Chen Lei, Chen Enze and his son hugged their heads and cried for a while in the courtyard of Dongshan Gate; Chen Enze intermittently talked about the details behind the Chongzhou boy case and what happened in the past two years, and sighed for a while before taking his father to the main courtyard to see Lin Bin.

Lin Jian had just received a letter that Zhou Pu had already crossed Qingjiangpu with more than 2,000 people from the cavalry camp, the infantry camp, and the Xihe congregation, and that they would arrive in Chongzhou in two days, and that the Xihe Hui family members who had withdrawn from Jiangning would arrive in Chongzhou in the middle of the night, and that he was discussing the resettlement with Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingxuan, and others.

Seeing Chen Enze bring Chen Lei in, stopping the discussion here, Lin Jian stood up, grabbed Chen Lei's arm and sat down, and said with a smile: "It's my fault that I can't let your father and son meet early-this matter is still very involved, and it is not appropriate to expose it to the world at this time, and I can't do it." ”

"......" to Lin Tie to treat each other closely, Chen Lei was a little panicked, he didn't know what to say for a while, he was very restrained, listening to Lin Tie introduce him to everyone present, he just bowed his waist and kept talking.

Lin Jian looked at Chen Lei's restrained appearance of being cautious for fear of losing his demeanor and answers, and said with a smile: "Hu Zhiyong recommended Mr. Chen to me, saying that Mr. Chen is good at business calculations and is familiar with county affairs...... Li Shuyi presided over the household, lacked an assistant to manage the county warehouse, and wanted to wronged Mr. Chen to be a small official in the county office, I don't know what Mr. Chen thinks? ”

"Dare to disobey? It's just that Chen Lei has never done anything in the county government, and he is afraid that he will not be able to satisfy the adults. Chen Lei said. In the eyes of the world, the unqualified officials may not be anything, but for the small people, the county lord is the existence of the sky, and the chief of the Xu official and the chief of the Lijia is already a great authority that can run rampant in the township.

"That's fine, there's always a learning process from scratch. This group of dozens of people who were by-elected at the same time as you can be said to be all beginners, as long as you have the sincerity to do things for the local area, I believe you will be able to do things well. Lin Jian smiled, and said to Chen Enze, "Chen Jiawei's dark stake has been pulled out, it will be okay to be careful in words and deeds, I will give you three days off, first take your father around the left and right, familiarize yourself with the situation, Wuzhi County also has to go there, if you want to go back to Chenjiawei, it is best to go back to the night ...... at night."

Chen Lei saw that although Lin Jian was in the time of being young and proud, it was rare to speak kindly, and the panic in his heart naturally gradually relaxed, and he could respond to everything freely.

Lin Jian had another conversation with Chen Lei, Chen Enze and his son.

At present, even if the news leaks, the worst result is that Xiao Taoyuan fled to the luxury family with some of his cronies, and the situation is not out of control, so there are no special scruples. Lin Jian began to consider bringing the thirty boys back to Chongzhou one after another, fulfilling the promise he had originally promised them to reunite them with their families.

Chen Enze took his father Chen Lei to say goodbye and left, while Lin Jian and Cao Ziang continued their discussions.

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Although Chen Lei has passed several county examinations, although he has not obtained any fame, he was born in a farming family, and before the Chongzhou boy case, he also accumulated a lot of family property. Like Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng, the Chen family is not a township tyrant, but a new landlord and merchant in Chongzhou County.

The Jiangdong Left Army wanted to take root in Chongzhou, administer the army, and strengthen its infiltration and control of the Chongzhou localities—neither of these two things could be said to be more important.

The Jiangdong Left Army had a relatively stable framework, but it was far from having a foundation for infiltrating and controlling the Chongzhou region.

To achieve a goal in infiltrating and controlling the Chongzhou localities, it is necessary to organize the people and affairs of Chongzhou and agricultural production in a relatively relaxed environment, and to continuously extract taxes and taxes for the use of the Jiangdong Left Army, and to make the people of Chongzhou County support and support the Jiangdong Left Army, believing that the Jiangdong Left Army is a guarantee and capable of protecting their interests, and to be willing to send their children to join the Jiangdong Left Army or to become the reserve force of the Jiangdong Left Army, and eventually become a whole that is closely related to them.

Only by doing this step can we truly have a solid foundation in Chongzhou.

It is not an easy task to do this. It is necessary to balance the contradictions in all aspects and ease the tensions in all aspects...... Which stratum of forces should be supported, how should they be supported, how should they be supported, how should they be supported, how should they exert centripetal force on the Jiangdong Left Army, which stratum of forces should be suppressed, how should they be suppressed, and how should they be suppressed to ensure that they would not have a violent backlash or even destroy the orderly local cultivation and weaving production?

When he left Jimo and returned to Chongzhou, these questions swirled in Lin Lian's mind, and he had in-depth discussions with Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe, Sun Jingxuan, and Sun Jingtang.

What Lin Lian lacked most in his hands was not silver, but people who could be used, trusted, and relied on.

