Always nested in the temple, how do you know that the real people as officials don't even have the idea of going to the countryside to observe with their own eyes, all policies are just patted on their heads to formulate, okay, it's pure shit luck to be right, but the probability of being right is always infinitely small, and it always comes out with some policies that the official thinks are very good, but the people hate them deeply.
Of course, Xie Ai's trip will not be alone, there will be escorts and magistrates, and pomp and circumstance are indispensable.
Yumen County is not a big county, the county's hierarchical population is 3,607 people, and the age group is also clearly recorded.
The amount of land owned by whom, the size and size of the house, and the number of relatives and the appearance of the same person will basically be clearly recorded in the official booklet.
It is not uncommon for the border to be sparsely populated, and the population of many counties simply does not reach the foundation that a county should have, and no matter where the border is in a country, the number of similar counties is really small.
The northwest land in the Central Plains of the dynasties belong to the frontier, it is still relatively special, the landform is not like the Central Plains green mountains and green waters, each place has its own topography, most of the land is either grassland or Gobi, only a small amount of land for farming.
In fact, the northwest land was snatched by the Han people from the Hu people, and it turned out to be the pasture of the Hu people.
Because of the geographical topography and climate, there are many abundant water and grass in this area, which is extremely suitable for pasture.
However, because of the soil quality, for example, the soil layer is not dug deep and there is sand, so the land is really not suitable for farming.
Since the northwest fell into the hands of the Han family, in fact, most of the area was either vacant or used as pasture, so that the northwest has maintained a considerable grazing habit and has become one of the breeding places for horses produced by the Central Plains Dynasty.
In the event of war, there will never be a shortage of war horses in the northwest, and then the people in the northwest can basically ride skills, and the northwest cavalry has become the trump card in the hands of the separatist forces.
Due to the fact that there is not enough agricultural area compared to other places, the northwest has been in a state of food shortage since ancient times, and there is a habit of maintaining grazing, and the folk customs are much stronger than other regions.
In a long history, the northwest has always been able to provide high-quality cavalry for the central power, and even famous generals have repeatedly emerged, which is why there is a saying "Kansai is a general, and Kanto is a minister".
In the drought year, the northwest is more and more serious than in previous years, Xie Ai does not have to go far out of the county, at a glance it is full of yellow sand, there will be no such scene at this time in previous years, it should be a green grassland, but this year it is because of the lack of water to the point that even the grass can not stand it.
"Yumen has less than 3,000 acres of farmland, and most of the people make a living from grazing."
Zhao Fang is the county magistrate of Yumen County, so naturally he wants to accompany Xie Ai to the countryside.
He has been the magistrate of Yumen County for two years, and he has spent a year visiting various places.
Xie Ai himself is a native of the Northwest, and he is no stranger to what the Northwest is like, and he knows and understands what kind of environment the Northwest people grow up in, and he also knows what the Northwest looks like.
In general, the northwest is very large, very large, with endless grasslands, mountains and mountains that look like one bulge after another, and the Gobi Desert is not lacking without a little green.
There are two places in the large mountainous area, one is the Qilian Mountains, and the other refers to the loess high-slope area in later generations.
However, it is not what the loess slopes of later generations look like, in fact, the situation there is not bad now, with its own grassy vegetation and dense forests.
The reason why the later generations became bare loess slopes was that the trees were cut down too badly and the soil erosion occurred.
Once the water cannot be retained and the underground river is dry, not even a single grass will live on the surface The Gobi in the northwest is mainly concentrated in the northwest, which is close to the Western Regions.
The Badain Jaran Desert and Tengger Desert in later generations are still a grassland, especially because Juyanze still exists, and the Badain Jaran Desert in later generations is actually a place where water and grass are abundant.
In fact, the reason for the emergence of such a large desert in the northwest is not so complicated, the geological features that are not suitable for agriculture have been cultivated on a large scale, and there are endless cutting down of trees, artificially changing the natural environment, but the geological landscape is desertified.
If the rainy season resumes the patch of loess that Xie Ai saw, it will be blue again in a short time, which is a phenomenon caused by the fact that the geological water storage system has not been completely destroyed, but only caused by the surface being too dry.
