Xiaozhai is located fifty miles southwest of Jimingyi, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is administratively under the jurisdiction of Zagu Hall.
The Zagu Hall was a newly established county-level administrative unit by the Qing government on the basis of the former Ming Zagu Appeasement Department. However, due to the needs of the Jinchuan War, Qianlong upgraded this hall to the Zhili Hall thirteen years ago, which is equivalent to a department without districts.
County-level city.
In this way, the chief officer of Zagu Hall is the fifth-rank Tongzhi who is much higher than the seventh-rank county magistrate.
The current director of Zagu is called Zhao De, who came from a non-righteous background, and was born as a superintendent of Naomi Li in the 18th year of Qianlong's reign.
Jia Liu went to Xiaozhai with Boqingquan and related personnel on the third day after Fukang'an returned to Beijing. His full-time work could not be delayed because of Fukang'an's death.
The entire camp and the 100,000-strong army could not come to a standstill because of the death of Brother Fu San. Left Deputy General Feng Sheng'e had already led some of his troops to move the camp.
As the chief officer in charge of the money and grain affairs of the camp, Bo Qing'e has a lot to do with the construction project of the bannermen's guerrilla camp, so he specially accompanied Jia Liu to Xiaozhai to provide on-site guidance, and any problems discovered on the ground must be solved on the spot.
solve.
In Jia Liu's words, special things should be done specially.
In addition, after finishing at Xiaozhai, Bo Qing'e was going to see Fulehun, the governor of Sichuan, to discuss in detail with Fulehun the materials needed for the October army's general attack on the lost territory of Xiaojinchuan.
A Gui, who was in charge of the overall situation, had a bad relationship with Fulehun. The left deputy general Feng Sheng'e led an army to prepare for the offensive. The right deputy general Mingliang, as A Gui's important deputy, had to counsel military affairs. Naturally, he was responsible for dealing with local affairs.
Clear your forehead.
Deputy Dutong Bo, the Lieutenant General's Logistics Director, actually has great power, which is why Jia Liu will never allow the other party to jump ship.
On the way, we met Director Zhao of the Zagu Department who received the notice.
Director Zhao was called here because Xiaozhai is administratively under the jurisdiction of the Zagu Department, so the local government needs to raise the money, food and equipment needed for the construction of the project, especially the people.
If conflicts between soldiers and civilians occur during the construction period, the Zagu Office will need to mediate to ensure that the project is completed as scheduled.
Vice President Bo personally determined the project cost, which estimated that about 10,000 people would be recruited.
Taking into account factors such as the long construction period, the difficulty of the project, summer thunderstorms, flash floods, and inconvenient transportation, Vice Chairman Bo initially calculated that the investment in such matters would be 100,000 taels.
lowest.
Accompanying him were several officials from the Governor's Yamen who were in charge of engineering affairs. In addition to their professional counterparts, these officials also represented the Governor to actually supervise the use of project funds to ensure that no cases of corruption would occur during the process.
The court suffered huge losses.
In addition, there are the professionals brought by Vice Chairman Bo and some engineering contractors who came from Chengdu and Chongzhou, many of whom have a pure Beijing movie.
Bo Qing'e revealed privately that these contractors who came to the capital were involved in all kinds of business, and they had quite a lot of background behind them, and there was even a hat king.
In addition, there are Jia Liu's entourage.
A huge crowd, two to three hundred people.
On the day Fukang'an died, Fulehun, the governor of Sichuan, received two official quotations for flag-bearer guerrilla training camps.
The first one was from Jia Jiashikai, the leader of the team, and the project quotation was one hundred thousand taels.
The latter one belongs to Tongbo Qingqing, the deputy capital in charge of the camp's food affairs, and the project quotation is one million taels.
After discussing with his close aides, Governor Fu prioritized ensuring the quality of the project and reported the total project cost to the Ministry of Household Affairs to 1,487,516 taels.
Accurate to the nearest digit.
This is called professionalism.
