The people in Guangzhou gathered together for the first time after the city was stabilized.
It's been just over a month since the last gathering.
But over the past month or so, the city of Guangzhou has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Their lives have also been rewritten.
“My family has thousands of acres of good irrigated land.
I only got a few passbooks from the bank.
There are indeed enough silver coins in the passbook, and the price of each mu of land is purchased according to the market price.
I don’t know where we can invest it. We must replace these pieces of paper with real materials.
If the King of Qin disowns these pieces of paper, we will all be doomed."
"Yes! The bank only allows the withdrawal of a small amount of silver coins.
He said that a large amount of silver coins were still on the way and had to wait for shipment from Sichuan.
I think King Qin just didn’t want to give us enough silver coins and sent us away with a few pieces of paper.
We must spend the money as soon as possible.
Only money spent is real money.
I have tried it, and now the silver coins in the passbook can be spent, so everyone should spend it as soon as possible."
"Brother Shengming, I heard that you have been recommended to the Imperial College and will be awarded an official position upon graduation.
If you have any inside information, please tell everyone."
"Yes! Everyone listen to Brother Li and Brother Zheng. You can't burn bridges across the river to show us a clear path."
Li Shengming looked at these people who tried to bully him with words.
These people were jealous of the treatment he received.
King Su He of Qin issued a special decree to recognize the status of these gentry as civil servants.
The candidates in the Qin Palace do not have so many privileges.
It cannot be exempted from tax, nor can it influence the judgment of Dali Temple.
The privileges attached to the promotion of people disappear.
It is just a threshold for becoming an official and the status of participating in the imperial examination.
As the two leaders, the Qin Palace gave them two choices.
He went to Hanzhong to study and continued to take the imperial examination.
As long as your grades in the imperial examination are not bad, you can pass the imperial examination.
I will definitely take some care of you, and my future career will be smoother.
Another option is to join the Imperial College.
After studying in the Imperial College for a few months, you will graduate and be directly awarded an official title.
If you choose this path, you will definitely be rejected by officials who take the normal imperial examination.
Li Shengming learned that there were many officials in the Qin Palace who were not imperial examination officials.
Their family urgently needed him to become an official, to become the pillar of the family and to stabilize the hearts of the already separated clan members.
Li Shengming could only choose the path of Imperial College.
When these people realized the benefits they had gained, many of them developed pink eye.
They didn't even think about what would happen to him and Brother Zheng if the city offering failed.
The greater the risk, the greater the gain.
Li Shengming looked down on these pink eyes, but he still said what needed to be said.
Many of these people will enter the officialdom and become township party members. No one knows whether any of these people will become successful.
"I often read newspapers from Hanzhong, and I have also been in contact with some officials from Guangzhou government in the past few days.
In your spare time, you can learn from them about the policies of Guangzhou Prefecture.
The only news I know for sure is that King Qin will definitely launch sea trade.
I was at the governor's office in Guangdong and discovered the Shipping Department, which specializes in maritime trade management and taxation.
The Municipal Shipping Department is directly under the State Administration of Taxation of the Prince of Qin, but they handle cases independently and have their own tax police.
We are all Cantonese and know the benefits brought by sea trade.
It's too dangerous to go to sea now, and you're really risking a narrow escape.
Pirates, red-haired men, and the Ming Navy will all plunder our ships.
Some forces also control sea routes.
You have to pay for the journey to travel this sea route.
Storms and epidemics at sea can also kill people.
We are all rich, there is no need to risk everything and go to the sea to make a living.
But everyone knows the trade chain related to sea trade.
Once the King of Qin imposes a sea ban, the demand for tea, silk, and porcelain will definitely skyrocket.
If you invest your money in these industries, you will definitely make a profit without losing money."
Li Shengming didn't just talk about it in vain, he only told the news after being prompted by Honeysuckle, the governor of Guangdong.
The people present heard Li Shengming's words and nodded silently.
The news of the sea ban is really important. As long as you know it in advance, you can make a lot of money.
Tea, silk, and porcelain are all traditional industries that they are very familiar with.
Holding these passbooks in my hands, I am really worried that they will become worthless and become the same thing as precious banknotes.
If they invest money in these industries, their family can handle it.
Many people are discussing which industry is more profitable and what connections their families have.
One of the candidates suddenly burst into tears.
"Woo!"
"Wei Shuhang, what's wrong with you?"
Wei Shuhang wiped away his tears and said, "My third uncle controls 90,000 acres of mulberry forests, and he is a well-known raw silk merchant.
But he is in Nanzhili, and we dare not contact him at all.
I'm afraid that if I contact him, he will be directly caught and executed by the Ming Dynasty."
Zheng Ziliang opened his mouth and said: "The people above and below were extravagant, so they plundered the people. When the people's upheaval was imminent, they plundered the merchants.
This sentence from Yanhuang Daily sums it up very well.
You should not contact your third uncle, otherwise he will be really in danger."
