It is said that there are three fires for new officials to take office, but in fact, the first thing officials in ancient times should do should be to contact the local gentry and see which ones they can't afford to provoke, especially those important ministers in the court or those who used to be officials and are now idle at home.

For example, in the old house of the Liu family, a product who is unwilling to enter Beijing ordered Mrs. Liu!

If there are no such relatives in some remote areas, the landlords and gentry who are generally the number one in the local platoon will take the opportunity of the reception banquet to communicate with the new parents and officials.

Therefore, according to the custom, on the first day, the low-status officials and gentry had to wash Jiang Tian's dust, and Wei Gang also attended in civilian clothes, which was not a problem.

At the banquet, everyone was naturally talking and laughing, and they didn't say anything nutritious, and as for someone who wanted to inquire about Jiang Tian's reform plan, he also shirked it.

The next day, Jiang Tian should go to Liu's mansion with a gift to visit Liu Baokai's grandmother.

Even as a traverser, this rule must be observed, so Lord Jiang appeared in front of Liu's mansion on time.

It is precisely because everyone knows that Jiang Tian is coming today, and the Liu Mansion did not wait for the concierge to report inward, and sent someone to find out in advance that Jiang Tian's carriage was coming, and then opened the middle door to greet him.

Jiang Tian was wearing an official uniform, so he didn't catch the car by himself, but came in a serious official sedan chair, and when he opened the sedan curtain, he saw a phoenix crown on his head, a red embroidered phoenix woven golden xia veil, and a dragon head crutch in his hand, looking like She Taijun Liu Lao Taijun alive from a distance.

didn't care about the distance, so he hurriedly got off the sedan chair and walked two steps and stood under the steps to salute: "Senior Jiang Tian pays a visit to Mrs. Liu." ”

As soon as she heard him call himself a junior, Mrs. Liu was not hypocritical, and raised her arm weakly: "Lord Jiang doesn't need to be polite." ”

"The old lady personally greeted him, which really tormented the younger generation."

"Lord Jiang is polite, speaking of which, you are not only a local parent, but also the mentor of my unsuccessful grandson, and the old body should come out to welcome you."

After the two sides exchanged a few polite words at the gate, they were led by Mrs. Liu and walked towards the house.

It wasn't until the door of Liu's Mansion was closed that a group of idlers who watched the excitement began to talk in a whisper.

"It's going to be peaceful! It seems that this Lord Jiang's official authority has been implemented! There was no shortage of people in the crowd who were talking about it.

"Not necessarily!" Immediately, someone was about to refute: "Now the Liu family's personal soldiers are all in the northwest, and the local soldiers are at the behest of Lord Wei." ”

"You know what!" The man immediately retorted: "In this dynasty, the civil and military are divided, and the civilian officials do not care about the army, and the officers do not care about the literature. But what kind of courtyard is this Liu family? No matter how much you have to give a little face, last year, when the old lady was on his birthday, His Majesty and King Ji both gave birthday gifts! ”

It was not heard in the discussion mansion outside, but when Jiang Tian walked into the duke's mansion by the canal outside the city wall of Tianjin, he fully felt that the aristocracy could not be created overnight.

Why? This mansion was originally the ancestral residence of the Liu family, and was expanded after the Northern Expedition, although there are some unique patterns of northern gardens in the shape, such as the typical courtyard structure, and there are also some rockeries and flowers in each courtyard.

However, the furnishings and arrangements inside not only have their national characteristics, but also have the same nouveau riche temperament as the northern Laishun in the capital. This contrast made Jiang Tian feel very interesting, who made him know that the Liu family had never been a cultural person before its development.

After coming to the main hall, the two sides sat down, in order to show respect for the elders, although it was also a grade, Jiang Tian still chose to sit under the old lady.

"The younger generation is harassing the old lady this time, the so-called is not for anything else, but the imperial court intends to upgrade Tianjin Wei to a formal city, divide some counties and townships to try to reform the old and cloth the new.

With that, Jiang Tian stood up and made a gesture to the old lady.

The Liu Mansion Yahuan who had just served tea was startled, why didn't this adult play cards according to the rules, and showed the hole cards so bluntly as soon as he came up, which is what it looks like to ask for someone?

