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Annie's departure also seemed to affect Wu Feng's state of mind, he didn't know how he could suddenly be so interested in this woman he had not paid attention to, whether it was the other party's performance that stimulated him or his feelings changed, he asked himself repeatedly, but he couldn't find the result. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but all this can not affect his reason and judgment, Gerok as the thickest barrier in the north of Western Xinjiang, especially the important surnames of Jiama and Fanlin are irreplaceable, and the excess establishment of as many as six divisions of the Gerok Legion is enough to prove this.

Yang Zhengbin's concern for economic development at the banquet also deeply stung Wu Feng, there are still quite a lot of unstable factors in the Western Xinjiang Territory, and many of these unstable factors are caused by the excessive poverty of the people, which has become a favorable condition for Wu Feng to easily win the hearts and minds of the people, but when it becomes the Western Xinjiang Territory, Wu Feng deeply feels the tremendous pressure brought by these factors.

Yang Zhengbin quickly submitted to Wufeng the list of prefectures and counties in the current control area of Western Xinjiang that are included in the poverty-stricken areas, the three major regions of Beiyuan County, Zhongnan County, and Burma County are the top priorities, Yunzhong Prefecture in Yanyun, Tianshui, Heishan and Longquan Prefecture in Heshuo, and the Pamir region that is in the process of declaring to join North Luzon County as one of the provinces, and like East Tengger County, it is not included because of the nomadic habits of the local people, even so, the blacklist of as many as 18 prefectures and counties still makes Wufeng can't help but take a breath of cold air.

He was a little skeptical that Yang Zhengbin had been fighting the idea of the 200 million gold coins he had obtained from Tian Yi again, James was this guy's classmate, it was difficult to say whether this guy had gotten the news from James, but in front of Yang Zhengbin's detailed introduction, he also had to admit that these local areas were facing considerable difficulties, and it was even possible to endanger his prestige and rule in these regions.

The problems of transportation and infrastructure are common problems restricting the economic development of these regions, and the impact of drought and war on the prefectures belonging to the interior of the empire is also huge, many of the originally relatively good prefectures and counties have been completely reduced to wild land after suffering from the poison of the Taiping Sect and the ravages of the defeated army of the empire, such as the Longquan Black Mountain in Beiyuan and Heshuo, and the newly annexed areas to the west are mainly the local rulers who did not have a plan to promote local economic development at all, and only cared about squeezing the people to grab wealth, and the infrastructure is almost blank, so even businessmen who are willing to invest will be deterred by these factors。

Yang Zhengbin submitted these lists to Wu Feng did have some intention of blackmailing His Royal Highness King Qin, of course he knew that since His Royal Highness King Qin had the intention to keep this fund, there must be other purposes, and he did not expect to be able to snatch all the funds from His Royal Highness King Qin at once, but it was also a good thing to make His Royal Highness King Qin realize that there were many problems in the territory, and the development of the economy was not empty talk, nor could it be solved by the Government Affairs Bureau, and there were many things that His Royal Highness King Qin had to take action for.

But Yang Zhengbin still didn't expect that His Royal Highness the King of Qin would be so generous to allocate 100 million gold coins to solve the economic development of these poor areas, 100 million gold coins! What kind of amount is this, for Yang Zhengbin, this is simply a natural pie, originally expected to be able to squeeze twenty or thirty million gold coins is already the limit, but I didn't expect His Royal Highness King Qin to approve this huge amount of money without hesitation after reading this list and the situation introduced, although this is not enough to solve the embarrassment of so many regions at once, but at least for the time being, you can use this money to do a few big things that need to be handled, but just getting this money out of thin air makes Yang Zhengbin a little uneasy with this money.

Wu Feng, who was refreshed and generous, was also heartbroken, this was originally the funds he used to develop and operate the navy, but now he had to cut half of it to the Economic Development Division. The construction expenses of the Great South Sea Fleet have made the Financial Secretary shout that he can't bear it, and the formation of the eighth, ninth, and thirteenth legions has put the Financial Secretary on the verge of bankruptcy, and the funds originally seized from the Indean plus the profits earned from the grain trafficking campaign have been shrinking in this continuous war, and the areas that are constantly attached to them also need funds, plus the reorganization and dismissal of the newly established three legions, a sum of money has flowed out like flowing water, and James has been very well maintained and has a few more wrinkles on his face. And now the Financial Secretary has clearly told Wu Feng that he no longer has the ability to support Wu Feng's plan to form the Great Eastern Ocean Fleet, if it weren't for the huge inflow of funds provided by Tian Yi, how would Wu Feng dare to let Ling Tian go out to patrol the south of the Yangtze River to form the Great Eastern Ocean Fleet with arrogance.

