0993 Honeysuckle ready to go
Many things, if you just think about the difficulties and delay doing them, it will naturally be more and more difficult to procrastinate. But once it is implemented, it is not as difficult as imagined.
Of course, difficulties exist objectively, but only when we really start to solve them, we will find that many difficulties are interconnected, and if one is solved, other interrelated ones can also be solved, and things will soon be on the right track.
This is the case in the Huainan Governor's Mansion at the moment, after the pressure of millions of people was suddenly imminent, and the difficulties were almost desperate. But when the fundamentals are straightened out, everything will naturally be on the right track. With the steady flow of money and food from all sides, even if there are any difficulties in actual implementation, as long as the basic rhythm is not chaotic, everything will naturally get better and better.
So after working hard for more than half a year, Shen Zhezi finally became idle again. As for the future development, the framework has been erected, and it will be gradually enriched in the future, and there will be no major changes to disturb it for at least three to five years.
The various battle reports have also been sent to Jiangdong, if nothing else, many rewards will also be sent back to Huainan before the year, in time for the festival, the soldiers can be excited.
Shen Zhezi does not have too high requirements for power at the moment, and Xi Jian also promised to help maintain the situation in Xuzhou for next year. At that time, Shen Zhezi will naturally be able to spare his energy, or fight with Taichung, and officially enter Xuzhou, thus connecting the entire Jiangbei.
Therefore, in the battle report, Shen Zhezi did not even have some false name requests, but only asked Taichung to give him the power to supervise the affairs of Liuyi. This request can be described as insignificant compared to such a huge achievement. If Taichung still wants to hinder and obstruct in this regard, it is to force Shen Zhezi to turn his face.
However, Shen Zhezi was not conservative about the soldiers' invitations and asked for a lot. Like Guo Yu, Han Huang and others who have followed him for a long time, Shen Zhezi asked for the second-class founding title for them. After all, although he has passed the stage of not being confused by MG, these generals have not.
Instead of being polite in this regard and giving Taichung the opportunity to be a good person, Shen Zhezi is still willing to fight for the welfare of his generals. So in this regard, it is also a lion who opens his mouth, and even Xie Ai, a new general who only has a name in Taichung, Shen Zhezi asked for the title of county marquis.
As for an in-law friend like Du He, who is also the help of the humerus, Shen Zhezi directly asked the county duke. He also did not make it difficult for Taichung, and expressed his willingness to divide his food to subsidize the soldiers.
But even so, Shen Zhezi believes that Taichung will definitely be greatly discounted in this regard. Because if all of them are implemented, it will definitely push Shen Zhezi's prestige to a new height, and the great rewards will be beyond his peers, which will make others play.
So in order for Taichung to make greater concessions, Shen Zhezi also made a concession first. He also knew that Taichung was poor at the moment, so he donated some of the goods that were originally used to reward soldiers to Taichung in the name of donating them, and then distributed them in the name of Taichung, so that they could benefit from each other.
After all, his investment promotion in Huainan this time is too big, if he doesn't say anything at all, it will be even more of the hatred of the rich of the ministers in the stage. After all, at the moment, he is still a general in other towns, and if Taichung makes up his mind to hinder and obstruct it, it will be difficult for Jiangdong's goods to be smoothly transported north.
Major events set the direction, and the details have their own subordinates. The structure of the Governor's Mansion is now extremely large, and the number of subordinate officials with rank alone has reached two or three hundred, and of course the vast majority of them are privately hired officials of the Governor's Office. If we add the general officials scattered in various places, the number of officials under the jurisdiction of the entire Metropolitan Governor's Office has reached more than 3,000.
Such a huge administrative structure is also because Shen Zhezi is unwilling to cooperate with the local township sect to share power, and many affairs and power are concentrated in the hands of the governor's office, so the need for more clerks will naturally increase.
More than half of these officials were cultivated by the Shen family themselves, including the recommendation of the Xiang Sect. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to recruit thousands of grassroots officials with the ability to handle affairs, and it would be extremely difficult to recruit so many literate people.
Without these grassroots workers, there would be no so-called rule.
Anyone with insight can feel the obstruction and hidden danger brought by the local township clan's control of the countryside, but in these hundreds of years of turmoil, whether it is a British lord or a tyrant, there is no need to drink to quench their thirst to make certain compromises, and the root cause is this. No matter who is in his position, strong or not, only with the approval and cooperation of those township sects can his will to rule be implemented.
Otherwise, it would be necessary to organize more than 3,000 clerks with administrative capabilities like Shen Zhezi, just one town and six counties.
And this is just the beginning, according to the plan of the Governor's Office, in the next few years to establish such an effective rule in the entire Central Plains, including East China, then the need for clerks will need to be steeped more than ten times, forming an administrative structure of up to tens of thousands of people.
In order to ensure the efficient and clean operation of such a large administrative structure, it is necessary to match a supervision team of thousands of people, and an orderly training institution is needed.