Mrs. Liu knew what Jiang Tian was going to do from her son, but she didn't expect this person to be as her grandson said, vigorous and resolute, but not sophisticated.

"Huh...... Say! The old lady's expression did not change too much: "It's just that I don't know what the adults said to rely on, how do you need my Liu family?" ”

Although the old lady is not from a scholarly family, she can support this legendary woman who can support her family in troubled times, after her husband and son are martyred, and she is by no means fooled casually.

In fact, it's not that Jiang Tian is ignorant, he thinks very clearly, this Liu family is not burdened by red tape, and sometimes it may be better to be more straightforward: "In this way, the old lady and listen to the words of the juniors......"

After retiring the servant, Jiang Tian elaborated on his reform plan, of course, some things naturally can't be said too clearly, but even so the old lady was a little stunned, no wonder his son and grandson said that this kid is simply bold.

......After hesitating for a while, the old lady Rao was well-informed but also muttered: "What the adults say is a chronic disease for thousands of years, can you reform the old and the new as the adults think, but the old woman is not easy to beak!" ”

"As you said, this stubborn disease that has become a fixed situation for thousands of years is naturally not easy to cure, but since the imperial court sent me, it is naturally hoped that something can be done." Seeing that the conversation had entered a dead end, Jiang Tian had no choice but to leave: "The younger generation is newly promoted, and there are still some trivial matters, so I won't disturb the old lady's tranquility today." ”

The old lady looked at her teacup, and before she could pick it up, you said goodbye yourself, okay, anyway, there was no one left and right, so naturally no one came to call the guests: "In this case, the old body is not forced to stay adults." ”

In any case, there is also the status of a grandson teacher, and the old lady naturally wants to send him to the gate again.

Until he reached the steps, Jiang Tian turned around and clasped his fists and saluted: "Old Taijun stay, what I just said still depends on the help of Lao Taijun, thank you in advance." ”

Hearing him say this, the old lady instinctively felt bad, but she didn't think that something was wrong for a while, she didn't promise anything just now, why didn't he give up. So he could only say perfunctorily: "My lord is polite, if it is beneficial to the country, the Liu Mansion is duty-bound." ”

Jiang Tian, who was in a hurry, almost blossomed when he heard that the old lady had been fooled, but his face was a serious and adoring expression: "The Guogong Mansion is full of loyal martyrs, and it is worthy of being the pillar of following His Majesty to help the world!" ”

When Jiang Tian's guard of honor went away, the gate of Liu's Mansion was closed, and the people who were hiding on the side to watch the excitement breathed a sigh of relief.

One of the people who was arguing with someone just now said, "See? With the endorsement of the emperor and the support of the Liu Mansion, he, Lord Jiang, is the Nezha who has come to turn the river and the sea! ”

The conversation between Liu Taijun and Jiang Tian in front of the gate quickly spread all over Tianjin, and even some people in Beijing City also got the news, and Old Man Liu knew that his wife had fallen for him from the moment he received the news, but what could he do? Since you can't say it, you can only go all the way to the dark.

Liu Baokai was not as shrewd as his father, and he didn't dare to ask directly, for fear that the old man would educate him in love, so he could only consult Wu Yuan, who also knew about it.

"Brother Wu is talented, can you solve the confusion of the younger brother?"

The fake prince smiled bitterly, but fortunately, no one else around whispered: "Do you know how Duke Qi Huan became the monarch of Qi back then?" Sir, this is the strategy of the fox and the fake tiger! ”

There are not many smart people in the world, but even if you can see it, after all, Jiang Tian is using an upright and upright scheme, and the Liu family is on the emperor's side, so it is natural to unconditionally support the current imperial power agent - Jiang Tian.

So when the cabinet announced to the world that Tianjin Wei had changed from the former militarized guard city to a formal city, and several surrounding counties were classified as pilot areas for reform, many people had a feeling that a big stone had finally landed, and now it was up to him Jiang Tian to do something.

is different from what others think, in addition to re-straightening out the local leadership team in the past few days, the rest of the things that Lord Jiang has been doing are going around the city and outside the city, and sometimes he even has to go to the county seat below to conduct field research.

