No matter how good the policy is, it needs to be implemented by qualified officials. The composition of the officials within the Han government is complex. Most of them are down-and-out scholars who have not received systematic education and have become monks halfway, as well as businessmen with a little cultural knowledge. Their participation. Although to a certain extent,
However, with the delay of time and the doubling of the land area of Han State, they who took up official positions in a hurry were not only unable to provide help for the effective operation of the government, but also directly or indirectly damaged the government.
the interests of the country.
The case involving Lin Yaxiang and the Yixing Company he controlled is a typical example of official corruption and collusion between officials and businessmen. Local officials in Yunzhou violated the laws and regulations formulated by the government, overtly and covertly transferred benefits to relevant personnel, and infringed on the country.
Public land, taxation, etc., they clearly know that doing so is not in compliance with legal requirements, but because of the lack of professionalism of officials, many officials do it with the mentality of taking risks and no one will notice, which ultimately leads to the chaos of the entire Yunzhou local government.
Corruption is rampant.
In the early days of the founding of the country, when the new ruling class replaced the old class, it was the period most likely to breed power monopoly. If the team of government officials is not reorganized at the source, the longer the delay is, the higher the cost and consequences of reform will be.
There is no good way to clean up the official team and improve the administrative efficiency of government agencies. Based on the current actual situation of Han Dynasty, Li Mingyuan decided to start from four aspects.
Professional intelligence personnel from the Ministry of National Security were dispatched to various local states and counties to conduct investigations, collect evidence of illegal crimes by local officials and businessmen, and deal with the batches they found.
Second, a new anti-corruption department was established within the Supervisory Yuan, with the highest administrative level assigned to deputy ministerial level, directly reporting to the emperor, and specifically responsible for handling cases of official corruption, collusion between officials and businessmen, and crimes in the economic field.
3. Accelerate the training of professional officials, select merit-based college graduates to work in central and local government administrative agencies, and initially engage in some work of an auxiliary nature to the chief official, sharing the chief official's power and restraining the chief official's power to a certain extent.
4. In view of the fact that it is unlikely that a war will break out in South America within ten years, and the country will be in a long period of peace, Li Mingyuan believes that continuing to arrange those officers and soldiers with certain cultural literacy and strong execution capabilities into grassroots government agencies can strengthen the government's responsibility for local affairs.
Under grassroots control, although corrupt elements will inevitably appear among demobilized officers and soldiers, compared with those mainland literati and businessmen who joined in halfway, Li Mingyuan believed more in those who had strong obedience after a period of military education and training.
Retired officers are more reliable.
In early November 1879, after several months of exploration and investigation, the first round of cleanup and rectification work for various state capitals in Han Dynasty was launched.
Lin Yaxiang and Yixing Company were the first targets of attention and were arrested and seized. Lin Yaxiang himself was sentenced to death for embezzling a huge amount of national wasteland and repeatedly concealing the serious casualties that occurred in the companies and plantations under his jurisdiction.
All personal property was confiscated. At the same time, more than 100 officials involved in the Lin Yaxiang case, and all the managers of Yixing Company were arrested. 80% of the assets under the name of Yixing Company were seized and confiscated, and they were illegally employed by Yixing Company.
The 6,200 workers whose personal freedom was restricted were restored to free persons and were allowed to receive a portion of the assets of Yixing Company as financial compensation.
The first round of internal rectification storm was launched across the capital, three prefectures and eighteen states. As of November 24, 1879, a total of 1,075 officials, big and small, had been arrested and imprisoned, and 2,148 businessmen and old-style literati were put on file for investigation and confiscated.
The total value of land, shops, and properties was equivalent to approximately 10.7 million taels of silver, accounting for approximately one-half of the Han State's total annual fiscal revenue.
Calculated based on the Manchu and Qing court's fiscal revenue of 30 million taels of silver during the same period, the Han State's total annual fiscal revenue was 20 million taels of silver, accounting for only one-fifteenth of the Manchu and Qing court's revenue. Equivalent to per capita fiscal revenue, the Han State's per capita fiscal revenue was also
It was only about three times more than under the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but taking into account the Han government's annual subsidies for immigration transportation, local land development, industrial construction, etc., as well as the low prices of Han's local food, cloth and other commodities
, the average living standard of a Han household was four to five times higher than that of people under the Manchu Qing rule, and the per capita fiscal income was also much higher than on the books.
The stormy internal reorganization and the arrest of a large number of officials and businessmen in the incident shocked the local officials and businessmen. Originally, because of the victory of the Argentine War and Li Mingyuan's accession to the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the consequences for the Han
The future development prospects of the country are promising, and the relevant personnel who plan to use all means to seek promotion in official positions and expand business scale quickly put aside any inappropriate thoughts in their hearts and do their jobs honestly, for fear that if they are not careful, they will be caught by national security
The people from the Ministry and the Inspectorate seized the evidence, and their mood was shattered all their lives, and I was going to end up dead and financially ruined.
