Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1675, Pilot Restructuring

Liu Jin looked at Lin Pan and other officials of Shuntian Mansion, how could he not know about their situation.

In ancient times, it was very difficult to become an official. It took many years of hard study to get out. At least one had to be qualified to be an official, but it was very difficult to pass the examination.

Even a talented man like Wen Zhengming spent his entire life taking the exam, starting at the age of 27 and taking the provincial exam nine times throughout his life. For [-] years, he failed to pass the Juren exam.

There is also a great talent like Zhu Zhishan, one of the four great talents in Wuzhong. He was admitted to Juren, but he failed to pass the exam for the Jinshi test seven times.

Those who were able to become officials in ancient times really did it step by step, it was definitely not that easy.

Therefore, he also cherishes the power in his hands very much. If he is willing to let go of the power in his hands, he has to manage everything by himself, and there will naturally be more things.

In the past, the city was small, with few things to do, and you could drink tea leisurely. Now that the scale of the capital is expanding day by day, the population is increasing rapidly, and various problems are emerging. If you want to be the same as before, it is naturally tiring and difficult to do things.

But is it okay to continue like this?
Certainly not. The capital city is becoming more and more prosperous, and the requirements for the government's responsibilities are also getting higher and higher. The reason why the proportion of officials and citizens is so large in later generations is actually more and more closely related to the government's responsibilities and requirements.

In ancient times, it was very comfortable to be an official. A county lord brought a few small officials, and then some small officials, official servants, government servants and the like.

Because under the ancient small-scale peasant economy, there would not be too many things happening at all. They only need to try cases, preside over scientific research, and sometimes organize everyone to build roads and city walls.

Most of the time, these officials and lords stay at home with their legs crossed to read books and travel around the mountains and rivers. The imperial power does not go to the countryside. What happens in the villages and towns is basically solved by the folks in the clan, and the officials and lords cannot be reached.

However, with the continuous destruction of the small peasant economy and the development of the capitalist economy, the requirements for the government are getting higher and higher, and there are more and more things.

To put it simply, the relationship of production must constantly change and adapt with the development of productive forces.

"Lin Pan, how old are you this year?"

After thinking about it, Liu Jin also asked about Lin Pan's age. Judging by his appearance, he is over sixty, and he should retire.

"The next official is already sixty-two."

When Lin Pan heard this, his face immediately turned pale. Liu Jin asked his age. Could it be that he was going to send him home for the elderly?

He can't bear it.

Thinking back on my life, the road to the imperial examinations was pretty smooth, but I was in my thirties and a Jinshi in my forties, and I was in the officialdom for more than ten years, and then I got into the position of Shuntian Prefecture Governor. After becoming a third-rank official, he still wondered if he could be promoted to the sixth department in the future to be a minister, servant or something.

"Sixty-two?"

"Master Lin, it's better not to work too hard as you get older."

After listening, Liu Jin nodded slightly, thought for a while and said.

"The lower officials understand, the lower officials understand."

When Lin Pan heard it, he trembled slightly, and then replied without energy.

Liu Jin, a cabinet minister, said that he was old, so he shouldn't be too tired, and he wouldn't want to mess around in the future, and he had better go home early to take care of his old age.

It's just that I'm really not reconciled.

I have only been a manager for more than ten years, and the officials of these three ranks have not been officials for a few years, and I haven't fully enjoyed the taste of power in my hands.

How can I be reconciled to letting myself go home to retire.

However, if you don't go back to take care of yourselves, I'm afraid it won't work.

He was an official here in the capital, and Liu Jin already knew what he was like.

This is a master who doesn't get in. I don't know how many people have tried to go through Liu Jin's back door, but Liu Jin didn't accept it at all, and by the way, he severely reprimanded the person who gave the gift.

Everyone knows that Liu Jin is selfless and unselfish, and Liu Jin is even more unruly than Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Zhong Zhong.

At any rate, they would still charge some filial piety, some retouching fees and so on. Liu Jin never did these things, and never wrote inscriptions for anyone.

Of course, Liu Jin himself is the God of Wealth, he has plenty of money, and he doesn't care about money at all.

The only way to get Liu Jin's appreciation is to do a good job in what you are doing seriously and show excellent achievements. Even if you have nothing to do with Liu Jin, he will still promote you.

If you are a vegetarian and do nothing, he will send you to the Golden Island or Australia to read newspapers.

For this reason, Liu Jin also offended a lot of ministers, but there is no way, Liu Jin is a celebrity around the emperor, and has a good relationship with the big bosses in the court, and he is also a representative of military generals.

