Broadly speaking, the Guangzhou Municipal Government plans to launch a "New Life Movement" in Guangzhou City.
"Although the name is a bit unlucky, I think it is very appropriate." Lin Baiguang said with a smile, "We want to bring a new concept of life to Guangzhou citizens, change customs, and let them know what a 'civilized' lifestyle is like.
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Specifically, it mobilized government workers, the military and civilians to conduct a citywide cleanup to clean ditches and urban garbage.
"But I think there is still a lot of work that needs to be implemented," Liu San said, "for example, the long-term management of street sanitation and the implementation of the food hygiene law."
"This is only the first phase of work." Lin Baiguang said, "It is far from enough to transform the city. So we still have the second phase - we are currently short of manpower, and we don't know the details of the city in detail enough.
It’s easy to check the soft persimmons first. It’s easy to announce a few laws. The key is to enforce the law in place. In the old time and space, they were very diligent in formulating various laws and regulations. They were all principles. There were no implementation details and no specific implementation methods.
, law enforcement is even more useless. Over time, the government loses its credibility. No matter how many laws and regulations you publish, the people will just think you are farting. So we either don't say it, or we must ensure that it is implemented."
"Okay, I have no objection to this. It's all up to you." Liu San agreed.
After Liu San left, Lin Baiguang carefully read the "Guangzhou Special City Police Station's First Phase Police Recruitment Training Plan" sent by Mu Min.
In fact, at today's meeting, there was a debate about the civil service recruitment examination. Liu Xiang's opinion was that the examination started too early, which could easily cause the old forces to enter the ranks on a large scale - his opinion was that in Guangzhou, three or four
Do this again after a month or even half a year. After all, the Senate’s civil servant recruitment examination cannot continue to use eight-legged essays, and it is impossible to use the Four Books and Five Classics as the scope of the examination. The examination scope and sample questions must be given, and various tutoring materials and collections of real questions must be published.
Only in this way can the candidates think according to the new thinking mode.
Examination is a great exercise for people's thinking. And the Chinese people are the most pragmatic in the world. As long as you set the rules, there will naturally be a lot of people studying it. New thinking patterns and knowledge concepts will also penetrate through this.
Went in.
Such a transition will take at least half a year.
However, Lin Baiguang, Mu Min and Liu San all said that there are too many civil issues that need to be resolved, manpower shortages have reached an extreme, and they must be resolved immediately. At least partially.
After discussion, it was decided to recruit police first. Because what they lack most now is grassroots control capabilities. Police with violent law enforcement powers can effectively play a supplementary role. Grassroots police do not need much advanced knowledge. It is best to be literate and illiterate.
The problem is not big. They can be recruited from the large number of urban poor. Even if some people are not suitable, they can be easily replaced. The most important thing is that there is no "class problem" that Liu Xiang is worried about.
With the police force in place, they have the manpower basis to do many things next.
The plan put forward by Mu Min is to recruit a thousand people in the first phase and all of them will be used as patrol officers.
Patrol police are the most basic type of police. They do not require high personnel quality and do not require much professional training. As long as they patrol on time and at fixed points and respond to emergencies on the streets in a timely manner, they do not require too much training.
Training, training. Just implement "according to the rules".
Mu Min plans to hand over this group of local police to the leadership of naturalized policemen transferred from Hainan, and deploy a small number of former fast-track personnel who are familiar with street conditions as appropriate. In this "three-in-one" approach, people who work and learn at the same time will be deployed.
Carry out training. After one month, they will be diverted to training based on their study and work performance. If they are not suitable, it will not be painful to dismiss them - after all, it does not cost much training costs.
This compromise was approved by them. With these one thousand patrol officers, the National Army can be freed from the large number of daily security patrol tasks and prepare for the next several large-scale operations.
But then a new problem arose.
Adding more people means increasing expenses. Not to mention that the uniforms of these 1,000 police officers are a big expense. Once they are on duty, they have to pay monthly wages.
The Ming government has never paid or paid a nominal salary to its grassroots civil servants. Since the Senate has put forward unprecedented work and disciplinary requirements for grassroots civil servants, it cannot be so stingy. It must be at least on the same level as Hainan: a
The basic income of grassroots cadres should be able to afford the food and clothing expenses of a family of four.
A rough calculation shows that as the number of cadres increases, the financial pressure they face will virtually increase.
Now the Guangzhou Special City Government is extremely poor in terms of fiscal revenue and has no place to "cut back". It can only "increase revenue".
Although Lin Baiguang does not care about the affairs of the Finance Office, he knows that the current fiscal revenue of Guangzhou Special City is only two yuan: the "start-up expenses" allocated by the Finance Office; the loot from the prefecture and county treasury and the financial return of the property of confiscated bureaucrats and subordinates.
