"The main department doesn't care. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Zhang Renjun rolled his eyes and said: "Write the last note, all according to it." ”

This is the rhythm of broken jars! Chen Wenqiang finally found out all of Zhang Renjun's thoughts, and knew that this old guy knew that he was going to leave Liangguang soon, so he didn't care about it.

"My lord is so wise and resolute, and he doesn't hide his selfishness." Chen Wenqiang also put on a simple and generous appearance, and slapped his thigh, "The guns and ammunition for the establishment of the militia group and the battalion are the responsibility of the lowly position, and the adults don't have to worry about this trivial matter." ”

"Well, that's what it looks like!" Zhang Renjun nodded appreciatively and said, "The imperial court is in financial distress, and the place is also stretched, and there is a shortage of capable talents like you. If you can suppress the bandits in Guangdong, you can also sit in this position in the headquarters hall. ”

"Your Excellency is serious." Chen Wenqiang hurriedly expressed his humility, "The humble position is still young, recklessness and manipulation are unavoidable, if there is any mistake, you still need to take care of such a sophisticated and calm feudal official as an adult!" ”

"If you do it boldly, the main church will make decisions for you." Zhang Renjun waved his hand very responsibly, paused, and asked tentatively: "I heard that the imperial court intends to transfer Lord Zhang Zhidong into the center, I don't know what Lord Zhang's mind is?" ”

Chen Wenqiang smiled faintly and said: "It's up to him to go, and it's up to him if you don't go." Governor Zhang has been running Huguang for 17 years, and his subordinates are all over the past, and they are deeply rooted in Huguang! ”

Zhang Renjun sighed silently, the same surname is Zhang, and he is also a feudal official, but this foundation can't be compared!

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Chen Wenqiang, who walked out of the governor's office, smiled heartily and gained a lot! Although there is no shortage of burdens. But it's not as Zhang Renjun thinks.

Let's talk about Qingxiang, Chen Wenqiang doesn't think it's a clever way. If it works, how can Guangdong bandits be so rampant?

Although the size of Qingxiang is getting bigger and bigger. More and more troops were used, and many people were killed. But years of Qingxiang have not curbed the blazing piracy in Guangdong. The result is often that "soldiers come and thieves go, soldiers go and thieves come", and in some areas bandits are even more tyrannical, so that the army in Qingxiang has to use artillery.

There are several reasons, first of all, it still has to fall on the root knot of the late Qing Dynasty officials. Officials are corrupt, playful, or reversible. Jobbery; or greedily harassing the people, complaining; or perfunctory, slack and dereliction of duty.

The second is the corruption of the discipline of the Qing army. Harassing the local area, taking advantage of the opportunity of robbery and extortion. The people could not bear the disturbance and fled one after another, which in turn led to the spread of banditry. The situation worsened.

The third is the lack of strong cooperation from the local gentry. The gentry may hide for fear of evil. or forced by officers and soldiers to extort money, blame rats and dogs, or slander the good as bandits. There are even some squires who collude with bandits, shelter bandits, and sit on the ground to share fertilizer. The protection of the inferior gentry against the bandits has also seriously weakened the enthusiasm of the honest gentry in arresting bandits, so that the upright gentry do not dare to come forward, and the inferior gentry control the situation of official affairs.

Fourth, extortion of bonuses has become a means for the gentry to make profits. It has encouraged the trend of theft. The real bandits are full of looting, and the civilians are suffering from the pursuit of the cry. The extortion of bonuses has changed from a means to the purpose of officials to clear their townships, and the result is that "Guangdong's theft is the same, and Guangdong's bonuses are the same".

Finally, the indiscriminate killing under the strict punishment has further intensified the contradictions in grassroots society. Originally, it was an extraordinary measure of last resort to control chaos, but the people killed by the "local rectification of the law" in the Qing Township were often rats, dogs, thieves, and even good citizens. Therefore, "the people are not happy, they don't know what they are doing, they don't die for bandits, they want to be bandits, and they have to put off for a while." and will inevitably fight against each other and fight the trapped beasts."

On the surface, the reason for the unsuccessful Qingxiang was the result of abuse. But in the final analysis, the abuses that occurred in the Qing countryside were the same as the new policies introduced by the imperial court, which were a concrete manifestation of the decline of the regime in the late Qing Dynasty. The corruption of the officials, the army, the division and deviation of the gentry, and the loss of legal authority in the midst of indiscriminate killings all show the deep-seated reasons for the decline of the Qing Dynasty.

Governor Zhang Renjun is not unaware of this, but he does not know as deeply as Chen Wenqiang. However, Chen Wenqiang spoke clearly and thoroughly, and he was also extremely confident and determined, and he wanted to use this as a bargaining chip to keep his position as governor of Liangguang. At the same time, Chen Wenqiang also gave him a promise or guarantee, "Shanghai and Qiongzhou have places for adults to recuperate, and they are willing to guarantee the safety of adults in the future with their lives."

