Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1732 Point Mao
Dong Mingpeng bowed his head and said, "Yes, thank you sir. I just ask you to send me a document to allow my maidservants, mother and daughter to live in Guangzhou."

Liu Xiang said: "The Senate originally had a policy for the families of Ming officials: those who are willing to return home will be paid travel expenses, and those who are not willing to return home will find their own way out. You are willing to stay in Guangzhou. You can go wherever you want after the review is over. where to go."

"Thank you for your kindness, my lord." Dong Mingdang said, "It's just that the maidservants are orphans and widowed mothers. They have no livelihood and few people to take care of them. Please be extra merciful, and return the private property of the maidservants and maidservants."

"If they are willing to follow you, we won't make it difficult for us to stay. Everyone is free to stay or stay. As for your mother and daughter's private houses, they need to be checked. In principle, as long as they are not over the limit, they can be returned." Liu Xiang said.

Dong Mingpeng knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you for your kindness!"

Guo Xi'er came out of the office, saw Dong Mingdang's still calm expression, and couldn't help complaining: "You killed me today!"

Dong Mingdang took Guo Xi'er's arm, and said with a smile: "Mingdang is all reckless, this time I have to thank my sister." He said and stuffed a handkerchief bag into Guo Xi'er's hand.Whispered:

"Thanks to my sister's help this time, Ming Dang never forgets. A small thing is not a respect."

Guo Xier felt as if she had been burned, and quickly pushed back, saying, "No, don't, don't try to harm me."

Dong Mingdang thought that her acquisition was too light, that it was something worthless, so he deliberately lifted a corner of the handkerchief, and it turned out that inside was a golden step Yao with an emerald begonia flower pendant - at least two or three hundred taels of silver.

Unexpectedly, Guo Xier still refused to accept it. Dong Mingdang was afraid that he would attract too much attention, so he had to take it back, saying: "Sister is so polite, Mingdang is really sorry..."

"Don't be polite." Although Guo Xi'er was not born in a wealthy family, she could still see the luxury and delicacy of the jewelry. Although she was tempted, she didn't dare to covet anything. Thinking about her background, she was pitiful, so she couldn't help feeling sympathetic, " My hometown is originally from Shandong, and I’m from the same town as your mother, so I can always help you with this.” She sighed, “I never imagined that your life experience was so miserable. Now you, mother and daughter, don’t even have a man who can establish a family. , the future will probably not be easy. Let’s save it for the day.”

"I will ask my sister to take care of me more in the future." Dong Mingdang gave another blessing before leaving.

Dong Mingpeng returned to the room, and briefly told her mother about the process of meeting Liu Xiang, and then said: "Now Master Liu has allowed us to take away a few servants, my daughter is thinking, our mother and daughter only have one close and one servant girl. Huan, even if they are all taken away, the four women will not be able to stand up for the family..."

Aunt Jiang nodded silently, she was not very old, she was only in her early thirties, she was born gracefully, even more beautiful than her daughter.However, Aunt Jiang was not favored in Dong's family. First, she had no sons, and second, Aunt Jiang was very seldom interested.Master Dong didn't come to her room several times throughout the year.

Since she is not favored, she will naturally be treated inferiorly. The other female family members are all close to each other, with two maids, and Aunt Jiang has only one maid.

Although the close body and the maid can be taken away, there is no man in the family, and a woman living alone will inevitably attract waves of crazy butterflies.If widows are not taken care of by their husbands or natal families, it is common for widows to be harassed and molested. There are even people who specifically kidnap and sell widows.

Dong Mingpeng murmured, "I think Dong Xiang, who was serving in the master's study, is a nice person. He is very smart, and he is very responsible. He has never been married, and I think Laner is twenty, so he should be assigned to him. Let his husband and wife stand outside the door." To set up a household, we, mother and daughter, are in charge. Both of them are not from the local area, and now that the war is in chaos, they will not have the idea of ​​returning to their hometown."

Aunt Jiang said: "Pang'er, this is quite appropriate. But what if I stay in Guangzhou to make a living in the future?" She frowned and worried as she spoke.Master Dong's hometown is naturally impossible to visit, and Aunt Jiang's natal relatives have not heard from each other for many years.There have been many natural and man-made disasters in the north these years, and I don't know if he is still alive.Concubine Jiang is not Concubine Hong in the Dong family, and she has no extra income except monthly money. She has a little savings, jewelry, and antiques in her hands, so sitting and eating is not a long-term solution.

