When Zhang Chong took Zhuge Gui into the clean room, he asked people to prepare some fruits and vegetables.
The two sat down and chatted while eating.
On the one hand, Zhuge Gui felt that Zhang Chong understood everything clearly, and on the other hand, he felt respected by Zhang Chong when he inquired privately.
So after sitting down, Zhuge Gui didn't even take a sip of the water, and just said what he hadn't said just now.
In fact, the reason why Zhuge Gui hesitated before was because what he said below was too naked and was not conducive to the current proposition of the Taishan Army.
Zhuge Gui organized it and said to Zhang Chong:
"Qu Shuai, this compilation of the civilian register is not for compilation, but for a reason. In short, all the tax collection and corvee distribution by our Taishan Army must fall on these people, and the household registration is for this purpose. The basis of things. In addition, in terms of Shenhan's technique, this is also an effective measure to control and suppress the people. If people can make their homes in the fields, there will be no chaos. "
Zhang Chong felt a little complicated after hearing these words.
Of course he understood what Zhuge Gui meant, and he also understood that what he said was correct to a certain extent. It's just a pity that when did he start to become the other side of Qian Shou, from how he originally wanted to help Qian Shou to how to prevent Qian Shou now.
But this complexity goes away just as quickly as it comes.
In his previous life, Zhang Chong was a slightly romantic middle-class person, in other words, a so-called bourgeois. After coming here, I couldn't help but see that the people in Guizhou were living in such a shameful way, so I wanted to work hard to change it.
But changes come and go, and he himself changes.
In this troubled world, Zhang Chong gradually realized the more cruel side, which is about the way of power and the way of struggle.
He knows that sometimes, institutional truth can ensure the safety of most people.
For example, in the Qin and Han dynasties, Li communities were registered as households and were forced to leave land for management. Although people were unable to move freely, it actually reduced social chaos.
Because in ancient times, refugee groups were factors that were detrimental to social stability. Because these people are separated from the land and have no reliable source of income, they can only use force to rob and steal in order to survive.
These refugees may travel in groups of three or five, wandering around and eating too much; or they may gather in groups to protect mountains and rivers; some groups of refugees are organized and led to form armed groups with certain military attack capabilities. Such refugee behavior groups are called They are called giant thieves and bandits.
But what cannot be forgotten is that people naturally want to be stable. If they can have a piece of land for farming, how many people will live in those precarious days?
Therefore, there are often a large number of rogue groups in society precisely because there are major problems with the society's governance capabilities.
These people were left without food or clothing due to floods, severe droughts, or bandits. In addition to natural disasters, there are also more human-related disasters. Such as military service, corvee service, wars and accidents, and then mergers and acquisitions by powerful powers and harsh officials.
So after Zhang Chong heard Zhuge Gui's lecture, he corrected him:
"To enable the people to be stable, household registration is only a means, but more importantly, it is to allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment. The distribution of corvees is necessary, and construction of water conservancy projects is indispensable, but this distribution must be controlled."
Zhuge Gui nodded. He was not that kind of legal official. He only wanted to make peace with the people.
After hearing Qu Shuai talk about water conservancy construction, he happened to have something to say in this regard.
But Zhang Chong smiled and said:
"Come on one by one, what we are talking about now is the implementation of the household registration system, let's continue talking about this."
Zhuge Gui was stunned and secretly blamed himself for messing up the rules.
So, he continued:
"It is precisely because household registration is so important to our Taishan Army. Therefore, a method is needed to maintain the long-term effect of household registration. After all, people are lazy. Without a rope, how can the village officials below do things with care. So here in the Han Dynasty , there is a continuous sitting system.”
"In Qin's legal theory, if one person commits a crime, the whole family and neighbors will be punished. Later, when Emperor Gaozu entered Guanzhong, he made a three-chapter law, which stipulated that the murderer should die, and the crime of wounding and stealing should be compensated. Therefore, the system of sitting together was suspended. But later when Empress Lu came to power, it was restored This system has continued to this generation. ”
"So, in order to allow the grassroots township officials to do their work attentively, they all sit together. If there is a thief in the house, the people from Lidian and Wu will all sit together. This kind of joint sitting also involves the family members of the criminal. In short, everyone who lives together will sit together."
Zhang Chong was listening and had already made a decision in his heart.
He gave instructions to Zhuge Gui:
"The so-called "sitting together" is nothing more than hoping for fear and making people supervise each other. It is also useful, but in fact it is more harmful. For example, if a village official has no knowledge or involvement in someone's crime, but is guilty because of "sitting together", then he is doing it for himself If you are not guilty, you will tolerate and protect this person, so even sitting seems to be useful, but it is actually useless.”
Seeing Zhuge Gui thinking, Zhang Chong said this again:
"A good law should punish evil and promote good, make people good and prevent people from doing evil. It is not about making good people become evil people to avoid crime. In a word, I am afraid that the punishment will be heavy but the virtue will be weak."
