In order to let everyone have a good year, Bai Tu decided to decide the candidate for the governor of Bozhou before the end of the first year of Chu.

In view of the matter of "opening up Bozhou," on 21 December, a large meeting of six ministries and one court was held -- that is, the important members of the six ministries and one court first discussed the matter.

The next day, on the 22nd of December, Bai Tu personally presided over the council to decide on the three governors.

That's right, three governors!

It just so happened that the state of Chu was also preparing for the two-level system of prefectures and counties, and at that time, there would also be "roads" above the state as supervision units, with the "roads" of the Song Dynasty and the "roads" of the Tang Dynasty, which were similar to the "states" of the Han Dynasty, but they were more detailed and the area was smaller.

In the previous palace meeting, Bai Tu and several scholars agreed that when they opened up Bozhou this time, they would first divide three roads - Donghai Road, Bozhou West Road, and Bozhou East Road.

Its Middle East Sea Road is also the Kyushu Island temporarily named "Tokai County" in Ganning, plus Shikoku Island in later generations, and Bozhou West Road and Bozhou East Road, as the name suggests, are the west and east of Honshu Island.

Normally, the "road" is just a supervision unit, the same as the Han Thorn History Mansion before the abolition of Shi Limu, but in order to develop smoothly, the Governor's Mansion will be set up in each of the three roads in Bozhou for the time being, as the real power office!

In addition to the development, the Middle East Sea Road is additionally responsible for the civilization of the West Dog Country and other tribes, and the Bozhou West Road is responsible for the civilization of the East Malaysia Country and other tribes.

In contrast, the East Bozhou Road is more focused on all-out land reclamation, and there are basically no Amato tribes in the area of responsibility, as long as you pay attention to the communication with the Ezo people further north.

"The matter of the three roads in Bozhou, you are already clear, this time we will decide the candidate for the governor of the three roads from the eleven candidates selected by the monarchs...... Before that, I would like to ask as a precedent that the eleven who were elected do have the confidence and conviction to assume the position of governor, right? Bai Tu sat on the main seat, and asked everyone after they were all seated.

Although they all knew that after becoming the governor of the three roads of Bozhou, they would probably not be able to return to their homeland for several years, or even more than ten years, but the people who were elected had no intention of giving up at this time.

"Let's get started! Starting with Gongyan, he read his plan one by one, and then he can ask if there is any unclear about the book, the long history of each department, or the main book. However, I would like to remind you that the questions to be asked should be in your area of competence or what you are good at, and not be unsubstantial. ”

Bai Tu said, calling Jiang Wan to "come forward", at this time, on the side, there was already a whiteboard arranged, and there was a waiter on the side to help Jiang Wan roll down before submitting the cover page of the proposal......

Jiang Wan only retired from Shang Shulang's position a year ago and was delegated to the local government to be a taishou, and now he has been nominated to come back to report on his work for the sake of Bozhou.

If you can go to the governorship this time......

can only be said to be worthy of Shang Shulang, just like sitting on a promotion, I don't know if Shang Shulang will have this kind of treatment in the future.

The form of this selection of the governor was also proposed by Bai Tu, which changed the previous casual question and answer, and required all candidates to make a detailed plan from all sides, and then make a speech at the court meeting, and then face the courtiers of the six ministries and one court, and make questions.

This round is only a preliminary examination, which is expected to take two days, followed by a three-day rest, and another two days for the final examination, just at the end of the year, the imperial court will be able to announce the resolution.

Jiang Wan was the youngest among the nominees, so he was the first to call up......

If you change the older one to come up first, Bai Tu is afraid that she won't be able to stand this stimulation.

A whole month and a half passed, and Jiang Wan finally came down with a stiff face and a dumb voice - Jiang Wan spent half an hour briefly describing his thoughts on developing Bozhou, and then spent an hour being "bombed indiscriminately".

Some of the questions did make Jiang Wan realize that he was not thoughtful, and he wrote down the questions in the plan book and started over again when he took the final exam......

In the process of questioning and questioning, Bai Tu has not been tendentious, but only opened his mouth to correct some generalized questions, or quote classics but have no contrasting effect, and ask to proceed from reality.

With the relatively young Jiang Wan as the opening, everyone is familiar with this process, and they are more open to the people behind, even if the older generation of Bing Yuan came up, they were stunned for an hour and a half before going down.

Lunch was served directly in the temple and continued in the afternoon......

It is true that in the face of this posture, there is also a certain test of physical strength, but Bai Tu did not "let go" anyone because of his age, after all, he was going to Bozhou, and he was responsible for the important position of governor, and his physical strength was also part of his ability.

In the end, he fought at night, and only "tortured" five of them for a whole day, and fought the remaining six the next day.

After that, it was said that it was a three-day rest, but in fact, it was for the questions of the first exam, combined with the advantages of others, and the time to sort out the plan again, even the youngest Jiang Wan was a little cold, and he was still doubting that this year's Jinling seemed to be cooler than usual.

After another two-day final examination, taking advantage of the three days of "rest", Jiang Wan, who was more prepared and more familiar with various development projects, served as the governor of Bozhou East Road, who needed to concentrate on development the most.

Bing Yuan, who is old and strong, and Yi who was born in Yanzhou and used to work in Jingzhou Mansion, respectively served as the governor of Bozhou West Road and the governor of Donghai Road.

It can be said that no matter Yangzhou or Jingzhou, the young and the old, have been taken care of, and the three of them have a very weak family imprint.

Jiang Wan left the clan with his mother since he was a child, and his nationality was away from home to seek officials, and Bing Yuan was also from a poor family, so he did not have too many interests involved.

As for the commanders of the first batch of "Wasteland Reclamation Corps", the Privy Council recommended Jiang Qin.

During the period of "Yangtze River Water Thieves", Jiang Qin was known for his chivalry, with the style of an ancient chivalrous warrior, emphasizing righteousness over profit, not only one of the generals who initially followed Bai Tu, but also never competing for merit in ordinary times.

Not only does it not have to worry about its ambitions, but its affinity can also drive grassroots generals, which is very suitable for "opening up wasteland".

The first batch of desert reclamation corps sent to Bozhou will gather 30,000 Ji Zao soldiers, and the families of grassroots generals can also have 30,000 people.

At that time, the military commander will be Jiang Qin, but at the same time, he will also assign three places to obey the orders of the governor's palace on the spot.

After that, there will be special training for the desert army, and the Privy Council has made a military order, and no less than 100,000 land reclamation troops will be imported into Bozhou within five years.

Normally, the training cost, equipment cost, and manpower required by the army should be much lower than that of the regular army of Chu State, mainly because of the mobilization of grassroots generals.

At the same time, before June next year, the people of Chu will be opened and encouraged to immigrate to Bozhou, and the agreement with the Dashi people to open up the wasteland is also being negotiated, and they are ranked behind the first batch of wasteland reclamation troops......

Within five years, it is planned to send 500,000 people to Bozhou, of which half are the families of the pioneers and grassroots generals.