Jia Liu's creed has always been that everything must be investigated before he has the right to speak.

Shuan Zhu was the son of his family. He had never been exposed to the navy since he was a child. Like him, he was a layman in the navy, so he was quite dissatisfied with his behavior of beating cattle in other places and rashly accusing the water camp of problems.

A plaster seller goes to give advice on building a house. Doesn't it hurt the idle guy?

Besides, the young master spoke highly of the officers and soldiers of Shuiying, and even allowed money and meat to go out. Now that you stand up and raise a problem, aren't you embarrassing the young master in public?

Do you know how to be a human being?

Since ancient times, how many promising subordinates have embarrassed their leaders on the spot?

The problem is that Shuan Zhu didn't think too much. He used a scientific attitude and asked the young master to think about it again with his butt. It was a good idea.

The navy's gunboats used solid bullets. The big iron ball blasted out and smashed several big holes in the target ship. But what happened to the explosion? What happened to the flames that shot up to the sky?

"Um?."

After careful reasoning and combined with the actual situation, Jia Liu came to the conclusion that he, a leading cadre, was obviously deceived by the Shuiying group.

That is to say, Shuan Zhu was actually more professional than him on this matter. He could see that there was a problem at a glance, but his master was so stupid that he clapped his hands and applauded.

Although this made Jia Liu look too amateurish, he was still happy in his heart, which showed that under his influence, everyone around him had improved to a certain extent.

But it would hurt your self-esteem to take the initiative to admit that you are not good enough.

"Actually, I just thought about this issue. The reason why I didn't say it out loud is mainly because of the overall situation."

Jia Liu was also a pragmatic person, saying that he could actually see through it at a glance, but it was not easy to expose the matter now and needed to be discussed in the long term.

The main thing is to find a step for yourself in front of Shuan Zhu.

“What does the bigger picture require?”

The biggest bad habit of Zhuan Zhu is that he is a stickler - the kind of person who breaks the casserole and asks for the truth.

This gave Jia Liuliu a headache, so he could only say: "That's right. This problem involves many complex issues, and trying to solve this problem involves many problems. Now we know this problem, but we can't make a fuss around it.

Article, that is not conducive to solving the problem, nor is it conducive to the issue of unity."

Baozhu listened for a long time, but could not understand what the President said.

There seemed to be this problem and that problem, but in the end there was no problem.

Shuan Zhu stared at the young master for a long time, shook his head and said: "Young master, since you became a high official, I found that you began to lose touch with the masses."

Um?

If he hadn't published an article in "Da Qing Daily" half a month ago that grassroots officials must always be in contact with the masses and cannot be separated from the masses, Jia Liu would have definitely pulled out his Jubilong sword and chopped down the bolts and kicked them into the Bohai Sea.

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There is no room for two tigers in one mountain.

"I have said many times, don't criticize me easily. When did I become separated from the masses?"

Jia Liu was very angry at Shuan Zhu for being labeled as a man of conscience. He always puts the interests of the people first.

He really wanted to break away from the masses, so he worked hard on industry, trade, construction, health and city construction, and judicial justice construction, and even stayed in Hejian Prefecture for several days.

"Because the young master cannot listen to other people's correct opinions and does not even allow others to express their opinions,"

Shuan Zhu had a look of injustice on his face, "Master, I am also a member of the masses. You said you are not out of touch with the masses, why are you not allowed to speak? And why didn't you deal with the problem immediately after I pointed it out, instead of saying what is needed for the overall situation? According to the style of the master,

In the future, if you can’t solve the problems I raised, will you just solve them with Shuan Zhu?”

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Jia Liu was a little choked and coughed twice: "No, Director Yang, you are not a member of the public, you are an official."

Shuan Zhuzhen was an official, a fourth-grade governor's staff member. His unit was in the Guards Army, and he received a solid salary from the court every month.

Although this salary and other benefits are collected and managed by the young master, the money is always yours, right? This official is also yours.

Officials are officials, and the masses are the masses. These are two different things.

To equate officials with the masses is to violate a principled issue.

Just like you, an ordinary citizen, you should be labeled as "mass" in terms of political status, but you have to label yourself as "non-party". Isn't this deliberately embarrassing the government?

"Can't officials speak? Master, if I can't speak, can you still hear the truth? Don't you often tell me that if the emperor could hear the truth and know the truth, he would definitely not

Is this your day?"

Shuan Zhu looked aggrieved. He pointed out to the young master that the water construction was fake with good intentions, but the young master kept talking to him about this and that, which made him really feel that the young master had changed.

"Yes, yes, you are a little distracted!"

Baozhu, who looked honest and honest, nodded in agreement. His Excellency, the President seems to be more and more interested in flattery recently, which is really not good.

Then came Yilin: Hey, what do I mean by floating?

"Um"

Shuan Zhu's reaction was so intense that Jia Liu began to realize that there was something wrong with him.

It seems that without realizing it, the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty is being corrupted, and I have lost myself a little bit.

