In Qiongshan County, Zeng Ying's supervisor Yamen, and the main civil officials of Qiongzhou Mansion gathered together.

In the first month, after Li Chengdong's troops entered the Gaozhou Mansion, Zeng Ying ordered the officials of the Haibei Second Prefecture to protect the seal and come to Qiong to consolidate the foundation. The retreat, which lasted for nearly half a year, had already been understood by Haibei officials what the Cabinet Department actually thought. After receiving the order, Lin Zhuanheng, the former governor of Lianzhou, Zhou Jin, the governor of Qinzhou, Wu Tiaoyang and Li Zizhang, the governor of Leizhou, Zhang Tongju, Cao Xubai, Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of Haibei, Yu Cuiqing of Haikang County, Zeng Zhi of Suixi County, Yang Wenqi of Xu Wenzhi County, Hu Jiwu, the magistrate of Lianzhou, and Zhao Zhongyan of Lingshan County, and other officials of Haibei Province came to Qiong one after another.

The fort and fort are very real and intuitive projects in the eyes of the officials and gentry. The defensive line was gradually completed, and reinforcements from the southeast arrived in boats. The morale of the people, which had been chaotic because of the enemy's pressure on the border, and the morale of the officials was slightly boosted.

Under the administrative system of the feudal dynasty, the pro-people officials of the state and county were not easy to do. Compared with the rich places of Zhejiang, Jiangnan, and Guangzhou, in remote areas like western Guangdong, where the mountains and rivers are far away, most of the pro-people officials are some dicks with no roots.

Regardless of the regime, talent is the most important resource. Officials in western Guangdong have been working in several provinces for a long time, and most of them have rich experience working at the grassroots level. On the one hand, they carefully dealt with all kinds of pirates, and on the other hand, they defended against the thieves in the mountains, and carefully interacted with Li Yuan and Miaobu, in order to complete the task of urging the grain and salary sent by Shangfeng.

These officials are also talents, and it depends on how they are used. Zeng Ying's retreat order to the officials was not mandatory, not everyone in the second government of Haibei came to Hainan, and they hung up their seals and left, and even the officials who opened the door and surrendered were also very mandatory. In order to say to Zeng Ying, the big waves wash the sand, and the enemy army is the best opportunity to test people's hearts. For the officials who are willing to protect the seal and come to Qiong, Shou Yu promised to send each of them a Houjiangfu manor to relieve their worries.

In the prefectures and counties of western Guangdong, various positions have been vacant for a long time, and the result of the lack of officials is that it is difficult to carry out a lot of work.

After the people of Haibei and the two prefectures withdrew to the south, the shortage of manpower in Qiongzhou was alleviated, and the number of officials in some posts was even a little excessive.

Zeng Ying hung out the map of Qiongzhou Mansion, and the first thing to announce was to adjust the administrative division of Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Wenchang County, on the east side of Qiongshan County, is giving 5,500 taels of silver every year, and the income of full-caliber silver grain is 22,000 taels per stone, surpassing Qiongshan County as the first in the whole province. The southern part of the Wenchang River is a newly built Qinglan County, which is governed by the same city as the Qinglan Shouyu Thousand Households. The inspection department in front of the north shop in the north of the county is an important place for coastal defense, and the analysis is the front hall of the shop. Zhou Jin, the former governor of Qinzhou, was transferred to the governor of Wenchang Prefecture, and Hu Shimei, the former governor of the county, was promoted to the governor of the state, stationed in the front hall of the shop, specializing in defense. Zhao Zhongyan, the former magistrate of Lingshan County, was transferred to Qinglan Magistrate County.

In order to support the expansion of land immigration, the state city does not enter the county seat, and the inspection department is temporarily stationed in the patrol department to prepare for the future advance along the Wanquan River to the hinterland of the island. The work in Qionghai Prefecture is difficult, Zeng Ying asked the four people who retreated south to recommend themselves, Wu Tiaoyang and Li Zizhang of Leizhou Mansion, Zhang Tongju and Cao Xubai of Lianzhou may have felt a little sudden, and thought about it for a while. In the end, Wu Tiaoyang, who had experienced the Miao chaos, took the initiative to ask Ying to take over the task of developing Qionghai Prefecture.

Yazhou is about to become the territory of the Federation, and Zeng Ying has fully solicited the opinions of the order in advance for the administrative division reform here. In fact, Shou Xiang only wanted the iron ore in the port and the cotton and horse production areas in the Qiongxi Hall, and was not very interested in the inland of Hainan. After some humility, it was still Zeng Ying who made his own decisions.

The situation in Yazhou is well understood. In addition to the state city and Thanksgiving County, there are still two military cities in Yazhou, Baosui and Fujiqiao. One of them is the Langyong City in the northeast of Yazhou 8 miles, the city circumference is 240 zhang, the brick and stone city, 8 feet high, 4 feet thick, there are 3 city gates. The second is the Le'an New City of 150 miles north of Yazhou City, the city circumference is 400 zhang, the city is built of bricks and stones, there are 3 city gates, the south gate is set up urn city, a city tower, the city wall is 1 zhang 2 feet high, and the female wall is 5 feet high.

