At nine o'clock, the nervous representatives of the towns were invited into the venue, and Boss Gao was the most nervous, afraid that he would be used to sacrifice the flag.

The seats of the delegates have been arranged, and as soon as they enter the venue, they will be escorted. There are ten eight-immortal tables in ten towns, and each table is occupied by one side except for the side facing the rostrum. As soon as the delegates took their seats, some of them offered hot tea, and some of the delegates began to look around, and the "huge" national emblem on the gable was particularly eye-catching, and the five five-pointed stars and the pattern of the Tiananmen Tower aroused all kinds of conjectures. I know every character on the banner (I still use traditional Chinese characters to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings), but I don't understand them when I look at them together. Most people speculate that this "government" should be the yamen of the Guangfu Army, and the "establishment of the government" should be to open a government and build a government. For a while, the delegates were talking again, and the buzz filled the entire venue.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Pan Xieqing invited several leaders out. Seeing several officers of the Liberation Army rushing out from behind the gables, all the delegates stood up, some with flattering smiles on their faces, while many more were expressionless. Three or four of them made a gesture to kneel, but when they saw that the others did not move, they kept their standing posture again.

After several leaders sat down on the rostrum, Tan Fei took out a wireless microphone and said, "You don't have to be too polite, please take a seat!" You may be seated! The sound reached everyone's ears through loudspeakers hanging around the venue. The loud sound attracted people's attention, and many people became dumbfounded when they saw the sound coming from several small black boxes. Seeing the expressions of these people, Pan Xieqing was secretly amused, and sneered: A group of dirt buns that have never seen the market. I completely forgot the expression on my face when I first heard a voice coming from the loudspeaker.

After thanking the delegates, they sat down one after another, and at first they didn't dare to sit down, and some of them only took half of their buttocks, but when they saw Pan Xieqing, the red man in front of the chief, raised his head and stood tall, sitting flat and stable, he did the same.

Looking at the gaze of the people below looking at him, Tan Fei felt very satisfied. You must know that in the original time and space to participate in various meetings, he only has the share of sitting in the audience. Looking around the room, he began today's meeting. "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, the name of our Liberation Army must be known to everyone. At the same time, we should also be very clear about our purpose, that is, the ...... of 'expelling the Tatars and restoring China'" began with the self-introduction of the old man, and these few sentences have become the first time to deal with the indigenous people. Then, we moved on to the first topic of the meeting, the establishment of a district government.

First of all, the delegates explained the meaning of "district", which is the first-level administrative division above the town below the county level. Longgang District includes the ten towns where they are located, and the district government is the yamen that manages this level of administrative division.

After listening to Tan Fei's explanation, most people didn't know what was going on. The speculation of opening a government and building a government has been confirmed, but since the Qin and Han dynasties implemented county governance, it has not been heard of a yamen below the county level. Although there are 30,000 or 40,000 hidden households in the ten towns, which can catch up with some small border counties, but even within a county, there are still yamen, is it because there are too many officials in the Guangfu Army, and only by setting up more yamen can it be arranged? Some people with active minds vaguely felt that this move was extraordinary. This is to divide the rights of the local gentry! In the past, out of the county seat, the local area was the world of wealthy families. Those patriarchs are the emperors of the soil, taking and seizing, and holding the power of life and death. After the yamen was built here, the patriarchs would definitely not be able to do whatever they wanted before. These "people who understand" figured it out, but they didn't speak, they didn't dare to say anything about the behavior of the Liberation Army, and they were all middle and lower class gentry, and the impact was limited, so let those wealthy families have a headache!

After announcing the establishment of the Longgang District Government, Tan Fei talked about the significance and benefits of the establishment of the government. It is nothing more than attracting investment, stimulating the economy, promoting the development of industry and agriculture, and improving the people's living, cultural, and medical standards. The main work of local government in the twenty-first century sounded like a fantasy to those of the nineteenth century. When did the yamen tube become so wide?

