The bamboo moat is the largest city in the north of Taiwan, and people come and go at the gate of the city every day, and the traffic is busy. During this time, the Ming army canceled the entry fee into the city, and the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the market were also temporarily abolished.

"Slow down, slow down, pedestrian vehicles stay on the right. After entering the city, you must not spit, litter, or poop or pee anywhere. ”

Under the suspension bridge of the moat, several police officers waved their hands to direct traffic while promoting the city's health regulations in the moat.

A man with pigtails drove the ox cart across the moat, and a policeman grabbed the reins of the ox, "Stop, please come here!" So saying, he pulled the ox cart out of the road.

"Poor master, I went to the city to do business, I am a good citizen!" The man was a little nervous.

"I didn't say that you weren't a good citizen~!" The policeman laughed, "Your cow's butt is not equipped with a dung bag, which does not comply with the bamboo trench health and epidemic prevention law, you either put on a dung bag, or store this ox cart over there." ”

The policeman pointed to the "parking lot" under the city and told him that he could choose a seat for the bullock cart for a small storage fee.

"Poor master, my truckload full of goods is going to be pulled into the city for business." With a smiling face, the man bought a dung bag and put it on the cow's buttocks.

The man hadn't walked a few steps with the ox cart when another policeman stopped him, "According to the Ming military control decree, please pay ten copper plates of the Huaxia Revival Tax when you enter the city." ”

The man was startled, and hurriedly put his hand into his arms to touch the money. Seeing that the other people who entered and left the city were not blocked, the man was a little unconvinced, and pointed with a bullwhip, "Why don't they have to pay the entrance fee!" ”

"Because they cut off their braids. According to the Ming decree, those who kept braids were the old and young relics of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they had to pay the Huaxia Revival Tax when entering and leaving the city. The policeman pointed to the man's braids, "I have scissors here, why don't you get them too?" ”

"This~This~" The man grinned, directly counted out ten copper plates and handed them to the police, turned around and wanted to drive the ox cart into the city.

The policeman stopped him, "Sir, give you a receipt." ”

The policeman stuffed the receipt into the man's hand and told him quite seriously, "You'd better cut off your braids early, because I heard that those who keep braids in the future will all be regarded as tartars, and they will be paid and taxed every month." ”

The man lowered his head and drove the ox cart into the city.

Seeing Megumi Tanaka coming, the soldiers and policemen guarding the city gate immediately saluted, and they all knew Megumi Tanaka.

"Team Leader Tian, these are the representatives of the meeting!" The soldier who led the team told Tanaka Megumi that the county office had chartered the Daxing Inn in the city to entertain the representatives of each village and village to rest.

His expression was a little restrained, "Team Leader Tian, according to the regulations, these animals must be put on dung bags when they enter the city!" ”

"Okay, everything is done according to the rules!" Megumi Tanaka said heartily.

Megumi Tanaka and his entourage walked into the city gate, and they were greeted by the smell of potions.

The smell of the potion is actually the smell of bleach. In 1854, the world's cheapest disinfectant was bleaching powder. Because of Taiwan's humid weather, epidemic diseases, and poor urban sanitation conditions. The Executive Committee specially imported a batch of bleaching powder from Europe for health and epidemic prevention.

Taiwan is an epidemic area, and for the sake of everyone's health, sanitation and rectification are regarded as the top priority of civil affairs work by the crossing team.

After Lei Nianping and Yu Xi took charge of Zhuqian City, they first organized the retention of government officials and military personnel, re-registered the people in Zhuqian City, and cleared out more than 300 unemployed vagrants and vagrant beggars. More than 300 people were gathered together for thorough sanitation and purification, and at the same time received political and ideological education. More than 200 strong laborers were incorporated into the Hsinchu Labor Brigade, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled were adopted and treated and incorporated into the labor service company to do some work within their capabilities. There are also more than a dozen little beggars who are waiting to get ready for schooling.

While carrying out ideological education on the strong laborers of the Tamsui Department's government secretary office, the labor service company, and the people who served the Ming army, Lei Nianping and Yu Xi organized them to cooperate with the troops to carry out a thorough sanitation rectification of the whole city. First of all, the whole city is divided into four areas: east, west, south and north, and public toilets are built according to the sections, and open manure pits are banned; excavation of all kinds of open ditches, culverts and the silt of the main stormwater inlets of trunk roads; Finally, door-to-door sanitation and cleaning, epidemic prevention and disinfection were carried out to renovate the bamboo moat city.

The Ming army made the people of the city breathe a sigh of relief in this way, and sure enough, the king had arrived, and the autumn did not commit any crimes! It's just so clean that it smells weird potions all over the city.

Entering the city from the east gate, go forward to the East Gate Street, and go to the left and right sides to see the dark street.

Megumi Tanaka and his entourage walked to the cross street, and Chen Fucheng and the others stopped, they didn't believe their eyes. In the past, the bamboo moat city was a cross-flow of sewage, buried soil, and stench, and its filth was indescribable.

In front of the bamboo moat city, the streets are smooth and hard, clean and hygienic, and the sewers are cleaned. It is strictly forbidden to defecate and litter in the city, and toilets and garbage stations are set up in various sections of the city, and the labor service company is responsible for cleaning the city after dark and sending feces and garbage out of the city.

The street vendors were gone, and they were gathered in the city's newly built farmers' market. In the past, the rice market, firewood market, grass market, charcoal market, fish market, vegetable market, ramie market and other markets scattered in the city were all concentrated in the farmers' market.

