Chapter 112

The businessman's sense of smell is actually very keen, as early as when Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy across southern Liaoning, the businessman who was originally doing business in Ninghai City also followed Cheng Shijie to southern Liaoning.

Although it is said that southern Liaoning is still a commercial desert, the problem is that businesses understand one thing, as long as there are people, there will be demand, and as long as there is demand, then there is business to do.

When the Ning Navy was migrating, although the population was not as large as it is now, there were 50,000 or 60,000 people with the capture of the Ning Navy. These 50,000 or 60,000 people are the size of a medium-sized county.

There are a total of 1,427 counties in 188 prefectures in the 13 provinces of Daming, and the average population of each county is more than 100,000, but in fact, a county seat like the densely populated Henan, Shandong, and Beizhili may have a population of more than 200,000, and the population of a county in the sparsely populated southwest, northwest, and northeast may be less than 30,000.

Jinzhou and Gaizhou, which are now controlled by the Ning Navy, because Gaizhou is relatively close to the area controlled by Jiannu, is mainly based on military defense, and the Ning Navy now has more than 500 Tuntian 100 households, and new Tuntian 100 households will be added every day, which means that the population of southern Liaoning has swelled to the size of Shangxian County.

In addition to the various factories controlled by Cheng Shijie himself, there are also many private factories owned by merchants, especially nearly half of the mills, more than one-third of the fur processing factories in Jinzhou, and some small textile factories, all of which were set up by the businessmen who crossed the sea with Cheng Shijie.

Especially in Jinzhou City, the commercial land that has been sold is more than 300,000 taels of silver, in Jinzhou City, Cheng Shijie's nose, but no one dares to play with Cheng Shijie.

At least those who have dealt with Cheng Shijie know very well that Cheng Shijie is a person who talks about rules, as long as he acts according to his rules and pays taxes according to his prescribed standards, no one will come to trouble them, and businessmen can do business in peace.

However, the merchants in those towns are actually small businessmen, after all, Cheng Shijie's commercial and industrial land on the scale of Jinzhou City, the cheapest also needs 1,500 taels of silver, and only businessmen who do not have the capital to buy land and build shops in Jinzhou will go to various towns to do business.

Cheng Shijie said: "Ben Shuai is going to set up an urban management law enforcement brigade in various towns, forts, Jinzhou, and Gaizhou cities, referred to as chengguan, this urban management enforcement brigade is subordinate to ......."

Cheng Shijie did not realize until now that he managed southern Liaoning according to militarization, and there was no government agency, so it was convenient and more efficient to adopt military management.

However, the problem is that it is easy to cause chaos in the military and government in the future. Although the management of the city is trivial, the things are not big, but they are closely related to ordinary people, and Cheng Shijie is also an ordinary citizen in later generations.

Although these people are hateful and should be killed, they are too far away from the lives of small citizens, and they are like living in two different worlds, except for newspapers and news, there will hardly be any contact with each other, so naturally there is no strong hatred.

What really makes the small citizens and ordinary people feel afraid and hated is actually the petty officials and officials, the ruffians and hooligans, and the village bandits and bullies. These people don't have much background background, and they may not cause much harm, but the harm they cause to the people is the most painful and direct! And there are a lot of them, too many to count.

Recently, the Internet has been boiling and spreading the Pingyang murder case in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, but in fact, as early as six years ago, in 2017, a similar case occurred in the author's hometown, where the suspect Lu Mou killed 3 people on the spot with a knife, 4 people were injured, and 2 of them died after rescue efforts failed......

This is a very important question.

If a city wants to be managed cleanly, neatly and beautifully, it is inseparable from the urban management, but in the process of implementation, if the urban management is not properly enforced, it is most likely to cause public anger and cause the loss of government credibility.

The management of the newly established urban management is under the triple jurisdiction, which is subject to Chen Guodong's supervision of the management of law enforcement by the Military and Highway Administration, and the accounts under the jurisdiction of Yang Yunniang's Finance Bureau, and the command of the newly established Civil Affairs Bureau.

Although it is impossible to prevent problems from the system, now we can only cross the river by feeling the stones, and then solve the problems when they arise.

