Crown Prince Chu Kwok-kit's motorcade slowly moved along the winding roads of the Kowloon Peninsula, with no welcoming crowds on either side of the street. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 His eldest brother, the young dictator who ran the ductile dominion of Hong Kong while studying on his own (taught by a professor from the university) political science and law courses at the university, did not hold a grand welcome ceremony for his younger brother. In fact, the dictator of Hong Kong hates such rituals, and he doesn't think it's necessary for him to pat his brother's ass...... Obviously, he was a bit arrogant.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this arrogance that after Zhu Guojie arrived in Hong Kong, he immediately rearranged the political system of Hong Kong Island. The brewing "constitutional" and legislative councils were abolished and replaced with their own ** rule. He also appointed an autonomous government that was half Westerner and half Chinese—a rather streamlined government that included only eight divisions: the Department of Finance and Taxation, the Department of Development and Construction, the Department of Civil Affairs and Welfare, the Department of Port Affairs and Trade, the Department of Land, the Department of Police, the Department of Education, and the Department of Integrity and Integrity. There is also a judicial system consisting of a high court and three intermediate courts. In addition, there is a quasi-deliberative body called the Consultative Bureau, and the members of the Advisory Council are not elected by voting, but are hired by Zhu Guojie, and there are more than 20 people in total, most of whom are professors from Hong Kong Jishi University, which is also very streamlined. As for the army or something, the Duke of Hong Kong does not have it, and the defense of the Dominion is entirely under the responsibility of the Ming army.

And the policies implemented by such a streamlined governance body are very simple, with three aims. First, good governance; the second is to develop the economy of the Dominion and carry out construction; The third is to improve the living standards and welfare of the people in the Dominion. There is no such ideology or doctrine, in Zhu Guojie's view, Hong Kong is a bigger territory. Everything is under the nose of the duke, and there is no need for much political activity at all—politics is all made up by great powers in order to govern vast territories. Hong Kong just needs to do a good job in a down-to-earth manner.

So after taking over Hong Kong Island, Chu Kwok-kit governed with these three goals. First of all, the government and police organs have been rectified, a large number of unqualified public officials have been eliminated, and a good rectification has been carried out in view of the widespread corruption and collusion between officials and businessmen in Hong Kong's officialdom. Instead of relying on public opinion and parliament for supervision, the Department of Integrity has been established. It cracked down on corruption with an iron fist and implemented a clean government pension system for civil servants in Hong Kong. All civil servants on Hong Kong Island who have served for 15 years without a bad record of corruption can receive a generous pension when they reach the age of 60, and if a public servant is found to have committed bad deeds, his integrity pension will be cancelled immediately, and he will also face severe sanctions of the maximum death penalty. Zhu Guojie's anti-corruption policy and his father Zhu Jishi, who relied on public opinion and parliament to "ban" corruption, took completely two paths.

And after the problem of corruption is curbed. Zhu Guojie has used iron-fisted law enforcement on Hong Kong residents again! What he practiced in Hong Kong was not a loose Ming law, but a separate set of harsh laws. Not only are there many penalties and crimes, but the law is strict and the law is strictly enforced. Zhu Guojie himself studied law, and his mother was born in the Nanyang underworld, and he was trained as the prince of Lanfang for a while when he was a child, so he naturally knew many things in the gang. After eight years in England, he hated the gang. It is believed that there is a need for strict laws to regulate the people...... so that they can develop the habit of abiding by the law. As a result, the laws and penalties of the Dominion of Hong Kong were the harshest in the entire Ming Empire.

For example, fights and petty theft can be closed for a few days in other parts of the Ming Dynasty and it will be fine. In Hong Kong, ruled by Chu Kwok-kit, he was absolutely punished with hard labor and was whipped up. And hard labor in Hong Kong is absolutely bitter! What's more, littering or spitting in Hong Kong is punishable by a fine of 10 silver dollars. It's almost the same as an average person's monthly income! As for smuggling and selling opium, in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, they are generally exiled to Siberia, but in Hong Kong, they are absolutely killed!

