Not long after Liu Bei and Chen Xi set out from the post station, the urgent letter from Chang'an caught up with the two. Liu Bei looked at the signature and found that it was Li You, and couldn't help but shake his head.

I have to say that in some things, Li You's urgency is indeed the most outrageous.

"Look at Wenru's letter." Liu Bei handed the letter to Chen Xi directly. Chen Xi reached out to take it after hearing this, looked at the situation inside, and his mentality became much more complicated.

"What's wrong?" Liu Bei asked in confusion. Even if he didn't read the letter, Liu Bei could roughly guess what was written in it.

"It's nothing. The bureaucrats in Jizhou really deserve to be beaten." Chen Xi sighed and said, "Let's go, let's go to Jizhou to have a look."

"I won't show up for the next trip. Just tell me when I get to the place." Liu Bei curled his smile and said to Chen Xi.

It is indeed a very good special ability for anyone in the world to know you. However, if this ability is not in the investigation of the case, Liu Bei hasn't passed, and I'm afraid that there will be some news in Jizhou. This is very fatal, so on the next journey, if Liu Bei does not appear, he will not appear.

Although it is at the level of Liu Bei, it really doesn't matter to be discovered, because even if it is learned in advance by the Jizhou bureaucrats, the Jizhou bureaucrats cannot solve it. This is already a dimensionality reduction strike. However, in order to avoid greater losses in Jizhou, Liu Bei felt that it would be better to wait until he arrived at his destination before appearing.

After all, Liu Bei's situation is still a little different from that of Yuan Shu in Yuzhou. Yuan Shu is a man of crazy and a second-hand man. Even if he is airborne in Yuzhou, the local bureaucrats will not have any unnecessary thoughts. However, Liu Bei is different. Liu Bei will inevitably be on guard when he appears.

"Okay, let's go directly from the ferry west of the Yellow River." Chen Xi nodded, and could understand Liu Bei's caution.

"Airborne to Zhongshan Country." Liu Bei suddenly spoke.

"That's fine. I haven't been there for a long time. Since I'm passing by, I should go and see it." Chen Xi nodded. He was really curious about what the Zhen family was doing. It's been more than three years since Zhen Mi married for three years!

Chen Xi and his party came to Jizhou very simply by pretending to be ordinary businessmen. Compared to the northern part of the world, this place is indeed extremely prosperous. Even Liu Bei was very dissatisfied with the bureaucrats in Jizhou. When he saw the prosperous business in Jizhou, he was in a good mood.

"I have already contacted Ziyang. The other party means that he will take people to Bohai, and we will meet in Bohai at that time." Chen Xi explained to Liu Ye after receiving Liu Ye's reply, and Liu Bei nodded when he heard this.

"Jizhou is indeed much better developed than Bingzhou." Liu Bei said in a complicated tone, and Chen Xi nodded when he heard this.

"This is an inevitable situation. The geographical advantage is actually very obvious. Moreover, Jizhou has a good foundation. In addition, Yecheng is one of the central points of politics and economy. As the place where we defeated Yuan Benchu ​​and decided to do the tripod, we are the capital and have a great advantage." Chen Xi had no special feeling about this, and these places are naturally easy to develop.

"What do you think of those middle and lower-level bureaucrats? Everyone is living well. Why did they suddenly have such ideas, continue to follow the old rules and abide by the rules you set?" Liu Bei asked in a helpless tone.

This is really a shocking situation. The better the construction of this place is, the more Liu Bei feels that the bureaucrats have a trick. They are obviously slowly advancing according to the system issued by Chen Xi, and everyone has only benefits and no harm. Why do they have to commit suicide?

"How to say it, the simplest point is that when Duke Xuande was in Jiaozhou, he should have felt that although the local clans and tribal masters recognized us, they wanted more. They did not think that ordinary people were the same people as them." Chen Xi said calmly.

As for anger, I knew about this and went north to relax. Chen Xi's sentiment was real, but Chen Xi's mind was very clear. The continuous cycle of history has allowed Chen Xi to see too many similar things.

So even if this fact is placed in front of Chen Xi, it is just an inevitable cycle for Chen Xi. Chen Xi, who knows the process and the result, naturally knows how to deal with it.

"For us, there is no difference between bureaucrats and people. We even hope that these bureaucrats can work well for the people. If this bureaucrat is responsible for us, it is enough to implement the policies we issued, but it is not for the bureaucrats themselves." Chen Xi explained with a sigh.

