335. Rebuild Guangdong
Li Buqi read a lot of villain books when he was a child, and at this time he suddenly remembered that he had read a villain book about the Xisha Naval Battle, in which the names of the two capital ships of South Vietnam were "Li Changjie" and "Chen Chongping" respectively. Since the name "Li Changjie" can be used by the Vietnamese to name the capital ship, it means that this person must be a famous person in Vietnamese history.
I don't know if that Li Changjie is the eunuch who is locked up in the Guangzhou prison. However, Li Buqi had no interest in knowing, but he knew that since these Jiaozhi eunuchs were loyal to spy on Li Dezheng's intelligence, and could break into the raging Beibu Gulf despite the summer storm to send the news of Nong Zhigao's attack on Guangzhou back to Jiaozhi, then they must die, and they must not die well.
Turning around, Li Buqi went into the house and wrote a warrant to Luo Zhen, asking him to hand over all the criminals who were found to be Jiaozhi to be sent to the city to beat stones and build the wharf and lighthouse of Guangzhou Port.
This day was so busy that Li Buqi snored loudly when he lay down on a pillow, but the next morning he had to grit his teeth and get up, in addition to dealing with political affairs, he also had to review the army and the Qinwang Yiyong.
Although in Li Buqi's eyes, these armies were out-and-out goods—it is estimated that the volunteers and braveries of the King of Maritime Merchants were better than them—and they should all be disbanded, but now there are no troops to replace their vacancies, and there are not enough men to reorganize these armies. Li Buqi could only make a gesture of satisfaction with them, appease these masters first, and put them on top first in case of anything. Now Li Bu is in a hurry, and no one is available.
As soon as he returned to Yamen, a document from the capital arrived. Li Buqi saw the content of the document, and his eyes almost turned red - the matter of setting up a martyr's shrine has finally been decided. It's such an urgent time, and the civil officials and uncles are still arguing about what standards should be met by those who enter the Martyrs' Shrine, and whether the soldiers who eat food and serve as soldiers are qualified to enter the Martyrs' Shrine, and they don't care at all that Li Buqi still needs the Martyrs' Shrine to boost morale.
Now, in order to attract people to Quang Nam, Li Buqi has all the conditions for coming to Guangnan to become an official. The Ministry of Officials issued the following proclamation, announcing that Quang Nam needed 500 officials, and that candidates for officials of appropriate age and officials below the county level of Renzhi should sign up. All officials serve a four-year term, and if the official's performance is evaluated as excellent during these four years, and the term expires, he is promoted to one level in the performance appraisal. If an official dies in office, in addition to entering the martyrs' shrine to enjoy the worship of generations, he can also shade one person. In addition, the Ministry of Officials also promised to be an official in Quang Nam and receive a bonus every year.
This condition can be said to be very generous, Li does not give up or believe that no one comes. If those who have official status really don't come, and it's nothing, Li Buqi will demand that anyone who has a talent and fame, and even those who are literate, hyphenation, but really capable of writing and writing, can enjoy the treatment in the proclamation of the ministry if they are willing to come to Guangnan.
There are many young talents in Qingyuan Academy who have been encouraged by Li Buqi to be ambitious in all directions, and there are also many people in the south who are hopeless in the imperial examination but have aspirations for officialdom.
Li Buqi is in a hurry, in fact, the emperor is also in a hurry. Ten days after the proclamation of the Ministry of Officials was issued, Zhao Zhen asked the Imperial City Secretary to raise Gan Zhaoji: "Are there enough officials who have signed up to go to Guangnan?" ”
Gan Zhaoji hurriedly shook his head: "Official, it's still a little short." ”
Zhao Zhen asked, "How much is missing?" ”
Gan Zhaoji had a constipated expression on his face: "Back to the official's house, there are still more than 300 people left." ”
Zhao Zhen was stunned, he thought it was one hundred and two hundred, but he didn't expect it to be less than two hundred. Gan Zhaoji saw Zhao Zhen's displeasure and hurriedly comforted him and said: "Now the ministry has issued another proclamation and relaxed the age to forty-five years old. I think there will be more than 100 more people. In addition, if the local officials sign up for the next step, they will definitely be able to make up the number that Li Yun's envoy wants. ”
None of the candidates will go to Quang Nam, let alone the incumbent officials who currently hold official positions. The emperor understood that this was lying with his eyes open.