After all, Tianjin in this time and space is not the Tianjin he knew before, taking the urban area as an example, Tianjin was built for military purposes, and it is also a Weisho city with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty, so the people in the city are basically descendants of military households from Anhui back then, and the accent is in the south of Anhui, which is quite different from the surrounding vernacular.

The ancestral house of the Liu family is located in the northwest corner of the city, next to the South Canal waterway, which is the place where the ancestors were martyred with Zhu Di and were sealed for military exploits, and it is also the birthplace of Tianjin's Hui @ people settlement area (this is a historical fact), in addition, it is the Caoyun transfer wharf in the northeast corner of the city, and the earliest settlement villages near Tianjin along the Haihe River are the most prosperous.

In addition, there are various puddles and farmland, and once the rainy season comes, it may turn into a flooded country at any time.

The result of the investigation is that Tianjin's economy at this time is completely guaranteed by the canal, as well as the Haihe River estuary and other transportation industries! To the east of the city, due to the low-lying terrain, not only the food output is limited, but also because of the uneven distribution of fresh water, which makes it difficult to survive in some areas, such as the coastal areas, there is obvious fluorosis.

In such a place, there would be less resistance from the landlords, but the consideration of commerce and handicrafts would increase, and at the same time the mobility of the population would be greater, and in the case of limited productivity, there would not be too many manufactured goods as a specialty.

"Gather everyone to have a meeting today...... Sitting in the courtyard of his office, looking at the leaders of various departments sitting in front of the conference table made up of a dozen desks temporarily, as well as the other staff in the courtyard, Jiang Tian has the style of the leaders of his hometown to hold a meeting: "As long as the topic is to talk about the direction of future work." ”

The holy decree makes it clear that in the future, Tianjin, a three-third of an acre of land, will be used as a pilot area for reform, and will have the right to reorganize the functional departments by himself, so he Jiang Tian is the real boss of these people in front of him.

Looking at the respectful expressions around him, Jiang Tian continued: "But before talking about the specific work, let me announce the new rules of our place!" ”

The separation of powers is a new term for these people here, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, because there is still an emperor in this time and space, it is impossible for the cabinet to impeach the emperor, or the three legal divisions to accuse the cabinet of being unconstitutional. Therefore, this kind of theoretical perfect triangle cannot be realized, and in fact, even the Europe and the United States, which put forward the theory, have not been fully realized when they crossed over to Jiang Tian.

But this does not mean that the checks and balances of power do not exist, the Chinese ancestors naturally have their own wisdom, but no matter how good the system is, it also needs to be strictly implemented to be useful, so Jiang Tian's first thought is to use the masses to supervise.

Everyone is familiar with stopping the sedan chair and shouting grievances, right? Therefore, Jiang Tian incorporated the original imperial historian into the procuratorate, and the police department was naturally set up to arrest the officials, and the county magistrates of the surrounding counties were still county magistrates, and the county officials and officials in various places were naturally distributed according to the nature of their work.

"The ugly words are all said in front, since the imperial court asked me to reform, and you happened to be at the right time, then you can only do your best to do things well, if there is a ...... of prevarication and lazy government" Saying that, Jiang Tian opened a brocade box in front of him and took out a golden musket.

Jiang Tian just raised the gun above his head, and the officials who were sitting around him hugged and knelt down: "The imperial golden gun is here!" Corruption, bribery, favoritism, and sabotage...... You guys do it for yourselves! ”

A group of large and small officials in the deterrence of the golden gun...... Inspired by the call, they expressed their ardent expectations for the reform of the imperial court, and they must do their best to do their own work, and then with Jiang Tian's approval, they rushed to their jobs as quickly as possible.

Does this intimidation work? Useless! Jiang Tian knew very well that there was nothing new in the institutional reform of changing the soup without changing the medicine, but he couldn't help it, in the month before the holy decree was issued, he could be regarded as having learned about his jurisdiction with the help of the Liu Mansion.

