At the end of June, as July was about to enter, as soon as the internal meeting of the Guangzhou branch of the Zheng Group held by Chen Kai at the governor's office in Guangzhou ended, he summoned the county magistrates of Guangzhou Prefecture to come and accept the instructions from the governor's office.

Guangzhou prefecture covers 16 counties including Nanhai, Panyu, Dongguan, Conghua, Longmen, Zengcheng, Xin'an, Xiangshan, Xinning, Xinhui, Shunde, Sanshui, Qingyuan, Lianzhou, Lianshan and Yangshan.

It occupies the core area of ​​central Guangdong and extends northward to the junction with Huguang.

Compared with Chaozhou Prefecture, which has thirteen counties after being divided into counties, and Qiongzhou Prefecture, which has maintained its original size of three states and ten counties since its recovery, its size alone is worthy of its status as the provincial capital.

Speaking of which, although these sixteen counties are under the jurisdiction of one government, their current situations are different. The three counties in the north, Lianzhou, Lianshan, and Yangshan, are now considered to have returned to the rule of the Qing court. The counties in the south are now under the control of the Qing court.

Xinning County is under the control of Chen Qice.

Apart from these four counties, the remaining twelve counties are nominally under Chen Kai's control, but among them, Qingyuan, Sanshui, Shunde, Xinhui, Xiangshan and Nanhai near Guangzhou Fucheng

, the second county of Panyu was transferred from Li Dingguo. Fortunately, the second county of Nanhai and Panyu, under the control of Jin Weixin, the officials used local Guangzhou people brought by Chen Kai from Chaozhou, but the other five counties

The officials were appointed by the Guangdong Civil Service Group, and some things had to be finalized as soon as possible before the summer tax collection was completed.

In the Ming court system, the county level and above were the prefectures, and officials at the prefecture level were responsible to the Chief Envoy and the Inspection Envoys. Officials at the Dao level also worked under the title of Chief Envoy or Inspection and Envoys.

These two divisions, together with the commanding division, must follow the governor's instructions.

The province's tradition is such that Chen Kai has overstepped his rank and is not in line with the upper-lower system. However, the current Guangzhou prefect has not yet been appointed, and Chen Kai, the Chief Envoy and Inspector, only chose Wang Jiang to be in charge of the former.

The latter still has to wait for news from Zheng Chenggong. After all, Chen Kai's entourage is still just some subordinates of the governor's yamen, and they cannot hold such high-level official positions.

The government order was issued, and the official seals from the twelve counties arrived one after another, and they all arrived within the specified time. The meeting was still held at the governor's Yamen, and a group of Bailihou sat down, waiting for Chen Kai to leave the second hall.

As soon as the announcement came, everyone stood up quickly and showed the most respectful courtesy to this Shangguan who everyone knew was not easy to mess with.

"No gift."

He sat down on the Taishi chair, waved his hand, and everyone bowed and thanked him. For example, the magistrates from the eastern counties of Guangzhou, Nanhai, and Panyu sank down and sat upright. On the other hand, the other five magistrates had their butts next to the chairs.

He sat down on the edge of the bed, not daring to be rude in any way.

The system is like this, so there are seats. The lower level, or the middle and lower-level generals sometimes don't even have seats. If you catch up with the superior and feel good, you may be rewarded with a horse. That's already extremely extreme.

What a great gift.

Class and rules have always been everywhere. However, Chen Kai didn't care about it. He glanced at the latter and then joked: "It seems that this chair will not need to be made so big in the future."

Come on, if you add up a little, you can build more warships with a few yamen, which is quite a cost-effective business."

After finishing speaking, Chen Kai casually went to pick up the tea cup on the case. At this moment, those officials who had worked under Chen Kai for many years had already known about this Shangguan's temper. Among them, the magistrate of Dongguan County almost laughed.

The other five people made a sound. However, the other five people, who had never seen such a scene, looked embarrassed for a while. In this way, several people looked at each other for a few times, and then looked at other officials.

