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In addition, despite the fact that the individual industry and commerce in the Tang Empire seem to be developing very fast now, they are still in the primary stage of the industrial revolution. The number of various types of enterprises is also limited, so the number of workers employed by industry and commerce is also limited.
Most of these employees are locals, and few outsiders go to other places to work.
The only exceptions are probably Guangzhou, Shanghai, Jinling City, and Dangtu. Only in these cities can there be a large number of immigrants. In other cities, the number of immigrants is actually
Very limited, most of the workers in the factories are mainly locals.
Under this general environment, in fact, the income of farmers in the vast majority of rural areas is still very single, mainly relying on farming. If you want to obtain extra income, you basically need to do odd jobs.
Building various infrastructure such as water conservancy facilities for the government is a good way to get part-time jobs.
The government directly hired workers to build infrastructure. This method was often used by the empire in the past, but it was only limited to residential areas before. The purpose was to use work as a relief.
But now, it is being carried out extensively across the country, and this is not a work-for-relief, but a replacement of the previous corvee system.
This also led to the rare case that there was not even a single example of civilian labor being conscripted into corvee nationwide this year.
This has also led to the fact that although the corvee system still exists legally, in fact it has completely disappeared, which is naturally a great benefit to the general public.
Since a large number of hired workers are employed, it is obviously impossible for the government to directly manage such a large number of hired workers. Therefore, although it is said that the government pays to hire workers, in fact the government itself does not directly come forward. Instead, according to the guidelines of the cabinet, the government directly
Contract relevant projects to major state-owned construction companies
These construction companies are all local state-owned enterprises controlled by local finance and managed by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises!
The government signs contracts with state-owned construction companies of this type for each project, and then the construction companies recruit workers to carry out the construction.
However, Li Xuan knew that if government projects were not handled well, large-scale corruption would easily occur, so he imposed a stipulation that all government projects could only be constructed by state-owned enterprises, and any form of subcontracting was prohibited.
At the same time, in order to avoid the establishment of this type of construction enterprises in various places, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is extremely strict in the examination and approval of the establishment applications of relevant enterprises. In principle, only prefectural-level local financial applications are allowed, and management directly belongs to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
Subsequently, in order to facilitate management, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises simply merged and reorganized this type of construction enterprises. Based on provincial highways as the standard, state-owned construction companies for each provincial highway were established nationwide, with many affiliated branches.
At the same time, construction companies in various provincial highways are allowed to go out of the province to bid for various projects, without limiting the scope of business!
However, unlike the state-owned grain companies, a grain corporation was established above each provincial grain company. Instead, the construction companies of each provincial highway were allowed to develop on their own.
Its model is similar to that of the Shanghai Terminal Company, which pioneered this type of construction company, or we simply learned from this company. The Shanghai Terminal Company is jointly held by the Finance Department of Songjiang Prefecture and the Shanghai Special County Finance Department, and is directly managed by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. Its main
Although the company operates terminals, its construction branch is quite strong.
Not only has it undertaken a large number of key projects in Shanghai, but it has also undertaken a large number of projects in other areas, such as the first long-distance commercial railway in China, some projects of the Beijing-Zhenzhen Railway, especially the railway bridge project.
I was given the thumbs up by this company.
Today, the construction companies responsible for the Hongze Lake embankment construction project are also directly managed by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. However, there is not just one company, but three.
Originally, no matter what era, local protectionism was very strong. Logically speaking, the Hongze Lake embankment project should belong to Jiangbei Construction Company, which is controlled by Jiangbei Province Finance.
However, although the company took away most of the projects, it was still opened up by construction companies from other places, and it was also robbed of several of the most profitable key projects.
And the one that is taking food from the local construction companies in Jiangbei is the famous Shanghai Terminal Company.
To be more precise, it is the company's wholly-owned subsidiary: Shanghai Construction Company!
The company won three key projects in one fell swoop, all of which were the most difficult to construct but also the most profitable.
The foreign company's ability to obtain such a large order is naturally inseparable from their strong technical capabilities and rich construction experience. They can even build steel bridges such as the Wusong River Bridge, which is considered a super project for contemporary times.
Done, even a Hongze Lake embankment is no problem!
However, although it is said that in order to avoid corruption problems, the government is abandoned to be directly responsible for construction, private enterprises are also rejected from bidding, and outsourcing is not allowed. Instead, only construction companies directly managed by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are allowed to bid and then directly construct.
But where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and behind official funds there is corruption!
The construction project of Hongze Lake Levee is no exception!