Zhao Zhen knew that Li Buqi's requirement for officials was that they did not need to be good at writing, but they had to be practical, so they had to take the exam, and those who could not pass the exam could only serve as a teacher in Guangnan such as a scholar and a teacher, and could not be an administrative official. Therefore, although there are more than 100 people who have signed up, not half of them can actually pass the exam.
He also thought about asking the Ministry of Officials to send officials directly to Guangnan, but Gan Zhaoji also quietly told him that in the past, many officials sent to remote and remote places did not take up their posts for various reasons, and the Ministry of Officials had no choice.
It seems that the officials are unable to solve the problem of officials for Li Buqi, so they can only follow Li Buqi's suggestion, and all those who are willing to go to Guangnan to become officials, regardless of whether they are ministers and military ministers, whether they have merit or fame, as long as they can prove that they have talent through inspection, they will be appointed.
This is the last thing he, the emperor, wants to see, because this means that the central government can no longer completely decide the personnel of Guangnan, he couldn't help but sigh softly: the Great Song Dynasty has been a monk for nearly a hundred years, and there are thousands of officials who are candidates in the capital, and when Guangnan urgently needs to employ people, there is no one available, is this method of raising a scholar really wrong?
However, as the emperor, although he had to accommodate Li Buqi because of the critical situation in Quang Nam, he still had the means to form more control over Quang Nam. He ordered the privy envoy Wang Yaochen to be called.
The next day, the Privy Council issued a proclamation, ordering military attachés from Gyeonggi, Huainan, Jiangnan, Liangzhejiang, Fujian, and Shuzhong to voluntarily sign up to serve in Guangnan, and the conditions given were also extremely favorable. The first thing is that military attachés can be appointed to civilian posts, and they can be transferred to civilian officials with the approval of the transfer envoys, and then they can be promoted according to the routine of civilian officials, and they can enjoy the preferential conditions given by all officials to those who voluntarily serve in Quang Nam.
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Li Buqi waited for half a month, and Di Qing's army fought with Nong Zhigao. Prior to this, there were generals who wanted to fight for merit and took the initiative to fight, but they lost the battle, and Di Qing cut off more than 30 heads without saying a word to strictly enforce military discipline.
Li Buqi agreed with Di Qing that Di Qing was responsible for all the battles on land, and he was only responsible for logistics, and Li Buqi was responsible for the affairs at sea, and the responsibilities of the two sides were clearly divided. Those officers who originally wanted to stir up trouble between Li Buqi and Di Qing saw that there was no gap, and they all obediently obeyed Di Qing's orders. Li Buqi was also happy not to be distracted by the land war, and only to concentrate on doing a good job in political affairs and maritime affairs.
His staff team finally arrived in Guangzhou, and Gao Qi, who was studying at Qingyuan Academy, and other southern students also arrived. With people, Li Buqi can work with all his might. Li Buqi appointed Xiao Zhu, the former commander of Panyu County, as the ambassador for the reconstruction of the aftermath of Guangdong, and assigned most of these students to his command to measure land, survey the terrain, and plan the location of the town to prepare for migration and the resumption of production.
Elements of the Yuan Yi Army from Tamna Island and Dengzhou also arrived in Guangzhou. With the assistance of Gao Qi, they began to guide the formation and combat of the maritime merchant fleet, helping Bai Pinghai train the newly recruited sailors and build new warships in the shipyard.
In the aftermath of the war, large numbers of people who fled returned to their homes devastated and unable to live if they had not been able to live at all. But this year, the situation was completely different, grain was constantly brought in from Jiangnan Road and Liangzhejiang Road, and even Jinghu and Shuzhong, and the government used grain and even copper money to hire people to build granaries, level the land, build water conservancy, and build houses with stones.
The young talents, who wore uniform tight-fitting clothes with various accents, taught the people living together to organize, and let some people renovate their houses in the village and level the land for spring ploughing, and some people went out to earn money and food from the government. Everyone can see that if this continues, when spring comes, every family will have the capital to continue to live. At this time, the resentment that was originally replaced by the government and forcibly relocated to one place has dissipated.
For Li Buqi, there is food, money, and people, and he works quickly. This speed stunned the officials of the two Guangzhous, and the two power transfer envoys praised Li Buqi for Xiao He's talent in their recitals to the center.
When the immigrants from Fujian Road arrived, these immigrants were also organized into battalions, some to build water conservancy according to the plan, some to level the vacated fields, and some craftsmen were the most popular, and were organized into artisan battalions to provide services everywhere, and the whole of Guangzhou became a huge construction site.