Lu Ming

On July 1636, 7, Fu Youdi's twists and turns of return journey finally came to an end: the ship arrived in Guangzhou.

In the bustling new district wharf, Fu Youdi solemnly bids farewell to Shipowner Lin.

This trip down the sea, although we met by chance, we are already good friends, after all, we have experienced danger together.We exchanged addresses and contact information.When Fu Guanjiao was ignorant, he started the original process of government-business collusion.

In the beginning, this kind of communication was nothing more than sending some gifts on New Year's Day and exchanging news with each other.However, after time has passed, the two parties will help each other in their respective social circles.Even in a few decades, the descendants of the Fu family and the Lin family will benefit from today's dock.

After that, with simple luggage on his back, Fu Youdi took a taxi on the spot and went to Mingjing Fort eighteen miles away.

Guangzhou No. [-] Kan is a prison administration unit, and its normal activities are outside densely populated areas.

Mingjing Fort was originally an old guard house beside the Pearl River.As a result, after Deputy Cao came, he first dragged the net to suppress the bandits, and then a series of land acquisition, relocation, and labor. All kinds of troubles tossed Mingjing Fort up and down, and the original framework was disbanded.

What happened to Mingjing Fort is just a microcosm of the great era.

Time went forward to 1635, when the chimney of a large steel factory of a certain force was inserted, it really showed its fangs, and it was no longer concealed: all military units in the Pearl River Delta region, including guards, inspections, pond floods, The old-fashioned military guard system, including the water battalion, etc., was all abolished and reorganized in the face of a "violating" relocation order issued by the Zhangchao General Military Mansion.

Although a certain Cao, the Zhangchao General Soldier, theoretically cannot interfere with the military affairs of Fujian and Guangdong, after all, there are two general army officers above him.However, after all these years, as long as you are not blind, you will know that Cao's rebellion is imminent.At this moment, no one wants to pierce this layer of window paper and be regarded as a martyr by others.

What makes all the officials in the south even more chilling is that everyone knows that the court is too busy to take care of itself and has no way to support everyone. So Cao thief can only do what he wants to do.

In this process of dismantling, the guard system, which has actually been transformed into a relationship between landlords and serfs, naturally has to fight, especially the official households of the guards in various places.

However, in front of the breech-loading guns and cannons, this little resistance melted like summer ice and snow: most of the soldiers in the guards who lived in poverty immediately abandoned the hundreds of households that oppressed them, and turned to liquidate There are quite a few.

The land revolution is a necessary prelude to the capital revolution.

After that, the human resources of the guard were redistributed.Young military households either joined the army or entered factories, and the elderly also received light physical work, medical care, and social security in the new society.

The above operations, in the Pearl River Delta region alone, have optimized the labor force of more than 40 men and women, providing raw blood for the increasing industrialization.

In addition, with the de facto abolition of the guard, the official land that had been occupied by private individuals was returned to the new government.In name, these lands were still Daming's Shitu Weisuo, but they had actually been turned into cities, roads, and large-scale farmland.

When Fu Youdi arrived at the destination, it was already evening and the sun was setting.

Mingjing Fort, which used to be defensive, has become the main office area of ​​Guangzhou Erkan after a series of renovations. It is a comprehensive building complex with office and custody functions.

Facing the warm golden light, Fu Youdi felt inexplicably familiar and relieved when he saw the servicemen returning from work lined up in the distance.After packing his backpack, he went to the administrative gate to hand in his documents. Not long after, Fu Youdi met Lao Yong, the deputy director, in an office on the second floor.

Lao Yong is a thick and thick man in his forties with a red face.This gentleman speaks with a Huainan accent and is very enthusiastic. With one sleeve tucked into his belt, he is a disabled person without an arm.

In fact, Fu Youdi's supervisor when he was in Qiongzhou was almost exactly the same as the director of labor except that he was lame.

In the system, there are many middle-level cadres in this living state.They were all old brothers who fought with the commander-in-chief in the early years. Later, they were injured and unable to march, so they were arranged to take public positions in the local area.

