Wei Ji hurried away, and not long after, Chao Qing reported outside the door, "Your Highness, Counselor Jiang and two ministers are here."
"Ask them to wait in the staff room, I'll be right away."
Chen Qing cleared his desk, got up and walked to the staff room.
In the staff room, Jiang Yanxian took Su Peng, the commander of the Construction Department, and Tian Xun, the commander of the Transportation Department, and stood in front of the huge sand table. The sand table was the same every time, which meant that the focus of His Highness King Yong's recent consideration was.
What was placed in front of them was the sand table of the two lakes, Jinghu South Road and Jinghu North Road. Jiang Yan first said in a low voice: "Have you noticed that the biggest feature of Jinghu South Road and Jinghu North Road is that it is a transportation joint, not only Henan Road to the south, Shaanxi
Road and Sichuan Road to the east, Jiangnan to the west, Lingnan to the north, must pass through the two lakes, especially the Yangtze River water transport, the Two Lakes Road is the top priority for transit transportation.
"The counselor is absolutely right!" Chen Qing walked in with a smile.
"I invite you all to come here today to discuss the establishment of a transit warehouse on Lianghu Road."
This time Chen Qingnan visited for nearly two months and finalized three large-scale transfer warehouse groups and one medium-sized transfer warehouse. The calculated cost was more than 1.5 million yuan. Moreover, these projects were finalized by him, and the money required was basically 1.5 million yuan.
It really pained Chen Qing to take away his inner treasure.
But he also knew that the money had to be spent. With the transfer warehouse, resources from all over the country would continue to flow to Jingzhao, which could support his army's eastward expansion step by step.
Chen Qing looked at it and said with a smile: "There are still a few missing!"
"Here we come!" Zhang Miao and Zhao Kai hurried over, followed by two commanders, one was Hong Zhuo, the commander of the Second Supervision Office, and the other was Wang Yongfeng, the commander of the Du Branch Office.
"Okay, everyone is here."
Chen Qing picked up the wooden pole and said to everyone: "Everyone must have heard that I am planning to build three large transit warehouses on Lianghu Road and Shangzhou, one in Shangluo County, one in Xiangyang, one in Hengyang, and one in Changsha.
Building a medium-sized transfer warehouse, plus the transfer warehouse built in Jiangling before, there will be four large warehouse groups in the Lianghu area. Their significance is extraordinary. Although it will cost 1.5 million yuan, it must be implemented.
And it needs to be both fast and good, so I called everyone together to have a brief discussion and see what should be done?"
Jiang Yanxian smiled and said: "Let me tell you first! When I saw the four signing orders, I knew what His Highness meant. Your Highness hopes to form several teams. The construction workers are responsible for the quality of the construction, the transshipment is responsible for the warehousing evaluation, and the branch team is responsible for the management.
money, and then the supervision team is responsible for integrity supervision."
Chen Qing smiled and said: "What Jiang Canjun said is absolutely right, that's exactly what I meant!"
Zhao Kai then said slowly: "One and a half million yuan is not a small amount. Although it is paid by the treasury, it is still public money, not private property. If there is no strict supervision, the waste will be staggering and the corruption will be staggering.
Fifty guan is definitely not enough, it has to be doubled, so we must save every penny and learn from Cai He’s lesson.”
Zhao Kai has always been worried about the Caihe River project. Although the widening was successful in the end, it exceeded the cost by 300,000 guan. The reason was that it was two months overdue and 300,000 guan in wages were paid. If the supervisors were responsible and the people worked hard and were not lazy,
, not only will it not be delayed, it will be completed one month ahead of schedule, and there will be no overruns at all.
Although Chen Qing did not pursue this matter, Zhao Kai never recognized it. Fortunately, it was using money from the treasury. If it were money from the temple treasury, Zhao Kai would have directly deducted it from the money allocated by Henan Road.
Chen Qing nodded and said: "Our strict supervision is for the benefit of officials and does not give them opportunities to waste money and corruption. I am considering integrating the four transit warehouse groups for integrated construction, integrated management, and integrated supervision. What do you mean?
, that is, the design of the warehouse group is the responsibility of the Transportation Department. How many material warehouses need to be built, how many grain and grass warehouses need to be built, how many icehouses need to be built, what size, how much grain to load, etc. are decided by the Transportation Department.