Although Cheng Shijie turned the peasants in southern Liaoning into the Tuntian Army and accepted the management of the Military Affairs Bureau, the problem is that there are still too many factories, especially the Minsheng Factory, which is inconvenient to accept the management of the Military Affairs Bureau, such as the production of chopsticks, bedding, clothes, textile factories, farm tool factories, furniture factories, and so on.

Separation of military and political affairs, this is something that must be done, and it is better to do it early than later. Just like the founding period of the Great Song Dynasty, Song Taizu also realized that Kaifeng as a country has too many limitations, first of all, it is not like Luoyang has eight outer passes to defend, although the Yellow River is a natural risk, but the problem is that there are too many places in the middle and lower reaches that can cross the river, he once proposed to move the capital, but it was resisted by the vested interests of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the boycott led by Yin Zhao Guangyi of Kaifeng Mansion at that time, and the matter had to end without a problem.

Whoever eats the meat in his mouth will definitely not spit it out.

Chengguan Brigade, under the jurisdiction of the Chengguan squadron, Chengguan squad, each town set up a chengguan squad, one captain, eleven members, four adjacent towns, combined into a squadron, set up a chengguan squadron leader, one deputy captain.

The captain of the chengguan squadron is at the same level as the sentry commander, and at the same time, the chengguan brigade has eleven squadrons, with a total of 550 people, with Cheng Shijie's adopted son Cheng Shi as the captain of the chengguan brigade, the chengguan brigade is not equipped with armor, nor is it equipped with knives and guns, and the three classes of the central counties are equipped with five iron rulers, five water and fire sticks, and the captain and deputy captain are equipped with dog-legged knives.

In order to distinguish the Ning Navy from the military law team, the city control uniform of the Ning Navy is a blue short shirt, wearing the red and black hats of the officials, of course, due to the cold weather in southern Liaoning, the hats and uniforms are divided into two kinds, cotton clothes in winter, and the same as the standard military uniform, respectively, cotton jackets, cotton pants, cotton shoes and cotton coats, plus red and black warm hats, and single clothes in summer.

Agriculture is the lifeblood of a country, and if there is a problem in agricultural production, the whole country will have a big problem. Now that the north of the Ming Dynasty has been plagued by natural disasters, agriculture has reached the verge of collapse, and it is impossible to think about turmoil, and turmoil means war, and war means blood!

The Ming Dynasty, which has lasted for nearly three hundred years, has entered the countdown, and the regimes that cannot let the people have enough to eat will be ruthlessly overthrown without exception, which is an iron law.

With the establishment of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Cheng Shijie does not have decent talents at the moment, and Ma Shilin, Qin Bocheng, Lu Conglong, and Sun Benju dare not trust it.

On the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the fourth year of Chongzhen, according to the regulations of the later generations, it was time for a holiday.

In fact, the Ning Navy and the Tuntian Army in southern Liaoning, as well as the workers in the factories, have already taken a holiday, and there are only four praise paintings of Cheng Shijie, as well as 43 town mayors, factory directors and big businessmen in various factories, a total of more than 300 people.

"Meet the Commander!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, excuse me!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the mayors, factory directors and businessmen sitting below and said: "Outside, this marshal is the chief soldier of the Ning Navy, controlling the Dongjiang Army and capturing the general, you call Cheng a marshal, there is no problem, but here, what kind of place is this?" This is our civil affairs bureau in southern Liaoning, and it is also the official government of our southern Liaoning, you should call Cheng a politician! ”

"Yes, meet the politicians!"

Of course, this participation in politics was self-appointed by Cheng Shijie, and everyone present did not feel that there was anything wrong.

Cheng Shijie looked at the crowd: "Although you have received an invitation to come here for a meeting, I am afraid that you still lack understanding of the government agency of the Liaonan Civil Affairs Bureau, then, Cheng Mou will briefly introduce to you that the Civil Affairs Bureau, with the Civil Affairs, means that everything except military affairs is managed by the Civil Affairs Bureau, population, household registration, taxation, commerce, economic management, supervision and management, social management, and pacification of the people and the people!" ”

Cheng Shijie didn't explain, but after explaining it like this, almost everyone was dizzy.

