In Yangzhou City, Li Xing looked at the new plaque hanging on the magistrate's office and smiled.
After the victory in Huai'an, Li Xing sent a large army to occupy all the prefectures in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and then arrived in Yangzhou.
After all places are occupied by the Huben Army, Jianghuai Province can be officially established. Yangzhou City, as the hub of the Yangtze River and a prosperous place where merchants from the north and south gather, is the most prosperous city north of the Yangtze River and south of Zhili. Li Xing and Li Laosi are preparing to follow the instructions.
Under Li Zhi's order, Yangzhou Prefecture was changed to the provincial capital of Jianghuai Province.
Outside the magistrate's office, people and gentry from Yangzhou had gathered.
The people of Yangzhou are very happy that Yangzhou has become the provincial capital. For the common people, if it becomes the provincial capital, Yangzhou City will naturally become more prosperous day by day, and the income will be greatly increased by then. And for the gentry,
He said that in the future, the provincial capital will be prosperous and it will be much easier to do some business.
The gentry are better informed than ordinary people. They have long heard that the gentry in Tianjin and Shandong have now lost their land rent income and live mainly on their original savings. And the most critical thing to revitalize their savings is to buy stocks. If Yangzhou becomes a provincial capital, it will naturally
There will be stock trading institutions settling in, which will greatly facilitate the investment of the gentry.
The gentry were about to lose their land income, and they all looked sad at this time. But they took some comfort in thinking about the rumored considerable income from stock investment by the gentry in Tianjin and Shandong.
The plaque above the Yamen was covered with red silk. Li Xing and Li Laosi stood on both sides of the plaque and worked together to pull down the red silk.
The large gilded characters "Jianghuai Province Governor's Yamen" were revealed.
Even if Jianghuai Province was officially established, one town and six provinces would become one town and seven provinces.
The onlookers cheered in unison, as if they saw their beautiful future life in that plaque.
Dozens of guards standing at the gate of the Yamen raised their rifles and fired into the sky. Then the crackling firecrackers sounded and the lion dance team began to perform. The scene was very lively.
Li Xing waved his hand, and the soldiers took out stacks of books from the governor's office. The books were divided into two types, the blue cover was "Tianjin County Prince Law", and the white cover was "Gong Morality". The soldiers took these books
Well-printed books were distributed free of charge to the surrounding common people and gentry for them to study and study.
Nowadays, Li Zhi has made too many changes to the "Da Ming Code", especially the civil law and commercial law, and it is no longer possible to say that his law is the perfection of the Ming Code. Li Zhi simply created the "Tianjin County Prince Law"
come out.
As soon as this kind of name comes out, it has the smell of splitting the land and dividing the territory. In the past, this kind of law could not be openly implemented, but now there is no problem in changing it. Even if the emperor is unhappy after knowing it, there is nothing he can do against Li Zhi.
As for public ethics textbooks, they are something that everyone should learn, and Li Zhi has been providing them free of charge.
Li Xing looked at the people and said loudly: "These two books are things that everyone should learn. Those of you who are illiterate should hurry up to read and eliminate illiteracy. If you can read, you should hurry up and learn these two books.
.Only after studying these two books will it be possible to stand out under the rule of the king!"
The common people were very happy when they saw that the officials had well-printed books for them. They grabbed two books one by one and cheered in unison!
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Li Zhi sat on the throne in the third hall of the palace, looked at the newspaper sent by Li Xing and Li Laosi, and took a breath.
Nowadays, Nanzhili north of the Yangtze River has been completely controlled by the Huben Army. The eight prefectures in the north of the Yangtze River, with a population of nearly 20 million, have all been merged into Li Zhi's territory. The Nanzhili north of the Yangtze River has been changed to the Jianghuai Province under the command of the Tianjin County Prince.
, the number of Ming people under Li Zhi's rule suddenly doubled.
