Chapter 254: The Three Elders’ Policy

After a few days, Black Bear's patrol period ended and he returned to Chiyang to rest and summarize various data.

As long as he runs fast enough, most troubles can't catch up with him.

If he ran fast enough, he would nip in the bud many troubles before they could grow bigger.

Chiyang and Lantian were his two transit points, and during this period he also developed a regular pattern of patrolling and touring.

Important official documents have now been accurately delivered.

The sky has been gloomy since nightfall today, with scattered rain and snow in the sky.

It is estimated that it will be difficult to travel far tomorrow. Besides, the establishment of the Hundred Households Office has been basically implemented; every beneficiary in the establishment will actively protect the Hundred Households Office as a collective.

The size of a hundred-household unit is currently at least 200 households, and generally around 300 households.

If you want to implement a quadrangular earthen fort or a cylindrical earthen fort, this will conflict with actual production efficiency.

Therefore, a hundred-household unit was more like a village community, under which there were several village communities.

Before spring ploughing, the subdivision of the village level must be completed; the village level is divided according to the size of the surrounding land occupied, with a minimum of thirty households and a maximum of fifty households.

In order to distinguish the villages and communities under the jurisdiction of the hundred households, they could not be called "li". Black Bear decided to adopt the military system and call these most basic production units "teams".

Team XX, it sounds familiar and friendly. The person in charge of these teams is not the head of the village, but the team leader.

As for the checks and balances within the team, he doesn't need to worry about it in the short term; in the long term, there will be indigenous representatives of public opinion such as the three elders to serve as checks and balances.

The Three Elders is a huge system evolved from the clan system. There are the Three Elders of the township and the Three Elders of the county. Among them, the Three Elders with extremely high prestige can fully represent the public opinion of a county or a region.

This public opinion is naturally not the public opinion of all the people, because the three elders are often retired officials, who have a high degree of overlap with clan elders.

The status of the three elders of the county can be elevated to the state or county level due to their influence; the three elders of the township can naturally be subdivided into the three elders of the village.

You don't have to be the patriarch of a wealthy family or a retired official with a salary of several hundred stones. Even if you are just the head of a large household, a village head, a retired soldier, or an old teacher, you can be one of the three elders of the village.

By improving the construction work of the three village elders within five years, we can curb the misconduct of the centurion heads and team leaders.

With some ideas in mind, Black Bear drafted the selection criteria for the three elders and also set up a promotion system for the three elders of the village.

For those who are old in appearance but young in heart, they should be given a chance to continue to shine and make contributions. Those who have been nominated and elected as the three elders of the village can become the three elders of the township; the three elders of the township can also be promoted to the three elders of the county.

Three old men does not just mean three old men, but probably refers to three types of old men.

Qin had three elders for the township, and in the early Han Dynasty, three elders for the county were added, and later three elders for the prefecture and state were added.

These people are called the Three Elders, but they are not necessarily old people.

The three worst elders among them are also powerful people who have appeal and influence among the people.

Letting these people be in charge of customs and education cannot be said to be fighting evil with evil. There is some essence of Qin law in it.

The three elders in charge of customs and education have obtained power granted by the government, but this power will limit the breeding of other new evil forces.

There is no need to even grant the three elders special supervisory powers. These people both fight and cooperate with grassroots officials.

As things have developed to this point, the three elders have basically become powerful individuals.

Therefore, we need to screen the three elders and impose restrictions on their assets.

Money is influence and control over the surrounding materials; people whose wealth reaches a certain scale will be separated from the countryside and moved to the counties; wealthy people in counties and prefectures whose wealth reaches a certain scale will be relocated.

Although this will affect the efficiency of economic development, people at the rural level will be able to live an easier life.

We don't ask for gratitude from these people, nor do we worry that they will not be able to survive and will rebel or cause trouble.

I just think people should live a more relaxed life.

Separate out the truly powerful people in the local area and give them opponents of the same level. This kind of life will be fair and meaningful.

