Wu Junyong and Li Qi arrived at the inn and asked the soldiers to report, standing respectfully waiting. Soon, the soldiers came out and led the two in, and waited in the living room. Du Zhongxiao arrived at the living room, and the two went forward to salute and sat down with the guests.

After using tea, Li Qi said: "Zhongcheng, I have investigated carefully over the past few days. It turns out that there are so many accumulated cases in Ye County. In just over the past year, there have been seven lawsuits, which is really a lot. If it is strictly investigated, almost all the public officials in the county are involved in the case, and there are also many powerful people outside."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Ye County connects the two capitals in the north and reaches Jiangling in the south. It is the main road at the intersection of north and south. Is there a lot of seven murders a year under the rule of tens of thousands of households? Those powerful people control the places in order to make money and are inevitably fighting and killing. What's so strange?"

Li Qi was a little embarrassed: "After handling the case found, there was no one in Ye County Government. Although officials were allowed to apply for the exam, they always wanted to have their own villagers, but it was not easy. The case could not be handled, and the county government could not be left alone, which was a dilemma."

Du Zhongxiao took a sip of tea and said, "Minister, you have to figure out these things in your jurisdiction. Everyone says that there are tens of thousands of households under Ye County? What industries are there? How many people have moved here? How many people have temporarily lived here? It is not difficult to figure out the situation under Ye County. There are only a few people in Ye County now, so it is not easy to recruit some officials."

Li Qi said: "The place in Ye County is crowded with many industries. If you recruit officials and still have the same conditions as before, wouldn't it still be in chaos? When the officials think of this, they will be in a dilemma and don't know where to start."

Du Zhongxiao looked at Li Qi and knew that he had encountered difficulties. Today, he came to ask himself. After a while, Du Zhongxiao said: "The magistrate, governing the local area, after all, it depends on the local people. First, the situation under the rule will be corrected. Once you know the details, many things will be solved naturally."

Wu Junyong said: "The Central Chief, the Iron Supervision and the Iron Supervision and Administration, including Ye County, have added tens of thousands of households in several years. It is not easy to find out the conversation. The difficulty now is to sort out the case and the officials are in charge. Suddenly no one in the county will do anything. If such a big county does not do anything, is that that great?"

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head: "Zhijian, magistrate, I'm saying clearly. First, how to figure out how to govern yourself. What you mean is that you want to summon a group of officials and still do the same as before. Those years have passed, and now things are not going to be done again? This time, the case of Ye County is to clear the chaos of the previous few years and give it a peaceful world here! Instead of just investigating a few cases, everything is the same as before. After the officials are detained, there is no one in the county, so they can be transferred from the Iron Supervisor or from nearby prefectures and counties. These people are coming to do things temporarily, and there is nothing. The most important thing is to take advantage of this investigation to clarify the situation under the rule."

Li Qi and Ng Junyong looked at each other, shook their heads slightly, and said nothing.

Du Zhongxiao said simply, how to check the situation under the rule? The Iron Supervisor’s version is now in a mess. Except for the former indigenous people and Yingtianxiangjun, the information of others is very chaotic. These are tens of thousands of families. I want to find out how much time and how much manpower is needed?

Looking at the two, Du Zhongxiao was a little disappointed. Du Zhongxiao had his own ideas about how to establish a great success after the Ye County was defeated. But first of all, officials should have the courage to take responsibility, have the idea, and have the ability to do things. Like Wu Junyong and Li Qi, they even found it difficult to investigate and govern, so there was no way to discuss the subsequent reforms. Tiejian and Ye County were linked together, which can be said to be the largest industrial cluster in the world and the largest urban cluster at this time. How could such a place be easy to manage? It is necessary to make great determination and make great efforts to cure it.

After hearing the two of them complained for a while, Du Zhongxiao responded to a few words and sent them out. He just repeatedly warned that life was at stake, and that anyone who was a lawsuit for death must be investigated clearly.

After seeing off the two, Du Zhongxiao sat in the living room and was lost in his mind. Suddenly, he felt that his career as an official for more than ten years was really a failure. After being an official for so many years, he made countless contributions, but there were no like-minded people. From Jingxi Road to Hequ, he became an important minister of the court in a few years, which caught him off guard. The seeds planted in the past have begun to blossom and bear fruit, but there are no ones who weed and watered them.

There is no need for Ye County to stay. The most important thing is that both the magistrate and the magistrate must be replaced, and the entire political structure must also be changed greatly. According to visits around these days, if the governance is effective, the money and grain collected by Ye County will at least double or even more. With such a lot of money, why worry about not being able to cure the local area. As long as the measures are effective and political affairs are attentive, what is the difficulty of governance?

The political structure of the Song Dynasty was based on the principle of financial self-management in the local area except for a few important areas. In poor areas, there were more counties under the prefectures, and in wealthy areas, there were fewer counties. Many counties were divided over, and the main purpose was to make the principle of financial self-sufficiency. After the development of industry, such principles were somewhat out of place. For example, here in Tiejian, there were actually only two counties, and the money and food collected were rare in the world. New situations must have a new political structure, and this was not something that local officials could do.

