Chapter 807: Ways of Governance

This round of army reorganization is expected to last until mid-March.

After the leadership meeting is over, the god generals will return to their respective camps. While cooperating with the General Administration of Military Affairs to reorganize the army, they will rest on the spot and strengthen training to prepare for the next big battle.

The matter of building a fort on the northern border that has just been decided must also be arranged immediately without delay.

Especially for Bai Qi, it is the most difficult.

In addition to continuing to clean up the remaining poison in the three counties of Yunnan, the Longxiang Army is also responsible for monitoring Dali County. More importantly, the headquarters of the Longxiang Army was transferred to Yunnan Province, and a new headquarters barracks had to be built outside Lingxi City.

The Combat Readiness Administration will also cooperate with the Longchamp Army to prepare food and grass reserves.

In the Battle of Yunnan, the Longxiang Army suffered heavy losses, and all units suffered more or less battle losses. The newly recruited soldiers also have to adapt to each other in the training to help the new recruits integrate into the Shanhai City system.

In short, all kinds of affairs are quite complicated, and it does not mean that there will be no leisure without war. Fortunately, Bai Qi has been a soldier all his life, and he is very comfortable in dealing with military affairs. If he really needs to leave the barracks for a long time, he is still not used to it.

Not only Bai Qi, but also the three governors of the three counties in Yunnan who just took office are not easy. In order to sort out the rule as soon as possible, the three adults even gave up the Spring Festival holiday.

It is reported that even on the most important New Year's Eve, they are still working overtime.

Needless to say, Cao Shen, Dongchuan County, which took over, was a mess. Not only did he have to heal the war wounds of the people, but he also had to deal with the "debt collection" of gentry and wealthy businessmen.

In Yongren City, Zhu Jin took the opportunity to apply for "compensation" from Huo Qubing, which is not an exception. Anyone in the county who was ransacked by the Swordsman City army ran to the established government office to ask for an explanation.

As the guard of a county, how can Cao Shen get peace? !

Especially after Swordsman City compensated Shanhai City with 800,000 gold coins, the merchants' "debt collection" became even more fierce. These businessmen have sharp noses, and they can't hide any troubles from them.

There is no other way, Cao Shen can only bite the bullet and go to the Protectorate, asking the General Administration of Finance to make a decision.

Strange to say, Fan Li, director of the Finance Department, immediately approved the reply, saying that the General Finance Department would use 200,000 gold coins from the 800,000 compensation to "compensate" the gentry and wealthy businessmen in Dongchuan County who were looted by the army.

Not only that, Four Seas Bank will also open sub-branches in various prefectures and counties in Dongchuan County within a month. For the merchants who have been looted, the Universal Bank will give certain preferential loans.

Although the funds allocated by the General Administration of Finance are only half of the funds that were looted, the businessmen are satisfied with the loan support, and even a little overjoyed.

Although they made such a fuss, they didn't really expect any compensation in their hearts.

As the saying goes: if there is a wrong, there is a debt.

No matter how hard they collect their debts, they will not be able to catch up with the newly formed government office.

The businessmen do this just to gain sympathy in front of the new superiors, so that their future business will be more or less taken care of by the government, and they will not be "exploited" too much.

It can only be said that these businessmen don't understand Shanhai City at all.

In the whole wilderness, apart from Chun Shenjun's Danyang City, Shanhai City has the most complete commercial system, and the status of merchants is quite high, so they won't receive any unfair treatment.

It is even more impossible for the government to exploit businessmen.

On the contrary, since the establishment of the territory, the lord Ouyang Shuo has spared no room in supporting the prosperity of the territory's business, trying to create a relaxed business atmosphere.

As long as merchants pay taxes on time and abide by the "Territory Code", they will have no troubles.

Shanhai City did this, but not all other territories in the wilderness. They were either influenced by the gentry bureaucracy's contempt for businessmen, or they were pretending to be confused, and more or less "exploited" businessmen.

"No way, poor!"

The merchants did not dare to resist, and the lords became more at ease when they "exploited". It is reported that the exploitation of merchants in some territories has reached a heinous level, simply using merchants as money bags.

When you run out of money, or want to form an army, you will habitually peel off one piece.

Most of Dongchuan County's previous territories were like this.

Because of this, in Yongren City, even Zhu Jin, an outsider from the Dali Royal City, did not dare to make a second entanglement after being rejected by Huo Qubing.

In contrast, the actions of the General Administration of Finance this time are really too benevolent. The benevolence is so benevolent that the businessmen can't believe it, just like a dream. After confirmation, it was naturally ecstasy.

The businessmen's recognition of the new government is like a rocket.

Ouyang Shuo agreed with Fan Li's approach very much. Compared with Cao Shen, the sheriff, Fan Li's vision was obviously higher, and he saw problems more thoroughly.

First of all, should we pay compensation? Should!

When the imperial guards attacked Yongren City for the first time, Dongchuan County had actually belonged to Shanhai City. The series of things that happened later, all just proved one thing: Ouyang Shuo failed to protect the people under his rule.

Let me ask, your people were looted by the enemy, and now you have sought justice for them, and even received double the compensation. Could it be that you can swallow all the compensation money privately?

cannot!

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Fan Li's approach.

