After this rural inspection, Xu Wei found that the current countryside in Dagan was not as beautiful as he had imagined. No matter how good the policies he formulated were, they still needed someone to implement them. What Dagan lacked now was the execution of Xu Wei's policies. Willed grassroots officials.
At the same time, Xu Wei also understood why Daqian's textile industry entered a bottleneck period so quickly. How could a village like Hanshan Village have the purchasing power for cloth? But now most of the villages in Daqian are like Hanshan Village. They can really There are only a few million workers in the textile industry, so naturally such a textile market cannot be large.
To develop industrialization with the size of Daqian, it is obviously impossible to follow the old path of Great Britain. It can only take the path of expanding domestic demand. Now expanding the land of the tribe three times is equivalent to expanding the means of production three times of the tribe. Allow members of the tribe to accumulate wealth faster.
Daqian's senior officials were persuaded by Xu Wei, and everyone discussed and decided to use Yuyang County as a pilot project first. If the farmland in Yuyang County is less than 100 acres, it can be made up to 100 acres.
In the desert grassland, this is even simpler. There are grasslands everywhere in the desert. These grasslands do not require infrastructure construction. Just expand the herdsmen’s family pastures in proportion! The entire Daqian only needs to send some land surveyors. The staff can just go to the desert!
After the pilot was decided, Xiangkai said: "To govern, since Yuyang County has been designated as the pilot county, we should arrange a talented person to complete the idea of governing. You must know that gathering villages and relocating people are not easy things to do. Especially asking people to give up their houses and land!"
Xu Wei also felt that it made sense, so he asked: "Do you have any talented officials under your command that you can recommend?"
Niu Gui said: "Zhuo County Magistrate Zhao Gui is an old subordinate of mine. He comes from Litian. He has done things sincerely and without any mistakes in these years. Moreover, because he is an expert in farming, every time he Wherever you are in charge, the production of grain will gradually increase, and your prestige among the tribesmen is also very high. Now that the leader wants to merge villages and divide farmland, Zhao Gui should be the most suitable candidate!"
Then Xu Wei asked Jia Xu to find Zhao Gui's experience. He was really Xu Wei's old subordinate. He followed Xu Wei from Jizhou to Bingzhou, and followed Xu Wei to fight horse thieves in Mayi. This experience was ordinary, but when he became a villager One of the team leaders of the company, at that time, the food output of the team he led was 30% higher than that of others. It can be said that he has farming skills.
Later, because of Daqian's land-strengthening policy, he was trained and appointed as the township head. Then he brought his farming skills to various places where he was in charge. As long as he was in charge of the place, he would soon become the local leader. An important food producing area.
Now Zhao Gui has been the county magistrate of Zhuoxian County for three years. Even though he became the county magistrate, he has not changed his true colors. It is said that he often inspects the fields in the countryside, and his inspections are different from other people who just stand on the shore. Zhao Gui He really knew how to take off his boots. He followed the people under his rule to plant rice and seedlings, and used his own hands-on methods to guide everyone to have a good harvest. It can be said that Zhao Gui was more of an agricultural technical expert than an official.
But it is Zhao Gui's style that allows him to quickly become one with the local people, and the people also believe in him as a farming expert!
Xu Wei nodded with satisfaction after reading Zhao Gui's resume. Even after becoming a county magistrate, he would go to the fields and mingle with the people. Zhao Gui is also a person who has never changed his original intention. Although Zhao Gui has not shown other abilities, he can cultivate the fields well, which is the greatest Ability!
At this time, Xiangkai said: "The old Taoist man also recommended a candidate to the government, and he is Xi Zhong from Yingchuan! He is now the magistrate of Quan County. It was because of his discovery of Treasure Island that the banknote run was quickly subsided. !”
In fact, Xiangkai didn't need to introduce him. Everyone present knew Xi Zhong's name. After all, Xi Zhong became famous all over the world last year because of his discovery of Treasure Island.
Xi Zhong and the others actually brought back five ships of gold and silver using table salt. The profit from this trip alone was more than a hundred times. The people of Quan County were a blessing in disguise. Instead, they unexpectedly made hundreds of times as much money. Xi Zhong also made money because of this incident. Due to his outstanding achievements, he was appointed as the magistrate of Quan County.
During this period, Daqian's territory expanded rapidly, and talented people were promoted relatively quickly. Although Xi Zhong could not say that the paper money crisis last year was pacified, he found that Treasure Island did speed up the quelling of the incident. Huge credit, no one thinks that Xi Zhong is not qualified to become a prefect now!
