Even in later generations with strict implementation frameworks, national policies would be deviated from local implementation, let alone the current Song Dynasty?
As the same saying goes, when a magistrate is exterminated and a county magistrate is destroyed, national policies are transmitted from the central government to the local governments. After all, they must be implemented by local officials, not to mention local officials such as county magistrates and bookkeepers, even small officials who do not have much power.
Officials can also completely change the policies that the sergeants and officials of the DPRK worked so hard to formulate.
What's more, the imperial power did not extend to the county. In the local area, clans and squires almost monopolized power. The lowest power that the people had to face was not the county government, but the local squires and clan elders.
Sometimes the power of the clan can even exceed the national law. There are too many acts of persecution or even taking human lives in the name of the clan, but the county government will never take the initiative to ask about these matters. As long as the people do not complain, the officials will not investigate, which is one more thing.
It's better to take one less thing. After a person dies, no one will remember him after a while, but the premise is that this person has no backing, and no one will settle the accounts for his future.
For ordinary ordinary people, there will be no one to stand up for them, so if they die, they will die. As long as the clan covers up the matter, there will be no trouble.
Just like the court in the Song Dynasty, the local clan's ideas cannot solve the problem, so we have to deal with the people who raised the problem. Many imperial decrees cannot be effectively implemented at the local level, and the county government needs to rely on the power of the clan to deal with the local issues.
For management, the two parties can only choose to compromise. The clan will implement some necessary decrees, and the county government will turn a blind eye to the clan's lynching.
Ye An and Wu Zunlu both agreed with Lao Fan's emphasis on tax reductions and exemptions this year. But what they didn't expect was that Fan Zhongyan made repeated requests in the memorial, requesting the imperial court to supervise the matter with the Jianghuai County Yamen. Zhongshu
Government orders should be sent directly to the county government offices rather than the state government offices.
In this way, the matter can be grasped to the greatest extent. In the past, a county magistrate was at most responsible for the state government's yamen. But if Zhongshu's decree is delivered to their hands, it will definitely attract their attention!
Ye An smiled slightly. If this attracts attention, I'm afraid it will scare people, but in fact, Lao Fan's leapfrog communication is quite good. It is difficult for the people of Jianghuai to recover from this disaster. After all, in this land
Most of the land is plain. In the past, drought and locust disasters were rarely encountered, and the people were used to it.
This disaster brought a devastating blow to the people of Jianghuai. Many Zhongxian, Shangxian, and even Chixian counties became poor due to this disaster.
It is equivalent to a wealthy family being hit by an unreasonable disaster, and many people even cannot accept this fact and choose to commit suicide. This is why the White Lotus Society has grown and developed.
In the Tongzhou Yamen, Fan Zhongyan once again put the three memorials into the brocade box, sealed the opening and closing parts with wax seals, sealed them with the official seals of three people, and handed them over to the urgent deliveryman.
Being able to use the express delivery service that travels four hundred miles a day already shows that the situation is urgent. Now the Jianghuai area can be said to be suffering from internal and external troubles. Even though Tongzhou has stabilized and is still providing assistance to neighboring state capitals, the number of victims is increasing, mainly in various places.
Last year's grain reserves have been almost used up.
There is almost no grain harvest this summer, which means that the people have to stop. Even if Fan Zhongyan and Ye An suppress food prices in various places, it will take time. The victims of the disaster only see less and less food, and they do not see that there is less and less food.
There is a steady stream of grain transport convoys on the road to Jianghuai, and the panic in my heart will naturally increase.
On one side is the panic of the people themselves, on the other side is the secret deception of the White Lotus Society. There is never a shortage of ambitious careerists in this world, and the same is true for Dai Dekun.
Even Fang Linyue planned to use Dai Dekun for revenge at the beginning, but in the end his ruthlessness made Fang Linyue completely disappointed, and when he quietly left the White Lotus Society, Ye An finally stopped caring.
Compared with providing relief to the victims, the court's attitude towards associations such as the White Lotus Society was much tougher.
Whether it is the scholar-bureaucrat class or the official Zhao Zhen, the last thing they want to see from the bottom of their hearts is the dynamic turmoil in civil society. Bailian Society has already appeared with remarks that incite people to rebel. This is absolutely intolerable to the ruling class.
of.
