Yarkand, what is it?

Zhang Qiang asked Zhou Congee, Zhou Congee shook his head, "Governor, I am dizzy after being busy with government affairs all day, how can I have time to understand the reckless small country thousands of miles away, during this time you are fighting with the Portuguese in the southeast corner of the dark sky, I can't sleep just by worrying, I don't fit my eyes for a few days and nights, just want to act, and the news comes back from there, you have solved the Portuguese, you come back this time to fiddle with your army, observe the people's feelings, I don't know my suffering." ”

"Hehehe, there are not too many people who can rest assured, so you can only work hard, aren't there still a few ministers in the cabinet? Leave it to the next to do, you can't be so tired. ”

Zhang Qiang said to Zhou Congee with a smile.

"Several ministers, they quarrel all day long, they will quarrel, and I have to say that the decision is made, sometimes, they are also noisy, I am a person with limited knowledge, how can I drop the book bag with them, don't you know, they are all great Confucians, I haven't opened my mouth at this level, they have grasped it in a word, or it is not a big governor, you will personally manage it for a few days, and also experience my life as a prime minister?" Zhou Congee had a bitter stomach and said to Zhang Qiang bitterly.

"I also have four or five departments to manage, and I still think about major policies and policies in my head all day long, grasp the strategic direction of the Huaxia Army and other big things, how can I have time to take care of your specific things." Zhang Qiang also said helplessly.

"Why don't you assign me a few more people to share my work?" Zhou Congee put forward his own opinions.

"Aren't there two deputy prime ministers to help you run the cabinet?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Zhou Congee was immediately indignant and angry, "What deputy prime minister, one was made by you to be a feudal official, became a state official, and commanded a province, and the other was sent by you to inspect various places, or led the army to manage logistics, they are deputy prime ministers, and the governor is almost the same, you are high and low." Besides, their level still can't solve a lot of things, they can't help me at all, and I have to make decisions in the end about the things they share, what kind of situation is this. ”

Zhang Qiang felt that the situation was serious, and he thought about it for a long time but there was nothing he could do, he didn't have the corresponding talents here.

What is most important in the 21st century, talent?

This phenomenon not only occurs in the cabinet civilian clique, but also in the military generals' army, his 23 field brigades, three guards brigades, and six naval fleets are actually not fully matched, and many department chiefs are concurrently serving as the heads of other departments, one person has two uses, or three purposes, many army chiefs are promoted from the professional officers and elite soldiers he has personally trained, these people may be a thousand households, garrisons, but if they are promoted to commanders, it will be a little difficult, and they will be promoted to generals. Then it is to catch ducks on the shelves, and the field brigade has become a garrison brigade, and the responsibilities of the department they lead cannot be fully demonstrated.

This is a rather serious phenomenon and is also a bottleneck restricting the development of the Huaxia Army.

It is only the territory of three and a half provinces, such a problem is quite serious, if you have the whole south, then all kinds of problems will be even more serious, and it may be out of your control, so that the Huaxia army will be scattered, there will be more problems, degenerate, chaotic, and the Huaxia army will not be far from defeat.

"Why don't you let Zhu Dadian come back?" Zhou Congee asked cautiously.

Without waiting for Zhang Qiang to answer, Zhou Congee said again: "Although Zhu Dadian is greedy for money, he has quite sophisticated methods and means in the management of the household department, the raising of money, and the handling of some things, and he can always do things satisfactorily, and everyone is satisfied. ”

"Zhu Dadian is back? What are you doing, "Zhu Dadian is a reverse scale of Zhang Qiang, it is really difficult to control, that person is really an old oilman, even Zhang Qiang is not easy to control him."

"As the deputy prime minister, Du Ge is the head of the army who leads the army to manage logistics, the level is quite limited, it is almost the same to give a military squire, to deal with the relationship between all parties, and the old oilman of the Ming Dynasty, the deputy prime minister can only help the prime minister deal with the problem, and will not be too involved in the management below, there are also a few cabinet ministers who are also old oils below him, you and Zhu Dadian, I and Zhu Dadian have such a delicate relationship, always put him in Wuyi Mountain to guard the tea garden, it is not a way?"

"You, you—" Zhang Qiang pointed at Zhou Congee, he understood what Zhou Congee meant.

Zhou Congee immediately knelt down in front of him in fear, "The forgiveness of the Metropolitan Governor, this is not Zhu Dadian begging me, but I really feel a little sorry for the head of the family, he is in the prime of officialdom, don't be a pity, and he can help the Metropolitan Governor solve many things, just let the Ministry of Supervision take more strict care of him in the future." ”

Zhang Qiang stood up and helped Zhou Congee up, "Old Zhou, there is no need for this in the future, I said that the Huaxia Army does not believe in the bow ceremony, and you make me panic like this." ”

To put it mildly, the two of them sat down again, and then Zhang Qiang knocked his fingers on the table and said: "It's okay, since you speak for him like this, let him come back, just according to what you said, let him be a deputy prime minister, he still has the ability, and he still has the loyalty and backbone to Daming, people, there are always some hobbies of their own, but greed will ruin him, and it will also ruin our foundation, you have to make this clear to him." ”

"Xie Dadu is complete," Zhou Congee said respectfully.