Jia Xu came to the information about Xi Zhong. Officials who became officials in the imperial examination took the initiative to go to Liaodong to become officials in military camps. In more than a year, Xi Zhong's military camps developed better than ordinary villages. The population doubled. Because of his outstanding political performance, he was promoted to the director of the 600-stone salt factory. Then a year later, he was promoted to the director of Quan County because of the discovery of Treasure Island and the prosperity of the entire Quan County people. County magistrate.
If this were the case, everyone would just think that the opera star was lucky and discovered Treasure Island when he was selling salt. This is not considered an ability!
But the next year, everyone tried their best to cross the strait and go to the Japanese island to pan for gold. After many ships came to the Japanese island, even the sailors went to dig for gold, and the captain could only follow his sailors to pan for gold.
But Xi Zhong was not like this. He asked the people in the county to prepare a large amount of grain, cloth, pots and pans, and various gold mining tools! No one understood why he did this. But because of his high prestige, everyone still followed him Do.
At this time, the temptation of gold mines caused hundreds of thousands of people to grow on the island in less than a year. These people came to a wild island with nothing, and it was impossible for the primitive tribes of the island to satisfy such demands. With the survival supplies for many people, the prices of the entire Japanese island suddenly skyrocketed!
At this time, Xi Zhong's fleet arrived at the Japanese island. The grain, cloth, pots, pans, and various gold mining tools on the fleet were purchased by these gold diggers at ten times or even dozens of times the price. So these gold diggers Basically all the gold that the customers worked so hard to find was taken away by the drama loyalists!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing this resume, Xu Wei was surprised and said: "He is really a great talent. He has been promoted all the way, and his political achievements are also extraordinary. In less than 5 years, he became County magistrate, this is very rare even among the old tribesmen in Mayi! Especially the gold earned by the gold diggers, it can be said that the annual income of the Japanese gold diggers has been pocketed, I am afraid that the entire Daqian can think of this He was the only one who ordered it!”
This is the legendary gold mining for you, I sell the gold mining tools, and finally the boss who sells the gold mining tools gets rich!
Others have always admired what Xi Zhong did when they saw what he did on the Japanese island. This must be the legendary plan! They completely calculated what was going to happen on the Japanese island, and this allowed Xi Zhong to earn the most generous money. profit!
Compared with the outstanding Xi Zhong, Zhao Gui seems a bit mediocre. It can even be said that in terms of talent alone, this Xi Zhong surpasses most of the officials in Da Gan! In Xu Wei's opinion, this Xi Zhong's political ability is, I'm afraid I only have 90 points in the game. Logically speaking, such a person should be a historical celebrity, but the name Xu Wei of Xi Zhong is very unfamiliar and I have never heard of it?
Did he meet a political genius who was buried by history? Xu Wei thinks this is very possible, because the great Han Dynasty in history experienced various natural and man-made disasters. By this time, the population was only about 20 million, but now there are 40 million. The population has almost doubled. Among this doubling, there is a high possibility that there will be advisers and generals who originally died tragically but are now alive, and this drama loyalist may be one of them!
Xiangkai continued: "Furthermore, Xi Zhong is originally the magistrate of Quan County, and his prestige is very high in Quan County, and even in the entire Yuyang County. The local people believe in Xi Zhong who can bring them benefits, and Now allowing Xi Zhong to become the governor of Yuyang County can quickly make the people of Yuyang recognize Xi Zhong and lay a solid foundation for the pilot project of governing!"
After hearing this, Xu Wei said: "Since this opera hero is so talented and has prestige in Yuyang, let's appoint him as the governor of Yuyang County and let him start the pilot work as soon as possible!"
It seems that the resume of the opera star is so expensive that it is hard to say anything. After all, everyone can see who is more outstanding, so everyone said in unison: "No!"
In October of the second year of Jian'an (AD 197), Yuyang, Quan County!
"Prefect of Yuyang County!" Xi Zhong looked excited as soon as he got the appointment letter. The prefect of 2,000 shi is a high-ranking official in the Han Dynasty. There are more than a hundred county governors, a dozen state pastors and dozens of people in the entire Han Dynasty. It can be said that as long as you become a prefect, you will become one of the top two hundred senior officials in the world.
