Three days later, Li Songchen submitted to Qin Zheng a report on the investigation of the current situation of Beijing and the establishment of the Beijing Provisional Management Committee. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info gives a detailed account of the results of the survey that has been conducted by the public since this time.

According to the investigation conducted by Li Songchen and others in Beijing, first of all, on the whole, the mood of Beijing residents is quite stable, and they have no mentality of resisting the rule of the People's Army; on the first day, there were several incidents of looting and burning churches, but they were forcefully suppressed by the People's Army, and there were basically no large-scale mass incidents after that.

In fact, this can also be regarded as the credit of the Eight-Nation Alliance, originally Beijing was the foot of the world, a generous place, officials gathered, powerful groups, the Eight Banners brothers, hardcore crops have many unruly, disobedient people, and it is not easy to control, so in the history of the Qing court, the management of Beijing's public security is a rather headache.

However, after the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, they did not care about those, and a large number of powerful officials fled, and those who remained in Beijing were also killed, and the ordinary children of the Eight Banners and hardcore crops were even more severely ruled, and the slightest outrageous action was killed on the spot, so the resistance of Beijing residents was also greatly suppressed. After the People's Army took over Beijing, the residents of Beijing were already subdued, and naturally they did not dare to challenge the authority of the People's Army.

However, Beijing is currently facing two more serious problems: the first is that there is an extreme shortage of materials in Beijing, and prices have risen to three to four times the usual level, and because of the shortage of grain, the price of rice has reached more than five times that of usual, and according to the results of the survey, the grain in Beijing is only enough to last for about a month.

Beijing is the capital of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in this era is also a rare mega city, only the population of the inner and outer cities has reached more than 2 million people, so the daily consumption of various materials and food is extremely huge, and Beijing itself is neither a grain production area nor a handicraft area, the demand for food is mainly from the supply of the south, before the various materials transported from the south to Beijing are transported by Cao, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Caoyun was cut off, forced to change to the sea, from Tianjin ashore, and then transported to Beijing, in 1872, the steamship China Merchants Bureau was established in Shanghai, the official use of ships to carry Cao, the cost of shipping is lower than Caoyun, so it has been changed to sea transport needs。

In addition, Beijing imported materials from Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Northeast China and other places, and then exported them to the south by sea from Tianjin, thus forming a trade balance of material exchanges between the north and the south, and also creating the prosperity of Beijing and Tianjin.

The invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition was to land in Tianjin by the Ninghai Road, first occupy Tianjin, and then use Tianjin as a base to attack Beijing, so the Eight-Nation Coalition almost never interrupted Tianjin's shipping, and after capturing Beijing, it was also able to ensure that the materials from the south could be transported to Beijing, which was not only to ensure the local needs of Beijing, but also the needs of the Eight-Nation Alliance. In its heyday, the total strength of the Eight-Nation Alliance, together with the navy, amounted to more than 70,000 people, more than 50 warships of various types, and the materials required were also extremely large.

Soon after the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing, it also opened up trade between Beijing and the northwest region, so the exchange and supply of materials in Beijing were basically restored, and the supply was not bad. After the traversers captured Tianjin, it did not take long to open up the material exchanges between Tianjin and Beijing and the south, and they also took the opportunity to re-establish customs and collect customs duties, on the one hand, to increase their own income, and on the other hand, to maintain Beijing's supplies, mainly grain.

However, this situation did not last long, with the breakdown of the Shanghai negotiations, the crossing group launched the Beijing campaign, and the material trade between Beijing and the south was completely interrupted, and for a super-large city like Beijing, once the supply was cut off, it would be a very dangerous thing, and now it was close to the danger line, so it was necessary to find a way to restore the supply of materials to Beijing as soon as possible.

Another issue is Beijing's environmental problems.

In fact, the environment of the city is a common problem of urban construction in ancient China, because ancient Chinese cities generally do not pay attention to the construction of urban sewage pipes and sanitation systems, and there are no good hygiene habits, if it is a city close to a big river or a big river, it is better, and the river and river can play a certain sewage function, if there is no big river or big river near the city, even if it is a capital-level city like Beijing, that is, the sanitation situation in the area around the imperial city is slightly better, and the other is basically dirty and messy. In the old time and space, there is a famous literary work "Longxugou", which is represented by Longxugou (a goldfish pond located near the north gate of the Temple of Heaven in Chongwen District), which truly reflects the environmental sanitation situation in Beijing. And once it is the rainy season, it is the sewage overflow, mosquitoes and flies breed, causing the spread of diseases, almost every spring and summer, Beijing will have an epidemic of diseases, even plague.

This has also been proved by the medical team, although the hospital has not yet been formally established, but the medical team has carried out sampling and inspection in Beijing, and took water and soil samples for testing, and the results obtained are that according to the standards of the old time and space, the content of germs in water and soil samples has broken through the warning line, once the climate warms and the germs are activated, then the possibility of large-scale disease outbreaks is extremely high, and the outbreak of plague is not impossible. Therefore, the medical team also advised the command to take measures as soon as possible to control the spread of the disease.