Territorial expansion means more fiscal revenue and more soldiers, and it also gives Li Zhi more space to use his skills to transform the country. But at the same time, it also brings many problems, and the most acute problem is the civil servants
Urgent need.
Nowadays, Li Zhi no longer calls government administrators officials, but civil servants to show his purpose of serving the people.
Li Zhi's officials were all trained by middle schools, but there are only more than 100 middle schools in Tianjin and Shandong, with only 60,000 to 70,000 graduates a year. In the past two years, Li Zhi has annexed Henan and North Korea, and these two places need more
There are about 300,000 civil servants, which has made Li Zhi feel that the civil servants are stretched thin.
For more than a year, Li Zhi could only make up for the officials and civil servants in Henan first, while North Korea has always been in a state of serious shortage of civil servants. In North Korea, Li Zhi basically could only send dozens of officials to each county to carry out the most basic work.
Management at the grassroots level is highly dependent on the Huben Army soldiers and village autonomy.
After the 20,000 Tiger Soldiers withdrew from North Korea and entered Japan to fight, North Korea was actually in a state of anarchy.
The basic requirements for government administrators are to be literate, be able to read files, and be able to record and report things with pen and paper, so not just any farmer or citizen can do it. In North Korea, due to the lack of new civil servants, in order to maintain basic social order
, many two-class noble literati who should have been abandoned by Li Zhi re-entered government departments and became temporary civil servants.
This made Li Zhi feel a little passive. He had finally annexed North Korea from the two classes of nobles, but in the end he had to rely on these people to govern the country. These children of the two classes of nobles are all Confucian scholars, and they are bound to bring Confucian things into the new Korean province.
The officialdom even changed the public morality culture advocated by Li Zhi.
But the problem in North Korea is not the most serious. The most serious problem is in Jianghuai Province in Xinde.
Jianghuai Province, with a population of nearly 20 million, needs 100,000 officials and civil servants, or at least 400,000. This serious shortage of people made Li Zhi feel embarrassed that he had no rice to cook.
Hong Chengchou sat at the bottom of the three palaces of the palace, raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, at this time, it is no longer possible to use the middle school students trained by me in one town and six provinces to manage the territory. Middle school graduates can only be used in official positions, and at the grassroots level
Enable literate Confucian scholars to carry out the most basic management."
Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Zheng Kaicheng shook his head and said: "It's inappropriate! There are many problems with this operation. First of all, it is very inappropriate for newly graduated middle school students to directly become officials without training at the grassroots level. Officials don't understand anything and are easily deceived by the Confucian students at the grassroots level.
If a wrong decision is made, thousands of people in a township or town will be affected for several years."
After a pause, Zheng Kaicheng continued: "Also, it is really dangerous to use all Confucian scholars as civil servants at the grassroots level. Whether all systems can be observed and maintained, the most important thing is people. If the yamen except officials are all Confucian scholars, in the end the Confucian scholars will
A set of things will replace the prince's public morality and dominate the yamen's culture."
"I'm afraid that by then our Yamen in Jianghuai Province will still focus on loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness."
Li Zhi frowned after hearing Zheng Kaicheng's words.
Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness are, in the final analysis, private virtues if you treat me well and I will treat you well. If this kind of private morality culture continues to develop, it will mean forming cliques to protect each other, and even practicing favoritism, corruption and bribery. If Li Zhi allowed Confucian scholars to become the mainstream of the Jianghuai Provincial Government,
I'm afraid there won't be any difference between the Jianghuai Province under my own rule and the Southern Zhili Province under the gentry's rule.
If the grassroots are all Confucian students, under the influence of Confucian students, I am afraid that the middle school graduates I have painstakingly cultivated will gradually forget what public morality is.
Using all Confucian scholars as civil servants is not an option.
Li Zhi walked a few steps back and forth in front of the throne and said thoughtfully: "Nowadays, there are not enough middle school graduates, and we cannot recruit enough civil servants through school education, so we can only use the civil service examination."
