Chapter 277: Hundreds of Families Governing the Village
The result after the debate was just as Tian Ze had expected. The top ten were: Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Military Science, Mohism, Diplomacy, Logic, Yin-Yang School, Eclecticism and Agriculture.
These ten companies are already the best among the hundreds, with relatively strong foundations, so it is no surprise that they are on the list.
The order is just slightly deviated. After all, in times of chaos, military strategists and diplomats are ranked relatively higher.
The Mohist school almost fell out of the top five because it was too pragmatic and had been targeted by the Confucianists for too long, resulting in a gap in its inheritance.
Both the famous scholars and the Yin-Yang school are good at theory and debate, and their rankings are relatively high.
But the ten days of debate were just the beginning.
Next comes the debate.
The so-called practical debate is to put theory into practice and test the teachings of various schools of thought with actual actions and results.
There were dozens of mud balls of similar size and appearance in full view of everyone. Lu Zhi closed his eyes, picked one at random, crushed it and opened it.
"Kurahira County."
Looking at the words on the note inside the mud pill, Lu Zhi said loudly.
Cai Yong then crushed all the remaining mud pills and revealed the notes inside for examination one by one.
The scholars present did not care about this. If they did not even believe in Lu Zhi's character, there would not be many people they could trust in this world.
They were constantly thinking and discussing the situation in Cangping County.
"Cangping County is located in Xingzhou. It is a newly developed county in the northeastern plain. Most of its people are from various states in the south. They have only been here for more than two years..."
Cai Yong took out a booklet and told the information about Cangping County.
Lu Zhi nodded, and then said: "The files of Cangping County are all in the prefectural governor's mansion in Cang County, the county seat. If you walk quickly, it will only take five or six days to get there, but you can only read them after ten days."
"According to the rules of this debate, we will gather in Cangping County in ten days. You can look through the files and finally choose the villages under your jurisdiction according to the order of the debate."
"Each school will select five people to govern, and there will be no restrictions on the number of people. The period will be one month. After one month, the effectiveness will be evaluated based on the development and benefits of each village."
How to test whether a doctrine is advanced? Apart from theory, the best way is to test whether it has governance capabilities through actual results.
What Lu Zhi called development involved all aspects, including farming, military, education, and quality...
Although many things are difficult to quantify, they can still be compared to each other.
As for some accidents and gaps between villages, they are inevitable. Even dynasties are threatened by natural disasters and this cannot be used as an excuse for failure.
Although the game would not begin until ten days later, the people from the hundreds of families took action immediately without hesitation.
You know, there is still a time difference of several days. Even if there are no files to look through, they can still understand some of the situation in Cangping County by measuring their footsteps and gain the upper hand.
In order to win this game, in addition to your own hard power, the most important thing is to choose the right village.
There are nearly a hundred villages in a county, but they cannot be exactly the same, so there will naturally be some deviations.
Some villages have better geographical locations, some villages have higher quality people, and some villages have unique resources...
All these will determine whether they can achieve a major leap in development within a month.
Tian Ze looked at the group of people from the Hundred Schools with great expectation. Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish. Although it is only a village, it is enough to see the big picture from the small, and show some of the abilities of the Hundred Schools.
Moreover, although the village level may seem insignificant, it is also the most critical foundation and the last layer connecting the people.
If we can learn the "true teachings" from hundreds of schools in village management, it will be of great benefit to Tianze's governance.
This debate sounds simple, but there are a lot of considerations involved, including intelligence gathering, audition capabilities, development vision, governance capabilities, etc.
If it were an ordinary clerk, it would be good enough if he could familiarize himself with and sort out the affairs of the village in a month, but Tian Ze wanted to see how far these people from hundreds of families could achieve in such a short time.
After all, when they go out into the world in the future, the situations they will face will probably be much more difficult than they are now.
Language barriers, insufficient personnel, different beliefs, unstable temperaments... Tian Ze chose this test topic in order to consciously guide the Hundred Schools and Aristocratic Families to improve their ability to solve these problems.
"My lord, isn't one month too short? After all, there are thousands of people in a village, and it will take five people to manage it. Even if they are familiar with each other, it will take some time. What can be accomplished in one month?" Chen Gong said hesitantly.
"Not short. At least these people speak Chinese, and it is the official language that we have consciously guided and taught them. Moreover, their living habits and sense of obedience have been slowly formed over the past two years."
"If they can't even overcome the current difficulties, how can they assimilate those ethnic groups that have different languages, skin colors, and habits in the future?" Tian Ze said in a deep voice.
"Although it's only been a month, it's enough to get a glimpse of the quality of these schools. Anyone who can sort out the village's political affairs, gain the trust and support of the villagers and accomplish something is worthy of our training."
"Although the sparrow is small, it has all the necessary organs. The judges you arrange must follow carefully and carefully record the results. These are all valuable experiences for future local governance!"
Chen Gong nodded, but still reminded: "My lord, the strengths of the various schools are different. For example, when it comes to governance, I'm afraid that the military strategists, the diplomats, and other schools are not good at it. It seems a bit unfair."
"There is no absolute fairness in this world. The reason why they are ranked so high now is not because they are born in troubled times. Adapting to the environment and changing the environment are what they have to do."
"Besides, I have already left a way for them."
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Chen Gong looked at Tian Ze in confusion.
Jia Xu at the side coughed lightly: "Gongtai, you forgot what Zigan Gong said just now, 'there will be no restrictions on personnel'."
Chen Gong's eyes widened when he heard this: "My Lord, what do you mean?"
Tian Ze nodded: "If they were smart, they wouldn't fight each other. They would form an alliance with each other to maximize their benefits."
"This debate is not as simple as governing the village on the surface. There are too many things to consider and operate. It all depends on how capable these people from the Hundred Families are."
Each school of thought has its own strengths. Lu Zhi only restricted each school to select five people, but did not say that these five people must be from their school.
For example, the military strategists can form an alliance with other schools and select students from Confucianism, Legalism, Agriculture and other schools to assist them in participating in the competition.
But how to convince other schools, how much profit to share, how to ensure that the students of these other schools will do their best to assist, how to allocate personnel... there are many aspects that need to be considered.
"My lord, this debate is really exciting!" Chen Gong couldn't help but admire it when he heard it.
"This is a miniature 'world'. What they have to do is to use all means to strengthen themselves in the shortest possible time." Tian Ze said in a deep voice.
(End of this chapter)