Cheng Shijie explained that the function of the Civil Affairs Bureau was the functional management of the municipal government in later generations, but the problem was that the government management of the Ming Dynasty was too rough.

Cheng Shijie has no way to use it at all, the government structure of the Ming Dynasty is simple, and a county only has a few people such as the county commander, the county commander, the main officer, and the county lieutenant to manage a large county town with hundreds of thousands of people.

Moreover, in order to avoid officials disturbing the people, Zhu Yuanzhang strictly ordered officials not to go to the countryside, so that the county order could not go out of the county seat, and the national policy could be implemented at the county level at most, so the question is, who is managing the townships, maps, and li below the county level for the imperial court?

It's the gentry.

Let the old cat manage the salted fish, and it is strange not to be eaten.

Just like in later generations, because of masks, students took online classes, let students take online classes with mobile phones, not to mention 100%, at least 90% of students, their grades have dropped significantly, and they are all playing with mobile phones.

In later generations, many people summarized the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, saying that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was due to the corruption of the officials? When it comes to corruption, who can compare to my Qing Dynasty? Some people say that during the Xiaoice River period, in fact, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty was not a grain-producing place at all, and the lake was wide and ripe, and the world was full.

In the Ming Dynasty, grain has always been able to meet the needs of most people, although affected by the weather of the Xiaoice River, but the problem is that the influence of Huguang and Jiangnan is limited, and the problem is that the government of the Ming Dynasty has lost its ability to execute. Others say it was a peasant rebellion......

In fact, the most fundamental reason is political carelessness.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry class who were raised by the Ming court found that the court's ability to govern was declining, and began to behave as demons. In fact, after the Manchus entered the customs, they found that Zhu Ming was too merciful to them.

It's a pity that Zhu Ming perished.

The taxes of the Qing Dynasty were heavier than those of the Ming Dynasty, but the people were almost killed, and the per capita land was more, and they could barely survive, even in the so-called prosperous Kangqian era, there were more than 500 recorded peasant uprisings. What I am best at in the Qing Dynasty is self-whitewashing, and behind the prosperous times, there are thousands of miles of red land and white bones.

Cheng Shijie knows the root of Daming's disease, and he has no better way now but to treat his head and feet to solve this problem from the root.

Cheng Shijie saw the reaction of the people below, and knew that they didn't understand, so let's change a way for them to understand, subtly, and slowly cultivate their own team of officials, like PLA learning.

"Ben Shuai, this political participation to tell you, our next year, that is, Chongzhen's five-year plan, first of all, in terms of reclamation, Ning Haijun is now preparing a hundred households in Tuntian, a total of 559, an increase of six more than yesterday, will come to the beginning of spring, at least 600 or even 700 Tuntian 100 households, this participation in politics to each Tuntian 100 households planning of 30,000 acres of wasteland, of course, 30,000 acres is just the goal, can complete one-third of the total, it does not count, which means that next year in southern Liaoning we can at least 1.5 million acres of Tuntian, It is expected to exceed two million, or even three million acres! ”

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Although the newly cultivated new field, due to the relatively poor soil, the grain output will not be high, but it should not be difficult to produce one stone of grain per mu of land, this participation in politics has been prepared to plant 700,000 mu of wheat seeds, 400,000 mu of bean seeds, as well as 280,000 mu of corn seeds, potatoes and sweet potatoes are also more than 100,000 mu, do you all know what this means?" ”

Zhang Huaize raised his hand and said, "Report!" ”

"Speak!"

Zhang Huaize got up and said, "This means that our Ning Navy can basically be self-sufficient in food......

Sitting in the back seat, Gu Shizhang timidly raised his hand: "Report!" ”

"Gu Shizhang, come on!"

"Yes!"

Gu Shizhang got up and said: "It means that you will make a fortune next year, Gu has now built nineteen mills, it seems that he needs to recruit more people and expand ......"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "There is another problem, potatoes and sweet potatoes, this new type of crops, is not easy to store, if you want to store, you can only first process potatoes or sweet potatoes directly into flour, just like flour, if it is made into flour, put it in a dry environment, there is no problem with storing it for two years." ”

The eyes of Gu Shizhang and the other businessmen became brighter and brighter.

