When doctors, teachers, and agricultural product retail departments are successfully stationed, roads are opened, and water networks are built, if they are allowed to leave and go back to their hometowns, no one will actually leave. They will still scold them if they should, but this is not really a public complaint.
There is a problem with the execution method.
This is also the reason why Cui Yan recently attacked Liu Ye, and Liu Ye had nothing to do with it, and he was still in the mood to complain that Cui Yan had a brain problem, because the most likely time to cause public dissatisfaction has passed. Looking back on this matter, everyone knows
Liu Ye did the right thing.
At most, it means that Liu Ye is too radical, and there is something wrong with the execution method. If you really want to chase Liu Ye like we did some time ago, it is basically impossible. It is much easier to put the facts in front of you than to explain it with your mouth.
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Naturally, after the success of this wave of village merging, the gloves that had been prepared for several years lost their value. Chen Xi already had other ways to replace the virtuous landowners who collected taxes for them.
The reason why Chen Xi turned a blind eye and left things unchecked in the past was that there was no network system at that time, and the official-civilian ratio was as high as 8,000 to 1. It was impossible for officials to do such a thing, not to mention the 8,000 to 1 ratio.
The ratio of officials and people also includes central court officials such as the Sangong and Jiuqing.
If you really want to talk about the lower-level county-level officials, the ratio of officials to citizens is horribly high. As an agricultural country at that time, the largest part of the national income was agricultural taxation. Under such circumstances, if officials wanted to collect taxes, they really had to rely on themselves.
It's just sleepwalking.
When the road problem has not been solved, it is already very impressive to be able to visit an average of 20 houses a day. How nonsense is it to spend more than 200 days a year collecting taxes?
Of course, during the Western Han Dynasty, it was true that officials went directly to the fields to collect taxes during the autumn harvest, but these were all from large households, and those small households were actually collected by these large households.
The so-called rural sages, three elders, local landlords, and clans are actually often needed to handle local taxes. In exchange, they will obtain part of the local power.
Of course, there will be a lot of exploitation here, and Chen Xi also knows that, but he has never dealt with this matter before, because Chen Xi could not organize a new team to deal with this matter at that time.
Although the rural sages, three elders, local landlords, and clans have great disadvantages, they are still there, managed by them, and collected taxes by them. They can collect them no matter what. Although their methods are not bright, they
Although it will be exploited, at least Chen Xi can get national tax revenue.
But if someone else were to do this, not to mention the resistance from various places, how would Chen Xi determine the number of people paying taxes and the number of people in each place, and how to manage tax evasion? This is a series of problems. Therefore, before this year, Chen Xi shouted almost
Six or seven years ago, but it was never implemented.
The reason is very simple: there is no execution capital, or in other words, there is no confidence in the ability to penetrate state power institutions into villages and towns and beyond.
But that was before. Now, on the one hand, Chen Xi has unified the weights and measures, and on the other hand, Liu Ye has also forcibly completed the merger of villages. At this time, Chen Xi has to lose the gloves that he has not dealt with for six or seven years.
Okay, finally I can take action.
After all, after the villages were merged, the total number of acres of land in each village was recorded, and the population was also recorded. In this way, the total amount of agricultural taxes in each village was also accurate.
Of course, if the weights and measures are not unified, they will still be calculated by buckets. The buckets in different places are not the same size, and there will still be discrepancies, but the degree of exploitation will be much smaller than before.
At present, Chen Xi has released the new weights and measures, and also sent them to the bottom. If they are still using the previous weights and measures, they are basically people with evil intentions, so this time, they will be taken down regardless of their life or death.
Anyway, the tax collection model has been changed after the villages were merged. The worst thing is to recruit temporary workers every year to collect taxes. As for tax evasion, are you kidding me? The land of each village is on the national books. If this can still allow you to successfully evade taxes.
, no matter how useless the government is, it cannot be this useless!
Although Chen Xi said that there are times when he does things carelessly, he does take one step at a time in the general direction. He has never moved powerful families before because they also have the purpose of ensuring tax revenue in various places. Now, if I dare to touch you, I will do it.
Take responsibility and be better prepared than you are!
As for now, Chen Xi is confident that he will truly extend the country's power to the village level, so matters that he once turned a blind eye to will need to be reviewed again.
"This didn't solve my problem at all!" Liu Ye looked at Chen Xi speechlessly. Although he understood what was going on when Chen Xi opened his mouth, it had nothing to do with him.
"No, it does matter. After the villages are merged, a village of two to three thousand people is already qualified to station an officer." Chen Xi smiled and raised his index finger. Liu Ye and others immediately realized what it meant.
