Looking for businessmen to be officials, they didn't dare, one by one, they didn't hesitate to take money to dredge up the relationship, one by one is really cheap, Mingzhe has protected himself to such a point, give them power, they don't even dare to ask for it, they deserve to be oppressed by the civilian clique for thousands of years, Wu Bingjian kowtowed to officials at all levels in Guangzhou for no reason, it is that they are even less responsible than civil officials. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

No one doesn't want to be an official, but they don't want to take risks, and now accepting Zhu Jinglun's appointment is equivalent to joining Zhu Jinglun's faction and getting involved in the struggle between Zhu Jinglun and the imperial court.

But Zhu Jinglun's order will not waver, that is, according to the principle of who has money and who is an official, at this time there is no time to distinguish one by one, to distinguish whose character and ability, can only be dealt with with in this crude one-size-fits-all method, since they can be second to none in the local area, earn amazing wealth, their business ability is beyond doubt, as for whether the character is greedy, Zhu Jinglun forced them to write a letter of guarantee, during the official period, they must not be greedy for a penny of public money, otherwise they will raid the house, I believe that these guys who are already very rich will not play with their lives for money.

As for whether they will use power for their own personal gain, there is basically no doubt that they will definitely do it, because in the process of their wealth accumulation, there is no less use of power, but in the past, rent-seeking was to bribe officials in exchange for power, and now they directly control power, how can they not use it, when they have no power, they can play with power, and now they directly enjoy power, which will be more handy.

This level of corruption, Zhu Jinglun can still tolerate for the time being, anti-corruption is not in a hurry, this is a deep-rooted culture, must be dissolved step by step, the United States before World War II only reluctantly fought down the crazy corruption, not necessarily to demand full blame, in a country where the culture of corruption has prevailed for thousands of years to try to eradicate overnight.

These businessmen were forced to take office, eager for power and afraid of danger, and took office almost in a state of pain and joy.

Hurd is also a businessman, stationed in the past Hengqi ruled the Guangdong Customs Yamen, the people in Guangzhou don't care too much, one more foreigner, one less foreigner, they see more, Guangzhou eighty years of trade, from their grandfather time, have not seen less foreigners. The so-called not to allow foreigners to enter the city, that is to say to live in the city, even in the Qianlong period, it is also allowed to allow foreigners to visit the city on the day of vacation, the so-called vacation, is the foreigner's Sunday, but only one day, can not stay, can not live, usually foreigners live outside the city in the merchant area, that is, the thirteen lines.

Women are not allowed to enter Guangzhou, even if it is the thirteen lines outside the city. In 1830, the British East India Company's Taipan Panshi ignored the ban of the Qing court and brought his wife to the merchant house in a sedan chair. Western women's clothing, hair accessories, unwrapped heavenly feet, wearing excessively revealing clothing and shaking hands with men at will are considered to hurt local morality and damage the etiquette of the Celestial Empire. It even caused the general of Guangzhou, the governor of Liangguang, the superintendent of Guangdong Customs, and the governor of Guangdong to jointly play, "contrary to the system of the Celestial Empire."

The Guangzhou government immediately ordered the expulsion of Mrs. Panshi, and for the sake of Mrs. Panshi, Panshi gathered more than 100 armed sailors from the British ship anchored in Whampoa, and landed at the Guangzhou Merchant House with guns. The Guangzhou government threatened to send troops to expel him, which made Sino-British relations tense, and if he hadn't finally sent his wife to Macao, the Opium War would have started ten years earlier.

After the first opium war, the foreigners obtained the right to enter the city through the treaty, but the common people did not agree, and the foreigners entered the city to throw stones, and the heavy was life-threatening, until the second opium war after the British and French troops occupied the city of Guangzhou, the common people of Guangzhou had the first large-scale contact with the foreigners.

During the occupation of Guangzhou, although there were still conflicts, most of the people who had been in contact with foreigners did not feel that foreigners were special, and most of them were not harmonious, even if they were soldiers, they would give money to buy watermelons. Although there were also looting, they were no different from the Qing army, and they gradually got used to it.