One of them simply gritted his teeth, stamped his feet, moved his butt back a little, and then learned to sit upright, and the remaining four also followed suit.

"That's right, you guys don't mind your butt, but I also feel that if someone slips down from it during the meeting, it will interrupt my train of thought."

After taking a sip of tea, he didn't mention the matter again. Putting down the tea cup again, Chen Kai didn't bother to make too many preparations. He just exchanged a few words and started the meeting straightforwardly.

Being vigorous and resolute is his label, and most of them are already used to it. Even if they don't understand, the sitting posture problem just now has reminded them. Presumably these people can also understand that in Chen Kai's territory, it is necessary to

Follow Chen Kai's rules. Otherwise, there will be no seats in the lobby of the governor's office!

As for whether the five magistrates and counties have fully understood it, it is no longer important. Chen Kai's psychological hint is in place, which is enough.

"I have summoned you all here today. Firstly, the chief envoy of Guangdong, the envoy of inspection and the prefect of Guangzhou have not yet arrived, so I am temporarily taking on errands. Secondly, I need to understand the current situation of each county, as well as some

The issuance of government orders. After all, the current situation is still that the enemy is strong and we are weak, and there has been no fundamental change. Therefore, time waits for no one."

As soon as the words came out, the magistrate of Nanhai County immediately stood up and responded, saying that he would firmly fight for the cause of Ming Zhongxing under the leadership of Chen Kai, and so would a group of officials. Only those five in western Guangzhou

The official was slow for a moment, but in front of Chen Kai and so many colleagues, he immediately echoed his words.

"In that case, let's first talk about the situation in each county, one by one, starting from Panyu County."

Nanhai and Panyu counties are both Fuguo counties of Guangzhou. The dividing line between the two counties is from the small road outside the city in the north to Panfu Road, Dabeizhi Street, Sipailou in the south, and to the small market street in the south. It is about

In later generations, the Jiefang Road in Guangzhou City. The east of Jiefang Road belonged to Panyu County, and the west of Jiefang Road belonged to Nanhai County. When people in the city had lawsuits, they would go to different county offices to solve their problems according to this division.

This is the case inside the city, and it is also the case in the villages and towns outside the city. Among the two counties, Panyu has a longer name, and the government is also located here, so it is always called the first county.

Chen Kai called his name, and the magistrate of Panyu stood up, bowed to Chen Kai and all his colleagues present, and then revealed everything he had planned.

Like the magistrate of Nanhai County, this person is a native of Guangzhou, and he was originally a magistrate. Chen Kai rescued them from Guangzhou City, just like Ding Youyi who is still working conscientiously in Chaozhou Manufacturing Bureau. These people

The grassroots officials naturally have their hearts set on Chen Kai, and they were behind many of the people's petitions in Guangzhou some time ago.

Over the past few years, those red tapes have been difficult for Chen Kai to deal with, and he has long forgotten them. Speaking frankly, there are two main things: first, the movement to return to his hometown organized by Chen Kai.

The matter has basically come to an end, and there are still things left, but the houses and other things are also controlled by the county government and will not be easily divided; secondly, when he was in Chaozhou, Chen Kai promised to use the land in Guangzhou after returning to Guangzhou.

Double compensation for Guangzhou people's farmland in Chaozhou was promised by Chen Kai. Now that Chen Kai has taken control of the overall situation, he will naturally start to do it.

"Xiaguan has carried out the final verification work according to the records brought from Chaozhou. It is only easy inside the city, but outside the city, many of the fields occupied by the Tatars need to be returned to the people, and it will take time to continue sorting them out."

"This is not urgent for the time being. But we need to win the trust of the people and post notices in the county government to inform the people in the city about the return of the occupied land to the old owners outside the city. In addition, according to the delay time, appropriate rewards can be given to the people

To compensate. However, it should not be done too early to avoid widening the province’s fiscal gap.”

"I obey my orders."

