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Chapter 42 Things in Lujiang

A few days passed quickly like this, and soon, Lujiang ushered in an annoying summer.At the same time, the appointment and removal of officials under the jurisdiction of Lujiang River and the construction of wonders are also proceeding in an orderly manner.

Regarding the appointment and removal of officials, since Zhang Yan finally got three helpers a few days ago, he immediately appointed Mi Fang and the other three as county magistrates in Shu County and other places, which can be regarded as making up for his shortcomings all along. plate.

And this also means that for the first time all the directly-administered territories in Lujiang have been brought under Zhang Yan's control.

Prior to this, apart from Wancheng, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the county, several other counties were also under Zhang Yan's jurisdiction in name, but due to the lack of suitable manpower to govern, these cities did not keep pace with the entire Lujiang River.

After these three people took office one after another, the entire Lujiang River was actually not under the jurisdiction of Zhang Yan, and there were only a few counties under the control of Hou Guo.

Different from the counties that established the city, due to the relatively small population of the Anfeng Hou Kingdom and other places, and the leaders are all relatives of the emperor, they rarely live in their own territories on weekdays, so most of these Hou Kingdoms are in the A relatively primitive settlement state.

Take Anfenghou State as an example, it is composed of a very small town and a large number of surrounding villages, and there is no city surrounded and protected by walls like Wancheng.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Yan is actually not anxious about the relative independence of these Hou states.

Regardless of the cost or effect of direct control, these areas that occupy a large area and do not have a suitable place for centralized governance have no direct control significance for him at present.

Leaving aside these marquis states for the time being, in the counties that have just been brought under the rule recently, several government offices modeled on the existing model of Wan City have been set up. Established with the support of the local gentry.

And Wancheng also came up with some new tricks in a timely manner.

Just a week ago, that is, on the night of the first day of August, the aristocratic families in Wancheng discovered that two brand new departments had been established under the instructions of their prefect Zhang Yan.

It’s just that it is different from low-level institutions such as the Civil Affairs Administration. The newly established “Technology Department” and “Industry Department” are obviously responsible for something different from their previous perception of the Han official system.

For example, the Department of Science and Technology, under the promotion of the existing publicity system in Wancheng, the aristocratic families already know that this is a department specializing in "science", which is somewhat similar to Jiuqing, which is in charge of mountains and seas exclusively for the royal family. Ikezawa's taxation and government handicraft industry "Shaofu" county organization.

But unlike the Shaofu, the science and technology department is obviously not dedicated to the royal family, but is immersed in the needs of the lower-level residents of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty.

Not only the Science and Technology Division, but also the "Industrial Division" that was born together with the Science and Technology Division.

If the role of the Department of Science and Technology is to bring those inventions that are beneficial to the daily production and life of the people to Lujiang, which is directly under Zhang Yan's governance, then the Department of Industry is probably responsible for the centralized production and distribution of these things.

Due to the nature of their work, these two newly established departments are not as popular as the former Civil Affairs Department and Civil Affairs Department, but are full of a touch of "ignorance and incompetence".

It is precisely because of this that, as of a week later, the manpower of these two departments has not yet been fully equipped.

In addition to the insufficient number of scholars left in Lujiang, it is naturally influenced by the disdain of the current aristocratic families for the two tasks of "scientific research" and "industrial production".

Although in the Han Dynasty, for the time being, the extreme thought of "everything is inferior, only reading is high" did not appear as in later generations, but Dong Zhongshu's disadvantages of "removing all schools of thought and only respecting Confucianism" were also initially revealed.

It is true that in that somewhat special period, such an approach naturally had its own meaning, but this relatively closed ruling policy made the current scholars not particularly interested in any work that did not belong to the "Six Arts of Gentlemen". Heart.

Fortunately, Zhang Yan still had the support of many children from poor families, which prevented the establishment of these two departments from being aborted.

Up to now, in order to be able to match the manpower of these two departments, Zhang Yan has ordered twice to increase the benefits of all technical bureaucrats under Lujiang. Among them, the salaries of those in charge of the team have even faintly reached This exaggerated Kuai Qi's annual salary of hundreds of stones.

As for the Industrial Division, Zhang Yan chose a different approach. He no longer counted on those scholars who looked down on production work, but set his sights on another group—that is, the businessmen of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Unlike "gentlemen", businessmen have developed the most basic business philosophy in this era. Most of them are better able to understand the flow of materials in the production process than those from aristocratic families, and they can also understand better. Zhang Yan's centralized production How much value your behavior will create in a limited space.

