After drinking and eating, Heifu lay in the room with a heated kang and continued to read the documents and classics he asked Zhang Cang to select and copy. The north wind blew outside, which made him uneasy, so he simply read the books.
Let me recall the conversation with Wang Ben.
"Forty Qin officials, chief officials, and hundreds of officials, govern 400,000 Linzi people... If they can manage this, then there is something wrong!"
The Qin Dynasty had nothing to do with the "feudal empire" mentioned in textbooks. Feudalism had been overthrown and deposed by the Legalists, and was thrown into the garbage heap of history by the First Emperor.
It is a brand-new bureaucratic empire, with two sets of bureaucracies, the central and local bureaucracies, to replace the feudal state. There are no longer princes, kings, and officials to guard the four directions. What supports the operation of this empire are thousands of "Qin officials"!
The local officials of the Qin Dynasty were divided into senior officials, long officials, hundred-stone officials, and minor officials, which were roughly divided into department-level, division-level, section-level and junior section-level officials.
The big officials are the county guards, the left and right county lieutenants, the county magistrates, the censors, four to five people, and the county magistrates. This group of department-level and deputy department-level cadres have titles ranging from junior to senior officials.
Under the senior officials, those with a rank of 400 to 200 shi are called chief officials. This group of division-level cadres includes the county lieutenants and county prime ministers at the division level, as well as the county's deputy ministers, stalwarts, chief officials, etc.
Department level, title, official title, official rank.
There are even more officials with hundreds of stones, including the county’s official history, military history, death history, chief records, pastoral orders, various Cao Cao in the county, as well as the local misfits, wandering, nobility officials and officials, which is equivalent to the scientific department.
Level cadres, such as Xiao County Party Committee Organization Director and Dean Cao in Peixian County.
Those below a hundred stones had the rank of doushi, and the rank of assistant was for young officials, such as Chief Liu Ting of Peixian County. These people were the real grassroots civil servants of the Qin Dynasty, and they were generally below the rank of nobility.
In the past ten years, Heifu has been promoted from a civil servant to a provincial-level cadre, and he is very familiar with this administrative pyramid.
He had chatted with Zhang Cang of the Yushi Mansion and knew that the Qin Dynasty's senior officials, chief officials, and hundreds of officials, not counting the minor officials, totaled about eight thousand people.
Based on the current forty counties, there are an average of two hundred officials per county.
If divided according to population, the country has a population of nearly 30 million. On average, 8 officials govern 10,000 people, and there are dozens of local young officials to assist. Together with the Shiwu Company system and the extremely detailed Qin laws, the local government can completely control the situation.
The governance must be obedient, which is why in later generations, "imperial power did not extend to counties" did not exist in Qin.
"But this is only limited to places such as Guanzhong and Nanjun that have been ruled for many years and have adapted to Qin's laws. Linzi is different..."
The Qin Dynasty emphasized that officials in different places, as well as senior officials in charge of justice and garrison, were all transferred from other counties. In Linzi City, their total number was only forty.
However, when governing a place, outsiders who are not familiar with the local customs are like deaf or blind people, and must be assisted by indigenous people. Therefore, other long-term officials and hundred-stone officials are mostly recruited from local scholars.
This is equivalent to an airborne Qin official taking charge of seven local officials in Linzi. Through their words, hands and feet, they can restrain dozens of young officials below, and then tens of thousands of Guizhou officials.
It's not that Qin didn't want to send more officials here, but that one country merged with six countries, and all the available officials were sent abroad. If you need officials in Linzi, don't Yan, Zhao, Chu, and Wei use them?
Furthermore, the distance from Linzi to Xianyang is more than 2,000 miles. Based on the traffic conditions of this era, it can take more than a month or two months as quickly as possible. The communication means limits the ruling radius, and Linzi is obviously outside this radius.
In addition to the ratio and distance of officials, there is another big problem in governing Qi, and that is language...
While he was thinking about it, there was a sound of pushing the door outside, followed by Gong Ao's voice asking, it was Chen Ping who was back...
…
Chen Ping is still the same as before. Everywhere he goes, he walks around the shops first. He is worthy of being a strategist who once went out to the fortress to work as a spy and almost killed Maodun Shanyu. The mountains and rivers are dangerous, the roads and cities are all in Chen Ping.
