"However, when we think that the harvest will come back next year, we grit our teeth and survive this year! But God is not as good as God! It rained for a long time this spring, and the ground was full of water, just like a pond! The newly planted seedlings were quickly drowned, and we finally survived the floods. The seedlings that were already planted late were hit by drought again in the summer, and the food crops in the field were very poor!"
"Our harvest in the first half of the year was almost no, but the grain collection was the same as last year. We really couldn't get too much grain! We didn't know what to do. Fortunately, a knowledgeable old farmer from Spirit City came to us to discuss with us. How about secretly going to the Spirit Hall to file a complaint?"
"So, you guys come to my Pope's Palace!" Qian Xunqian smiled awkwardly, his eyes drifted out involuntarily, and his nose suddenly became sore when he saw several mothers with babies also coming.
"Chief Guard, my bedroom is in the second room on the left inside the Pope's Palace. You can take all these mothers and children to my room to lie down and rest!"
The old uncle continued, "Yes! Yes! We don't trust others, only you! When we arrived at the Pope's Palace, we only said we wanted to find you. The Gui Mei elder said he could do it for us, but we are still a little afraid..."
"What are you afraid of?" Qian Xunqian asked.
"This... we can only believe that you are on the side of us poor people! We only believe that you will make the decision for us hard-working old farmers! We are only willing to tell you all our heartache and suffering!"
The old man in his fifties burst into tears and asked Qian Xunqian, a young girl in her early twenties, to wipe her tears and comfort her Wen Rou.
"Hiss..." Qian Xunqian took a sharp breath, his face turned red, his eyes did not dare to look at the old man with tears in his face and his eyes were red, and he drifted aimlessly to other places.
"Suotuo City Lord, right! Li Zhixi!" Qian Xunqian said angrily.
Qian Xunqian asked her subordinates to properly resettle the villagers of the Pope's Palace, and sent five guard regiments to protect them day and night. However, she didn't care about Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well's expansion. She wanted to dig out all the files about Suotuo City's city lord's appointment last year until now!
Li Zhixi, Spirit Hall The daughter of Cardinal Li Chutian. Spirit Hall Agricultural Academy is an outstanding graduate who ranked first in the school. She was interviewed in person. She asked a lot of questions about industry and agriculture, and the other party answered them fluently. She also asked them about their ideological consciousness, and they all got full marks. I didn't expect that it was such a person!
In the final analysis, it is still her fault. She did not put the supervision in place. Douluo Continent is too big. Even if she is Titled Douluo, she is still too small.
It is not too late to remedy the situation. Qian Xunqian thought carefully about it. Let the common people participate in production management, and officials also work together with the common people. This plan is indeed feasible, but at present, it seems that only relatively small officials, those at the bottom who are close to the common people, can really do it.
At a high level, people can use their power and connections to find various excuses to shirk their duties and act as officials behind closed doors. Mistakes in government orders are often misjudgments made by the superiors who did not carefully examine the situation below.
It was indeed a misjudgment caused by the lack of on-the-spot investigation at the beginning, but as the upper and lower levels become more and more decoupled, and when the upper levels cannot even empathize with the lower levels, they will naturally take possession of the wealth created by the people in front of them, and corruption is born. The corrosion of the country often starts from above, and bureaucracy is always the enemy of the country!
As for ordinary people, they can only manage the affairs closest to them, and the supervision of higher-level officials is not fully implemented. To supervise high-level officials, you cannot rely solely on a rotation system. Officials supervise each other. Isn't it funny if you ask your uncle to investigate your third uncle?
So a variable needs to be introduced, that is, the people. This is why modern countries emphasize the importance of democratic supervision!
Now that Spirit Hall has developed for many years, the literacy rate of the people has also increased. It is time for the people to participate in politics!
Thinking of this, Qian Xunqian slapped himself hard and scolded, "You, you, you are practicing personal heroism every day! You think that as long as you continue to struggle on your own, you can make the people of the Douluo Continent live a good life! Aren't you trapped in a kind of hidden elitism!"
Qian Xunqian shook his head. "A scholar must be ambitious. The road ahead is long and arduous, and he must continue to revolutionize himself! Always wipe the dust diligently, and don't stir up dust. If you don't pay attention for a moment, bad thoughts will take over a corner of your mind!"
However, there is one thing that makes Qian Xunqian happy, that is, in the process of collective collaboration and mutual help, the farmers' thinking has been greatly transformed! When encountering problems, they no longer fight alone, but can actually form a group to complain to Spirit City! This is similar to the past workers' strikes!
The power of an individual is small, but the power of the collective is much greater. If you file a complaint today, there may be a riot tomorrow! By then it will probably be several villages or more than a dozen villages! Even if justice cannot be done for the time being, more people can participate. Will those officials still be able to suppress the voices of the people?
As she said, "People in the future must be the best people! Their ideological consciousness will be very high! They are Goodness God hard-working, helping each other, and willing to help others..."
Yes! Under the advanced system, we constantly fight against backward ideas and transform our past way of thinking. This is the most successful part of reform! How can we change everyone's ideas and become more backward?
However, before promulgating the new system, we need to clean up the internal moths!
Seeing the rightful owner coming, Elder Gui Mei gave up his position very wisely. Qian Xunqian also trusted Gui Mei and explained to him the demands of the farmers just now completely and clearly.
After hearing this, Gui Mei looked very solemn and said, "This matter is not simple. We at the Spirit Hall send cardinals to inspect local areas every year. Officials who seriously violate the law will be reported immediately. Therefore, this city lord has a lot of energy behind him!"
"Her father is a cardinal, and he has some close friends on weekdays. Considering that the original Balak Kingdom and Haagen-Dazs Kingdom started slowly, the procurement of grain and feed crops in these places are very conservative. Suotuo City's purchase of grain and feed crops last year was only one-fifth of our Spirit City's. Where did the batch of grain go?"
Qian Xunqian took out a piece of scratch paper, wrote on the paper with a pen, and started calculating.
Gui Mei seemed to have remembered something, and he speculated. "Six months ago, I heard that Li Zhixi accidentally obtained a fifty-thousand-year Spirit Bone. At that time, I was thinking that her father was also a after all. Soul Douluo, it shouldn't be difficult to go to Star Dou Forest and kill a 50,000-year-old Soul Beast. As long as she is lucky, Soul Beast will explode Spirit Bone! Now..."