It was only at this time that Wu Feng realized how difficult it was to rule such a large territory as the empire, and he also deeply understood the true meaning of the phrase that money is rarely used at any time, and that money would never be enough, and if it weren't for the careful calculations of the Financial Secretary, I was afraid that the wealth and profits earned from the Indean and grain sales would have been exhausted long ago, and even this battle would not be able to last.

Xiao Tang also put forward his own suggestions to Wufeng, in view of the urgency of developing the local economy in various places, it was suggested that Wufeng study and approve a large number of vacant magistrates as soon as possible, especially the early appointment of Beiyuan, The governors of the two counties of Tiannan, as well as the governors of Donghai counties, which may soon be subsumed into the western Xinjiang, can only make the political power of a large administrative region relatively stable, and also help the local administrative regions to formulate a development plan suitable for the actual situation of the region in a timely manner.

In the end, Wufeng chose Wenming, a member of the Chinese family of the seven major industrial and commercial families in Jiangnan, to be the governor of Beiyuan, and Wufeng's choice of Wenming as the governor of Beiyuan was to declare to the industrial and commercial class of the entire empire that his selection criteria for officials were different from those of the original empire, breaking the restrictions on the appointment of officials, and on the other hand, it was also to use the good relationship of civilization in the industrial and commercial class in Jiangnan to raise funds and find a shortcut for the development of the ruined northern plains。 And the candidate for the governor of Tiannan finally fell to the head of Qin Tieliu, the president of Northwest University, Qin Tieliu was not originally a candidate for the governor of Tiannan, but after careful consideration, Wu Feng resolutely chose Qin Tieliu as the governor of Tiannan, which made many people feel incomprehensible, and many people even wondered if this was Wu Feng's overture to the Qin family among the five major families of the empire, in order to win over the wavering forces in the several major families of the empire.

Immediately after that, Wu Feng approved the appointment of more than a dozen prefectures and city guards such as Qingyang, Gusu, Weiyang, Baling, Jiujiang, and Anqing, and at the same time, the Supervision Department also announced a series of cases of investigating and punishing officials, and several officials were investigated and punished for corruption and handed over to the trial court for trial, including high-priced officials such as the director of a government.

This series of appointments and dismissals once again set off a huge wave in Western Xinjiang, because among the more than 10 city guard positions, more than 30 percent of the people were selected from industrial and commercial families, which completely subverted the tradition that senior administrative officials in the empire must be born into gentry families, especially in the selection of candidates for the three major industrial and commercial towns of Gusu, Weiyang, and Huzhou, which attracted the attention of too many people, and even the "Jiangnan Morning Post" and "Southeast Express" Newspapers and periodicals representing the attitudes of the gentry and the industrial and commercial classes in Jiangnan also reported on the selection and appointment of the city guards in these two places by the Western Xinjiang Administrative Affairs Bureau for several days in a row. As a result, the candidates for the two major city guards of Gusu and Weiyang were won by Zhuge Miao, the former Jincheng city guard, who was born in a wealthy family, and He Zichang, the former Taixuan city guard, and Mao Huangshan, the city guard of Huzhou, although he was born as a gentry, but he was an out-and-out spokesperson for the industrial and commercial class, and his wife was from the Murong family of the seven families in the south of the Yangtze River.

But the "Jiangnan Morning Post" retorted sourly, fortunately, the governor of Jiangnan and Yuhang Chengshou were both from gentry families, otherwise those businessmen who drilled into the eyes of money were only afraid to declare Jiangnan as the Jiangnan of their merchants, wouldn't they see that His Royal Highness King Qin was still from a scholar family?!

In this large-scale appointment of city guards, some ethnic minority officials also began to emerge and became a striking force in the political arena of Western Xinjiang, the newly established city guard of Pamir Province was served by an Indian immigrant, which was the second Indian immigrant to serve as a senior official after Rao became the director of the War Preparedness Department, and the vacant Qinzhou city code was a Gaoyue tribesman, and the new city guard of Qingyang, which is still the capital of Western Xinjiang as an important town in the northwest, turned out to be a Wusun tribesman!

As the mouthpiece newspaper of Western Xinjiang, the "Northwest Star" conducted a comprehensive analysis of this large-scale personnel appointment. Qian Mingliang, a professor at Northwest University, said that in this political watershed battle in the eyes of everyone, there is no one who is the loser and the winner, in fact, with the expansion of the geographical jurisdiction of Western Xinjiang, the officials selected by His Royal Highness King Qin, whether they are from the industrial and commercial class, from the gentry class or the ordinary citizen class, all of them have some things in common, that is, they have a certain amount of knowledge, a certain amount of social experience, They have considerable credibility and recognition among the people, and the class from which they come is no longer a necessary condition for the selection of officials, which also proves that the sources of officials in Western Xinjiang are diversified and the selection system in Western Xinjiang is mature.

(To be continued)