Zhang Chong's last words immediately moved Zhuge Gui.
Zhuge Gui stood up and bowed respectfully to Zhang Chong.
But since the countryside is not restrained by severe punishments and laws, how should we restrain or even encourage them?
Zhang Chong had his own method for this.
Although the rural officials of the Han Dynasty in the past were called officials, they were not actually officials, and they had little prospect of being promoted to higher positions.
Since there is no future, these rural officials will naturally slack off and even use the little power they have to engage in corruption. In the field-sharing system designed by Zhang Chong, field-dividing officials and field-protecting officials were all evaluated in the official system.
Theoretically, a land official with the smallest official position could become a high official in a county or even a shogunate due to his outstanding achievements.
When people have a future and a head start, they will naturally pay attention to their own behavior and accept systematic assessment.
It’s not that there is no problem in this way, but under this assessment paradigm, the capable ones are promoted and the mediocre ones are demoted. A self-correction mechanism is built to ensure that most people are being managed.
At this point, Zhuge Gui has almost finished talking about the household registration. After he returns, he will draw up a more detailed plan based on his commander-in-chief's instructions, and then show it to his commander-in-chief.
However, household registration is still only one part of the current governance. There are also recruiting refugees, criminal lawsuits, cleaning up bandit troubles, training rural soldiers, rectifying government officials, encouraging farmers to work, building water conservancy, doing light labor, and recruiting talents.
Therefore, these nine items and the "Anmin Anminju" that Zhuge Gui just talked about are combined into the "Ten Anmin Anju". This article almost condenses Zhuge Gui's entire experience, and he wrote it with great pains.
Zhang Chong also respected Zhuge Gui's achievements, and he went through these ten points with Zhuge Gui one by one.
Some of these are urgent matters, such as attracting refugees.
After more than a year of chaos in Hebei, people have been displaced. The Taishan Army must recruit these displaced people to return to their hometowns to rebuild their homes.
Behind this series of events, a large amount of manpower and material resources are needed. In the early stages of rebuilding a home, it is necessary to provide food and feed the people, and this process may even last a year.
Therefore, the reconstruction of homes in the Zhao area requires a massive supply of money and food, and this can only be decided by Zhang Chong, the leader of the Taishan Army.
To be honest, it is still wartime, so even if the Taishan Army has extra money and food, it should give priority to developing its military strength. You know, the remaining Han army is still not weak. With their alliance, the next Hebei War will inevitably be a final decisive battle.
Therefore, the rational result is to prioritize resources over military needs, which is military-first doctrine. After all, if the army is defeated, these refugees will still be destroyed by the Han army, and may even become the opponent's supply point.
But in the end, Zhang Chong decided to allocate a batch of money and food to the civil affairs department and let them organize the refugees in Zhao to return to their hometowns to rebuild their homes.
Because although this matter is not an urgent matter for Zhang Chong, it is an important matter. If the refugees are not treated, the place will be unstable, and the bandits can have a steady supply of manpower, and then more and more bandits will be suppressed, and money and food will be wasted.
Therefore, managing the refugees is the foundation for stabilizing the place and must be done.
As for money and food, the Taishan Army currently has enough money and food. Wei, northern Hanoi, Puyang and Heji have been farming for more than a year, and there is already excess money and food that can be turned over to the shogunate.
Therefore, the current shogunate still has the strength to govern the Zhao Kingdom. As for the southern area of Julu, Zhang Chong feels that it should be left alone first. If we don't establish certain military defenses and attract refugees, they won't come.
Later, Zhuge Gui discussed the local criminal prosecution with Zhang Chong.
For the people-friendly officials in this world, they actually have only two functions, one is to collect taxes, and the other is to resolve local lawsuits.
In the Han Dynasty, the power to hear lawsuits and judge prison sentences was in the hands of local township veterans on the one hand, and the county officials on the other.
The former enforces clan rules according to clan laws, and village elders can resolve common disputes within the clan. But sometimes there are disputes between tribes, such as fighting for water in the countryside, and several ethnic groups often fight with each other. At this time, the county magistrate needs to come forward to solve the problem.
Now the Taishan Army focuses on attacking the wealthy families and breaking them up by dividing their fields and households. So naturally there is no so-called village elder to mediate the disputes within the clan.
In the past, the Taishan Army's system in this area was not perfect, and the right to hear lawsuits was not fixed. Sometimes the local garrison general can also manage the litigation, and sometimes it is the local sub-field official who coordinates the litigation.
Moreover, this kind of handling of litigation is particularly simplified. It can be settled directly on the spot without going through layers of trials. Although this method is fast, it lacks supervision and can only rely on the examiner's own moral self-discipline. Therefore, many unjust cases were handled.
