Chapter 113 Xu Ge Lao wants to marry Cheng Shijie

Chapter 112

Businessmen actually have a very keen sense of smell. As early as when Cheng Shijie led Ning Haijun across Liaonan, businessmen who were originally doing business in Ninghai City also followed Cheng Shijie to Liaonan.

Although southern Liaoning is still a commercial desert, the problem is that businesses understand one thing: as long as there are people, there will be demand, and as long as there is demand, there will be business.

When Ning Haijun migrated, although the population was not as large as it is now, including Ning Haijun's prisoners, there were still 50,000 to 60,000 people. These 50,000 to 60,000 people were the size of a medium-sized county.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were 188 prefectures in 13 provinces, with a total of 1,427 counties. The average population of each county exceeded 100,000. But in fact, densely populated Henan, Shandong, and Beizhili

A county may have a population of more than 200,000 people. In the sparsely populated southwest, northwest, and northeast areas, a county may have a population of less than 30,000 people.

Jinzhou and Gaizhou are currently controlled by Ning Haijun. Since Gaizhou is relatively close to the area controlled by Jiannu and focuses on military defense, Ning Haijun currently has more than 500 military camps, and new ones are added every day.

Household residence means that the current population in southern Liaoning has expanded to the size of a county.

In addition to the various factories controlled by Cheng Shijie himself, there are also many privately owned factories by businessmen, especially nearly half of the mills in Jinzhou, more than one-third of the fur processing factories, and some small textile factories, all following Cheng Shijie.

The merchants who came across the sea organized it themselves.

Especially in Jinzhou City, the commercial land that has been sold has exceeded 300,000 taels of silver. In Jinzhou City, Cheng Shijie has a good eye, and no one dares to play tricks with Cheng Shijie.

At least those who have dealt with Cheng Shijie know very well that Cheng Shijie is a man of rules. As long as he acts according to his rules and pays taxes according to his prescribed standards, no one will come to trouble them, and merchants can live in peace.

do business.

However, the merchants in those towns are actually small businessmen. After all, the cheapest commercial and industrial land Cheng Shijie has in Jinzhou City costs 1,500 taels of silver. Only those who do not have the capital to buy land and build shops in Jinzhou City

Only businessmen would go to various towns to do business.

Cheng Shijie said: "I am planning to set up urban management and law enforcement brigades in various towns, Jinzhou and Gaizhou cities, referred to as urban management. This urban management enforcement brigade will be subordinate to..."

It was only now that Cheng Shijie discovered that he was managing Liaonan in a militarized manner and that there was no government agency. It would be more convenient and more efficient to adopt military control.

But the problem is that it will easily lead to military and political chaos in the future. Although the urban management work is trivial and not big, it is closely related to ordinary people. In later generations, Cheng Shijie was also an ordinary citizen.

The common people are really not afraid of big tigers, corrupt officials, or big thieves. Although these people are hateful and deserve to be killed, they are too far away from the lives of the common people. They seem to live in two different worlds, except for newspapers and news.

, there will be almost no contact with each other, and naturally there will be no strong hatred.

What really makes ordinary people fear and hate are petty officials, local gangsters, and village gangsters. These people do not have much background, and they may not cause much harm, but the harm they cause to the people is the most important thing.

It is the most painful and direct! And there are many of these people, too numerous to count.

Recently, the Internet has been abuzz with the Pingyang murder case in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, but in fact, as early as six years ago, in 2017, a similar case occurred in the author's hometown. The criminal suspect Lu Mou wielded a knife and killed three people on the spot and injured four others.

Two seriously injured people died despite ineffective rescue efforts...

This is a very important question.

If a city wants to be managed cleanly, neatly and beautifully, it is inseparable from urban management. However, during the implementation process of urban management, if the law is improperly enforced, it is most likely to arouse public anger and cause the government to lose credibility.

The management of the newly established urban management is subject to three levels of jurisdiction: Chen Guodong's Supervisory Military and Road Department manages law enforcement, Yang Yuniang's Finance Department oversees the accounts, and it accepts the command of the newly formed Civil Affairs Department.

Although it is impossible to prevent problems from arising from the system, now we can only cross the river by feeling the stones, solve problems when they arise.

