Lu Ming

That is to say, the New District is responsible for negotiating with the Guangzhou chief envoy Si Yamen for the payment of all grain and tax payments for Qiongzhou government this year. Qiongzhou government will only need to wait for the receipt and leave the rest alone.

The above is the solution to the external problem, and the next is the "internal problem" between the Qiongzhou government and the crossing people.

The internal problem is even simpler, it is nothing more than how to distribute the benefits behind closed doors.

Shao Qiang proposed here: Since the General Military Mansion has paid taxes, the Qiongzhou Mansion must provide corresponding headcounts according to the total amount of official taxes in the official register, and during this period, more refunds and less compensation.If the number of heads is insufficient at that time, part of the money and food will be refunded to him.

In addition, Counselor Shao also kindly reminded: He is not a racist, and he does not discriminate against ethnic minorities such as Li and Miao on Hainan Island... So, my lords, you understand.

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After listening to Senator Shao's overall employment solution, the officials present quickly whispered to each other and exchanged opinions in a low voice.

Soon, the officials reached a consensus with just a few phrases and glances: "The person who came is quite stupid."

The plan proposed by Shao Qiang is still very practical in the eyes of the Qiongzhou bureaucracy. After all, as long as someone pays the bill, there are not many things that cannot be done in this world.What's more, Shao Qiang's promise can't be faked. Aside from the large amount of cash before, in terms of taxes and taxes, the official affairs of the Guangzhou chief envoy are all open, and one can find out.

In this way, the officials realized almost instantly the advantage of taking advantage of this matter: as long as the number of heads that were required to pay taxes on the official book was sent to the military port, it would be considered as paying Shao Qiang's job.However, these heads can be collected from some people who are not in the official records, such as the Li people and the Miao people, those fugitives from the four townships, and so on...

As for after that, the head is enough, and the fool surnamed Cao went to Guangzhou to pay the tax... Hey, who stipulated that the gentlemen can't collect another round of taxes on time?

After all, it is only natural for the government to collect royal grain and national taxes, and it is considered a great favor of the emperor to exempt those poor workers who work haha ​​at that time... But the regular taxes and miscellaneous items that everyone should pay, they still have to pay!

Think about the benefits that will be left in everyone's pockets after this is completed, and think about the gaps that the yamen at all levels can make up for in previous years after this is completed. At this moment, the officials at the banquet, the next moment, nodded and looked at bearded.

The bearded Ding Tong understood the thoughts of his colleagues.

As for Shao Qiang's proposal, it seems that there is no problem in the general direction.What needs to be done afterwards is nothing more than sending people to bargain and discuss the details of the amount.

So now the only thing standing in the way is one thing left.

The bearded Ding Tongsan immediately raised this question: maintaining stability.

The last worry of the officials is also very practical: assuming that a large number of people go to work on the construction site for a long time, then as time goes by, Qiongzhou, a closed "free trade zone" isolated overseas, will still have problems: food.

In the view of the officials, if a large number of people "do not engage in production" and go to work, the total grain production in Qiongzhou will inevitably decrease in the coming year.Even if Mr. Cao pays this year's tax, there will be a shortage of grain in the Qiongzhou market, and the price will definitely remain high. At that time, there will be turmoil everywhere, and the officials will "rule the government without peace", which is not conducive to "social stability".

Shao Qiang laughed out loud when he heard this.

Holding up two fingers, Shao Qiang immediately promised two more things.First, all the migrant workers who go to the port should be responsible for their daily rations, and Shao will be responsible for all the food. The food is imported from outside. These migrant workers do not eat a bite of local rice.

Second, Shao Qiang promised to open a food store in Fucheng from now on.Qiongzhou... at least the price of food in the capital city of Qiongzhou, as long as the naval base exists for a day, it will be maintained at a normal price.Even when there is no harvest, a large amount of external grain will be imported into Qiongzhou.

The officials looked at each other.

In the eyes of the natives, the exaggerated promise of "stable food prices in one place" is something that can only be achieved by the imperial court with great efforts, and most people don't believe it.However, thinking about the extravagant side shown by this group of people before, everyone seems to have a little bit of confidence in their hearts.

The next moment, Sun Futai, who had been silent since the negotiations, showed his true colors.He stared fiercely at Shao Qiang's face: "Shao Shen, is this serious?"

Shao Qiang looked around and found that everyone was trying to find evidence of guilt from his face, so he could only put on the expression of a rich man in the Upper East Side looking at a corn guy in a Virginia country to reassure the army: "Go back today and I Just send a message, and within seven days, 20 catties of rice and [-] catties of potatoes will arrive at the port."

"Is the potato the same fruit potato that has been sold in the market recently?"

"Exactly! This potato is a foreign species brought by my general from the Husky Kingdom in Haidong. After eating it, I will endure hunger and hunger. Lifus like it the most."