Allowing them to bully people locally is irresponsible to these powerful people.

We must give them a chance to fully tap their talents and potential and not waste it.

The black bear held the goose feather pen and wrote quickly, then he dismissed the pen and threw the paper into the wooden box.

The wooden box has been improved, and notes with different contents will be placed in different areas through holes.

After finishing writing, Black Bear began to open the accumulated documents.

Official documents can be sent to him at the county level and the hundred-household level.

At present, it is better to have less trouble than more. During this period, the county magistrate and the newly resettled centurions have had many land and civil disputes.

But as long as you file a complaint, there is a high probability that the black bear will be attracted there. After a field investigation, it is found that the black bear is quite good at the "big memory recovery technique", and it provides a one-stop service of convicting people on the spot and confiscating their homes.

Time is very precious. No matter whether it is the county magistrate, the captain of a hundred households, or the soldiers and civilians involved in the case, none of them is worth wasting his time on.

Anyway, for him, spanking won't kill anyone.

If they can't get it clear after asking once, then we won't ask again. We will just beat them with sticks or whip them.

After setting up dozens of examples, many disputes were resolved on their own.

Even so, the conflicts between the natives and the immigrants in Guanzhong caused by land are still difficult to eliminate.

After waiting for sufficient food reserves, he came up with a good idea.

Whoever causes trouble will be relocated to the four northern counties and given a large piece of land for you to cultivate slowly.

Soon, Black Bear picked up Sima Zhi's document.

Every two or three days, Sima Zhi would deliver official documents to the Black Bear case, describing Shang Luo's problems from all aspects, no matter how big or small.

Sima Zhi was a cruel official. When he was recruiting people from Shangluo Mountain to reinforce the front line, his chief clerk hid a relative who was on the conscription list. Since he could not find anyone to serve, Sima Zhi took the chief clerk to the military camp to serve as a soldier.

After the incident of Zhubu replacing Bing, Shangluo's administrative efficiency increased rapidly.

The Shangluo mountain people who returned from the front line generally brought back a cow or a horse, which made Sima Zhi's work smoother.

Now Sima Zhi wanted to build a government-run tea mountain under the rule of Shangluo, so he came to ask Black Bear.

Historically, local specialties or materials with significant economic benefits have not been decided by local governments themselves.

Either all of it must be paid as tribute, or the best quality items must be selected and selected as tribute; if it is allowed to be operated by local governments, heavy taxes will be levied.

The price of tea has been rising sharply for half a year, and high-quality tea varieties are difficult to find.

The construction and development of tea mountains also takes time, so in the next two to three years, it will be difficult for tea prices to fall.

But it was different in Guanzhong. If the Wugu Pass was blocked and the inflow of tea from Jingzhou was controlled, the government-run tea mountains in Shangluo and the Qinling valleys would be able to obtain huge profits.

The extra tea can be sold to the Western Regions, the Xiongnu, the Xianbei and Hebei.

"Shangluo has abundant commercial taxes, so why should we rely on the people to build tea mountains? From now on, 82% of the tea produced will be tea, 5% will be the first choice for the officials, Shangluo will be the second choice, and the remaining 3% will belong to the officials."

He summoned the quill pen again, dipped it in ink and wrote down his attitude.

We must vigorously develop tea, not for any other reason, but because tea needs to be brewed with hot water!

Tea must also be monopolized. Only when the money is in one's own hands can one invest it in expanding production rather than diverting it to luxury goods and the service industry.

Then he asked Sima Zhi to ask Pei Qian whether he wanted to return to Guanzhong to work.

The victory or defeat of Liu Biao and his son in Jingzhou had been decided. The sick Liu Biao was no longer able to govern the country, so he took Madam Cai and lived in seclusion in Maicheng.

After Pang Tong and Wen Pin had cleaned up Xiangyang, Liu Qi sailed north and has now secured his seat in Xiangyang.

As an envoy from Guanzhong, Pei Qian's lobbying and instigation of Fu Xun to rebel was a brilliant move, forcing Liu Biao to hand over power cleanly and efficiently.