"Report!"

Gu Shizhang got up and said, "Cheng Shuai, we don't have the technology to process sweet potato flour and potato flour!" ”

"You don't have it, you have it!"

Cheng Shijie put a few pieces of paper that had already been printed in a cowhide envelope. He raised his head and said, "Who buys ......?"

Gu Shizhang was the first to raise his hand and said, "Gu Mou buys it, and is willing to pay 50,000 taels of silver...... Sixty thousand taels of silver! ”

Gu Shizhang, who has a lot of money, discourages many businessmen.

There is no way, the wealth is big, and there are many things that can be done.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "This technology is not worth so much money, a thousand taels of silver, just a thousand taels of silver!" ”

Dozens of envelopes were immediately snatched up.

Cheng Shijie continued: "You bought the name of the technology business, remember to Ben Politics, if anyone dares to evade taxes, wait for the bankruptcy, this scandal will first talk about the front, tax evasion of one or two silver, the penalty of ten times, more than one hundred and one hundred taels of silver, a hundred times the punishment, more than 10,000 taels of silver, a tax of more than 10,000 taels of silver, raid the family, extermination." Don't think that your family is not in southern Liaoning, and there is no way to take you when you participate in politics, you can try, can the soldiers of this commander go to your local home! ”

There were several people who were familiar with Zhang Huaize and immediately set their eyes on him.

Zhang Huaize shook his head and smiled bitterly.

If you stomp in Laiyang, Laiyang Zhang will have an earthquake in Laiyang, and in the face of the army of the Ning Navy, there is no ability to resist at all.

Cheng Shijie continued: "I would like to inform you of the second thing, this is to participate in politics, and it is planned to start building an official road from Lushun to Gaizhou next year, which adopts a hard-faced design, with a total length of 500 miles, and can run two carriages in parallel in one direction, that is, two-way four-lane. ”

The merchants were ecstatic in their hearts, there was no glutinous rice in southern Liaoning now, and there were very few kilns for burning lime, which meant that they had the opportunity to make a fortune again.

"The third thing, Ben participated in politics, the thirty-nine mine exploration teams sent during this time, after more than a month of hard work, they found five iron mines, after the New Year, the ice and snow melted, and the iron ore will be mined immediately......

"Good ......"

With the new iron ore, it means that they can use cheap steel as before.

"The fourth thing, we are not far from Jiannu here, if you want to do business with Jiannu, you must report to the Civil Affairs Bureau."

Cheng Shijie said: "After approval, it is allowed to do business, if you don't report it, you will do business privately, and you will be dealt with as a crime of treason with the enemy, and your home will be raided...... Extermination. Ben is not a bloodthirsty person who is easy to kill, he will not kill the nine clans, and he will not cut off your heads, but you will be reformed by labor! ”

This meeting, from the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the first day of the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, these members who participated in the meeting, but no one was sleepy, they ate something when they were hungry, drank some water when they were thirsty, and even went to the toilet conveniently.

Because the content of this meeting is related to the interests of all of us.

Cheng Shijie involved all aspects of transportation, safe production, eating, drinking, and Lazar from reclamation, grain production and processing, the construction of industrial and mining factories, taxation, the tasks that each town needs to undertake, and the power that should be obtained.

Cheng Shijie stipulates that in the future, a town primary school will be set up in each town to train the children in the town to study for free, and after four years of study, they will take the high school entrance examination, and they can enter the Jinzhou Academy to study.

"Bang Bang ......"

With the crisp sound of firecrackers, Chongzhen's fifth year came as scheduled, and Cheng Shijie also announced the dismissal of the meeting, and at the same time, the people who participated in the meeting also went back to their homes and looked for their mothers.

The atmosphere of the New Year at the end of the Ming Dynasty was far more grand than that of later generations. Especially in this era of relatively scarce materials, Cheng Shijie at least completed his task, distributing 20 catties of white flour and five buckets of grain to each household.