"Your third uncle is still alive, but my second uncle was directly executed with medicinal materials."
"My third brother was also executed with medicinal materials."
Li Shengming sighed and said: "Don't be too miserable, there is no one among us here who has been executed by medicinal materials.
People from every house in our family were arrested and executed.
Our families, at least, still exist, and it’s good to be alive.
Lan Lan and his group were captured by the Qin army on the Pearl River and missed a good opportunity to dedicate the city.
Executed to death, exiled to exile. Only orphans and widows were left.
Their family properties have been confiscated. Many of these orphans and widowed mothers cannot hold on and will definitely remarry.
The whole family died immediately."
When Li Shengming mentioned Lan Lan, everyone was silent.
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Honeysuckle looked at Shi Dajian, director of the Guangdong Criminal Department.
"Director Shi, those officials have gathered upstairs at Dinghe again to guard against them secretly doing something.
We divide the land and deal with the evil gentry.
They had been prepared, but if the knife really hit them, these people would definitely be in great pain.
If it doesn't work out, they will connect in secret to try to cause trouble."
Honeysuckle knew what these people were talking about at Dinghe Tower.
Some people are interested in the King of Qin and want to ask for an official position.
After the Dinghelou gathering ended, five people passed on the contents of the gathering to him through various methods.
He also knew that some people gave him nicknames and called him medicine.
Shi Dajian immediately assured: "Please rest assured, Governor Jin, everyone is being watched by the police.
Scholars rebelled, but it took ten years to succeed.
These people are very talkative, but if you really want them to pick up swords and guns and fight, you are looking down on them too much."
After Shi Dajian finished reporting his work, he left the Guangdong Governor's Yamen.
Honeysuckle looked at the one-foot-thick official document on the table.
These need to be dealt with as soon as possible.
When I was a prefect, I thought about climbing up the ladder and actually becoming a governor, but I also missed the relaxed days when I was a prefect.
Governors, especially those in newly occupied areas.
You have to take care of everything, and you can't make mistakes. If you make a mistake, it will lead to a big incident.
He governed Guangdong and divided everything that should be done into three stages.
At the end of these three stages, he will definitely change Guangdong and deliver a perfect answer.
Now in Guangdong, the first phase of the task has been basically completed.
The first stage is to arrange the officials in place so that each yamen can run smoothly.
Officials can only truly occupy a place if they can formally form rule over the place.
It was not difficult to arrange the officials who came to Guangdong with him.
But it is very difficult to identify those who will be demoted.
Honeysuckle's main job during this period was to hold interviews with various demoted officials.
See if you can find some hidden gems and help him deal with things together.
The result disappointed him. Most of these Ming officials were nothing but drunkards.
Let them write articles to make up for it, these people have no problem at all.
Let them handle things, and many people won't.
Honeysuckle could only find some officials and masters to help him deal with the matter.
No wonder Su He, King of Qin, liked to employ officials.
These people are not good at writing articles, but they are really capable at doing things.
As long as some officials with too bad reputations are eliminated, these officials can be used.
Honeysuckle also felt that he was a little stupid. He didn't want to use the experience that Prince Qin's Mansion had explored before.
I just want to find another way to show off my talents.
Honeysuckle knows herself clearly and immediately adjusts the way she does things.
Using the successful plan explored by the Qin Palace, the official vacancies in various prefectures and counties were quickly filled.
The local government officially came into operation and formed effective rule over Guangdong.
The second phase is now underway in various parts of Guangdong.
Confiscate the land of the gentry, severely punish the evil gentry, and redress the grievances of the people.
Allocate land to the people, win their trust, and completely consolidate the authority of the government.
The third stage of governing Guangzhou Prefecture is to reclaim land and develop maritime trade, industry and commerce.
The most important thing is to popularize education, popularize Pinyin and Mandarin.
Guangzhou Prefecture only has land near rivers, which have been turned into mature fields after a long period of cultivation.
Land far away from rivers, as well as hilly and mountainous areas, have not been effectively cultivated at all.
Honeysuckle needs to build water conservancy projects so that rice can be grown on land far away from the river.
Forest trees, herbs and sweet potatoes can be grown in the mountains.
Building water conservancy requires cement plants and steel plants.
Guangdong has confirmed that it will become the industrial center of the southeast.
Honeysuckle needs to prepare in advance for industrial development.
It is convenient to undertake the industrial transfer of Hanzhong and Sichuan.
As for education, this is a century-old project that will definitely not be completed during his tenure, but it will make a good start.
Mandarin education will start in primary school. Adults cannot change their language habits. Only when these primary school students grow up can the local language be changed to facilitate people-to-people exchanges.
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In the southern part of Hepu County, Lianzhou Prefecture, Guangdong, the original Zhuchang Inspection Department is now Zhuchang Township.
This is a village where Dan households gather and make a living by fishing for pearls on the sea.
They work very hard every year and collect extremely valuable jewelry.