, are you preparing for blood transfusion?
"I have endured it for six or seven years, and I have compromised for six or seven years. But it is not that I have done nothing in these six or seven years. I have popularized education, built roads, water conservancy networks, moved aristocratic families north, accounted for acres of land, and merged villages into villages.
, some are completed and some are unfinished, but the combination is enough." Chen Xi said with a kind of self-complaint.
"I have been shouting for so many years, but you think I am just shouting, right? Let Suzhi check from top to bottom and notify all the students who have graduated in the past five years to come and get official positions. So many official positions are vacant.
It’s time to make up for it!” Chen Xi said with a sneer.
"You really did everything before reunification." Li You said with emotion. Sure enough, Chen Xi, who had always turned a blind eye to the entire bureaucracy, when the bureaucracy was preparing to share the feast of reunification,
Finally took action.
"Ha, didn't I already say that they want to dance wildly with demons and prepare to take advantage of the arrival of reunification to go crazy?" Chen Xi smiled and said, "Originally, we planned to start at the beginning of next year, but since it was mentioned, we will start changing blood from the end of this year.
Bar."
"But have you considered how to deal with people at the county level after this wave of blood exchanges?" Lu Suxu asked, knocking on the table.
"Except for those who are serious, let them all be sent back, and their positions should be replaced by junior officials. It is indeed necessary to change the blood and increase the proportion of officials from lower levels." Chen Xi said slowly, "Clean the stinking problems in the bureaucracy.
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"Which one should I choose, ability or morality?" Liu Ye asked again.
"I don't have much hope for morality. Self-restraint is not as binding as the law for most people. We still use the law to constrain officials' bottom line. Personal moral judgment is not used as a reference." Chen Xi was silent for a while and spoke.
Said, Chen Xi made it clear that this was a meritocracy, Liu Ye and others nodded after hearing this.
"The existence of the law makes morality shine brighter." Xun Yue said sideways. It is precisely because of the universal constraints of the law that human morality shines brighter.
"Then let's do it. I will tell Su Zhi to take 10% to 20% of the position." Liu Ye nodded. If you do this, then let's do it. There is nothing more to say, but in order to maintain the stability of the situation, Liu Ye
The scale is still limited.
"That's enough. In my opinion, there are not many students who are really qualified to occupy official positions. I hope they can make some progress after training as an official this time." Chen Xi sighed and said.
To be honest, Chen Xi actually knows that this approach is already biased. After all, there are not many new people born after the popularization of education who can be used.
There is still a big gap.
If you really want to say it, Chen Xi's method is already biased and goes against fairness. But if he doesn't bias, Chen Xi has no good solution. The advantage of the family is too obvious, and it is so obvious that Chen Xi has no hope at all.
When the people at the bottom are cutting grass, the family members are accepting the words and deeds of their elders. When the people at the bottom are planting in the spring and harvesting in the summer, the children of the family are imitating every move of their elders. When the people at the bottom are lucky enough to pick up a book to read, the children of the family family have already begun to go.
Understand the ways of the world.
This is not a complaint, nor is it a mockery. Even if the books studied by both parties are selected by Chen Xi, Chen Xi has no choice in the face of this gap. The family environment of an aristocratic family can give his children far more than ordinary people.
This is no longer losing at the starting line. To be precise, some people are at the finishing line of others as soon as they are born. Therefore, when it comes to fairness in this situation, even Chen Xi is a little embarrassed.
"Why are you so anxious to let those students occupy 10% of the county official positions?" Lu Su sighed and said. Because he had taken over this matter, he almost knew what the quality of these people was. He could only say roughly
good.
"It's just to prepare for the future." Chen Xi said helplessly, "Leave the official positions below the county level to these people for training. They will eventually go out and have some experience."
Lu Su and others were silent for a while after hearing this. They also knew what was about to begin, and they all nodded. Of course, they knew very well that it was a little late to do this now, but there was nothing they could do about it.
It takes so much time to advance from the beginning to the present, step by step, without making any mistakes. Chen Xi has tried his best.
"Let Su take action." Li You said silently, "Bo Ning, send someone to keep an eye on him. If the evidence is solid, we will arrest him directly."
"There's nothing wrong with me here." Man Chong said calmly, but he felt a little helpless. The plan to deal with Fazheng and Guo Jia might be postponed again.
"Then let's do it. Duke Xuande will sign the transfer order, and I will post the notice." Chen Xi slowly said, "By the way, let's make one last announcement. We are partly responsible for the unrest below, don't you think so?
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