Frightened by the turmoil of local officialdom rectification, many businessmen retreated and decided to leave the Han Kingdom and return to the mainland or Nanyang with the funds they earned in the Han Kingdom to become their own rich locals. For these people,
Li Mingyuan had nothing to say. He instructed government officials to investigate and carefully investigate their business experience. Whenever something happened that violated national laws, they would be punished immediately. If the level of involvement was low or even law-abiding, they would have to pay three
One-third of the property is used as appearance tax. After all, neither Li Mingyuan nor his officials and generals are generous people. After taking enough benefits from the Han Kingdom, if they want to leave, they must spit out some of it.
After the departure tax payment policy was implemented, about two-fifths of the people changed their minds and were reluctant to lose nearly half of their property and chose to stay. Another group of determined people except some were arrested because of illegal sources of property. In total,
A total of 648 businessmen and 215 old-style scholars left South America, either to Nanyang or directly back to the mainland, and lived a life they thought was suitable for them.
The composition of the internal immigrants in Han Dynasty is complex, including ordinary Chinese workers, people fleeing famine, overseas Chinese businessmen and other different categories of people. They came to South America for different purposes. Most of them came to South America to have a good meal and bring their families with them.
There is only one way to survive, and there are also some speculative businessmen and gangsters who have committed crimes in the mainland and came to South America in order to get ahead.
In order to uniformly manage immigration, the Han government thought hard and adopted a set of measures and administrative orders to reform those Chinese who immigrated with bad intentions. From the initial shipment of ships to the shore, to the government's simple sanitation of the immigrants, the Han government
Education and training of policies and laws, to two years of collective labor, participation in road construction and settlement house construction organized by the government, and at the end of the two-year labor period, according to the performance during the labor period, the reward policy is to allocate houses and land.
It can be said that after more than ten years of exploration and improvement, Han's immigrant education and transformation policies are generally successful. However, some Chinese people with stubborn natures find it difficult to achieve complete changes under external education and training and survive two years.
During the labor period, after receiving unified militia training in the settlements and obtaining formal national status, some gang members and Chinese gangsters became active again, blackmailing new immigrants, bribing grassroots officials, running rampant in the countryside, and engaging in gambling, loan sharking and other activities.
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It can be said that old-style gang members and local hooligans provide a lot of room for corruption of government officials and collusion between government and businessmen. Lin Yaxiang has no official position and is just a businessman. How can he win over a hundred people in Yunzhou?
Among officials, big and small, not only the wealth in his hands plays a role, but also the thousands of gangs and local ruffians under the name of Yixing Company and relying on Yixing Company for survival are also a force that cannot be ignored.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Han government issued an administrative order to ban all local gangs. Ordinary citizens could not take home the muskets used for training without the government's permission. It also strictly prohibited the original gang members from forming gangs and disrupting the society.
Local security.
There were guards and militia to intimidate the local area. From 1870 to 1874, a group of hooligans and gang members were dealt with vigorously and resolutely. The sentences that should have been sentenced were changed to exile in the Congo. After a four-year cleanup period, the social atmosphere in the local area was completely wiped out.
, however, with the influence of Ding Shu Qi Huang, the number of Chinese immigrants to the mainland has skyrocketed, and the energy of the central and local governments has been tied up in immigration affairs. Therefore, supervision of the local public security environment has been relaxed, providing opportunities for those newly immigrated gang members.
activity space, which in turn led to the concentrated exposure of internal, economic, and social security problems within the local government in the second half of 1879.
Taking the opportunity to rectify the officialdom and business issues, we will also clean up all the gang members, gangsters, and thugs involved. At the same time, we will interrogate the arrested people and dig deep into the distribution of gangs hidden in various places.
Catching small fish together is not only for the sake of national stability, but also to ask for credit from Li Mingyuan. Local officials at all levels, the Supervisory Office, the Ministry of National Security, from senior officials at the ministerial level to ordinary intelligence personnel and grassroots officials are all working hard to prepare.
Before Li Mingyuan ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he made achievements that transformed the social landscape of the area under his jurisdiction and met the requirements of the new atmosphere of the empire.
A number of national worms were dug out, and the newly created official positions stimulated the enthusiasm of officials at all levels. Influenced by traditional culture, there is never a shortage of people in the local area who want to be in office, even if they see some colleagues around them being corrupted, breaking the law, etc.
The problem was that they were caught, but this did not stop other officials from their ambitions to be promoted. The country of Han was vast and sparsely populated, and becoming a government official would not lack land and wealth to meet daily needs. The reason why those officials were arrested can only be blamed
They are greedy and ignorant of current affairs. They work honestly and in accordance with the law. Although their official promotion is slower, there are no risks. They don't have to worry about it all day long. Their ambitions match their abilities. They have self-awareness. Are they still afraid of not having a good ending?
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Officials worked hard to deal with various illegal and criminal activities in their jurisdiction, and militia and garrison forces were dispatched to capture fugitives. By mid-December, about 13,000 gang members and hooligans had been captured. For this group
After a rough trial by the government, all of them were exiled to overseas colonies with a stroke of a pen. Eleven thousand of them were assigned to the African Congo colony, and the rest were divided into three batches and entered Zilu, Tonga, and Samoa respectively. According to the
The colonial exchange agreement signed with the Germans in July 1878 took over the two islands of Zilu and Samoa directly controlled by the Germans, as well as the commercial base established by the Germans in Tonga.