Regarding compensation, the magistrate did not agree very much in his heart, because the government has always had the sole decision-making power over the common people. The latter was able to obtain those fields thanks to the gift of Chen Kai, and now they have to delay due to trouble.

To actually give compensation, it's as if the government owes the people something, and it's quite putting the cart before the horse.

However, since this is Chen Kai's habit, as a subordinate, he naturally has to do his best to complete it, not only because of his boss's decree, but also to repay Chen Kai's two great kindnesses of saving lives and finding opportunities.

"Fujun, and the military camps of King Xining. The lower official believes that these must be sorted out, but they must be arranged after returning and dividing the land of the local people, so as to avoid chaos caused by doing it at the same time.

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Li Dingguo's army left, but on the ground in Guangzhou, the seven counties he previously controlled left a lot of military camps to raise troops. Chen Kai does not plan to cancel these camps for the time being. After all, he has to take into account his allies.

Feelings. However, the extensive management model, especially the change in the ownership of administrative power after Li Dingguo left, must be involved, but it is impossible to stop it.

When the magistrate talked about it, Chen Kai nodded and expressed his affirmative attitude - the people of Guangzhou are his base, so naturally he must give priority to their interests in order to gain greater support. At the same time, this is also

Repay them for their activeness in the petition movement. If you give something, you will gain something, so that the bond between each other can be stronger.

"Next, Nanhai County."

The Magistrate of Panyu took his seat. No matter from which point of view, Nanhai County was doing its part. Hearing this, the Magistrate of Nanhai stood up and bowed politely. What he wanted to talk about was still the matter of returning to his homeland and dividing the land that the Magistrate of Panyu had just talked about.

It's nothing more than changing the situation in this county. In addition, there is one more thing that needs to be mentioned in particular, and after hearing his words, Chen Kai also made a direct reply.

"Superintendent Guo discussed with me before setting off, saying that there was a shortage of blacksmiths in Zhaoqing, and that King Xining's army also needed nearby weapons repairs. Therefore, they took half of the blacksmiths from Foshan to accompany the army. This is

That’s how things are for now.”

For Foshan, Chen Kai has plans to make a layout. However, this cannot be rushed. Similarly, he himself also holds an uncertain attitude as to whether to invest more efforts. As for the reason, it still lies in that year.

The issue that was considered when deciding to develop the Shilu Iron Mine.

This matter can be brought to an end for the time being. Chen Kai then visited the five counties of Conghua County, Longmen County, Zengcheng County, Dongguan County and Xin'an County.

Conghua was once the logistics base for the Shang and Geng vassals when they went south to attack Guangzhou. Among the Hongyi cannons that the Qing army attacked, except those brought from southern Jiangxi, the others were cast there. This important position has always been

It was not until the Qing army captured Sanshui that it was declared over. Today, when Li Dingguo and Chen Kai originally occupied Guangzhou, this was the northern frontier of Chen Kai's troops. However, when Chen Kai regained Shaozhou Prefecture, there was

As the central and southern parts of Shaozhou Prefecture serve as forward positions, the importance of Conghua County will give way to Qingyuan and Sanshui, because waterway transportation can better transport military supplies and personnel.

Conghua, Longmen, Zengcheng, Dongguan and Xin'an counties are all bordering Huizhou Prefecture. Hao Shangjiu's compliance with Chen Kai is relatively high at this stage, so he doesn't have to worry too much. In these counties,

Agricultural production is the top priority, and the cultivation of cash crops such as fragrant trees cannot be ignored. Fortunately, last year's war was not very intense here. According to reports from various magistrates, the output should not suffer too much.

destroy.

"The government strictly prohibits the expropriation of fragrant wood at low prices, and also strictly prevents profiteers from maliciously manipulating market prices."

"Your Majesty, please follow your orders."

Of these four counties, the first three are not bad. Only Xin'an County, the originally unimportant southern border island, has now developed into a maritime trade center. This is a trend that has already begun, and Chen Kai does not intend to do anything to it.

