After Su He finished designing the official system, the officials who had been waiting in Chengdu for a long time welcomed Su He's assessment.
Su He arranged for several talented people in Sichuan official circles to be sent to Hanzhong County and Baoji Prefecture.
Typical among them are Kou Baige, the prefect of Hanzhong County, and Gu Qiandao, the prefect of Baoji Prefecture.
Suhe also made adjustments to some areas, and the status of Hanzhong Prefecture was raised to a directly administered county on the same level as the province.
Baoji County was upgraded to Baoji Prefecture.
The most important adjustment in Sichuan is the establishment of Zigong Prefecture.
Other officials in Sichuan were mediocre in talent, and Su He was prepared to make them officials.
Now the officials in Hanzhong are his basic base. Only those officials with the same level can get the opportunity to become chief officials.
Sichuan officials were promoted to officials after several years of testing.
The prefectures and county magistrates of various prefectures and counties in Sichuan are all served by experienced officials from Hanzhong Prefecture.
Su He personally assessed the officials, and Hanzhong transferred officials with outstanding merits to appoint them.
Rongcheng Prefecture Honeysuckle.
Wu Cheng, the prefect of Zigong.
Boryeong Prefectural Cabbage.
Han Cuibai, the prefect of Zunyi.
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Li Tianyang, Magistrate of Nanchong County.
Deyang Magistrate Wei Qianjiang.
Wu Hongyi, the magistrate of Jianchang County.
Wang Yanhu, the magistrate of Shili County.
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Su He also appointed chief officers of the reclamation corps in various places.
Zhou Quan is qualified to serve as the general manager of the Shili Reclamation Corps.
Tian Heming was appointed as the general manager of the Jianchang Reclamation Corps.
Zhang Yunyou was appointed as the general manager of the Wusa Reclamation Corps.
Niu Yimu was appointed as the general manager of the Eastern Sichuan Reclamation Corps.
Niu Erlin was appointed as the general manager of the Songpan Reclamation Corps.
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The remaining civil servants in Sichuan who surrendered, the Suhe people, are relatively mediocre.
Mediocre people have different attitudes and abilities.
Su He selected some civil servants with strong abilities and good attitudes and arranged them to serve as subordinate officials in various departments under the governor of Sichuan.
Suhe arranged officials to manage every prefecture in Sichuan.
Nearly half of the counties do not have a county magistrate and are managed by the prefect.
These county magistrates and subordinate officials were the carrots of the imperial examination, specifically attracting scholars from Sichuan and Hanzhong to participate in the imperial examination.
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Li Zhisheng wiped the sweat from his head and walked into Su He's room.
"Commander Su, my work is done.
I summoned all the officials from the Sixth Department of Sichuan to help me inspect the officials in Sichuan.
According to their level and place of origin, they will be assigned to serve as officials in various prefectures and counties."
During this period, Li Zhisheng only rested for two hours a day. Most officials in the Sichuan Governor's Yamen had the same schedule as him.
They inspected the remaining officials in Rongcheng and appointed them.
After taking office, each prefecture and county magistrate can also promote talents locally and appoint subordinate officials.
The prefect can appoint subordinate officials of various branches at the county level and submit them to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for approval.
The county magistrate can appoint officials of various township offices and submit them to the prefecture's civil affairs bureau for approval.
The governor's office is so anxious to build up the infrastructure of the local government as much as possible so that it can quickly establish effective local governance.
Prepare for the attack on the gentry and the distribution of land.
Su He saw Li Zhisheng's tired face and his hair that was a little gray.
He said with concern: "Zhisheng, you have worked hard during this period.
After this round of work, the remaining work is to divide the land, you just need to grasp the general direction."
When Li Zhisheng heard Su He's words, he smiled and then asked:
"Commander Su, I came here for two things.
One is the newly established boundary between Zigong Prefecture.
One is the increase in the number of officials, especially many subordinate officials who have become officials in other places, resulting in insufficient official accommodation."
Su He opened the new version of the Sichuan map and said: "I sent people to redraw the local map, and the boundaries of Zigong Prefecture have been demarcated.
Jiading Prefecture took over Fushun County of Xuzhou Prefecture to form Zigong Prefecture.
This is to unify Sichuan's salt industry, artesian wells and tribute wells, which account for the vast majority of Sichuan's well salt production."
Li Zhisheng saw the map and found that Commander Su was on the map.
Use a pen to draw clear boundaries between prefectures, down to every village.