Seeing the bamboo-framed camping bed in the office, Fu Youdi's attitude became more respectful: this type of cadres are usually very dedicated, eat and live in the unit, and are extremely loyal to the commander-in-chief, and don't listen to bad things.

After meeting and exchanging greetings, Director Lao expressed a very sincere welcome to the arrival of Disciplinary Fu, on behalf of Guangzhou Erkan: "If you can escort a ship of servicemen to Fort Lizhui in good condition, and hand them over safely, you are undoubtedly an excellent cadre, yes." Next focus on training objects.

Taking out the key and meal card, Director Lao told Fu Youdi: Take two days off to settle down, and then write a report on the experience during this period, and talk about the rest later.

The above requirements are all the meanings in the question, and Fu Youdi agreed without stumbling.

After coming out of the office, I searched all the way to find the dormitory area, and finally found the room on the key number, entered the room, settled down a bit, and went out to find the cafeteria.

The cafeteria is easy to find. It's the meal time, so follow the crowd and find it.The quality of food in the Guangzhou canteen is obviously better than that of Qiongzhou Erkan.Guanjiao Fu, who had just arrived for the first time, didn't see any exceptions, he slapped a few pork dishes such as plum vegetables and pork to satisfy his cravings, and he didn't touch seafood dishes either.

With the development of the fishing industry and mariculture industry, the supply of seafood has been greatly improved through the coastal areas under the control of the public.On the contrary, the growth of livestock resources, which needs to be taken step by step, is still slow.

In the evening, eat and drink enough to teach.I made tea for myself in an enamel mug.Sitting in the simple dormitory, turning on the kerosene lamp, he spread out the manuscript paper, and then found a small palm-sized book from his backpack: "New Concise Chinese Dictionary".

Knowing five hundred commonly used characters and understanding official document style is one of the necessary conditions for becoming a "cadre" in the Great Yan State system.

At the beginning, when I was in Qiongzhou, no one expected that Fu Youdi, an ugly, short, gluttonous and fearful labor camp farm worker, would have such great perseverance, learned five hundred new characters, and reached the minimum for being promoted to a cadre. Require.

In fact, the impetus that leads to admiration is not so great, and it is precisely the reason: only cadres are entitled to gluttony, and only cadres are entitled to instruct others to do dangerous work.

Of course, learning five hundred characters is only the minimum standard.To be able to write a complete job report, the required knowledge reserve can exceed [-] words.Therefore, whenever Fu Youdi writes a report, he will turn out the dictionary to strengthen his study.

After resting like this for two days, after writing the report, Fu Youdi asked Deputy Director Lao for instructions.

After leaving the report, Director Lao approved a note, asking Fu Youdi to go to the logistics to get two new uniforms, and then come to him at eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

Early the next morning, Fu Youdi, who had put on a brand new uniform and leather shoes, met the management team other than Director Lao for the first time.

Some cadres, including the chief director, held a simple conferring ceremony for Guanjiao Fu in the conference room today.

Before departure from Qiongzhou, Fu Youdi's level was the lowest cadre rank: third-level superintendent.Later, according to the practice of "going to dangerous areas to perform tasks", Fu Youdi was temporarily promoted to the second superintendent.

As a result, after Guanjiao Fu successfully completed his mission in Lizhuobao, he was transferred to Guangzhou. At the same time, he was promoted to a first-class superintendent.

Today, under the applause of new colleagues, Deputy Director Lao put on new epaulettes for Guanjiao Fu.

Next, Guanjiao Fu, who was blushing, stammered a few words in Mandarin, and accidentally brought out a Lingao accent, which drew good-natured laughter from his colleagues.

This time and space changed by the traversers is in a great era when the original order is broken and the society is undergoing rapid transformation.Unprecedented changes throughout the ages have led to countless room for improvement in the new society.

In the past few years, official deeds like Fu Youdi's successive upgrades are not common, but they are not rare at all.Just like the red kid who became the battalion commander in the later generations, there is too much room for improvement, and a little bit of top can get the system bonus.

