Chapter 325 The Purpose of Discipline (XI)
Gao Pang, the Governor-General of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, went to Xuzhou. Kong Bugeng, the Governor of Jiangsu, was waiting at the door early. After meeting Gao Pang, he went into the Governor's Office in Xuzhou.
At this time, many officials were already waiting in the government office. Gao Pang personally began to explain: "The governor has ordered that in this agricultural reform, local governments can be slow in the end due to lack of experience. But they cannot force the people to do it, and there must not be any deception."
At this point, Gao Pang looked at everyone and asked, "What does it mean to not lie?"
Everyone said they were not sure. Gao Pang felt that his mode of seeking communication was getting closer and closer to Huo Chong's style. However, after serving as the Governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang for so many days, Gao Pang had to admit that seeking the lowest level of consensus was indeed effective.
"No deception. The data you submitted in your reports about how many people in each region actually participated in the agricultural reform, how many acres of livestock feed each of these people planted, and how many acres of livestock feed fields there were in total must be true. Not to mention that the court sent an investigation team to check, and they were all false. If they were false, it would be called no deception. If these data are true, it would be called no deception."
When Gao Pang finished speaking, the officials present were all a little surprised. After a moment of silence, someone asked, "Doesn't the court trust us? After we finish our work, they still have to watch us?"
Gao Pang looked at the man who was speaking, and then he heard Kong Bugeng shout, "County Magistrate Sun, what do you mean by that? Can't the court check your work?"
Hearing the unhappiness and disgust that Kong Bugeng tried to suppress in his tone , Gao Pang felt that Kong Bugeng had expressed the right dissatisfaction. These people who followed Huo Chong in the rebellion really hated being scrutinized by others.
Kong Bugeng's words did create a strong sense of oppression among the officials, but also caused their dissatisfaction.
Gao Pang raised the document in his hand and continued, "The governor's evaluation of the agricultural production model reform this time contains very interesting descriptions. Let me tell you about it."
Although their emotions were affected, most officials listened for a while and took it in. Although agricultural model reform is a big proposition, Huo Chong did not talk about it in such a grand way. Huo Chong's focus was even small and low.
Do you want to live a good life? This is Huo Chong's starting point. Living a good life is not the same as living. If you can't live, you will die. The difference between being able to do it and not being able to do it is huge. Once you fail, there is no chance to do it again.
There is no definite standard for a good life. How good is a good life? If it is a little better, it is considered a good life. But if it is not a little better, or a little worse, it is not a good life?
The most important thing is, no matter if you have a good life or not, life can go on like this year after year. There is no such thing as an absolute result of life or death, victory or defeat.
Even officials who were very unhappy with the supervision accepted this cognitive basis. Gao Pang struck while the iron was hot, "Number statistics are like life and death, either there is, or there is not. Everyone has fought in the war, and you were given guns. I remember that you had to report the number before each battle. To say, report, there are actually 101 people in the first company, 100 people. All weapons and equipment are complete. If a company commander shouts this, and the troops check and find that it is not true, do you think it is wrong to punish this company commander?"
After the meeting, Kong Bugeng invited Gao Pang to drink tea. After taking a sip, Kong Bugeng sighed: "What the champion said made me suddenly enlightened. These people actually had to say this to understand."
Gao Pang advised Kong Bugeng, "Brother Kong is more talented than me, and he is also very magnanimous. However, the governor said that the so-called tolerance does not mean that one can really tolerate injustice. Injustice is like a thorn in the throat, who can bear it? Although I don't like to take revenge, I am not the kind of person who will accept it. Brother Kong should not be the kind of person who lives under someone else's roof and swallows his anger."
Kong Bugeng nodded repeatedly, but Gao Pang could see that although Kong Bugeng sincerely agreed that one should not swallow one's anger, he did not completely agree with many of Gao Pang's views.
This made Gao Pang feel very interesting. This was the good thing about being in contact with literati. Although the guys who followed Huo Chong out of the war looked ferocious, they were too shallow, as shallow as a puddle. Once you mastered the method, you could see through them at a glance.
Although Kong Bugeng is not completely unfathomable, he has a deeper level of thinking and a future that cannot be easily determined. Gao Pang likes to deal with such people... especially when Gao Pang has the advantage of power. He can learn much more from Kong Bugeng than from ordinary people.
The meeting did not come up with a systematic and comprehensive new agricultural model. Gao Pang believed that from his understanding of the text, Huo Chong's document also talked about the beginning of implementation and construction, and did not require immediate completion. Huo Chong even made it clear that demanding full completion now would only create a farce of "changing rice to mulberry is a national policy."
After all, the first priority of the base at the moment is to ensure that everyone does not starve to death and has food to eat through normal production labor.
The standard of the new agricultural model is to live a better life, rather than the more basic standard of not starving to death.
The reason why Gao Pang came down to arrange the work was not to promote the new agriculture in an all-round way, but to prevent someone from using the excuse of fully implementing the new agricultural model to do whatever he wants. In other words, he is so-called anti-conservative, and even more anti-radical.
After talking with Jiangsu officials, Gao Pang went to the grassroots. The grassroots inspection was naturally decided by Jiangsu. When Gao Pang arrived at the seaside, he looked at the estuary of the Yellow River, which was being eroded, and couldn't help but sighed : "I didn't expect the situation to turn out like this."
"Yes. It makes me sad to see so much good soil being eroded." Kong Bugeng, who was accompanying him, sighed.
After that, Kong Bugeng added, "Governor, I don't mean to speak for those salt merchants. With the current situation, the salt fields in the past have long been completely destroyed. They also know that things are irreversible and have stopped making a fuss about it."
Gao Pang looked at the muddy yellow seawater, not knowing whether the vast expanse of muddy water in front of him was the sea or the muddy river beach. He had only seen such a description in the report that the coastline was destroyed by at least two miles a year. Gao Pang, who was born in Qiongzhou, really couldn't understand it. Because the coastline in Qiongzhou would not change.
Now Gao Pang couldn't help but sigh: "The so-called vicissitudes of life probably refers to this. Even if the Yellow River brings hundreds of years of silt, things that are not from this place will not be able to survive here for long."
"Governor, the commander-in-chief said that he could solve this problem!" Kong Bugeng did not have the intention of letting things take their own course like Gao Pang did.
Gao Pang's mind moved, "Brother Kong, do those salt merchants really have no intention of rebelling?"
Kong Bugeng answered decisively: "Of course not! They have families and are free. If they rebel, will their entire clan be killed?"