"Well, let him come back, Du Ge will also come back, the tenth brigade will be handed over to Lin Chengcheng, he has to take care of so many prisoners, the courage of the punishment camp is getting heavier and heavier, you send some more officials we have trained to the punishment camp to help Lin Chengcheng, Lin Chengcheng This person is talented, at least he has done a pretty good job in the position of the director of the punishment camp, we can't let some officials make mistakes, just send some more people to help him." Zhang Qiang said.

Zhou Congee is still very accustomed to Zhang Qiang's way of speaking and jumping to other things while talking, after all, the two of them have cooperated for so long, and everyone knows whom.

"Yes, Metropolitan Governor, Du Ge came back to serve as the squire of the Ministry of War, oh, no, it should be the Deputy Minister of War, does the Metropolitan Governor want him to take over as the Ministry of War, so how does Fang Yizhi arrange it?"

Zhang Qiang said: "Fang Yizhi, although his knowledge is very high, but his actual experience as an official, especially the experience and experience of the low-level officials of our Huaxia Army, You Haibo has already gone below to serve as a state official, and there are only two state officials in our three states, but he is promoted to a higher state official position in one step, I am afraid that he will not be able to adapt."

You know that a state official governs such a county government, and there is no official who has experienced the tempering of officialdom and is familiar with our officialdom methods, it is difficult to adapt to the following work, and there are thousands of things, which are no more complicated than you, who are prime ministers.

Let him go to the county government below to be a prefect first, and then be promoted to the prefect a few months later, if he does a good job and can adapt, he will be promoted to a state official, and the half of the provinces and states we have newly recovered need such people to manage, and they can't always be governed by military generals, so there will be problems. ”

"You have to make this clear to him, this is not to demote him, but our manpower is insufficient, and the talent reserve is insufficient, let him go down from the county to experience, and then promote him, it is for him to become a feudal official, so that he will not have a burden in his heart."

Zhou Congee thought about it and asked, "Where does he go to be the magistrate?" ”

"Let's go to Huizhou Mansion near Jinling, where it is close to the front line, it can also help Xiao Fei and Ma Hansan to deal with some government affairs, and it can be regarded as a help for those generals. If you do a good job, you will be promoted to the prefect of Huizhou Prefecture, but if you don't do a good job, a year later, you will transfer him back to the center and let him do academics. ”

"Will our officials deal with it like this in the future?" Zhou Congee is not at the expense of being the prime minister, which seems to be a far-reaching problem.

"Well, it's all handled like this, officials who don't start from the grassroots level, even if they temporarily sit in a firm position in the center, they can't go further, or they can't do it for a long time, and the officials in the center must be ready to go to the local government to be a small county magistrate at any time, which can stimulate their initiative, make them work hard, and help them get rid of their laziness."

"But in this case, won't my cabinet have one less capable officer? At least I think Fang Yizhi has done a good job in professionalism and technology. Under his guidance, many arsenals and artillery research breakthroughs, not as slow as before, just say that this time you come back and ask the military department to come up with a plan for the transformation and upgrading of the flintlock pistol, and they will solve it for you in less than half a month, and produce a finished product, finalize the flintlock pistol version 1.0. ”

"Lao Zhou, I know his contribution, but we have no one available, so we can only send him to where we need him, so that he can play a greater value and role, in research and development, we have François and Sebastian, and there is also a very good management of the arsenal Wan Siyuan.

By the way, raise Wan Siyuan's level and give him the position of deputy minister of the Ministry of War, and the original deputy minister will be sent to Tingzhou Mansion, where is not bad.

We built another arsenal in Fujian, which is still a warehouse for the production of Jingai-2 arquebuses, and as a warehouse for the previously produced Jingai-1, as well as other remaining Jingai-1 arquebuses and artillery of other low-grade models.

There is also where to store all the artillery and arquebuses captured by the Portuguese this time, so that those things can be used to support the Nanming Kingdom or the Yongli Nanming Kingdom nearby.

Where is not far from Quanzhou Mansion, our weapons can also be sold from the port of Quanzhou Prefecture to wherever they want to be sold, many places are still holding blades and bamboo to resist the enemy's attack, I think, we can be a qualified arms dealer, support them. ”

"The Metropolitan Governor is wise," Zhou Congee said happily.

"Well, anything else?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Well, the Governor's Mansion needs a big butler." Zhou Congee Road.

Zhang Qiang patted his thigh, ready to stand up and go out for a walk, and said casually, "Arrange whoever you want." ”

"The Metropolitan Governor, this person has to be nodded by the Metropolitan Governor, and the villain can't call the shots." Zhou Congee became quite polite and cautious, and said to Zhang Qiang carefully.

(End of chapter)