As for the dead Zhennan Shogunate’s military advisor Kuai Yue… Black Bear had nothing to feel sorry for.

Even if this person was resurrected and used as a puppet, he would only be a puppet with ordinary qualifications, far less useful than Pan Feng and Xing Daorong.

While he was concentrating on governing the country, more than a hundred scholars in Chang'an City, led by Kong Rong, gathered and reveled all night long.

Kong Rong lived in a restored mansion. At this moment, Kong Rong had his hair loose and was holding a large brush, writing on the table and imitating the Slender Gold calligraphy.

On the beams and pillars in the hall, there were strips of silk hung, with thin gold calligraphy written on both sides.

A slight chilly night breeze blew in, causing the hanging silks to flutter.

Kong Rong looked at the trembling and fluttering silk strips, which looked like countless arms dancing wildly.

The words he wrote seemed to surround him.

"happy!"

"Good kill!"

Kong Rong grabbed the wine bottle and took a sip, feeling extremely happy. Not only Black Bear, but even he himself wanted to kill Wang Yun's entire clan!

It can now be concluded that Wang Yun must have wanted to snatch the golden calligraphy, so he killed Cai Yong because of a ridiculous sigh.

In other words, Wang Yun was conquered by the people of Liangzhou in a short time, otherwise the calligraphy on the golden tablets would have become the clan and family tradition of the Wang family!
While I felt happy, I was also angry about Cai Yong's fate.

This feeling between comfort and resentment forced Kong Rong to relieve stress only by drinking.

But the more he drank, the angrier he became.

It’s a pity that Ni Heng didn’t see the Golden Book, it’s all Wang Yun’s fault!
The other scholars were drinking small amounts of wine, or concentrating on studying the structural changes of the bamboo slips, or discussing every stroke of the gold script with each other.

Jin Jian calligraphy is actually two sets of calligraphy.

Some people who have responded have summarized the rules of simplified writing and started to use official script and Zhong Yao's regular script to write simplified characters.

Some people also use the Jinshu style of writing to write the fonts they are familiar with.

The more these people studied, the stronger their admiration and regret for Cai Yong became.

Although he did not lose control of his emotions from time to time like Kong Rong, the resentment in his heart caused by Black Bear's execution of Wang Yun's three clans was completely wiped out.

Not to mention Kong Rong, even Cai Zhaoji and Cai Zhenji did not have much doubt.

When Cai Yong was murdered, Cai Zhaoji had already been married, but her husband had died early, so she still stayed in the Wei family in Hedong.

She didn't know this, but at that time, only Cai Yong had the ability to create the Golden Book.

As for Cai Zhenji, it was even simpler. When Cai Yong got into trouble, she was only four or five years old.

Thanks to Wang Yun's killing of the highly respected Cai Yong, Li Jue, Guo Si and others treated the Cai family with extra courtesy and kindness, allowing the Cai family to return home safely with the coffin.

Cai Zhaoji's talent was simply incomparable to her sister's. After two days of study, she was able to roughly copy the "Zhi Tian Ling".

When I think about the fact that when Black Bear was exiled to the Central Plains, he passed by the Cai family but did not rob Cai Zhenji, it shows that he had great kindness.

Just thinking of her cousin Yuan Huan, Cai Zhaoji couldn't help but sigh.

After his trip to Hebei, Yuan Huan returned to Xudu and resigned from his post due to illness.

As compensation, Cao Cao recruited Yuan Huan's cousin Yuan Ba ​​into the Sikong Mansion.

Now that Wang Yun's three clans have been executed, many things have become clear. What reason does Yuan Huan have to continue living in seclusion?
After the marriage is completed, no matter whether Yuan Huan wants to come or not, many people will push Yuan Huan to come to Guanzhong to work.

Thinking of the helplessness and Yuan Huan's character, Cai Zhaoji couldn't help but sigh.

(End of this chapter)