In addition to the development of science and technology in Europe, there was a large-scale outbreak of the Black Death in European history, which is also one of the important reasons why European countries attach importance to the environment. On the one hand, it has improved the city's sewage system, and on the other hand, it has also forced residents to respect hygiene habits, and has achieved very obvious results, which is indeed one of the few positive consequences of the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China.

However, in this era, due to the emergence of time-travelers, the Eight-Nation Coalition has not had much energy to transform Beijing's environment, so Beijing's environmental governance has achieved little success. Although Tianjin's environmental governance has achieved some results, there are still shortcomings.

After the traverser occupied Tianjin, they took over the work of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army and continued to transform Tianjin's environment, and now Tianjin's environment has achieved very obvious results. However, the situation in Beijing is very different from Tianjin, after all, the area of the old city of Tianjin is not large, and the Tianjin Concession itself attaches great importance to the environment and has a good foundation, so the cost of renovation is not high. However, the scale of Beijing is huge, more than ten times that of the old city of Tianjin, if you want to carry out a comprehensive environmental transformation, it is an extremely large system project, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is unlikely that the group will occupy Beijing for a long time, so it is cost-effective to spend a huge amount of money to transform Beijing's environment?

In addition, Li Songchen did not just raise questions, but also came up with a plan for the management of Beijing, first of all, to divide Beijing into districts and manage them separately. In fact, the Qing court had already divided the city of Beijing into regions, dividing the inner city of Beijing into eight parts according to the administration of the Eight Banners, and the outer city into five parts in the southeast, middle and northwest, so that there were a total of thirteen subdivisions, which corresponded to the thirteen provinces of the Qing court.

Li Songchen believes that there is no need to change the sub-districts of Beijing, but to set up a public security administration in one sub-district, dispatch 10 traversers and 30 local personnel to manage it, including a police force of about 10 people, and subdivide each sub-district into a number of blocks in the future, and select suitable personnel from among the residents of Beijing to assist the public security bureau in management. In this way, the general daily public order work can basically be guaranteed, and when a major incident occurs, the military will be immediately called to deal with it.

After reading the report submitted by Li Songchen, Qin Zheng was also very satisfied, although Li Songchen was young, he was indeed a down-to-earth person who could do practical things, and it could be seen from the report he submitted that this was by no means an exaggeration, and it was indeed a correct decision to transfer him to Beijing to work.

Now that the traverser has fully occupied the Jinjing area, shipping is not a problem, but I am afraid that the countries in Shanghai will impose an embargo on the traversal group, after all, Beijing needs materials from the south, and only relying on the traverser's own production capacity is unable to supply Beijing's needs. And the same is true for medical services, money is not a problem now, but medicinal herbs still need to be purchased from the south. In addition, it is not enough to rely on the south to supply materials, and it will only cause a fiscal deficit and will not be conducive to the economic development of the traversal bloc.

But these things require work from Shanghai, so Qin Zheng also felt that he should end his work in Beijing as soon as possible, and then rush to Shanghai, where the next struggle will be. As for environmental issues, it is up to Tianjin to decide, and Qin Zheng can't be the master alone.

The next day, Qin Zheng announced the formal establishment of the Beijing Provisional Management Committee, with Qin Zheng, Zhou Ping, Li Songchen, Zhu Yaping, and *** as members, and five departments: the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Administration, and the Ministry of Asset Management. At the same time, Qin Zheng also sent a report to the Tianjin Executive Committee, and submitted to the Executive Committee the problems encountered by Beijing.

Three days later, Beijing's work was also on the right track, and at this time, the Tianjin Executive Committee also sent the latest order to Beijing: it turned out that Li Sanjie's diplomatic maneuvering activities in Shanghai had achieved great results, first of all, Li Hongzhang had agreed to help the crossers, persuaded the guards of Shanhaiguan to jointly resist the southward movement of the Russian army, and sent Zhang Peilun as his representative to persuade the guards of Shanhaiguan. At the same time, Li Hongzhang is also willing to thread the needle between the traverser and Zhang Zhidong, of course, whether Zhang Zhidong is willing to sell weapons to the traverser depends on the results of the talks between the two sides.

Therefore, the executive committee decided to withdraw 5 million taels of silver from the wealth seized from Beijing to buy weapons, and demanded that Qin Zheng, the Second Regiment, and the special forces immediately rush back to Tianjin, and Qin Zheng needed to negotiate important matters, while the Second Regiment and the special forces rushed to Shanhaiguan with Zhang Peilun. Once the persuasion was successful, the 2nd Regiment immediately set up positions on the spot and prepared to resist the Russian army, but if the persuasion failed, it seized Shanhaiguan by force.