"emmmm..."

Sun Taishou turned his head and looked around, and found a pair of fiery eyes, so he nodded decisively: "From now on, five catties of potatoes will be added to the market, and at least one catty of rice will be supplemented. This is a good thing." as well as!"

Shao Qiang said categorically: "Just do what Sun Taishou said!"

……

Shao Qiang really likes officials in these remote areas.

These people are not pretentious or hypocritical, only have money in their eyes but not Confucius and Mencius, they are open-minded and dare to think and do, everything can be discussed, and they are called kings behind closed doors. The most ideal object.

Chapter 568

The ghostly place of Qiongzhou has been known as the "ends of the earth" since ancient times.

In the officialdom in this frontier area, I would like to know who can come to work: except for some unlucky ghosts who have no background and were kicked over by the officials to fill the hole, most of the rest are "low-ranked and high-ranked". It is not uncommon for a scholar to be a county magistrate.

Even so, the official pits in the Qiongzhou area have never been fully staffed, and it often happens that the second official "temporarily presides over the work of the whole county in the second half of this year".

Gein those who raise people to enter the Jinshi also have a temper. Many people find out that they have been cheated, and then they are fired from the bureaucracy... Isn't it good to go home and be a master and play a maid?Whoever has the patience to go to the land of miasma and plague will go to die, the Lord will not take care of him!

Thus, a vicious circle has formed: the less people take office, the greater the gap in officials, and the less hope that officials who take office will be transferred back to the mainland.Seeing this situation, other people are even more afraid to take office...

This kind of stretching situation in the frontier has been like this since ancient times, and it belongs to the daily life of the dynasty.Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, but going back to the Tang, Song and Han Dynasties, the situation is exactly the same.

But if there is an official who is blinded by the benefits of being transferred, and then is fooled into border areas like Guanlong, Qiongzhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, then this old man who supports the construction of the frontier is very likely to move indefinitely in the border area, and he will never be able to live forever. One step into customs.

As for future generations... the same!

Most of the people in the world have heard the words "aid to Tibet and Xinjiang".In fact, no matter how it is packaged, its core is no different from that of the ancients. It is the central government trying to send officials to the border areas to stabilize social development and construction.

There is no big difference in the means after hundreds of years, and the biggest motivation is still the very realistic things like salary at the level.However, things are not that simple. Many people can only take root when they get there. Like ancient officials, it is not so easy to come back.

Fortunately, the productivity of later generations is developed, and high-speed rail and planes can solve the problems of traveling and visiting relatives. The level of medical care is also very different, which is much more comfortable than the ancients.

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Sha Zhengming and Shao Qiang's group encountered such a group of officials in the government office of Qiongzhou today.

Many of them are low-spirited low-level officials, and most of them have no background.Most of the rest are crooked melons and jujubes with low official positions, and there are even small people who have been officials for generations on the table-most of these people's ancestors were officials assigned by them, they could not go back to the inland, and they were intellectuals. Passed down through generations, they become indigenous.

However, it is these people who control the actual operation of the entire Qiongzhou government.

The atmosphere of the banquet was very harmonious.Everyone is not restrained, and those who are high and low in the officialdom in the mainland don't have a lot of fun here in Qiongzhou, so Shao Qiang and Shao Counselor had a good chat with these people.

There is a wise saying called "How bold a person is, how productive the land is."

This sentence is especially suitable for officials in remote areas.

Most of the proposals from Shao Qiang's side were quickly accepted by the officials as long as the rewards were qualified, which saved Shao Qiang a lot of embarrassment.You must know that in the past, Shao Qiang saw many posts on the BBS where time travelers complained that Daming's Daoists and officials were difficult to deal with.

In the end, the Qiongzhou bureaucratic group headed by Sun Futai and Shao Qiang reached a package development agreement: oral.This kind of thing must not be seen in the ink.

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After the banquet, they all dispersed.

As the chief military officer, Sha Zhengming definitely couldn't stay overnight in Qiongzhou Fucheng.So after the banquet, he hurriedly walked around Qiongzhou City, took a general look at the defense system of Qiongzhou City, and left the city before closing at night.

Shao Qiang is not in such a rush anymore, he still has a lot to do in Qiongzhou City.

After one night, Shao Qiang first led his followers to start numbering houses inside and outside the city.In the future, the time-traveling forces will open various grain and grocery wholesalers in Qiongzhou, which will naturally require a lot of houses and warehouses.

According to the previous experience summed up by the business department, Shao Qiang this time unceremoniously marked out a street in Guanxiang outside the city and inside the city.

The accompanying Qiongzhou government officials and yamen servants immediately appeared on the scene and began to "negotiate" with the merchants on these two streets.