Then the construction work will be arranged by the Construction and Engineering Department. For example, if Hengyang is dredging this month, Xiangyang will build the warehouse first. When Hengyang starts building the warehouse, Xiangyang will start dredging the river. This is very important. Many materials and tools can be used in turn.
, rather than every household having one set, that would be too wasteful.”
Chen Qing glanced at everyone and continued: "Du Zhi is responsible for allocating money according to the progress and monitoring it at all times. Once overspending is discovered, he will immediately stop allocating money and find out the cause of the overspending.
Then the Supervision Office is the most important and must do things in detail. I will give you two examples. One is the overspending in Caihe. Because in the end the benefits were taken by the people, and the people on Henan Road were too poor, so I did not pursue it, but I did not
It doesn't mean that I will always tolerate this kind of thing. It takes a day and a half to finish a day's work. That's not acceptable. The Inspection Office must discover this kind of work-stealing in time, and the supervisor must be held accountable in a timely manner.
Another example is the merchants who provide raw materials. What is their background? Are they related to officials? Are the prices of the materials they provide much higher than the market price? In this regard, the Inspection Office must also investigate carefully.
In a word, we need to do things in detail and in a practical manner, so we need to set up a temporary joint official office. On the one hand, we need to provide integrated management, and on the other hand, we need to send four teams to each of the four transit warehouse groups for on-the-spot supervision."
At the end of the sentence, Chen Qing's eyes fell on Zhang Miao, "Zhang Canjun, let you take the lead in this temporary joint government office!"
Zhang Miao nodded, "I'll start working on my job tomorrow!"
Chen Qing smiled again and said: "Everyone, please tell me! I want to hear everyone's thoughts."
The Construction and Engineering Department asked Su Peng to hesitate and said: "If a joint government office is established, do we also want to join?"
Chen Qing waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are the chief officers. Jingzhao still needs you. You don't need to join, but each department must send a deputy to participate, and other departments may be involved. Everything is decided by Counselor Zhang."
At this time, Chen Qing saw that Tian Xun, the director of the transfer department, was a little hesitant, so he asked: "What does Tian Xun want to say, but there is no harm in saying it!"
Tian Xun bowed and said: "What I said in my humble position may be a little inappropriate. Please forgive me, Your Highness!"
Chen Qing nodded, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
Tian Xun pondered for a while and said: "Your Highness, during the Kaiyuan period, the Central Plains Canal was dredged and the Tianbao Canal was dug, so that materials from the south of the Yangtze River could be transported to Guanzhong. This was how the prosperous Kaiyuan era was born. Why didn't your Highness's goods from Quanzhou go through the canal?
New Yellow River, and then from the Yellow River to Tianbao Canal, you can even enter Guanzhong, so why bother to transfer in Shangzhou and Xiangyang?"
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "This is a good question. Since there is a waterway directly into Guanzhong, why should I spend 1.5 million yuan to build four transit warehouses?
In fact, this involves a question of why I want to build a transit warehouse. For example, the Hengyang warehouse. Did I build it for Hengzhou? Of course it is, but actually not. There are also Daozhou, Chenzhou, Yongzhou, Quanzhou, and Guiyang.
Prisons, etc., they also have rivers that can sail small boats, but if you use a small boat to transport a boatload of specialties to Xiangyang Prefecture, it is undoubtedly too uneconomical, but if you only transport it to Hengyang, it is very convenient. A small amount makes a lot, and then a few
It was all transported away in a cargo ship worth 10,000 tons. How much practical benefit would this bring to the people of the southern states?
The same goes for the Changsha transit warehouse. Do you think I only consider the transportation convenience of Tanzhou? Of course not. Jiangling Prefecture actually has nothing to do with Jinghu South Road. The real first state of Jinghu South Road is Tanzhou, which is very important to Jinghu South Road.
Most of the wealthy families who have a strong influence on Hunan Road live in Changsha. I had to consider their feelings and interests. Out of political considerations, I decided to build a transit warehouse complex in Changsha.
The same is true for Xiangyang. Once the construction of the Xiangyang transit warehouse cluster is completed, it will affect the entire Jinghu North Road. The interests of all the local wealthy families will be closely related to the Xiangyang transit warehouse cluster. I actually control Jinghu North Road through its influence.
This is the support of the people. The gentry and common people on Jinghu North Road and Jinghu South Road yearn for Jingzhao, not Lin'an. Tian Shuling must understand!"
Tian Xun bowed and saluted, "I am short-sighted in my humble position and do not understand His Highness's foresight. I am really ashamed!"