The Civil Affairs Bureau is also the civil affairs management agency that Cheng Shijie decided to establish. Although Cheng Shijie turned the farmers in southern Liaoning into field troops and accepted the management of the Military Affairs Administration, the problem was that there were still too many factories, especially factories for people's livelihood, which were not conveniently managed by the Military Affairs Administration.

, such as the production of tableware, bedding, clothes, textile factories, agricultural tool factories, furniture factories, etc.

Separating military and political affairs is something that must be done. It is better to do it sooner than later. Just like during the founding of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu also realized that Kaifeng as a country had too many limitations. First of all, it was not like Luoyang where there were eight gates outside.

In defense, although the Yellow River is a natural barrier, the problem is that there are too many places to cross the river in the middle and lower reaches. He once proposed to move the capital, but it was resisted by the vested interest groups of the Song Dynasty, especially the resistance led by Zhao Guangyi, the governor of Kaifeng at the time.

, this matter had to end without any problem.

Whoever eats meat from his mouth will definitely not spit it out.

The urban management brigade has the jurisdiction of the urban management squadron and the urban management squad. Each town has an urban management squad with one captain and eleven members. Four adjacent towns are combined into one squadron, with one urban management squadron captain and one deputy captain.

The urban management squadron leader is at the same level as the sentry commander. At the same time, the urban management brigade has eleven squadrons with a total of 550 people. Cheng Shijie's adopted son Cheng Shi serves as the urban management brigade captain. The urban management brigade is not equipped with armor, nor is it equipped with swords and guns.

Like the three squads of government officials in all counties in the Central Plains, they are equipped with five iron rulers, five water and fire sticks, and the captain and deputy captain are equipped with dog-leg knives.

In order to distinguish Ning Haijun from the military law corps, Ning Haijun's urban management uniform is a blue short shirt, wearing the red and black hat of the yamen. Of course, due to the cold weather in southern Liaoning, the hats and uniforms are divided into two types. In winter, they wear cotton clothes and standard uniforms.

The military uniforms are the same, consisting of cotton jackets, cotton trousers, cotton shoes and cotton coats, plus a red and black warm hat. In summer, they wear single clothes.

Agriculture is the lifeblood of a country. If there is a problem in agricultural production, the whole country will have big problems. The saying "food is the most important thing for the people" is not a joke. Nowadays, natural disasters continue to occur in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and agriculture has reached the edge of collapse.

, it’s impossible not to think about turmoil, and turmoil means war, and war means rivers of blood!

The Ming Dynasty, whose national destiny has lasted for nearly three hundred years, has entered a countdown. Regimes that cannot let the people have enough to eat will be overthrown without mercy. This is an iron law.

With the establishment of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Cheng Shijie currently has no decent talents. Ma Shilin, Qin Bocheng, Lu Conglong, and Sun Benju also dare not trust him. Cheng Shijie can only take part in the civil affairs administration's political participation.

On the New Year's Eve of the fourth year of Chongzhen, according to the regulations of later generations, it was time to have a holiday.

In fact, the Ning Haijun and Tuntian troops in southern Liaoning, as well as the factory workers, have all had a holiday. The only ones who did not have a holiday were Cheng Shijie's four praise paintings, forty-three mayors, directors of various factories, and big businessmen.

There were more than three hundred people in total.

"Meet the Marshal!"

"Everyone, no courtesy!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the mayors, factory directors and businessmen sitting below and said: "Outside, I am the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy, the general who controls the Dongjiang Army and conquers prisoners. You call Cheng the commander-in-chief, there is no problem, but

Here, what is this place? This is the Civil Affairs Bureau of our southern Liaoning, and it is also the government office of our southern Liaoning. You should call Cheng Participating in Politics!"

"Yes, meet Shang Zheng!"

Of course, this political participation was made by Cheng Shijie himself, and no one present felt anything inappropriate.

Cheng Shijie looked at the crowd and said: "Although you have received the invitation to come here for the meeting, I am afraid you still lack understanding of the Liaonan Civil Affairs Bureau, a government agency. So, Cheng will briefly introduce to you the Civil Affairs Bureau, along with the Civil Affairs Bureau, that is,

This means that everything except military affairs, including population, household registration, taxation, commerce, economic management, supervision and management, social management, is managed by the Civil Affairs Bureau to appease the people and the people!"

It was okay if Cheng Shijie didn't explain, but after explaining like this, almost everyone fainted.