Decentralization, centralization, decentralization is Zhang Renjun, centralization is Chen Wenqiang. The General Office of the Patrol Police, the General Office of the Centigold Bureau, the Chairman of the Qingxiang Committee, the Commander of the Patrol Battalion, the General Office of the Militia Coaching Office, and the promotion of the Mint Bureau, which is still in between, Chen Wenqiang can be said to have integrated seven positions and completely took over all matters related to the suppression of bandits in Qingxiang.

In Chen Wenqiang's view, the greatest economic support given by Zhang Renjun was to imitate Huguang's example, in which the official treasury was deposited in the bank, and the officials were paid and spent by the banknotes of the joint venture bank, and could overdraft 300,000 yuan. In other words, the banknotes of the joint venture bank also have the nature of official currency in Liangguang, coupled with Chen Wenqiang's energy in the Chamber of Commerce, there is no obstacle to large-scale circulation.

Although there are reserves for the issuance of banknotes, and now they should be gold and silver, two precious metals, but it can be implemented part of the reserve system, the maximum issuance system, etc., as long as there is credit support, the bank has a silver dollar, in fact, it can issue the equivalent of two silver dollars, and the excess can be offset by foreign exchange, commodities, securities, and other things.

Chen Wenqiang's biggest purpose in finance is to establish a credit currency, decouple the currency from the precious metals with fluctuating prices, and gradually establish a modern national financial system. So, in that respect, he took another big step forward.

Of course, with so many official titles, Chen Wenqiang naturally had to start the action of exterminating the bandits. And the plan doesn't seem to have much novelty, but the most important thing is that Chen Wenqiang wants to start from the root and form a clean and efficient bandit suppressor. At the same time, there must be a set of comprehensive management methods. In addition, Chen Wenqiang also has a secret weapon that is unknown, but it can play a role in getting twice the result with half the effort.

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Recruit outstanding graduates of Guangzhou Political Science and Law School as members of the Qingxiang Committee; recruit outstanding people in the Guangzhou Army Primary and Secondary School and Garrison School as coaches of the Coaching Office of the People's League; With the county as the unit, the township bureaus from all over the country were named to come to the meeting, and those who did not arrive were punished as bandits; Patrol officers carry out the division of duties. It is divided into two major situations: armed police and public security police, and it is proposed that each county will set up a sub-bureau and each township will set up a police station; Invite the directors of the Chamber of Commerce. Raise donations and collect elite members of the trade group to enter the police force; There are six branches in Xiguan, 18th Street and other prosperous business places; Expand the railway patrol police, use the railway as a line, and exterminate the bandits in the villages and towns along the line; Transferred the patrol battalions of Guangzhou Prefecture to Guangzhou for reorganization; Issued leniency provisions for voluntary surrender of firearms......

A series of policies and measures have been launched uninterruptedly, once again showing Chen Wenqiang's vigorous and resolute action. And the immediate effect was simply amazing, half a month later, in a sudden attack on the closure of Xiguan, Eighteenth Street, Henan and other business districts. Chen Wenqiang personally led the patrol police to participate and arrested more than 20 thieves, including three thieves.

Conclusive. The confession was detailed. This efficiency not only surprised Zhang Renjun, but also the merchants. After word of mouth and admiration, it was the merchants and gentry who donated more enthusiastically, and they naturally did not know how Chen Wenqiang captured these thieves from the hundreds of people who were besieged by the blockade.

Millions of people. Bring them to yourself one by one. This is obviously not possible. Chen Wenqiang was stroking his forehead at this time, thinking about the action steps after the good start.

That's right, in order to win donations, Chen Wenqiang had to use his abilities. First, the streets of a commercial district were suddenly closed, and then the men trapped in them were screened one by one. After three questions, or five questions, Chen Wenqiang can find out whether the guy in front of him is telling the truth or a lie. After it is determined that he is a suspect, he will be dragged down and tortured by others. He just couldn't afford to go into the details.

Of course, this is a bit barbaric. But he did not wrongfully punish the innocent. As for the methods of torture, Chen Wenqiang let his subordinates use waterboarding and boiling, which is much more civilized than sticks, leather whips, and flesh and blood.

As for interrogation techniques, Chen Wenqiang certainly understands them, and although he is more familiar with the anti-interrogation training he has undergone, the reasoning is the same.

For example, the interrogation room should be a small, soundproof room with only three chairs, a table, and four empty walls. This layout creates a sense of nowhere to hide, strange and isolated, thus reinforcing the suspect's sense of "let me out" during the interrogation.

For example, the suspect is placed in an uncomfortable chair so that he cannot touch anything in order to exacerbate the discomfort he feels and induce his feelings of dependence.

