Originally, Official Lin was not very interested in the internal government affairs of these prefecture and county yamen. After all, he was not an official in the local yamen of the prefecture and county.
However, when the county magistrate of Changzhou County said that the government government had taken away all the power to dispatch warehouses for farmers in each county and banned the county government from opening warehouses, it aroused the attention of Lin Daguan.
The Jinongcang system is mainly implemented in the Jiangnan area. After all, the Jiangnan area has high grain output and has the basis for establishing Jinongcang.
The construction of Jinongcang began in the Xuande period, and then existed and fell into disuse for more than a hundred years. It was rebuilt after the Jiajing Dynasty quelled the Japanese pirates.
As the name suggests, the main function of the Jinongcang is to store rice, and the source is to increase consumption, encourage donations, borrow grain, etc.
The functions of Jinongcang mainly include the following aspects. The first is to stabilize grain prices. When grain prices are high, grains are sold to the market at low prices.
In principle, all the money will be sold in the years of great disasters, and half of the money will be sold in the years of medium disasters.
The second is social assistance, which is divided into two types: relief and borrowing.
Relief means providing free food without the need to return it. It is generally targeted at the elderly without support and the extremely poor households in desperate situations.
Lending means lending grain to poor households without interest, but it needs to be returned after the autumn harvest. It is mainly targeted at ordinary poor households who are in short supply or encounter minor disasters.
The third is to subsidize public expenditures, such as water conservancy projects, which is also the aspect that Lin Daguan is most concerned about.
And the most important point is that Jinongcang is completely under the control of the local government and does not need to be turned over to the court. It is a local "small treasury".
Previously, Mr. Lin Daguan said, "We in Suzhou are very rich," and this is what he was referring to.
It is said that at its peak, the combined stock of Jinongcang in all counties in Suzhou was as much as 700,000 shi.
If it weren't for a place like Jiangnan with high grain output and abundant grain surplus, most places would really not be able to implement a system like the agricultural warehouse.
The water conservancy project that Lin Daguan has always been obsessed with is to wait for the October agricultural slack to get some financial funds from the county's agricultural warehouse.
After all, Mr. Guo, the Prime Minister of Guanliang County, is one of our own, so some things will be easy to handle.
However, Lin Daguan has not told others about this idea. Guo Xiancheng did not know that Lin Daguan had thoughts about Jinongcang, so he had not thought of informing Lin Daguan of the changes in the permissions of Jinongcang.
Now that the government has taken away all the dispatching rights of the agricultural warehouses in each county, Lin Daguan suddenly feels that the difficulty has doubled!
Is the difficulty of operating county-level financial funds and operating government-level financial funds at the same level? Let alone if you don’t have your own people in the government office.
Thinking of this, Lin Tailai said angrily: "Mother Xipi! The government office is acting like this, it's really messing up the piano!
The county government is the grassroots official who is close to the people, and they need the flexible means of Ji Nongcang to solve the problem quickly!
However, excessive centralization of power by government agencies and artificially adding links will only lead to slow governance, low efficiency, and unresponsiveness, which will deprive farmers of their functions!"
When everyone heard these words, they couldn't help but look at Official Lin in surprise.
They were not surprised because official Lin criticized the government office in public. After all, the Ming Dynasty was a society where free speech was regarded as politically correct. It was nothing for a well-known celebrity to criticize the government government.
They are just surprised. Why is Lin Tailai more angry than the county magistrate about the government taking away the dispatching rights of the county's agricultural warehouses?
It really goes with the old saying, the emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuch is.
"Well said! It hits the nail on the head!" The only person present who was qualified to applaud Mr. Lin was naturally the newly appointed Magistrate of Changzhou County, Yuan.
It was Xinzhi County's first appearance in the county. I wanted to express my love for the people, but was blocked by the government office. I was holding my breath.
So everyone else's questions were answered, and they thought that Lin Daguan's criticism of the government office was to deliberately curry favor with Yuan Zhixian.
But I have a new question. As a good citizen of Wu County, you are ingratiating yourself with the magistrate of Changzhou. Have you worshiped the wrong temple?
The entry ceremony in Xinzhi County was just that. After drinking at Maqiao, Yuan Zhixian was about to get on the sedan chair and leave.
But he discovered that on the stone wall at the head of Yinma Bridge, in addition to posting some government announcements, there were also three rhymed poems carved on it.
This successfully aroused the interest of Yuan Zhixian. After all, Yuan Zhixian was a great writer who could be used in middle school textbooks more than four hundred years later.
He stepped forward and took a closer look, and it turned out to be the series "Three Reflections on Eighteen Years of That Year".
"It's truly a masterpiece!" Magistrate Yuan praised loudly, and then asked around him: "Who made this."
Everyone said nothing and all looked at Official Lin.
Lin Tailai could only stand up and replied: "I'm just doing this in a humble way."