What's even more clever is that Fan Li only compensated half of the compensation, and used preferential loans to compensate the rest in disguise. In this way, Fan Li also secretly warned the merchants in Dongchuan County: "Be content and don't push yourself too hard."

Businessmen have always been a group of greedy guys, born to chase profits.

Since you are greedy, you don't know what satisfaction is.

Once Shanhaicheng's posture is too low, these guys will climb up the pole. In that case, Cao Shen, the governor of Dongchuan County, might not have an easy life in the future.

Fan Li only paid half of the compensation, which seemed stingy, but in fact he was clever. Coupled with the preferential loan promised by the Four Seas Bank, it is enough to revive the destroyed business in Dongchuan County in a short period of time.

Just from this little incident, we can see the political wisdom of the Director of Finance.

How can a saint-level historical figure take it easy? !

You don't think they have any outstanding performance, it's just that they haven't really recognized you yet. And the current Fan Li has undoubtedly truly integrated into the Shanhai City system.

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Except for Cao Shen, the governor of Dongchuan, the other two governors were not easy.

Tian Wenjing, the governor of Mengding County, was even worse. The Mengding County he took over was the most thoroughly beaten by the Longxiang Army. At least 10% of the young people in the county died at the hands of Longxiang Army.

That's blood feud.

Until now, officials in various prefectures and counties have been attacked by local people from time to time on the way to take office. For this reason, Zhang Liao's army stationed in Tengyue County had to separate a division to guard the officials as they took office.

The law and order in the county is extremely poor.

People's hearts are unstable, blood feuds are hard to dispel, and even the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival has been diluted.

What Tian Wenjing faced was a huge problem.

The cold-faced sheriff was not in a hurry. The first thing he did after taking office was to use the special funds allocated by Ouyang Shuo to distribute a generous pension to all the relatives of the male victims in the county.

In addition, Tian Wenjing also ordered the officials of various prefectures and counties to dispatch one by one, with sincerity and Spring Festival gifts, to condolences to the families of the victims to express their apology and condolences.

The Spring Festival gifts sent are not fake, they are all practical things such as rice noodles, oil and grain, and cloth. It is in the same vein as Tian Wenjing's pragmatic style.

After a series of actions, the public grievances were finally calmed down a little.

After the Spring Festival, at the time of Qingming, Tian Wenjing is also planning to hold large-scale memorial ceremonies in various prefectures and counties to further eliminate public grievances and win the hearts of the people as much as possible.

The dead are the greatest, and no matter what you do, it is not an exaggeration.

Tian Wenjing knows very well that if the people's hearts do not return, it will be difficult to implement all government orders, just like castles in the air.

Just after the Spring Festival holiday, Tian Wenjing was busy again. He went to various prefectures and counties to investigate the local customs, encouraged farmers to reclaim terraced fields outside the city, and publicized the welfare policy of growing mulberry and silkworms in the territory.

Tian Wenjing also encouraged drug farmers to take advantage of the superior mountain forest environment in Mengding County to introduce medicinal planting technology, vigorously develop the medicinal material industry, and embark on the road to wealth.

Everywhere he goes, Tian Wenjing can adapt to local conditions and put forward reasonable suggestions for getting rich.

This time, it completely revealed the profound basic skills of this cold-faced sheriff. In history, Tian Wenjing was a very pragmatic official, very familiar with the life of the people at the bottom, and proficient in all walks of life.

Pointing up, it is easy to grasp.

In the past, there were pensions and condolences to heal the trauma of losing a loved one; now that they see the hope of getting rich, the people of Mengding County have gradually turned around and gradually recognized the county governor.

In this way, Tian Wenjing preliminarily stabilized the situation in which Mengding County was on the verge of collapse, which is considered a great achievement. For this reason, Ouyang Shuo specially issued an edict to reward this meritorious minister.

A model governor is really not just talking.

Tian Wenjing's several methods may seem ordinary, but they require a lot of knowledge. They are really great ways of governing.

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Compared with Tian Wenjing, Zhou Haichen, the prefect of Tengyue who also served in the south, was much more relaxed.

One is that Tengyue County surrendered all the way in the later period, and it was not damaged by the war much. The entire order in the county was fairly stable. Second, with Zhang Liao's army in command, Xiaoxiao's generation can't make any big waves.

The only thing Zhou Haichen needs to worry about is the placement of the Shanman clan.

Back then Ouyang Shuo contacted the mountain barbarians in the Yunnan mountain area and asked them to go down the mountain to help Shanhai City fight, but he made a promise. Now that the war is over, Tengyue County will naturally fulfill its promise on its behalf.

Zhou Haichen will refer to the model of Wuzhou County, will live in the mountains of large and small mountain tribes, one by one to live under the mountain, the establishment of hundreds of mountain autonomous towns.

That's a lot of money.

In addition, it is necessary to organize personnel to conduct skill training for the mountain barbarians to help them change from hunting civilization to farming civilization as soon as possible.

The mountain man has seen the rich life of the mountain man in Wuzhou County, but he will not be as shy as the mountain man tribe in the Lianzhou Basin at the beginning. They are eager to go down the mountain as soon as possible.

Although all affairs are not difficult, they are also complicated.

For Zhou Haichen, the governor of Xinzha County, it was a good experience.