Change. As for the administration, it must be directly under the Guangdong Governor's Office, because there are too many things involved there, and there will be more in the future. It is far from enough to put it under one county.

"The Hong Kong Special Economic Zone, hey, why does it suddenly feel like a circle is drawn on the South China Sea?"

Perhaps it was a certain aura of tyranny from another time and space that suddenly made Chen Kai shiver, and goosebumps flashed thickly on his skin, which felt awkward.

After coughing lightly and getting over the embarrassment, Chen Kai pointed to the magistrates of Qingyuan and Sanshui counties. For these two places, the recovery of people's livelihood will naturally be difficult, but the most important thing is the transfer of military supplies, especially

The military supplies of Sanshui, Northern Guangdong and Li Dingguo must pass through here, and there is no room for gain or loss.

"However, we must not occupy the people's resources too much."

This is a rhythm that allows the horse to run without letting the horse eat grass. However, in officialdom, one level has always suppressed people. Chen Kai, a governor and a high-ranking official of the second rank, directly gave sesame seeds to these seventh-rank officials.

Official Mung Bean has assigned tasks and added responsibilities, but those who intend to take a further step in their career may want to feel grateful for it.

The officials present reported the local situation one by one, and Chen Kai also gave short or long instructions one by one. Subsequently, in the two counties of Shunde and Xiangshan, one emphasized silk production, and the other focused on Macao.

relationship. Until the end, Xinhui County was the most dilapidated place in Guangzhou Prefecture after two fierce battles between the Ming and Qing armies last year.

Pointed out the importance and implementation of tax reductions and exemptions.

"This year, all counties under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou have tax reduction and exemption policies to varying degrees. In this regard, Xinhui will benefit the most, as it will be tax-free for two years. However, what I want to make clear is that,

Whether it is Xinhui or other counties, during the tax reduction and exemption period, if anyone dares to collect taxes or exploit the people in other pretexts, the officer who stretches out his left hand will chop off his left hand, and the officer who stretches out his right hand will chop off his right hand.

arrive!"

"The lower officials will obey the orders of Fu Jun and rest with the people, and they will not dare to disobey in the slightest."

At this point, there were already a lot of people standing up and responding. Chen Kai looked at it, just smiled slightly, and said nothing more. When the meeting ended, Wang Jiang, the incoming chief envoy of Guangdong, came to report on the salt content of a province in Guangdong.

Chen Kai just glanced at the personnel arrangement plan for the fishing class, fishery class, etc. and handed it over directly to Wang Jiang for arrangement.

In the Ming Dynasty, the administrative, judicial, and military powers were initially separated in the local area, and the Chief Envoy Si Yamen was responsible for administrative affairs. Chen Kai was very relieved to leave these matters to Wang Jiang, an official with a background as a student.

On the one hand, he simply does not believe that doing well in the imperial examinations will necessarily lead to political ability. More importantly, Wang Jiang's own abilities have already been reflected. In actual practice, ability is still greater than a simple diploma, but a higher diploma will have the ability to govern.

It is also beneficial to future development for the same reason in ancient and modern times.

Just like Li Dingguo and Guo Zhiqi jointly signed a memorial to appoint Chen Kai as governor of Guangdong, it was impossible for the court to reject it. Chen Kai had already written a memorial to apply for Wang Jiang to be the chief envoy of Guangdong. The same is true for the Ming Dynasty today.

Will not reject it. The date for his official appointment is approaching, but Wang Jiang is getting even busier.

In the re-establishment of the bureaucracy in Guangdong province, there are governors-general of Guangdong and Guangdong, governors of Guangdong, and chief envoys soon. The chief envoys are indispensable in the current situation. The only one missing is the judicial officer.

This appointment did not keep Chen Kai waiting for too long. Almost before Wang Jiang officially took office, a letter was sent from Fujian, in which Zheng Chenggong mentioned the name of the Guangdong Inspector he was going to recommend.
Chapter completed!