After Zhang Yan ordered the propaganda department to shift the focus to businessmen, many businessmen who wished to "become officials" suddenly found a treasure and took the initiative to fill in the organization under Zhang Yan's command.

So far, although there is only a simple fertilizer production factory under the jurisdiction of the Lujiang Industry Department, which is responsible for the mass production of decomposed farmyard manure, but after a period of time when the technology matures, Zhang Yan will also set up a new gunpowder production factory under its jurisdiction. Factories, chemical product factories, and even a series of weapons and equipment production factories in the future.

Different from cheap and cheap farmyard manure, these are all things that can actually help Zhang Yan attract money.

Miners need gunpowder for mining, right?

Residents need to use some basic chemical products such as soap in their daily life, right?

Even if the production of those military supplies is not taken into account, the production of civilian gunpowder will become Lujiang's second largest source of income after taxation, or even the largest source of income in the future.

And all of this will have to wait for Ma Jun to trial-manufacture the first-generation black powder of the finished product.

After talking with Ma Jun that day, Zhang Yan directly allocated a large sum of money to the other party, so that the other party could use it exclusively to study the production and use of black powder.

As far as Zhang Yan knows so far, Ma Jun has not only completed the trial production of fire nitrate, but even the purification of sulfur and charcoal is very smooth. It will not take too long before he can bring himself preliminary experimental results.

As for the aristocratic family, Zhang Yan was not idle either.

Aren't you not interested in this kind of ignorant position?

It's ok.

In order to extract all the available manpower that these aristocratic families were hiding, Zhang Yan quickly delivered a very important message to the ears of these aristocratic families through the two established propaganda bureaus in Wancheng and Shu County.

Chapter 43 Xu Huang's News

"Hey, have you heard that when the autumn harvest comes this year, the prefect will set up a new government office dedicated to taxation!"

"Why, do you want to sign up and try with me?"

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Soon, a somewhat special news spread through the Propaganda Department of Wancheng.

Aren't these aristocratic families not interested in the Technology Division and the Industrial Division?

It doesn't matter, this is within Zhang Yan's expectation.

It didn't take long before the entire family in Lujiang knew that Zhang Yan, as the prefect of Lujiang, would set up another organization called the Taxation Department in autumn to assist him in the taxation of the people under Lujiang's jurisdiction. Collection and statistical work.

And this news was like a depth bomb, instantly boiling up the circle of Lujiang nobles who had calmed down before.

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"Hey, did I hear you right, Tax Secretary? That's taxes!"

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"He's crazy?!"

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You must know that whether a country can support enough troops and whether it can vigorously carry out infrastructure construction in its territory depends to a large extent on how much tax the country can collect.

Especially in the Qin and Han Dynasties, taxation can be said to be the only source of income for the rulers to build a country, and it has a strong particularity and symbolic significance.

Zhang Yan's actions this time not only caused a great uproar among the local aristocratic families in Lujiang, but even the other aristocratic families in the six counties of Jiangdong faintly cast their eyes on this city on the border between Jiangdong and the Central Plains, as if they wanted to Come get a share.

Of course, Zhang Yan also knows that tax matters are of great significance to him, and it seems reasonable that he should not entrust this very important job to the sons of these aristocratic families...

But, besides this, is there any better way?

In fact, there is no such thing.

Even though he knew that his behavior was very risky, Zhang Yan had no other choice.

In this era of gradual transition from feudalism to absolutism, limited by the immaturity of the bureaucratic system and talent training mechanism, both the Tyrant Qin and the Great Han must entrust the taxation work to the lower-level families.

That is to say, the aristocratic family collects taxes from the common people, while the central government collects taxes directly from the aristocratic families.

Collecting more and receiving less is completely just a matter of a word from the middle-level family.

Perhaps the rulers of Qin and Han knew that such behavior would make the family like a parasite, sucking the blood of the whole country for a long time, but limited by the times and the number of talents, these rulers often had nothing to do. very good way.

According to the normal historical development, this situation will be resolved for the first time, and it will have to wait until that "***" Yang Guang formally establishes the dominant position of the imperial examination system.

