Zhu Jinglun was annoyed, and he began to have an unusually serious conversation with Hurd:

"If you let go of your arrogance and think of yourself as an employee of the Guangdong government from the bottom of your heart, then I can guarantee that you will not succeed in China. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"If you treat your own people differently, you will never be able to get their real support, they will be the masters of this place in the future, and your position will only stop at the level of customs. You are familiar with ancient books, you should know that our country is a generous and tolerant country, at least in the administrative aspect, in the era when the Han people were in power, there were a large number of foreign officials among the officials of our country, and the Hu people abound among the senior military officials and high-ranking government officials in the Tang Dynasty. During the Qin Dynasty, Keqing even occupied the position of prime minister of the Qin Dynasty for a long time. ”

"And I think that in the system you have created, your personal role is infinitely magnified, and if this department can never do without you, you may think that you have succeeded, but I tell you, you are also equivalent to creating a cage for yourself and locking yourself up forever. I am very optimistic about your ability, and I firmly believe that your service can improve and enhance our government management. I think you should be able to move up to a higher level of work, not just a customs office. If you can't get the collective approval of the national group of officials, if you can't make customs an agency that anyone can manage, then how can I feel confident and bold to elevate you to a higher position to use your abilities? ”

Hurd is a very smart man, but also a very enterprising person, Zhu Jinglun has been convinced that the Aspen fleet is a conspiracy of Hurd, and got into the conspiracy of his immediate boss Li Taitai, thus allowing him to replace Li Taitai as the new chief tax department.

In his hands, the tax department has indeed achieved the effect of efficiency and integrity, and has been praised by the whole world, and even praised as the most honest department in the world, but what he intends to create is not an organization that manages people with a system, but an organization that relies heavily on his personal ability.

Customs high salary, attracting the best talents, customs has a comprehensive welfare, can make people have no worries willing to work for the customs for a lifetime, the customs also has a sound accounting system, as well as a systematic statistical system, blocking the bad habit of hoodwinked accounts up and down, but to ensure that this series of rules and regulations of the supervision system, but particularly crude, Hurd personally went to the various ports to inspect, if they can not go, will also entrust a person to go, is this kind of inspection behavior, to ensure the good operation of the above series of systems, But what if Hurd is gone? If no one goes to inspect, no one inspects, or the people who inspect and inspect do not have good conduct, bad rules will reappear, and all good institutions will collapse in an instant, like a castle made of sand.

Therefore, Hurd's customs is deliberately created, an institution that relies heavily on his personal character and his style of doing things. In this way, Hurd ensured that he had been in control of the Chinese customs for half a century, and he was personally successful, but this customs was not successful.

Because this customs is still an institution with a one-person management system, not an institution with a system manager.

"Go back and think about it, are you ready to succeed in this country, are you ready to make a name for yourself in the East, are you ready to follow this soon-to-be-nascent country forward at all costs, and are you really sure about the future of Guangdong?"

Hurd didn't think about it for long, he decided, Zhu Jinglun told him that the temptation was too great, so big that he couldn't refuse at all, of course he knew the history of this country, some times of this country were open to him, he couldn't understand that the Tang Dynasty actually handed over the main army to a foreign race, and finally led to the Anshi Rebellion, he couldn't understand that the kings of the Qin Dynasty actually entrusted the most important prime ministers of the country to foreigners, and he couldn't understand it, Where did the self-confidence of the ancient Chinese kings come from?

But he might as well gamble, or rather, not bet, because he has already seen the future of Guangdong, because he soon understood a fact in Guangdong:

The surname of Guangdong is Zhu!

The Guangdong surname is Zhu, because Bai Gui came.

On January 28, Bai Gui came to Guangdong, where he had been an official for 30 years, just before the Lunar New Year.

As the governor of Liangguang again, he opened a government office in the yamen of Guangzhou, and the first thing he did in the office was to personally send someone to Guide Gate to take off the big seal hung by Zhou Shijun and tear off the inscription written by Zhou Shijun in blood.

When the big seal was taken off and the text was torn off, everything was different.

Zhu Jinglun visited Bai Gui, Bai Gui brought the appointment of the imperial court, Zhu Jinglun added an official to the knighthood, which was one level higher than Mukdenne thought, not just a prefect, but a Taoist platform, the Taoist platform of Guangzhao Luo Dao, under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Mansion, Zhaoqing Mansion and Luoding Prefecture.

It doesn't matter how big an official is, what matters is that Bai Gui gave Zhu Jinglun an official rank under these circumstances, that Zhu Jinglun acted recklessly and arbitrarily appointed the county commanders of 14 counties in Guangzhou Prefecture, that Zhu Jinglun sent troops to occupy all important places in Guangdong, and that after Zhu Jinglun colluded with foreigners to open up the port without authorization -- the imperial court actually added an official to Zhu Jinglun!

Zhu Jinglun reported to Bai Gui, saying that because the 14 county orders were hung up regardless of the overall situation, he was forced to appoint some county orders, Bai Gui said that the matter was urgent, Zhu Jinglun said that he sent troops in various places, Bai Gui said that it was better to take precautions, and praised him for being old and serious, Zhu Jinglun said that he opened the port, Bai Gui said that the opening of the port trade is also beneficial to the country, and it can collect tariffs, which is better than searching for the people's fat and people's ointment, Zhu Jinglun also said that he exempted the 14 counties from taxes in the coming year, and Bai Gui said that the people are hard, and the court also intends to exempt them from taxes.

Bai Gui did not reprimand Zhu Jinglun for his arbitrariness in privately ordering the county order, did not reprimand him for his wolf ambition of privately transferring the army, nor did he reprimand him for colluding with the foreign Yi to open the port for trade, and did not reprimand him for inviting people to buy people's hearts without tax, and this series of actions were all major crimes in the Qing Dynasty, they were all forgiven, and even the rebellion of the nine clans, but Bai Gui praised Zhu Jinglun.

At that moment, everyone saw the cowardice of the imperial court in front of Zhu Jinglun's power, everyone saw the disappearance of the imperial court's authority in front of Zhu Jinglun, and everyone also understood that Zhu Jinglun could do anything in Guangdong in the future, and the imperial court would only acquiesce.

From this moment, everyone died of heart to the imperial court, everyone had no resistance to Zhu Jinglun, and everyone accepted the fact that the surname Zhu was in Guangdong.

It can be said that from this moment on, Zhu Jinglun's bloodless coup d'état was successful, and from this moment on, he could do everything he wanted, including reform.

But everything can only be done before the Qing Dynasty can draw up its strength and make a move against him, which means that now, he must race against time. (To be continued.) )