According to the records, the reason why Heifu was able to respond fluently when Wang Ben asked him, "Where can I see you when you enter Qi?" was thanks to this journey. Chen Ping recorded what he saw and heard on paper and presented them one by one to Heifu for review.
Arriving in Linzi today, Chen Ping got off the car at Jimen, going to visit Jixia Academy, which he had longed for, and then walked through half of the city.
Chen Ping changed out of his snow-covered fur clothes and went into the house to see Mr. Hei: "Sheriff, the official is back."
Hei Fu personally warmed the wine for him and asked with a smile: "Chen Sheng, what did you gain from going to Jixia today?"
Chen Ping rubbed his frozen hands, put them on the stove, and sighed: "Not much has been gained. Mr. Jixia, the most prosperous academy a hundred years ago, has long since disappeared, and all the collected books have been moved back to Xianyang."
"And General Wang Ben's subordinates used the academy as a military camp. The peach grove where Zou Yan, Tian Pian, Shen Dao, and Xun Qing used to give lectures has now been cut down by the garrison and used as firewood. The Panchi in front of Hengmen,
A group of military men were washing and swimming there. Once upon a time, the sound of debates and readings resounded throughout Linzi, but now only the shouts of soldiers training are left..."
Although Chen Ping was from a poor family, he was good at studying and was considered a student. When he was young and studying abroad, his dream was to go to Jixia to worship the famous teacher Huang, but now that he finally came here, he has become like this.
Heifu said silently that the decline of this ancient university had something to do with Qin's policies. However, despite the decline of Jixia, most of the gentlemen from Jixia went to Xianyang to do Ph.D.s, hoping to have a place in the new regime and continue to be academics.
Entering the government. Although they are still qualified to read and copy the books Qin plundered from the Six Kingdoms, they are only decorations and cannot be reused.
Of course it is impossible to restore Jixia. Heifu can't reach here even if he is guarding Jiaodong. Moreover, this approach is undoubtedly a declaration of war against the emperor's policy of unified public opinion. He can only start from the dark and try to avoid "burning"
"Book" incident occurred.
He was more vocal about defending the people than Sichuan, and Shandong was in chaos before the ashes were cold. Liu Xiang, it turned out, did not study...
"Paper has been in common use for several years. Officials have become accustomed to using this paper to copy laws, write memorials, and love letters. However, it is not widely used among the people. Do I want to add fuel to the fire and make the world full of Jixia?"
At this time, Chen Ping realized that he had made a mistake and quickly stopped the topic and talked about what he saw and heard in Linzi City.
"I've seen the prosperity of Linzi, but it's a pity that when I want to ask about something, no matter I use Guanzhong Yayan, Luoyang Yayan, or Liang local dialect, I talk to the people in Linzi just like ducks, and I can't understand each other at all.
What are you talking about!"
Over the years, Hei Fu has been on expeditions to the east and the west, and has met many people and heard a variety of dialects. Taken together, there are about fourteen dialects in the world, namely: Qin, Western Qin, Jin,
Liang, Zhao and Wei from the north of the river, Zheng, Han, Zhou, Song, Wei and the east of Wei, Qi, Lu, Yan Dynasty, the Yan Dynasty in the north was the Han River, the east was between Qi and Haidai, Huaisi (Qingxu), Western Chu, Southern Chu, East Chu (Wuyue)
).
This is a broad classification, and each dialect can be subdivided into as many as thirty-four. The difference between Qin dialect and Qilu dialect is much greater than the difference between Shaanxi dialect and Shandong dialect in later generations.
So Heifu told Chen Ping that he heard a story told by Xiaobaidu Zhang Cang in Linzi: "A senior official from the state of Chu wanted his son to learn Qi language, so he invited a master from the state of Qi to teach his son. But.
There were many Chu people around the son of Chu people who bothered him all day long and talked with him in Chu language. He forgot the Qi language he had just learned in a few days. A year passed like this, even if the Chu country official whipped him with a whip.
Son, he still couldn't learn Qi language. Finally, the doctor took his son to the state of Qi and let him live among Zhuangyue. In order to talk to others, the son of Chu people had to learn Qi language, which lasted for less than a month.
, and learned.”
