Chapter 273 271【Change】

"General Town, the prefect of Qiongzhou has surrendered." Zhang Bingwen sent a military report.

"Dropped?"

Zhao Han was quite surprised.

Before landing by boat, the top official of Hainan Island actually offered the city to surrender.

When he opened the military newspaper, he burst out laughing.

Jiang Yiming, the magistrate of Qiongzhou, was only a scholar. He spent money to pay tribute to the Imperial College, and then spent money to get a real shortage. No matter how remote the Qiongzhou Prefecture is, it is already the limit for a scholar to be a magistrate, and it is impossible to be promoted again in this life.

Moreover, Jiang Yiming is from Quanzhou, Guangxi, which is next to Huguang.

If he does not surrender, Jiang Yiming has no hope of being promoted, and his hometown is likely to be beaten. This guy is very smart, and he took the initiative to write a letter to Zhang Tieniu, cooperating inside and outside to donate the city of Qiongzhou.

Now Zhang Tieniu is fighting across the sea and has occupied the three cities of Qiongzhou, Chengmai and Ding'an.

The lookout of Lingao County is attached.

Putting down the military newspaper, Zhao Han said to Zhang Bingwen: "Order Nanhai County Magistrate, Panyu County Magistrate, Xiangshan County Magistrate, Mission Department, and Farmers' Association. If the three counties do not have enough land and excess population, they will all be relocated to Qiongzhou Island. Let them arrange immigration immediately. Transfer officials to Qiongzhou Prefecture to divide the fields."

Zhang Bingwen immediately sat down and called Hu Mengtai. After the two finished writing the official document, Zhao Han checked it, signed and stamped it and sent it out.

There are too many people along the coast of Guangzhou, and the land is not enough to distribute, so a group of people must be relocated, otherwise smuggling will be difficult to stop.

It happens to be transferred to develop Hainan Island, killing two birds with one stone.

Alas, immigration is going on again, and most of the grain shipped from Jiangxi has been consumed.

There is no shortage of money, and the four major customs in Guangdong can provide a lot of tax revenue every month. But even if you have money, you can’t buy food. Guangdong has suffered three consecutive years of disasters and wars for three consecutive years.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Han said to Zhang Bingwen again: "Decree that Zhang Tieniu, the hereditary general of Qiongzhou Prefecture, who owns more than a hundred acres of land, will confiscate all his homes! The land will be distributed to military households and common people, and food will be supplied to the immigrants. grain."

There are many guards on Hainan Island. Except for dealing with the Li people in the mountains, they have not fought much in the past two hundred years.

I don't know how many lands these hereditary generals have occupied, and how many people they have hidden.

After various orders were issued, Zhao Han said to Zhang Bingwen: "I will return to Ji'an in a few days, you can stay and be the magistrate of Qiongzhou."

"Is this considered exile?" Zhang Bingwen was qualified to joke after following Zhao Han for more than half a year.

Zhao Han said sincerely: "Thank you for your hard work. From now on, the main tasks are to resettle the refugees, reclaim wasteland, and educate the Li people."

Since the incident until now, apart from the officials of the newly established agency, Zhang Bingwen is the third person to be over-promoted.

There is no way to set up a new organization. For example, the navy, Gu Jianshan has been the commander of the navy since he came, and needs to train the navy from scratch. Song Yingxing, Tian Younian and others all belong to this situation.

The first person to be promoted was Liu Huan, the prefect of Ganzhou in the Ming Dynasty. Due to the complicated situation in southern Jiangxi, he directly served as the prefect of Ganzhou after the surrender.

The second super-promotion was Deng Yunzhan, a scholar from Guangzhou who came to join him and was directly promoted to be the head of Guangdong Shipping Department.

The third one is Zhang Bingwen, Jiangxi Right Chief Envoy who surrendered. He only worked as Zhao Han's secretary for a few months, and now he will be transferred to be the prefect of Qiongzhou.

