The news of the imperial meeting was not deliberately concealed, and naturally, it would start to spread in a small area. People who heard the news had different expressions, but none of them immediately jumped out.

After all, this is the Tokugawa family's own family affairs, not the world's affairs, it is to carry out reforms within the Tokugawa family's heaven. After all, the Tokugawa family is nothing but the biggest prince in the world. Other families can reform within their own domain, and of course the Tokugawa family can reform within their own domain.

At most, the seniors are qualified to jump out and speak, and the rest of the people have no right to speak.

After Chuemon came home, he immediately sent someone to inform Ninomiya Zunyuki, and ordered him to collect the successful experience accumulated over the decades since his father Ninomiya Zunde became an official as soon as possible, and send it to the shogunate.

Of course, I also told him the news of the Tokugawa family's decision. He ordered him to follow the upper hall, and personally told the general, the father and son of the Ninomiya family, their efforts to change the poor and backward face of Japan's rural areas.

After three days, Ninomiya Zunyuki, who was full of excitement, followed behind Chuemon and stepped into Edo Nakao, which his father, Ninomiya Zuntoku, had never stepped into in his life.

As usual, the imperial meeting was held in the Western Pavilion. Now the weather is hot, and once the large windows are opened, the air is ventilated from all sides, and people do not feel hot in the house. More importantly, the Tokugawa family must have become accustomed to the French-style sofa and stool, and there is no need to sit upright and laborious. For him, sitting on the sofa can be a lot of comfort.

On the other hand, it was the first time I met the general's Ninomiya Zunxing, and the pestle was there, neither standing nor sitting. He thought he was going to kneel on the tatami like the outside, and make a big salute to the Tokugawa family. In the end, everyone just bowed their heads respectfully to Tokugawa Jiading, and then sat down at Tokugawa Jiading's start.

"Are you Ninomiya Zunxing?" The Tokugawa family felt tired when the weather was hot. Today's condition was average, but not bad.

At least when he walked in, the pace was quite steady. Looking at it like this, it should be no problem if you wait a few more years. He is such an adult, and he has stayed in the position of the prince for a long time. With a large number of people serving as his generals, he can naturally grasp the real power of the shogunate.

Even just by sitting in that position, he was able to avoid a lot of intrigue and upheaval. Adult and long monarchs are too important for a feudal country.

"This is it!" Hearing his name being called, Er Gong Zun jumped up and jumped up.

"Sit down and talk..." The Tokugawa family waved his hand.

"Please contact us for more information." Ninomiya Zunxing was actually a little moved.

He, a person who was brainwashed by the feudal system from childhood to adulthood, suddenly found that his monarch seemed to be a person who was sympathetic and courteous, a kind of moving that modern people of later generations could not understand at all. It's just this kind of monarch-subject dialogue that can't be called equal, which makes Er Gong Zunxing inexplicably grateful.

Our general is really a wise man!

"A few days ago, Zhongyouemon said that your father and son have reported morality, and you should talk about it." The Tokugawa family knew that he had asked people to sit down and answer, so he won a **** loyalty, and just continued.

"When my late father was there, I thought that local officials should be made to take the five constants of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trustworthiness" as the key to life. Let the people know the importance of diligence and thrift, and extravagance is evil..."

The seniors here had already read Chen Chen before, and roughly knew what Er Gong Zunxing was going to say, so they just listened quietly. But here at Chuemon, he realized a more urgent problem.

Ninomiya Zunde clearly realizes that no matter how good the policy is, people have to do it. He is selfless, and can handle local affairs in a clean and honest manner. So when he goes to a place, a place can be revived and developed, so that it is very prosperous.

But what about those places where he wasn't there?

The only honest official is himself, but the corrupt official is like the sand of the Yellow River. After the Tokugawa family established the world, unified weights and measures were established. However, corrupt officials do not use official lifting buckets, but self-made buckets. Undisguised exploitation of farmers, how do you manage this kind of thing?

Therefore, before starting to implement his own plan, Ninomiya Zunde established a mutual aid organization "Five Changshang" based on the principles of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust". Through such a mutual aid organization, we can find comrades who are like-minded and have noble character and sentiments. Through these people, he assisted him in launching a comprehensive rural reform experiment in 600 villages in Kanto.

How many are these people? There are only about two or three hundred people, and now counting the apprentices brought out, it will not exceed the number of four hundred. There are so many people with ideals and aspirations, who follow them to carry out rural reform experiments.

Do you think it can be done?

Of course it can be done!

There is no scientific research that says that people can meet tens of thousands of people in their lifetime, but in daily life, there are relatively close contacts, and there are at most two or three hundred people with whom they are more familiar. These two or three hundred people can be regarded as people you know well.

And Ninomiya Zunde carried out a successful agricultural reform with these two or three hundred people who knew more. Prosperity and rejuvenation wherever you go, relying on such a team.

But how big is the shogunate's celestial leader? There are 4.5 million stones on the bright side, but in fact there are more than 12 million stones. Let alone 600 villages, there are at least a few thousand, or even tens of thousands of villages of different sizes.

A grass-roots manager can take care of two or three villages. If you want to manage all the villages in Tianling, you must have a team of at least 3,000 to 5,000 people.

All have to be sincere. Only the kind of good officials who do not seek fame and fortune can properly convey and implement the various decrees of the shogunate center for the revival of rural areas.

Where did the shogunate come from three or five thousand good officials?

Three or five hundred good officials should still be able to be found, but three or five thousand is absolutely impossible. Chuyouemon came from the grassroots level, and the grassroots of the shogunate have rotted into what kind of criticism, everyone can see.

Tongxin manages the streets of Edo, and even some people have been sitting in the public hall all their lives, and they have never left the official residence. It is all because of the green-skinned rogues and hooligans on the ground who take care of the streets. As a result, the reputation of the shogunate was ruined by these rogue scumbags.

In other words, the original reputation of the shogunate is not much better, and everyone can still look at it neutrally. When the grassroots are full of social scum and hooligans, what will the common people think of the shogunate?

It is almost impossible to rely on the samurai who have no enterprising spirit and are quite mediocre in ability, but only rely on the shadow of his grandfather, who are hereditary and irresponsible in front of the Hajimoto family.

But is it still time to start over?