This story is called "One Fu Zhongxi", which also shows that the Xichu dialect spoken by Heifu and his family is incomprehensible with the Qilu dialect.
Chen Ping said: "Not to mention Linzi and Xianyang, Daliang, and Anlu. I heard that although Linzi and Jiaodong belong to the same area, they cannot communicate with each other."
Because the dialect of Jiaodong County is mixed with a large number of ancient Dongyi and Huaiyi words, the Qingxu dialect, which belongs to "between the Haidai region of Eastern Qi Dynasty", is not the same as the Qilu dialect.
This is also the reason why it is absolutely impossible for Qin officials from outside to govern Qi. The two sides do not understand each other's language, and they are still governing like a ghost.
This kind of rule is obviously unreliable. Later generations have said that orders come from the top and are implemented at the bottom. A government order in Xianyang may be strictly enforced at the county level in Linzi, but when it comes to the countryside, it will be greatly compromised.
, spread to individuals, it’s as if it doesn’t exist.
Looking from the bottom up, the people of Qi have their own culture, history, dialect, universities with academic freedom, and trade that is rarely marketed. Two generations of mediocre rulers ruled Qi for fifty years with Huang Lao's ideas, which made the people of Qi
Ding is prosperous and there is no disturbance from war. Everyone eats sea fish every day, plays the harp and sheng, plays Cuju and Liubo, bask in the sun, and have a leisurely time.
Suddenly one day, their country perished, and the king was taken to a foreign land to starve to death while he was managed by a group of airborne officials from Kansai Qin who spoke an unfamiliar language.
Qin's laws were so strict that you couldn't do this or that. Even the knights and knights couldn't quarrel or fight. The merchants who used to have a high status were once reduced to the bottom of society. The two major industries of salt and iron were also confiscated by the government and could not wear silk.
Luo silk and satin had to pay heavy taxes every time they did business. Ordinary people in Guizhou had a hard time, having to deal with corvees that were several times heavier than those in Qi. It would be strange not to harbor resentment.
If Heifu had been born as a Qi people, he would have gone to sea to become a pirate, occupied the islands, and was ready to counterattack the mainland at any time, defeat Qin imperialism, and fight to restore the freedom of the Qi people...
It's a pity that Director Wei's butt is now sitting on Qin's side.
Thinking of this, Hei Fu couldn't help but feel horrified: "Qin's rule in Qi is really like a tree without roots and water without a source, floating on the surface. Qi has three hundred villages near Zi, but the officials don't know the people, and the people don't trust the officials.
No wonder in history, once something happened and a powerful and right-wing force came to the city, tens of millions of people responded, killing dozens of Qin officials as easily as slaughtering pigs and dogs. Overnight, the whole city rebelled. Qin's rule in Guandong also
Like falling apart..."
"When I was a county lieutenant in Anlu, I was surrounded by fellow villagers who spoke the same language, so whether it was training soldiers or administering policies, it was very easy. When I became a county lieutenant in Beidi, it was Guanxi and close to Xianyang. Although there were Rong
People, but there are also a large number of military meritorious landowners who are loyal to Qin. All the good families in the north have been accepted as knights by me, so there is no obstacle to doing things."
But this time when he went to Jiaodong to take up his post, Heifu had just arrived in Linzi. Heifu had already realized that what awaited him would be a completely different situation from the past!
Just as Ye Teng warned him.
"Be careful! Back then I became a big fish out of familiar waters and trapped in the shoals!"
…
That night, Heifu and Chen Ping discussed for a long time how to govern Jiaodong County.
The next day, when he was going to say goodbye to Wang Ben, he entered his mansion and found that something was wrong in the atmosphere. The officials and maidservants lowered their heads and did not dare to speak. The Wang family's retainers had red eyes and had obviously just cried.
Hei Fu's heart skipped a beat and he knew something was wrong. When he entered the reception hall, he saw Wang Ben, who was dressed meticulously yesterday, with his hair disheveled and his eyes sad. He was sitting on the table with his hands tightly packed.
A letter.
"General Wang..."
Heifu called Wang Ben, and Wang Ben raised his head. Knowing that he was here to say goodbye, he sighed, cupped his hands and said: "Guardian Wei, go slow, Wang Ben won't see you off... I just received the gift from Xianyang."