What is the official position of the Governor of Water Transport? I believe everyone has heard of this official position in many TV programs.
The highest official of water transport is the governor of water transport, who is stationed in Huai'an and in charge of water administration. The governor of water transport also oversees the main base of green battalion officers and soldiers and the separate defense battalions, called "caobiao", and is responsible for the protection of grain ships.
Under the Governor of Water Transport, he is responsible for the grain roads of each province, is in charge of the province's grain reserves, has jurisdiction over the subordinate military guards, selects the officials who will lead the transportation, and instructs all the governments to gather together to select the transportation troops, and to guard the water station, supervise, and verify the exchange of water transportation.
Hand it over to the escort officer in person, then accompany the ship supervisor to Huai'an and present it to the governor for examination.
Under the Grain Road, there are the Tongzhi in charge of grain, the Tongpan and the escorting Tongzhi. The Tongpan are all local assistants. The former is responsible for supervising the delivery of grain, and the latter is responsible for escorting water and ships.
The Qing Dynasty also had a system of guard stations. The officers and soldiers of the guard stations were assigned to farm fields and were responsible for guiding transportation. The guards were renamed as garrison troops and were not allowed to be mixed with civilian registration. They were reviewed once every five years and were handled by the grain road. The transportation was divided according to ships.
Gangs, each gang has 1 to 2 people from the guard station to lead the transportation, and 1 martial arts officer to serve with the gang.
Of course, this is all ancient history. Since the Taiping Army occupied Jiangning and cut off the canal, water transportation has basically been abolished.
In addition, in recent years, a lot of grain has been transported to Tianjin by sea ship and then transferred to the capital, which has accelerated the collapse of water transportation.
Therefore, if Shao Can takes up his post in Huai'an this time, he will only be a bare commander. All his officials and soldiers will be transferred from the local area.
But now that Jiangsu is the territory of Huaihai Navy, who can he transfer?
But Shao Can is the Minister of Military and Aircraft after all, so he can't be too proud of himself. He has to find something to do for others.
Just when Dong Shuheng scratched his head and couldn't think of it.
Zeng Xianfeng on the side reminded: "President, I think the imperial court sent Shao Can down this time to divide the power of Qishan. The Governor of Water Transport has many powers that overlap with those of the Governor of Liangjiang. For example, the grain roads in various places, and now Jiangsu's grain is
It is in our hands and we must not let Shao Can take it away."
"Yes, but Shao Can is the Minister of Military and Aircraft after all, so we can't touch him casually. If he deliberately wants to cause trouble, we can't do anything to him." Dong Shuheng said helplessly.
"Then the main question now is how to find something for him to do? Find something for him? And it's something he can't refuse," Zeng Xianfeng said.
"Yes, Premier Zeng, you know these upper-level officials better. You can see what kind of things can meet the standards."
Zeng Xianfeng lowered his head and sipped the tea in his hand, thought for a while, and said: "President, aren't we building the Northern Jiangsu Irrigation Canal now? The Governor of Water Transport should be concerned about this matter. The main irrigation canal is connected to Hongze Lake, and Hongze Lake
Zehu is located in Huai'an Prefecture and is an important hub on the canal."
"I think that when Shao Can arrives in Huai'an, the prefect of Huai'an will be responsible for receiving him, and then some people from the militia will be selected to make bids for him. The prefect of Huai'an will take him to inspect various water conservancy projects in Jiangbei. This circle
Come down, it will take a month or two no matter what."
"So, what happens after the inspection?" Dong Shuheng asked, can't he always take Shao Can around the construction site?
"One or two months will be enough for us to arrange on the canal. When the time comes, something will break out on the rivers in Shandong and Zhili. I think it will not be difficult for our Huai Navy. Then Shao Can will have to bring his canal mark.
We must go to suppress the rebellion, so that he will not have time to come to Jiangsu to cause trouble for us." Zeng Xianfeng said with a smile.
"Ginger is still too old. This is a good move by the Prime Minister! Let's do it this way. As for the water transportation accident, I will let others arrange it. Let Mr. Shao help our water conservancy project first."
"Old Zeng, you have to work harder recently. The year-end audit and assessment work of government lines must be done properly, and the assessment of grassroots military governments must be fair, otherwise we will become like the Qing court over time.
"Dong Shuheng warned seriously.
Dong Shuheng worked in a grassroots unit. During the assessment of some units, some people who usually don't do much work can get excellent results in the year-end assessment every year because of their good relationship with the leaders.
They are all in the same office, and everyone knows who has done how much. As a result, everyone in the office is unwilling to do anything. The performance of this unit will become worse and worse.
"Yes, President, I understand the importance of this matter. Everyone's eyes are fixed on this matter! If rewards and punishments are unfair, who will be willing to do good things in the future?" Zeng Xianfeng assured.
"For this year-end assessment, subordinates will contact the Supervision Department to intervene to ensure the fairness of the assessment process. The results of the assessment will also be announced. If they have opinions about the person being announced, others can report it." Zeng Xianfeng added.
"Well, okay, Lao Zeng, I can rest assured that you can handle the matter!" Dong Shuheng nodded.
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After leaving the Prime Minister's Office, Dong Shuheng rushed to the General Staff Office next door. Today, the next move of the Taihang Column will be discussed here.
