There is a simple way, that is, use a map of Guangzhou from another time and space as a blueprint, and compare it with the map of Guangzhou drawn by the Ministry of Urban Affairs. If there is no specific name, use the streets and alleys in places with roughly the same location to name them one by one with modern place names.
In this way, many nameless roads and alleys have roughly names. However, Lin Baiguang, the Comprehensive Management Office who carried out the specific instructions, still proposed that "guests should follow the host's wishes" as much as possible. If the people living nearby have a customary name,
You might as well use it.
Lin Baiguang and his people were busy for several days, and finally got the names of all the streets and alleys. The street signs and house numbers were made of tinplate, all with white background and blue characters. His plan was to nail the street signs and house numbers while conducting household surveys and establishing household registers.
Before he could arrange the matter properly, Liu Xiang called him over again.
"Old Lin, the current demolition situation in Guangzhou is not optimistic..."
"Just tell me, do you have any new plans? You're welcome." Lin Baiguang said.
"The illegal buildings on Chengxuan Street have been demolished, but there are still many similar places in the city. It is easy to carry out a campaign-style demolition of illegal buildings, but we must consider long-term management." Liu Xiang first came to show off.
He said, "So I am considering taking advantage of the opportunity of household census registration to conduct a real estate registration?"
"Real estate registration?" Lin Baiguang thought for a moment, "This is indeed necessary. The problem is that real estate property rights are quite complicated and require original materials..."
"The original materials are available," Liu Xiang said. "There are original house deeds and land deeds in the second-level warehouses of Guangzhou prefectures and counties. I checked a few copies, and the records are relatively clear. According to the office clerks of the households who used them,
, Theoretically, anyone who owns a house will have a house deed and land deed. We can use this to re-register the real estate title."
"But this is not an urgent matter." Lin Baiguang felt that although demolishing illegal buildings is a good thing, it is not necessarily very urgent. "The work of demolishing illegal buildings on our main roads has been carried out one after another. There is not much resistance. Several roads in the city have been demolished.
The main roads should be demolished and the traffic should be straightened out. As for the demolition of ordinary residential houses and shops, we can proceed slowly. Don't rush to become fat in one bite."
"Old Lin, I am also helpless." Liu Xiang sighed heavily. "You know, in our plan, in addition to demolition, we also have to clean up the city's sewers. You also know, we will soon go back to Nantian
'Yes."
Guangzhou comprehensively renovated its sewers in the 1950s. Before the East Lake was excavated, Guangzhou suffered from urban waterlogging due to the urban geographical environment. Moreover, after March every year, it is the so-called "Return to the South", during which there are often light rains or heavy rains.
Fog is the first test of the urban drainage system before entering the flood season.
Lin Baiguang has been in Guangzhou for several years, so he naturally knows the power of returning to Nantian. He nodded.
"I have heard people say that Guangzhou has a drainage system called Liumai Canal. However, in the past few days, I summoned the retained clerks and government officials and went to visit it myself. The results were not optimistic." Liu Xiang pulled out a map.
Come on, "No one can tell the direction of Liumai Canal!"
As the name suggests, Liumai Canal is a drainage system composed of six rivers. It originated from six natural and artificial rivers in Guangzhou during the Song Dynasty. It uses the natural topography of Guangzhou to form a river-type drainage system that is high in the north and low in the south. It has drainage functions and
Transportation benefits include some channels and water supply. However, this system has undergone great changes in the Ming Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou underwent several large-scale expansions and reconstructions. The integration of the three cities into one and the construction of the South City caused great damage to the original natural water system in the city. Natural rivers and lakes including Wenxi and Ancient West Lake gradually became silted up and gradually evolved into
As the traffic function in the city was basically lost, residents began to gradually encroach on the rivers, and gradually the open channels became undercover channels. If the Liumai Canal in the early Ming Dynasty still maintained the appearance of a "river" in the past, in addition to drainage, it could also
Sailing; then by the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the Liumai Canal had become culverts. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army massacred the city, and a large number of Guangzhou citizens took refuge in the Liumai Canal and were drowned by the floods, which shows that the rivers in the past at this time were already culverts.
The open ditches turned into culverts, and houses were built on them. As a result, when they entered the city, the specific locations and directions of the open ditches and culverts in the city were mostly buried under the large houses. It became a mystery faced by the elders of Guangzhou.
The most typical one is where the sixth vein of the Liumai Canal is. It has been an unsolved problem since the Ming Dynasty. No matter whether it was the late Ming Dynasty or the several dredgings before the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there was no trace of the sixth vein. It is not far from the traverser.
Tan Qinghai, a Dongguan native in the early Wanli period, wrote "Explanation of the Six Meridians", which only contains descriptions of the five meridians.
Liu Xiang's understanding of the Liumai Canal generally comes from the records of this ancestor - as for the hundreds of textual research papers and monographs on the Liumai Canal in the big library, the basic basis comes from this.