The result of the negotiation went well, after all, this is the dark old society.When wolf-like officials come to "negotiate" with money, smarter merchants know what to do.After all, in terms of amount, the compensation is quite a lot.So the merchants all promised to relocate on the same day... Just kidding, if the government is upset and all kinds of "requisition" and "buy" tricks are used, it will really be a disaster from heaven.

So in the next few days, Shao Qiang took root in Qiongzhou City, and began to lay out business and intelligence - his entourage naturally included people from the Intelligence Bureau.Although Qiongzhou Station is a small station of C-class, the Intelligence Bureau also needs to deploy it.

Seven days later.

With the rising sun on the sea, the agreed fleet arrived outside Shenying Port.

Seven days ago, after the Guangzhou side received a telegram from the duo of the Southward Fleet, it immediately began to organize the supply of goods and manpower overnight.Thanks to the well-developed freight, warehousing and human resources in the new area, it took Guangzhou less than 24 hours to fill the warehouse with grain and industrial products from Taiwan, and sent ten 500-ton cargo ships to Qiongzhou. fleet.

The cargo fleet was accompanied by six Taijiang-class frigates.And these six high-speed patrol ships, together with the several ships that have already arrived, will be the backbone of the Baisha base to fight against scattered pirates in the surrounding area and deploy the Qiongzhou Strait patrol network for a period of time in the future.

The arrival of the 500-ton large fleet made Qiongzhou Prefecture empty for thousands of people.Just like a whole row of big men in suits, the public has never seen such a uniform, clean and smooth large tonnage fleet.

Next, a steady stream of food, which seemed to never be empty, was unloaded from the big ship by laborers like ants, and it never stopped from morning to night.

Food soon filled the warehouse prepared by Shao Qiang.So in the newly opened Yonghe Chain Grain Store in Qiongzhou Prefecture, rice and potatoes began to be sold at a low price.

After confirming the quality of the rice grains sold in the granary and grain store, the officials of Qiongzhou Prefecture confirmed that the allies have the ability to fulfill their promises, and their confidence suddenly increased, and they began to roll up their sleeves and go to the countryside. .

Along with the fleet, there are many primary industrial products.

Qiongzhou is a place where there are few rich and noble families, and the overall consumption power is low, so there are not many high-end luxury goods on the cargo ship this time.Common daily necessities such as cotton towels, sewing needles, and enamel washbasins accounted for the majority.

Of course, in line with the principle that the traversing people have always absorbed people's power to stabilize the place, there must be several sets of semi-handmade textile machinery in the warehouse of the fleet.Since Qiongzhou is famous for its homemade cloth and even kapok cloth, and the story of Huang Daopo is spread everywhere, it must have a foundation in the textile industry.

Where there is a foundation, people from across the country will definitely come to set up some small manufacturing enterprises, and their claws will not let go of the hardworking and capable Qiongzhou women.

Finally, those who came with the ship were the "management personnel" that Shao Qiang valued most.

The so-called management personnel, 50 of whom arrived earlier, are management personnel under the jurisdiction of the "National Prison System", commonly known as prison guards.

These people will be responsible for the operation of the labor camp that is already under construction—with the arrival of the high-speed patrol ship, the construction of the labor camp must be put on the agenda. Travelers have a lot of experience in this regard.

The rest of the dozens of management personnel are low-level cadres who have accumulated over the past few years.These people carry beautiful leather briefcases, and write crooked simplified characters on the small books. They are the backbone of the governance of the people across the country.Shao Qiang will use these people to control all the industries in Qiongzhou and carry out long-term infiltration operations.

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When everything settled down, it was already half a month after the Southward Fleet settled in Baisha New Port.

On this day, Shao Qiang, who had been busy with settlement matters, finally got free from the busy resettlement work and left Qiongzhou Fucheng.

The reason why he left Fucheng was because he wanted to inspect the construction of the "labor camp".

According to the internal rules of the traversing forces, Shao Qiang is currently in charge of the labor camp, a place used for forced labor for "dissatisfied people", so he has to go and have a look as soon as he gets out of his hand.

The location of the Baisha Labor Camp is very clear, just across from the Baisha Military Port, and there is only a dirt road between the two sides.

After leaving Qiongzhou City, Shao Qiang and his party started to board the bumpy dirt road within a short distance.Fortunately, Master Shao is sitting on the pole at the moment, so there is no possibility of spraining his feet.

Seeing the labor camp construction site from a distance, the captain of the prison guard wearing jeans and short hair soon came to greet him.So Master Shao got off the pole, and accompanied by the team leader, he walked around the labor camp.

The current construction progress of the labor camp can be said to be within Shao Qiang's expectations.The deserted beach, which was originally full of weeds and rocks, has now been cleaned up by a large number of locally recruited migrant workers.