In addition, all kinds of commercial fraud, non-payment of debts, extortion and usury are also serious crimes in the Dominion of Hong Kong. Although it won't kill the head, if you're not careful, you'll end up in prison.

In a word. After more than two years of rectification, not to mention the people of the whole Ming Dynasty. At least the people of Guangdong know that Hong Kong is not a good place! Even the officials in Guangdong have had a lot of disputes with the authorities of the Hong Kong Dominion. However, in the end, the Guangdong side swallowed its anger. Who made the Duke of Hong Kong the eldest son of the emperor? As long as people don't selfish and plot misdeeds, the lawsuit will be brought to the court, and the eldest son of the emperor will definitely be justified - no one will bear the charge of dividing the royal father-son brotherhood!

However, under the effect of a large number of harsh laws, especially those for commercial crimes, the law and order environment and investment environment in Hong Kong have been greatly improved. At least in the eyes of Westerners, Hong Kong is the closest city to Europe in the East. The two industrial parks on the Kowloon Peninsula and Taipa Island have now attracted a number of European companies to open their Asian branches. The business districts on Hong Kong Island and the Macau Peninsula are lined with foreign companies, and almost all major European companies will set up their headquarters in Greater China or the South Seas on Hong Kong Island.

At the same time of economic development, Zhu Guojie and his ruling team have not forgotten the people under their governance - the rule of law in Hong Kong is quite strict, and the wages of ordinary laborers are not a few higher than those in Guangdong. And Zhu Guojie has been in Europe for many years, and the revolution or something really has to hear the cocoon, so naturally the people of the Ming Dynasty are not easy to bully, so they have to give some sweetness......

The carriage in which Zhu Guoxiong and Zhu Guojie were riding had already driven out of the port area of Kowloon and entered the edge of the Kowloon Industrial Zone at this time. In the distance are rows of factories, the scale of which is not comparable to the large industrial zones of Yingtian, Shanghai and Foshan, Guangzhou. But it was also quite prosperous, and the smoke from the chimney was blown by the sea breeze and disappeared into this beautiful autumn. Nearby, there are three-storey buildings of rather modest townhouses – a bit of the rudimentary form of a later tube building. There are also shops, vegetable farms, and schools dotted around. However, there are few pedestrians on the street, and it looks a little depressed. On the other side of the road, there is a series of construction sites that seem to be building such three-story houses.

"Big brother, which factory's dormitory is this? It's a nice build. Zhu Guoxiong looked out of the car window and asked his eldest brother a little strangely. When he was in Nanjing, he often visited Jiangnan District (Yingtian Industrial Zone), and he saw many workers' dormitories, but they were not as neat and clean as they were in front of him.

"Second brother." Zhu Guojie smiled and said, "These are not factory dormitories, but the workers' own houses." ”

"The workers' house? They all rent a house? Zhu Guoxiong said, "Then they should be skilled workers, right?" "There is a big difference between the wages of skilled workers and ordinary workers in Daming. Ordinary workers generally live in factory dormitories, and they can't afford to rent a house in a big city – if they do, they won't be able to save a few dollars a year. However, the income of the skilled workers is high, and it is not difficult to rent a house, but it is still difficult to afford a house. Of course, this is also related to the underdevelopment of the real estate industry in the big cities of Daming, and now there are very few units for sale in Daming, which are all houses with independent houses. In metropolises like Nanjing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, there are thousands or even tens of thousands of houses in better locations. Working people, of course, can't afford it.

"It's not a rented house, it's a worker's own property, and it doesn't have to belong to a skilled worker." Zhu Guojie said with some pride, "This is a policy implemented by the Hong Kong Dominion to attract immigrants - the home owner has his own house." We call these terraced houses, which are not built by businessmen, but funded by the Hong Kong Development and Construction Division, and then sold at a low price to Hong Kong Dominion citizens who earn less than 20 silver dollars a month. A terraced house has a flat size of 300 square feet and is sold for 300 silver dollars, which can be repaid over 20 years without interest. (To be continued)