When these professors are given to the new members of the Township Cleansing Committee, coupled with the fact that the new members are young, vigorous, and new-minded, and simple, and no more corrupt and corrupt than the old bureaucrats, the unjust cases of falsehood and theft and extortion of confessions by torture can be greatly reduced in the trial of the Township Cleansing Township.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of suppressing bandits, Chen Wenqiang not only wanted to improve public order in Guangdong in advance and make plans for the future of the revolution, but also set up police stations in various counties to control the whole province of Guangdong in disguise. You must know that Chen Wenqiang has very high requirements for the police, and the equipment is good, especially the armed police, who have to fight against a large number of bandits, and their combat effectiveness is much higher than that of the old-style patrol battalion, and it is not much different from that of the new army.

The combination of suppression and appeasement, both soft and hard, has historically been the only way for the government to deal with riots or bandits, and Chen Wenqiang is no exception.

In conjunction with deterrence and crackdowns, policies such as confiscating guns, offering rewards for arrest, and leniency in surrender have also been introduced, and it is also ensured that those who behead, tie up, and kill violent bandits can choose to live in Qiongzhou, Huguang, Shanghai, and other places, and the government will resettle them to avoid the retaliation of the bandits.

A gentle knock on the door sounded, and Chen Jiongming, a probationary member of the Qingxiang Committee who pushed the door in, respectfully reported to Chen Wenqiang that the gentry of the township bureaus in Shunde County had arrived, and whether they would hold a public meeting immediately?

Chen Jiongming was recruited by Chen Wenqiang from the School of Political Science and Law, with excellent grades, and he was also born in traditional Chinese reading, a very special person. After he was admitted to Xiucai, he was not interested in the examination system of the Eight Shares of Scholars, and did not follow the path of lifting people and jinshi, and after a few years of satisfying married life in his hometown, he left his hometown Huizhou Mansion and came to Guangzhou Mansion to study in the School of Political Science and Law.

At this time, China's political climate was already in a situation where mountains and rains were about to come. At that time, under the auspices of the two governors Tao Mo and Cen Chunxuan, Guangzhou had a new look for various new policies, new-style schools were in full swing, and various new trends of thought were also emerging. During his two years in Guangzhou, Chen was exposed to new ideas, and more recently, with the popularity of the constitutional movement, he began to preach that autonomy was the only way to save China, and he had the idea of running for the Council Council.

Chen Wenqiang is quite satisfied with Chen Jiongming's fortitude and reticence, as well as his integrity, although he is called a trainee, but Chen Wenqiang has decided to open up the situation, and after the inspection, he will be entrusted with an important task.

"My lord, I heard that Xian Rui, a gentry in Shunde County, has the name of sheltering bandits, so if you don't take it down, you may be able to open up a good end to the township." Chen Jiongming accompanied Chen Wenqiang to the conference room and put forward his own suggestions.

"There is no evidence." Chen Wenqiang smiled faintly and said: "Besides, even if the torture is useful, if it is taken down, it will be difficult to block the news, and won't it give the bandits who colluded with it a chance to escape?" ”

"What is the purpose of the lord to convene the gentry of the county and township bureaus separately?" Chen Jiongming asked suspiciously.

Chen Wenqiang smiled faintly, of course, he couldn't tell his ability, but said ambiguously: "Check his face, look at his color, deterrence and persuasion, maybe it can work!" In addition, the establishment of militia groups in various places also depends on them to contribute money! ”

As a militia organization, regimental training can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. However, the basic spirit of the group training after the late Qing Dynasty was directly derived from the experience of "strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness, building a village and practicing the regiment" during the suppression of the White Lotus uprising in the Jiaqing period. In Guangdong, the internal and external troubles in the second half of the 19th century once again stimulated the revival of tuanlian, but by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the development of tuanlian was again suppressed by the imperial court. To be precise, the government is a contradiction that is both advocated and suppressed.

At the same time, the government did not dare to completely let the localities run regiments freely in order to prevent the expansion of civilian forces, and such a complicated and contradictory situation emerged.

And this complex mentality of the government is bound to affect the enthusiasm of the gentry in various places to run regiments. Raising funds for running a group is the key to running a group, and it is also a difficult problem. Since the local gentry basically relied on the local gentry to solve the expenses themselves, the official will was too much reflected in the process of running the group, which led to problems in the source of funds. The result is often that "the endowment comes and goes, the funds still have to be raised by themselves, and the officials and gentry pass the buck to each other."

At the beginning of the 20th century, various parts of Guangdong organized regimental training at the request of the government, but they did not receive the full cooperation of the local gentry, which to a certain extent reflected the rift between the gentry. At that time, the public opinion said: "Guangdong Province belongs to all provinces, bandits are infested, and although the localities have been repeatedly trained by the Zaxing group, it is difficult to raise funds, or the handling is not final, or there is no agreement." Its rich country, hired brave to defend, is also a false appearance......"

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