Previously, when the Taishan Army first arrived in Hebei, it faced great military pressure, so everything had to be strict and fast at that time, and more energy should be spent on the war.
But now that the Taishan Army has established a firm foothold in the central and southern region of Jizhou, Zhuge Gui suggested that Zhang Chong learn from their judicial process in the Laiwu area and standardize the current hearing process.
In the Laiwu area, all local judicial matters were jointly reviewed by the field officials and the field guardians.
Cases are investigated and handled by land guards, and cases are tried and adjudicated by field officers. The results of the case and the case statement are first sent to the township management office, and after approval by the township management office, they are sent to the county level for decision-making.
As for cases involving human life, the results must be reported to the shogunate, which will be heard and decided by the Justice Bureau before execution.
As for major criminal cases and highly controversial cases, there will be Feijun internal troops coming to investigate and try them.
Some of these processes were proposed by Zhuge Gui, and some were added by Zhang Chong. After the final discussion, it will be a judicial process that will take a long time to come.
Zhang Chong still attached great importance to the ten major statements presented by Zhuge Gui. But some of them are also divorced from Zhuge Gui's experience, such as arresting bandits.
Zhuge Gui had no experience in this area, so the explanation in this part of the statement was relatively sparse, so Zhang Chong did not discuss this in detail with Zhuge Gui.
It just allows Zhuge Gui to participate in a small bandit suppression meeting with Guan Yu, Zhang Dan, Ding Sheng, Yu Jin, Dong Fang and others later, and then he can study and record a little bit.
Another one of Zhuge Gui's policies was to establish rural soldiers.
In his explanation, there are three levels of locality: county, township and li. There are garrison troops in the county and field guards there, but they are missing at the township level. Therefore, Zhuge Gui suggested identifying rural soldiers at the township level.
But after Zhang Chong listened carefully to Zhuge Gui's ideas, he rejected this article.
Because in his opinion, it does not make much sense to set up rural soldiers at the township level. Because of the local thieves, there were village soldiers patrolling the main roads, and town soldiers stationed in the city. Then each local community also has its own field-protecting soldiers as a huge source of troops, which can be mobilized together.
There is really no need to add an extra level. On the contrary, it is indeed possible to set up a township office at the township level to handle litigation cases of various communities.
Except for the above items, such as rectifying the administration of officials, encouraging farmers to work, building water conservancy projects, easing corvee and recruiting talents, there is nothing new in what Zhuge Gui said.
For example, to rectify the administration of officials is to stimulate the conscience of each official and organize education. Zhang Chong's addition to this is that on the one hand, the review of officials should be strengthened, not only to evaluate the administrative abilities of officials, but also to evaluate their moral character.
For this reason, Zhang Chong decided to add a new organization under the Li Caosi Division, namely the Discipline and Inspection Division, which would first be affiliated with the Li Caosi Division.
This organization is specially used to review the moral conduct of various officials. Before each promotion, officials from the Discipline and Inspection Department will visit and investigate the relationship between the officials and the people around them, and carefully review whether there are any violations of laws and ethics during the performance of their duties.
Also in the article of persuading farmers to farm, Zhuge Gui’s suggestion was to use agricultural experts to spread farming knowledge, and then to protect farm cattle.
These things are already used by both the Taishan Army and the Han Dynasty, so there is not much to say about them.
Zhang Chong didn't add much. In fact, he had his own opinions on farming.
Although millet, which is currently commonly grown, can be grown on dry land, the yield is really not high. In the future, after Hebei's water conservancy is opened, high-yielding crops such as wheat will still need to be planted.
This kind of crop not only has a higher yield than millet, but also has a higher protein content, which can better provide nutrition to the people. In fact, when the Han Dynasty was the strongest in the early days, it was common to grow wheat, but now it can only let it go and plant some better-raised millet at will.
Since then, the Taishan Army has been doing things such as building water conservancy, easing corvee work, and recruiting talents, and they have done it very well. As long as they continue to use it, it will be fine.
In this way, Zhang Chong and Zhuge Gui chatted until dark.
It wasn't until Zhuge Gui was in a trance that Zhang Chong suddenly realized and then said with a smile:
"Master Zhuge, after listening to these ten strategies, I realized that our Taishan Army still has a lot to do."
Zhuge Gui did not dare to be greedy for merit and said sternly to Zhang Chong:
"Qu is handsome, wise and people-oriented. This is a great blessing for the leaders of northern Guizhou."
Looking at the brilliant stars outside the room, Zhang Chong was inevitably filled with pride. He came down and stopped Zhuge Gui's back, saying the right way:
"Master Zhuge, are you willing to work with me to change the appearance of this world?"
Zhuge Gui looked up and looked at Zhang Chong's sincere and firm eyes, moved:
"I am broken into pieces, and I am willing to see this new world with Qu Shuai."