The next step is to introduce the leadership team of the district government. Qi Shima, the head of the district and director of the civil affairs office, and the two former secretaries of the county government office as secretaries and clerks, are the main staff members of the district government at present. Pan Xieqing was assigned the errand of deputy director of the office, who was responsible for external liaison and belonged to non-staff personnel. At present, the treatment of indigenous leaders who have taken refuge in them is generally arranged for such an unstaffed miscellaneous position. At a time when most modern people do not have a half-official position, putting a native in the position of a cadre is afraid that it will cause a backlash from the masses.

The deputy head of the district is Ye Huyi, who is also the director of the finance office, who was originally an accountant of a private enterprise, and now he has to act as the money bag of the district government and grasp the plan of one district and ten towns; The burden of the two institutes of industry and commerce and taxation is also pressed on the former tax office civil servant Shi Yuke, who has to complete the industrial and commercial tax registration of the entire district when there is only one former household secretary as an assistant, which can make him head two bigger. Considering the total economic volume of the entire Longgang District in this era, it is not enough to catch up with an administrative village in the 21st century, so as not to make people too desperate; Levi, the police station chief in charge of public security and household registration, is a junior college student of the police academy, and his dream since childhood was to become a police officer, but he did not expect it to come true in the 19th century. His two former fast squads with simple police training are his soldiers, and he is also the head of the district people's armed forces; Zhang Xiaofan, director of the Agricultural Institute, was originally an agricultural technician who had just joined the work, and believed that with improved seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and modern agricultural machinery, he would become the most popular person; The last member of the team is Hong Shaoru, the director of the health center and the head of the medical station, and the unlicensed black market doctor of the original time and space finally has a place to use. I don't dare to say anything else, in terms of dealing with all kinds of trauma and emergencies, the Tulang in the countryside is completely inferior to modern people. There are only about a dozen people in the district government in total, and it is not enough for people to imagine that they will perform the functions of various departments as they did in the 21st century, and the vacancies will be recruited locally in Longgang.

Tan Fei introduced the district leaders to the delegates one by one, and when they saw that these officers of the Liberation Army were only in their early twenties, everyone couldn't help but feel contempt. It is difficult for a strong dragon to suppress the head snake, let alone these little ones with hairless mouths.

Shi Yuke, the head of the tax office, aroused the vigilance and hostility of all the delegates, and even received more attention than the district governor Qi Shima, who always collected taxes in any era, and there was no one.

The Agricultural Institute and the Agricultural Technology Station aroused everyone's curiosity. Although the yamen had the duty of persuading farmers since ancient times, the officials in charge of agriculture had never heard of it, and after hearing that the agricultural technology station would provide improved seeds and agricultural tools, some representatives who had fields at home became more active.

After the introduction, except for Pan Xieqing and other representatives of Longgang Town, who had known for a long time, everyone else sighed that the Yamen of the Guangfu Army was really lenient! Not only do you have to collect taxes and catch thieves, but you also have officials to manage farming and curing diseases.

As the head of the whole district, Qi Shima made a concluding speech on behalf of the leadership team. He first expressed his determination to govern, then expounded on the short-term and long-term planning of Longgang District, and finally concluded his speech with the bold words of "leading the people of the whole district to become rich and well-off."

Zisma's words left the delegates confused. I have never heard of an official who wants to make a fortune with the common people, and the fake foreign devil is vulgar, don't you know that the duty of the magistrate is to educate the locality? And take everyone to get rich together? What a big breath! Some people want to laugh but don't dare, their faces are flushed, and more people are at a loss.

Seeing that no one cheered for his speech, Qi Shima gave Pan Xieqing a look. The latter immediately understood, took the lead in applauding, and shouted: "Resolutely support the Liberation Army!" Resolutely support District Chief Qi! Driven by him, the other delegates also slowly learned to applaud, "Lord Qi is wise!" "Lord Qi loves the people like a son!" Wait for the sycophants to squirt out.