For this reason, the General Staff specially recruited Lu Feiyan back. The meeting has not been held until now just to wait for Lu Feiyan. She rode all the way from Huaibei to the canal, and then came back on a canal navy steamer.
In order to facilitate the transmission of information, Huaihai Navy's shipyard specially built a batch of extremely fast steamboats.
These ships have a displacement of one to two hundred tons, but the steam engines installed on them have 500 horsepower. The hulls have also been reinforced and streamlined. The speed can reach an astonishing 30 knots. At this time, they can be regarded as speedboats.
This kind of steamboat is specially used to transport important people, deliver messages and patrol.
When Dong Shuheng walked into the General Staff, Lu Feiyan was chatting with Yan Shikun. They were old acquaintances of the Tiandi Society, and Yan Shikun had always treated Lu Feiyan as his daughter.
Lu Feiyan has obviously become darker than before in the past few months, and her skin has turned into a wheat color, but she is still beautiful. When everyone saw Dong Shuheng coming in, they all performed a military salute together.
After Dong Shuheng returned the gift, he walked up to Lu Feiyan and the two looked at each other for a while. Dong Shuheng had a lot of caring words in his heart, but for some reason he couldn't express them out.
The meeting began. First, a staff officer introduced the current situation in the north, mainly the news about the Taiping Rebellion's Northern Expedition.
On October 22, the Northern Expeditionary Army abandoned Shenzhou and took advantage of the situation to advance eastward, including Kexian County, Jiaohe, Cangzhou and other places. On October 29, they occupied Jinghai and Duliu Town in the southwest of Tianjin.
Kou Village, preparing to attack Tianjin.
On November 1, he was attacked by the landlord armed regiment led by Xie Zicheng, the magistrate of Tianjin, and others, so he turned back to Jinghai and Duliu Town.
At this time, the Taiping Army of the Northern Expedition had grown from more than 20,000 people at the beginning to nearly 40,000 people. After the Taiping Army occupied Jinghai and Duliu Town, they stationed here, built wooden cities, dug trenches, built watchtowers, and buried mines.
, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
Shengbao gathered his troops and stepped up the siege against the Taiping Army. Seng Gelinqin moved his camp to Wang Qingtuo to prevent the Taiping Army from advancing towards the capital. The Taiping Army fought tenaciously against the Qing army that came to besiege them, and killed the deputy capital commander of the Qing army.
Tong Jian.
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After the staff introduction was completed.
Dong Shuheng said: "It has been some time since the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Rebellion entered Tianjin. I think all the troops around Zhili that should be attracted have been attracted. So now the Taihang Column can prepare to advance into the Taihang Mountains."
"President, our Taihang column is ready, and everyone is ready to fight in the Taihang Mountains." Lu Feiyan first stood up and expressed her position.
"Well, Commander Lu, I believe that the officers and soldiers of the Taihang Column, after these few months of training in Huaibei, you are no longer what you used to be."
"The reason why the General Staff is holding this meeting today is, firstly, to determine an optimal route. This route should pay attention to three elements - safety, convenience and concealment. Secondly, it is to determine the way of marching, the time of marching, and the formation matching.
Reducing the risk of exposure is very important. Third, we must re-analyze and replenish the logistical supplies of the Taihang Column. For example, we did not take into account the white cloak used for concealment during snow battles. There is also the problem of cold protection for soldiers. In winter, it is colder in the Taihang Mountains than outside.
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Next, the General Staff discussed several issues raised by Dong Shuheng.
"President, if possible, our Taihang Column would like to allocate more mortars. We have conducted several bandit capture operations in the nearby Taihang Mountains of Henan Province before, and found that this kind of mortars are very useful in mountain operations.
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"Well, that's no problem. There is currently no war in Jiangsu. When you go back this time, I will ask the General Logistics Department to give you priority in allocating a batch of mortars and ammunition." Dong Shuheng nodded.
"Commander Lu, before occupying the base area, you should not take action against the Qing army in Zhili, so as not to attract the attention of the Qing army."
"This time we advance to Taihang, we must use the cover of winter. It is cold in the north and few people go out in winter. We must take advantage of such conditions to set up raid stations, quickly occupy some strategic locations, and draw a good circle around our Taihang base area.
The enemies in the circle can be digested slowly later."
"Yes, President, and I think it would be best for the military government to send some civil affairs personnel to follow us this time. In this way, once we occupy an area, we will hand it over to govern. The army can concentrate on fighting the war." Lu Feiyan suggested.
"Well, I agree with Commander Lu's proposal." Yan Shikun said.
"Okay, I will mention this matter to Premier Zeng." Dong Shuheng also agreed to Lu Feiyan's suggestion.
The Taihang Column's attack in the Taihang Mountain area will be very fast this time. If there is no one to manage it, the occupied land will not be digested. When the Qing army counterattacks, the local people are likely to rebel.
Because in the eyes of the people, no matter how corrupt and incompetent the court is, it is always more reliable than the bandits.
But management with civil affairs personnel is different. Only when everyone can feel the real benefits from your rule will they sincerely support you and support the benefits you bring to them.
The discussion took a long time, and several important issues were finally determined and the personnel to implement them were determined.
This time the column advanced into the Taihang Mountains, and the General Staff also sent a staff team to follow, including several Prussian mountain warfare experts.
In the evening, Lu Feiyan stayed at Dong Shuheng's apartment. The two of them could finally talk to each other at home about what they had not said at the meeting.