Large-scale construction only started in September, and large-scale corruption incidents were already exposed in October. Li Xuan was extremely helpless and took every precaution, but he still couldn't prevent the greed of corrupt officials!
This time, Li Xuan didn't get angry, he just felt very helpless now!
If you want to lose your temper, you did it last year. Just after the flood fight was over, Li Xuan became furious because of the corruption incident, and then launched a rectification campaign and arrested thousands of officials!
However, even this failed to deter the greed of these officials!
This happened just last year, and it happened again this year, which made Li Xuan feel particularly helpless!
We are killing corrupt officials every year, and they are all dead at any time!
After sighing deeply, Li Xuan began to reflect on the administrative measures he had taken over the years. Why should he reflect?
Because he feels that there is a problem with today's official administration. This problem is not that the anti-corruption efforts in the empire are not strong enough. In fact, the anti-corruption efforts of the Inspectorate are still very strong.
In order to be promoted, the censors all work very hard to detect corrupt officials, so they can uncover a large number of corrupt officials every year!
However, even so, it still could not eliminate the problem of large-scale corruption among officials, which made Li Xuan feel that there was still a problem with the administration of officials, and it was a big problem.
Officials are corrupt on a large scale, and Li Xuan will not put the responsibility on them and then accuse them of moral problems.
Human nature is inherently evil. In fact, most of the time when a person does not do evil, it is not because they don’t want to, but because they would hardly, or dare not, do it without this!
But once there is an opportunity, or if they are lucky, many people may become courageous and do evil.
The same is true for officials. They hold power. If they use this power at least a little, it can bring them a lot of wealth. Therefore, except for a very few people, most officials actually feel that the risk is relatively small once they have the opportunity.
Sometimes, we can't help but be corrupt. Even if we don't want to do it at first, we will be dragged into it by others.
Li Xuan cannot control the officials' mentality of wanting to be corrupt, but he can make officials aware of the huge risks of corruption.
Although the penalties for corrupt officials under the existing system are severe, this is not the point.
The key point is to let officials know that once they are corrupt, they will most likely be found out, and the risk of corruption is very high.
When the risks are high, most officials will give up the idea of corruption only after weighing the pros and cons!
But how do we let officials know that the risk of corruption is too high?
This is an issue worthy of Li Xuan's consideration. Li Xuan began to take out some of the anti-corruption measures he knew, and then compared them one by one with the situation in Datang to see which ones were useful.
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The first thing Li Xuan thought of was prohibiting officials from doing business. However, although there was no explicit law in the Tang Dynasty prohibiting this, it was actually an unwritten rule.
Today's officials in the Tang Dynasty are not engaged in business, and even most of their children are not engaged in business.
This is not prohibited by law, but because of traditional customs. The four words "gentry, peasants, industry and commerce" still have a great influence in the Tang Dynasty. Even ordinary gentry, let alone officials, disdain to do business.
If a scholar who is interested in taking the imperial examination goes into business directly, he will be ridiculed.
Under this tradition, officials and their direct descendants do not know how to do business.
However, there is a problem here, that is, not directly involved in business does not mean that they are not involved in business. On the contrary, the gentry class, who are mainly officials and scholars, are very involved in business.
They don't come forward themselves, but they do business through collateral tribesmen and even ordinary slaves, thereby making a lot of profits.
And this point, even if the law explicitly prohibits officials, their spouses, and children from doing business, it cannot prohibit other members of their tribe from doing business. In this case, it still cannot prevent officials from interfering in business affairs and making huge profits.
As for directly banning their entire family from doing business, the impact would be too great and cannot be implemented at all.
Therefore, prohibiting officials from doing business would not have much effect in Li Xuan's opinion.
However, although the effect is not great, Li Xuan still has to prepare to implement the ban on officials, official spouses, and official children from doing business, which can be regarded as completely closing this loophole.
However this is not enough!
Secondly, Li Xuan thought about the transparency of officials' assets. To be honest, this is also difficult. China has a tradition of not exposing wealth, and with the existing financial system, it is actually difficult to thoroughly find out how many assets officials have.
, In addition, what is more important is that the officials themselves do not actually have much private property, but more family wealth.
But if you want to say that the wealth of a family is the private property of officials, it is difficult to judge!
So although this is a good point, it is actually very difficult to implement. At least for now, it will be very difficult to implement. In the end, it may be superficial, and it will also cause a backlash from officials.
After much deliberation, Li Xuan felt that we had to start with supervision!
Although the existing supervision is strong, it is obvious that it is not strong enough, at least not strong enough to scare the majority of officials!
Therefore, Li Xuan feels that it is necessary to carry out in-depth reform of the existing anti-corruption supervision system!