After leaving Donghua Gate, the sun was already setting. Looking at the sunset in the sky, Du Zhongxiao let out a sigh of relief. This discussion was more tiring than commanding a war by himself. After all, the new military system and new combat forms have not been widely accepted, and it is not easy to discuss the facts of war.

Wang Gui, a Hanlin scholar, said: "There will be no morning court tomorrow. Several of us discussed in the same year. We went to the nearby Fanlou to drink and play with our children, so that we could come back from Ye County to welcome the wind. It was not early, so let's go there. Many officials there were having banquets and wearing court newspapers was nothing."

Du Zhongxiao said: "To be honest, when I was an official in another place, I had never entered a restaurant in public uniform except for official banquets. I was really not used to it in this way. The customs in the capital are many different from those in other places."

Wang Gui said: "I don't know many officials in the capital, so many things are no longer surprising."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "And the capital is too big. When you leave the palace, where can you go home and change your casual clothes? Let's not let them wait for a long time."

After saying that, the two of them walked east with their followers. They turned two intersections and arrived outside the gate of Fanlou.

Fanlou is the largest restaurant in Tokyo, and of course it is also the largest restaurant in the world at this time. Its layout is the standard of the Tianxia Restaurant. Outside the door is a tall colorful building, below are radiant female prostitutes, and two rows of servants stand in front, which is extremely prosperous and lively.

Seeing Du Zhongxiao and Wang Gui arrive, a servant stepped forward and said, "Two ministers, thank you for your hard work. Several officials have been waiting in there for a long time!"

After saying that, he led Du Zhongxiao and Wang Gui into the door, all the way to the backyard, and into a small pavilion. Wang Anshi, Han Jiang, Su Song, Han Zongyan and others were already inside, and hurriedly got up to greet him.

Several people sat down, and Han Jiang said, "We are discussing here. If you discuss too late, we will drink and eat meat and wait. As soon as you finished speaking, you came in. It's such a coincidence."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Today, there is nothing big about how to attack Dangxiang. It's just that there are many people and talks."

When it comes to major affairs in the court, the rest of the people did not ask more questions. At this time, the dishes had already come up, and Du Zhongxiao led a glass of wine and talked about some gossip. After chatting for a few words, he went to the memorial that Du Zhongxiao gave a few days ago.

Wang Anshi said: "Zhao came to Ye County a few days ago. After returning, he submitted a memorial saying that there would be major changes. After the memorial came out, the court officials discussed everything and said everything. A few of us were not very familiar with the matters of the Iron Supervision except Zirong. I just asked Zirong that when he was there, the main affairs were all from the Iron Supervision Bureau, and Ye County was nothing special. I wonder what it is now, so why did I think that it would be necessary to change it?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "When Zirong knew that the iron supervision was just built, the iron supervision was of course nothing special in Ye County. In the past few years, especially after the railway was opened, Ye County has gathered industry and commerce, so of course it is different. When the railway was first built, Ye County had only a few thousand households, and it was an ordinary small county in the Central Plains. Now, there are 50,000 or 60,000 households there, but the government still has insufficient statistics. With the iron tools sold by the iron supervision, I don't know how many factories have been opened in the country, ranging from various agricultural machinery to needles and threads, and everything can be produced in factories. People gather and countless factories are numerous, which is of course different from before."

Han Jiang said: "Even so, it's just bigger than before. Just promote the county to prefecture and increase officials."

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Zihua, what's so simple! Ye County and Baitingjian are connected together. The two places add up to a total of about 100,000 households. These 100,000 households are not scattered, but gathered along the banks of the Li River. In addition to Kaifeng Prefecture, where is there such a big place in this dynasty? How many officials in Kaifeng Prefecture? How many soldiers in Kaifeng Prefecture? Where is Ye County? Not only there are many people, but there are many factories there. To put it to an exaggeration, most of the factories in the world are around Ye County. Factory is different from farmers and shops. How to manage them? How to collect taxes? All of this is something that has not been encountered before. If you don't change it now, don't try a reliable method, you will definitely suffer a lot in the future!"

The other few people nodded together and did not speak. What does it look like when a hundred thousand households gathered together? They couldn't think of it for a while. Such many households are different from those in the capital, such as the best place in the country. The place does not have the political resources of Kaifeng Prefecture, does not have so much manpower to manage, and does not have the superior conditions for national support, so it is really not easy to manage properly.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Wang Anshi said: "After the memorial, Ye County now has a lot of money and food, so it seems not difficult to manage."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It can be said that, but the current official system is difficult to achieve. Strictly speaking, the money and grain collected in the county should be transferred to the state, and there is no spare money. It is difficult to do things without money. How can several households get together by relying on the magistrate, county magistrate, and chief clerk, how can they manage it? If officials are added, there is always a name, and there is a way."

Everyone nodded together. The current political system was formulated by Taizu and Taizong to prevent local separatism when they were founded. The general principle was to empty the local area and to be a real central government. The local area had no power and strength, so how could it be managed well? Delegating power to local areas and how to prevent separatism became another problem. Everyone has been an official for more than ten years, and except for Wang Gui, they have all experienced it at the grassroots level, so naturally they know it is not easy.

Wang Gui said: "After the memorials are announced, the people from our Academy have also discussed them. The Iron Supervisory Ye County is actually connected together. It is better to combine the two and become a major state. The following is the method of Kaifeng Prefecture, each sets up its own boxes and sends officials to manage it."

