Chapter 44 Xinxiang Agreement

For Han Bangqi, the village agreement was a practice of his political philosophy, so all village agreements emphasized educating the people. This is the collective will of almost all scholars and officials, and everything depends on the public opinion. This sentence is also considered the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty did not want to be influenced by the people below. They wanted the emperor to listen to them in everything, so they had this sentence. Why is everything determined by the public opinion? Because, are they all?

However, this sentence is also very confusing. Many great scholars took this sentence seriously.

Han Bangqi is one of them.

He was not disgusted with Zhou Mengchen's use of this concept to shape the village contract. He just didn't know how to operate it like this.

Zhou Mengchen said: "I think so. Every adult male should have the right to vote. If you want to be the head of the village appointment, you can tell everyone what they want to do. Then let the adult male member vote. There are many ways to vote. You can use two jars, each person can divide a soybean and a mung bean. Distribute it into different jars to distinguish them."

"After electing the village chief, various positions will be selected accordingly."

"For ordinary things, let them make their own decisions when they have dates in the countryside. But there are controversial events and the welfare of the whole countryside agreement. We have to vote together."

"Uncle Han, what do you think?"

"For example, whether it is in charge of money, paying taxes together, or even connecting with loans, they can decide for themselves."

Han Bangqi pondered for a moment and said, "Is this a pledge? My nephew thought, can these people use it well?"

Indeed, the Ming Dynasty's vote system is similar to this. However, Zhou Mengchen did not think this way. He actually didn't know that the grassroots of the Ming Dynasty should be shaped like this. He actually had doubts about the so-called democracy.

It’s just that some things have inertia. What is the inertia of the Ming Dynasty and the opposition? It is becoming more and more democratic.

Even though the Donglin Party laid the last nail on the Ming Dynasty's coffin. However, before the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, it was such a trend. In the court, officials made the emperor unable to do anything. In the city, citizens formed associations, scholars and scholars formed associations, which made it very popular. In the countryside, various rural contract organizations were organized at different levels, and even some madmen in the Taizhou School even created utopian experiments.

Many things can be done with half the effort. If you do with half the effort, you can do with half the effort. If you do with half the effort.

For example, if you strengthen the official positions in rural areas, you will do it against the trend. Then there will be major reforms, violate the ancestral system, increase a large number of officials, manage every village, and increase administrative costs, but also encounter a lot of political resistance. It is impossible to end without causing a stir in the world.

Since there is such a trend in the world, why not try it? If the rural democratic autonomy system can be achieved, it is not as efficient as the court's management. However, it is difficult to say that the plan is better if it is reduced by a lot of burden.

But can it be done? Zhou Mengchen doesn't know.

After all, the trend is here. Even if Zhou Mengchen doesn’t do anything? In the future, the power of local officials in the Ming Dynasty will be greatly compressed and become a situation where local officials and gentry rule the world together. Now if he can build this level of construction well, then although the power of the literati will increase, the problem is that Zhou Mengchen himself is a literati. He has different status and different opinions.

Secondly, this can actually check and balance the disorderly expansion of the power of the literati and official officials. After all, when there are no rules, the strong are the rules. After the rules, the township dates are restricted by the county government in many things, and can also be used to restrict the literati and official families, and it is also a powerful tool for the literati and official families to restrain officials.

What exactly looks like? Let’s see the game below.

The most important point. In Zhou Mengchen's view, this is a social experiment.

After all, there have been so many great scholars in the Ming Dynasty who have promoted the village contracts in recent years, but they have not failed. Zhou Mengchen is not afraid of failure. He wants to know whether this path can work. If there is a possibility of it working, Zhou Mengchen will use this method as part of his future new law.

Even if it is really useful, future overseas colonies may not be able to be built with this framework.

If there is no chance, Zhou Mengchen will also keep this idea in his mind. After all, it is important now. It is just that Han Bangqi wants to make a new township agreement, Zhou Mengchen naturally wants to get a hand.

Zhou Mengchen said: "It's not that there is a master uncle. There are so many Hengqu disciples in Guanzhong, which is also a way to benefit the countryside."

Han Bangqi was a little moved.

Because what Zhou Mengchen said was a fact, the people have always respected scholars, which is a reality. No matter how the village appointment is done, in the end, there must be a member of scholars in the village appointment. Otherwise, this airtip would not be able to be built.

Who are the scholars in Guanzhong? They are Guan Xueyi and Han Bangqi's disciples. Even if they are not Han Bangqi's disciples, they will call them uncle or uncle when they see Han Bangqi.

And if you really need to look at it carefully, they are the ones who are close. Zhou Mengchen can only be said to be polite.

Generally speaking, northern scholars have far fewer people who enter the government than southerners. The reason is very cruel, that is, they fail to take the exam. The economic foundation determines the results of both parties. Studying is expensive.

Many scholars in Guanzhong are from poor backgrounds. Han Bangqi knows it best because when Han Bangqi sees good seedlings, he will support him. However, Han Bangqi is not a wealthy person either.

Can help too little.

Han Bangqi's efforts to promote the village appointment may not be due to this consideration. Almost all the chores of the village appointment are not available, but they always have to take care of a few meals. For poor scholars, it is also good to have a few more meals.

Although Zhou Mengchen felt that those scholars were raised by their parents and wives when they were studying, they were really despicable. However, Zhou Mengchen himself also ignored one thing: he was measured by future generations or in the wealthier places in the Ming Dynasty.

For those who read and read in these places, it is easy for them to find an errand.

However, in poverty-stricken places like the northwest, it is difficult for scholars to find any work, and even have fewer things to carry. First, the economy is underdeveloped, so there are fewer such things. Second, even if this happens, the people who carry the life will join together, so how can an outsider join?

So counting, scholars are their best way out.

And helping the village manages affairs is another way out for poor scholars.

Therefore, in Han Bangqi's opinion, it is better to have more things in the village date. He may not have seen the impact of the village date on the future Ming system. However, he saw that if the village date can really become what Zhou Mengchen said, the village date chief, who has already had seven or eight people in the village date, there may be a few full-time or full-time ones.

Maybe it is a way out for poor scholars. And if scholars participate in local affairs before becoming officials, it is also a kind of exercise.

Han Bangqi said: "It's not impossible."

Seeing that Han Bangqi was moved, Zhou Mengchen said, "My uncle, my nephew is talented and has little knowledge. There are many places that I can't think about, but one thing I saw is that the power of the Ming Dynasty did not go to the countryside. Although Taizu loved the people, there were only more than 1,000 counties in the Ming Dynasty, but there were countless villages. If the countryside was safe, the Ming Dynasty would be safe. If the countryside was uneasy, the Ming Dynasty would be uneasy. The court did not care about the countryside and relied on all the gentry. If there were one or two untrue people who corrupted the name of the court and made the people uneasy, it was also a disaster for the Ming Dynasty. The great scholars of all dynasties implemented the village agreement, which might not have been so thought. But the little brother felt that the great scholars of all dynasties wanted to keep the place safe, but did not want the people to do something and share some of the affairs of the court. It was also a major event for the world to govern and pacify the world."

Han Bangqi said: "You have said this, what else can I say? However, what you said before is still a bit unreasonable and cannot be done at all. It's just that it is not a method of substituting eyebrows."

Han Bangqi started to say this.

Zhou Mengchen had a novel idea, and there were many model books that he could copy in later generations. However, Han Bangqi, as a great scholar, had been in the village for many years. Not to mention anything else, he could understand the hometown. The two of them had a collision of wisdom, and a brand new village contract was about to come out.
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