Chen Lei, Chen Enze and his son hugged each other and cried in the Dongshanmen courtyard for a long time; Chen Enze talked intermittently about the details behind the Chongzhou boy case and what they had experienced in the past two years, and sighed for a while before taking his father there.
Go to the main courtyard to see Lin Fu.
Lin Fugang just received the news that Zhou Pu led the cavalry camp, the foot camp and more than 2,000 people from the Xihe Congregation had passed Qingjiangpu and would arrive in Chongzhou in two days. The family members of the Xihe Congregation who had evacuated from Jiangning would arrive in the middle of the night.
In Chongzhou, he was discussing resettlement matters with Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingxuan and others.
Seeing Chen Enze and Chen Lei coming in, they stopped discussing. Lin Fu stood up, grabbed Chen Lei's arm and sat down. He smiled and said, "It's my fault for not allowing your father and son to meet early - this matter involves a lot."
, it is not appropriate to make it known to the world at this time, and I am too weak to do so."
"..." Being treated so intimately by Lin Fu, Chen Lei felt a little panicked. He didn't know what to say for a moment and was very reserved. When Lin Fu introduced everyone present to him, he just bowed and bowed.
Lin Fu looked at Chen Lei's cautious manner and his restrained manner, and was not surprised. He smiled and said: "Hu Zhiyong recommended Mr. Chen to me, saying that Mr. Chen is good at business calculations and is familiar with county affairs... Li Shuyi
I am in charge of the household, and I am short of an assistant to manage the county warehouse. I want to wrong Mr. Chen and become a small official in the county government. I wonder what Mr. Chen wants?"
"Dare you disobey orders? 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, an unqualified subordinate official may be nothing, but to the ordinary people,
It is said that the county magistrate is a god-like existence, and the subordinate officials and the chiefs of Lijia have great authority that can run rampant in the township.
"It doesn't matter, there is always a learning process from scratch. These dozens of people who are elected at the same time as you can be said to be novices. As long as you have a sincere heart to do things for the local area, I believe you will
Those who can get things done." Lin Fu smiled and said to Chen Enze, "The hidden stakes in Chen Jiawei have been pulled out. It will be fine if you be careful in your words and deeds. I will give you three days' leave and take your father with you first.
Let’s go around and get familiar with the situation. We also need to go to Wuzhi County. If we want to go back to Chenjiawu, it’s best to go at night and come back at night..."
Chen Lei saw that although Lin Fu was in his youthful and proud years, he spoke and treated others with a rare kindness, so the panic in his heart gradually relaxed, and he was able to respond to everything with ease.
Lin Fu had another conversation with Chen Lei, Chen Enze and his son.
Even if the news leaks out now, the worst result is that Xiao Taoyuan takes some of his cronies and flees to the She family. The situation is not unmanageable, so he has no special scruples. Lin Fu began to consider taking the thirty boys back to Chongzhou one after another.
Fulfill the original promise made to them to reunite them with their families.
Chen Enze took his father Chen Lei to say goodbye and left, while Lin Fu continued to discuss matters with Cao Ziang and the others.
Although Chen Lei has passed several county examinations and has never received any honors, he is from a farming family. Before the Chongzhou boy case, he also accumulated a lot of property. Like Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng, the Chen family is not considered a wealthy family.
The powerful clans are the new landowners and merchants in Chongzhou County.
The Jiangdong Left Army must take root in Chongzhou, run the army, and strengthen its penetration and control of Chongzhou. These two things cannot be said to be more important.
The Jiangdong Left Army has a relatively stable framework, but its penetration and control of Chongzhou is far from solid.
To penetrate and control the Chongzhou local area, one goal is to organize the people, events and farming production in Chongzhou in a relatively relaxed environment, and to continuously extract taxes for the use of the Jiangdong Left Army, and to make Chongzhou County
The people support and support the Jiangdong Zuo Army, believing that the Jiangdong Zuo Army can protect and have the ability to protect their interests, and are willing to send their children to the Jiangdong Zuo Army to join the army or to become the reserve force of the Jiangdong Zuo Army, eventually becoming a closely related whole.
Only by achieving this step can we truly have a solid foundation in Chongzhou.
Achieving this is not an easy task. It is necessary to balance the contradictions in all aspects and ease the tensions in all aspects...which class of forces should be supported, how to support them, and how to support them to ensure that they have centripetal force towards the Jiangdong Left Army.
, which class of forces should be suppressed, how should they be suppressed, and how should they be suppressed to ensure that they will not rebound violently or even destroy orderly local farming and weaving production?
When leaving Jimo and returning to Chongzhou, these questions were swirling in Lin Fu's mind, and he had in-depth discussions with Cao Zi'ang, Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe, Sun Jingxuan, and Sun Jingtang.
What Lin Fu lacked the most was not money, but manpower that was available, trustworthy, and dependable.
The local tycoons have the most talents and are the most organized. Generally speaking, as long as they obtain the support of the local tycoons, they can quickly control the local area through the manpower, material and financial resources they control.
Just like the Lin family, as long as they get the support of the Lin clan, there is no problem in controlling Shiliang County. In Dongyang Mansion, if they get the support of two or three powerful families like the Lin family, there is no big problem in controlling the entire Dongyang Mansion. However, such a powerful family
Usually they have their own centripetal force and their own core interest demands, and they can share joys and sorrows; these forces must be used, but their use must be restricted.
