Chapter 90: Chongzhen's Plan
The Human Resources Department is undoubtedly the busiest. With the expansion of the territory, if you want to conduct fine management, you must have enough staff. All kinds of newly trained staff are arranged directly to the post.
Each prefecture and county are equipped with more than 100 police officers and more than 20 administrative personnel, from positions such as chief clerks and county magistrates who overturn local officials to positions such as town chiefs and tutors in the lower towns.
Zhao Yan personally went to the training site to teach those incoming administrative personnel, and personally told them about national justice and other content.
After listening to Zhao Yan's lecture, these personnel took office directly.
Regardless of whether this lecture is useful or not, Denglai's anti-corruption system is very high-pressure. Those who are caught are never merciless, and there are still hundreds of administrative personnel who have been cut down so far.
Under such a high-pressure state, generally there will be no people who are corrupt. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, after a violent killing, it also put the Ming Dynasty in a relatively honest state.
"If you have any difficulties in money and food after you take office, you can raise it. If you have any difficulties, the bank can provide you with loans. After taking office, remember not to embezzle or accept bribes, nor to interfere in commercial activities. If you do not have a record of embezzlement before retirement, you will be rewarded with 500 to 2,000 mu of fertile land after retirement." Zhao Yan promised every batch of executives who took office.
Zhao Yan, Xu Nuo, immediately exploded among these administrative personnel, from 500 to 2,000 acres, which was a considerable landlord.
Of course, in advance, those who can keep integrity before retirement and perform well can get two thousand acres.
When Zhao Quan heard that Zhao Yan was making promises to those people, he hurriedly ran to Zhao Yan and said, "Isn't two thousand acres too much? If each person gives two thousand acres, if there are more people in the future, the entire Shandong land will not be enough."
"There are so many places in the Americas, they can choose whatever they want." Zhao Yan said generously, "but the tax you should pay is still required."
"This..." Zhao Quan couldn't help but sweat. The land in America was not very valuable, and it was a question whether these people were willing to go to the land.
Zhao Yan is painting a big pie, a big pie that is pretty good. You know, the people who are willing to immigrate to the Americas will be given 500 acres of land per household.
However, in addition to land, the benefits after retirement are quite high.
However, the news spread quickly among the administrators as if they had wings, and their work actively soared for a moment.
Whether it is for the people or for profit, just do things well.
Laizhou and Qingzhou prefectures have been swallowed up alive, and the fortress is also about to begin construction. If there is a fort every thirty miles, if the enemy invades, the surrounding people will enter the fort to defend.
After these bastions are built, it is almost impossible for anyone to conquer the Shandong Peninsula, and Zhao Yan can be invincible.
The land distribution in Qingzhou and Laizhou has also begun. Each household is divided into 50 acres of arable land, but one hundred acres are temporarily managed first, and after the people from other places are recruited, they will be divided equally.
The cattle and horses in each village are managed by specialized personnel, and the people are responsible for planting clovers, corn, and soybeans as feed, and they can raise chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep themselves.
This is a kind of "intensive labor-intensive animal husbandry". This development model is not self-sufficient enough to make food imported from the outside world, but it can also fully utilize the potential of the land and breed the most livestock.
Those horse farms and cattle farms moved to the western regions of Qingzhou and Laizhou one after another, alleviating the original feed supply pressure. The expansion of the territory also allowed the scale of cattle and horses to expand. Zhao Yan waved his pen and allocated three million taels for the Ministry of Agriculture to purchase cattle and horses.
At the same time, a horse breeding center was established in Qingzhou. The European horse breeds brought back by the American fleet were placed there for breeding and new horse breeds began to be cultivated.
These European horses are taller and have stronger gravity than Mongolian horses, but their breeding requirements are also relatively high, and they are not as hard-working as Mongolian horses.
The regiment and guard officers responsible for training the village soldiers arrived in various villages one after another and began to organize Shandong youth and strong men to carry out training. This trial reform swallowed about 1.3 million young men. Training these young men is equivalent to having 1.3 million soldiers.
In terms of training for young and strong people, cavalry, muskets and ranks are now the main ones, and the proportion of spearmen in the army has decreased.
The training content is divided into queues, riding, musket shooting, spear stabbing, knife skills, marching, heavy-bearing off-road and commands. After training, the training of entering the recruit camp becomes simple, as long as it is strengthened on this basis.
Riding, queue and shooting are the key points in training, especially riding, which is the top priority. Every young and strong village must conduct riding training regularly.
The whole of Shandong can see a scene of preparation for war.
The Military Weapons Bureau once again worked overtime to produce weapons to supply training needs for the garrison.
The business began to plan a plan to recruit people in Shaanxi. The two infantry battalions of the Yingzhou regiment were transferred to defend the supply points set up by the business along the way.
Yingzhou has a large amount of grain, most of which are sweet potatoes, which will be transported to supply points for people to eat on their way to Shandong.
At the same time, the inspection teams of various provinces began to vigorously publicize the benefits of going to Shandong for military farming. Not only did they give 50 acres of land, but they were also exempted from taxes throughout the year. Children could go to school in the school and see a doctor for free... Zhu Dadian and Lu Xiangsheng also began to cooperate vigorously.
Such generous conditions immediately formed a sensational effect in Henan, Huguang, Beizhili, Shaanxi, Anhui and other places. Many poor people embarked on the road to Shandong without making too much consideration. No matter how bad Shandong is, it is impossible to be worse than their current situation.
