Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 744

Li Tan also sighed for a long time, the matter of official administration cannot be resolved overnight.

Even players, there are quite a few people who are lazy and slack in politics for the sake of gaining experience. Now, with the expansion of Datang's territory, more grassroots players have completed primitive accumulation. Datang needs a large number of indigenous grassroots officials.

In later generations, when it comes to people who eat money, almost everyone condemns it one-sidedly, thinking that the country supports too many people.

There is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking, but in Li Tan's position, I realized that it is not better to have as few things as possible.

Just like Cui Tao's metaphor, if the social order is withdrawn, other things will naturally come in.

Without enough repression, gangsters will replace the police as community managers.

If there are not enough tax collectors, powerful families will replace the tax collectors and become the exploiters of the people.

And this gray or black order is worse for the people and worse for the country.

In the Ming Dynasty, the low-level officials were very harsh, and most of them had no salary. The final result was that when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, all the officials quickly surrendered.

Of course, there should not be too much food for finances. All power organs have two desires, the impulse to expand power and expand manpower.

If all departments are allowed to recruit people who eat finances, they will also fall into the problem of redundant officials like the Song Dynasty, which will cause a huge burden on the court's finances.

Li Tan looked at Cui Tao and said, "If I want to reform the official system, where should I start?"

Cui Tao immediately said: "Organization."

Cui Tao had already prepared a plan. He said: "All editors must be tested, and the internal inheritance of power is eliminated. The state's public assets belong to the court and cannot be granted privately."

"Determine the number of officials by staffing, strictly control the number of staffing at each level and level, and clarify the upper limit of the number of people that a local finance can support, so as to ensure that there will not be too many or too few officials in a place."

"The last thing is the treatment. There are too many classifications in Tangzhou and counties. The county officials are rich and the area is also rich. All the officials are rushing to go."

"Xia County is remote and poor, and the official rank is also low. Going to these places to be an official is like exile, and everyone is unwilling to go."

"Lapping the gap between counties and counties, guarantee the treatment of officials who go to remote areas and give them some preferential treatment in terms of treatment, so that backward areas can be developed, instead of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer."

Li Tan nodded. What Cui Tao said was indeed a feasible plan. As the prince of the supervisory country, Li Tan could not be involved in the appointment of personnel in every county. violated.

As the imperial court, what needs to be managed is the personnel in key positions, and more importantly, the establishment of such a high-level institutional level.

"Leave this matter to Cui Qing. This is a meritorious service!"

Cui Tao accepted the order gladly. Naturally, this is not an easy task, but it is also a challenging one.

After finishing asking about officials, Li Tan asked again:
"Why did the budget account department of the Ministry of Industry call back?"

Jiang Lun, a Hanlin scholar from the household department, stepped forward and said:
"Your Highness, the Ministry of Industry has too much budget, and the Ministry of Households has to keep money to help the victims in Henan. There is not enough money for the Ministry of Industry."

At this time, a player jumped out and said, "Why does the Ministry of Households have the money to repair the house! No money to repair the river for us?"

Jiang Lun said: "What are you building? It's a government office that was destroyed by wars in various places. You can't let everyone work in the open air!"

"Government yamen want so much money? We have no money to build the river? Your Highness! Water transportation and flooding of the Yellow River are a matter of ages!"

Hearing this voice, Li Tan felt a little headache.

This player named Xue Tao is a flexible employment college student who graduated from water conservancy engineering in reality.

Since entering the game, he has presided over the construction of many water conservancy projects in Longyou. Because of his strong professionalism and outstanding ability, he was promoted to a Hanlin bachelor and brought to Chang'an.

However, this guy is a fan of super engineering. He clamored to control the river when the world was not pacified, and now he clamors to dredge the water transportation of the Bianhe River. I was terrified.

Dredging water transport is not an ordinary project. The river course is the economic aorta of the Tang Dynasty today. If it is not repaired well and the aorta ruptures, the whole Chang'an will be hungry.

Not to mention river governance, the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers are mother rivers, but mothers are not only loving. Once river governance fails and floods occur, it will affect not just a few people. Hundreds of thousands and millions of people will be homeless. It is a small loss.

For the sake of the so-called Yellow River defense line, the later Song Dynasty tried many times to change the direction of the Yellow River, and finally caused the Yellow River to divert into the sea, which brought huge disasters to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.

This disaster even lasted from the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. In the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, because of the frequent flooding of the Yellow River, people from all over the country were mobilized to repair the Yellow River, which finally led to the rebellion of the people who repaired the Yellow River.

But now the problem of the Yellow River is already very serious.

The weather is warmer now, and the upper reaches of the Yellow River are plentiful. The Yellow River has breached many times over the years.

The war in the Central Plains also caused the embankment of the Yellow River to lack maintenance, and floods occurred frequently. The court spent a lot of money on disaster relief.

The voices of the Xiuhe faction like Xue Tao are getting louder and louder in the forum.

However, the river course must be repaired. He asked Xue Tao: "According to Qing's plan, dredging the Yellow River will make everything worry-free?"

Xue Tao shook his head and said, "Your Highness, there is no such thing as a worry-free thing in this world. Even Dujiangyan needs to be maintained. The ten rivers I have built can keep the Yellow River safe for at most 50 years."

In 50 years, Li Tan did not expect that the time given by Xue Tao was so short.

Xue Tao said: "Floods have been accompanied by civilization since the dawn of civilization. This is almost unsolvable."

"The ancestors cultivated and discovered that the best land is the plain area where the river water hits, and the most fertile land in the plain is the floodplain."

"Flood plains, that is, floodplains, where large rivers wash the nutrient-rich soil at the bottom of the river to the river, which is the most suitable place for carrying crops. People gather in these areas and gradually build cities."

"The minister stayed in the Hetao of Lingzhou, and the court issued repeated orders not to allow land reclamation near the river dam, but there is no way to prohibit this ban. Many people will starve to death if they do not open land, and the local government will also regard land reclamation as a As long as the river bed does not break its bank, no one will be punished."

"Hetao is still in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, so doing this is a small problem, but the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are severely damaged by wars, water conservancy facilities have been in disrepair for a long time, and people have been repeatedly prohibited from enclosing the river to open fields. If the river is not treated, there will definitely be major floods within five years!"

(End of this chapter)