Standing up, Du Zhongxiao took a few steps back and forth, thinking about the situation facing Ye County. He originally thought that Wu Junyong and Li Qi would lift the lid of Ye County, and then find out the local situation. After submitting the court, he would carry out a thorough reform here. However, these two people were unwilling to find out the place, so there was no way to start the reform. However, the plan was now so that they had to change people.

After thinking about it, Ye County no longer needs to stay. Looking at the evening, Du Zhongxiao called Tao Shiqi and went out together to drink a glass of wine. The two of them have been mastered and servant for many years, and they are like family members. It is not easy to stay together these days.

After leaving the inn and looking at the bustling streets, Du Zhongxiao said: "Since the construction of the railway jail in the west, it has developed into such a prosperous town in just a few years. If someone had said this to me back then, he would have never believed him. Things in the world are really wonderful."

Tao Shiqi said: "Yes, when the officials built the Iron Prison, I asked me to work in the Iron Prison. I thought it was just a short time to do small things. I could not have thought that this would take seven or eight years to do it."

Du Zhongxiao nodded and looked at the crowd around him, feeling infinitely moved. Because the local tyrants here were arrested for some days, there was a struggle for forces, and the local area was a little uneasy. Baiting Supervisor dispatched a large number of soldiers to patrol day and night, and the public security was still stable.

When I arrived at a wine shop, Du Zhongxiao said, "I don't know why, after returning to the Central Plains from Hequ Road, I don't like to go to the restaurant unless I talk about things. Seeing that the business of this wine shop is pretty good, I think it tastes good, so we go in and drink two glasses of wine and talk about some gossip."

Tao Shiqi had no objection and entered the wine shop with Du Zhongxiao. He arranged for the entourage to sit at the table next to him, and the two of them occupied a table beside him.

After a while, the wine and food came up, the servant poured the wine and left to take care of others.

After drinking a glass of wine, Du Zhongxiao looked around and said, "This is life, the world of fireworks. After a busy day, I found such a small wine shop, and drank two glasses, and enjoyed myself. Where is Ye County? There are countless factories and many businesses here. As long as people with strong bodies, they can easily find things to do and have no worries about life. But there are only some people who want to get something for nothing, making the place a mess."

Tao Shiqi said: "In fact, it is not all like this. It is like many markets around that must maintain order, otherwise the business will not be done. When the official is on Jingxi Road, the business will be abandoned and the market will be unmanaged, so there will be someone taking advantage of this loophole."

Du Zhongxiao said: "How come no one manages it? When I was in Bingzhou and built a fur market, I sent officials to manage the market and the government did some business. Everything was fine. It was just that some officials disliked this for too much energy and were abolished. How much is the land of a state and a county? As long as the officials were careful, it was not difficult to manage it."

Tao Shiqi smiled and said, "What the officials said is simple is not easy. First, the magistrate may not understand these things, and it is difficult to choose the right person and it is difficult to manage them well. Another thing is that these markets have large amounts of money every day, so there are naturally people who covet them."

Du Zhongxiao said: "After all, it's just that the court system is incomplete and the officials' abilities are insufficient, so many things happened. Seventeen, the factories will be opened more and more in the future, which is very different from before. You were the first to work in the factory, and now you live a happy life. In the future, more and more people like you will no longer farm, but will work in the factory. Governing the world is of course different from before."

Tao Shiqi said: "The official said this, and it is true. The iron prison has time limits to go to get off work and get off work every day, and the management is stricter, which is even better than in the military camp. We are used to this day after day, which is very different from before."

"Yes, the work in the factory is different from before, so the management is of course different. When the railway supervision was first built, many officials entered from Yingtianxiangjun, but they were actually very uncomfortable. After several years, most of them were replaced, which was completely different from before. Because they were in charge every day, the people in the railway supervision were particularly obedient and managed much more in daily life, unlike those who worked in other places."

After hearing Du Zhongxiao's words, Tao Shiqi nodded. Now, except for the Yingtianxiangjun transferred to the Iron Prison, most of the people who work in the Iron Prison, came out of various schools and had family businesses around them. They were used to the life of the Iron Prison, and they were not used to it at home.

This is the process of transformation from an agricultural society to an industrial society. The agricultural population enters industry and slowly changes society and the country. The Iron and Steel Supervision affects Jingxi Road, several surrounding states, and many powerful families will ask their families to apply for the Iron and Steel Supervision schools, and then go to Iron and Steel Supervision to work. Today's workers live much better than farmers. In the words of later generations, they are the middle class and have a stable life, which is a good way out.

In this era, industry had just emerged, and there was a vast market in the Central Plains, and the profits of industry were very generous. Iron and steel supervision itself was a large industry, and there was no competition outside, so it could give workers a better life.
Chapter completed!