Nowadays, it is not uncommon for foreigners to enter and leave the city of Guangzhou, so Hurd's entry into the city did not cause much turmoil, that is, some criticism in the streets and alleys, and the neighbors on both sides felt that there were Yiren living next to them, and they felt very uncomfortable, just like the white American community lived in the black people, and the whole relocation, and the people of the Guangdong Customs Yamen also sold their houses.

Hurd was also dissatisfied, he also discriminated against these Chinese who did not take a bath for ten days and half a month, but what was even more dissatisfied was that Zhu Jinglun moved his power, so he handled the customs affairs of Xin'an, and after moving the general customs to Guangzhou City, he wanted to meet Zhu Jinglun as soon as possible, and he wanted to negotiate with Zhu Jinglun.

When he walked through the Guide Gate, he also saw the big seal hanging in the hole of the city gate, as well as the accusation text pasted next to the city gate, the people were not enough to see it, they just pointed and pointed, laughed and played, and no one dared to tear the one that said that Zhu Jinglun supported the army and respected himself, died and was favored by God, and bullied the people, and the heart of disobedience was clearly revealed, and he also called on the warriors to mention Zhu Jinglun's head to see him, and the court would not hesitate to reward him.

Hurd saw that Zhu Jinglun not only did not send someone to tear down the notice, but instead sent a few soldiers to protect it from someone from sabotage.

Hurd was going to the General's Mansion in Guangzhou, and Zhu Jinglun now lived in the same mansion with the General in Guangzhou, because he would not let Mukedne get out of his control.

Mukdenne behaved quite obediently during this time, especially after hearing that Yixin in Beijing launched a coup d'état and got rid of Su Shun and others, he was even more obedient to Zhu Jinglun, he thought that Zhu Jinglun's Yixin party had won, and what made him even more satisfied was that Yixin himself did not become the emperor, but continued to support Xianfeng's son as the emperor, so it seems that Yixin is not a chaotic party, but is just protecting the flag people, not wanting to be the emperor.

Zhu Jinglun, who stabilized the overall situation of Guangdong for Yixin, naturally has a bright future, in Mukdenne's view, a Guangzhou prefect can't run, although it is not as good as him as a general, but people will be promoted again in the future, at least relying on Yixin, a powerful minister, the governor of Liangguang is just around the corner.

Mukdenne believed that even if Yixin did not become the emperor, he still kept the Tongzhi Emperor, but it was definitely the same as when Dolgon kept Shunzhi, as long as Yixin lived for a day, Zhu Jinglun could be presumptuous for a day.

As for the civil officials who kept looking for Mukdenne to complain during this time, saying that he was confused by Zhu Jinglun and asked him to quickly raise troops to quell the rebellion, he was automatically ignored by Mukedenne, and he even took the initiative to find Zhu Jinglun once, thinking that some of them must be elderly or Sushun's henchmen, and hoped that Zhu Jinglun would get rid of those people, but Zhu Jinglun generously said that there were only a few literati, and now the overall situation has been decided, let the emperor decide.

Zhu Jinglun's generosity was understood by Mukhedne as frank and unrestrained, which shows that Zhu Jinglun is not suspected of making trouble, as for appointing officials privately and opening ports with foreigners privately, he heard that Yixin has a closer relationship with foreigners, and it is rumored that foreigners want to support Yixin in power.

So he took it for granted that Zhu Jinglun was ordered by Yixin, otherwise how could a person like Zhu Jinglun give a good face to foreigners, Mukdenne still remembered that it was Zhu Jinglun who kidnapped the leader of the foreigners, Paxiali, it was Zhu Jinglun who risked his life to light gunpowder and blew up the commander of the British and French forces in the Polo Temple, it was Zhu Jinglun who helped recover the city of Guangzhou, it was Zhu Jinglun who bravely risked his life to protect the land in Xin'an Lianxiang Township, and so far the foreigners have not cut off the Nine Dragons Division, this is all the credit of Zhu Jinglun, with Mukdenne's understanding, Zhu Jinglun has done so many things for foreigners, It should be the sworn enemy of foreigners, and it is impossible to cooperate with foreigners.