He immediately understood that Commander Su had sent a staff officer from the General Staff Headquarters to personally inspect Zigong Mansion and made a demarcation map.
"With this map, official dispatch and taxation can be easily handled."
Li Zhigao happily put away the map.
"General Su, in the original government offices of the Ming Dynasty, the government offices and official residences were built together, and were only used for the residence of magistrates, county magistrates and other officials.
We now have a county magistrate's office with a very large number of officials, who are elected every five years.
There are not enough official residences now, so these people cannot bring their families.
I can only buy a house locally. Fortunately, it is a small county, but many people in Chengdu cannot afford it.
It's not good for him to be separated from his family for five years or even longer."
"I really didn't think about this."
Su He fell into deep thought. The traffic is not developed now.
Officials go to other places to serve as officials, especially in remote areas.
Basically, you have to complete one term locally and there is no chance to go home.
After thinking about it, Su He ordered: "Special funds are allocated to establish primary schools and various government offices.
Official residences were built locally in the city for officials and their families to live.
Official residences belong to the local government and are allocated according to positions.
If he is promoted, transferred or resigned, his original official residence will be taken back and his official residence will be reallocated."
Su He decided to build a new government office and official residence.
Nowadays, reinforced concrete buildings are built with prefabricated panels, and houses can be built very quickly.
For small buildings with two or three floors, reinforced concrete load-bearing walls and prefabricated panels ensure safety.
The cost of the house is only the construction cost, which is not expensive at all.
"Commander Su, then I will arrange manpower and allocate special silver coins."
Su He watched Li Zhisheng leave in a hurry.
He is extremely busy now, and now is an important moment before dividing the fields.
Li Zhisheng needs to cooperate with the governor's government to act together. Without a large army to suppress it, it is simply a delusion to seize the fields of the gentry.
Old Sichuan officials who passed the examination were assigned to serve as officials in various prefectures and counties.
When the chief officials of each prefecture and county take office, they will also select local officials.
Some officials were sentenced and some were recruited.
Su He conquered the official group, and aimed at the larger group of scholars, he released news about the imperial examination to stabilize people's hearts.
Once more literate scholars are established, more officials will go to the countryside to take charge of allocating fields.
Only then could Su He establish a stable rule in Sichuan.
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Honeysuckle looked at herself in the prefect's official uniform, with an excited smile on his face.
He did not expect that he would be appointed as the prefect of Rongcheng.
This position is half a level higher than other prefects, but it is very difficult to do well.
He is in the same city as the governor of Sichuan and must be careful in everything he does.
Fortunately, the governor of Sichuan was his old boss Li Zhisheng.
Honeysuckle was surrounded by a group of people, and he enjoyed this situation very much.
I didn't expect that he, a drugstore clerk, could grow up to be the prefect of a city.
Among the few drugstore associates who became officials with him, only one became the county magistrate, and most of them are still small officials in the countryside.
Honeysuckle came to the bulletin board outside the magistrate's office and posted the latest announcement on the bulletin board.
There are two announcements in total, one is the announcement of the division of land, and the other is the announcement of the imperial examination.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, it was May 25th.
The entire Rongcheng government began to divide land.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, on October 10th,
The first imperial examination was held in Hanzhong City.
Bulletin boards are set up in crowded places.
Announcements issued by the government are published in traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese to facilitate the reading of local literate people in Chengdu.
Wang Linjiang and Li Guan were drinking and chatting at Li's Restaurant.
"Brother Li, our family is so lucky to have survived this disaster intact."
Li Guan took a sip of wine and said somewhat depressedly: "My father-in-law's family is finished.
My family is mainly engaged in business and has not suffered much damage.
My father-in-law, Zhu Hongde, was just a small gentry with thirty thousand acres of land, but he was arrested by thieves in yellow.
The main men and a few women in my father-in-law's family were all sentenced to about fifty years in prison.
The thief in yellow only gave my father-in-law two choices.
Sentenced to forced labor, the men went to the mines and the women to the textile factories.
Only children and people over 60 years old will not be forced to work.
Sentenced to exile, he joined the Reclamation Corps and was exiled to Jianchang.
Marry an indigenous woman and your sentence will be reduced by one year.
Give birth to a child and reduce your sentence by one year.
If you want to be a consecrator at a local ancestral temple or a teacher in a school.
For every 10 ancestral temple believers or 10 graduates taught, the sentence will be reduced by one year.
Being a Zhushi or a teacher will count as joining the Reclamation Corps, and your sentence will be reduced by one year every year.
