Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 301

From Henan to Hebei (the name has been changed from Zhili), Shandong to Shanxi, the management methods of the newly captured state capitals are similar.The old Qing government officials were not retained. Even if there were not so many officials, Ming Dynasty directly adopted the model of military management, and a small number of officials managed it with the cooperation of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army.The goal of this period of military control was to restore local peace and order, purge Tartars, traitors, bandits, and bullies, and consciously start land reform to create new conditions for the next step of industrialization and modern economic development.

The officials in the original Qing government were not completely useless.They often participate in the handover of power in an informal capacity, and are consulted to handle some local affairs. After the new Daming Office fully grasps the local situation, they will have nothing to do.

Most of these honest officials surrendered in Kaicheng. In theory, they had merit, but serving the Manchus was also a fault, so the merits and demerits were balanced.If there are no particularly serious crimes, then you can just get over it. If you want to continue to be an official, you need to accept the training and assessment of the Imperial College system of the Ming Dynasty. This is also the choice of the vast majority of honest officials.Although it is inevitable that there will be unsightly marks on their resumes from now on, after all, official career is their most passionate choice.

With the endorsement of the King of Jin, Jiang Guozhu and the hundreds of Han army flags in Jinan were approved to take off the flag and return to Han. Jiang Guozhu was also relieved.Banner people have no human rights to speak of, they are complete enemies of Ming Dynasty.Now at least his identity as a Han has been restored, although Jiang Guozhu has always been a Han.

Jiang Guozhu, as the governor of Shandong in the puppet Qing Dynasty, naturally stayed here to assist Yuan Maogong in taking over various civil affairs in the province.Jiang Guozhu put away all kinds of small thoughts early on. There were many upright officials who felt that if Daming wanted to govern the region, they really couldn't be without them.But it is actually in practice in many southern provinces.The honest officials who surrendered and did not cooperate were sent directly to the ship to plant rubber, and the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army cooperated with the capable Ming administrative team to govern the place better than the honest officials who had no modern governance concepts at all.

Yuan Maogong called Jiang Guozhu's puppet Qing people to a meeting and listened to their reports on the previous work in Shandong.Just the layout of the meeting room is very different.

Yuan Maogong ordered someone to directly find a main room in the governor's mansion to turn it into a meeting room. When Jiang Guozhu was in the meeting, the meeting was more in the form of instructions and reports, with a very obvious superiority and inferiority.The governor or other high-ranking officials sit at the top, while the junior officials stand or kneel below.

But now this conference room is quite different. The main seats and guest seats have been removed. Instead, there are square tables arranged in a circle, with two sides long and two ends short.Yuan Maogong sat next to a group of current officials of the Ming Dynasty, all of whom were wearing formal attire, shirts and ties.On the other side, Jiang Guozhu and the others naturally couldn't wear the official uniforms of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. That would be provocative. They all wore plain long gowns, dressed like ordinary people or scholars.

The plainness of their clothes is not entirely faked. Many people have hurriedly searched through boxes and cabinets to find out the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, including square scarves, Liuhe hats, Taoist robes, deep clothes, and traveling clothes. They have been wearing clothes for many years. Not worn.As for the robes and mandarin jackets, I would never dare to wear them now.

This situation widely happened to gentry groups and old officials. Some people even found that they had no clothes from the previous dynasty at all.On the contrary, there were also some people who knew that Nanming already had some new clothes, and instead of buying the clothes of the previous Ming, they sent someone to go to Jiangnan and other places early to buy new clothes of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, Jiang Guozhu was like this. Before he surrendered to Daming, he had already sent people to the south to collect information, and he even bought some new clothes.This time came in handy. Everyone else was wearing a toga with long sleeves, and they looked like ordinary landlords. Jiang Guozhu was the only one wearing a light gray formal suit with a white shirt inside, but his family couldn’t wear a tie. So Jiang Guozhu didn't fight directly.

Dressing also gave Jiang Guozhu a sense of superiority. After all, Yuan Maogong and others opposite him all wore such clothes.

There was nothing surprising about the meeting, just some normal inquiries, including what work Jiang Guozhu and the others have done, which work they think is more important, what is the financial situation of the Provincial Office, and what is the expenditure.Yuan Maogong and his administrative team asked more detailed questions, which made it difficult for Jiang Guozhu's honest officials to answer.Their own work would not be so meticulous, but on Daming's side, it is necessary to be accurate to the whereabouts of every penny.

Jiang Guozhu slandered: "Why is this Ming Dynasty acting so harshly? The way of being an official is to be confused. Many things get to the bottom of it. Not only is it offending people, but it is really not decent."

Although he thought so in his heart, Jiang Guozhu still greeted people with a smile on his face, and would not say it out loud.

Here, Yuan Maogong and the others have almost understood the situation. Yuan Maogong took his own notes and gave instructions to his team: "...The general situation is like this. Like other provincial capitals and counties we have received, the work of the puppet Qing regime It is extremely imprecise and has many major loopholes. The main task of our new office is to establish and run our administrative system well. His Royal Highness once said that if the airs are not set up well at the beginning, it will be difficult to correct them later. All of us comrades must put an end to traditional dross thinking, do things in a down-to-earth manner, and seek truth from facts, and plead for the people."

Jiang Guozhu was very unaccustomed to Yuan Maogong's routine, and even felt that he couldn't understand a lot of what he said.But Yuan Maogong's team reacted fiercely and asked many sharp questions, which shocked Jiang Guozhu, because Yuan Maogong's people looked like a group of young people in their 30s and [-]s with hairless mouths, but the questions they raised The questions and some methods of doing things are so sophisticated that they, who are seasoned in the officialdom, can't answer them at all, and even don't understand the meaning.

"What's going on with all these officials in the Ming Dynasty? Why are they all so serious? Shouldn't being an official be about dealing with the bosses and making money? Why are they all so serious? Why do the yamen of a province have to allocate special funds? The money was used to build schools and medical clinics? Could it be that Yuan Maogong really didn’t put a penny in his pocket?” Jiang Guozhu felt more and more unbelievable the more he heard it.

As the governor of Shandong, he didn't have much money left behind, so when the new provincial office started to operate, most of the funds were brought by Daming himself.Originally, Jiang Guozhu was very envious, thinking that Yuan Maogong would think of ways to collect money in his own pocket, but he didn't expect that they would count how much money they really had, and actually spend it on the common people.

(End of this chapter)