In the Han Dynasty, a family could only be considered aristocratic if it had a prefect. At the same time, because the prefect had the right to recommend, he could place his disciples and former officials in the court. When these disciples and former officials grew up, they would also recommend the descendants of the loyal actors in order to repay their kindness. In this way Recommending each other, a noble family was born, so the emergence of a prefect in the family is the threshold for entering the noble family!
Of course, Da Qian doesn't pay much attention to recommendation now, but Da Qian is more energetic. The opera singer is less than thirty years old and comes from a poor family. With this kind of background, it is impossible for a big man to become a prefect. But now he can not only Becoming a prefect can even go a step further. In the future, you may have the opportunity to become a state shepherd, or even a minister of various ministries in Daqian, or even the prime minister of Daqian!
The prime minister is the position that can really rule the world! The drama fans admire their magnanimity in governing. In the 400 years of the Han Dynasty, the successive Han emperors have taken away very little of the power of the prime minister. In the current dynasty, Emperor Shizu even replaced the prime minister with the Three Dukes. The power makes San Gong a position in name only.
However, the power of Shangshu Ling in Daqian Dynasty was greater than that of any period in the Han Dynasty. It was even comparable to that of the prime minister in the pre-Qin period. He commanded hundreds of officials and was only responsible for governing! Therefore, Xi Zhong was full of ambitions for the position of Shangshu Ling. Niu Even if Gui, a knight-errant, can become Da Qian's minister, why can't he be replaced by a top student from Yingchuan Academy?
And now that he has become the prefect of Yuyang County, he has gone one step further by becoming the Shangshu Ling. Yuyang has taken on the task of piloting this time and has done a great job. He can continue to move forward one step further!
For a moment, Xi Zhong felt that his body was full of power!
However, after the excitement, Xi Zhong looked at Jia Xu who came to deliver the appointment and apologized: "I made Jia Canjun laugh!"
Jia Xu smiled calmly and said: "Becoming a prefect under the age of thirty is something that rarely happens even among the top noble families in the Han Dynasty. It is understandable that the prefect is so excited!"
At this time, although the noble families of the Han Dynasty have solidified their class, they still want to save face at this time. Unless they have achieved military exploits, there will not be twenty-year-old prefects or thirty-year-old Sangong and Jiuqing, like Yuan Shao in the Three Kingdoms. At the age of ten, he was only a staff officer of a general, and Cao Cao also experienced official positions such as Langguan, County Magistrate, and School Lieutenant, starting from the grassroots level. No matter how fast they were promoted, there was still a process.
After a few hundred years, when all the noble families in the world are completely shameless, even a newborn baby can become the prefect of the state! Official positions in the imperial court have completely become a plaything in the hands of the noble families, and the children of poor families can only become these noble families. They were subordinate officials, and any credit for their achievements belonged to these noble families, so the order of the world completely collapsed!
After Jia Xu and other drama loyalists got over their excitement, they said: "The governor has mentioned this pilot project, which is related to the national policy after the Great Qian Dynasty. All drama governors have a very heavy burden!"
Xi Zhong also said seriously: "Xi Zhong will definitely not disappoint the ruler!"
Jia Xu continued: "If you have any difficulties, you can tell me now and I can report it to the ruling party!"
Xi Zhong also said unceremoniously: "First, there must be enough officials. Even if the villages are merged into villages, Yuyang will not want fewer officials, or even more. According to the idea of the government, the village can already be said to be a It is the county seat, and a county must have a county magistrate, a chief secretary, a county captain, and six officials. It can be said that the villages under the governance plan each require dozens to hundreds of officials to manage! So Yuyang needs There are 500 grassroots officials!”
Jia Xu smiled dumbly and said: "With so many officials, can you, Yuyang County, bear the financial expenses?"
There were hundreds of officials in Yuyang. Now, with the addition of the important officials, there are almost thousands of officials in Yuyang County. This plan is equivalent to the officials of a state in Dahan! Of course, Daqian does not distinguish between officials. , so it seems that there are a lot of officials. Although there are fewer officials in the Han Dynasty, there may only be 20,000 to 30,000 in the central and local governments combined, but they still have 10 times as many petty officials as officials. In this respect, the officials in the Han Dynasty are no more than those in the Han Dynasty. Much less work! But even so, the presence of thousands of officials in one county is still too exaggerated!
Xi Zhong said firmly: "As long as people are not superfluous but work hard, the more officials there are, the tighter the court's control over local areas, and the more tax revenue the court will collect, it will naturally be able to support thousands of officials! Like this After all, big villages are a new thing, and we still don’t know whether we will regard them as county towns or villages, so I have to prepare early!”