Dong Mingpeng was confident, and said: "Auntie, Guangzhou is a bustling place, and there are silver everywhere, as long as you are willing to work hard to find it. According to my daughter, the Australians are very organized, and they will become grand in the future. We are behind us, and we have opportunities. Don't worry about making a living in the future, your daughter can find her own way."

Aunt Jiang is a person who has no opinion. Seeing that her daughter speaks clearly and logically, she can't think of any other way, so she obeys her.

Early the next morning, Dong Mingdang packed her luggage and got up to go to Guangxiao Temple. She delayed for a few days with excuses, and the other family servants in the yamen were gone. The search team of the Planning Institute had already recovered the Tibetan silver from the prefect of Dong, leaving only a few people behind. Check and register cheap crude goods.The Dong family's mother and daughter don't have many things, and Guo Xi'er came to take care of them, so the inspection was done hastily.Dong Mingpeng tried her best to perfunctory Guo Xi'er, knowing that the other party refused to accept expensive gifts, so she gave her a Sichuan fan as a gift.Guo Xier accepted it too.

Liu Xiang naturally didn't have the energy to pay attention to the friendship between the female secretary and Dong Mingdang.He has too much to do.At this moment, he is meeting the servants of the three classes and six houses of the Guangzhou government in the lobby.Today is their first day to come to Xinde Guangzhou Municipal Government to "dianmao".

One of the basic principles set by the Senate for the takeover of Guangzhou City was to "temporarily preserve the old governing machine". The Senate has established a clean and relatively efficient administrative machine in Hainan Island, and has also trained a large number of cadres.But these cadres are far from enough to be used in the big city of Guangzhou.Liu Xiang's first job was to ensure that the subordinate officials in one prefecture and two counties could work stably, and ensure the stability of Guangzhou's urban order and basic functions.The subordinate officials are the bottom of the society, but they are responsible for most of the administrative work in ancient cities. They are far more familiar with the city than ordinary people.Although they have always been very harmful, Liu Xiang can't clean them out, but must use them.

For this reason, he and Lin Baiguang roughly formulated a basic principle for dealing with the subordinate staff in several meetings before entering the city: "Crack down on the typical, educate and retain most of them." ", and gradually eliminate the "non-activists" among the retained personnel over three to five years. "Activists" were transformed into official naturalized civilian cadres.

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, the subaltern class has been known as "evil" and "cunning". No matter whether you are a clean or dirty official, as long as you are against the subordinates, this official will not be able to do it peacefully. Let alone a political achievement.

Although Lin Baiguang is a supporter of the policy of "temporarily preserving the old ruling machine", he is also full of wariness towards this group.Although the "old system", the greatest magic weapon for subordinate staff to coerce officials, no longer exists, and their "rules" and "old rules" are not needed under the new system.But their familiarity with the laws of officialdom makes them still have the ability to do evil.The new cadres trained by the Senate and even the elders themselves will inevitably fall into their ways if they are a little careless.

"If you do bad things, you can change them, but it will be difficult to restore the lost popular support." Lin Baiguang reminded Liu Xiang, "You have to be especially careful not to be used by them. There are countless bad things in history. In the end, it is the Senate and the you!"

Liu Xiang wants to give full play to their role, and he can't let them get involved.

"I have considered this." Liu Xiang said, "First of all, it is necessary to establish prestige. The so-called three fires for a new official to take office. I think the first one is to burn down the government office. I read that you gave me a lot of black material. I think there will be a 'removal of the chief evil' first, and the people in the third class and the sixth room who have committed crimes in the past, and the people are very angry, first arrest a few and hang up street lamps, and the people below will naturally understand..."

"Don't underestimate them. The harm of subordinate officials has lasted for thousands of years from the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Republic of China. During this period, no matter whether they are upright officials or Ming emperors, they have nothing to do with them. I have investigated and found that many of the subordinate officials have been passed down for generations. , and some have even been working as subordinates since the Song Dynasty. They are all handed down from family. You have to be careful not only.”

At the moment Liu Xiang is sitting in the office with his eyes closed and resting his mind.On the table are the case file materials—all black materials.Relying on these black materials, he is going to start a killing spree today.

Although this is contrary to the concept of "ruling the country by law" advocated by the Senate.Fortunately, he is now the director of the Guangzhou Military Control Council. According to the Law Society's back door, "military control" is the "March Law." As the director, he also serves as the chief judge of the Guangzhou Military Court, which is almost "talking about the constitution of heaven".

I saw a doorman on duty running sweating and panting, and said: "My lord! It's already nine o'clock. Are you going to be promoted?"