Cheng Shijie explained that the function of the Civil Affairs Bureau was the functional management of the municipal government in later generations, but the problem was that the official management of the Ming Dynasty was too rough.

Cheng Shijie had no way to use it. The government structure of the Ming Dynasty was simple. A county only had the county magistrate, the county magistrate, the governor, and the county lieutenant to manage a large county with hundreds of thousands of people.

Moreover, in order to prevent officials from disturbing the people, Zhu Yuanzhang strictly ordered officials not to go to the countryside. Since then, county magistrates cannot leave the county town, and national policies can be implemented up to the county level. Then the question arises, who is managing the townships below the county level for the imperial court?

Picture, inside?

That's the gentry.

It would be weird to let the old cat manage the salted fish so that it doesn't get eaten up.

Just like in later generations, because of masks, students take online classes and let students take online classes with their mobile phones. Not to mention 100%, at least 90% of the students have seen a significant decline in their grades because they are all playing with their mobile phones.

In later generations, many people summarized the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, saying that the Ming Dynasty fell because of official corruption. In terms of corruption, who can compare with the Qing Dynasty? Some people say that the Little Ice Age, in fact, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty was not productive at all.

The land is rich in grain, Huguang is ripe, and the world is sufficient.

In the Ming Dynasty, food could always satisfy most people. Although it was affected by the Xiaoglacier weather, the problem was that the impact in Huguang and Jiangnan was limited. The problem was that the Ming Dynasty officials lost their ability to execute. Some people say that it was the peasants who rebelled...

In fact, the most fundamental reason is political carelessness.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry class who had been abandoned by the Ming Dynasty found that the court's ability to govern was declining and began to behave like monsters. They welcomed the Manchu and Qing cavalry into the pass, thinking that they would be better off if they changed their masters. In fact, after the Manchu and Qing entered the pass,

, they discovered that Zhu Mingchao was too kind to them.

Unfortunately, Zhu Ming died.

The taxes in the Qing Dynasty were heavier than those in the Ming Dynasty, but almost as many people were killed, and the average person owned more land, so they could barely survive. Even in the so-called heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong, there were more than 500 recorded peasant uprisings.

What our Qing Dynasty is best at is self-pretending. Behind the prosperous times, there are thousands of miles of bare ground and countless bones.

Cheng Shijie knows the root cause of Daming's disease. He has no better way now. He can only treat the head when it hurts and the feet when it hurts, to solve the problem from the root.

Cheng Shijie saw the reaction of the people below and knew that they didn't understand, so he changed the method so that they could understand, and slowly cultivated his own team of officials, like the PLA.

"Commander, I would like to tell you about our plan for next year, which is the five years of Chongzhen. First of all, in terms of land reclamation, Ning Haijun currently has a total of 559 land reclamation households, which is more than yesterday.

Six, in the coming spring, there will be at least 600 or even 700 farmland households. The reclamation land planned for each farmland household in this political participation is 30,000 acres. Of course, 30,000 acres is just a target, and one-third of it can be completed.

Forget it, it means that next year we can farm at least 1.5 million acres in southern Liaoning, and it is expected to exceed 2 million, or even 3 million acres!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Although the newly cultivated new fields will not have high grain yields due to the poor soil quality, it should not be difficult to produce one stone of grain per mu of land. I have already prepared to plant 700,000 mu of land.

There are 400,000 acres of wheat seeds, 400,000 acres of bean seeds, 280,000 acres of corn seeds, and more than 100,000 acres of potatoes and sweet potatoes. Do you all know what this means?"

Zhang Huaize raised his hand and said: "Report!"

"speak!"

Zhang Huaize stood up and said: "This means that our Ning Haijun can basically be self-sufficient in food..."

Sitting at the back, Gu Shizhang timidly raised his hand: "Report!"

"Gu Shizhang, come and tell me!"

"yes!"

Gu Shizhang stood up and said: "It means he will make a fortune next year. Gu has already built nineteen mills. It seems that he needs to recruit more people and expand them..."

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "There is another problem. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are new crops that are not easy to store. If you want to store them, you can only process the potatoes or sweet potatoes directly into powder, just like flour. If it is made into powder

, placed in a dry environment, there will be no problem if stored for two years.”

Gu Shizhang and the businessmen's eyes became brighter and brighter.

"Report!"
To be continued...