As the saying goes, if you don't know if you don't look at it, you can only smile bitterly when you look at it. There is one more municipality directly under the central government, and the original county commanders didn't feel anything, it was nothing more than a change of boss.

But since the day Zhu Di established Tianjin Wei, the city has been an out-and-out military fortress, and Jizhou in the north is the gateway to the Great Plain of North China, so Jiang Tian did not move the military households in the city, and these people do not have to move because of the change of administrative divisions, because Jiang Tian plans to find a new site and build a new Tianjin.

"In a hundred years, you'll know why I planned it the way I did." This is a sentence that Jiang Tian often said during this period.

Since there was no one available, Jiang Tian had no choice but to use his authority to transfer personnel from the Naval Research Institute to survey the terrain around Tianjin, and at the same time to train them in the newly established secretariat.

The holy decree said that Jiang Tian came to reform, but only he and Zhang Tao knew best that Tianjin would be built into a military base and material distribution center for Gongwei Beijing, where the northeast is Shanhaiguan, the northwest is Beijing City, the east is the seaport, and the south is the canal.

The weather is getting warmer, and the road, which was originally frozen by mud for emergencies, is already muddy. Besides, the temperature is rising, Jiang Tian no longer has to worry about the trachoma of concrete, and the comprehensive construction of the "Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway" has become a top priority.

The requisition of the people asked for money, the peasants went to spring ploughing in the spring, the lack of manpower was also a reality, and the project money allocated by the imperial court was not enough to complete the construction of the new city.

Jiang Tian knew very well in his heart that as long as the roads were opened, the goods flowed, and the taxes came up, there would be money for urban construction, and the reform would naturally be successful, but where would the money and labor for road construction come from?

It is not possible to find Zhang Tao to stretch out his hand, and people will not give it. Moreover, there were a large number of spontaneous markets around the canal, and a large number of yamen were set up here in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, it shows that the dynasty has long known the importance of Tianjin, and even Wei Gang, the commander, originally had the setting of Tianjin Road. It was only after the establishment of the new dynasty that Zhang Tao, who had long wanted to copy the practices of his hometown, withdrew those official positions.

After checking the Tianjin household department, and sending someone to check the treasury, these moths pushed the deficit on the books to the former dynasty, saying that since they took over here, it has been empty, cleaner than a beggar's pocket.

Is that really the case? Jiang Tian didn't pursue it, because he didn't have the time to rectify the officialdom now. In fact, there is also a treasure mine in Tianjin that is making gold every day, that is, the salt field in Changlu, which was originally under the jurisdiction of the Salt Transportation Division, but now it has been completely incorporated by Zhang Tao and has become a unit directly under the central government. But this did not prevent Jiang Tian from making a fuss around it.

"You might be able to do this?" Jiang Tian did not wear an official uniform, but stood on the embankment of the Haihe River in a short suit.

There was an elegant-looking man in a long robe standing beside him, and when he heard him ask, he hurriedly clasped his fists: "Your Excellency, please rest assured, our Jin Merchants will definitely live up to the cultivation of adults!" ”

Jiang Tian nodded: "That's good, the former Ming is dim, I don't know that business is the way to enrich the country and strengthen the people, and the current imperial court intends to encourage industry and commerce, you must be loyal to state affairs!" So that I can take credit for you in the midst of the twists and turns. ”

What if you don't have money? Jiang Tian brought in the Jin merchants, used salt lure as bait, and used the commercial land in the new city as collateral, so that the Jin merchants invested in the entire project.

Of course, Lao Xi'er is not stupid, everyone knows that the salt farm belongs to the emperor, and he has no right to intervene in this place, but they know better what a broad road means for business, and just because it can get rid of the reputation of Han @ traitor for Jin merchants, this business is worth doing.

Looking at the planning blueprint in his hand, Jiang Tian finally took the first step, which was not easy to take, and the new city and the new deal were not overnight. Jiang Tian knew very well that the premise of whether the reform could succeed was whether it could maintain military victory, and the guarantee of military strength was based on economic strength, and if we wanted to economically support the new army, a gold-swallowing monster, we needed to change the small peasant economy since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. What is it to break this loop?

The answer is only one word - rob!