As a figure of the anti-ancient school, Yuan Zhixian's literary philosophy emphasizes opposing imitation of the ancients, liberating nature, and expressing one's true temperament, so he pays more attention to the stories behind his poems.
Then he asked: "Under what circumstances were these three sentimental poems written? What was your state of mind at the time? Why are they engraved here?"
This stumped Lin Daguan. At that time, he felt that he could no longer just write short poems and should publish some "deep" heavyweight works, so he took out these three poems.
At this moment, a very brave government official suddenly rushed up, knelt down in front of Yuan Zhixian, and said indignantly:
"What I don't know is that Lin Tailai once broke into Changzhou County and beat the county government officials viciously, injuring more than fifty people in total!
That day, we fought from the county government all the way to Yinma Bridge. When Lin Tailai was so overwhelmed with joy, he wrote these three poems at the end of the bridge!
I don’t dare to ask the elder to make the decision for the younger ones, I just want the elder to know about this past event!”
County magistrate Yuan pointed at the yamen servant and smiled at Zhang Fengyi, the representative of the gentry in the county:
"I have long heard that the servants in the county are the most cunning, but today it turned out to be true. They openly fabricated such ridiculous things."
Zhang Fengyi was speechless, and it was difficult to expose Lin Tailai's background.
The government servant who was kneeling on the ground shouted angrily: "This villain is just speaking for all the people who were beaten. If there is any fabrication, heaven will strike with thunder!
At least thousands of people in Suzhou City witnessed this incident that day, how could it be faked?"
Yuan Zhixian: "."
This level of wildness sounds no less than that of Bianzhen Prefecture and County.
So Yuan Zhixian asked the local representative Zhang Fengyi: "How many people like Lin Tailai are there in Suzhou City?"
Zhang Fengyi replied helplessly: "There is only one Lin Tailai in Suzhou City."
Lin Tailai took the opportunity to explain: "That day, I just wanted to go to Cheung Chau County to beat drums and complain about injustice, but I was blocked by the government officials!
Then I had no choice but to break the rules, liberate my nature, and express my true temperament."
Yuan Zhixian was left in a daze. Can the literary methods of "expressing true temperament" he advocated be applied to martial arts?
What is this? Entering the Tao through martial arts?
After coming back to his senses, Yuan Hongdao felt that his eyes had been opened and he asked curiously: "How much grievances do you have? Have you ever made it clear?"
Official Lin quickly said: "Thanks to the county magistrate's concern, it has been solved long ago!"
At this time, he defected to the public security faction. Li Jixuan, who accompanied him to take office, suddenly approached Yuan Zhixian and said:
"Actually, Lin Tailai himself can't explain clearly the profound meaning of these three poems.
When the Restoration School Literary Conference was held three months ago, it was rumored that these poems were all satires of Wang Danzhou. The poem "Jinfen Southeast Fifteen States" was the most obvious."
Yuan Hongdao was shocked, and said to Lin Tai: "You dare to challenge the Duke of Yanzhou at the age of eighteen, which is really commendable for your courage.
It seems that the Duke of Yanzhou was generous and spared you easily, otherwise you would not be able to stand here intact!"
It's just that Magistrate Yuan didn't understand why the locals were covering their mouths and suppressing laughter. There should be nothing wrong with what he said.
After that, Yuan Zhixian told Lin Tailai: "It seems that you are also a member of the same group. Don't leave yet. Let's have a drink together after the ceremony is over!"
The local gentry were all speechless, especially those who wanted to show off in front of the magistrate. They were cursing in their hearts.
Unexpectedly, the person who showed the most face at the welcoming ceremony turned out to be from Wu County.
Cross-county disputes, we must tolerate it even if we can’t tolerate it!
There are still some cumbersome etiquette procedures for taking office as a county magistrate, such as having to circle around the county government office to show "sovereignty".
However, this behavior reminded Lin Tailai of the lion that patrols its territory and urinates at the border to declare its sovereignty.
The other rituals include the burning of incense in the Chenghuang Temple, the first promotion to the hall, and so on.
Official Lin stayed in the Changzhou County government office, enjoying the hostile looks from around him.
What's the saying? I just like the way you look at me and feel unhappy, but there's nothing you can do about it.
The Zhang brothers reminded Lin Tailai: "I sent someone to make an appointment to go to Shenfu this morning, but ended up coming to Changzhou County again.
Second Master Shen may still be waiting, so why don’t you go and inform Second Master Shen?”
Official Lin patted his forehead and said with a wry smile: "It's true that noble people forget things so much that they almost forgot about this matter!"
Then he told Zhang Wen and Zhang Dalang: "Hurry up and send a letter to Shen Mansion, saying that I want to make friends with the new county magistrate today and ask him not to wait for me."
Zhang Wen said with a bitter face: "You don't even think about it when you are sitting in the restaurant, what kind of temper does Second Master Shen have?
To be continued...