"The Master said: Isn't it a saying to learn and practice it from time to time?

Is it fun to have friends coming from afar?

Isn’t it a gentleman who doesn’t know but is not angry?”

In the Confucius Temple in the inner city of Liuqiu, a group of officials, officials, and wealthy merchants in the city sat in the front row, and dozens of chairs behind them sat in full. The auditorium that was enough to accommodate thousands of people was full.

The person standing on the top of the lecture was Fan Lubing, the magistrate of Penghu County.

Fan Lubing was a Jinshi in the first year of Zhenguan. He also worked as a history with Li Xiu and served as a post-mortgage official in the Shangshu Province. He is naturally quite familiar with the Analects of Confucius, which has been included in one of the thirteen Confucian classics of the Tang Dynasty. Today, he stood on the top and personally explained the opening of the Analects of Confucius, with a loud voice.

Although he talked about Confucian classics, his teaching method was a very common way to understand. Even if there were butchers, vegetables, farms, or even illiterate people, he could understand it.

The classics of the saint become easy to understand under his mouth. He also conveyed the meanings expressed by the saint one by one.

"Lu Bing's speech is good." Li exclaimed softly. Looking at the people around him who were listening to the lecture, although it was a task. Every weekend, the yamen servants and village chiefs from each village went door to door to inform him that they could get a gift after the lecture was over.

At the beginning, there were indeed many people who were reluctant to come. They felt that it was time to waste. Officials and teachers had weekends, but ordinary people had no weekends to take.

But after listening to it a few times, most people were willing to come to the class. Li was sure that they were not coming for the little gift every time.

In fact, gifts are nothing. They are usually a booklet for preaching, which is the passage of scriptures mentioned in the current period. They also come with a newspaper. Sometimes they will give you a few buns and buns to everyone for lunch.

This kind of preaching is different from the usual literacy classes. The literacy class mainly teaches everyone to read and arithmetic, while this preaching mainly explains the classics of the saints.

Ke Shan had never read a book before, but later he learned a little, so he could barely write his own name. Every time he accompanied Li to listen to the lecture, he was really just accompaniment at the beginning. But now, he can listen to it so much that he can concentrate.

He can understand the classics of saints through the explanations of officials and teachers.

"Mr. Fan's words are really good, better than the others."

"Lu Bing is a Jinshi, and he may still become the prime minister in the future." Li said with a smile.

Sunday's lectures are usually one hour, and everyone can discuss and talk freely after the lecture. After each lecture, there will be fundraising activities, but they are all free. The money collected is donated to the education foundation for school education.

Even after the lecture, there will be a council.

The parliament is a school district where residents and businessmen elect representatives and serve as councillors. For some civil disputes, you don’t have to go directly to the yamen to complain, but instead propose them in the parliament, which consists of deliberation teams to ask questions, collect evidence, and finally make a judgment.

This kind of parliament is actually implementing the power of the past patriarchal families.

Local governments have always emphasized that imperial power does not go to the countryside, and the countryside mainly implements autonomy. Local tribes and rural figures preside over justice, and some civil disputes are presided over by them.

Only when major cases, such as criminal cases, will they be reported to the county government.

In Liuqiu, most of them are new immigrants, and they do not have the kind of clans like those in the countryside. Therefore, Li launched such a school district council.

The area is divided by school districts. For example, there are nine schools in the inner city of Liuqiu, so there are nine school district councils. Outside the city, there is one school in each Tunzhuang, so one Tunzhuang is a school district.

The parliament of the school district is elected by residents and businessmen who settled in the school district, and is generally set as thirteen members of the parliament.

Members of parliament have no salary and belong to an organization of people's autonomy. They are registered with the official and are subject to official supervision. They are usually responsible for people's autonomy, and disputes are presided over by them after the lecture.

Of course, the parliament also has some other responsibilities, and councillors have the right to supervise and advise on the exhibitions in the district. They can also make suggestions to the county government on some issues in the school district.

The school district council is not subject to the jurisdiction of district, township, or town local officials.

The parliament is similar to the village hall in the Ming Dynasty, and it also has the prototype of some later local councils.

When Li first introduced this council, he told county magistrate Fan Lubing that local people were self-governing and helping county governments better manage local areas. After all, even a county has more than 60 officials and a temporary rank of more than 100. But there are more than 50,000 people in Penghu County, and so many merchants, and even more than 100,000 Shanyi have to watch, which requires both public order and taxes and judicial litigation.

It is very difficult for the yamen to manage the port city well. It is too difficult for them to manage the countryside well.

Although each township has township offices and the police stations are responsible for civil affairs and public security, there are only a dozen township offices and police stations, and if they want to manage a few thousand people in a township, they will also be unable to manage them.

It was precisely because of this that Li proposed to establish a parliament to replace the clan autonomy in the past countryside, and finally obtained Fan Lubing's approval.

The county and the township really can't control it. Liuqiu is another immigrant society, lacking the big clans in the countryside in the past, and the countryside is indeed beyond the reach.

