Zhu Jinglun spent a total of 10 days in Guangzhou, meeting with his superiors and colleagues at all levels every day in accordance with the rules and regulations. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Jinglun inquired about the rules, if a county official like him did not ask someone to do something, the regular filial piety to the governor would only be a few hundred taels.

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun only gave out more than 1,000 taels of silver in total, and only sent 300 taels to the governor Huang Zonghan.

He had the intention to give Bai Gui more, and directly gave a gift of 1,000 taels, but he was reprimanded by Bai Gui instead, telling him not to break the rules of officialdom, and finally only accepted Zhu Jinglun 300 taels, like Huang Zonghan, in fact, it was a hint to Zhu Jinglun that he was about to become governor.

Huang Zonghan also accepted Zhu Jinglun's filial piety, although he didn't win over Zhu Jinglun last time, Zhu Jinglun was a little ignorant, but he couldn't turn his face, the officialdom matter, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, generally no one easily offended people.

And Huang Zonghan has no intention of Guangdong officialdom, let alone has no need to get along with Zhu Jinglun.

Bai Gui can receive the news, and Huang Zonghan can also receive the news in advance. He knew that his Liangguang Governor had done it, but he was not depressed because of this, the first was because he felt that he had done the right thing, he lost the position of Liangguang Governor, just because the court was forced by the pressure of foreigners, they are scholars who sometimes talk about having a clear conscience, and if they have a clear conscience, they will not be discouraged even if they lose their officials; The second is because Huang Zonghan was not dismissed, there are still rules of the court in the court, and he can't be removed because he recovered Guangzhou, which is too chilling, Lin Zexu was assigned to Yili, mainly because he lost the battle. Huang Zonghan received news that the emperor was ready to transfer him to Sacheon as governor. Compared with the Governor of Liangguang, the Governor of Sacheon is more peaceful, which may not be a good thing for Huang Zonghan. As the governor of Liangguang, he has never had a day of peace. Guangdong is a big powder keg here, and no one can do it steadily. It's just that Huang Zonghan inevitably still has some grievances.

On the tenth day, Bai Gui couldn't wait to urge Zhu Jinglun to return to Xin'an quickly, not because he was afraid of Zhu Jinglun's activities in officialdom, but because there were several foreign warships outside Guangzhou.

These warships did not dock in Guangzhou, but only patrolled ten miles away from the fort, which was a sign that the foreigners did not want to restart the war.

These days, Bai Gui has posted notices throughout the city, encouraging Guangzhou merchants to go to Xin'an to trade, and also separately invited the Pan family, the Lu family and the Ye family and other thirteen old merchants, asking them to go to Xin'an to do business with foreigners. I didn't dare to go before, but now I don't dare not go.

Bai Gui's method still had some effect, but he didn't expect the British to come, which made Bai Gui cry a lot, so he could only urge Zhu Jinglun to go back to Xin'an and talk to them again, as long as the foreigners did not come to Guangzhou to make trouble before the contract was exchanged, let him take over as the governor of Liangguang smoothly, which was more important than anything else.

Zhu Jinglun still put forward some requirements before leaving, such as asking Bai Gui to transfer a group of Foshan craftsmen to him, he planned to cast cannons in Xin'an, strengthen the fort, Zhu Jinglun said that he was very worried that the foreigners would still make trouble, if once the foreigners could not be stabilized, when the war reopened, Zhu Jinglun issued a military order saying that he would definitely break his bones and stop the foreigners' warships in Xin'an, so as not to let the foreigners invade Guangzhou in a big way.

Bai Gui couldn't help but agree to this request, he had obviously encouraged businessmen to go to Xin'an to do business with foreigners, and Yingyi's warships still had to come to Guangzhou to hang around, where did these barbarians have any reason to say, and in the end, they couldn't get their governor's position, and they still needed a cadre like Zhu Jinglun to protect him.

The trade from Guangzhou to Xin'an has become quite a climate in just one month, first of all, the Wu family opened up the Pearl River waterway, and then the Pan family, the Lu family and the Ye family followed suit, and also took this road, first sending their backlog of goods in Guangzhou to Xin'an for trading, and then some small and medium-sized businessmen followed closely.

There is no shortage of boats here in Guangzhou, foreigners have counted that the Tan people who live on the river all the year round alone have 80,000 boats, inland river shipping, large and small boats, these Tan people live on the water, in addition to fishing, running trade is not unfamiliar, and soon the boats of the Tan people and other boat owners have formed a water bridge connecting from Guangzhou to Xin'an, and they are constantly transporting all kinds of goods to Xin'an day and night to trade with foreigners.

Such a water passage was also convenient for Zhu Jinglun, he rented a small boat and quickly rushed back to Xin'an with a few entourages.

In the county office, I first listened to Zheng Tong, the owner of the house, report on the income and expenditure of this month.

It is mainly the revenue and expenditure of the bureau, and at the same time as the trade of Chiwan was opened, Zhu Jinglun established this bureau, which was located in Chiwan, and the office was temporarily located in the Tianhou Temple.

Zheng Tong was originally an old official in the house, and when the foreigners burned the county government, the county commander and several masters were all killed, and then some local county officials escaped by relying on the familiar terrain.

Zheng Tong was born in Xiucai, but he has never been promoted in the examination, so he can only commit himself to the county government to become a county official, and when he was young, he also helped the landlords of Kowloon to ask for rent in Hong Kong, but was detained by the British government in Hong Kong.