"The herdsmen have been migrating southeast, not just in Yumen County, but in other counties."
The people Zhao Fang said include many people who are registered in Yumen County, and their hearts are very entangled: "The people want to live, and the lower officials are not easy to stop." ” When it comes to assessing the performance of a county, the first thing to look at is how the county's population is, and maintaining the original number can only be said to be qualified, and even if the population growth is too much, even if it is bad in other aspects, it will get a "good" evaluation.
For those officials who are magistrates in the northwest and northern Xinjiang, the situation they face is far more complicated than that in the interior, all because a considerable number of the people in the northwest and northern Xinjiang are chasing pastures for grazing, and it is not uncommon for them to suddenly find them one day.
They can only use all kinds of means, at least to make those shepherds present when they should go to the county to report, and then all kinds of transactions are also in the name of the county.
Due to the need to maintain the population in the county, the work of the border magistrates is not easy to do, and they often need to go to various pastures to interact with the people, not to mention, the people must solve their difficulties as soon as possible to win the hearts of the people, that is, the people want to sell livestock and also help, otherwise it is really impossible for those people who can run at any time to think of themselves as county people.
It's hard to say what Zhao Fang was like before he became a magistrate in the northwest, if Xie Ai saw Zhao Fang, if he took off his official robe, he really couldn't see the elegance that a scholar should have, and if Zhao Fang took off his official robe and squatted on the side of the road, he would be a full farmer.
To the southeast of Yumen County is the Qilian Mountain Range, beyond which is a basin, and further southwest is the plateau.
The grazing herds in the northwest moved to the southeast, after crossing the Qilian Mountains, and there was a very large lake in the basin under the plateau.
It is a resting place in the Hexi Corridor, not only a large lake or a water system, but also because the environment is too good and the situation is very complicated, the people in the northwest will grab the pastures themselves, and the grazing tribes on the plateau and some Hu people in the basin will also come over, and they will shed blood every year because of the competition for pastures.
The Han State could not help the population movement, and in some respects it can be said to encourage densely populated areas to evacuate the population outward, that is, densely populated areas are becoming more and more dense, and there are still few people in the vast and sparsely populated areas who are still willing to take the initiative to migrate to the past.
The non-prohibition of population movement is actually quite a headache for the local government, and the localities that do not want to lose the population must do their best to retain the people, and the places that want to attract the people to migrate to the past will ask the center for favorable policies.
"How many percent of the local people have left" "That's about 30 percent."
Xie Ai couldn't help but glance at Zhao Fang sympathetically, the drought and population loss made Zhao Fang uncomfortable during the assessment.
The Han State will roughly re-census the population every year, and strictly conduct a census every three years, which is not an easy task for any local government.
Naturally, the center needs to monitor the population of various places, and then it is to get feedback data to tilt policies towards certain regions, such as where places need to attract people to migrate to the past, and good policies should be tilted.
In many densely populated places, they do things that increase the burden on the people, such as increasing taxes, within the limits of the law.
When it comes to the national level, there is no such thing as a good or a bad thing, or a matter of necessity.
"Is there enough grassroots in the county?"
"Enough."
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The Han Dynasty had a policy of arranging retired military officers and soldiers to serve as local officials, that is, even in remote places, personnel would be arranged to be sent to the grassroots level as the state's control over the localities.
The state was able to check the population every year, and it was able to conduct a census every three years, because it relied on its control to reach the grassroots level, that is, to make the Han state have much more official establishments than any previous dynasty.
The majority of the grassroots level in a place is directly linked to the inability to control the locality, that is, the same rice feeds a hundred kinds of people, and not all official personnel can do good things, and there will be no fewer bad things in the hands of the establishment personnel.
It has been nine years since the founding of the Han State, and the number of retired military personnel who have become local personnel is very large.
All of these grassroots personnel who have served in the military have had a collective career, and they have been under the shadow of military law for a long time, so they are naturally much better than ordinary people in terms of discipline.
Although it is inevitable that there will be black sheep among retired military personnel, in the final analysis, the benefits to the country outweigh the disadvantages.