Since Liu Jin became an official, I don’t know how many impeachment memorials I have received, but all of them are useless. On the contrary, those who impeached Liu Jin, some of them have already grown grass on their graves, and some are in the distant Golden Island, Australia, Siberia misses home.

He said that if he wants to go home for the elderly by himself, he must go home for the elderly.

Thinking about it carefully, in fact, my life in the past few years has been very tiring and bitter, and I am always worried.

He was very responsible for the bullies in Huairou County in the past two years, and the management of the capital was not good enough, and he performed poorly in every year-end evaluation.

In addition, he is really old, and his body is not as good as before. The key is that his thinking cannot keep up with the times. Facing more and more complicated and more affairs, he sometimes feels powerless. I don't know how to deal with it.

"Alright, go home and take care of yourself."

Sighing in his heart, Lin Pan also decided to write down his speeches when he turned around.

Liu Jin took Zhu Houzhao out of the Shuntian government office and continued to stroll around the capital.

Soon came to Dongcheng New District again.

Compared with going to Nancheng New District in Dongcheng New District, the difference is simply too far.

Everything here is not planned, the roads are winding, and the houses on the streets are of different sizes and widths. It can be seen that many of them are built randomly and without a trace of planning.

This is mainly because the land on the Dongcheng side is not in the hands of Liu Jin, but in the hands of these dignitaries and landlords in the capital, one piece of land for you and one piece for me.

The land in the capital is becoming more and more valuable, and you can get a lot of rent if you build a house for rent, which also stimulates the continuous random construction of houses in these places.

There are also some dignitaries who are engaged in real estate, but the related supporting facilities have not been done well, so the two places of Dongcheng and Beicheng are the most unplanned and messy places.

Factory buildings, residential areas, private houses, shops, and a large number of shantytowns are all gathered together in a mess, and there is no supporting drainage system and water supply system.

The dignitaries, landlords and gentry who invested in these places did not have a good discussion and were reluctant to invest. The roads in many places are still dirt roads.

Therefore, the entire urban area looks very dirty and messy, and it cannot be compared with the new city in the South District and the West District. The land in the South District is basically Liu Jin's, so the planning is the best.

A large part of the land in the West District belongs to Liu Jin. Liu Jin can also discuss with other people and plan well, so the construction is extremely good, the planning is neat, and there will be no mess.

"Your Highness, look at the Dongcheng District in front of you."

"It's very messy, very dirty, messy, and without planning. It may be better now, but if it takes a long time, it will be difficult to carry out unified planning and construction here in the future."

"Urban construction like this, urban construction and infrastructure construction, actually requires the guidance and planning of the government, not just here in the capital, Tianjin, Nanjing, or other cities in my Ming Dynasty."

"In the future, the scale will become bigger and bigger, and the urban population will increase. If it is still the same as before, the model of officials and lords is just let the common people build indiscriminately."

"The appearance of a city will be very ugly, and it will not be built well at all. It will be a great waste of resources and land, and the sanitary conditions will be very poor. It is very easy to have large-scale plagues and diseases like European cities. .”

"In the new town of the southern district, because the land is in our hands, we can carry out orderly planning and construction. The gap between the southern district and the eastern district can be seen."

"The streets in the southern district are spacious, well-planned, with convenient transportation, clean and hygienic. In the eastern district, the roads are narrow, poorly planned, traffic jammed, and messy. Look at these houses, and then look at these streets."

"It's hard to imagine why there are such huge differences in the same capital city. The root cause of this is whether there is a unified plan."

"The land in the southern district is in our hands, so it is easier to plan, but in the eastern district, the land is scattered in everyone's hands. In this capital where every inch of land is expensive, neither side will make any concessions. It's hard to plan."

"Shuntian Mansion has no plans, no time and energy to take care of these things, think about these things, and the second is that they don't dare to take care of these things, because the land here is basically the land of the dignitaries and ministers in the capital. It’s not easy to offend anyone.”

Liu Jin was talking, and Zhu Houzhao was also listening carefully.

The capital city is also facing many problems now. The emergence of new urban areas requires planning and management, and the old urban areas also need re-planning and management.

However, Shuntian Mansion does not have such responsibilities and functions at all, and there is no way to effectively manage these, which has led to a huge gap between the new city in the southern district and the urban areas in the eastern district and the old district.

"Your Highness, the Shuntian Mansion can be used as a pilot to carry out restructuring, to restructure our big city government in Daming, so as to better meet the needs of urban development."

(End of this chapter)