Although the latter is a huge amount, most of it is not cash but exists in various physical forms, which must be liquidated before it can be used. This is another headache for Liu Xiang. Lin Baiguang knew that he had been talking to the Planning Institute and the Planning Institute on the telegraph machine in recent days.
The finance and economics are talking nonsense, and they want to "sell" the various returned trophies to the Planning Institute.
Naturally, his wishful thinking failed. The Planning Institute stated that they never "sell" any materials, only transfer them. The Financial Office believed that the return of seized materials was a "transfer" procedure of the Planning Institute and had nothing to do with the Financial Office. Regardless of the nature of the materials.
Whoever owns the property in the end has no obligation to pay for the "purchase".
Looking at the various expenditures listed in Mu Min's report, he couldn't help but touch his chin. He couldn't help but think of the time when he had just graduated from college and worked as a writer in the county writing team - there was no land finance at that time, and the county's five primary schools
The industry was completely ruined. Apart from a little agricultural tax from "broken straw hats", the county had almost no decent tax sources, so paying salaries to cadres became a headache for the secretary and county magistrate every month.
Liu Xiang was probably in the same mood as them at the moment. Lin Baiguang smiled and picked up the next document.
At this time, Liu Xiang was walking around in the office, worrying about financial issues.
The government is the same as everyone else: there are seven things to do to open the door, and everything costs money. When Liu Xiang was the director of the Qiongshan County Office, he already realized how difficult it is to be in charge.
However, that would be a huge financial package. Although it feels like there are many constraints, the basic administrative expenses of the county are contracted by the central government. His use of ideas to "open source" for construction is just the icing on the cake. If it is done well, political achievements will be achieved, but if it is not done, it will be the icing on the cake.
It is not a problem to come down. Now, he has to find a way to achieve financial balance on his own - not only that, the Senate did not lay down the territory to improve his political performance. Guangzhou must provide new financial resources for the Senate's great cause as soon as possible.
The start-up fee allocated to him by the Senate is 1.2 million yuan: 200,000 yuan in coins and 1 million yuan in banknotes. Most of them are banknotes. Whether they can be circulated smoothly depends on the specific implementation - after all, abolishing the two reforms to the Yuan Dynasty is a big battle.
It cannot be achieved overnight. The only thing left that can be used is the so-called "financial return". And his biggest problem is this "financial return".
"The central government decided to issue silver coins and establish a silver zone, which solved a big problem for me!" Liu Xiang held his hands behind his back and talked loudly in the office. "Now the Ministry of Finance has approved my return of part of the loot to the Guangzhou area as a financial return - first.
Just sign the pot and transfer the accounts. I am very grateful. But what do I have on hand here? Let’s not talk about the problem that the accounts and inventory are not consistent, just talk about the things inside: the treasury is good.
That's it! The variegated silver is considered good! Food, no matter how old it is, is still good! There is also a silk token in the warehouse that was put into the warehouse before. It looks like a layer of lime powder, but even the cloth is directly attached when picked up.
Crushed into pieces - I don't know how many years they've been there, they've all rotted away!" Liu Xiang began to pour out his bitterness.
"There are also copper coins! The ropes through which the copper coins are worn are rotten. You don't have to wait for a prosperous age. There are more in the treasury of Guangzhou Prefecture and County! And there are all kinds of copper coins! All kinds of weird government-made and privately minted ones, not to mention the ones from the Northern Song Dynasty.
Wen', 'Dang Wu Wen', I found a lot of big money, and I found hundreds of Han Wuzhu coins!" Liu Xiang looked bitter and resentful, "You said, I treat them as government assets.
Should I keep it and use it, or should I turn it over to the state as an antique?"
Meng Xian, who is the president of Delong Bank and the president of the Guangdong Branch of the Central Reserve Bank, smiled cooperatively. He has lost the foreign style of the overseas student back then, and his behavior is no different from that of a mature and steady businessman from the Ming Dynasty.
In Guangzhou, he is not only the president of the bank, but also actually the finance director of the Guangdong and Guangzhou governments. It is his job to ensure the issuance of new currency, stabilize the financial order, and expand fiscal and tax revenue.
Generally speaking, the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty that did not pay much attention to minting money. Most emperors did not mint much money when they were in power. The coins of previous dynasties were all in common use, and private money was also rampant. This brought problems to Liu Xiang's financial work.
It was a big problem because he couldn't estimate how much money there was in the county treasury. And the various physical inventories could not be used directly. Emperor Yongle had done this before using treasures of spices to pay officials. It was very embarrassing.
Hatred.
"There are also various kinds of in-kind taxes put into the warehouse, and the five- to six-meter-long moso bamboo has also become a government inventory! The purpose is clearly stated, and it is used for digging wells and cleaning. Why do we need this? There are also feathers and isinglass.
, dyes, spices...as long as there is something available on the market, there is nothing that cannot be kept in the official treasury. And it lasts for thirty to fifty years, and what is taken out can only be treated as garbage!"