Because Wuhu Province is a newly established province, the governor's office was built from scratch. By the way, even the governor's office was a temporarily rented office building.
Feng Xin originally arrived at the governor's Yamen station greeted by local officials and gentry. After a brief rest, he went out to visit Prince Zheng's Mansion.
This Wuhu Province is the fiefdom of King Zheng.
As a governor, when he took office, he naturally had to follow the etiquette and go to see him.
Prince Zheng's Mansion is not located in the city center, but in the suburbs. The entire palace covers a large area and is built in traditional Chinese style. The style of the entire palace was built in strict accordance with the princely etiquette formulated by the Ministry of Rites.
Speaking of which, this was Feng Xinyuan's first time seeing the official residence of an imperial vassal.
There are many vassal kings in the empire, but one by one, they are all overseas, and their mansions are also built in overseas fiefdoms. On the mainland, there are at most some annexes or something like that, but the formal vassal
There is no more royal residence.
However, when he saw the huge Prince Zheng's Mansion, Feng Xinyuan was not excited at all. Instead, his expression was calm.
Because he knew very well that one of his important tasks as a governor was to control Prince Zheng.
If there were to be trouble in overseas fiefdoms, these feudal kings would definitely be behind the push. In the past, any localization in North America was driven by the three major North American feudal kings.
However, Feng Xinyuan knew better that he did not use spies or other means to control King Zheng. That was not his task, that was Hantong's task.
It's not even about military defense against Prince Zheng. That's the task of the military, and it has nothing to do with him, Feng Xinyuan.
In order to control Prince Zheng, Feng Xinyuan must start from the root cause, do a good job in people's livelihood work, and completely cut off the possibility of Prince Zheng's palace inciting local people to commit rebellion.
Once the local ordinary people turn their hearts to the empire, even the feudal king's rebellion will be groundless.
After entering the palace, Feng Xinyuan paid homage according to etiquette, but he was limited to paying homage and soon left Prince Zheng's palace.
He knew that if nothing unexpected happened in the future, he would probably not step into Prince Zheng's Mansion for the second time during his term of office.
It is not a good thing to make friends with the feudal lord.
Therefore, whether secretly or openly, he did not intend to leave any clues to others.
Seeing Feng Xinyuan coming and leaving in a hurry, King Zheng smiled: "This man is quite cautious!"
Others said: "He is the newly appointed governor after all, so caution is inevitable. However, there is no way to pull him over in the future. As long as we pull Feng Xinyuan over, many subsequent things will be much easier!"
But King Zheng shook his head and said: "Winning him over? It's not necessary!"
Others were puzzled: "Why, if we can pull him over, there will be a lot of benefits!"
King Zheng said: "I'm afraid if I meet him a few more times, this person will be transferred back to his homeland, so don't waste your time!"
"But except for the governor, others can continue to maintain contact!"
Prince Zheng did not have any hope of winning over Feng Xinyuan. This did not mean that he was worried about the possibility of winning over Feng Xinyuan, or that his father would find out and punish him, but just like what he said just now, he had no hope at all.
necessary.
It took a lot of efforts to win over him, but I guess they didn't succeed. It's 100% certain that Feng Xinyuan will have to be transferred back to his homeland.
Even if the father doesn't care about the civil and military ministers he associates with here, the prince does, and the important ministers in the imperial study do care!
In order to preserve his career, Feng Xinyuan would not make friends with him easily.
Just like the previous governors of Wuhu Prefecture, none of them had any dealings with him.
They don't have the guts!
But, that's not important!
He had ruled Wuhu for many years and had already completed the layout in the area. Even if Feng Xinyuan stayed away from him, it would not affect the palace's control of the Wuhu area.
After all, this Wuhu area is still his fiefdom!
After leaving Prince Zheng's Mansion, Feng Xinyuan did not stay, but returned directly to the governor's station. After a good night's rest, he summoned many officials under his command the next day.
Including local officials who originally served in the local area, as well as officials from various agencies in the newly established governor's office.
Naturally, there will be no important matters mentioned during this summons, just a few simple greetings and acknowledgment.
After the summons was completed, he had time to truly understand the specific situation of the Wuhu Province that he needed to govern.
Before coming, he had already learned about it through many files, but he couldn't fully understand it just by reading the files. The best way was to actually read it.
Therefore, Feng Xinyuan started a frequent inspection mode.
On the third day after taking office, he inspected various parts of West Lake City, including a walk around the city, then briefly inspected some infrastructure such as the port and water supply, and then went to the commercial street.
After seeing this in person, I also have a preliminary understanding of the entire West Lake City.
This West Lake City is very different from the cities in the empire. First of all, it is big!
The entire urban area covers dozens of square kilometers, but there are not many people!
The area is vast and sparsely populated, so some infrastructure is more difficult to build. At least the tap water supply has not been established. Only the city center has tap water supply, but not other places.
The same is true for roads. In most cities in the empire and even the main roads in ordinary state capital cities, cement roads are common. Large cities even have high-grade asphalt roads. If not, there are also cinder roads.
But in West Lake City, most of the roads are dirt roads, and the ones in the city center are cinder roads.
There is nothing we can do about this. The urban area is so large and has well-connected roads, but the population is so small and the city's tax revenue is relatively limited. It is difficult to support the construction of complete roads in the urban area.
After reading this, Feng Xinyuan felt that this typical American city had both good and bad sides.
The good thing is that the place is big enough and people have enough living space, but the bad thing is that the place is too big and it is difficult to provide public facilities.
The roads are not that good, and there are not even many public carriages!
Because there are not many people, there are naturally not many passengers. Although there are public carriages, they only take a long time to run. Otherwise, the carriage company will suffer losses.
As a new arrival, Feng Xinyuan didn't see many public carriages along the way, and he was worried that the local public transportation system was not good and it would be difficult for people to travel.
However, along the way, Feng Xinyuan didn't see many people walking out on the road. Instead, he saw many people driving small one-horse two-wheeled carriages. There were also many four-wheeled private carriages, and many men simply rode on them.
Horse travel.
Seeing this scene, he was speechless.
There are not many public carriages in this place. It is not just that the place is large and the population is small.
But in this poor place, every household has a private carriage...
This even gave Feng Xinyuan the illusion that the people in West Lake City lived a better life than the residents of Songjiang Prefecture!