Calculating the fifty-year sentence in this way, only twenty-five years are left.
If you make some more achievements, you can regain your freedom in a few years.
At that time, there will be no restrictions and you can return to Chengdu."
Wang Linjiang listened to Li Gong talking about his father-in-law's family situation, but he had no way to dissuade him.
During this period of time, the common people in Chengdu were not greatly affected, but the wealthy families experienced earth-shaking changes.
His father-in-law was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, and it was a good thing that he survived.
Some of the gentry he was familiar with had most of their entire families hanged, even the elderly in their sixties or seventies.
Only a few women and underage dolls remained.
"Brother Li, your father-in-law's family is in the Reclamation Corps and they also need a lot of money.
If you have money, you can marry a native, take ten natives, have more children, and you can come back in a few years.
After their family's property was confiscated, was there any money left?
If it doesn't work, I'll help them get through this difficult time."
Li Gong waved his hand.
"My father-in-law's family is not short of money.
The thieves in yellow are hateful, but they are also trustworthy.
In addition to the confiscated land from my father-in-law's family, the thieves in yellow also redeemed the excess land.
The money given is enough to support my father-in-law's family.
But in Jianchang, a bitter and cold place, there are still many native people making trouble, so I don’t know if my father-in-law’s family can survive.”
The shopkeeper knocked on the door and came in holding two pieces of paper.
"Boss, this is the notice copied from the bulletin board.
The thief in yellow is making big moves."
Li Gong and Wang Linjiang looked at the two announcements together.
"I didn't expect that the thieves in yellow would actually allocate land to those tenants.
This is our land, take away our land and give it to those untouchables."
Li Gong was so angry that he slammed his hand on the table, but he was unable to resist.
Most of the land in his father-in-law's family was confiscated, and he was only given one thousand taels of silver coins to redeem the land.
The money handed out by the thief in yellow was very strange silver coins and some gold coins.
But it’s also real gold and silver.
His family's land was redeemed for more than one thousand taels of silver, and no more cash was given.
The thief in yellow actually gave him several bank deposit certificates with a face value of 10,000 taels.
He knew this kind of thing. It was a variant of the Ming Dynasty treasure banknote. When a real transaction of ten thousand taels was made, it was not worth even one thousand taels.
Wang Linjiang sighed: "Their method of dividing land is a usury-style land division.
When a gentry lends money, they need money.
If they lend land, it's life-threatening.
These low-level people have nothing but their lives.
In order to own his own land, he would not hesitate to sacrifice his life.
After Sichuan was divided into territories, the rule of the yellow-clad thieves in Sichuan was as stable as Mount Tai.
There is absolutely no way Ming can fight back.
These people who have been allocated land will definitely support them to the best of their ability in order to prevent their land from being taken away from them."
Wang Linjiang believed this, even he could see it, and all the elite people in the Ming court could see it.
But Ming Dynasty had no way to stop the thief in yellow.
It is impossible to ask these scholar-bureaucrats to distribute their own land to the people.
Even if these people could alleviate some of the oppression on the people, the situation would not develop to this extent.
Li Gong listened to Wang Linjiang's words and remained silent, looking at the second announcement.
This is the process and time for holding the Yellow Robe Imperial Examination.
This year's imperial examination is special. The examination will only be held in Hanzhong, and anyone can participate.
Starting next year.
On the second day of February, academic examinations are held in various prefectures, and scholars are awarded after passing the examination.
Provincial examinations are held in each province on the fifth day of May, and those who pass the examination are awarded the title of Juren.
On the tenth day of October, a general examination was held in Hanzhong and the candidates were awarded Jinshi.
Scholars can serve as subordinate officials in various counties, scholars can serve as subordinate officials in various prefectures, and Jinshi can serve as subordinate officials in various provinces.
Both scholars and subordinate officials without rank could participate in the imperial examination.
Li Gong looked at the information on the announcement and sighed.
"The happy moments for us scholars are gone forever.
If you pass the exam, you won't get a penny of tax exemption.
Even if you pass the Jinshi exam, you cannot directly serve as a county magistrate, you need to start as a subordinate official."
Wang Linjiang looked at the notice, but he was very happy.
"Brother Li, don't be too depressed, let me analyze the benefits.
They have more positions here and can recruit many officials at a time.
You see, they held the imperial examination once a year, which is better than once every three years in the Ming Dynasty.
Those who pass the exam can become officials, and there is no need to take exams repeatedly."