Therefore, turning a blind eye to the civil officials who lobbied him one by one, he didn't want to be involved with these pedantic civil officials, although Zhu Jinglun expressed generosity, he didn't think that Yixin would not clean up these people. And then again, even if Zhu Jinglun really rebelled and asked him to raise troops, how could he raise troops, there would be no soldiers in his hands, and even the Eight Banners soldiers would go to Zhu Jinglun to eat, so let him go to Zhu Jinglun with both fists and four hands? Let him fight against Zhu Jinglun's foreign guns and cannons with his bare hands? This kind of thing, Mukdena would not have considered at all.

When Hurd arrived at the General's Mansion, he met Zhu Jinglun, and he expressed his dissatisfaction.

As a result, Zhu Jinglun was more dissatisfied than him.

"What's wrong with the Chinese? Chinese are not the staff under your management? Don't forget that you're also a government employee! ”

Zhu Jinglun has long been dissatisfied with Hurd's approach.

He originally agreed with Hurd to increase Hurd's power conditions, redefined the customs management model, that is, the ratio between Chinese and foreign employees, Chinese should account for at least 70%, foreigners can only reach 30% at most, Hurd and Zhu Jinglun are both people with a strong sense of rights, after agreeing, the two re-signed the entrustment agreement.

After Hurd did do it, the number of foreign employees in the customs was greatly reduced, and the number of Chinese was greatly increased, but he took a clever approach and divided the internal and external classes in the customs, the foreigners are mainly internal classes, most of them are management, while the Chinese are mostly foreign workers, are low-level employees.

Although Hurd advocated a high-salary system and believed that instead of using low salaries to hire a bunch of useless people, it was better to hire the talents needed with high salaries, but because of the different statuses, the salary gap between Chinese and foreigners was quite large.

The foreigner tax department in the inner class has risen from 3,000 taels to 9,000 taels per person per year; Deputy Taxation Division, from 2,400 taels to 3,000 taels per person per year; first-class assistants, each person is raised from 2,400 to 3,000 taels per year; second-class assistants have risen from 1,500 taels to 2,100 taels per person per year; Third-class assistants, each person has been raised from 900 taels to 1,200 taels per year.

The highest super-level assessment of Chinese in the outer class is 2,400 taels per person per year; First-class estimate, 1,800 taels per person per year; second-class assessment; 1,200 taels per person per year; Super inspection, 1200 taels per person per year; First-class inspection, 1080 taels per person per year; second-class inspection, 960 taels per person per year; Super bell players, 844 taels per person per year; First-class bell players, 720 taels per person per year; Second-class bell bearers, 600 taels per person per year.

But even the high-level of the out-of-town class is still controlled by foreigners. Only the general affairs outside the internal and external classes, basically used Chinese, and a large number of Chinese who knew English were invited from Hong Kong.

The minimum annual salary of these generals is 240 taels to 360 taels; Only by entering the assistant general level can you get an annual salary of 360 taels to 900 taels; When reaching the general level, the annual salary is 900 taels to 2400 taels.

Such a high salary stimulates the enthusiasm of the customs officers, improves their work efficiency, and motivates them to work for the customs for a long time and continuously in order to receive additional bonuses.

Especially for Chinese with low salaries, an annual salary of several hundred taels is enough to make those small businessmen engaged in foreign trade give up their careers in exchange for a relatively stable long-term income, and it can be said that Hurd can recruit almost any talent he wants.

Zhu Jinglun doesn't care about how much salary HD pays, but he cares about this kind of differential treatment, and he can't see anything in the short term, but in the long run, it will inevitably cause such a psychological awareness in the customs, that is, the Chinese are inferior to foreigners, and these Chinese are the talents that Zhu Jinglun can rely on, and the fundamental purpose of Zhu Jinglun's insistence on letting HD hire Chinese is to let HD help them cultivate talents, not to let HD destroy their psychology and hit their national self-confidence.

Hurd was dissatisfied because he thought that Zhu Jinglun had interfered with his power, and since Zhu Jinglun entrusted him with the management of customs, he could not interfere with his management beyond his authority.

But Hurd explained that if senior managers were to appoint Chinese, it would bring about corrupt Chinese officialdom.

Zhu Jinglun slapped the case directly: "Fart!" (To be continued.) )