The first batch of 300,000 taels of funds has been documented and allocated by the Sichuan Governor's Yamen to the Zagu Department where the project is located to spend money and food, purchase bricks and timber, and level the land.
It's just that Director Zhao did not receive relevant funds except for the project notification from the governor's Yamen Kaiyu, but this did not affect his signature on various official documents and payment in return.
Since the flag guard training camp project covers an area of hundreds of hectares, hundreds of barracks alone need to be built, the land must be leveled to build a martial arts school, and mountains and forests must be occupied to simulate jungle guerrilla warfare, which involves countless manpower and materials, making this project
It has become Director Zhao’s biggest political task at present.
Therefore, after receiving the notice that the Vice-Capital of Manchuria, Mr. Bo Qing'e, Mr. Jia Jia Shikai, the Admiral-Eyed Flower Feathering Wu Neng Yibatulu and the leading minister, would come to Xiaozhai for inspection, Director Zhao immediately launched a general mobilization and personally led the inspection.
People go to Maligou Gonghou, which is the only place they must pass on their way to Xiaozhai, and make preparations for the reception.
As usual, the total carriage money is two thousand three hundred taels.
Among them, Bo and Vice Dutong paid one hundred taels for carriages and horses, Jia Tulu's carriage and horses cost eighty taels, and the rest of his entourage varied.
This is a rule. If Jia Liu doesn't take it, he will break the rule, so he accepts it with peace of mind and praises the elder of Zagu Hall for being mature and capable of being an official.
From Maligou to Xiaozhai, you have to pass a road that is more than ten miles long. Although it is also a mountain road, it is much better than the mountain roads in the hinterland of Jinchuan and is basically a flat road.
After walking for a while, Jia Liu suddenly reined in his horse and stopped, frowning slightly.
Vice President Big Brother Bo quickly stopped and asked Jia Liu: "Brother Shikai, why did you stop?"
Jia Liu pointed at the dirt road in front of him with his horsewhip, which could accommodate two carriages walking side by side, and said that the road needed to be widened and re-consolidated because the artillery team would be moving in the future.
If the road conditions remain as they are now, if it rains, not only cannons will be unable to pass, but even ordinary carriages transporting grain and supplies will not be able to pass easily.
Vice Chairman Bo thought for a moment and thought it made sense. He asked Director Zhao, who was accompanying him, how much money it would cost to widen the road.
Director Zhao was not good at it, so in the end the relevant professionals who came with him gave the figure, which was about six thousand taels.
Waving to the professionals to return to the team, Vice President Bo asked Kai Xiandi that a hundred thousand taels would be about the same.
"Brother, money should be spent wisely."
Jia Liu said that as long as the quality of the project can be guaranteed, no matter how much money is spent, it is worth it. If it exceeds the cost, just ask for an increase.
After all, it's all for the sake of the Qing Dynasty.
"That makes sense."
Vice President Bo nodded happily, and the two brothers continued to move forward. Soon they came to Xiaozhai. At a glance, hundreds of civilian workers who had been recruited were cleaning up the original houses here. Most of them were burnt ruins.
, the Qing army had a fierce battle with the Fan bandits here the year before last, and the place was abandoned afterwards.
The two brothers got off their horses and looked around. Sure enough, the scenery was beautiful, especially towards the southeast toward the mountains and forests, which looked like a fat pig lying down.
"It's really similar. No wonder the locals call this mountain Zhutou Mountain."
Before coming here, Jia Liu also did some homework, and Tongbo Vice President took people up the mountain. When he looked at it from a high place, the scenery was very different. What he saw was a tiger perched on a dragon's plate, which was truly a treasure in Sichuan.
The entourage pulled the drawing apart, and Jia Tulu and the vice president of the museum looked at the drawing while gesticulating down the mountain.
"This is the Chinese Army, this is the school field, this is the barracks, this is the artillery training camp, this is the cavalry training area, this is the canteen, and this is the reception area."
Under Jia Liu's fingers, every planned building seemed to rise out of the sky in an instant. It was really refreshing.
What it really is: Jinchuan is good, but it’s really not bad.