Wang Linjiang was attracted by the imperial examination, and he was going to Hanzhong to take part in the imperial examination.
He felt that releasing the news about the imperial examination so early was also to stabilize the scholars in Sichuan.
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Wu Hongyi was wearing an official uniform.
He never thought that one day he would be able to wear official uniform.
As a son of a gentry who studied since childhood, his goal from the first word he read was to become an official.
His family was not very powerful, and all the local scholars were booked.
Their family didn't take sides, so it didn't affect the scientific examination. He couldn't even pass the scholar examination.
The Ming Dynasty had very strict control over the provincial examinations and examinations.
Without strong power, it is impossible to control the provincial examination and the joint examination.
The college examination is very relaxed and can be easily controlled by the local aristocratic families.
If you don't join their forces, you won't be able to become a scholar. Wanting to be an official is a luxury.
Wu Hongyi didn't expect that the Wu family made the right bet this time, transporting a batch of sugar to support Su He and getting the chance to meet Su He.
Wu Hongyi still doesn't know what he was thinking because of his nervousness at that time.
Commander Su asked him what he was good at and what he liked?
He replied that he is good at dealing with people and likes to eat sugar cane.
Commander Su asked him if he knew about growing sugar cane? Where in Sichuan can sugar cane be grown?
He replied that his family owns tens of thousands of acres of sugar cane land, and his family also has the technology to make sugar.
Sichuan is located in a mountainous area close to Yunnan, where wheat and other grains are grown with extremely low yields.
More suitable for sugarcane growth.
When he was in Guangdong, he also saw cassava introduced by the Chinese.
This plant has a high yield, but like sugarcane, it likes a hot and humid climate and does not grow well when the weather is slightly cold.
This crop yields about the same yield as sweet potatoes and is as poisonous as taro.
But just peel it and soak it in water to remove the toxins inside.
Because of these answers, Wu Hongyi was appointed magistrate of Jianchang County.
At first he didn't know where Jianchang County was?
After looking at the map, I realized that this is a mountainous area in southern Sichuan, with the Big and Little Liangshan Mountains within its borders.
Just looking at the area, Jianchang County is about the same size as Rongcheng Prefecture.
Looking at the population, it is not as populous as a county under the jurisdiction of Rongcheng Prefecture.
There are very few Han people here, most of them are natives.
These natives were led by local chieftains.
Wu Hongyi's main purpose in the past was to convert the natives into Han people.
Wu Hongyi watched as subordinate officials from various yamen in Jianchang County also arrived one after another.
These are all petty officials from Rongcheng, and some of them bring their families with them.
"My Lord Magistrate, I am dismounting Zhengkang, the head of the Criminal Bureau branch."
"Director Ma, let's work together to build Jianchang County."
Wu Hongyi cupped his hands and greeted his subordinates one after another.
He only met them a few days ago and is not familiar with these people.
"Wuzhi County, I've been waiting for a long time."
A general leads a group of soldiers, carrying many people.
These people include erring gentry and their families, as well as homeless beggars and gangsters.
This general is Tian Heming, the general manager of the Jianchang Reclamation Corps.
"Manager Tian, we will be partners from now on and we need to support each other."
The Reclamation Corps and the local government belong to different entities.
Jianchang County belongs to the civil service system and is directly managed by the Sichuan Governor's Yamen.
The Reclamation Corps belongs to the military system and is managed by the Chief of the Reclamation Corps under the Governor's Office.
The Sichuan Governor's Office cannot directly intervene in the Reclamation Corps.
Wu Hongyi knew that if he wanted to gain a foothold in Jianchang, he must deal with the relationship with the Reclamation Corps.
The Reclamation Corps is mainly responsible for maintaining local order.
Just relying on the few patrol officers from the county government, there is no way to deal with the chieftain.
He had chatted with Tian Heming before and made an appointment to go to Jianchang together.
Wu Hongyi did not dare to act alone, and Mo Yunbao, the governor of Sichuan Province, surrendered directly. There was no war there.
But there are too many chieftains and bandits are rampant there. It is very dangerous for these few scholars to go on the road.
"Manager Tian, I heard that you have lived in Jianchang for many years."
Wu Hongyi was sitting on the carriage, chatting with Tian Heming who was riding a horse.
"I have lived in Jianchangwei for more than ten years with Lord Mo Yunbao.
The chieftains there are really nothing. Some chieftains, in order to threaten the serfs in the tribe, used the human skins of the serfs who opposed them to make human skin drums.