Since taxation itself is subject to the restrictions of the aristocratic family, there are a lot of tricks hidden in it... Then Zhang Yan might as well bring this kind of matter directly to the surface.

In the short term, such behavior will undoubtedly increase the goodwill of the aristocratic family group towards him as the ruler. After a long time, after the basic education in Lujiang is popularized, he can directly skip the aristocratic family through the mature tax system and go to the lowest level. Citizens are taxed.

At that time, whether and when to tear up the face with the family, the initiative will be handed over to him.

All in all, under Zhang Yan's planning, the bureaucratic system of the various cities under the jurisdiction of Lujiang is slowly but steadily being established.Perhaps in the near future, the superiority of autocracy and centralization will be reflected on the land of Lujiang.

While Zhang Yan was busy promoting the ideological trend of authoritarianism, Wei Xian was obviously making great efforts in the construction of spectacle. It cannot be said that there is little progress, but it can only be said that there are frequent successes.

Ever since Zhang Yan entrusted Wei Xian with the modification of the construction of the spectacle that day, Wei Xian felt the other party's trust more and more, and even his enthusiasm for work was much higher than before.

Although due to the limitation of manpower, the construction of this large library has not been able to officially start, but in terms of "theory and feasibility analysis", Wei Xian has led the group of craftsmen to go a long way.

In the past few days, Wei Xian did not secretly look for opportunities to rest because of the busyness of Zhang Yan and others. Instead, he continued to take advantage of his status to visit various aristocratic families in Lujiang time and time again, asking them for advice on how to store books. related conditions.

Even though these aristocratic families had some disdain for Wei Xian as a "husband" from the bottom of their hearts, but limited by the relationship between Zhang Yan and the other party, no one showed dissatisfaction with Wei Xian. Watching the other party visit the environment of the collection of books in his home.

Hard work pays off, in the repeated visits and summaries, Wei Xian really found some ways out of it.

Now, whether it is to build a dry and ventilated environment, or to prevent insects and rats, Wei Xian now has sufficient theoretical knowledge and combines it with his long-term construction experience.

For the construction of the large library, Wei Xian has sufficient confidence, and looks forward to the return of Xu Huang and others.

As long as Xu Huang's suppression of the bandits is over, if nothing else happens, he will be able to get enough manpower to officially start the construction of the Lujiang Library, and to verify whether there are any fallacies in his previous theory.

Not only Wei Xian, but also Pei Yuanshao, who had been training silently, and Zhang Yan, who was sitting in the center, were all looking forward to when the news of Xu Huang would come back to him.

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For Pei Yuanshao, who has been devoted to military training, he has already trained so much that he feels a little bored, thinking all day long when he will be able to find a suitable opponent and try the more than 1 soldiers under him. The training results during this period.

Undoubtedly, in the current Lujiang River, the only ones who are qualified to be his testing stone are the Shanyue forces in Danyang County to the east of the Lujiang River.

As long as the battle on Xu Huang's side officially started, Zulang might attack Lujiang at any time, which was a rare opportunity for him, Pei Yuanshao, to express himself.

As far as Zhang Yan was concerned, he obviously needed a breakthrough from Xu Huang's side to bring him sufficient population for the next step of Lujiang's construction work.

The current time has reached the seventh day of August, and in a week or so, the first crop of wheat planted by the people in Lujiang in March and April will basically start harvesting.

During this busy time of farming, Zhang Yan naturally wanted to ensure that no forces in his territory could threaten the working people.

And just as everyone was expecting, Zhang Yan finally welcomed Xu Huang's messenger soldier on a sunny afternoon, and also learned from the other party the latest news about the current battle against the Shanyue bandits in the Qianshan area. information.

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"Okay, well done!"

"As expected of Gongming, this action did not disappoint me!"

"Quickly pass on my order to let the [-] soldiers led by General Pei Yuanshao set off today, and immediately go south to support General Xu Huang."

Taking the other party's letter out of the bamboo tube, Zhang Yan saw the content on it, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

Afterwards, a series of orders came out quickly from his mouth, guiding many soldiers in Wancheng to move like a waking giant beast.

"Haha, that bastard Pei Yuanshao complained to me about his long hair before, isn't this opportunity coming?!"

"By the way, remember to tell General Pei later that he needs to attack camps and villages this time going south, so he must remember to bring that thing with him, and help me to test it out!"

Chapter 44 The basic method of suppressing bandits