It was noon that Du Zhongxiao ordered a few dishes to drink with Tao Shiqi. This was the person who had been by his side for many years, and no one was more suitable to know the news than him. When facing him, he would say anything and would not hide it.

After drinking two glasses of wine, Du Zhongxiao said: "You have been in Baitingjian for many years. To be honest, what do you think of here?"

Tao Shiqi thought for a while and said, "How did you say that when I was working here at the beginning, I didn't dare to think that there would be such a day in the future, and there would be such a scale. Now I have hundreds of stakes in the money I earn in a year, and it is considered rich among the officials. But I always feel that this place is getting too fast day by day, and sometimes I feel a little nervous. Many things, as soon as I get familiar with them, have changed again, and I will never go as far as the same days I used to do."

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "This is inevitable. The fastest-changing place in the world is Baitingjian. Many things come out first and then spread all over the world. It is wrong to have no new things come out. However, for the people, it becomes too fast and they always feel that life is unstable, right?"

Tao Shiqi said: "Yes, especially since it has become a family business in recent years, it has become so fast. However, the Iron Supervision earns a lot of money in a year, and we have paid more money, and we think it's good."

Du Zhongxiao picked up the wine glass, drank a glass of wine with Tao Shiqi, and said, "This is normal. People always think that they have money in their hands. Everything is yesterday when they go out, and they grow old day by day. But how can they actually be like that? They always have to keep moving forward to have a better life. The previous generation of people got married and gave birth to descendants. The population grew day by day and could not continue to develop. Wouldn't they become poorer? In the past, they could only produce so much grain in the land, but they were getting poorer and poorer, and they could not support it. Different factories opened, and the factories were getting bigger and bigger, and the more they used, and the more they were using, and the descendants might not become poorer."

Tao Shiqi smiled and said, "I don't understand what the officials said. Now, raising children is carefully calculated how much money they have to save so that they can have no worries about food and clothing. Most of the people in the Iron Prison who work with me together are like this."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "The Iron Supervisor has only been built for seven or eight years, and I don't know anything about the future. This is normal. Speaking of which, the population of the Iron Supervisor is concentrated and has strong management, and the Iron Supervisor is rich. It can build schools and other things, so that future generations can have a better future."

Tao Shiqi said: "When it comes to this, the schools in the Iron Prison are run well, and they can learn to read for three years without tuition. If they learn well, they can go to various schools. In the past few years, there have been more children in those schools in our Iron Prison."

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "It is necessary to let the next generation have a better life so that they can live up to the development of these years. By the way, next year is the year of a big comparison. Is there a few days ago? How many juren are there in the Iron Supervision Bureau?"

Tao Shiqi said: "When it comes to this matter, everyone thinks it is inappropriate. Nowadays, Baitingjian is only in the same state, and there are more than 30 people, and they all think it is too few. Baitingjian has nearly 100,000 households, and it should be a larger state, so the juren has a higher quota."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Most of the people who come to the Iron Prison are workers and business people, and there is nothing to do when the amount is reduced at the moment. This time, I came here and saw how many unreasonable things are there. I reported together, hoping to make it happen soon. There will always be a process for emerging things to be accepted by the court and the people. In fact, there is nothing in the Iron Prison. Ye County has been too chaotic in the past two years and it will not be possible to rectify them."

Tao Shiqi said: "The officials are right. Everyone here knows that Ye County is not as good as the Iron Supervisor. Especially in recent years, a large number of households have lived outside the city walls and hiding thieves. Who can find it? At night, except for the lively market, few people go there."

In fact, no one can tell how many households there are in Baitingjian now, and a large number of households are not registered. The government collects taxes because they are targeting various business operations, and the people who work in the business operations cannot count them. Generally, it is estimated that there are 10,000 or 20,000 households in the railway supervision, but Ye County cannot explain clearly, and 30,000 to 60,000 or 70,000 households. Because Ye County is too small, a large number of households live outside the city, the security forces of the government cannot be managed, and local public security is very chaotic. For the people, the intuitive feeling is just a word of chaos. In fact, for the government, there are many things to manage.

Du Zhongxiao asked Tao Shiqi, and listened to him telling the situation nearby, thinking in his heart. When he built the Railway Supervision Bureau, the focus was on the official railway supervision, and Ye County did not pay attention to it. Unexpectedly, after so many years, Ye County developed.

The surrounding railway supervision is strictly managed, and the number of official factories is large, so private factories will be subject to many restrictions there. Ye County is close to the railway trunk line, with convenient transportation and the county government is unable to manage the surrounding areas. A large number of factories settle down here. There are many populations and a large number of migrant workers, so there will inevitably be social chaos. In this situation, society develops rapidly, but it is also easy to get out of control.

