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Chapter 1641 Sophisticated

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    On the pier, in front of dozens of local officials sitting on mats, a low bookcase was placed.  There is paper and pen on the desk.  Li Zhongyi took out the people¡¯s livelihood questions he had prepared in advance, asked people to copy them in public, and then distributed them to the officials to answer the questions.  The questions are actually not complicated. They are all livelihood issues closely related to the people.  What is the highest local grain price per liter?  How much is the minimum price per liter?  How much does a pound of white radish cost?  How much does it cost to rent a house?  In addition, there are a few government affairs questions.  Approximately how many labor slaves and how much food are needed to build one mile of official road?  Is the local police temple doing anything to disturb the people?  There are many questions and they are very complex.  However, as long as you are familiar with the local situation, answering the questions is actually very simple.  Li Zhongyi was a reckless emperor who was well aware of the shortcomings of officialdom.  There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.  Every good government policy produced by the imperial court that benefited the people eventually turned into a policy that defrauded the people with the conspiracy of bureaucrats from all over the country.  Therefore, wherever Li Zhongyi goes, he likes to ask questions about people's livelihood and government affairs to test the local officials.  Today¡¯s local government has actually become a structure in which several powers are separated.  The Inspection Department holds military power, the Dali Branch Temple holds trial power, and the Police and Police Temple holds police power.  Objectively speaking, the work pressure and intensity of prefects, prefectures, and county magistrates have also been greatly reduced.  Moreover, after decentralization, the ability of prefects (counties) to do evil has plummeted.  Among them, the most important thing is that the judiciary is no longer localized, and the prefect cannot use the power in his hands to intervene in the trial affairs of the Dali branch temple yamen.  Li Zhongyi knows very well that localization of justice will cause many disadvantages and no benefits.  If a local official wants to do evil, he must first dispatch the evil officials from the police temple.  If the Jingzheng Temple arrests the wrong person, it is impossible for the Dali Branch Temple to protect them.  Because correcting mistakes is an extremely important bonus when a judge is promoted.  The Dali branch temple, which is directly affiliated with the Dali Temple of the imperial court, adopts a cross-circuit rotation system of judges, which ensures the ability to correct wrong cases in a timely manner.  Good governance without institutional guarantee is just a castle in the air.  Two hours later, when the time was up, all the officials in Zhengzhou handed in their papers.  Because there were many answer sheets, Li Zhongyi could not read them all right away, so he waved his hand and told the officials to disperse.  Li Zhongyi stayed in Zhengzhou for three days. After reading the answer sheet, he began to summon the corresponding officials alone.  After the conversation, Li Zhongyi would write down the local officials who were particularly impressed by them in his notebook for future use.  The way to govern a country is to govern the officials.  Incompetence of officials or excessive greed will lead to good governance turning into bad governance that harms the people, so we must not ignore it.  Han Chuang studied hard for more than ten years and became an official thousands of miles away, just to serve the common people?  Because of the huge benefits of overseas colonization, Li Zhongyi pursued a strategy of maintaining integrity with high salary and close supervision.  In addition to the monthly salary of 200 guan, the prefects across the country also have 300 guan for miscellaneous expenses.  Miscellaneous expenses refer to the money for maintaining a coachman, the money for raising horses, and the money for improving food.  How can bureaucrats who hold real power suffer from poverty?  ??If we don¡¯t allow them to be corrupt and don¡¯t give them benefits, how can they stay calm and refrain from doing bad things?  Li Zhongyi¡¯s strategy is to make all overt and covert interests public.  Five hundred guan per month is not enough to spend, and you have to stretch out your hands to get money, so don't blame Mr. Li for not remembering the old relationship.  In fact, after the interests of the bureaucrats were fixed, the court actually made a lot of money when the big accounts were settled.  ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­  Moreover, it is the interests of farmers or merchants that are destroyed.  After farmers and merchants went bankrupt one after another, the court's tax sources would continue to decrease.  Land annexation and business depression have depleted the imperial court's financial resources.  Once a foreign enemy invades, taxes must be raised to support officials and soldiers must be raised.  The heavier the burden on farmers and merchants, the more refugees there will be, and the imperial court¡¯s financial resources will become increasingly stretched, thus forming a vicious cycle.  In short, Li Zhongyi¡¯s biggest national policy is actually to fully safeguard the interests of the farmers and ensure that the court¡¯s financial resources are sufficient.  During this trip to Zhengzhou, Li Zhongyi summoned a total of seven officials alone and recorded their names in a small white book.  Unlike previous dynasties that looked down upon officials, the new scholars approved by Li Zhongyi all started as officials.  Zai Fu will be sent in the county and counties, and the state and counties must start with officials.  "If we don't start from the grassroots level, how can we know the conditions and shortcomings of the people at the bottom?"    In layman¡¯s terms, what Li Zhongyi wanted to do was actually to take back the power of officials step by step from the hereditary subordinate officials of prefectures and counties.  After the handsome ship set sail again, it turned into the Yellow River and went straight down the river, and its speed was much faster.  