"Up!" Liu Xiang looked at his watch, stood up abruptly, and ordered: "Tell the gatekeepers to fire cannons! The guards are fully armed and go to work!" But he was very careful, looking at his hair and newly made hair in the mirror. Navy blue tunic suit—the tailor in the office can finally make a decent tunic suit now.

After smoothing out all the wrinkles, he went out and walked slowly to the back of the lobby.Guo Xier and two armed guards followed closely behind.Mending had already come one step ahead and stood at the side door, bowing and waiting.

The lobby has long been full of serious killings.The 24 national army soldiers and the 24 national army Japanese soldiers under the public case table were divided into two rows and extended to the entrance of the second hall.The soldiers of the National Army were all armed with sharp bayonets and their rifle butts leaned on the ground; the Japanese team wore a big red iron fist coat of arms with a haori pattern, and stood upright with two knives in their waists without blinking their eyelashes.

More than a dozen clerks in robes and boots stand on the west side of the hall pillars, and on the east side are the heads of the third shift and government servants in brightly colored clothes standing on standby. There is a chair on the left side of the official case, and the seat is Wei Bifu, the counselor of the Guangzhou Municipal Government. On the right is Lu Yizhong, Secretary of the Outreach Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Government, who has just been released.

Seeing such battles, the subordinate officials felt uneasy.Since ancient times, when a new official takes office, it is inevitable to set fire, not to mention the change of dynasty now!How would Master Liu, an Australian, set the fire?Some people know that their sins are great and feel very uneasy, but this ancestral job cannot be lost-this is not only a way to make a living by eating and making a fortune, but also the key to saving one's life: at the beginning of a new dynasty, if you can't get mixed into the system in time, without the umbrella, you will have to accumulate money outside. The new and old hatreds that have come down will break out at the same time, and the family will be destroyed in an instant!

In the lobby and in the yard, there were people standing in darkness, but Zhou Za was surprisingly quiet. Suddenly he heard the sound of the curtain being lifted, and knew that Chief Liu was about to come out, and then he heard three cannon shots of "Bang-bang-bang!" , Mending sang loudly:
"The Senate of the Great Song Dynasty appointed Liu Xiang, the governor of Guangzhou, to be promoted!"

He came up with this title after inquiring about it from Guo Xi'er. When he drank it, the servants in the clerks and yamen had practiced their kung fu, "Oh—" they called out to Tang Wei in unison, and they raised their feet and took a step back like puppets Hearing Liu Xiang's footsteps, he came out from the east rear side door and went up to his seat to stand according to the case.

"My lord, please be safe!"

Hundreds of people in and out of the court beat Qian'er together, and the sound made the lobby buzz.

"Everyone, please." Liu Xiang had a poker face expressionless.Even so, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Wei Bifu and Lu Yizhong arched upwards and sat down with their hands on their knees.The rest of the people stood with their hands down, peeking at the male seat from time to time, and Liu Xiang also sat down.

Liu Xiang looked at the crowd who had been standing under the public case in the lobby until the dark crowd outside the gate, and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. According to the data provided by the Ministry of Urban and Industrial Engineering and the roster taken from the shelf library, the people in this government office are compared to the people in the county office. There are more, but there are less than 300 "economic officials", and there are more than [-] people including Xu who have work, food and silver.

Although he knew from the information that there are many "temporary workers" who are not in the editorial office and do not receive wages in every county and government office, but there are not so many people!

He frowned and said, "Roll call!"

The roll call was quick, with a total of more than 300 people. After the roll call, 25 people did not show up, eight of them were on long vacations, and only [-] people did not show up for no reason.

"Those who haven't arrived will be removed!" Liu Xiang ordered, seeing that there were still many people whose names hadn't been called, and asked Wei Bifu, "There are still many people who haven't been called, so..."

"Those who are not on the register are paid for their work." Wei Bifu said, "Those who are on the register get three to six dollars in labor and food silver every year. Those who are not on the register only work as errands and don't get paid."

Liu Xiang nodded, three or two or six dollars a year for food and silver, this salary is low enough.As for the many servants who only work as errands without getting paid, it goes without saying that they all rely on what they live on.

The work of yamen servants is essentially a kind of unpaid labor.From the perspective of the designers of this system, there is nothing wrong with not paying the government servants or only paying a symbolic salary, because this is a kind of "serving the public".This crude system lasted for more than 1000 years, and no imperial court realized what was wrong with it.Apart from complaining that "officials are as cunning as oil", officials have never thought of trying to change it at the source.

Liu Xiang asked again: "How many people are not on the register?"

"This—" Wei Bifu questioned, "I don't know about the humble positions. There are about 600 people."

(End of this chapter)