The county government is the same as the court, there are six parts: officials, criminals, workers, households, soldiers, and rites, the difference is only that the six departments of the county government are called six rooms, the chief of the six departments is called Shangshu, and the chief of the six rooms is called Jingcheng.

Under normal circumstances, the manager of the household, who is in charge of the county's grain collection and tax matters, is a close person to the county order, and the master of Qian Gu hired by the county order rarely has the turn of a local county official.

But when Zhu Jinglun first arrived, he didn't invite his master at all, so he simply promoted Zheng Tong, a local who survived, so he was kind to Zheng Tong, and Zheng Tong looked grateful to Dade all day long.

Zheng Tong is already in his fifties, has been a county official for 20 years, has rich experience, although he does not have great ability, but he is better at doing things seriously, although he occasionally accepts gifts from some local squires and businessmen, but under Zhu Jinglun's strict orders, there is no corruption of public funds.

Zheng Tong told Zhu Jinglun that in the past month, the trade in Chiwan has grown rapidly, reaching more than 2 million taels, and the county bureau has selected a total of 150,000 taels. There should be more than that, but there are two difficulties: first, the British and French businessmen refused to pay the centi, and other foreign businessmen were not very satisfied with the payment of the full amount, and there were cases of resistance from time to time, and second, some small businessmen did not do their duty, and the problem of tax evasion was serious, and there were even cases of bribing petty officials to evade taxes.

Zhu Jinglun's centigold in Xin'an is a heavy tax compared to the agreed tariffs between the British and the Qing court, the Qing court customs is worth 5 out of 100, and Zhu Jinglun's centigold is worth 100 draws, and it is an additional tax in addition to customs duties and sub-export taxes.

Zheng Tong has no good way to deal with this at all, and the set he is using now is completely the traditional way of setting up cards and drawings, whether it is in the procedure or the system, there are many loopholes, and his own ability is not outstanding, so he can't control it at all.

"It seems that professional people still need to do professional things."

After Zhu Jinglun and Zheng Tong finished their meeting, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, he wanted to hit someone.

Hurd.

In Chinese history, when it comes to customs and taxation agencies, it is impossible to avoid the person Hurd, whether it is a tool for the interests of Britain, or that he is the first guest secretary of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but one of the facts that cannot be escaped is that this person created the only efficient and incorruptible modern department in the late Qing Dynasty, which is three points better than most developed countries, such as the United States, and is no less efficient than any government department in the United Kingdom, which is considered a miracle.

Whether it is to eradicate corruption or improve the administrative system, Zhu Jinglun feels that Hurd is a good candidate.

So he immediately called Fang Shan: "Fang Shan, I heard that my old friend Hurd is not having a good time in Hong Kong, you go and invite him to visit for me." Also, please come to me for a visit. ”

Lord Chen is Chen Zhiting, he is a person who is dedicated to the imperial examination as an official, but the huge changes in the Chen family clan made him unable to let go of his mind to study with peace of mind, coupled with Zhu Jinglun's invitation three times and twice, he finally decided to give up the imperial examination and go to the county to take the post of county leader.

This time, Zhu Jinglun truthfully reported the credit of Chen Jiali's rejection of the British army to Guangzhou, and easily arranged Chen Zhiting's position in Xin'an through Bai Gui.

In the six rooms of the county government in Xin'an, the officials, households, and rites live in the east, and the money and grain depot in the east are collectively called the East Division, and the East Division is in charge of the county according to the convention, and the soldiers, criminals, and workers live in the west, and the armed arsenal in the west is called the West Division, which is generally in charge of the warden, but Zhu Jinglun has no warden now, so when Zhu Jinglun is not there, Chen Zhiting must grasp it with one hand.

Usually, when Zhu Jinglun is there, Chen Zhiting is also taking care of specific affairs, and when there are major matters, he will also consult with Chen Zhiting to make decisions.

In fact, in the past ten days of Zhu Jinglun's absence, the British have been here many times, since Zhu Jinglun has the authorization of the governor and governor of Guangfu, they should talk to Zhu Jinglun, and after close contact, the British also found that although Zhu Jinglun likes to be more serious about everything, he is a person who can negotiate, unlike many Chinese officials who are completely unreasonable, and what is said at the negotiating table is either unacceptable or incomprehensible. often makes foreigners at a loss, so he is more willing to negotiate with Zhu Jinglun.

But these days, Chen Zhiting always refuses to negotiate on the grounds that Zhu Jinglun is not there. This led to the British warship sailing to Canton to Shiwei.

After getting everything he wanted in Guangzhou, Zhu Jinglun planned to negotiate seriously with the British, so he needed to send a person of sufficient weight to inform the British that his weight was only a county order, and it was impossible for him to go in person, so the only one who could get his hands on it was Chen Zhiting, the county leader.

After listening to Zhu Jinglun's instructions, Chen Zhiting immediately prepared the corresponding official documents and went to Hong Kong in person to hand them over to the Governor of Hong Kong.

The second round of trade talks began, and the topic of the negotiations was very large, "General Regulations on the Aftermath of Peace and Trade in Guangzhou," and he wanted to settle all the outstanding disputes between Guangdong and the foreigners since the war, including trade issues that the foreigners were concerned about, and the issue of Indian prisoners of war, which was not too concerned.

The British also responded positively, and Bao Ling even decided to go out himself.