Several temporary wooden houses were erected on the land that had undergone preliminary leveling.The focus of the labor camp's current project is to build a wall around a large circle.Here too, ditches have been dug out by migrant workers, as well as wooden watchtowers used by armed guards.

Now wait for the treated wooden piles to arrive, combined with the barbed wire from Guangdong, then a barbed prison familiar to the world and often seen in American TV dramas will take shape.

After almost a round of inspection, Shao Qiang, who was quite satisfied with the progress of the project, patted the captain on the shoulder and said encouragingly: "The navy is ready, and it will go out to patrol in the next few days. So you still have to hurry up, lest you lose time." When people come, there is no place to live.”

The tall and strong prison guard captain smiled all over his face: "The folks in Qiongzhou still work hard, who pays us better."

"Please rest assured, sir, according to the current progress, the Datong shop will be built within three days."

"Well, very good." Shao Qiang nodded: "Although the climate in Qiongzhou is hot, it will cool down in recent years, so we still need to prepare housing."

After inspecting the construction site and seeing that it was still early, Mr. Shao leaned on his waist and looked around. Suddenly, he became very excited, so he stretched out his arm and pointed to a mangrove forest on the beach with blue sky and white clouds in the distance: "Bring the tables and chairs." Dude, sir, I'm going to relax and eat some grilled seafood!"

"As ordered!"

Ever since, a large group of people surrounded the master sitting on the sliding pole, carrying the iron grill on the seat, and began to march towards the mangrove forest by the sea.

Chapter 569

Under the bright sunshine and patches of white clouds, there is a barren coastal wilderness.

The productivity of the ancients was low, Shao Qiang was only less than ten miles away from Qiongzhou Fucheng, and the surrounding environment began to develop towards unmanned.

Along the way Master Shao walked, apart from the scattered villages and sparse fields at the end of his sight, elements such as beaches, rocks, woods, and weeds began to quickly occupy the world, leaving only a dirt road with potholes leading to the distance.

If you mistakenly think that Shao Qiang is obsessed with the original seascape of Haikou, then he is not. Master Shao just came out to relax temporarily because of his interest today.

People in the later generations will sit in the most congested traffic, play on the beach with only people and no sand, and will be cheated out of the exorbitant price of seafood at the end. This is the so-called sea view tour.

However, over the past few years, the traveler has traveled all the way, from the original style of Taiwan in the [-]th century to Fujian and Guangdong. It can be said that they have long been immune to the so-called subtropical primitive style.

Nowadays, unless you see the quasi-tropical scenery south of 10 degrees north latitude, such as South Vietnam and Thailand, otherwise, these places in the Ming Dynasty really cannot arouse the interest of travelers.

To be honest, what some people want to see most now are high-rise buildings made of steel and concrete, even if there is a bit of smog, they will recognize it...

Accompanied by the salty wind blowing from the sea, Master Shao and his party gradually approached the mangrove forest along the dirt road.Shao Qiang, who was lying on the sliding pole, had already half-closed his eyes at this time, and began to think about "major national affairs".

The burden on Shao Qiang is still heavy.

As of today, after settling down in Qiongzhou, the next step, he and Sha Zhengming, the pioneering duo, will quickly set their sights on Beibu Gulf, Vietnam... the land called Annan in the seventeenth century.

In other words, go abroad.

time is tight.

Right now, he can only say that he has just settled down, and there are still a lot of things to do in the future.However, whether it is the cabinet chiefs far away in Guangzhou or the internal members of the cross-border group, there is a general consensus: the southward fleet should go southward as soon as possible.

It is now the second half of 1631.According to the plan of the traveler, at the latest next year, a series of stable bridgeheads will be established in the Indochina Peninsula. While attacking the Indochina Peninsula, the sword will guide the ocean.

This hidden time requirement gave Shao Qiang a headache.It is the seventeenth century now, and he does not have a [-]-ton giant ship and various construction machinery at hand.On the contrary, those sailing ships under his command need to use the word "month" to calculate the voyage for a one-way trip to the Indochina Peninsula. Shao Qiang really doesn't know how to build a "series" of bridgeheads in such a short period of time.

In addition, it is not so easy to act outside the country.

The first Annan people to face next are not the officials and citizens of Ming Dynasty who greet the traversers with a smile, speak the same language, and share the same blood.This small country was still a Chinese prefecture during the Qin and Han Dynasties. Since the Five Dynasties broke away from the Han family sequence, it has established its own emperor and established its own grammar.

Although learning from China everywhere, after more than 1000 years, Annan people have already established themselves from the root.Even after many times of confrontation with the Central Plains Dynasty, everyone has a tacit understanding: if the Central Plains is strong, the Annan people will close their doors and become emperors. If the Central Plains is weak, hehe.