After finishing the welcome ceremony, Director Lao led Guanjiao Fu to the newly assigned desk.Then, in front of the new colleagues, Director Lao took out a letter of introduction and handed it to Fu Youdi.

"This is.?"

"The Second Labor Education System Team Building Work and Commendation Conference."

"Don't say we don't take care of the new brothers. It's because you are lucky that you caught up as soon as you arrived." The head of the labor department smiled all over his face: "In the conference organized by the Ministry, there are two places in total, and you are counted as one."

At this moment, Guanjiao Fu's soul has been sublimated: It's better to be in a big city, I don't have a day's work, so I'll eat for half a month first!

Three days later, Guanjiao Fu, dressed up and down vigorously, arrived in front of the legendary Baietan Hotel in a four-wheeled carriage reimbursed with public funds.

Compared with when it was first built, the facade of Baietan Hotel has been renovated again.The luxurious marble squares, fountains, lawns, and gently sloping halls all show the luxury and magnificence of the new society.

Get out of the car, look up, and easily find the relevant banners in a row of red silk hung by hot air balloons: Warmly welcome all guests who come to the conference of the labor education system & Baietan Hotel wishes the conference a complete success success!

Enter, present the letter of introduction and work permit in the magnificent hall, then register, sign and receive the house card.After completing a series of formalities, Fu Youdi checked the register, and sure enough, his old friend was there.

Hurriedly finding his room on the podium, Fu Youdi quickly found the old director who came to attend the conference on the same floor.

The old director from Qiongzhou Erkan was also very happy after seeing Fu Youdi. He patted each other on the back with Fu Youdi and told each other about their parting friendship.At the end of the day, as a half-master, for the first time this year, Guanjiao paid out of his pocket, and asked the old director to have a meal of foreign meat in the western restaurant.

A meal of buffalo steak and foreign meat can be called a wage earner's nightmare.After paying the bill afterwards, seeing that a glass of boiled water had been counted as money, the poor and frightened Disciplinary Officer Fu didn't sleep well all night.

Early the next morning, in the auditorium of the hotel, representatives of the labor education system from all over the country gathered together, sat neatly on the seats with their names on them, and waited for the boss to take the stage.

Not long after, the side door opened, and a group of senior governors, including three big men in white shirts, came up to the rostrum.

To be honest, this is the first time Fu Youdi has seen a live white shirt.

It is different from the perfect civil service system in later generations.In the current situation, there are not many qualified natives to hold high-level administrative positions.The white shirt of the police system can only be solved by the traversers holding multiple positions.

What follows is the normal business process.In the opening ceremony, the leader made a speech, commended the advanced, the leader spoke again, and the advanced representative made a report.

At noon, Fu Youdi finally had the buffet he had been longing for again.Coincidentally, he was looking for a seat with a plate, and met his neighbor in the morning meeting.

The neighbor's surname is Hu, and his name is Hu Zhengqi.Hu Guanjiao was originally from Hangzhou, but later he was transferred and assigned to Shanghai Xingang District, a representative of the immigration and labor education integration organization.

Seeing the local colleagues, Hu Guanjiao from Jiangnan hurriedly greeted Fu Guanjiao to sit down, and then everyone chatted while eating.

In terms of age, Hu Zhengqi, a cadre who came from afar, is three to five or seven years older than Fu Youdi.As for the reason why the two hit it off, in addition to verbal speculation, the similarity in appearance also accounts for part of the reason: these two are short and ugly, 1.5 meters eight, the type of people who are usually avoided by women.

After eating the buffet happily, the two of them went to the tea bar for a while, and waited until two o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone continued to participate in the meeting.

In this way, the important meeting related to the general direction of the next stage of the national reeducation through labor system lasted for three full days before it came to an end.

According to the top-level strategic plan, no matter how the situation in the north changes, by the second half of next year at the latest, the domestic unification war will be at the end or even in the final stage.