But because he couldn't go ashore, he had to sell the jewelry to Mr. Liu, Inspector Liu at a cheap price.
Mr. Liu also gave everyone tasks. If they failed to complete the tasks, they would be thrown into the sea.
A strong man who looked like an iron tower, wearing an ill-fitting official uniform, came to the beach of Baozhu Township.
The people on the boat looked at this group of people with doubts.
The official uniforms of this group of people are very strange. They are different from the official uniforms I have seen before.
What shocked them the most was that the old man actually took the government servants and arrested Mr. Liu directly.
Mr. Liu was a well-known local lord. When the county magistrate came to collect taxes, he was always polite to Mr. Liu.
Niu Shijin shouted to the people living on the boat: "I am Niu Shijin, the magistrate of Xiangshan County."
Every time Niu Shijin said his name, he was very embarrassed.
My father, who is uneducated, always pretends to be an educated man. He named him Niu Shijin, but others always think of him as Niu Shijin.
The villagers in Baozhu Village don't quite understand this sentence, but they can understand the word magistrate.
I didn't understand these two words, so I quarreled with the county magistrate, and all of them were thrown into the sea by Master Liu.
They don't care whether the county magistrate calls the cow assorted or ten pounds of cow.
They didn't know why the county magistrate came to their small place.
Niu Shijin had a loud voice and said loudly to the villagers: "According to King Qin's order, you Dan households will officially leave your humble status starting today.
I will allocate land for you in Hepu County.
Now start registering personal information and allocating land to you."
After Niu Shijin finished speaking, he saw that the villagers were indifferent.
He was a little strange. When he was the director of the county household branch in Yunnan, he followed the county magistrate to allocate land to the villagers.
When the local villagers heard about the land allocation, they were ecstatic.
Why did he preside over the land distribution for the first time, but now the villagers in Baozhu Township are indifferent.
Secretary Li San nodded and bowed and reminded: "Sir, these villagers cannot understand the Sichuan dialect you speak."
Now to work as a master, that is, a secretary, for the new gentlemen, you must master the northern Mandarin, the language of the elder's hometown and the Cantonese of the area where the elder is employed.
Niu Shijin glared at Li Umbrella and said, "What are you doing standing still? Why don't you translate for me quickly?"
Secretary Li Xuan looked arrogant and repeated Niu Shijin's words in Cantonese.
The people in the Pearl Field Inspection Department simply couldn’t believe it.
After a period of confusion, they sent a silver-haired old woman carrying a cane to consult on behalf of the villagers.
She has the highest prestige here.
"Old woman Wu Zhu, may I ask the county magistrate, are what you said true?"
Niu Shijin couldn't understand the villager's question.
He told his secretary Li Umbrella: "You know all the policies of the county.
You explain the policy to the villagers."
Niu Shijin was not afraid that Li San would not be careful because he did not understand the language and would distort the county's policies.
Behind Niu Shijin were several people who had failed in the competition for secretary, and he had brought them all with him.
If Li Umbrella wants to make a small move, these people who are eager to get to the top will definitely take Li Umbrella down.
The old woman listened to Li Xuan's detailed introduction to the county's policies. She couldn't believe it. She consulted many times before returning to the ship.
She said loudly to the households: "The King of Qin drove away the Ming Dynasty, and now this place is under the rule of the King of Qin.
The King of Qin has abolished our humble status. From now on, we can go ashore freely and marry other people normally.
The county magistrate appointed by King Qin also allocated land to us.
The land belonging to Mr. Liu, the Pearl Field Inspection Department, will be distributed to us.
Any family that has a grudge against Mr. Liu should go to the county magistrate now to redress their grievances."
The county minister of Dali City personally came to the village to review the case.
When Inspector Liu was hanged on the ship.
All the people were excited. They truly believed that the dynasty had changed here.
Niu Shijin began to allocate land to households, divided villages into villages, and appointed village chiefs for each village.
Arrange for township offices, health clinics and primary schools in the township.
The health center was the first to be put into use, treating some minor illnesses and vaccinating villagers with cowpox vaccine.
In the land of Guangdong, every county began to divide land, arrange township chiefs and township office officials, and appoint village chiefs.
When the people got their own land deeds, few people did not lose their composure, and many people burst into tears.
They sat on their own land and refused to leave for a long time.
Support for King Qin also reached its highest peak.
Recruiters from the Southeast Dudu Prefecture rushed to various villages to recruit soldiers.
The people who had just been allocated land enthusiastically signed up.
For the people at the bottom, they want to get ahead.
There are only two paths: the imperial examination and joining the army. The imperial examination requires reading and literacy, and most people cannot meet the requirements.
The only way to join the army is to join the army, and anyone can join it as long as they are physically strong.
The tentacles of King Qin's rule penetrated deeply into every village in Guangdong.
The Qin Palace was in Guangdong, and its rule was completely stable.
The old and young of the Ming Dynasty have lost their folk foundation, and they can no longer make waves.