Although the meat cannot meet the supply, each household can still get six taels of mutton, half a catty of pork, and can eat cabbage, pork and mutton stuffed dumplings, for these people, this is an unexpected joy.

Feng Sanniang, the fake Mrs. Cheng, sent warmth to all women in southern Liaoning, everyone sent three feet of red silk, three feet of cloth made of pants is too short, and the clothes are a little small, as for how to use it, it is their own business.

Now Cheng Shijie's family background is a little thin, so he can only settle, and in the coming year, Cheng Shijie secretly swore that when the time comes, every household must be allowed to eat meat.

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Dengzhou City, Dengzhou Capital, the backyard of Denglai Governor's Yamen.

Although Sun Yuanhua did not hold a government affairs work conference like Liaonan, in fact, he had an extremely difficult year.

As the governor of Denglai, the Western Han Party is a capable leader, except for the second person under the party leader Xu Guangqi.

In fact, Sun Yuanhua at this time can actually be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

According to the historical situation, he should be held accountable because of Kong Youde's rebellion, and he was almost impeached into a sieve, but because Cheng Shijie crossed southern Liaoning, recovered Jinzhou and Gaizhou, and talked about merit, Cheng Shijie was not promoted, but he sent Xu Guangqi to the cabinet by mistake.

He entered the cabinet six months earlier than in history and became the second assistant of the Ming cabinet, and the Western Han Party also benefited from this, and many Western missionaries came to the door and asked to go to southern Liaoning to preach.

Sun Yuanhua did not dare to hide Xu Guangqi, and told Xu Guangqi the secret of the Dengzhou mutiny, and showed that Cheng Shijie's relationship with him was not as rumored by the outside world, Cheng Shijie was the first general under Sun Yuanhua.

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Is there a general who puts himself on the top of his boss, the governor of a province, who has been frozen in the utility room for three days?

Not really.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Sun Yuanhua received a handwritten letter from his teacher Xu Guangqi, in which Xu Guangqi advised Sun Yuanhua to give up his past grievances and put the overall situation first.

Seeing this, Sun Yuanhua also wanted to cry.

When Cheng Shijie was serving as the garrison of the Ning Navy, the generals under his command raided more than 200 miles and rushed into Dengzhou City to arrest him, and now Cheng Shijie's strength is almost ten times stronger than before, especially the Dongjiang Army Huanglong, who has no backbone at all.

Cheng Shijie used this money to buy Huanglong, more than half of the elite troops of the Dongjiang Army are now being trained by Cheng Shijie, this is to send the soldiers to Cheng Shijie for reorganization.

Sun Yuanhua now has two or three kittens under his hands, what will he do to take revenge on Cheng Shijie?

Thousands of Jiannu were beaten by Cheng Shijie and fled, and Jiannu, who suffered a big loss, did not dare to retaliate against Cheng Shijie, which shows that Jiannu was also instigated......

What does this make Sun Yuanhua do?

Giving up his previous suspicions, he thinks about it, the problem is that the key is not him, but it depends on whether Cheng Shijie agrees.

The biggest headache for Sun Yuanhua was his teacher Xu Guangqi, Xu Guangqi's heart was too anxious, he had already sent a letter to another student under his command, Chen Zilong, asking him to go to southern Liaoning with the prepared manuscript of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" and more than 100 students taught by Xu Guangqi in Shanghai, to be in charge of agricultural experiments in southern Liaoning.

Xu Guangqi's whole body knowledge was taught to Sun Yuanhua and Chen Zilong, Sun Yuan's chemical technology and military technology, while Chen Zilong learned agricultural technology and new crop cultivation technology.

Let Chen Zilong go to southern Liaoning, wouldn't that be a sheep entrance?

Secondly, Xu Guangqi is also very concerned about Cheng Shijie's singleness, which is actually Emperor Chongzhen's own brain supplement, now Cheng Shijie is thirty-five years old, and he will be thirty-six years old after the New Year, and he is still single.

This is like Hou Huo, the champion of the Han Dynasty, who went to illness and made a grand wish: "The Huns have not been destroyed, why should they be at home!" ”

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie was attacked by Jiannu in the Phoenix Mountain, martyred his family, and fled alone.

