Su He praised the meritorious soldiers and returned to his study to copy.
He is copying some books in Su Jinshi's home into simplified Chinese books.
For example, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Thirty six Strategies, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin, etc.
Su Que knocked on the door, and after getting Su He's permission, he came in and reported, "Commander Su, Su Yan wants to see you."
"Let him in. Tell the kitchen to make a pot of tea and bring it."
Su He stops copying and waits for Su Yan to come in.
Now that the war is over, the troops are recuperating.
In order to deal with the possible threat of Fengxiang Mansion, Su He had to wait until the next batch of cannons left the factory.
Only when the artillery has the strength to block the Weihe River defense line will he formally attack the county.
Su He interrogated the gentry and knew the general situation of Shaanxi at present.
He did not think that the governor of Shaanxi would abandon the "two kings" and send a large army to encircle them.
But there must be a response plan, in case the governor of Shaanxi thinks that the bandits in yellow clothes are more dangerous.
Su Yan came in wearing a blue dress with red stripes.
This is Su He's uniform for patrol inspection.
The main task of patrol inspection is to maintain public order and face ordinary people.
Their clothes should be eye-catching, so that people can recognize them at a glance.
With the current dye technology, blue is the easiest to print and dye, and it is not easy to fade.
Su Que came in after Su Yan, carrying tea.
"Look at your dusty appearance, drink tea first and then talk about it."
Su He motioned to Su Yan to sit down and drink tea before talking about things.
Su Yan took up the tea cup and drank the tea with two mouthfuls:
"The tea tastes the same. I can't tell the difference. The gentry are very particular about tea."
"I can't drink it, just quench my thirst. How about the patrol work?"
Su He looks at Su Yan in good condition, not as depressed as he was when he was just discharged from the army.
"I came to talk to you about this. The patrol work is too troublesome.
The villagers are so poor that there are not many thieves to catch.
The gentry and henchmen who used to be domineering were wiped out by the army.
Villagers come to us for trivial things, which makes my subordinates complain bitterly. "
Su Yan complained, and then said formally: "Commander Su, it's a big thing to come to you this time.
Now it hasn't rained at all, and the wheat seedlings have been eaten by locusts in summer. Don't think about the food.
There is a little water in the river, which mainly meets the needs of people and animals.
Wangjiahe Village and Lijiamiao are separated by a small river. In order to fight for the water in the river, the villagers have another fight with weapons.
In the past, it was the gentry of the two villages who intervened. Now we have captured all the gentry, and no one intervened in the armed fight, which killed anyone. "
Su He understood what had happened.
Armed fights in rural areas have been happening since ancient times, which is also the reason why rural areas are keen on giving birth to boys.
Now there is a severe drought and water shortage, so the weapon fight for water source is upgraded.
Previously, all the land and rivers belonged to the gentry. When there was a dispute between the two villages, the gentry could eliminate the dispute by exchanging interests.
Now they have eliminated the rulers and gentry in the countryside, but no new rulers have filled the vacancy, leading to a vacuum in the power of the rural grassroots.
"Su Yan, the patrol immediately caught all the people involved in the fight.
I will sentence ordinary participants to several months' imprisonment through labor.
The person who leads or acts to cause death shall be sentenced to more than 10 years' imprisonment through reform through labour. "
Su He thought for a moment and gave the order.
In times of chaos, we should use heavy discipline. At the beginning of the establishment of base areas, we must establish their authority.
This is a very typical case, which can let all villagers know that the people who rule them have changed.
Su Yan asked in surprise, "Commander Su, there are more than 300 people arrested."
Su He said with a strong voice: "Yes, there is no impunity here.
Even if ten thousand people break the law, ten thousand will be punished.
You are short of patrol inspectors, so you can increase the number of them.
There are just more than 50 wounded soldiers ready to leave the army. I asked them to join the patrol. "
"Well, Commander Su, I know what to do."
When Su Yan received the exact order, he immediately began to execute it.
In his study, Su He carefully considered the organizational structure of the village to fill the power vacuum.
He must break the practice that imperial power did not go to the countryside in feudal times, and directly extend his power to the countryside.
He synthesized the knowledge in his memory and designed a simple rural governance system.
There are large villages and small villages in villages, such as Yimenbao and Guanyintang.
Large villages have townships. In the administrative unit of the township, the head of the township and the head of the patrol inspection station are set up.
A township head administers the administrative affairs of a township.
The head of the patrol inspection office manages the public security of villages under the township administration.
Patrol inspection directly copies the functions of public security in memory.
A patrol inspection office shall be set up in the township, and a patrol inspection bureau shall be set up in the county seat.
The township head is responsible for the management of the village. He belongs to the lowest level official and can receive pay every month.
The township office was established in the village, which was a small yamen with officials in charge of finance, conscription and tax collection.
The village mainly relies on villagers' autonomy, and the township head nominates candidates for village head.
Villagers vote to elect a reliable village head to manage the village.
Village head candidates must be their supporters.
For example, veterans or military families, activists supporting the Suhe rebellion.
The township head has the right to recall the village head for re election by the villagers, and the patrol has the right to arrest the illegal village head.
Su He is also not afraid of the village head's power expansion, who acts like a gentry in the village.
The village head is not a full-time official, and he is a part-time worker and farmer. There is no pay but a certain allowance.
After careful calculation, Su He removed the number of out of work soldiers.
In today's productive forces, a township can only support five or six full-time officials.
There are not so many officials, so they can only be managed in the township, and the village relies on autonomy.
If you want to directly manage the village, you cannot recruit enough officials.
Under this rural management system, the village carries out autonomy under the guidance of the township head, and directly extends the administrative power to the village.
Su He doesn't know whether this system can run smoothly, so he can only find problems in his work and slowly improve them.
The new system designed in Suhe not only breaks the power not to go to the countryside, but also directly breaks the separation of officials in the feudal era.
In the Ming Dynasty, the only way to become an official was through the imperial examination.
The officials are all scholars. Except for a few scholars who are naturally suitable for officialdom, most of them rely on the teachers and petty officials.
The petty officials have the ability to do things, but at most they can be small officials such as a history.
Even if he has great ability, he will be a petty official in his life.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Yingyuan, a famous historian in Jiangyin, was trapped in a lonely city for 81 days and killed 18 generals of the three kings of Jiannu.
His ability is better than that of many governors in Daming, but he can only serve as an official historian.
Su He determined the rural system, and he recruited several captured petty officials to make suggestions.
They were ostracized from the county government and took refuge in Wang Jinshi, who was responsible for teaching the sons of the gentry in Yimenbao.
These are petty officials who have little power in peacetime and have no blood cases.
Now being sentenced to reform through labor, his main job is to help Su He copy the announcement and write new land deeds.
These petty officials, based on their usual work experience, proposed several areas for improvement.
The township head has too much power, so one or two deputy township heads should be added for decentralization.
Township heads may nominate candidates for village heads, but they cannot be directly dismissed.
This right should be handed over to the county magistrate, the right to arrest the township head, and the county inspection bureau should also issue official documents.
Su He adopted the experience of petty officials and improved the rural management system.