Her words were sincere and humble, and her attitude of facing up to reality and refusing to admit defeat brightened the hearts of the cadres who had originally doubted her and were discouraged about their future. The originally dull and gloomy atmosphere was swept away.
After she finished speaking, she asked everyone to give some more ideas about the current situation and share their opinions. She often saw others using this method when she was in the work team, and she also used it herself. Not only did she get a lot of good things,
ideas can also improve everyone’s sense of participation and increase cohesion.
The atmosphere of the meeting really became lively, and everyone talked about their own opinions, especially how to open up the situation in Yangshan. Some people proposed to expand the number of local recruits and expand the National Army; others thought that as many Yonghua Yao people could be armed as possible.
The team; others feel that the current strength is not enough and it is not suitable to fight, so they should start with the villages around the county and win over these wavering villages...
Fenda felt that what they said made sense, so she wrote down everyone's thoughts one by one. She was not well-educated, so it was quite difficult for her to record. She often had to ask everyone to "speak slower" and "say it again". In the end, it was Luo Yiming.
Offer to take "meeting minutes".
Finally, she said: "Everyone's opinions are very good. When I went to the cadre training class, there were elders who gave us lectures. When it came to how to carry out work, we should have more friends and fewer friends from our enemies. Now we have
If we are weak, we need to make more friends. We need to make more use of local manpower and material resources."
"County Magistrate Wang has said this in the past, but it is difficult to handle." Luo Yiming said, "There are only four powerful forces in this county: Yao village, Jin gentry, clan, and bandits. Most of the Jin gentry and clan's attitude towards us
They all keep a respectful distance, and some even refuse to bear reasonable burdens - they just shirk the blame. And if local forces are used too much, they will inevitably become powerful..."
"As for the local forces, we will definitely transform them in the future, but now our main contradiction is to suppress bandits." Pinda said, "The direction of the big gentry households is very important to us. If they can support us, we can
To a certain extent, we can curb the expansion of bandit power, and even use their power to eliminate bandits on the spot - after all, bandits are a great scourge to the local area."
"But County Magistrate Wang was worried about this matter at the beginning..."
The Jin gentry and clan forces have always been regarded as the number one enemy within the Senate. In Hainan, after several years of unremitting attacks and differentiation, the military, political and economic three-pronged approach has basically eliminated these two grassroots forces - of course,
Hainan itself is economically backward and has a sparse population, which also has a lot to do with it.
As soon as the mainland strategy began, grassroots governance immediately encountered the problem of how to treat local gentry and clans.
With the military and political power of the Senate in Guangdong, it is naturally impossible to do what Hainan did. At the level where a few county cadres and one or two squadrons of the National Army have to rule a county, it is also impossible to smash the old system and implement
We have new grassroots governance, so we have to continue the extensive governance model of the past. It can be said that except for counties in the Pearl River Delta and other places, most counties are no different from the past when the Ming Dynasty ruled. It is just that county administration is clearer than in the past.
The tax burden is also lighter than before.
And this kind of extensive rule must obtain the cooperation of the local gentry and large clan households. Naturally, the county magistrates sent there, whether they are naturalized citizens or elders, consider the simplest "maintaining rule".
No action will be taken against them until they receive sufficient administrative and military support.
This situation aroused dissatisfaction among some senators within the Senate, who believed it to be "liverry" and seriously deviated from the Senate's concept of "grassroots governance." Because the lack of governance resources existed objectively, some senators started to stir up trouble again.
The banner of "land reform" believes that this should be used to fully mobilize the masses and use mass movements to destroy the foundation of the old rule and establish a new system.
Naturally, this argument immediately caused a fierce debate within the Senate. Naturally, no one could convince anyone of this debate. However, the consequence of this was that the naturalized county magistrates generally stayed away from the gentry and clans in county administration.
.Even if you can’t offend, you won’t get too close.
Boda is naturally aware of the current debate in the Senate. She knows that she is taking a huge political risk by doing this. But she doesn't care too much: she is only the acting county magistrate, and has no intention of becoming a full official. She has updated the list of official titles in the Senate.
It's no interest at all.
"I know there are risks here. I bear all the responsibilities." said Pinda,
Luo Yiming was surprised to see the dark and thin young girl in front of him taking over the responsibility without hesitation, and was quite moved. He said: "Since the county magistrate has said what you said, we will definitely implement it! But the big gentry family are not so easy to deal with.
.The situation here is particularly complicated.”
Due to the geographical environment and the relationship between Yangshan and the Yao District, the Jin gentry and clans have strong independence and internal cohesion. Yangshan is also a poor place. Han Yu once said: "Yangshan is the poorest in the world" because the land is barren and the people are poor.