It is said that Mr. Mo Yunbao is cruel. If you see that kind of scene, you will become very cruel.
If the chieftain didn't rebel before, we didn't dare to touch the chieftain.
If the civil servants are impeached together, we military men will be dismissed from office, or even the whole family will be imprisoned.
Now that our spring has come, Commander Su ordered the land to be restored and a reclamation army to be established.
The good days of those chieftains are coming to an end."
Tian Heming was very happy. Before he left Chengdu, Lord Mo Yunbao gave him a special explanation.
As long as you do this well, you will be granted a title of duke in the future, and at last you will be a viscount. If you do well, you will be granted the title of earl.
Tian Heming must work hard to assimilate the natives and win a title for his children.
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Li Tianyang was waiting for the transport ship by the river. He had to transfer several times through the waterway before he could reach Nanchong County.
He saw others taking office with a large group of officials.
He came into office alone.
He also understands this situation.
The governor's yamen should try its best to have as many subordinate officials as possible in remote places.
The transportation in those places is not developed and they are not suitable for all subordinate officials.
It takes more than a year to review official documents.
When subordinate officers are deployed from other places, it also takes a very long time before they can take up their posts.
Nanchong is close to the Jialing River and has very developed water transportation.
The exchange of official documents and the transfer of officials are very fast.
Li Tianyang only hoped that with some local talents, he could build a basic yamen.
Relying on himself alone, he can't do enough work.
Li Tianyang took a boat and walked along the river. He saw that rice was growing well on the land on both sides of the Jialing River.
There are officers in military uniforms who are leading the villagers to survey the land and build canals.
This place is under military control. Now that the rice transplanting has been completed, I don’t know if it will affect the divided land.
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Su He walked into the Sichuan Governor's Yamen and saw Li Zhisheng standing in front of a huge map, marking information with a pen.
When Li Zhisheng saw Su He coming in, he smiled and said: "Commander Su, officials from all over Sichuan are arriving one after another.
Military control has ended in all major cities, and we have established effective rule in Sichuan.
Under the orders of the Sichuan Dudufu, the local garrison assisted the local magistrates in suppressing the gentry.
At the same time, we eliminated local banditry and chieftain rebellion.
In places where water transportation is developed, we have established effective connections with local governments."
Su He heard the good news and saw the map ahead.
Except for mountainous areas and border areas, effective governance has been established in all riverside cities.
Zunyi Prefecture, which is far away, has already ended military control.
He praised: "We have established effective governance in Sichuan, which is very good and has taken the first step in governing Sichuan.
It is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to defend it.
We must win the hearts and minds of the people and establish the credibility of the government.
We must not be lenient to officials who damage their credibility, be dismissed from office when they should be dismissed, and be sentenced when they should be sentenced.”
If a nest case really occurs in some areas of Suhe, he will never be lenient.
There are too many scholars who want to be officials, and they show no mercy to corrupt officials.
"Commander Su, please rest assured. I'm keeping an eye on Sichuan and nothing will happen."
Li Zhisheng said confidently.
He is also preparing to enter the cabinet and will not let his officials cause trouble.
Li Zhisheng handed Su He an official document.
"Commander Su, this is an official document from Nanchong County Magistrate Li Tianyang.
Now that rice transplanting has been completed in some areas, how will this land be allocated?
We have ended military control long ago in Chongqing, Kuizhou, Guangyuan and other places.
They had already allocated the land before planting in the spring.
We have not yet established effective governance in the Rongcheng Plain, areas far away from the city and some remote mountainous areas.
These places are under military control during spring planting.
Under the supervision of military officers, the villagers have finished planting the land.
Some of the land close to the city has not yet been allocated. In order not to delay the farming season, local officials also mobilized people to plant the land first.
We cannot directly allocate land with seedlings to farmers.
Doing so will cause many disputes.
For example, the land that someone cultivated before is distributed to others.
The most important point is that it is unfair to other farmers who allocated their land earlier.
Worry not about scarcity but about inequality. If a policy causes unfairness, it will leave a grudge in the hearts of the people."
Su He thought for a while and then said: "Don't think of the seedlings and the ground as a whole.
We confiscated and redeemed the gentry's land, and at the same time redeemed the seedlings in the fields.
Then price the rice seedlings and sell them to farmers. Don’t set the price too high.
Through this method, the ownership of the seedlings is transferred.”
When Li Zhisheng heard Su He's train of thought, his eyes lit up.
"Commander Su, I will arrange for subordinate officials to perfect this method and form an official document to be sent to other regions."