Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 263 Civil Affairs Bureau

Li Jing believed that since Liu Shuyan didn't build houses for the victims, he must have stolen some of the money.

Li Jing is from modern times, and he is used to how corrupt officials use their hands to make money from projects.

To build a pile of bean curd dregs projects, as long as the officials in charge are managed enough, no one will be held accountable, and if an accident occurs, they will bribe the investigators.

In short, it's not that we didn't work hard, let alone that we didn't want to do it well, but that the materials were not up to standard, the land was not good, the land was too soft, or there were too many rocks underneath. Anyway, it has nothing to do with people.

To deal with these people, Li Jing only used two methods.

The first method is: catch and kill.

The second method is: if the crime is not enough to beheaded, let the offender go bankrupt and put him in a cell.

That is to say, Li Jing's temper has subsided in the past two years, and he didn't explode on the spot in front of Wang Chengen, otherwise, someone like Liu Shuyan would have been taken down directly.

In addition, Li Jing believed that since Liu Shuyan dared to covet the money for building houses for the victims, he would sell the salt privately to salt merchants if he could not keep it.

If Liu Shuyan really did it, it would not be his business alone, and the people below must have followed suit.

In other words, once this piece is rotten, it must be all rotten.

Even Li Jing suspected that Zhang Li and others also benefited from it.

Otherwise, you won't wait until you see it yourself to find the problem.

People like Zhang Li still have abilities, and they are more methodical in doing things, but they are not Li Jing's cronies after all.

Even if Zhang Li has nothing to do with it, Li Jing is not at ease to hand over the salt affairs to him.

If you don't need Zhang Li to manage it, who will take care of it?There is only one answer: my dear friend!

To be Li Jing's confidant, one must understand Li Jing's temperament.

These people only dare to make small mistakes at most, and never dare to make big mistakes.

And a place as important as the salt factory, of course, must be managed by the most trusted people.

Li Jing has this ability, and of course only Shen Zheng is an absolute confidant.

The biggest advantage of having Shen Zheng in charge of the commercial operation of the salt factory is that Shen Zheng has money himself, and he has seen any amount of money.What's more, Li Jing's family property was originally given by Shen Zheng. He only needs to ask Li Jing for money if he wants to use it. No matter how much money he wants, Li Jing will give it to him. Greed for small profits ruined the son-in-law's business.

It can be said that Li Jing chose Shen Zheng to run the salt factory after careful consideration.

Putting the salt factory under his own control is something that Li Jing has considered for a long time, and Li Jing also did not set up the Civil Affairs Bureau on a whim.

As Li Jing's affairs became more and more, he could no longer go down to have a look and ask questions like he did in Hongshanling. Although he could not say that his eyes and ears were closed, he could no longer grasp the people's situation by himself like before.

Li Jing knows where his foundation comes from. It is not because he has soldiers or money in his hands, but because he has the hearts and popularity of the people. The people under his rule are his greatest foundation.

Even if he has no soldiers and no money, as long as there are these common people, he can build an army to help the world in less than three years.

Therefore, Li Jing attached great importance to the people under his rule.

But Pingyang Mansion is so big and has such a large population, where does Li Jing have time to visit and ask from place to place by himself?
So Li Jing came up with the idea of ​​setting up the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Considering that you may be dissatisfied with local officials, if you use local officials to manage, you may be persecuted or retaliated by some bad officials.Therefore, Li Jing decided to separate the Civil Affairs Bureau, instead of selecting local officials, and to implement a rotation system.

In addition, Li Jing set up an examination system. When promoting officials, solving the difficulties of ordinary people and stabilizing people's hearts is the most important basis for passing the examination. In this way, the power of the Civil Affairs Bureau is revealed.

But who can represent the public opinion?Naturally, it is not the gentry landlords and officials, but the wishes of the common people.

Therefore, Li Jing decided to place the grassroots agencies of the Civil Affairs Bureau at the village level.

The common people report to the Civil Affairs Bureau of their own villages when they have problems, and the officials at the village level are served by local prestigious old people.

After receiving the complaint, the staff of the Civil Affairs Bureau reported it to the village head and the village chief. If the village chief and the village chief delay handling or refuse to deal with it, or cannot handle it, then the officials of the Civil Affairs Bureau at this level can go up to the next level, the township The first-level civil affairs bureau reported that officials at this level would urge township officials to deal with complaints immediately.

If the officials at the township level still refuse to deal with it, they will report it to the civil affairs department at the county level, then the state level, then the government level, and finally to Li Jing.

Setting up so many officials is because Li Jing hopes that what can be solved at the local level will be solved at the local level, and only those that cannot be solved at the local level will be reported to the next level, which will save time and effort.

At the same time, it is also stipulated that ordinary people must have records when they report problems to the Civil Affairs Bureau, and those that have been processed and those that have not been processed must be classified into files. These records will be the basis for future examinations.

Moreover, Li Jing can understand the needs of the common people through the records of the Civil Affairs Bureau. If Li Jing has enough time, he can go to the local area and ask about the solution of the problem in person. In this way, Li Jing can grasp the public opinion.

