When Ying Ke walked into his office, he saw a large group of officials waiting here. These officials were all his old acquaintances and former high-ranking officials of the Qin Empire.
However, their identities are now a bit subtle. Some are affiliated to the Wuyang Municipal Government of the Tang Empire, and some have been transferred to institutions directly under various departments.
"Sir..." Seeing Ying Ke walking in, many old officials bowed and greeted him.
"Prime Minister..." Someone else directly called out Ying Ke's old official position.
Ying Ke waved his hand and corrected the other party: "I am no longer the prime minister. I am now the mayor of Wuyang City."
As he spoke, he walked back to his seat. Then he comforted everyone and said, "There are no outsiders here. If you have anything to say, just say it. We don't have much time to waste."
"Sir, we are worried that the Tang Dynasty will cross the river and demolish the bridge. We are only appointed to appease the people. We will look back and worry about it after the incident, wouldn't it be..." An old minister told Ying Ke about his worries.
Ying Ke waved his hand and said directly: "No, now I have seen the people's sentiments clearly. People don't need us to bother and appoint me, probably because there are really no candidates. If we don't have problems ourselves, it will be so big
The probability... I still have to continue to serve as this official."
Some people breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Ying Ke was also a member of the Qin royal family. If he said this, he must have heard some rumors.
"As long as everyone doesn't bring the past trends into the new officialdom, no one will be concerned about it." Ying Ke comforted him, and then continued to ask: "Is there anything else?"
"Sir, I'm here to say goodbye. The lower official has been transferred to the disciplinary department. It is estimated that we will not have any interactions in the future..." A middle-aged official bowed his head and said goodbye to Ying Ke. He was the former Jiantai official of the Qin State and was responsible for
It is to supervise the discipline, words and deeds of all officials.
Now he has been directly incorporated into the disciplinary department of the Datang Empire, which is responsible for investigating anti-corruption cases. That's why he said that there will be no intersection in the future, because if he comes to the door, it is probably Ying Ke who has committed a crime...
"Yes, you have a good place." Ying Ke knew that this official was indeed selfless and his character was naturally very good, so he smiled and said: "In the future, we will still be officials in the same court, and everyone must adapt to the new environment.
That’s it.”
In the past two months, Ying Ke has been busy with various government affairs in Wuyang City, which really made him feel that the Tang Empire was unique.
To be honest, he had never been so busy when he was the prime minister of Qin State: there were several times more large and small affairs. Only now did he realize that managing a city could be so complicated.
The first thing I felt was spending money, spending money endlessly. As the mayor, he had more money than the Ministry of Accounts had in the past, and he approved all kinds of money-spending tasks almost every day.
As an important city in the west, Wuyang City needs to expand the airport and train station, build subways and new water supply and drainage projects, and even build new government buildings and more than a dozen so-called landmark buildings...
If these costly projects were not proposed by officials transferred from the Tang Dynasty Empire, the mayor Ying Ke would not dare to approve them. In Ying Ke's view, this is a complete waste of state funds.
If during the Qin Empire era, someone proposed to build a new square or a new palace in the court hall, they would definitely be criticized by the ministers and they would doubt their life.
But within the Tang Empire, the application fees for officials from various departments were as common as eating and drinking, as if applying for such a costly project was of no importance at all.
In fact, this is also true. At first, Ying Ke rejected some proposals, but later officials from these departments directly impeached him as the mayor. An auxiliary officer was sent from above to teach Ying Ke several lessons and let him
Understand what it means to stimulate domestic demand and activate the economy...
Later, Ying Ke habitually approved almost all grant applications. When he had no money, he went to the superior department to apply twice. Then he discovered that it was just as easy for him to ask others for money as it was for others to ask him for money.
In the Tang Empire, as if the money was not money, the government scattered tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gold coins every day, and many times there was not even a sound.
But two months later, Ying Ke discovered that things were different from what he had originally suspected: He believed that this method of spreading money would only reduce the country's funds, and overall it should be just a charity to appease the occupied areas.
But later he was surprised to find that after he spent the money, the local people began to praise the entire Wuyang government.
Small businesses and hawkers have a large market to sell their goods, and the smooth streets allow citizens to praise the municipal leadership. Various projects support various local migrant workers, directly create more jobs, and stimulate the development of the local economy.
As a result, the tax amount increased, and I quickly earned back part of the money I spent. Although it was still much less than what I spent, the cost-effectiveness of the money spent was much higher than that of the money spent.
Already.
The city has become more beautiful, there are more factories, power generation has increased, and various constructions have begun... It can be expected that Wuyang City will definitely become better in the next few years.
With this premise, the money spent will naturally not make people feel bad. At this time, Ying Ke finally understood why the Tang Empire was stronger than the Qin Empire.
The concepts of both sides are not the same, and the operating mechanisms of both sides are different. Therefore, the gap between the two countries is like two dimensions and cannot be compared at all.
If the Tang Empire is in the sky, then the Qin Kingdom can only be regarded as a ravine. The gap between the two is too big. The Qin Empire has no chance of winning from the beginning.
Just comparing the administration of officials, there are obvious differences. Ying Ke found that the officials of the Tang Empire were more like the officials of the Qin State, and they were all good at doing practical things. They rarely welcomed people to manage interpersonal relationships, and occasionally
Interactions are also personal interactions.
Everyone is just doing things at work, and everyone has their own work stance, and they will not compromise with each other easily. This state is completely different from the officialdom of the Qin State. In terms of efficiency, the officials in the Tang Empire are obviously higher.
.
Ying Ke didn't know how long the Tang Empire could last in this state of almost no internal friction, but the essential difference between the modern bureaucracy and the ancient bureaucracy opened Ying Ke's eyes.
In the Tang State, meetings only discussed things and problems. Even if there were some rules or hidden rules for doing things, the efficiency was much higher than that of the Qin State in the past.
Whoever has to do many things will be responsible, and whoever has to cooperate will have to cooperate fully. If there is a problem, there is no way to shirk it. This state... In Yingke's view, it is really great.