Relatively speaking, the family members of the victims of the Chongzhou boy case can be trusted and borrowed from, but Lin Fu still makes key choices.
First, we need to select people who are young and capable and have real talents, and secondly, we should try our best to select people from the middle and lower classes of society. This will help ease the conflicts between the poor tenants of the middle and lower classes and the powerful families, big landowners, and big merchants in the first-level townships.
conflicts rather than intensifying them.
On the surface, Li Shutang, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhiyong, and Hu Zhicheng jointly drafted a list of talented people to replace officials and recommended it to Wu Meijiu. The recommended people are all talented people who are familiar with local affairs. They may not all be famous, but they are all scholars.
His identity is distributed in various townships and has a certain reputation in the township, which is conducive to the rapid restoration of order in the county.
Wu Meijiu, who was not familiar with the Chongzhou area, could not offer any objection and could only accept it in full. He also had no idea that the Chongzhou boy case would make Lin Fu and others familiar with the Chongzhou area completely beyond his imagination.
Wu Mei had no intention of fighting with Lin Fu for a long time. Furthermore, he was not familiar with the Chongzhou area. He could only entrust Hu Zhicheng and Li Shuyi to take charge of specific affairs. The by-election of officials and the appointment of officials were also controlled by Hu Zhicheng and Li Shuyi.
The main power in the county is divided into six rooms: the first three rooms are the official room that is responsible for the appointment and removal of officials, performance evaluation, and promotion; the military room is responsible for military affairs, rural soldiers, and county sword archers; the execution room is responsible for criminal law and prison litigation. These three rooms are headed by Hu Zhicheng
, Hu Zhicheng was secretly responsible to Cao Ziang. The last three rooms were the household room in charge of land tax, household administration, and warehousing; the ceremonial room in charge of the county school; and the workshop for construction, farming, and water conservancy. These three rooms were handled by Li Shuyi, who was secretly responsible for
Take responsibility to Lin Mengde.
In this by-election, Hu Zhicheng and Li Shuyi also selected the assistants in charge of the affairs of the Sixth House. Lin Fu's opinion was to supplement the manpower of one principal and three deputies as much as possible for each job. In addition to reducing the burden on the people of the county,
What's more important is talent reserve.
The literacy rate of the people at that time was very low, but Jiangdong was a prosperous place, and there were still many people working and studying. In Chongzhou County, there were 200,000 naturalized Dingkou, but the actual number of Dingkou may be close to 300,000, and the number of literate people was almost 10,000, although it is quite
Most of them are the children of the powerful and powerful families in the countryside, and a considerable number are from the common people. It is not difficult to select and train three to five hundred talented grassroots people from among them. The key is to have a name that everyone can accept.
At night, Lin Fu took Cao Ziang and Lin Mengde to the Beishanmen Zen Temple to participate in a simple banquet organized for the appointment of meritorious officials, and met with the newly elected officials and the representatives of the village chief and Jia chief.
At the banquet, Lin Fu and Wu Meijiu established a principle, that is, the Liufang Book Office is not only in charge of county affairs, but also supervises the powers of each township by region.
In the past, village affairs were controlled by the village chiefs and Jia chiefs, who acted in full accordance with the established rural customs. These village chiefs and Jia chiefs were actually representatives of the powerful and powerful families in the township. Lin Fu's move was ostensibly to investigate the banditry case.
The need for a thorough investigation, with this excuse, makes it difficult for others to obstruct it. In fact, it strengthens the county's centralization of local affairs. The most fundamental goal is to limit the power of powerful and powerful families in the township to control the township.
The officials in this by-election are all selected from various townships and have certain connections and prestige in the local area. They are also candidates that can be at least reluctantly accepted by all parties and are not suitable for public boycott.
Chen Lei originally wanted to take his son Enze back to Chenjiawei for a three-day reunion before returning to the county to officially take up his duties. He himself experienced too many things in one day, and was greatly shocked inside, and he needed time to digest it.
However, the affairs in the county were too busy. Almost everything was a mess. Hu Zhicheng and Li Shuyi were the two people to support it. Other officials from the by-election were put into use almost immediately. Chen Lei was appointed as the county warehouse ambassador and took charge of the affairs.
The accumulation of supplies in the county was a very important task at the moment, so it was inconvenient for him to enjoy the extra three days of vacation that Lin Fu gave them to reunite with his father and son.
At night, the long-term worker He Gui took his son back to Chenjiaxu to reunite with his mother, while Chen Lei stayed behind.
Beishanmen Zen Temple has nine entrances, and it was used as a temporary county government office. Each of the six rooms occupied one courtyard. The county prison and the county warehouse both occupied a large courtyard. Before that, two people were temporarily recruited from Xisha Island Township.
More than a hundred people bravely served as yamen servants, jailers, and cadres, barely maintaining order in the county yamen and preventing chaos.
When Chen Lei took office in a hurry, the county Okura courtyard was breaking through the mountain gate wall to open a gate for independent entry and exit of supplies, and the county jail also had to open its doors. After all, some courtyards cannot be mixed with the county government office.