At this time, the prefect of Daming Qiongzhou was a guy from a scholar background, so it was conceivable that it was not a good job.

It's like a distribution.

Zhang Bingwen cupped his hands and said, "Do your best."

Zhao Han said with a smile: "If things are done well, you will be promoted to be the right minister of Guangdong in three years' time."

Zhang Bingwen suddenly became motivated. He is fifty-three years old this year, and if he really wants to get up from the county magistrate, he is afraid that he will die of old age when he is promoted to the magistrate.

...

Zhao Han really left whenever he wanted to. He came to Guangzhou for three purposes: one was to meet Zheng Zhilong, the other was to meet the Portuguese, and the third was to frighten Guangzhou merchants.

Things are done, what are you doing left?

Zhao Han needs to rush back to Ji'an to make a series of administrative adjustments.

Changed the Chief Secretary of Ming Dynasty as a province, and set up Jiangxi Province, Hunan Province, and Guangdong Province.

Following the old system of the Ming Dynasty, each province has a chief secretary, an inspection department, and a capital command department, and the administrative, judicial, and military powers are separated.

The Metropolitan Command Division is temporarily vacant. Its relevant functions and powers belong to the Military Affairs Department and the Military Academy. At least after the unification of the south, the capital command departments of each province will be established.

Jiangxi Province: Ouyang Zheng, the chief minister on the left, and Huo Tao, the chief minister on the right.

Guangdong Province: Liu Ziren, the chief minister of the left, and Liu Mai, the chief minister of the right.

Hunan Province: Yuan Yunlong, the chief minister on the left, and Wan Hongsheng, the chief minister on the right.

This is a huge change. In the past, Jiangxi Province's affairs were actually in charge of the General Military Office, but now a provincial-level institution has finally been established.

Different from Ming Dynasty, Zhao Han's provincial officials did not participate in politics or deliberation. Instead, the Office of Official Selection, the Office of Propaganda and Education, the Department of Finance, the Department of Industry and Commerce, etc. were set up, and the directors of the departments were responsible for affairs in related fields.

A large number of officials are about to be promoted!

The arrangements for coastal trade will be handled by the Guangdong Industry and Commerce Department. Thoroughly promote the business name system of exclusive trade, to put it bluntly, it is the "corporate system". In the future, if you want to open a factory and trade, you must obtain a business name license issued by the Department of Industry and Commerce.

Knowing that Zhao Han was leaving, merchants from Guangzhou came to see him off one after another.

Looking at the fleet that was drifting away, wealthy businessman Guan Jialun sighed, "This King Zhao Yan finally left."

"King Zhao Yan is gone, but the guard in black is still there." Huang Xuanshen shook his head.

Feng Yucheng said: "From now on, let's do business honestly."

Doing business dishonestly is not enough. These wealthy businessmen engage in smuggling because Europeans cannot directly come to Guangzhou for trade. Therefore, they have the opportunity to take advantage of the loopholes and secretly hire fishermen to transport the goods from Guangzhou to Macau.

Now it's cool, merchants from all over the world can trade in Guangzhou.

Moreover, let go of the cargo transportation in Xijiang. A large number of commodities from Jiangxi, Huguang, and Guangxi can be directly transported to Macau through the Xijiang River.

In a word, the maritime ban is completely lifted, and serious maritime merchants do not need to purchase goods through smuggling.

As for those fishermen who used to smuggle, they are all given land now, and they can fish while farming. Those who were not allocated land, some were recruited by the navy, and some would immigrate to Qiongzhou.

Merchants are mixed.

What is worrying is that it will lose its monopoly position on export trade.

The good news is that in the future, you can do business without paying bribes, and you are not afraid that officials will ask for cards. Any official who dares to act recklessly should report directly to the ICAC.

This time Zhao Han killed two families, one named Xie and one named Xu. All the main men were captured and either beheaded or mined, and the women were forcibly assigned to soldiers who did not marry wives.

The cause was bribing officials, and then a bunch of bad things were found out.