In the late Ming Dynasty, these two military cities were built for only one purpose, to defend Li. Zeng Ying transferred her brother Zeng Zhi to Yazhou Tongzhi and stationed in Le'an New Town to prepare for follow-up work.

Qiongxi Hall is half of the territory of the Federation, and Zeng Ying promoted his father-in-law Haishuzu from Yazhou Haiphong Tongzhi to Qiongzhou Mansion Haiphong Tongzhi, and still manages Qiongxi Hall unchanged. The original Haikang County made Yu Cuiqing promoted to Yazhou Tongzhi and stationed in Chahe Town in the upper reaches of the Changhua River.

The plan to change the administrative division of Qiongbei mainly relies on the water society deep in the interior to guard the city of thousands of households. The circumference of the water club city is 375 zhang, there are 3 city gates, 4 city towers. There are three inspection divisions around the city. Like Le'an New Town, this new city that was built in the 28th year of Wanli is completely for the purpose of preventing Li. Zeng Ying set up Qiongbei Hall, and lived with Lianzhou Tongzhi Zhang as Qiongzhou Tongzhi, stationed in the water club city. The two cities of Shuihui and Le'an, one north and one south, are the core areas of Kongcholi District, and they are also the main foothold of Zeng Ying in the early stage of opening up the inland of Hainan Island.

The Ming Dynasty was probably China's favorite dynasty to repair the earth, and it was engaged in infrastructure construction for more than 200 years. Taking Hainan Island as an example, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the present, the Japanese pirates, pirates, and Li rebellion have never stopped, in order to defend against these turmoil, the whole island has built a total of 94 beacons, not counting the county seat, the city, the inspection department, there are still 136 military camps and forts. Although the personnel declined in the last years of the dynasty, and many of the camps and forts were actually unmanned, the brick-made city walls are still there, and as long as they are slightly repaired, they are still a good place to settle the fields. The main idea of Zeng Ying's adjustment was to rely on these abandoned camps and cities to reclaim wasteland and prepare to march inland in the future.

After the announcement of the adjustment of administrative divisions, Zeng Ying re-established the upper-level organization.

Fang Guoxiang, the Hainan sub-inspector, participated in the politics of Guangdong and was in charge of the island's finances. Lin Zhuanheng, the former prefect of Lianzhou, was promoted to Guangdong according to the judicial department and was in charge of the justice of the whole island. Cao Xubai was transferred to Qiongzhou Tongzhi to promote the island's medicine, Li Zizhang promoted the island's city, and He Liangtao was in charge of the island's project construction, and the three departments were directly responsible for the superintendent's yamen.

Shou Xuan was the first time he met He Liangtao, and the old man's talent finally had a place to use, and he seemed to be in good spirits, and he couldn't see the impact of age at all.

As a result of this institutional reform, the powers of the government have been refined, and officials have the energy to further expand the areas under their jurisdiction. However, the authority of the former Qiongzhou Prefecture was greatly reduced, and after soliciting the opinions of Wu Yanliang, the former Qiongzhou prefect, he was appointed as the prefect and promoted to the prefecture. The cultural undertakings of Hainan in the Ming Dynasty made a leap forward compared with that of the Song Dynasty, but compared with the developed areas of the mainland, the gap was still obvious.

"Cabinet, I have a suggestion."

Shou Xiang had been drinking tea with his head bowed before, and at this time he opened his mouth to attract the attention of all the officials.

Zeng Ying stroked her beard and said with a smile, "Please speak." ”

"Fang is in a difficult country today, and your government can't just use eight shares and poems to give scholars."

The officials' eyes lit up, and the words of keeping order went to their hearts. For example, Wu Yanliang, the prefect of Qiongzhou, is actually only famous, and his level is far worse than Zeng Ying's in the Bagu Wen. This is a common phenomenon among officials in western Guangdong, and people who are good at the Bagu Wen test rarely come to western Guangdong to be officials. Most of the officials here started as a student and worked out step by step at the grassroots level, and they have always looked down on the poor and sour people who can only write splendid articles.

"Colleges at the county, state, and government levels have added military science courses, and the results will be counted in the students' test scores."

Wu Yanliang looked a little headache, "Cabinet, lord of the country." If you take up your post, you can supervise the state and county to run schools, and you will be responsible for the culture and education of the whole government. But on the way to military learning, he is not good at getting off the job, can the lord of the country personally lead the martial arts of this house? ”

Zeng Ying listened to it with a lot of approval, and said to Shou Xu: "You promised the old man before, you can choose to send students to your country to study Western military affairs, but the military situation has been urgent recently, and you can't take care of this matter. I don't think it's enough to send a few people to your country, so why don't you set up a military academy on this island, and you send people over to guide you? ”

Shou Xuan thought for a moment, "Yes." The academy is located in Jonesy Hall, and the curriculum is set by me. ”

"As long as you train officers who can fight, everything depends on you." Zeng Ying smiled and said, "Simply, the name of the school will also be decided by you." Think about it, what is this military school called? ”

Shou Xiang didn't hesitate, and blurted out a name, "Yue Fei, call it the Army Yue Fei Command Academy." ”

Zeng Ying's tone was a little low, "Wouldn't it be good to use the name of King E directly?" ”

"If King E knows in the spirit of heaven, I don't think he will care."