Generally speaking, as long as they obtain the support of the township tyrants, they can quickly control the localities through the human, material and financial resources they control. Just like the Lin family, as long as the support of the Lin clan is obtained, there is no problem at all in controlling Shiliang County, and there is no big problem in controlling the entire Dongyang Mansion with the support of two or three powerful clans like the Lin family in Dongyang Mansion. However, such a general trend usually has its own centripetal force and its own core interests, and can share joys and sorrows; These forces must be used, but they must be restricted.

Relatively speaking, the family members of the victims of the Chongzhou boy case can be trusted and borrowed, but Lin Jian still has a key choice.

First of all, it is necessary to select people who are in the prime of life and have real talents and hard work, and secondly, to select people from the middle and lower strata of society as much as possible, which is conducive to alleviating the contradictions between the poor tenants of the middle and lower classes and the wealthy clans, landowners, and large merchants of the first floor, rather than intensifying the contradictions.

On the surface, the list of meritocracy and officials was jointly drawn up and recommended to Wu Meijiu by Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhiyong, and Hu Zhicheng, and the recommended people were all virtuous people who were familiar with local people's affairs, and they did not necessarily have meritorious reputations, but they were all scholars, distributed in various townships and villages, and had a certain prestige in the township, which was conducive to the rapid restoration of order in the county.

Wu Meijiu, who was not familiar with the Chongzhou place, could not put forward the slightest rebuttal opinion, so he could only accept it in its entirety, and he could not imagine that because of the Chongzhou boy case, Lin Jian and others were completely familiar with the Chongzhou place.

Wu Meijiu didn't have the mind to fight with Lin Lian, and he was not familiar with Chongzhou, so he could only entrust Hu Zhicheng and Li Shuyi to be responsible for specific affairs, and the by-election officials and affairs were also controlled by Hu Zhicheng and Li Shuyi.

The main powers of the county are divided into six rooms: the first three rooms are the offices of the officials in charge of the appointment and dismissal, performance appraisal and promotion; The barracks of the army and the county sword archers; The three rooms in charge of criminal law and prison litigation are in charge of Hu Zhicheng, and Hu Zhicheng is secretly responsible to Cao Ziang. The last three rooms are the houses of the palm of the field, the household administration, and the storage; Palm ceremony system, the gift room of the county school; and the construction, tuntian, and water conservancy workshops, these three rooms are in charge of Li Shuyi, and Li Shuyi is secretly responsible for Lin Mengde.

Lin Lian's opinion is that each ministry should make up for one and three deputy manpower as much as possible, in addition to reducing the burden of servitude on the people in the county, it is more important to reserve talents.

The literacy rate of the people in the world was very low, but Jiangdong was located in a wealthy area, and there were still many farming and reading families. In Chongzhou County, there are 200,000 naturalized Dingkou, the actual Dingkou may be close to 300,000, and there are almost 10,000 literate people, although a considerable part of them are the children of the township tyrants, and a considerable part of them are the common people.

In the evening, Lin Jian took Cao Ziang and Lin Mengde to the Beishanmen Zen Monastery to participate in a simple banquet organized for the appointment of the virtuous, and met with the newly elected officials and the representatives of the township chief and the first chief.

At the banquet, Lin Jian and Wu Meijiu determined a principle, that is, the Liufang Shushu Office is not only in charge of the affairs of the county, but also has the authority to supervise the townships in different regions.

In the past, the affairs of the township were controlled by the chief and the chief, and they acted in full accordance with the conventions and customs of the township. On the surface, Lin Lian's move was the need for a thorough investigation of the gangster case, and with this excuse, it was inconvenient for others to obstruct it, but in fact it was to strengthen the county's centralization of power over local affairs, and the most fundamental goal was to limit the power of the township tyrants to control the township.

The officials in this by-election were all selected from various townships and villages, and they also have a certain base of contacts and prestige in the local area, and they are also candidates who can at least be reluctantly accepted by all sides, and it is inconvenient for them to openly resist.

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Chen Lei originally wanted to take his son Enze back to Chenjiawei for a good reunion for three days before returning to the county to officially take up his duties. He himself has experienced too many things in one day, and his heart has been greatly impacted, and he also needs time to digest it well. However, the affairs of the county are too busy, almost everything is a mess, Hu Zhicheng and Li Shuyi have to support them, and the other by-elected officials are almost immediately used, Chen Lei is appointed as the ambassador of the county warehouse, in charge of the county's material reserves, which is an extremely important ministry at the moment, and it is inconvenient for him to really enjoy the additional three-day vacation that Lin Jian gave to their father and son.

At night, the long-term worker He Gui took his son back to Chenjiawei to reunite with his mother, while Chen Lei stayed.

There are as many as nine into the Beishanmen Zen Temple, to use it as a temporary county office, each of the six rooms occupies a courtyard, the county jail and the county warehouse have occupied a large courtyard, before that, more than 200 people were temporarily recruited from Xisha Island Township to make up for the government service, jailer, and hasty guard, and the county government order was barely maintained, so as not to be chaotic.

When Chen Lei hurriedly went to work, the courtyard of the county warehouse was breaking through the wall of the mountain gate to open a gate for materials to enter and exit independently, and the county prison also had to open the door, after all, some doors and courtyards could not be mixed with the county government.