulate development policies, and achieve radical political intentions through financial control and personnel appointments and removals.
How does nàme ensure that officials of each Cao Cao do not abuse their power? Feng Dao’s explanation is to formulate and improve rules and regulations. Each Cao Cao formulates the rules and regulations for each Cao Cao, and they must be detailed to how to implement, how to operate, and how to hold accountable each Cao Cao according to the rules and regulations.
By exercising the power of disposal according to Cao's rules and regulations, it can ensure that the governance policy does not deviate from the general principles. The chief official can implement radical governance strategies by formulating major policies and controlling people, finances, and materials, or increase financial investment, or replace
Incompetent officials.
At the same time, Feng Dao deliberately emphasized that in order to achieve such a political framework, we must strengthen the promotion of laws and build a system with various types of legal texts, instead of relying solely on the "Yonghui Code" in the past.
Make sure that every Cao Cao has laws to abide by, laws must be followed, law enforcement must be strict, and violations must be punished!
Governor Zhang thought carefully about it for a long time, and finally came to an understanding. This seemed to mean that all the ministries above the imperial court were placed in the difāng, directly at the grassroots level to realize the downward transfer of disposal power.
Feng Dao believes that this is not simply the case. This kind of governance framework breaks the past situation where the government and the people were clearly separated, in which "the people did not promote and the officials did not investigate". It also pays attention to the government's active guidance on improving people's livelihood, from doing nothing to governing.
Do what you have to do, be more perfect in function, and clearer in responsibility.
Governor Zhang looked at this young man who was still young but more composed, and couldn't help but sigh: "What a great talent, with this strategy, he will be famous for generations to come!"
Feng Dao smiled bitterly: "Don't dare to take advantage of the governor."
Zhang Jishi asked curiously: "You mean, this is the governor's policy?"
Feng Dao frowned, and a hint of anger crept into his eyebrows: "The Governor said that this is the 'modern government framework'."
Governor Zhang was thinking about the fresh phrase "modern government framework" and then heard Feng Dao add: "The governor also said that without reform, there will be no development."
Governor Zhang spent half a year to fully imitate the Yingzhou government system and establish a new Pingzhou government. At the same time, more and more laws and regulations formulated by Yingzhou were accepted by Pingzhou, and a large part of them even
Implementation started without saying a word.
The "Public Traffic Safety Regulations of Yingzhou Dudu Prefecture" is one of them. (To be continued.)