The spirits of the officials present were lifted. The propaganda of the Ming Dynasty lasted for three hundred years, and the deeds of Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Shou ordered to ask Zeng Ying for words. Zeng Ying happily agreed, spread out the paper scroll on the spot, and wrote down the six vigorous characters of 'Yue Fei Command Academy' with a pen. Then the old man signed an order on the spot, and the military academy was open to the whole province to enroll, and the cadets were limited to 12 years old and under 18 years old.

When the meeting was dismissed, Shou ordered and grabbed the prefect of Qiongzhou, "Wu Taishou, fighting a war can't just be a soldier's business." In the past 3,000 years in China, there have been countless loyal ministers and righteous people, so please compile their deeds into a book and publicize them widely throughout the province. ”

Wu Yanliang, the prefect of Qiongzhou, gave a deep look at the order, "Please rest assured, this official matter is on me." ”

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The final topic of the meeting was the national disaster salary. In order to save money, the Governor's Cabinet Department took the lead, and all civil officials only received 70% of the rated salary, and officials who did not have actual duties for the time being received 50%. In this world, it is not easy for the whole family to be safe together and have a bowl of stable food to eat, and most officials do not care too much about the reduction in salaries. There is a lot of wasteland in Hainan, and Zeng Ying also gave limited land allocation to the families of officials and encouraged them to cultivate it themselves. In a normal Han dynasty, farming has never been a low-level job, and cultivating and reading heirlooms has always been a beautiful conversation.

After everyone left, only Zeng Ying and Shou Xuan were left in the main hall of the Yamen.

The old man put away his strong fighting spirit and sat down in his chair tiredly.

"The letter written by Qu Shiyun, take a look."

Shou Xu took the secret letter written by the Guilin guard, the content was very long, in addition to explaining the latest military situation, it was to confide in old friends about the troubles caused by the chaos of the imperial court bureaucracy.

“…… From my point of view, it is clear that a certain marshal and a certain governor are caught on the stage, and they have to pretend to be a situation for a while, and they have no choice but to force the person who succeeds. In fact, since Chongzhen, what has become the imperial court? What is the world? With the orthodoxy of a corner, there are also many officials, and its prime minister is no more than a bureaucracy, and its ministry is no more than a miscellaneous officer. Those who see it in the imperial court, the cadres are ordinary, the officials are sharp, the ministry Cao wants to be a science and a road, and the department wants to supervise and care, Bi Zhi can do his best, and the court camp is in the twilight, which is nothing more than a plan for fame. It means that the world is just this moment, and if you miss it, you can't get it back! In his chest, how can he think that the world will still have a peaceful day, and the Central Plains will still have a period of recovery. ”

Qu Shiyun's summary can be described as profound. Shou Xuan frowned, "Old man." We have worked hard in Hainan to open up, and the county has been promoted to a level in order to have a thousand acres of waste. The person who fled from the mainland casually was the deputy envoy of the Dao, and the Earl of the Chief Soldier would not be less in the future. These people have messed up the mainland, and we can't stand it when we come to Qiongzhou again. ”

The political burden of the Ming Dynasty was too heavy, and the scalp tingled when I thought about it.

Zeng Ying put down the teacup and said, "I can't control the imperial court, but they want to mess up Qiongzhou, but there is no way." ”

"What kind of charter does the old gentleman have?"

"Empty payers are not recognized. When they went to the island, their official photos were confiscated, and those who could use them used them as appropriate, and those who could not use them were allowed to reclaim the wasteland. If it's a disobedient thorn ......"

Shou Xuan smiled: "They are all people who have fought with Jianyu on the mainland, and it is not good if the oppression is too much." If you really can't raise it, it's better to knock me out and send it to Nanyang on a ship. ”

It's obviously a joke to stun or something, but sending Nanyang is a way.

"Yes. You can do it with confidence, and the infamy will be borne by the old man. ”

Shou Xuan looked at Zeng Ying's sunken eye sockets, it was this old man in his sixtieth year, who carried the number of mansions in western Guangdong and millions of Shengli on his shoulders. On the one hand, he dealt with the invading enemy army, and on the other hand, he dealt with teammates who could hardly be called excellent in the two regions.

Zeng Ying's reforms on Hainan Island have not been significantly promoted, but their actual positions of power far exceed those of their colleagues on the mainland who do not know what will happen tomorrow. People are most afraid of being idle, and once they are given idleness, the idea of messing up will come.

Dozens of officials who had withdrawn from Haibei had a place to use. Giving officials and soldiers something to do and serving the country, everyone has a future to earn, and they can see that their groups are making progress at a rapid pace, which is the right way to boost morale and a long-term plan to persist on Hainan Island.

Obviously, in order to get rid of the burden of the mainland, in addition to the military defense line formed by the Qiongzhou barrier, it is also necessary to cast an invisible firewall to separate Hainan Island from the Yongli court.