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When a man has great power in his hands, work is no longer a burden for him, on the contrary, he will enjoy it very much.

This is the case with Xu Shiyang now.

He rarely gave himself a vacation, but he only stayed at home in Dengzhou for three days.

In the past three days, he has basically been with his wife, concubines and children, occasionally taking the school to take the homework of his eldest son, encouraging him, teaching him some small games that will only exist in later generations, and instructing Zhao Shan, Zhao Lin, as well as the nurse and the eunuch who is retained, must pay attention to exercising more, and don't always stay at home.

Three days later, Xu Shiyang left home and returned to work.

According to his vision, this year's war was coming to an end as the autumn harvest was approaching – the harvest was also a vital task for the Tartars, and neither side would attack at this time.

The resumption of contact with the Tartar forces should be winter, after the sea on the other side of Changsheng Island freezes, to prevent the Tartars from counterattacking.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang felt that he probably had a few months to arrange the work in the rear.

He decided to use this time to personally conduct a province-wide inspection of Qi Province, taking advantage of the small size of his territory, to check the implementation of his policies and the accuracy of the data of various industries in his territory.

This dispatch was led by Xu Muhe, co-chaired by Xu Shiyang and Zhang Mingyi, and all the civil officials of Qi Province should participate.

At the beginning of the year, Xu Shiyang had specially printed a set of forms for various localities, requiring local officials under the Governor's Office to fill in strictly according to the forms at the end of the year, and summarize and report the industrial data of various places.

Although this is the first time that this year has been reported, and there is a lack of uniform conversion of the data (many things cannot be calculated using the food stamps issued by Qi Province today), the figures will be very complicated.

However, this kind of work is very beneficial to the achievement of the previous work of the Metropolitan Governorate, which in the past was done by qualified feudal regimes (most notably land inspection, which is similar statistical work), and the data obtained were also very different from the actual situation, but this kind of work was also very important.

In order to understand as much as possible about the actual situation in the territory, Xu Shiyang's trip is booked as follows: starting from Dengzhou, passing through Laizhou, Qingzhou, and Quancheng along the way, and then going to Yanzhou, Juzhou, Jiaozhou, and Laiyang to return to Dengzhou.

The whole trip is equivalent to a large circle around the territory of the Governor's Palace, and it is estimated that it will take 4 to 5 months.

Those who accompanied Xu Shiyang included Zhang Mingyi, the military transport envoy, his wife Wen Yue, and Gu Hengbo, who has no official status yet.

The two women have not been in Qi Province for a long time, but they have been arranged to work by Xu Shiyang, and he hopes that they can take this opportunity to have a good understanding of the operation mechanism of Qi Province and enter the work state as soon as possible after returning.

As for the sisters Zhao Shan and Zhao Lin, they couldn't travel with them this time.

Because the latter has just given birth, his body is still a little weak, and it is not suitable for a long journey, not to mention that there are two children to take care of.

Zhang Mingyi was a little dissatisfied with Xu Shiyang going out to inspect the territory and taking women with him, especially Gu Hengbo was still from an Oiran.

He thinks it's a sign of being overly lustful — and even if it's not, it's going to be criticized by others, and it's not good for reputation.

However, he is only a transit envoy in name, and even if he is really a prisoner, he can't control whether the generals travel with women or not.

Fortunately, Xu Shiyang really didn't mean to lose his mind as a plaything, when he needed Wen Yue and Gu Hengbo to be present, he was indeed talking about work.

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The territory of the Governor of Qi Province is roughly all the territory west of the Yellow River/Grand Canal in the former Qi Province and a small amount of land in northern Jiangsu.

Within this range, the Governor's Office set the standard allocation of 100 to 200 households for a reclamation village (basically equivalent to the previous Wubao), allowing the residents of the original Qi Province to live together with the displaced people, and then delineating a rough range for these reclamation villages to be cultivated in various places.

This practice, during the period of the strong dynasty, was roughly the administrative unit of the frontier garrison - with a minimum of 100 households, it was possible to gather about 100 to 300 strong men, give them basic armament, and the tunken village would have the ability to resist the harassment of thieves or large wild beasts.

Qi Province is still in a state of depression, there is so much barren land, in fact, it is not much different from the border of the powerful feudal dynasty, wild beasts and thieves are still rampant, so the Governor's Office has formed the most basic administrative units under it according to the experience of border development.

In fact, this kind of unit was also the basis of the Northern Guard System of the Ming Dynasty in the previous life, and the Niu Lu system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also based on this.

The slight difference is that the tunken village under the Governor's Office has more administrative units, and the military color is relatively light.

The village chief elected by the village public does not have military command ability, but mainly people who can lead everyone to open up wasteland and farm, production and development.

However, since it is a tunken village, it is impossible to be unarmed.

According to the requirements of the Governor's Office and the General Staff, all villages should form militia units according to the standard of at least one ding per household.

The militia had the requirement to participate in military training or water conservancy work during the slack period, and during the war, Xu Shiyang would also temporarily transfer the militia to form auxiliary troops to help the new army fight.

In addition, Xu Shiyang found that with the basic establishment, it was much easier to half-force and half-lure the militia to participate in night school literacy work than to face a plate of scattered homesteaders.

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"Brother Xu seems to like it very much, huh, collective?"

Not long after leaving Dengzhou Mansion, Zhang Mingyi only saw two counties, and before he arrived in Laizhou, Zhang Mingyi discovered this.

Xu Shiyang is a person who particularly likes collectives: collective labor, collective work, collective literacy, and so on.

He is even encouraging his neighbors in the same village to work together and eat in the canteen they run together.

Zhang Mingyi found that in doing so, the efficiency has indeed improved a little, but it doesn't seem to be much stronger.

What's more, the hidden dangers are not small.

"It seems good to work with people from the same village, but some people have fewer males and some have more males. There must still be some lepers who cheat and cheat, will there be a situation where those who work hard cannot get more, and those who cheat get the same as others, and then affect the people's hearts? ”

"That's almost a certainty." Xu Shiyang gave Zhang Mingyi an intelligible answer: "But I still need such a collective, I need to subtly let people understand the importance of collectivity and cooperation, if they have this foundation before, they will enter the army when they need it in the future, which can save us a lot of effort." ”

In fact, Xu Shiyang's main reason for doing this is that future industrialization will require workers who are adapted to collective life.

Of course, the army also needs it, but the generation gap between the army has gradually widened, and there may not be so many standing armies in the future.

In addition, collective agriculture also needs institutional guarantees, such as the newly established tunken villages, which are mainly displaced people and have more wasteland, have begun to experiment with the labor division system; And those villages that are mainly from Lao Qi Province and have more familiar land will not force them to restructure.