With such a plan on the desk, Shen Zhezi didn't have to think about it and knew that it was impossible to complete. Even in the social environment of later generations, village ruffians are still common. At present, it is almost a fool's dream to completely put an end to the usurpation of administrative power at all levels by local township clans.
Therefore, it is also necessary to let the local village sects join the ruling structure of the Governor's Office. What Shen Zhezi can do is only set a threshold and unify his thoughts a little.
During this time, Shen Zhezi was not only in charge of the overall situation of the Governor's Mansion, but also received wealthy businessmen from all walks of life to discuss the sale of the industry, and personally presided over the expansion of the Xinshi Pavilion.
In a very short period of time, the Xinshi Pavilion has expanded several times in size, although the original elite practitioner teaching has not changed, but hundreds of people have been selected for short-term training.
The many idle forts outside Shouchun City have become ready-made teaching places, beckoning more than 2,000 children of the township sect at one time, as well as outstanding Mongolian students trained in the previous cantonments and dock walls, to teach them basic organizational and statistical skills. Jiang Yu, who was originally in charge of army propaganda, was transferred back to preside over this affairs, and Liu Chao's son Liu Ne worked as a deputy.
This kind of cramming teaching is naturally difficult to cultivate real good officials, but in the coming year, a large number of grassroots talents will be needed in the north to organize the reclamation construction, and there is really no need for too high requirements in such a short period of time. At the very least, it is better to lay a foundation with cultivation than to rely entirely on the simple and crude organizational power of the village clan or refugee leader.
In addition to the cultivation of administrative talents, Shen Zhezi also organized the teaching of craftsmen. After the winter, all kinds of production have entered a period of exhaustion, and no matter how diligent the people are, it is inevitable that they will be idle, and it is a good time to study and study.
This year, the Governor's Office has sold a large number of industries, and a large amount of private capital has poured in, and when it comes to the next year, there will definitely be an explosive period of expanding production, so there will inevitably be a shortage of labor.
The reclamation of Huainan has also been going on for several years, and it is impossible for Shen Zhezi to control these tunhu from life to death. Therefore, it is also necessary to fulfill some early promises and exempt some cantonment households from becoming civilians.
However, he does not have the energy and capital to support these civilians to cultivate land at present, and once these cantonment households are released in large numbers and become private households, the coordinated management of public security and taxation must be established.
Therefore, he planned to let these tun households who were about to be dismissed first make a short transition as craftsmen, and at the same time, he could also provide labor for those private businesses and make a profit.
The education of craftsmen does not require high cultural quality, and the most important thing is the simple and easy-to-operate technical teaching.
As early as a few years ago, Shen Zhezi had prepared for this, he has always had low requirements for high-precision technology, and paid more attention to the simplification and popularization of technology, and accumulated a large number of written materials in this regard, and can compile an encyclopedia of workers and peasants, confident that its significance is not inferior to "Qi Min Yaoshu" or "Heavenly Creation".
Right now, it's harvest time to blossom and bear fruit. Therefore, the Governor's Office has recently organized a group of officials to travel around the dock walls of various cantonments under the rule of the six counties, to promote and teach various techniques to the villagers, and then to use practical teaching, and take it as one of the criteria for the release of exemption for the people in batches in the coming year.
It is conceivable that a large number of assembly line workers with technical standards will definitely appear in the six counties next year. Although they no longer cultivate the land, they can also generate value through their labor, which can be used by the governor's office.
As for the resulting vacancy, this is not a problem at all. To the north, there are still tens of thousands of people waiting to be fed, waiting to be resettled.
Therefore, the strength of Huainan today is not only reflected in the efficient agglomeration effect of money and grain, but also in the ability to contain, cultivate and produce in stages and scales.
The people are easy to move and unsettled, because the means of production have been plundered, the production environment has been destroyed, and the production order has not been restored for a long time. The advantages of Huainan lie precisely in the rich and diverse means of production, a stable and prosperous production environment, and an orderly production order.
Therefore, although Huainan is still under huge pressure at the moment, it shows a fluid and stable prosperity. Nearly 100,000 strong troops were distributed in the vast Central Plains, and refugees were organized to move south to transport grain and grass, while Jiangdong goods and goods also continued to go north to fill the shortage of various urgent supplies.
As for Huainan Town, which is located in the core hub position, the people of Shishu are busy and orderly enriching themselves, striving to be able to show their strength when all industries forge ahead in the coming year.
However, in the midst of this prosperity, there is still a little discord that occasionally sounds. That is, the 300,000 grains that were originally expected to arrive in Huainan suddenly failed to arrive.
300,000 grains are really insignificant compared to the huge total amount that Huainan has leveraged. However, the emergence of this variable means that Huainan's current dynamic balance is showing signs of being broken.
Therefore, Shen Zhezi also showed great importance to this, and as soon as he learned the news, he immediately put down the affairs at hand and returned to the Governor's Mansion to gather a group of officials to understand the inside story.