Chapter 43 Long-term planning
In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to become an excellent county magistrate, you must be all-round:
First, "All taxes and labor will be levied annually, and the difference is the difference between taxes and labor." Each year, based on the population and the amount of land in the county, we are responsible for levying corresponding proportions of taxes and allocating the corvee that the county should bear.
Second, "If you apologize for the year, please reduce the taxes and labor service in the prefecture." When the county has poor harvest or encounters natural disasters, you can submit the taxes and labor service in the prefecture or labor service and request that the taxes and labor service of the year be reduced as appropriate.
Third, "resolution and decree", the county magistrate is responsible for trial and punishment of any case that occurs in this county, but it is necessary to note that after the magistrate completes the trial of the case, it must be reported to the prefecture. As long as it is not a death penalty, it only needs to be approved by the Qing official department of the Ministry of Justice of each province. For example, the case in Jiangxi will be handed over to the Qing official department of Jiangxi, and the magistrate can only enforce the criminal law after the Ministry of Justice of Justice.
Fourth, "encourage agriculture to boost poverty", the magistrate needs to patrol the countryside during the busy farming season in spring and summer, encourage and urge the people to work hard to farm and raise mulberry trees. At the same time, the magistrate also needs to help and help the poor in the county.
Fifth, "to combat cunning and eliminate traitors", the magistrate has the responsibility to eliminate treacherous villains in the county. The magistrate must severely suppress those cunning people who bully the market and rob the people.
Sixth, "Promote and establish raising and maintaining raising", the magistrate has the responsibility of developing agricultural production in the county, improving the living standards of the county, and teaching the people of the county to promote education and establish the responsibility of education.
Seventh, "All tributes read the law, support the elderly, worship the gods, and do not cover everything." As long as the matters involved in the county, the magistrate has the right to govern. For example, recommending talents from the county to the court, reading and implementing the laws of the court in the county, being responsible for providing necessary daily necessities to the elderly and virtuous people in the county, providing wine and food on time, and ceremonial courts, and being responsible for the sacrificial activities of the county.
It can be seen that the magistrates in the dynasty have very complicated responsibilities and are almost everything. As long as what happens in the county, the magistrate has the right to deal with it. Even if it is just some trivial matters of the people, only the magistrate thinks it should be managed, and he can take care of it.
Of course, although the court granted so much power to the magistrate, he did not expect that he could accomplish it alone, so the court also equipped the magistrate with many assistants.
For example, the county magistrate is responsible for handling grain, horse taxation, household registration, and arrest for the magistrate, the official is responsible for handling patrols and prison matters for the magistrate, the county magistrate is responsible for handling county school matters for the magistrate, and the post chief is responsible for handling exchanges, welcome and see off for the magistrate.
But when it is truly implemented, what will the magistrate do? Let’s see the counties in the Ming Dynasty now know that no matter whether the magistrate has enough ability, the first thing after taking office is to become the magistrate. Everyone must obey his instructions and have to go through the magistrate for big and small matters. Even if the magistrate says it wrong, it must continue to be implemented.
The magistrate cares about the big households in the county. The big households may have various connections with them. Once a problem occurs, the magistrate's position may not be secured. The magistrate should stand with the big households as much as possible.
But it doesn't matter to the people at the bottom. Even if there is a problem, they may not have left the county-level area in their lifetime and they will never threaten the magistrate. Then the magistrate and the big families will work together to exploit the people at the bottom.
The magistrate also knew that he should avoid the rebellion of the lower-level people, but he did not pay enough attention to the people. How could he know how difficult it is to live under the rule of the people?
When governing a county, the People's Military Government needs to arrange a county magistrate and multiple deputy county magistrates. The county magistrate and deputy county magistrate do not need all-round talents. The deputy county magistrate only needs to be proficient in managing a thing. The county magistrate knows a little about all aspects and coordinates various departments in a central manner. Once a major event occurs, the county magistrate convenes the deputy county magistrates to hold a meeting and raise their hands to vote.
However, in the early stage of raising the flag, some things need to be handled specifically, and emergencies are prone to occur. At this time, the county magistrate has great power. Sometimes it is necessary to make arbitrary decisions. Only when the ruler stabilizes and will not be affected by the Ming army will the power of the county magistrate be weakened.
Below the county level, there are towns and villages, and Fangnan will not continue to use the Lijia system of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, the current Lijia system has shown a clear trend of decomposition under the combined effect of a series of factors, such as the growth of population and the increase in mobility, the intensification of the degree of the gap between the rich and the poor among rural community members, and the impact and impact of commodity economic development on rural society, etc.
The social status of local elites with service personnel such as grain chiefs and village chiefs has declined significantly, and the dominant power of rural society has been transferred to non-service personnel such as gentlemen and local tyrants.
Villages under the People's Military Government will be elected in a private manner, that is, all villagers vote to elect the village chief they recognize. The People's Military Government will send one person to two people to the village to serve as deputy positions. The actual power is less, and it is mainly responsible for conveying and interpreting superior instructions to the villagers, and the village chief is responsible for the specific implementation.
Fang Nan wrote down what he thought of one by one and then sorted it out. Some of them were implemented after raising the flag, some were implemented after initial success, and some were implemented after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Well, Fang Nan had already thought about what he needed to do after overthrowing the Ming Dynasty and established a country, and was very confident in overthrowing the Ming Dynasty.
Judging from the current situation of Fang Nan's team or the People's Army, Fang Nan does have this confidence, with hundreds of literate members, advanced firearms such as tiger-headed guns and tiger-headed cannons, and the first army being trained.
These are the foundations laid in the past six years. Now every year, the foundation of the People's Army will rise greatly, and the chance of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty will also increase greatly.
If you operate in secret for another six years, the People's Army will lay a very strong foundation and even form an elite firearm army of more than 10,000 people.
However, Fang Nan also knew that when people were sent to the outside world to unite the people, there was a risk of being discovered. The more people were united, the greater the risk of being discovered. It was impossible that there was no situation where the government had already united hundreds of thousands of people but had not discovered anything.
Fang Nan didn't want to take the initiative when the government found clues and took the initiative to take action. Instead, the People's Army was forced to start raising the flag before the government took action. Instead, the People's Army raised the flag first and caught the government off guard.
According to Fang Nan's idea, the first goal of the People's Army to raise the flag was Yong'an County. After taking Yong'an County, it marched south towards Haifeng County. Haifeng County was adjacent to the sea. As long as the People's Army occupied Haifeng County, it could avoid being attacked from all sides.
When the People's Army captured Yong'an County, it was necessary to quickly send personnel to unite the people of Yong'an County and expand the cold weapon army. The strength of the cold weapon army is weak, but in the case of the small number of firearm army, the cold weapon army is a good supplement. At the same time, the cold weapon army can be used to seize the enemy's firearms to arm the cold weapon army.
There are also blacksmiths, carpenters, and some of the captured enemies in Yong'an County, who can all be sent to Hutouzhai to mine and build firearms. The production of tiger-head guns and tiger-head cannons should be increased as much as possible.
These are all plans on paper, and the specific situation will have to wait for that day to come. After all, sometimes the plans cannot keep up with the changes.
Chapter completed!