However, during this period of time, Li Jing's affairs happened one after another, especially the arena fight with Zhu Youjian was exhausting, so although the framework of the Civil Affairs Department was set, it was not notified.

Of course, the Civil Affairs Bureau does not mean that it can be set up after its establishment. It will take some time to prepare officials, especially the most grassroots officials need to be inspected.

In addition, it will take a lot of time to inform officials and the general public of the purpose and scope of authority of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

This time, Li Jing accompanied Wang Chengen to inspect the salt factory. He saw that the workers' living quarters were shabby, but he didn't know it at all, so he decided to set up the Civil Affairs Bureau immediately.

After explaining the purpose and importance of the Civil Affairs Department to Wang Chengen and the officials in detail, the officials nodded repeatedly while secretly groaning inwardly.

The Civil Affairs Administration seems to have little power, but because it is the most important basis for the examination, the Civil Affairs Administration is tantamount to holding the lifeblood of officials' promotion.

Wang Chengen was secretly amazed when he heard this, the court actually set up a similar department, but it was just a decoration, it was useless at all, so it was not as important as Li Jing.

If the imperial court attaches as much importance to it as Li Jing, how would the officials below dare to act recklessly?How dare you ignore public opinion?

If the officials of Ming Dynasty were sympathetic to the public opinion, even if the disaster was serious, as long as they really tried to help the victims, how could the common people rebel?Daming will not be in the current situation.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Jing sighed and said: "Many officials have been officials for many years, and they have already forgotten what the purpose of being an official is. Being an official does not make decisions for the people. What do we want these officials to do?
The way of medicine says: treat the symptoms when the disease is urgent, and treat the root cause when the disease is slow.What is a mark?what is thisThe target is you officials, this is the system.

Now the officials of Ming Dynasty only know to think about themselves, and don’t consider the survival of the common people. The whole country is already dying.

When the symptoms are almost treated, we will start to treat the root cause. This is to formulate a strict system.

I hope that everyone can strictly abide by the system, so as to achieve the goal of treating both symptoms and root causes. "

Upon hearing this, Wang Chengen stretched out his thumb and said, "General Li has an excellent opinion, pointing out Ming's shortcomings to the point."

Li Jing shook his head and said to the officials: "Everyone's ability is different. Some people have strong abilities and some people have weak abilities. In the Song Dynasty, Wang Jinggong (Wang Anshi) said: Don't worry about what people can't, but worry about it." Don't encourage yourself.

This is how I understand this sentence. I think everyone has their own strengths. You may not be good at this job, but you are good at another job. Then we will put you where you are good at. Just ask people to make the best use of them.

However, it is not easy to make the best use of people. Some people are not put in the right position, and it may appear that this person is incompetent. At this time, you cannot give up on yourself, you have to work hard.

In this process, discover the strengths of this person through observation and understanding, and then put him in a suitable position.

Everyone has known me, Li Jing, for not a day or two. When did you see Li reprimanded for his lack of ability?I can tell you that as long as you work hard, I will see it, and I have never treated people who work hard. "

Everyone at the scene nodded their heads repeatedly, especially Zhou Hengchen and other officials from Lingchuan who came over from Lingchuan.

According to the normal way, most of the officials who came from Lingchuan were not qualified to be officials at all, but Li Jing insisted on pulling them out of the humble, and entrusting them with important tasks one by one, and those who were not promoted. They are also assigned to the right position and do the work that suits them.

If you want to say that people make the best use of them, Li Jing has indeed done a very good job.

And Li Jing never treated them badly, like Zhou Hengchen, who was only a seventh-rank county magistrate before, and his annual salary was less than 100 taels of silver. To support the family.

But since he followed Li Jing, all the salaries of those who did things for him and needed to be paid out of his own pocket were all paid by Li Jing. At the same time, his salary was also greatly increased. Zhou Hengchen's life was so good.

Later Zhou Hengchen was promoted to be the magistrate of Pingyang Prefecture, and his salary was further increased. At this time, he refused to do corruption and bribery, because once Li Jing knew that he was corrupt and bribery, it would be a trivial matter to lose his job, and he might not even be able to keep his food.

He is living such a comfortable life now, why would he take the risk of beheading to make himself uncomfortable?
Including the following officials, everyone's salary is not low, and they have treatment that matches their rank.It can be said that Li Jing did not treat everyone badly.

After everyone finished digesting his words, Li Jing continued: "I might as well tell you that I spent countless money to feed you officials. But even so, some people are still not satisfied! I saw that no matter how much money is given to them Money can't satisfy their desires, they still have to find ways to collect money, to embezzle, and to accept bribes.

Did the wind blow my money?Therefore, I will never be soft on these people. I hope you can remember what I said today. I don't hope that one day, my knife will fall on your necks. "

"I would like to follow the instructions of the commander-in-chief." All the officials said in unison.

Li Jingjing nodded, and then took a deep look at Liu Shuyan.

　Where is the support?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)