However, at the beginning, Fan Lubing planned to appoint a member of the parliament in the village, but Li felt that this method was not good, so it would be better for the people to choose themselves, and the village finally agreed to this form.

The council did not follow the townships, but directly followed the school district.

Nowadays, primary schools are set up in various places, and these official primary schools are set up very evenly, and each school is evenly distributed. One school district is much smaller than a township, but there are at least a few hundred residents.

Fan Lubing proposed to set up a council at the township level above the school district. After all, there are too few people in township offices, and those officials cannot manage so many things, especially the disputes in some places. If you don’t care, it won’t work.

Li asked Fan Lubing to take his time.

The rice must be eaten bite by bite. Although Li threw out the parliament and had no intention of just forming a village-level autonomous organization from the beginning. He had a big plan, but the bigger the plan, the more he had to take it slowly.

In fact, the power of the parliament is not very great. They do not just slap in the local disputes, nor do they just need to just slap in the majority of people.

Local disputes and rulings must also be based on the laws of the Tang Dynasty. For example, the Zhenguan Law clearly states that there are many laws on the marriage of the Tang Dynasty, so these regulations cannot be violated.

The Tang Dynasty stipulated that good people would not marry, so when local authorities ruled on such issues, this was the bottom line and could not be touched and violated.

For example, when the Tang Dynasty stipulated that widows were allowed to remarry, the local government could not stop remarrying. Other disputes such as property disputes, water and land disputes, and even fights, must be followed by the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

Each dispute must be approved by two-thirds of the members of the Parliament before the ruling can be passed. Nine out of the thirteen members must pass it to be valid.

After an hour of lecture, Fan Lubing couldn't help but feel a little dry.

Everyone applauded and exclaimed, Fan Lubing stepped down with a smile.

At this time, someone pushed a few buckets of herbal tea and brought some buns, biscuits and other snacks. Everyone also got up to sit down, and those who ate snacks, those who ate tea had tea, and some went to wash their hands and change their clothes.

Li handed Fan Lubing a cup of tea, "I said it well, it is worthy of being the one who once told the prince."

Fan Lubing smiled and said, "Compared with the teacher, I am far inferior. The teacher often preaches to His Majesty."

The emperor and the prince often asked the Grand Secretary and important ministers to preach the scriptures on their behalf, explain the classics of the saints, and combine them with current affairs. The scriptures they preach are naturally different from what they say to ordinary people today, and each has its own emphasis.

"You are very good at speaking, especially suitable for you. The people don't understand too many principles, so you have to listen to your in-depth and easy-to-understand explanation."

"I'm far behind when the teacher gave a lecture last time. The last time the teacher gave a lecture, more than 3,000 people came, all inside and out, and many people couldn't even squeeze in."

Li Xiaoxiao, "They came to listen to my class mainly because of my reputation."

Fan Lubing said, "I will talk more when I have time in the future."

The lectures in various schools are not fixed on weekends. Officials and teachers take turns to give lectures. The school where Li and others are now the best school in Liuqiu and the only middle school, so there are a lot of people here every week.

People with status basically come here to listen to classes.

After a few times, it has become a new custom and tradition to listen to lectures on the weekend of Liuqiu Island.

When we were having tea and chatting, there were also some businessmen and officials coming to say hello.

After resting for half an hour, the congressmen in the school district went on stage and sat down.

The parliament opened.

County Magistrate Fan Lubing also sat down with Li with other officials.

The first issue of the parliament today is the establishment of a patrol team in this district. They want to discuss whether to establish a patrol team in this district, whether the residents of this district take turns to be on duty, or whether they each pay for the money to hire people.

Although this school district is in the inner city, it is an immigrant city after all, with a large number of migrant populations, so public security is still a problem. Even if there are yamen runners in the county government, the people still feel that it is not enough.

After a while of discussion, it was finally decided to vote on several options, and everyone would vote together.

County magistrate Fan Lubing lives in the county government office, but is also in this school district, so he also has the right to vote. When the presided over the parliamentarian shouted on the top and raised his hand if he agreed to establish a patrol team, Fan Lubing raised his hand with a sense of novelty.

The vast majority of residents raised their hands, from other school districts to listen to lectures, as well as outsiders, who were sitting in the auditorium and had no right to vote.

Finally, it is counted that more than 80% of residents said they should set up a patrol team themselves.

Then the vote will be made on the basis of the residents themselves or to pay for the employment of people.

Someone suggested that the new proposal of each company to pay the money and then hire residents of the district to act as patrol members, so he voted again.

More than 70% of people passed.

The host said that the patrol team's issue has been approved. The specific question of how much money each company spends and how many people it hires will be solicited for opinions and vote next week.

Then there is the second issue, the mediation ruling on the dispute case between two residents on the street.

"It's quite efficient, and everyone can accept the results." Fan Lubing told Li Dao.
Chapter completed!