Emperor Chongzhen actually didn't guess wrong, Cheng Shijie's height is his great advantage, women like strong men, because strong men will bring them a sense of security.

Cheng Shijie has not remarried for more than ten years, which shows that he is unwilling.

By chance, Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou talked about Cheng Shijie's marriage, and asked Empress Zhou to find one for Cheng Shijie in the sect.

There were no secrets in the palace, even if it was a whisper between Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, it soon spread to the outer courts, and Xu Guangqi, as the deputy assistant of the cabinet, soon received the news.

Xu Guangqi is like Sun Yuanhua proposed that it is best to start with Cheng Shijie in front of Queen Zhou and marry Cheng Shijie.

Sun Yuanhua knew Xu Guangqi very well, when Xu Guangqi was baptized, he only had one grandson named Xu Ji, and his physique was weak, so his relatives and friends had persuaded him to marry more partial houses according to traditional customs to have more children, such a choice was extremely common among the scholars and doctors at that time.

Xu Guangqi mentioned this to Father Luo Ruwang, who baptized him, and Luo Ruwang replied: "There are sons and no children, and it is by the order of God." If there is already a son, it is not known whether it will prosper later. ”

Xu Guangqi pondered for a long time and then got up and said, "You can do without, but God's commandments must not be violated. ”

Hearing this, Luo Ruwang happily bowed his hand and praised: "If Mr. can obey the Lord's orders, then God will also allow you, and I will see Mr. and his descendants rope." ”

Later, Xu Guangqi's son Xu Ji became stronger and stronger, and gave birth to five sons, namely the eldest son Xu Erjue, the second son Xu Erjue, the third son Xu Erdou, the fourth son Xu Ermo, the fifth son Xu Erlu, and four daughters.

Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi are not only a teacher-student relationship, but also an in-law relationship, Xu Guangqi's third grandson Xu Erdou, his wife Wang, is Sun Yuanhua's adopted daughter, although this adopted daughter is not Sun Yuanhua's biological daughter, but is his wife Wang's maiden niece. Sun Yuanhua's eldest brother Wang Ziquan died early, leaving a son and a daughter, all of whom were raised by Sun Yuanhua's wife Wang.

Xu Guangqi has no daughters, but he has granddaughters, Xu Ji's fourth daughter (real name has not been found, the Christian name is Maldina) is fifteen years old and has not yet married.

Sun Yuanhua had an unusually headache, looked at his cronies and staff, and said, "Dacheng, how did you investigate the things that asked you to investigate?" ”

Feng Sanniang went to southern Liaoning as Cheng Shijie's wife, which caused a sensation in southern Liaoning, which also made Sun Yuanhua get the news, but Sun Yuanhua, as Cheng Shijie's boss, did not have a wife at all when he first contacted Cheng Shijie's resume.

As for the rumors of discord between husband and wife, Xiang clan and the like, it is okay to deceive the common people, at the level of Sun Yuanhua, I don't believe it at all, if the Xiang clan is really from a big clan, Cheng Shijie is in trouble, and the Xiang family will let the Xiang family go back to his parents' house, and the saliva will drown the Xiang family.

This is the power of etiquette, the Xiang clan is also a social death, and it is more serious than later generations, if the children of the Xiang clan have official positions, they will all be dismissed, which is a public outrage.

Xu Dacheng muttered: "The students sent eleven people to Jiangxi, but there is no news yet. ”

Sun Yuanhua muttered: "If Benxian goes to southern Liaoning, will Cheng Shijie ...... Bad for this Constitution? ”

Xu Dacheng shook his head and said resolutely: "It shouldn't be, Cheng Shijie is just rootless duckweed now, there is no backstage in the court, there is a lesson from Mao Wenlong's past, he will definitely not follow in Mao Wenlong's footsteps!" ”

Sun Yuanhua also has no confidence, but this time, he must go.

If he chooses not to take risks, then he will let Chen Zilong, the junior brother, take risks, the key is that although the teacher did not say it clearly in the letter, his attitude is really a little ambiguous!

(End of chapter)