There is still more than a hundred miles of waterway from Jiuhua to Chongcheng. It was almost dusk, and Lin Fu welcomed Liu Tingzhou, Liang Wenzhan and others, and spent the night in Jiuhua first.
In the early years, Jiuhua was Chongzhou. Hecheng Grassland connected Gaocheng and Xinghua County's water and land docks.
It’s just that the Yanyan River was silted up earlier, which was not conducive to the navigation of large ships. There was no river connection between the Xishan River and the Yanyan River. Chongzhou was located in a remote corner. The function of Hecheng Pasture was single. Jiuhua was only a short distance between the three counties.
An inconspicuous small commercial port.
With the connection between the Xishan River and the Yunyan River and the dredging and widening of the Yunyan River, Chongzhou has become the core starting point of the Tianjin-Sea Grain Road. Nearly half of the rice grains in the counties in the hinterland of Huaidong must pass through Jiuhua via waterways and be transported to Henan.
City, Chongzhou, moved the ship to sea.
Jiuhua has emerged as a prosperous town in less than two years.
Under the leadership of Hu Zhiyong, Jiuhua City has been built.
Jiuhua City is not large in scale. It can only be regarded as a military fortress or a walled city.
The city was built solidly. The floating soil was excavated, paved with stones as the foundation, rammed earth as the core, and covered with wall bricks. It was a solid barrier standing at the fork of the Xishan River and the Yunyan River.
Lin Fu went out to control Huaidong and set up envoys. There were heavy troops stationed in Shanyang and Siyang, and there was no pressure from Jiuhua to station troops.
However, Lin Fu still had two battalions of armored soldiers stationed at Jiuhua Military Camp.
In Xinghua, Gaocheng, Jianling and other counties in the hinterland of Huaidong, if something happens, it will save one day to mobilize troops from Jiuhua than directly from Chongzhou.
The garrison did not interfere with local affairs. Those who caught thieves and set up traps in Jiuhua were the sword archers directly under the Inspection Department.
Liu Tingzhou's understanding of Chongzhou only came from local chronicles. When he came here, he had a new perspective on Chongzhou.
Jiuhua, as the Inspection Department, was under the direct jurisdiction of the Huaidong Zhiji Envoy Department, but Liu Tingzhou took a closer look at the local people's conditions and realized that under the Huaidong Zhiji Envoy Department, military and civil affairs had clear boundaries and were managed separately.
Thinking of this, Liu Tingzhou glanced sideways at the dark, thin man behind Lin Fu with a somewhat restrained expression.
After the introduction just now, Liu Tingzhou and others recognized him as Sun Dalu, the blacksmith who had caused a lot of discussion in Huaidong during this period. Listening to his name, Dalu, Dalu, you can know the identity of his craftsman family.
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Metallurgical Supervisor and Metallurgical Deputy Supervisor are just official titles set within the Production and Construction Department. The imperial court cannot control so many things. They are the same as the Shipping Supervisor, Deputy Supervisor, Industrial Supervisor, Deputy Supervisor, Ordnance Supervisor, Deputy Supervisor and other official positions.
They are all uniformly called Jiang Zuocheng and Jiang Zuo Shaocheng, and they are classified into the eighth rank and the ninth rank, which are low-level civil servants.
But anyway, when Lin Fu appointed a craftsman as an official, he just poured a ladle of cold water into the boiling oil pan, which was considered a taboo.
Lin Fu held a banquet in the post house to entertain Liu Tingzhou, Liang Wenzhan and others. On Chongzhou's side, Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu, Sun Dalu and others accompanied him.
When they entered the table, Hu Dahai, the magistrate of Yandu County, happened to be sitting across from Sun Dalu.
When he heard that Chongzhou had appointed a blacksmith as an official, Hu Dahai felt resentful. When he saw Lin Fu condescending to welcome Liang Wenzhan in person, he felt jealous and a little mad. Hu Dahai looked at Sun Daluo, who was facing the case, sitting in an inelegant posture.
He could no longer hold back any longer and couldn't help teasing him: "Master Sun has become an adult for the first time. Do you know what the word 'adult' is?"
For more than half a month, Sun Daluo was still adapting to his new identity. Following Lin Fu's instructions, he entered the most basic literacy class at the Battle Training School, which was far from the level of character analysis.
The status of craftsmen is humble, but outstanding people such as Ge Fu and Sun Dalu are just humble thieves. They are restricted from reading, literacy, and officialdom. However, in terms of intelligence and intelligence, they are far above ordinary people.
There is also a sense of arrogance.
Although he couldn't understand what Hu Dahai was talking about, Sun Dalu didn't panic. He put his hands on the table and waited for someone to help him.
Lin Fu sat in front of the main case in the middle and just smiled and said to Sun Daluo: "Master Hu asked you about the reason for being an official..."
