The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

"Then give it a try. If you need to call up any officials, clerks, etc., you can give me a list!" Liu Tao ordered immediately.

Chapter 388

In the blink of an eye, it entered September, and Liu Tao spent a month getting used to the government affairs of Bingzhou.It is one thing to take over, but quite another to be familiar with it.

In particular, many of the data reported by the counties and counties are vague, and the statistics are not as detailed as Yunzhong County, which makes people very angry.Is it because the former officials were negligent in handling affairs and did not do their jobs well, or is this the case in the general environment?For example, there is a lack of sufficient mathematical talents...

The Zhang family in Changshan has many talents in this field, but they didn't use that many before, but now Liu Tao feels that they are not enough.

So he sent someone to find Zhang Shiping and asked him if he wanted to be a strategist in Bingzhou.

The latter has never heard of Ji Cao working in this position, and the Ji officials have heard of it, but if they can be called by the state, they must be high-ranking officials. Apart from anything else, they left the caravan and came to report. .

"Brother Zhang, I'm not polite to you either." After seeing Zhang Shiping, Liu Tao exchanged a few simple greetings and then got to the point, "This plan is a new position I have prepared for future work. It is specially responsible for statistics. And under state governance, all kinds of data are needed by an official."

"Then, I don't know what data the lord needs?" Zhang Shiping has already planned to join Liu Tao's command, so he is naturally called the lord.

"For example, the population. I need to know the number of permanent residents in each county. How many old people, how many children, how many young people, the ratio of male to female, and the birth rate of babies in the past three years, all need to be known." Liu Tao replied.

"This is a big project." Zhang Shiping was a little embarrassed, because a lot of manpower was needed.

"You are the state planner, which means that the prefects and magistrates of all counties need to cooperate with you in terms of statistics. Do you understand?" Liu Tao explained immediately.

"In this case, the subordinates understand." Zhang Shiping also breathed a sigh of relief, "Why do you want these?"

"First of all, I can know how many corvees and soldiers can be recruited in a county. In the future, places with more young and strong will definitely collect more, and places with fewer young and strong or fewer males will collect less or no collection." Liu Tao replied.

"So that's the case. In this case, it is indeed necessary to know the proportion of young and strong in the local area." Zhang Shiping was stunned.

"At the same time, you can also know the birth rate, which indirectly reflects the people's livelihood in this county. Compare the birth rate with the premature death rate. If the premature death rate is too high, you must find out the specific reasons, and then find ways to improve this problem. In fact, the so-called Many things are included in these statistical data.” Liu Tao further explained.

"Subordinates are taught!" Zhang Shiping had never considered this issue before.

"Actually, you have thought about it, but the direction is different." Liu Tao smiled, "For business, you also need to understand the price of goods in various places, and then look at the production situation this year. Places where you can buy goods at low prices in previous years may be due to reduced production this year. , resulting in an increase in the price of the commodity and an increase in the cost of acquisition. Taking into account the cost of transportation, it would be more cost-effective to purchase in other places..."

"That's true..." Zhang Shiping nodded, he had indeed encountered this situation before.

"As far as the government knows these data, they can make adjustments. For example, in places where there is a good harvest, they can buy grain at a low price and store it in a regular warehouse, and then sell it at a price slightly higher than the purchase price in places where production is reduced. As long as the government does not lose money, it can ensure the stability of local grain prices. It can even encourage merchants to transport grain for sale, and can meet the merchants' taxes in other places..." Liu Tao thought for a while.

After all, he also mostly hears about statistics and economics.But there is one thing he believes, and that is to give people of this era a higher vision, and they will naturally perfect these things gradually.

The reform of the system is relatively low cost, but the reform of science and technology is the most troublesome.It's a waste of money. If you're lucky, you can test it out. If you're not lucky, it's trial and error. If you make all the mistakes, the rest is right.

Stacked up step by step in this way, it is the technology tree.As far as steelmaking is concerned, if this part is to be done in this era, the crucible must be unavoidable. A qualified crucible needs high-temperature-resistant porcelain.So first of all, the porcelain must be fired.

Many civilian crafts are improved on the basis of military and industrial use, and there are also cases where civilian use is changed to military use.Anyway, as far as steelmaking is concerned, there are many processes involved. It can be smelted by simply building a blast furnace and burning coking coal. It is estimated that only Wunao Shuangwen can do it.

Zhang Shiping was like this, and Liu Tao was taken aback for a while, thinking that all those years of living had been in vain.The effect of counting is so great, and the result is that the Zhang family is going to be reduced to the point where they split up to do business...

Zhang Shiping wanted to cry, why didn't a king see this before? !

"Work hard, your role is very important, no less than Zhizhong or Biejia." Seeing his excitement, Liu Tao came forward to encourage him.

"This subordinate must do a good job in this job, and absolutely live up to my lord's expectations!" Zhang Shiping responded immediately. Now he is not only trying to repay Liu Tao's kindness, or get promoted and get rich, but more importantly, he wants to announce to the world that Zhang Experts are proficient in counting, it is not tasteless, it is even very important!

Liu Tao didn't expect that Zhang Shiping would be so excited, but it doesn't matter, it's good to be highly motivated.

Then it was Xun Yu who had a headache. The reform of government affairs in the government was still going on, and as a result, there was another plan Cao to do. What about the work that Cao was doing?

"Simple!" Liu Tao replied, "Ji Cao is in charge of statistics, and Book Cao is in charge of revenue and expenditure management."