Whenever Li Zhongyi visited a large state, county, or government, he would consciously stay for one or two days.  Change the topic of the things you did in Zhengzhou and do them again.  In all major affairs of the world, governing officials and officials is the top priority.  Three months later, Li Zhongyi's handsome ship arrived in Binzhou at the mouth of the Yellow River.  The benefits of sea transportation are now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.  When transporting troops and supplies from Kaifeng to Youzhou, the advantages of taking the sea route over the land route are too great.  Taking the sea route is not only fast, but also has large transportation volume and low cost.  Moreover, the soldiers are not tired and can join the battle as soon as they get off the ship.  Binzhou is the common base of the Yellow River Navy and the Offshore Navy.  Binzhou Shipyard is the third largest shipyard after Mingzhou Shipyard and Kaifeng Shipyard.  Coincidentally, the large colonial fleet from ancient India has also returned and is docking one after another.  Li Zhongyi stood on the pier with his hands behind his back, a smile on his lips, silently watching the tall and mighty ships slowly approaching the shore.  The resources of the imperial court are actually limited.  Overseas colonization must stimulate private capital and elite capital.  Capital is all about profit.  The overseas slave trade, grain trade, silk trade, tea trade, and porcelain trade made the colonists make a lot of money.  What¡¯s more important is that as long as the territory you occupy depends on your ability, it will always be your territory.  This means that the descendants of the colonists can also enjoy the huge dividends of overseas colonization.  In the past, it was Li Zhongyi who pushed everyone to colonize, but now everyone is crying and shouting to join the colonial team.  Some of the powerful people who did not catch the first train have actually started building ships secretly, intending to follow the serious team and make a fortune together.  How could the news in the small shipyard be hidden from Li Zhongyi?  Do you still have the spirit of contract?  Li Zhongyi doesn¡¯t care about it now, because he wants to wait until the ship is built, sneak through the customs and go to sea, and then capture them all, including the people, cargo and ship, and confiscate them together.  In the thousands of years of history of the Chinese nation, except for the Qin and Han dynasties, which abided by the contractual spirit of conferring military honors, other dynasties changed their orders from day to day, treating the court's promises like paper to wipe their butts.  Li Zhongyi knows very well that today¡¯s social structure determines that there is no basis for complete rule of law.  ??For example, whether it is the so-called Congress or the Parliament, even if Li Zhongyi forcibly pushes it away, once he dies, it will definitely return to the track of human rule.  Throughout the thousand years of dynasty history, the power in the hands of the emperor has grown stronger and stronger.  Correspondingly, the power of the prime minister is actually gradually shrinking.  This is determined by human nature. Which emperor is willing to have his power restricted?  Compared with a pure parliamentary system, Li Zhongyi prefers Li Jiapo¡¯s model.  The entire East Asia region has a solid foundation for authoritarianism.  The father dies and the son succeeds.  However, the rules of the game in society are generally followed by laws, and the royal family also restrains their desires and does not want too much undue courtesy.  Li Zhongyi monopolized the bank early on, and the profits there were simply huge, enough for his emperor's son to squander.  In addition, the imperial ownership of banks can prevent the wanton and uncontrolled printing of money.  Because the consequences of doing so would greatly damage the interests of subsequent emperors.  ??History, whether it was the Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty or the treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty, without exception, they were destroyed by the unscrupulous printing of money by bureaucrats.  Now, Li Zhongyi cleverly incorporated the power of banks and money printing into the emperor's private treasury.  As long as the bureaucrats propose to distribute jiaozi indiscriminately and make jiaozi worthless, the emperor's private treasury will shrink significantly, which is to cut the emperor's flesh.  How can it be possible to cut off the emperor's flesh for a long time?  In the way of governing the country, if you want a policy to be implemented for a long time, you must fully consider human nature.  "Haha, Mr. Liu Daguan, you have gained a lot this time when you went to sea, right?" "Where, where, business is not easy to do, but I just brought back more than 3,000 slaves, not worth a lot of money. But you, Zhang Daguan  Man, you have collected a lot of the fine silks from Jiangnan. That¡¯s a treasure trove.¡±  The benefits of hundreds of thousands of dollars?¡±   "Well, it's just a hand-to-mouth existence. Where did the hundreds of thousands of dollars come from?" Li Zhongyi couldn't help but smile when he heard the humility between several colonial businessmen. He didn't dare to reveal his wealth. The businessmen were frightened and worried about being too rich.  Yes, he was killed by the imperial court.  In fact, Li Zhongyi monopolized the bank's profits, and the money he made was gone to the sea.  In a small peasant society, loan sharking is the most lucrative source of profit.  In the era of capitalism, the big finance capitalists are one of the masters of the empire.  As soon as Li Zhongyi took action, he monopolized the power of banks and money printing, which ensured that the royal family could continue to make huge profits.  ¡°As long as the emperors of future generations are not idiots like Sima Zhong, they all know that you cannot kill the goose to obtain the egg.  The most feared thing about currency credibility is uncontrolled printing of money, leading to uncontrolled and substantial devaluation.  There was no other way. In order to avoid the prodigal son from causing trouble, Li Zhongyi was forced to think deeply.  Accompanied by Lin Renzhao, Li Zhongyi stayed at the Binzhou Shipyard for five days.  How can maritime colonization and maritime trade be accomplished without suitable warships and cargo ships?
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