In other words, from now on, the nascent Dayan regime will shift its focus to civil war.

Therefore, recently, various administrative systems of the Great Yan Kingdom have been holding national mobilization summary conferences or in other words, orientation adjustment conferences and rebellion briefings.

The key cadres including Fu Youdi, in the three-day meeting, without exception, were clearly conveyed the important message: next year there will be a big move, starting this year, everyone must correct their thinking, obey the command, and cooperate closely in the future Marshal Cao.
So, what's the big move next year?The answer to this question was already widely circulated at the break-up banquet after the closing ceremony, and it was not a secret at all.

People like Fu Youdi already had answers in their hearts, and expressed their emotional stability.

Ever since Fu Youdi could remember, words such as hunger, poverty, banditry, government, and death have been closely bound up with his cruel life experience.

Until one day, the name Cao Dashuai appeared in Fu Youdi's life.

After that, those problems that the poor could not solve for thousands of years were uprooted little by little.The whole process was fully witnessed and actively participated in.Now, he is living a beautiful life that he never dared to dream of before.

Now, it's his turn to defend his life.

Rebellion is nothing to the mentally numb grassroots. The severity is about the same as killing a chicken. If it fails, you will be beheaded. If you don't rebel, the poor can live for a few more years.

In other words, if it weren't for Marshal Cao, Fu Youdi would have died in the grass nest back then.Now he earns money every day he lives, there is nothing to be afraid of.

After attending the break-up banquet, the conference ended successfully.As usual, next, those from other places will have one week of travel time.And local cadres like Fu Youdi only have three days.

In fact, Fu Youdi is a local cadre in name, but like outsiders, he is a newcomer and has never been anywhere.

Therefore, Guanjiao Fu and Guanjiao Hu, a pair of crouching dragons and phoenixes, made an appointment to play together tomorrow.

On the first day after the meeting, the two went together and went around the old city of Guangzhou first.After the end of the day, Hu Zhengqi from Shanghai said that apart from the fact that there were more foreign businessmen from other places, there was not much difference between the old city and Hangzhou Jiaxing in the south of the Yangtze River.

Fu Youdi has never been to Jiangnan.Today's tour of the old city, on the contrary, conformed to his fantasy of a traditional big city, so he was still very satisfied.

Early the next morning, on a fast boat, the duo went to see the newly built blast furnace in the steel factory.

The model steel factory located twenty miles west of the new district has now built its fifth blast furnace.The entire model steel plant has an annual output of 20 tons of crude steel.

This production volume is roughly equivalent to the industrial level at the end of the nineteenth century.

However, the industrial system established by the traversers has always been difficult at the beginning.Once the incubation period is passed, steel production will have a blowout leap forward in the next few years.

After visiting the steel factory, Hu Zhengqi's mild sense of superiority finally disappeared.However, he said that the large iron-smelting furnace in Shanghai Port was also under construction, and he warmly invited Professor Fu to take a leisurely tour of the beach.

Fu Youdi accepted the invitation with a wry smile: He guessed that he would never have the opportunity to travel to Shanghai on business in his life, and he had no concept of self-driving travel these days.

The third day was the last day of the duo, and Fu Youdi finally had to go to work tomorrow.So, the two simply wandered around in the new area.

Compared with Shanghai, there are many administrative department headquarters in the new area, so there are many solemn and solemn streets and building complexes like Chang'an Avenue.This made Hu Zhengqi look at it with gusto.

As for walking on the bustling commercial street, Hu Guanjiao felt normal again.While wandering around shaking hands, showing the faces of people in the city, desperately giving Amway to his new brother, describing the feasting and feasting of big Shanghai.

Fu Youdi, a country bumpkin, listened with gusto and fascination. This is probably the core reason why Guanjiao Hu can be friends with him: the pleasure of pretending to be successful.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, a sudden change occurred.He only heard the sentence "Good ball!" Then Fu You's eyes dazzled, and Brother Hu disappeared.
Taking a closer look, it turned out that Brother Hu was pushed into a side alley by several tall figures.