In the final analysis, accountants and cashiers are separated. In the past, statistics were also bookkeeping, and cashiers were also bookkeeping. There was too much room for manipulation.

"This way... that's okay!" Xun Yu thought for a while and understood the benefits of doing so, so he accepted the order happily.But according to this result, then the position of Ji Cao should be higher than that of Book Cao.

"It seems that the state shepherd has a lot of whimsical ideas..." Chen Qun came to Xun Yu's side. After receiving the conscript, Chen Qun set off immediately, and he was the first group to arrive.

After that, Xun Yu recruited a strong man to help adjust the government affairs structure. Chen Qun was more proficient in this aspect than him.

The two are good at governing. On this basis, Xun Yu is a housekeeper, and everything in Bingzhou is well-organized.Chen Qun is good at government affairs, and is good at how to optimize government affairs and improve government efficiency.

I can think of the Jiupin Zhongzheng System, which is mainly to reform the existence of the political structure of Cao Wei. Deducting some stance issues of the gentry itself, in fact, it has the same huge impact on future generations.

In other words, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, while continuing the examination system of the Han Dynasty, is also a precondition for the imperial examination system.In the early stage, this system can only be said to be completely tailored for the family.However, considering the times, Cao Wei's talent selection began to have problems at that time. Cao Pi or Cao Rui needed the recognition and help of the aristocratic family.

At that time, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system was proposed. In fact, it was more of a compromise with the aristocratic family to make up for the impact of Cao Cao's three recruitment orders.

It's a pity that the aristocratic family finally gave up Cao Wei. Cao Pi and Cao Rui died prematurely, and Cao Wei's power began to fall into the hands of powerful officials.Sima Yi may be loyal, but Master Sima already has other ideas.

Under the leadership of Sima Shi and the laying of the foundation by Sima Zhao, Sima Yan successfully accepted the abdication and established the Western Jin Dynasty, or the Northern Jin Dynasty.After all, since the Jin Dynasty, the Chinese dynasties have transitioned from the Eastern and Western Dynasties to the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

"It is precisely because of this that we can not stick to one pattern and appoint good talents. We don't even stick to conventional constraints, and we can change it as convenient as possible. However, this seemingly lazy method can greatly improve the work efficiency of the government..." Xun Yu sighed.

"Wen Ruo, you and I are old friends, tell me, what is Zhou Mu's idea?" Chen Qun tried to ask, directly modifying the inherent system of the imperial court. Generally, only big men can do that. emperor.

From this point of view, what Liu Tao has done can even be said to be a little blatant.

"The lord is a relative of the Han family, what can he think?" Xun Yu smiled. Friendship is friendship, and stance is stance. "Besides, the lord also suffers from the problems of the previous system, so he wants to improve. He uses Bingzhou As a pilot, if it is possible, it will naturally be reported to the court to make amendments, and similar situations have been tried in many places."

Try this thing is really panacea, it can be used in many places.However, it must be admitted that the trial implementation of this policy can indeed avoid the situation where a certain policy is not acclimatized and leads to the deterioration of people's livelihood.

Let’s talk about the agricultural reform. After the trial in Yunzhong County, it will be tried in other counties in Yunzhong, and then it will be tried in Dingxiang, Taiyuan and Shangdang.There is no need for Wuyuan and Yanmen, after all, Liu Tao decided to focus on herding in that place.

Then there is the education reform, which has also begun to be trialled in the cloud. After three years at most, when there are enough academies and tutors, it will start to spread to all counties.With perfect data and experience, there will be less resistance to further promotion.

"Emperor Guangwu used to serve Emperor Gengshi..." Chen Qun was not fooled, and directly cited Liu Xiu as an example.

"That's because Emperor Gengshi wanted to kill Emperor Guangwu, so that Emperor Guangwu had to resist." Xun Yu smiled faintly.

"It's a good one to resist..." Chen Qun shook his head. He had heard that Xun Yu had joined Liu Tao as his servant, and now it seemed to be true.It seems that the Yingchuan Xun family may have begun to bet on Liu Tao.

So Yingchuan Chen, should he also bet?Forget it, he came over anyway, let's observe for a while...

Liu Tao sent people out to conquer the land, Man Chong, Lu Qian and Chen Qun responded, but Liang Xi and Liu Fu did not.Of course, Liu Fu did not respond, mainly because his family said that Liu Fu had gone to Huainan, and the specific whereabouts were unknown, and there was no way to tell them.

Although Liu Tao probably knew that Liu Fu would seek refuge in Huainan for some time.But I didn't expect to go so early.

As for Guan Ning, Guoyuan and Bing Yuan, they had already taken refuge in Liaodong, so they had to send people to Liaodong to look for them.Liu Tao sent someone there, after all, he also wanted to see if he could find Tai Shici over there.

Wang Xiu received it, but he replied that he had already served as the director under Kong Rong's command, so he thanked Liu Tao for his kindness.Some people are like this, slow to start, maybe they will be recruited by others...

However, some people disappeared in various ways, such as Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong, who have not been found so far.

I wanted to say whether to lure Lu Su over here, but after thinking about it, I realized that this guy is only 18 years old this year.He is the only son in the family, and he lost his father since childhood, so he was raised by his grandmother.It is estimated that he would not agree, he came to Bingzhou to be an official.

By the way, this guy also died at the age of 46, and I don't know if it was a genetic disease.Fortunately, there was a posthumous son, Lu Shu, who died of illness at the age of 58... It is certain that he was his own.

Chapter 389