Sun Dalu bowed to Lin Fu, and then said to Hu Dahai, who was sitting across from him: "I, Sun Dalu, haven't read much. I don't know the principles of being an official. I only know how to make iron. Master Hu, do you know how to make iron?"
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"I don't know how to make iron, but if I am in charge of iron work, I will select the good ones from the craftsmen's households, serve as the head craftsmen, and whip them to make them do their own work, so that the business will not be messed up..." Hu Dahai said.
"What is good and what is not good as a craftsman? I, Sun Dalu, have been crawling in front of the iron furnace since I was born. I can tell the difference. How can Mr. Hu tell the difference?" Sun Dalu asked in return.
Hu Dahai did not expect that this reckless man was also very sharp-tongued, so he started to argue with himself, and sneered: "Good or bad, it is passed down by word of mouth, how can an official not notice it? These are all skills of managing people, Sun.
If you are willing to learn, I will not hesitate to teach you..."
Liang Wenzhan smiled slightly, Hu Dahai's words were also directed at him. It seemed that Lin Fu's coming to Jiuhua to welcome him really stimulated him. While making things difficult for Sun to make the stove, he couldn't help but show off.
"How to be an official, I let Mr. Hu say it for a while. But your Excellency has something to say, as long as I can make the iron smelting factory produce more good iron every year, it will be up to me to be the Shaocheng; if not, it will be up to me.
, No matter how beautifully I speak, your lord will remove me as the general Shaocheng and replace it with someone else..." Sun Dalu said, "I am a rough person, and I only learned the skill of blacksmithing.
I don’t know what other officials should do to be considered good. As far as General Shaocheng is concerned, I think that as long as more good iron can be produced, it will be considered good. If Mr. Hu can give advice to Sun Daluo how to make iron smelting
The factory produces more good iron, and Sun Dalu is willing to become Master Hu's teacher; if he wants to learn to be an official, then forget it..."
"Master Sun's words are indeed wonderful, and they opened Wen Zhan's horizons. If Wen Zhan thinks about it carefully, Master Sun's words can be summed up in one sentence: Emphasis on performance and neglect of academic reputation." Liang Wenzhan was standing aside, and he knew what Sun Dalu said.
, it should be due to Lin Fu's influence during this period, and it is actually the basis for Lin Fu's selection of talents at Chongzhou Prefecture. He changed the topic and said, "The most important thing in Huaidong right now is to repair and defend the sea wall. Who is in charge,
If you can build the Dike to defend the sea and repair it well, you will be the minister of the Ministry of Industry and the minister; otherwise, you will be like Chen Zhongnian. No matter how good your morals and articles are, what good is it? It will only do more harm... Speaking of
Regarding embankment repairs, how does Mr. Hu think the sea dikes should be repaired?"
Liang Wenzhan cited the chaos caused by the construction of embankments on the Yellow River, and Hu Dahai was also blocked and speechless.
Liu Tingzhou remained silent, thinking carefully about the words of Sun Dalu and Liang Wenzhan, and thought to himself: If it is tested by actual performance, who can preside over the construction of the sea defense embankment quickly and well, but Chen Zhongnian is more qualified for the position of Minister of Works.
Lin Fu didn't care about the quarrels among his subordinates. This kind of dispute would last for a long time, and he was mentally prepared for it.
Although after the Han Dynasty dominated Confucianism, it was not that there were no other academic schools handed down in the world. Big disputes would cause confrontation, and there would be many benefits. His ultimate goal was to create new flowers on the old learning, rather than clinging to the old and letting the world know it.
My mind continues to become rigid.
The things here may take several generations to accomplish, and there is no rush to achieve success in a short time, but for now, attracting capable people and craftsmen will increase Huaidong's strength.
Lin Fu ordered the guards around him: "Go out and see if the old work officers and others are back?"
After a while, Ge Siyu and the old work officer Ge Fu walked in.
Although Ge Siyu was a son of a craftsman family, he was admitted as a scholar and served as chief of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry. This time he was promoted to be a worker and joined the army. He was the least controversial figure.
Ge Siyu changed into a lake-green official robe and walked into the hall to salute everyone.
It was already cold at this time, and Graham was wearing a suede fur coat, stained with deep gray stains, and a melon cap, looking like an old farmer in the countryside, with a plain appearance.
Lin Fu had someone set up a table beside him before. Now he stood up and said, "Old officer, please sit over here..."
Hu Dahai saw Lin Fu arranging a seat equivalent to Liu Tingzhou's next to him before. He thought that someone important was coming, but he didn't expect that it was a bad old man. His vigor was dampened by Liang Wenzhan and Sun Dalu. He wanted to see this
What kind of person is the old man?