This signal is very bad. If you fail to criticize and self-criticize in time, you will easily slip into the abyss.

The main reason for this problem is largely related to the fact that he is now the leader of Zhili.

He knew that Shuan Zhu was doing it for his own good. How could he fall before his great cause was accomplished?

So he looked at the loyal Zhuan Zhu and sighed: "Use copper as a mirror to correct your clothes; use people as a mirror to know gains and losses; use history as a mirror to know the ups and downs. Zhuzi, you are my mirror!"

After saying that, he straightened his face and asked Baozhu to call the guerrilla Ding Gui immediately.

First, Ding Gui was asked to confess and be lenient, but Ding Gui was also stubborn and refused to explain. He killed the target ship and was hit by a shell and burst into flames.

"Where is the Jubilong Sword!"

Jia Liu was furious and ordered everyone to get their swords.

The result was a bit embarrassing. The sword of Bilong was left on the shore and was not taken on board.

But this did not affect Jia Liu's exercise of the governor's authority. He pulled out Baozhu's sword and threw it in front of Ding Gui. If you don't tell the truth, he will use this sword to wipe his own neck.

"Sir, the last general is the last general"

Under pressure from the governor, Ding Gui finally couldn't bear it and had no choice but to tell the truth.

The target ship that was hit just now was actually a sailor hiding on the ship who used a medicine twister to ignite the medicine barrels on the ship and explode it into the water. It was not hit by the gunboat's cannon at all.

"Why did you lie to me!"

Even though he already knew that there was something behind this matter, when the truth reached his ears, Jia Liu was still angry with Emperor Samadhi.

He wants to upgrade the Dagu Water Camp to the Beiyang Navy. In the future, he will want this navy to span East Asia, dominate South Asia, and threaten the Atlantic Ocean.

Who would have thought that the people in Shuiying would interpret formalism to such an extreme level?

The navy is the foundation of a country's maritime power. The navy in Gyeonggi Province is so deceitful. It is conceivable how bad the navy in other places is.

Why did the Qing navy and the British navy fight so poorly during the First Opium War? Wasn't this what we saw before us already doomed the future situation?

What to hit with!

Why did you lie to the Governor?

Ding Gui also kept mumbling and said a lot of official rhetoric, to the effect that this would make the training more interesting and the governor would be happy to watch it.

He also said that it was always done this way when people from above came to inspect, and it was almost the norm in Shuiying, but it was not like this in actual training.

"Ding Gui, Ding Gui, I just praised you for your ability to lead troops, but you deceived me in such a dirty way without thinking. Do you really think that your head is harder than iron and stronger than steel!"

Jia Liu knew that Ding Gui had many things that he was hiding from him, so he was furious and ordered his men to immediately capture Ding Gui, take off his crown, and dispose of him ashore.

Later, the order was sent back to Hong Kong. After landing, all officers of seventh grade and above were asked to go to the governor's office to discuss matters. As a result, they were all under guard after arriving, and they were not allowed to enter or leave, let alone move around.

Jia Liuze ordered Shuan Zhu to lead an in-depth investigation of the Dagu Water Camp, and use one-on-one conversations or one-to-many conversations to learn more about the training and combat readiness of the Dagu Water Camp over the years from the ordinary officers and soldiers of the water camp.

Jia Liu himself also held discussions with ordinary officers and soldiers, acting vigorously and resolutely.

As the investigation deepened, the inside story of Dagu Water Camp was revealed one by one.

For example, they have more than 40 warships on the surface, but less than half of them can actually go to sea to perform missions. The reason is that they are in disrepair and there is no funding allocated for ship maintenance.

Leading the pockets of corrupt military officers.

The basic training of the Shuiying officers and soldiers was just a formality. Like the former Ming Guard soldiers, many officers and soldiers did private work for the officers' families, and some were even "leased" to Tianjin businessmen by Ding Gui and others to work as short-term or long-term laborers.

In normal times, the warships in Shuiying were also used to transport goods to Denglai for merchants. For the merchant ships outside the customs, Ding Gui and others had to pay the rent, and the people below could only drink soup.

When people from above came to check, Ding Gui and others must have confessed everything before, and they were all acting to fool them. However, the people from above had benefited from Ding Gui and others. They knew that Shuiying had all kinds of shortcomings, so they went back and said everything was good.

But these are only superficial problems. The deeper problem boils down to one word - poverty.

The reason for poverty is that in recent decades, the imperial court has not paid attention to the construction of the navy at all. Even if it has, it has invested a lot of manpower, material resources, money and food in the fancy Eight Banners navy, and very little has fallen on the green camp.

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Take military pay as an example. According to the system, ordinary soldiers in the Dagu Water Camp can receive one, two or four yuan a month, plus three yuan of rape money as supplement, but only less than half of it is actually paid.

Only this half was exploited by Ding Gui and others in various ways. The officers and soldiers of the Shuiying camp either worked for businessmen as arranged by them, or went to the sea to fish to support their families.
To be continued...