Xie Ai walked and saw that he had gradually moved away from the county seat, and when he was about to reach his destination, the attack never appeared.
Zhao Fang had always felt that something was wrong since he followed Xie Ai out of the county seat, and it was not until Yuan Kuai appeared that he understood what was going on from a few words.
"So, they gave up on the action" "Master Hou, the villain's son is in their hands, please Lord Hou help" Xie Ai summoned his guards and whispered a few words.
The guards didn't know what order they had received, so they just left quickly.
"Official" Zhao Fang was both afraid and happy, and did not dare to express dissatisfaction, and asked: "This is" The magistrates of the Han State only have civil power, and they can't control violent institutions anyway, and the blame for hiding villains in the governance can't be blamed on the county magistrate, so Zhao Fang can be so calm after knowing the situation.
The county lieutenant of Yumen County was not present, and that was where Zhao Fang reacted and felt that something was wrong.
In fact, the county lieutenant of the Han State had a lot of power, and the work of monitoring the local area was done by the county lieutenant, so the violent institutions in the county were in the hands of the county lieutenant.
The county lieutenant does not need to be responsible for the county magistrate's county order from the top of his duties, and is directly subordinate to the county lieutenant.
The relationship is good and it doesn't involve secrecy, but it can tell the county magistrate and the county order, obviously the county lieutenant of Yumen County did not inform Zhao Fang of today's incident.
Zhang Tan's gang was very cautious, and when they found that they couldn't do anything, they gave up the action without dragging their feet at all.
He and Pei Heng reunited separately, and they separated again in no more than an hour, just transferring with hardcore henchmen, without notifying the rest of the people at all.
Soon, Xie Ai got the news feedback that the attack did not happen because Zhang Tan and Pei Heng disappeared, and those people were suspicious and suspicious, and there were really people with ghosts in their hearts.
As a result, the people who secretly took refuge in the government were completely wiped out, and the victorious rebels in the internal strife could not find Zhang Tan and Pei Heng, so they gave up the attack and scattered and fled, and Li Kuangzheng personally commanded the pursuit.
"Continue your journey."
"This, No."
Xie Ai didn't have much to think about the attack that didn't happen, and he wasn't surprised that Zhang Tan and Pei Heng's vigilance was so high, if he could casually set up a bureau to arrest or exterminate him, he would be surprised.
The confrontation between the government and the chaotic parties has always lasted for many years, and in particular, it is not so easy to eliminate the chaotic parties with structure, on the contrary, it is not too difficult to deal with some groups that openly raise their banners to occupy the mountains.
"Wuthering Mountains and forests may exist, but the mountains are king, but they are not."
When Zhao Fang was asked about the relevant questions, although it was not within his scope of responsibility, he did not embarrass the county lieutenant: "It's just that if the situation continues to deteriorate, if there is no good plan, the lower officials think it may happen."
Which dynasty didn't have a fugitive criminal, that was something that could not be avoided.
However, if the seizure of the mountain is the king, the official control of the local area will drop to a dangerous warning line, and it will also indicate that the court is not so popular in general.
It is obvious that the people of the Northwest do not have a strong sense of belonging to the Han Kingdom, and there is a drought, if they really can't survive, no matter how powerful the Han army is, those who should gather will still gather the people, and they have to fight a way to survive.
"What is a good policy?"
"Distribute food to the people, or distribute it to the people without compensation, or sell it to the people at a low price."
Xie Ai asked more, and when he learned that Zhao Fang was a Confucian scholar who studied the Analects, he immediately showed a sudden expression.
There are many Confucian classics, each of which has its own core values, and it is divided into factions, and each faction can have its own opinions.
If it weren't for Xie Ai's view that Zhao Fang was a practical person, unlike the rest of the Confucian scholars who learned the Analects, they would only talk empty words, and really had no desire to continue to communicate.
In fact, it is not a slander that people who study the Confucian Analects can only talk about empty words, and there will be such remarks as "half of the Analects rule the world", but this school of thought can be regarded as the worst of all Confucian schools except for idealists and those who only talk about self-denial and retribution
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