After the business entered Shaanxi, it recruited more than 200,000 people in just half a month. A large number of desperate people heard the news and helped the elderly and children to sign up.
The bandits were also frightened by the actions of Shandong. They thought that Zhao Shaxing sent troops to Shaanxi to encircle and suppress the enemy, and they all retreated far away.
The actions of the business and Yingzhou delegation in Shaanxi attracted Hong Chengchou's attention. Seeing that the people from all over the country were moving, Hong Chengchou rushed to Hancheng one after another, and couldn't help but worry: "If all the people went to Shandong, wouldn't there be no grain production in Qin? What should the military and civilians eat?"
Hong Chengchou immediately posted a list of articles, forbidding the people from leaving their hometowns privately, and sent officers and soldiers to Hancheng to steal people.
On that day, thousands of officers and soldiers arrived in Hancheng and had a fierce conflict with the Second Infantry Battalion of Yingzhou Regiment. After two of the Second Infantry Battalion were injured, the battalion commander immediately ordered a counterattack, stabbing more than a dozen Shaanxi officials to death with a spear. The Shaanxi officials retreated in a panic, and the two sides confronted each other coldly.
Seeing that the Second Infantry Battalion was well-equipped and difficult to force the coercion, Hong Chengchou immediately asked the Shaanxi official army to cut off the rest of the people coming to Hancheng. At the same time, eight hundred miles in a hurry to report the situation to the capital.
The Second Infantry Battalion did not dare to make things worse, so it could only stay where it was. The business immediately mobilized a large number of ships at the ferry, transported the people away while the Yellow River was not frozen, and urgently reported to Zhaojiabao to inquire about the response plan.
Zhao Yan received an urgent report in Zhaojiabao and couldn't help but frown.
"This old man Hong Chengchou." Zhao Yan cursed inwardly, and quickly asked Mao Yuanyi and Liu Heng to discuss countermeasures. After reading the urgent report, they couldn't help but frown.
No one would have thought that recruiting people in Shaanxi would be blocked by Hong Chengchou.
"Hong Chengchou's heart is destructive. Is it beneficial to trap the people in Qin?" Liu Heng cursed. Mao Yuanyi thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid Hong Chengchou is afraid that there is no way to raise grain. Shanxi has already banned grain from Shaanxi. Shaanxi is in chaos again, and merchants dare not go there to do business."
"If he has no food, we have too many sweet potatoes here, and he can even hold him to death." Zhao Yan was very angry and said to Liu Heng and Mao Yuanyi: "I want to impeach this old man, and the General Staff will prepare the memorial immediately."
Liu Heng and Mao Yuanyi took the order to go to the General Staff to draft the memorial. The memorial was soon drafted. The memorial stated the various benefits of immigrating to Shandong, as well as the dangers of the poor people's easy access to thieves when they stayed in Shaanxi, and severely impeached Hong Chengchou.
After reading this memorial, Zhao Yan felt very satisfied, so he asked someone to send it to the capital in an expedited manner.
Denglai has his own information transmission system, and the information transmission speed is much faster than the court that abolished the post station. Zhao Yan's urgent memorial had just been sent to the capital, and Hong Chengchou's memorial had just arrived.
Ten days later, the capital sent a reply.
"As a military general, I am responsible for defending the territory and attacking Liao. I don't need to worry about the civil affairs of Shaanxi."
This approval shocked Zhao Yan for a long time. He did not expect that such a thing that could tell the pros and cons at a glance was rejected by Chongzhen.
"Why is this?" Zhao Yan asked Liu Heng and Mao Yuanyi in confusion.
"The Master is afraid of his lord, and he does not want the people to come to Shandong to increase our strength." Mao Yuanyi speculated: "In addition, Shandong has paid a lot of taxes to the court this year. The Master already has enough money and food on hand, and may want to organize the next wave of offensives."
"Shandong's land tax was 2 million, and another 550,000 yuan was entrusted. The Salt Transportation Department paid 5 million and Dengzhou's three million, and there were already 10.55 million taxes. But the money and food needed to suppress the thieves were sufficient." Liu Heng nodded, "For the sake of the present, we can only withdraw the Second Infantry Battalion and the Commercial Bank from Shaanxi."
Zhao Yan nodded, and now he can only withdraw.
...Mao Yuanyi did make Chongzhen's psychological guess very consistent. Chongzhen was not a blind man, and the Jinyiwei also had secret spies in Shandong. He had already known about Zhao Yan's renting land.
He was already deeply afraid of Zhao Yan's strength. It would be better for the people of Shaanxi to move to Shandong. If these people arrived at the Shandong Peninsula, wouldn't they send troops to Zhao Yan again?
Chongzhen still had a trust in Zhao Yan, but Zhao Yan's strength had exceeded the warning line of trust, and sometimes Chongzhen didn't know how to deal with Zhao Yan's problem.
At this time, Chongzhen was well-off, which also allowed Wen Tiren to draft a new round of plans to encircle and suppress the thieves. This time, Chongzhen was full of confidence and planned to completely eliminate the thieves.
As long as the thief is destroyed, it doesn’t matter whether he or she is immigrating or not.
At the same time, Chongzhen had a plan in his mind. Shandong reforms asked him to change it. As long as there was money to pay it over, the court could wipe out the bandits. When the pass was stable, the court would be able to free up his hands.
The most important thing is the issue of the court freeing up the move. As long as the court freeing up the move, everything is not a problem, even if it is Zhao Yan...
(To be continued)
Chapter completed!