Early the next morning, Du Zhongxiao announced the quotation at the entrance of the inn and allowed the people to sue themselves. Any local officials who were illegal, did not investigate any cases, or other matters could be sued to the Censorate.

This time, the retrial of the Bai family case was secondly. Du Zhongxiao's more important task was to understand the situation here and propose solutions. The current Ye County is completely different from the last time when Du Zhongxiao came. At that time, the main body of Ye County was within the city wall, and there were only a few grass markets outside the city wall. Now it is different. Most of the population of Ye County lives outside the city wall. Moreover, due to the concentration of factories, several large settlement areas were formed.

As the system changes cannot keep up with the changes, only one of the several large settlements has a prison town, and the management of the rest is blank. Ye County Government really does not have the ability to manage all the residential areas under its jurisdiction.

There are 100,000 households in Kaifeng Prefecture, including a large number of officials, and the government has a large number of manpower. Due to the concentrated population, cases are still accumulated. There are nearly 100,000 households under the supervision of Baiting, with hundreds of thousands of people. How can they manage them only by relying on the officials in the supervision and county? In fact, the official-run venue affairs are basically autonomous, and the rest of the places can be managed, and private venues are basically ignored.

Such a situation has never been encountered before. The local government does not know what to do, and the imperial court does not know. The requirement for the local government is that nothing is wrong. As long as there is nothing wrong, even if many cases in the local government are settled privately, it is a contribution of the local government.

Over the years, the local government has no idea how many unrelated cases have been accumulated. This time, Du Zhongxiao came to collect these information and propose solutions to form a new situation.

In the inn, Cheng Laiguang came in from outside and said to Du Zhongxiao: "In half a day, he had more than 30 letters. How many cases are there in this place? After posting the list, there are not many people who read it."

Du Zhongxiao asked him to sit down and said, "How many cases are there in Kaifeng Prefecture in a year? How many are there in Baitingjian in a year?"

Cheng Laiguang said: "A rough calculation shows that the cases accepted by Baitingjian and Ye County in one year are not as many as those of Kaifeng Prefecture."

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "That's it. You must know that except for the army and officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, the people and households in Baitingjian are almost the same as that. Could it be that the people here are so law-abiding, and there is no case happening? It's just that the government can't control it. It's not useless for ordinary people to know that reporting to officials is just for the people. We will just collect the situation here and report it to the court. The news of the incident, and the censors' reports are just about the affairs of the capital, and the local area is basically ignorant. It's different now. The people and households in Baitingjian and the factories here are not too much to say that they are the most prosperous place in the world now, and there are too few officials who can be governed."

In fact, it is not just that there are too few officials, but more importantly, the previous governance method is not suitable. Due to the disconnection between the parties, the official Baitingjian and the civilian government have been separated, and the official cannot actually manage civil affairs. If Bai Xian insisted on complaining about the case of the Bai family, that would have been the case.

The development of industry will lead to the rapid concentration of economic and population construction, which is the case with Baitingjian. The earliest factories were built here. In a few years, with the construction of railways, a huge domestic demand market has been formed. In addition, Du Zhongxiao fought several wars in recent years and the army was reorganized. The industry of Baitingjian was developing very rapidly, and a large number of people were attracted nearby.

Now is the rapid development period of Baitingjian. When factories are opened, they make money. Although the people are in chaos, the economy is in an orderly manner. Once industrial development stagnates, there will be no such harmony. If the court just wants the money and food collected here without considering the hidden worries behind, chaos may occur.

Du Zhongxiao looked at the letter he received, and the more he looked, the more he frowned. The two major themes of these letters are: one is stealing, stealing, cheating, and robbing money, and the other is murder case. Many cases are still combined. Some are suppressed by local tyrants, and some report to the government, but they are left unresolved because of insufficient evidence. Many of the cases are related to nearby factories.

After putting down the complaint, Du Zhongxiao could not stop the matter. If all these cases were punished in poverty, many factory owners who have emerged in recent years might have been implicated. In the words of later generations, these people were new bourgeoisie and should be encouraged and protected. If they were not dealt with, this situation would become more and more intense. They had money in their hands and could not be suppressed by the government.

What should we do? Find ways to promote industrialization and alleviate class contradictions, which is a headache. The knowledge learned in our previous lives is based on the history of Europe and is not consistent with the current reality. European industrialization, because the country is small, is mixed with foreign colonial aggression, accompanied by blood and oppression. China is different. The first thing we face is the huge domestic market. The first thing we do in industrialization is the reorganization of domestic resources and the development of markets.

Sighing, Du Zhongxiao asked Cheng Laiguang to go out and thought alone.

While Du Zhongxiao was thinking hard, he suddenly heard a voice: "Is it really an official? Why didn't I compile a book for me early?"

Du Zhongxiao opened his eyes and saw that Tao Shiqi was coming, and said with a smile: "I came in a hurry this time, so I didn't know you."

Tao Shiqi stepped forward and saluted, sat down aside, and said, "I heard from the officials in the prison that the officials were here, but I didn't believe it for a moment. It was not until yesterday that the officials in the prison came to greet him, and I realized that he was really here. Come and see him today."

Du Zhongxiao ordered tea to come and asked, "Are you okay in Baitingjian over the years?"

Tao Shiqi said: "Okay, everything is fine. In recent years, the army has been reorganized, and the prison has been unable to complete the work. It is just that the Privy Council needs guns and cannons to complete the army, but it is unwilling to pay money. It is a bit troublesome. If the prison makes money, it can only make more civilian goods to sell, otherwise we will not know where to go for our salary."

Du Zhongxiao said: "That's not to say, you are all officials, aren't you the court paying your salary together?"

Tao Shiqi said: "How much money is there? Our craft officials have low salary, so they all rely on the prison to pay additional money."

"So that's it." Du Zhongxiao nodded. Although he knew about this, he didn't know how much they could post. "It has been eight years since the establishment of the Railway Supervision Bureau. It seems that you have taken root here. Are you satisfied with living in this place?"

Tao Shiqi said: "We live in the Iron Supervision, which is an official factory. Everything has its own rules, but it's okay. But Ye County is different. There are many small factories in private and all kinds of people, which is much more complicated than the Iron Supervision. Generally, there is nothing to do, and we rarely come here."

Du Zhongxiao said: "In seven or eight years, everything is on the rise. Of course everything is fine. The official factory has its own officials in charge of it, and of course it is orderly. In Ye County, everything is developed by the people themselves, of course it is different."

Tao Shiqi nodded repeatedly: "Yes, that's not the case. How much money do we make for the Iron Supervisor? Many of the staff here in Ye County have a wealth of wealth and make money every day, which is not something we can compare with. We can't tell them to go together."
Chapter completed!