"If it weren't for the fact that Engineer Ge was getting older, I would have asked Old Engineer Ge to serve as the commander-in-chief of embankment construction. Now Engineer Ge is a consultant to the production department," Lin Fu introduced Ge Fu to Liu Tingzhou, "
After the construction of Chongzhou New City, Engineer Ge inspected the area along Hecheng, and he was most familiar with the construction and defense of the sea wall. When it comes to building and defending the sea wall, you still have to ask Engineer Ge..."
Liu Tingzhou thought of such a prominent figure as Ge Fu. He sat in front of the case and bowed his head and said: "It turns out that he is the old engineer Ge Fu who was praised by the Queen Mother as 'the most skillful master in the world'. Tingzhou is so polite here..."
"I can't afford it, I can't afford it..." Graham replied.
Ge Fu was a special being in the craftsman family. He received a special reward and was freed from his craftsmanship, so his son Ge Si Yucai had to take the scientific examination and become an official. Lin Fu asked Ge Fu to sit down with Liu Tingzhou, but Liu Tingzhou did not
You will feel that your identity has been compromised.
Hu Dahai also thought of Ge Fu and thought carefully about Liang Wenzhan's words just now. He clearly wanted to say that Ge Fu was more qualified to be the Minister of Industry than Chen Zhongnian. Although he was not convinced, he did not dare to be too presumptuous.
Lin Fu didn't care what Hu Dahai thought. Liu Tingzhou would naturally actively cooperate with the embankment construction. That would be the best. He said to Ge Fu: "I would also like to trouble the old worker to briefly talk to Mr. Liu about the embankment construction... strive for it."
Let’s get things done before the end of the year.”
"Okay, let me tell you something," Ge Fu said. "Although there is no complete seawall along the Huaidong coast, where conditions permit, some seawalls have been built piecemeal by themselves to protect against the accumulation of waves and storms.
I gained some knowledge. Skilled craftsmen are hidden among the people. After the list was posted in Chongzhou, dozens of people came to Hecheng one after another to offer advice to Chongcheng. Although the embankment construction had not yet begun and a lot of silver reward money had been spent, but
It is true that there are some insights and some skilled craftsmen. They have made great additions to the previous plan, and some shortcomings have been corrected. With the help of these newly recruited skilled craftsmen, I feel more confident..."
Liu Tingzhou was not aware of the fact that Chongzhou posted a reward list asking for advice on embankment construction. He thought it was after Sun Dalu became an official.
Liu Tingzhou had a plan in mind to build and defend the sea wall in the east of Yandu County, so he came uninvited in a hurry. This plan was also derived from his visits to the villages and summarizing the experience of his predecessors when he was an official in Yandu.
, it took me two or three years, and I thought I was quite mature.
Unexpectedly, Lin Fu's use of blacksmiths as officials would have such great influence. In such a short period of time, he would recruit a new group of craftsmen from the Huaidong coast who were useful for embankment construction...
From this point of view, this matter spread rapidly in the Huaidong area, and it was probably due to Chongzhou's connivance.
The sea-defending embankment was built in sections. The southern section between Hecheng and Jiangmen was built first. The work was done the most, and the plan was naturally the most complete. The plan for the middle section and the northern section from Hecheng north to Qingjiangpu was still relatively rough.
Regardless of whether the plan was rough or not, Ge Fu introduced it to Liu Tingzhou.
The northern section of the sea wall is the Yandu County section. The plan for the northern section proposed by Ge Fu is similar to the plan that Liu Tingzhou has been struggling with for several years.
Lin Fu said: "This northern section plan was proposed by Zhu Ai, a native of Xinjin, Yandu. Chongzhou sent people to Yandu twice. They only roughly thought that the plan was suitable and it has not been finalized. This Zhu Ai is somewhat
I know Mr. Liu, and Mr. Liu also asked him about embankment construction. I don’t know whether it’s true or not. If he is boasting, I will drive him away. If it is true, there will be many officials in charge of the system.
Give him the position of official..."
Liu Tingzhou sighed inwardly and said: "I did ask him for advice on embankment construction. This man is a cowherd. When he was herding cattle when he was young, he was good at pointing out the situation and talking about war. The villagers said he was crazy. When he grew up, he was quite calm-tempered.
When I was passing by Xinjin, he came over to give me some advice, saying that it was indeed reasonable. He was a talented person who used to build embankments. He had been so fierce in his youth that he ruined half of his face. It was too disgraceful to his appearance. Otherwise, I would have lost my job in Yandu.
He was appointed as an official..."
"I'm a pigherd, so it's appropriate to use a cowherd." Lin Fu laughed and saw Hu Dahai's eyes were confused. He probably didn't know that such a number one person existed under his rule.
The Huaidong system established envoys and assistant officers. There was a limit on the number of subordinate officials, but there was no limit on the number of officials, as long as they could afford to support them.