Chapter 174: Narrative Gong, Great Governance, and Eating the Marrow
The first important thing that Zhang Song, who had just taken office, had to do was to discuss with the county procurator chief appointed by Chen Xian the candidates for the county police chief and the public security sergeant and criminal investigation sergeant below.
Among the three candidates, except for the criminal investigation police chief, the procurator general has a greater right to speak, and the police chief and the public security police chief are appointed, Zhang Song has the greatest right to speak.
Zhang Song also decided on the appointment of the director of the county finance office and the deputy director of the tax bureau in charge of local taxation......
The power is not small, and the responsibility is naturally heavy.
Fortunately, in order to cultivate talents, Chen Xian has established a set of administrative management system at the town level, which is small and complete.
Now that the county government has been established, Zhang Song has appointed a police chief, a financial director, and a deputy tax director, all of whom have ready-made talents to choose from, and he only needs to select skilled talents with excellent past resumes in the police stations, finance offices, and tax offices in Yiyuan towns.
Therefore, although the county-level government was established for the first time, the speed of establishment was not slow at all, and in just one month, the shelves were completely erected.
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In the process of building and upgrading the military and political system, Chen Xian incidentally made meritorious contributions and awards to the military and political system.
The expansion of territory and the upgrading of the military and political system naturally mean the promotion of posts, and the promotion of posts naturally becomes part of the merit reward.
In addition to the promotion of his position, Chen Xian also rewarded all the members under his command with land, even the most ordinary soldiers, and they were also rewarded with ten acres of land equity in the agricultural companies of each town.
Chen Xian took all the land in the occupied area into his own possession, and did not intend to implement public ownership of land.
On the one hand, he did this because, in the early days, in order to feed a super-high proportion of troops, he had to take full control of the land and control the grain.
On the other hand, he also wanted to cultivate the habit of centralized management and operation of land by the people under his command, rather than splitting and renting out the land like the landlords of this era, which was too inefficient.
In the future, Chen Xian plans to give away the land shares of agricultural companies in various places in the form of military merits, and he hopes that after all the shares of these agricultural companies are privatized, they will eventually be retained, and the habit and tradition of centralizing the operation of land will be retained.
In addition to the land shares he was rewarded, after the army was expanded, he also distributed 60,000 or 70,000 mu of land shares to the recruits in the form of vocational fields.
The so-called vocational land is actually a form of replacing military salaries with land shares.
This time, Chen Xian's army expanded to nearly 10,000 people, and if the military salary was issued, the copper money in his hand would not last long, and the distribution of grain would quickly consume his grain stock, so Chen Xian granted each soldier a stake in ten acres of land as a job field at the place where his family was located, and promised that after the autumn harvest, after the farmland in the town where their family was located, they would be given a harvest of ten acres calculated at 70 percent of the town's yield per mu.
In this way, Chen Xian only had to take care of the army's food, and did not need to pay too much military salary, and as for the credit issue of the shareholding field, there were veterans to do free publicity, and the recruits quickly accepted it.
After Chen Xian occupied Laiwu County, he confiscated almost all of the county's more than 400,000 mu of cultivated land by forceful means, and he had enough land to distribute it.
Chen Xian recruited only unmarried young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty, most of whom were not the main source of family income, and the transfer of such people would not cause much damage to their families.
In addition, Chen Xian also demanded that local governments give preferential treatment to military dependents, and that water-powered factories, construction companies, and agricultural companies in all localities should give priority to recruiting military dependents.
Most of the local government officials under Chen Xian's rule were born in the military, and they were very active in implementing the policy of taking care of military families.
The tradition of discriminating against martial artists and soldiers left by the Northern Song Dynasty has been almost worn out by the Jin State's century-old rule, and Chen Xian is even more contrary here, vigorously promoting the glorious concept of protecting the family and defending the country.
With the cooperation of these conditions, Chen Xian successfully fed his army of tens of thousands of people with a small amount of resources.
In terms of civil affairs, as Chen Xian vigorously built a hydroelectric factory and recruited a large number of workers, some of the most destitute people in the county were quickly absorbed into the factory, and the local contradiction between man and land was solved at once.
The county town originally hated Chen Xian, paid taxes because of fear, and the rich landlords who participated in the Governorate and the town government, and gradually tasted the sweetness given to them by Chen Xian at this time.
First of all, the mayor who drove the ducks to the shelves, he soon found that Chen Xian really didn't care about his affairs, he could really be the lord of most of the county, and his power was even greater than the previous county order.
In the past, Laiwu County ordered not to mention the management of the entire county, even in the county seat, there were big households and officials who were holding back, and almost nothing could be done.
The mayor of the town found that compared with the county order, first of all, there was no official to pull back, and the court or something sent by Chen Xian, except for taking away the affairs and power to decide the case, basically did not interfere with him in other aspects, and Chen Xian really handed over a part of the tax received to him according to the agreement, which is a large amount of money, and it is up to him to spend it.
He didn't dare to embezzle this money, and the people of the Audit Bureau came to check the accounts every now and then, but just being in charge of the cost of this money was already a great right, repairing the city walls, repairing the roads, and hiring laborers...... There are a lot of interests behind these things.
It didn't take long for the mayor to wake up to the fact that what he received in his hand was not a hot potato, but a big fat meat!
The big families in the Overseer also gradually woke up, watching the mayor who was pushed out by them to be a scapegoat because of the blessing in disguise, and under the effect of jealousy, the big families also tried to use the Governor's can only go to remove the mayor's retreat, and then they found that it was really effective!
After such a back and forth, the game was quickly played, and the big families in the county soon discovered the benefits of this kind of game for them.
The big and wealthy were themselves very shrewd people, and they soon traded their supervisory power for a portion of the power from the mayor.
During the Song and Jin dynasties, scholars did not have so many privileges in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they were all temporary identities, and if they could not pass the Jinshi examination within three years, they would be invalidated.
There are no scholars who are officials, there are no privileges, and there is no gentry class in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the privileges of this era are concentrated in the hands of officials and their families, such people are called official households.
Although there were many official households and many privileges in the Song Dynasty, the official households were much less than the gentry of the clear period.
Most of these powerful people in Laiwu County were rich landowners, and they did not have any privileges in politics, and the invisible rights brought by the supervision power of the governors soon made them want to stop.
Therefore, when Chen Xian announced the re-election the following year, the big households in Laiwu County suddenly became extremely active, and in order to compete for the positions of town mayor and governor, the big households used all kinds of tricks.
However, in the past year, these big families have also seen the power of the court, so under the supervision of the court and under the deterrence of Chen Xianwei's name, they do not dare to go out of line, and can only continue to show favor and promise benefits to the rich households who have the right to vote......
Of course, that's all for later.
After the county seat of Laiwu was completely stabilized, Chen Xian moved the families of Yang Yuanwai of East Zhuangzi and Li Yuanwai of West Zhuangzi to the county seat, and exchanged the land of the two families for shares of agricultural companies near the county seat.
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