"I've been walking around the city in the past few days, and I've seen a lot of open ditches and a few culverts. But when I asked the clerk at the office, no one knew the detailed distribution of the drainage ditches in the city." Liu Xiang shook his head.
"Although I am not a water supply and drainage major, I probably know from looking at the situation that building houses on open channels like Chengxuan Street is quite common in Guangzhou."
"So..." Only then did Lin Baiguang understand his intention. He knew that even in the Ming Dynasty, it was forbidden to occupy river canals and build houses on culverts. It was impossible for the government to issue land deeds for such constructions, and it was a natural "violation".
establish".
It is simply impossible to figure out the location and direction of the channels in the city and to clean the ditches without demolishing the illegal structures covering them.
"Yes, that's my idea." Liu Xiang said, "It's not difficult to figure out the location and direction of Liumai Canal - we have historical materials left by the ancients, and there are clerks who have done dredging, but the entire
Guangzhou's drainage system is not only six-veined canals, but also has many open ditches and underground ditches. This system is not recorded in detail in historical records, so we have to find it ourselves - not only do we have to find it, but we also have to find it as soon as possible."
Liu Xiang's worry is not unreasonable. Liu San, who is in charge of health and medical care in Guangdong, went to the city a few days ago. He took a general look around the city and warned that if a large-scale health campaign is not implemented as soon as possible, he will return to Nantian.
It is inevitable that a large-scale infectious disease will break out in the city.
"Okay, I'll try my best to do it well!" Lin Baiguang nodded, "My current idea is that we can walk on two legs. First, you issue a notice telling the whole city that illegal buildings will be demolished within a time limit." Based on the current momentum,
, many people will probably do it themselves; the second is to conduct household surveys through household registration to find out about illegal construction."
Liu Xiang sent Lin Baiguang away, and asked Xiao Zhang to send a telegram to Lingao, asking when the Guangzhou Police Chief would be available. Then he asked someone to call Jia Jue.
Jia Jue was still yawning when he came in - they, the old yamen secretarial office, had never experienced such high-intensity work day and night.
They can't be separated. This is still them. If the leader brought the "fake Kun" from Qiongzhou Prefecture, they would continue to work when they left. According to the remaining cleaning workers, it was common for them to be busy all night.
In ancient local yamen, since the government basically did not undertake many social management functions, the affairs were quite leisurely. The key to the clerk's handling of errands was "complying with the regulations", that is to say, the official affairs mainly depended on the clerk's familiarity with various stereotypes and "ministry regulations"
. Although clerks like Jia Jue are not as impressive as clerks, they don’t have to come to the Yamen to do business. Instead, they can direct their disciples and disciples to run errands at the teahouse and at home. However, they have very little time to go to Yamen every day. Most of the time they come to Yamen.
It’s just a day trip. Even if there are errands to do, we’ll be gone after noon.
The Australians' work style of micromanaging and interfering with everything is really too much for Jia Jue, a group of senior officials.
However, you have to bear it if you can't bear it. The wind outside is getting tighter and tighter, and those who used to eat at the yamen are all worried, fearing that someone will report them, and they will be thrown into the cell and "interrogated" by their former colleagues. He heard that the government
Zhen Haoren, the household secretary, is already "on death row" - people in the Zao class whispered that he was "tortured to death". It is said that according to his confession, a total of nearly one hundred thousand taels of silver were copied - this figure made him take a breath
Air-conditioning, I didn't expect Zhen Haoren to be so rich! He didn't dare to think too much now. Only by running errands desperately to please the new master could the whole family have a safe place.
These days, Liu Taizun has been investigating the drainage channels in the city. Jia Jue is busy: looking for workers, looking for files, and leading the way to see the situation at several major channels. However, he can't help with this matter.
Too busy.
Like many professional jobs in the old yamen, Guangzhou's "Gutter Picture" is also in private hands. Just as a fish scale book has become a cash cow for the household office, the "Gutter Picture" is also a secret that is not passed down. This "Gutter Picture"
"It's in the hands of a hereditary labor leader. Every year when the ditches need to be cleared and repaired - as usual, the ditches are cleared every year and repaired every three years - you have to pay him to come up with a map of the ditch to locate it. Which section should be cleared?
, he would take out a few pages and take them back as soon as he was done. It was a hereditary patent, so although the laborer was called a laborer, he actually did not work. He still lived a pampered life on weekdays. Although in recent years,
The government rarely cleans ditches, but people sometimes ask for help when the ditches are clogged, which of course costs money.
It was obviously an atlas produced by the government, but in the end it became a private "family secret." This was also one of the many strange things Liu Xiang encountered when he arrived in this time and space.
It is not difficult to find the ditch map, and the more valuable fish scale book has also been found by the Australians - if you are caught with three sticks and one clamp in the prison, any kind of hero will have to speak. But the labor leader disappeared, Jia
Jue took people to look for him, but the building was already empty. (To be continued.)