On the door panels of the shops on both sides of the street, there are warning signs in front of the door that are clean and dry, as well as revolutionary slogans for the revival of China. There is a large rattan basket every ten zhang on the street, and the pedestrians of the shops throw any garbage in it. The pedestrians on the road are in their own way, in an orderly manner, and there is no chaos in the past, and the changes are too great.

"Don't look at the crossroads!"

Seeing a group of people parked in the middle of the road, the police officer in charge of patrolling at the street immediately ran over.

Megumi Tanaka hurriedly apologized, sent Chen Fucheng and others to the Daxing Inn, and returned to the county government with two soldiers to report.

The Hsinchu County Government set up in the past in the Tamsui Department and the Governor's Office, in the past there was a so-called "officials do not repair the office" saying, although the official compound is very dilapidated, after a few days of cleaning and cleaning, now it looks neat and hygienic, as if there is a new atmosphere.

The government office sits in the north and faces south, and there is a wall in front of the gate, drawing a four-legged beast. Bypassing the wall, you will be greeted by the gate. There were two policemen guarding the gate of the prefectural office, and when they saw Megumi Tanaka coming, they hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Walk into the gate, the left is the land shrine, the right is the prison, and the inside is the Yimen.

The prisoners in prison ~ have long been gone. After the Ming army entered the city, with the help of the retained officials, Lei Nianping and Yu Xi spent a day cleaning up the hundreds of people detained in the Zhuqian City prison. Those who commit crimes such as petty theft, fighting, raping women, and injuring others with weapons will be sent directly to Da'an Port to build a sea pond. Other people who owed rent, debts, taxes, etc., were released on the spot along with the Xiangyong captured in Zhuqian City.

There is a big patio in the door, there is a ring stone pavilion in the middle, and the banner of the pavilion reads "Erfeng Erlu, the people are fat and the people are anointed, the people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to deceive", which is usually called the ring stone inscription.

On both sides of the patio is the office of the scribes, usually arranged in the order of the six rooms of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers. Luo Zaitian was directing several retained officials to hang new signs on the doors.

The sign of the officer's room was replaced with the sign of the Civil Affairs Section, the sign of the household room was replaced by the sign of the Finance and Taxation Section, the sign of the ceremonial room was replaced by the sign of the Culture and Education Section, the sign of the Military Section was hung up in the military room, the sign of the Public Security Section was hung up in the torture room, and the sign of the Construction Section was hung up in the workshop.

Luo Zaitian is a Tan Min, who was educated on Dunan Island and learned a few words, and is now a member of the Hsinchu County preparatory group in Yuxi. When he saw Megumi Tanaka coming, he immediately jumped up, "Team Leader Tian, you're back!" ”

Luo Zaitian was still a young man in his twenties, and when he saw his acquaintances on Dunan Island, he was a little excited, "Lord Zhixian was still talking about you just now, so I'll report it to you." ”

Straight into the ring stone pavilion, walk through the long corridor is the lobby. In the center of the lobby is the Warm Pavilion, in which there are public cases and high-backed chairs, which is the usual place where cases are heard.

The west of the hall is the inner treasury of the government office, and the east of the hall is the shogunate. Now this theater is used by Yu Xi as his own office location.

At eleven o'clock, Wang Zhaohong took a group of yamen scribes who were retained by the Ming army, carrying paste buckets and brushes, and came back from working outside. There are four class halls on the left and right sides of the Yimen, which are now the resting places for the personnel retained by the Yamen.

Wang Zhaohong and these yamen scribes all have short hair, and Wang Zhaohong and Luo Zaitian are dressed exactly the same, wearing a blue training uniform, with a red armband and a belt. The other retained scribes had "anti-Qing and Ming" cultural shirts on their upper bodies and jeans on their lower bodies.

There are officials with sharp eyes, and they immediately notice the changes in front of the door of the six rooms. These yamen scribes all knew the characters, although the sign was written in simplified Chinese characters, and the characters were half read, and they pondered with each other and recognized them all.

"'Civil Affairs Bureau', 'Finance and Taxation Bureau', 'Culture and Health Bureau', 'Military Bureau', 'Public Security Bureau', 'Construction Bureau'." A servant turned his head and asked the master, "What is the mystery of changing these six rooms to six bureaus?" ”

Wu Degui was originally the "warden" of the household, he was smart and clever, and his head has always been very good. He twisted his white beard and thought for a moment, "Presumably it is to follow the central setting and change the sixth room from the responsibility of the officials to the management of officials!" ”

In the six rooms, the clerk in charge of each room is called "secretary", and the ordinary scribe is called "warden" and "undertaker". Theoretically, the scribe should be a kind of errand undertaken by the local people, so it is called "servant". The remuneration paid by the state is called "servitude", which is different from the "salary" of officials.

Seeing Wang Zhaohong sitting on the side without speaking, Wu Degui arched his hand, "Lord Wang, what do you think?" ”

Wang Zhaohong shook his head, "It's hard to say~ It's hard to say~"

At this time, Luo Zaitian came over to stop Wang Zhaohong and asked him to hurry to Yu Xi's office.

Seeing Yu Xi and McClain talking in the room, Wang Zhaohong suddenly became nervous.

Wang Zhaohong was frightened by McClain last time and forced to surrender to the Ming army, and these days have passed, and the fear in his heart has not disappeared.