No matter where the power comes from, whether it is the divine authority of the monarch, the emperor's sovereignty over all peoples, or the democratic centralism system in later generations, there is only one difference in general, that is, who the bureaucrats are responsible to. But in fact, whether it is to the monarch, the emperor, or the people, the bureaucratic group will inevitably develop its own will.

Theoretically speaking, whether it is a monarch, emperor, or all people, they are innately seeking stability, and the most core point of stability is the vast majority of people. After all, the starting point of the collapse of the world must be the rise of the people.

Theoretically, the stability of the people is almost the core point that the continuation of all systems is required.

However, the problem lies here. The expansion of the bureaucratic system inevitably erodes this core store. All kinds of messy ideas must be implemented on the people in the end, and the feedback mechanism inside is actually quite chaotic, and some ideas that are superior to others...

In short, the end of the dynasty basically starts with the overall corruption of the bureaucratic system. The emperor is a bastard. It is only one aspect that the overall end of the bureaucratic system is the key to the rise of the world. The beginning of the end of the bureaucratic system - the garbage ants and people are not worthy of it.

The reality roughly summarized is these six words. When the bureaucratic system comes up with this idea, it will be time for the country to be destroyed and enter a new cycle of reincarnation.

"Actually, I don't care much about whether the bureaucrats are responsible to the people or to their superiors." Chen Xi sighed and said, "No matter who they are responsible to, the bureaucratic system can just execute it as a tool, but the bureaucratic system itself has its own ideas, which is the most unsolvable."

Liu Bei couldn't help but nodded when he heard Chen Xi's words. Indeed, the bureaucratic system has its own ideas, so many of them will be distorted and will infringe on the interests of others for their own interests.

"It is best to be responsible to the people. It is not good or bad to the superiors. At least the superiors are responsible to the people. Then the overall situation will not be bad, and the bureaucrats who are only responsible to the superiors will be easy to deal with." Chen Xi said with a smile.

There is a saying that when you believe that power comes from the upper class’s enfeoffment, then when the upper class comes to clean up you, remember to kneel down and make it easier for the other party to clean up.

Therefore, Chen Xi didn't care what the bureaucrats thought it was best to be responsible for the people. There was nothing to say about Fu Gan, the magistrate of Niyang County, and Li Fu, the prefect of Wei County, there was nothing to say. They were responsible for the people, so even if they did something wrong, Chen Xi would listen to their explanations. As long as the people could agree with their explanations, the matter could be over.

On the other hand, like the Changshan County Magistrate and the Bohai County Magistrate, in theory, obtained power from Chen Xi's side and was responsible for Chen Xi's bureaucrats who were in charge of this place and were responsible for Chen Xi's affairs. How Chen Xi would deal with it and how to round and flatten it was all Chen Xi's business.

In fact, in the bureaucratic management system in later generations, it is not important to what the middle and lower-level bureaucrats do. Whether they serve the people or seek power from superiors is actually not important. The core of the importance lies in what kind of ideas are the first to separate out this power and put it into the upper level of the system operating this system.

Any bureaucrat who is only responsible to his superiors must have a false foundation. Such bureaucrats cannot restrain and communicate equally with superiors, especially when their superiors' positions are impacted by their same level, their impact can easily lead to overall collapse. In terms of positioning, they can only be chess pieces.

"The desire is hard to calm down." Liu Bei sighed. No matter how much Chen Xi said, it was really these four words for Liu Bei.

"Well, they are indeed like this." Chen Xi nodded, "The system of official positions still needs to be continued, but this kind of human voice is created that local people hope that bureaucrats will stay local..."

After the Han Dynasty was reunited, it was basically all officials, but the important thing about the Bohai County Magistrates could stay in the local area for seven or eight years was that the local people wrote a letter to Jizhou, hoping that the Bohai Prefecture would not leave, and the prefecture bureaucrats respected the opinions of the local people, and the county magistrates themselves did not want to leave, so they approved the matter.

After all, some people started writing a letter, and the prefecture was confirming the opinions of local bureaucrats, but the local bureaucrats did not refuse. Considering the public opinion, it was accurate. Anyway, everyone was satisfied.

Report it to Chang'an, will Chang'an care about this? Chang'an doesn't care, and Chang'an won't investigate it. This is just a trivial matter.

"Do you still have to consider the people's letters in the future?" Liu Bei suddenly asked.

"Of course we need to consider it." Chen Xi said with a smile, "If the people want to stay, just stay. Let's increase the review efforts. If this happens, we will send two people from Chang'an to investigate on the spot. What a big deal?"

"It's OK." Liu Bei thought about it and it seemed that what he really wanted to say was really like this.
Chapter completed!