For example, the Xu family is involved in human trafficking!

Just when Zhao Han's fleet disappeared, a group of officials suddenly appeared and escorted more than 60 people to the pier.

The rich businessman Deng Yunqiu was trembling with fright: "Which one are we going to kill this time?"

"Go and have a look."

This time it's just an ordinary official post, not the king of Hades from the Secretary of Integrity.

An official announced: "These sixty-two people are all crutches, abducting good people, kidnapping and extorting, and murdering Shenjiang. The crutches in Nanhai and Panyu counties are all here, and Xiangshan County has also arrested more than 30 crutches. From now on, If you have any clues about the crutches, you can report to the officials, don't be afraid of the revenge of those villains!"

"Execution!"

Swipe, swipe, swipe!

A group of ten people queued up to behead, and saw the heads falling one by one.

"good!"

"Good kill!"

There were thunderous cheers on the pier, and everyone hated these kidnappers. No matter in the country or in the city, there are always men and women who go missing, and it's all due to these guys.

"Execution!"

Swipe, swipe, swipe!

As the lights of swords fell, more and more onlookers gathered. This section of the wharf has become a execution ground, and a group of people will be killed every few days.

In order to prevent the plague, after killing, not only clean up, but also sprinkle lime for disinfection.

"Long live King Zhao!"

"Long live King Zhao!"

I don't know who took the lead and shouted, and countless people followed.

First kill gangsters, then corrupt officials, then kidnappers, and even a group of profiteers. At the same time, domestic slaves were released, low-ranking status was eliminated, household registration was given to homeless people, and land was allocated to peasants and military households.

After a series of measures, Zhao Han has already won the hearts of the people in Guangzhou.

Especially those vagrants and small traders. After the opening of the sea, there were more ships in Guangzhou and more prosperous trade. The days of homeless people and small traders are getting more and more prosperous, and they can become rich by selling wonton noodles at the wharf with their burdens.

Shouting and shouting, someone suddenly knelt down towards the distance, which was the direction Zhao Han was leaving by boat.

Seeing the people kneeling more and more, the merchants were frightened, and they all returned home in sedan chairs.

There are also merchants who take advantage of the opportunity to make money and ask their buddies to come to the wharf to sell books.

""Datong Collection", "Datong Collection", only five coins a copy."

"Color-printed version of "The Record of the Female Generals of Datong", four taels of silver per set. There are not many copies, so hurry up if you want to buy it, first-come-first-served!"

""Datong Opera Collection", with score, one tael of silver for a set!"

"The novel "The Tale of the Great Travelers", two taels of silver a set!"

"..."

Power always brings cultural fashion, especially Wu Bing's "A Tale of Great Travelers". The diary-style novel records the real life of all walks of life in Jiangxi, and the people in Guangdong are very yearning for it.

This novel is also interspersed with many bizarre cases and twists and turns of love.

What kind of common people sue the officials and win, what kind of sons of aristocratic families marry good prostitutes, and what kind of slaves marry young ladies after becoming officials. These contents have been widely circulated, and they are talked about on the streets of Guangzhou, even the illiterate people have heard of them.

At this moment, in a certain tea house in Guangzhou, there is a storyteller telling stories, holding a copy of "The Great Traveler" in his hand: "But it is said that there is a slave named Liu Cong in Tangshui Village, Jishui County, Ji'an Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. Liu Cong He was handsome and tall, and also literate. The teacher at home gave lectures to the young master, and Liu Cong often eavesdropped on him. There was a young lady in the family who was born third, and she was born beautiful..."

The story of a house slave marrying a young lady made the tea drinkers mesmerized, and some scholars shouted that it was ridiculous.

The social structure of Guangzhou is undergoing drastic changes.

One and a half months after Zhao Han left Guangzhou, a merchant ship suddenly fled to Macau: "The Hongfan ghost is here, the Hongfan ghost is here!"

The Dutch finally appeared, not only from Taiwan, but also from Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia).

(Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.)