Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 173 Reprimand
Compared with gold and silver, Chen Gu still hopes to keep basic supplies such as food, fodder and real estate. Without gold and silver, he will be poorer at most, but if he loses the basic supplies, there will be trouble.

Money can be earned slowly, but you can’t go without food for a day.

As for treacherously dealing with those who escaped, Chen Gu had never thought about it. If he really did that, the entire Sichuan clan would have to fight to the death. They would die anyway, so why don't you allow them to struggle?

Therefore, Chen Gui's combat strategy was relatively mild from the beginning. He did not even attack Hejiang County. He just extorted some food and mules and horses for transportation and then left.

Originally, Luzhou was also prepared to handle this matter, but unfortunately, the officials and wealthy families in Luzhou were the first to betray their loyalty. Even if it was for punishment, the war had to be fought.

It just so happened that Chen Gu also needed a big city as a real base. Luzhou had developed shipping and controlled the Yangtze River, Tuojiang River and Chishui River. The Tuojiang River connected several large cities in central Sichuan, the Yangtze River ran through the entire Sichuan landscape, and the Chishui River connected to Guizhou.

Luzhou was a very suitable base for Chen Gu in his early days, even more suitable than Chengdu and Chongqing, so Chen Gu simply stayed in Luzhou, wanting to build this base well.

In fact, Chen Gou was happy to see the escape of the nobles and officials in Luzhou. Without these people doing things in secret, Chen Gou could speed up his management of Luzhou a lot.

Zhang Haomin thought about it carefully, and finally reluctantly agreed to Chen Kui's suggestion.

Chen Ju was overjoyed, pointing to a pile of documents in the courtroom and said with a smile: "Since you are now in charge of Luzhou, you should deal with those documents first!"

Although Chen Ke's super-male syndrome had disappeared and he had been reading the Hundred Family Surnames with Suan Xiucai for so long, he still had a headache reading the copy, especially after reading it for a long time, he felt extremely irritated.

But faced with the various documents submitted by the ten major departments, he had to read them carefully. After all, this was a political matter. Chen Gu naturally understood that a small mistake by those in a higher position could very likely cause losses to many ordinary people.

So even though I was upset, I had to endure it. Now that Zhang Haomin was here, I could finally relax.

Zhang Haomin couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Isn't it because you don't want to deal with political affairs that you made the current military deployment?"

"That's definitely not the case. They are each our own business!" Chen Gu would naturally not admit it.

Chen Gu wanted to take a rest, but troubles kept coming. Before he could leave the lobby, Bian Shichun came to him again.

"Leader, chief steward!" Bian Shichun greeted the two men first, then said to Chen Ju: "I checked the household registration books of Luzhou. The whole Luzhou governs five counties: Jiangyang, Naxi, Hejiang, Xuyong, and Luxian. The population is just over one million, and there are more than five thousand towns.

Even in the area controlled by our army, there are more than 300,000 people in and around Luzhou City, and more than 500 towns. What I want to say is that with so many places and so many people, we don’t have so many scholars to send to various places to be teachers. "

"It's not enough to send even one teacher to a town, because compared to being a teacher, everyone seems to prefer to be an official with real power!" Bian Shichun said with a little dissatisfaction at last.

Chen Gu raised his eyebrows and smiled: "That's not the way to say it. My Huaxia Department has just been established, and we will definitely not continue to use those corrupt officials of the Qing Dynasty. They may even be our targets of crackdown. However, the world is so big that it naturally needs officials to manage it.

Where do the officials come from? Naturally, they come from the scholars. However, ordinary scholars do not understand our ideals and aspirations. Today's scholars only know how to take the imperial examinations to become officials and make money. Even if we have to use these people, we won't be able to use them for long.

Eventually, they will be replaced by officials trained by ourselves. Therefore, the current teachers will definitely have many students all over the world in the future. Being a teacher will definitely have a bright future. As for the insufficient number of teachers, that is your problem. You used to be a county teacher, and now you are the Minister of Education. If there are not enough teachers, you should figure it out yourself. If I need to solve all the problems, then why do I need so many officials?
Anyway, every town must have a teacher. I don't want any scholar or juren, as long as he can teach the kids to write and do math, it will be enough. They start school at the age of six and graduate at the age of twelve. In six years, it will be enough if I can teach the kids addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and understand the documents and announcements issued by the court.

Can’t this be accomplished?”

"Do we really need so many scholars?" Bian Shichun muttered somewhat unconvinced.

Chen Gu was furious when he heard this and shouted angrily: "We don't need so many scholars, but we need the people to be able to write and calculate.

If you know how to count, pay taxes, and buy and sell things, you won't be bullied by corrupt officials, unscrupulous businessmen, and bullies.

It is not true that just because you can read you can use the official notice to criticize the corrupt officials who exploited you.

They are human beings, not animals. As human beings, they should have food and clothing, and live with dignity, and should not be bullied by another group of self-proclaimed noble people, living a life of hunger and cold, and living in insecurity! "

Chen Gu took a deep breath, stared at Bian Shichun and said, "I don't want to tell you so much, Bian Shichun, you can tell me now whether you can do this position. If you can, find a way to do it well. If you can't, you can hand in your resignation and return to Jiangjin now."

Bian Shichun could not help but be stunned. He did not expect that just muttering a few words would lead to a severe scolding from Chen Guru, who even asked him to hand in his resignation.

It is definitely impossible for him to go back to Jiangjin. If he goes back, he will probably never be able to be part of the core power circle again. After ten or twenty years, people like Bai Wencheng who are in high positions will laugh at him to death. Well, maybe they won't. They will just sigh for him occasionally.

What's wrong with being scolded?
There are many people who are willing to be humiliated and work like dogs but still want to climb up. The sad thing is that such people cannot climb very high, and some even do it just for a little bit of benefit.

Compared with this, the current opportunity is second to none and Bian Shichun has never thought of giving up.

Chen Gu did have a bad temper, sometimes even a little extreme, but overall he was respectful to others and never insulted anyone's personality.

"I know I was wrong, and I will try my best to do my job well." Bian Shichun said as he was about to kneel down and apologize to Chen Gu.

"Stand up!" Chen Gu frowned and shouted angrily: "Our China is not the Qing Dynasty, no one is a slave, and there is no need to kneel down to others. Just recognize the mistakes and correct them.

I know it's hard now, but who has it easy?

No matter how much pressure you are under, you are still better than the soldiers fighting desperately on the front line, right?

I hope you can endure each other for the sake of the country!"

(End of this chapter)