From the letter collected today, plus Tao Shiqi's story, Du Zhongxiao felt that it is necessary to pay attention to Ye County and solve the problem. The iron supervisors in other places are Xuebaiting supervisors. Due to the different scale, talents and products produced, there has not been a place like Ye County. Ye County cannot solve the problem well. When those places develop, new places may appear again.

Listening to Tao Shiqi talking about the new changes in this area, Du Zhongxiao said: "Ye County is so chaotic, have you locals ever thought of a solution?"

Tao Shiqi said: "No matter what, what's the use of thinking about it?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "I just think about it, but I don't violate the laws of the court. Is it just a gossip, has anyone mentioned it?"

After hearing this, Tao Shiqi became interested and said, "Of course there are cases around him. Usually, some people say that if there is any such thing, such a thing will not happen. But no matter what, the core one is to add officials who really do things. If there is no one in the local area, how can it be managed well? Now, there are only many officials in the county government in Ye County? Even how many people under their rule are unclear, so how can they be managed!"

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Yes, there are too few officials here in Ye County. When I go back this time, according to the population, Baitingjian should be promoted to a large prefecture. The place is small, the population is concentrated, and the money and grain are collected. There should be more officials. In addition, we also need a fundamental governance theory. Only with theoretical guidance can we do things well. Otherwise, we will come from east to west, and there will be problems in the end."

Tao Shi said with great interest: "What is the theory that the official said? Let's listen, it may be useful to us."

Du Zhongxiao said: "I am not thinking completely now, and there is nothing to say. I can only summarize it after I stay here for a few days and understand the situation in the local area. The previous governance methods were no longer possible when facing places like Ye County. I should think of other solutions."

This is not a problem with the social system. The previous political structure corresponds to the agricultural society and is not adapted to the industrial society. Faced with the sudden outbreak of industry, you will inevitably be unable to do so. The industrial society has its own objective laws, and social governance should comply with objective laws.

Du Zhongxiao's emphasis on Ye County is largely a warning to the impact of industrial society on the current social system. If it cannot be solved in time, I am afraid that it will become more serious in the future.

In the early days of the industrial revolution, Europe basically let itself go and had little restrictions on capitalists. Capitalists developed and then used their strength to participate in politics and change the political system. This trajectory was combined with the political tradition of Europe and a new social form emerged. With the development of productivity, the European industrial revolution was accompanied by blood and fire, internal suppression, and external aggression. As a unified country, China's industrial revolution should not be like this, otherwise it would be divided.

Tao Shiqi was arranged to rest in the inn, and Du Zhongxiao sat in the study, thinking about future reforms.

In the industrial era when Baitingjian began, a basic principle should be that the court should actively participate in the process. There should be government-run banks, government-run factories, government-run businesses, guidance in the industrial era, and sharing profits at the same time. Industries related to the country's governance and people's livelihood should be the main focus of government-run, and private enterprises should be used as a beneficial supplement. Doing so can ensure that the overall industrialization situation will not deviate from the direction under the control of the court.

If industries closely related to people's lives are not particularly important and management is inconvenient, they can be given to the private sector. This will not affect the development of the entire industry and can activate the market. It is necessary. Only by combining the official and the private sector can we develop healthily.

The regime needs money, so-called money and grain. In the agricultural era, agricultural taxes were naturally the main focus, which is now followed by the two tax laws of the Tang Dynasty. In the industrial era, a large amount of money was concentrated in the industry and the status of agriculture was reduced, and there was a way to collect funds from the industry. Taxation was of course the most basic operation, collecting taxes from enterprises and the people to maintain the operation of the regime. How to design taxes in the industrial era, the current officials did not recognize this problem at all, and relying on the previous system to cause a large amount of tax loss.

The current imperial court thought that the amount of money and grain collected from Baiting Supervisor was indulging in the local area everywhere. However, it was not known that the amount of money and grain collected was still far from the real ability of Baiting Supervisor. The government could not master the large number of private factories, so it could only pay taxes according to the fixed secondary production and leaks. It should vigorously strengthen the number of officials in Baiting Supervisor and master the local factories. The ideal thing is to master their production and operations.

This requires a fiscal and taxation system that conforms to the fiscal and taxation system of political governance. In this era, various systems were not perfect, so how to raise taxes from factories is a difficult problem. Even if the currency is not unified, how can we talk about taxation?
Chapter completed!