, historically it is a place with strong folk customs. The county government’s influence on various local forces is not great, and it has the meaning of "the emperor of the ten miles of land". It was when Wang Chu first arrived in Yangshan, "the situation was very good"
At that time, many large local households were also very indifferent to the county, and each village in the county could collect less than half of its reasonable burden.
"...If we want to win over them now, I'm afraid we can't do it without offering a good price." Luo Yiming was very worried.
"That's right, we're going to collect reasonable burdens. If you're polite, you'll talk about hardships. If you're not polite, we'll be shut out. What's even worse, when they see us, they'll just fire a blank cannon to scare us away."
The naturalized cadres immediately began to complain.
"Many large households are no different from bandits themselves. Now that the county is in such chaos, they are taking advantage of troubled waters! The guests and natives in the county have begun to kill each other!"
"I've said it before: If we kill all these big gentry people, there will definitely be someone who is unjust, and if we kill them one by one, there will definitely be someone who slips through the net!"
"County Magistrate Wang fell into Mr. Peng's scheme!"
…
Pinda did not stop them, but allowed them to vent their dissatisfaction to their heart's content. At the same time, he also remembered some of the situations they told in his mind. It was not until their voices subsided slightly that he said: "What everyone said is true. But we
What is the top priority now? It is to exterminate the bandits in the county and pacify the entire Yangshan area! All means are used to serve this purpose." She looked around the participants, "So we can't care about what they did in the past now.
, but what they can do for us now - as for the debt they owe to the people of Yangshan, someone will naturally settle it with them in the future."
You Ciren said: "The problem is that they ignore us at all. In the past, you might not see anyone when you went to the village. Now that the situation is like this, I'm afraid they will despise us even more."
"We need to show off our power first and let them know how powerful the Fubo Army is. This way they won't despise us," said Pinda. "Don't the leaders often say that when dealing with these centrists, you must hold a big stick in your hand?"
,speak kindly'."
At the meeting, the naturalized cadres basically agreed with Pinda's policy. After the meeting, they split up to do their own work according to the work arrangements. Pinda stopped Luo Yiming who was about to leave: "Where is Peng Shou'an now?"
"In prison." Luo Yiming said. Since Dawangwei's defeat, the county officials have been agitated and want to pull him out, "a bastard who came up with bastard ideas" and "cut him to pieces". Luo Yiming is afraid that he will really do it.
In order to save his life, Peng Shouan was imprisoned in the county jail.
"If he wasn't locked up in a cell, he would be put under house arrest. In fact, if he hadn't been a consultant personally appointed by Director Huang, I would have wanted to kill him with a knife!" Luo Yiming said with a bitter smile, "He is now under house arrest.
I didn’t think about food and drink, and almost committed suicide—but I think it was just pretentious.”
"I want to talk to him. You take him to the office."
"County Magistrate! County Magistrate Wang suffered the consequences because of this old guy! Don't listen to his nonsense anymore..."
"The plan he proposed to County Magistrate Wang may not work, but he has been a county magistrate here for several years and is very familiar with the situation in the county. We still need him to lead the way," said Finda.
"Then I'll make arrangements to bring him out right now."
Ever since the defeat in Dawangwei, Peng Shou'an has been like a lost dog. Whenever a naturalized citizen saw him, they would glare at him, and some would directly scold him. Luo Yiming was not exaggerating - if he hadn't stopped him in time, Peng Shou'an would have been killed long ago.
He was beaten to death. Even so, he rested in bed for several days before he could get up.
Peng Shou'an was ashamed, because Wang Chuyi's actions were all based on his suggestion, and now he had made such a big mistake: it was only a few soldiers who died, but it caused the county magistrate to lose a leg. This was a serious crime.
He felt that he was sorry for Wang Chuyi, and even more sorry for Huang Chao. He had become a "traitor" reviled by everyone in Yangshan County. After thinking about it, he felt that the only option was to die.
However, asking for death is easy to think about, and it is also simple to say. He really had to hang his belt on the beam. Peng Shou'an thought of his old wife and son again. As the saying goes, "the only way to die is to die through the ages", he held the rope loop in his hand and stood on the stool.
After walking for a long time, I still couldn't make up my mind. In the end, I got off the stool by myself and "lived in an ignoble way."
Fortunately, Luo Yiming locked him up in the county jail and saw no one all day long. He finally avoided being scolded every day and tortured by old fists from time to time. He simply "cultivated his moral character" in the prison and read and practiced calligraphy every day.
"Peng Shou'an! Come out!"
The door opened, and the prison guard shouted at the door.
This jailer was a local employee, and he didn't have much favorable impressions of the county magistrate, so he would not be polite to him. After all, Australians have strict rules and do not allow prisoners to be tortured on any pretext. Under his control, Magistrate Peng only got a few words from time to time.
Apart from being scolded, I didn't suffer much.
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