You can say that the emperor of the Song Dynasty was benevolent and always opened his eyes to those ridiculous people who talked about rebellion and claiming to be emperor, but the White Lotus Society was different. This was an organization with the real purpose of rebellion.
The old Zhao family was most afraid of civil rebellion if the country was not in good order. Of course, everyone in the court knew that the Song Dynasty had a lot of miscellaneous taxes, especially those in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jianghuai, and Guangxi. But if it were not for these miscellaneous taxes, the Song Dynasty would have
Where did the dynasty get the money and food for the northern border defense?
The common people's dissatisfaction with taxation can be reconciled, and the scholar-bureaucrats can provide more sophisticated taxation methods, but they cannot be resisted by rebellion.
Although that's not what they said, the attitude of everyone in the court was surprisingly consistent. Ye An was the only one who felt that it was natural for the people to rebel, and they were all forced to die. They had nothing to lose, so they would not rebel.
what?
It's not that Ye An doesn't agree with the rebellion, but he thinks that the White Lotus Society can't rebel, and Dai Dekun, as the leader of the White Lotus Society, can't do it by him!
Looking back on the history of the Han Dynasty, in the peasant uprisings one after another, the vast majority of those who ended up miserable were still peasants, and ordinary people did not receive any benefits. There were very few dynasty changes, which often benefited other regimes and allowed others to reap the benefits.
.
But what Ye An didn't expect was that even if the court was resolute, the manpower provided to Ye An was still far from enough. White lotuses were everywhere in the Jianghuai area, so Zhao Zhen decided to let Fan Zhongyan after asking Zhang Shixun and Li Di.
The work of pacifying the victims continued, but Ye An was tasked with wiping out the Bailian Society. For this reason, Ye An was specially assigned as the Jianghuai Road Manager.
This mission has a great reputation, which is equivalent to taking charge of the military and political power of Huainan West Road and Huainan East Road. Under special circumstances, it can even directly control the military and civilians, which can be said to be extremely powerful.
Generally, such important missions are only set up when there is a rebellion, and they are always given to the prime minister of the dynasty. Fan Zhongyan frowned slightly after hearing this title. He was not upset because Ye An received such a grand mission.
I felt happy, but on the contrary, I was very worried.
"It's probably not a good thing for the imperial court to give you the position of strategic envoy. The White Lotus bandits in Jianghuai are rising at the moment, and the situation is mixed. We have to clear it out before we can figure it out. Once you are established as a commander, the world will look at you. Oh, and there are still soldiers.
, how many troops has the imperial court given you? These are detailed in the documents of the Privy Council. You must not exceed them, otherwise the official admonitions will not be ignored. Then there is the Xiangjun forbidden army. This is the land of Jianghuai.
Most of them are for stability. There are only a handful of forbidden troops, and each has its own responsibilities. You may not be able to call them, but there are quite a few Xiang troops, but those Xiang troops..."
As Fan Zhongyan finished speaking, Wu Zunlu, who was still looking kindly next to him, suddenly changed his face and shouted at the top of his voice: "Isn't this a trick? Could it be that you offended Xianggong Zhang when you were in Suzhou City before, so you backhanded him now?"
A dangerous move? Now that you have no one and no one, what’s the use of having the name of a handsome commander? Oh... you’re just trying to silence others!"
Wu Zunlu reacted suddenly, blaming the direction of Tokyo City and swearing loudly. He gave Ye An high-level tasks but refused to give them to him. Once something went wrong in the extermination of the White Lotus Society, he would put all the shit basins in his hands.
On the head.
This was obviously due to Zhang Shixun's villainous heart, but Ye An pulled Wu Zunlu and said: "It would be better not to give others. Doesn't Wu Zhizhou not know what I, Ye An, am capable of? It's hard to say, but in military affairs it is still
Someone who knows a thing or two.”
I just heard Fan Zhongyan say quietly: "What I'm afraid of is that your contribution is too great... This place is different from Huanzhou. It's sweet and cold! The land inside is strong on the outside and capable on the outside. If there is... eh!"