Shocked, Fu Youdi followed and ran in.Turning the corner, he first saw three soldiers in training uniforms.With great effort to push aside these young guys who deliberately blocked the entrance of the alley, Fu Youdi saw Brother Hu, who had an ugly face flushed with suffocation. He was short in stature, and was surrounded by a man in an officer's uniform with a scar on his neck. The big man with a box of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes hung in the air and pressed against the wall, his short legs were still thumping.

"Hero, deputy master" Fu Guan is now a civil servant anyway. After habitually yelling a few quacks, he immediately noticed the military rank on the officer's shoulder, and quickly adjusted his response: "I said this major beat people in the street. But it's a violation of discipline. This is a member of the Shanghai delegation who came to the meeting, let go first!"

Following Hu Guanjiao's righteous words, the tall, ape-backed officer with a large purple birthmark on his face in front of him thought for a while, the birthmark trembled, and finally he let go of his hand and put it down. Hu Zhengqi.

"Good you Hu Zhengqi! Haha, Skynet is restored, and it is delivered to your door! I sold my father back then, and I need to settle the account with you today!" Although he put him down, the young officer didn't have any good words: "In recent years, people from Hangzhou have been It’s over by you. Now it’s changed to Xiangtang, is it changed to Shanghai?”

Hearing this, Fu Youdi thought, "It's broken, it's an old grudge!"

While pondering, he hurried forward to help Hu Zhengqi up.

Hu Zhengqi, who was thrown down, didn't even bother to fight back at this time, he covered his throat and coughed again and again, looking like he would give his life at any time.

After a long while, Hu Zhengqi, who was blushing, sat on the ground, pointed at the officer with trembling fingers, and said harshly, "So it's you! Yang Er, how dare you hit your master Hu!"

"Teach you to be good, your grandpa, my name is Yang Weili now!"

While speaking, this officer, whose name was Yang Er or Yang Weili, raised his fist and punched Hu Zhengqi hard in the chest and abdomen several times.

These few punches almost made Hu Guanjiao lose his breath, and he could only retch for a while, and he couldn't say any more harsh words.

At this moment, Guanjiao Fu was furious.As a companion, it was impossible for him to allow his opponent to commit murder.Although he didn't want to be nosy at first, but now he can only bite the bullet and shout: "Which unit are you from, report it, I will ask the picket to sue you!"

"Grandpa is Yang Weili, the commander of the Second Battalion of the Imperial Guard. Don't worry, sue him!"

While speaking, Yang Weili stretched out his legs and kicked Hu Zhengqi hard.Amid Guard Hu's screams, Battalion Commander Yang showed a triumphant smile of revenge.

"The account is settled! You old crook!" Waving his hands, Battalion Commander Yang Weili led his subordinates, humming a little tune and walking away contentedly.

After a long time, Guanjiao Fu supported Hu Zhengqi, who was covered in footprints, and came out of the alley: "Brother Hu, let's go to the hospital to see the injury first. I'll sue Qiu Ba for you later!"

"Forget it, forget it, just go to the hospital and apply some medicine." At this time, Hu Zhengqi looked dejected, and he didn't have any righteousness: "I'm afraid it's the emperor's own army. This bastard little beggar is now prosperous. Judging by the shape, I'm afraid it's a real-time job, alas, forget it if you can't afford it, I'm unlucky for the old brother."

In this way, happy events turned into crying events.The duo who went out to go shopping in high spirits went to the street health center miserably after a sudden accident.

I asked Hu Zhengqi for a bed in the health center, and stayed with the poor brother who was beaten until night, and checked that nothing was wrong. Since Fu Youdi had to go to work tomorrow morning, he and his brother had to leave each other's contact information and mailboxes. Farewell at the hospital bed.

Early the next morning, Fu Youdi arrived at Erkan's office on time and started the formal work process.

This time, the unit didn't make any mistakes.At noon, an official order came down: all departments are ready to catch the floating waves tomorrow.