After the cadres appeared, Tan Fei began to preach this year's tax policy, which is what the delegates are most concerned about. Regardless of ancient or modern, taxation is a major national event. The feudal dynasty wanted to raise officials and soldiers to maintain their rule, and the emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty wanted wine ponds and meat forests, built the Old Summer Palace and the Summer Palace, and raised more and more children of the Eight Banners who were already hundreds of thousands of people who ate hardcore crops. Although it is known as "never give", there are many donations of all kinds. It costs money to exterminate the long hair, it costs money to start a war with foreigners, it costs money to pay compensation if it loses, there are floods, droughts, locust plagues, and twists, and the burden on the common people is getting heavier and heavier, and even the life of small and medium-sized landlords is not easy. If the Liberation Army asked for "salary assistance" on the grounds of "war with Yangyi," it would undoubtedly be even worse for the delegates attending the meeting, and everyone's hearts would be raised. However, Tan Fei's words made everyone's hearts put down again.

In view of the fact that the situation in the county is not well understood, the management committee decided to exempt this year's agricultural tax and industrial and commercial tax. On the issue of taxation, the management committee has met many times to discuss it. There is no objection to the fact that the industrial and commercial tax will definitely be collected. As for the tax rate, it is necessary to investigate the industrial and commercial scale of the county and complete the registration of the enterprise before setting it. The discussion focused on agricultural taxes. Some people believe that the agricultural tax should be exempted, after all, this policy has been implemented in the original time and space for seven or eight years. And the survivors don't need to follow the example of the White Rabbit when it was first founded, taking advantage of the difference in industrial and agricultural scissors and using agriculture to subsidize industry. In addition, these people do not look down on the little grain that comes up from the tax revenue in the summer and autumn every year, and in their planning, they are ready to build the Pearl River Delta region into the industrial center of South China, and then use industrial products to exchange agricultural products and raw materials with the surrounding areas and even the surrounding countries. Just like the relationship between the British mainland and the colonies, there is not much tax on agriculture at all, and it is completely unnecessary.

Those who advocate the collection of agricultural taxes argue that if taxes are not collected, the rule of the Liberation Army will have no sense of existence for the overwhelming majority of the agricultural population, nor will it be conducive to cultivating a "national consciousness" among the common people, and it will not be possible to gain a sense of belonging through the obligation. Moreover, what the survivors eat now, what they pay to their hired laborers, and what the military rations all come from the war reserve grain depot of the original time and space, and there will always be a day when the mountains are empty. It is a natural move to raise grain as a reserve through taxes, "there is food in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart"! In a few years, when industry has developed, it will not be too late to abolish the agricultural tax. It is even possible to learn from the United States and subsidize agriculture.

In the end, the latter opinion became a consensus. However, the management committee did not know much about the agricultural situation in the county, the archives of the county government were not accurate, and even the fish scale books in the hands of the household secretary could not reflect the real situation. Therefore, the management committee decided to start anew and re-subordinate to Qingtianmu. This requires a lot of manpower, material resources and time, and this year's summer and autumn grains cannot be counted on. The management committee then made a favor and exempted this year's money and food.

The news of the "tax exemption" made the delegates very happy. However, some people soon realized that this "tax exemption" was only this year, and it still had to be paid next year, so a representative cautiously asked: "Dare to ask Lord Tan, what about next year?" ”

"In the second half of this year, the government will re-inventory the acres, issue land deeds, and register shops and workshops, and start taxing them from the beginning of next year." Tan Fei explained. I thought: After driving for so long, I didn't react at all, and as soon as I turned off my own interests, I became positive.

"What percentage of the tax rate?" Another delegate asked anxiously.

"It depends on the specific situation in the district." Tan Fei's words brought everyone's hearts up again. If the Liberation Army sets a higher tax rate than it is now, everyone will have to jump into the river.

"What about miscellaneous donations? Do you still receive miscellaneous donations? At this point, the meeting has become a question and answer for reporters.

Tan Fei announced with a smug face, "From now on, all kinds of miscellaneous donations will be abolished. As soon as the words fell, many deputies stood up, "The Liberation Army is incomparably benevolent and righteous!" "Tokuzawa place!" and so on, one after another, he almost shouted "Long live!" "Well, this support is somewhat sincere.

After answering all the questions of the delegates, the meeting was able to conclude at 1 p.m. Many deputies did not care about the working lunch hosted by the district government, and rushed back with the documents issued about the meeting.