Du Zhongxiao said: "This is also a solution. But after setting up a wing, how officials are set up is still a big problem. For example, Kaifeng Prefecture, the lower wing can manage civil affairs, and the criminal prison can be debated."

Kaifeng Prefecture is divided into two counties, namely Kaifeng and Xiangfu. The county governments are both in Kaifeng city, with Yujie as the boundary. However, the affairs in Kaifeng city are not under the jurisdiction of the two counties, and the city is divided into several wings, and the two counties manage the affairs outside the wings. The construction of the wings has changed over and over again. There were once a wise wing official. Because the management of the wings caused many problems, the wings were still received by the wings.

The wings in Kaifeng City are somewhat similar to those in later cities, and are special constructions at the first level. Any place where the wings are set up is considered to be in the city, including several wings outside the city. The outside is under the jurisdiction of each county, and there is another point of the affairs of various counties and towns, which is in charge of the suburbs and counties, and its status is much lower than that of the prefect of Kaifeng.

The only thing that can be compared with Ye County is Kaifeng Prefecture. Now the rest of the big cities in the world are far less than the scale there. However, the status of Kaifeng Prefecture is too special, and the functions of the lower wing level are constantly changing, which can be learned from Ye County.

Several people were drinking while discussing this matter. Everyone knew the situation in Kaifeng Prefecture, and after a while, they felt that it was not suitable for Ye County.

Su Song said: "When the Railway Supervision was built, it was the official camp, and the people who went there were Yingtianxiangjun, so it was not difficult to manage. But I didn't expect that the people have opened factories now, but there were endless troubles. If there was no way, what if all the Gan Qian turned into the official camp?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Zirong, it is impossible for all official businesses to run. It is precisely because the official businesses are simple to manage, and the things they produce must be followed by rules. Many things produced by factories cannot be judged rationally when they first come out, and they must be private. If the official businesses will not come out, many things will not come out and the people will not buy them. Only by combining the official businesses can we meet what the people want."

Wang Anshi said: "What I said at the moment is that it must be true, not formed casually. We cannot face it because it is difficult, but just think about taking it away. We officials are going to do this."

Du Zhongxiao said: "What Jie Fu said is that you should not be afraid of difficulties, you must face it directly. However, if you want to do this well, you must truly understand where you can come up with a solution. I only stayed in Ye County for more than ten days and saw the problem, but it was difficult to come up with a solution for a while."

To solve a problem, you must first investigate and research, not to slap your head. When you see the problem, you are still a thousand miles away from solving the problem. Du Zhongxiao himself knew that how to do new industrialization and how the government managed it. Without long-term research and practice, it is impossible to solve it based on his previous experience. The reason sounds very simple, and there is still a long way to go to implement it in reality.

Wang Anshi sighed: "I am free to serve as the magistrate of Shuzhou. Later, Changzhou was the magistrate. I have done everything that Xiao did on Jingxi Road, and I realized that I am well aware of local affairs. But I did not expect that in a few years, I have left a place like Ye County, which is completely different from the previous one."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "Things in the world are changing all the time, and that's how they are. Only one thing is that as long as you focus on the people's livelihood and know how the people live, think, and do, you can always come up with a solution."

Wang Gui said: "In the memorial that I am about to get ready, there are many questions about Ye County, but I can't explain them clearly. We sat together in the same year, so I might as well say something. Everyone can think about it and maybe come up with a solution."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Now the imperial court governs the local area, using three types of people. One is an official, who is sent by the imperial court, and all are migrant officials. The other is an official, who is hired by the government, and most of them are local people, and they do things in detail. The other is a disability, which is recruited from the people, which is actually a service and a real effort. In the past, the imperial court lacked financial resources, and many local officials were unable to pay salaries, and they were also sent from local large households. To govern the local area, one had to find a way out from these three types of people."

Several people nodded and said yes, and they were meditating and silent for a moment.

Du Zhongxiao thought about this issue when discussing the army with Wang Gongchen. In the army, there are officials who are effective and soldiers, which actually correspond to local officials and officials. Their responsibilities are similar to those of some extent. Because officials are officials, they represent the court to control actual power. The effectiveness of the army, local officials are actually doing things. The soldiers of the army and the servants of the local government are responsible for doing specific efforts and truly doing things under the leadership of the officials.

The difference between the two is that one does something externally and the other is internally. External combat and internal governance, and there are completely different work contents, and of course there are different operating procedures. Local servants are also the objects of governance. When working, they can supervise officials. This is what Du Zhongxiao said when he was referring to the police.

In this era, China had China's national conditions, but it was actually different from the political structure of later generations. The political structure of later generations, because the structure came from Europe, with their characteristics, and the most important thing was autonomy. Of course, unified China had no local autonomy, but various factory autonomy, school autonomy, etc. still had their characteristics.

The tradition of China is not self-governed, and officials are bound to the court and form a system. Due to the vast country, it is difficult for local forces to actually affect the central government. When political stability occurs, once local forces affecting politics appear, unless the central government supports it, they will inevitably be hit by political forces. This is the characteristic of a unified regime, which has become a tradition since the Qin Dynasty. By the Song Dynasty, due to the disappearance of aristocratic families, this characteristic became more obvious. Du Zhongxiao clearly distinguished local governance forces into officials, officials, and differences, which was adapted to this.
Chapter completed!