Chapter 280 Takeover (4)
In handling the embassy district and church operations, the East China Government's wise skills and strong execution capabilities were fully demonstrated. After solving these two matters, it was also declared over in 1908, and 1909 came, and it also entered the 10th year of the senators' arrival in this era.
However, in China, the real New Year refers to the Lunar New Year. Only the East China government will celebrate the Gregorian New Year. Moreover, the East China government also calls the Gregorian New Year New Year according to the old practices of time and space, and calls the Lunar New Year New Year the Spring Festival. Not only will lively celebrations be held during New Year's Day, but civil servants will also have holidays and rest. But in Beijing, there is still no feeling about New Year's Day. It turns out that on New Year's Day, embassies and churches from all countries will celebrate warmly. Unfortunately, the embassies and churches from all countries do not have the mood this year, so this New Year's Day is also deserted.
The East China Government has just occupied Beijing, and although it has initially controlled the Beijing area, it is far from enough. Therefore, the Beijing Management Committee and the Beijing Municipal Government did not have a holiday on New Year's Day. In addition to dealing with the embassy area and church, the Beijing Management Committee's work controls the surrounding areas of Beijing, including Huairou, Miyun, Shijingshan, Daxing, Changping and other places. Of course, there are now three field troops stationed in Beijing, with a total force of about 130,000 and an armored train, which is absolutely sufficient.
The work of the Beijing Municipal Government is to deepen control over Beijing and establish a grassroots management system. The first step is to establish a Beijing police system, which is the basis for grassroots management. Because neither the army nor the National Guards are suitable for long-term responsibility for the public security management of the entire grassroots level of the society. Only by establishing a police system can the order and stability of the entire grassroots level of the society be long-term.
However, although the East China Government has dispatched police personnel from Qingdao to support Beijing, the police personnel needed to manage a huge city like Beijing is not a small number, and it is far from enough to just draw from other places. In addition, police personnel are grassroots police personnel. Since they need to have extensive contact with all levels of society, they need to have a sufficient understanding of the environment, customs, and living habits of the region, and it is best to have a broader social relationship. In this regard, foreign personnel have inherent disadvantages, and local talents are the most suitable. Therefore, most members of the police system must be selected among locals.
The second is to build a grassroots administrative management system in Beijing's districts, streets and other grassroots administrative management system. Public security is only the basis for maintaining social stability, but to make the society run well, the grassroots administrative management system is also an indispensable part of the grassroots administrative management system. This is the experience of Chinese social governance in the old time and space, and it is also an effective method summarized by the East China Government through practice over the years.
The grassroots administrative management system is the same as the police system. The East China government can only draw some backbone personnel from various places, but the main members still need to be selected among locals. Therefore, it is necessary to deepen control over Beijing and establish a grassroots management system. In fact, it is necessary to select a group of grassroots managers from the locals. The first thing to consider is the original grassroots officials of the Qing court.
In fact, from the hearts of the elders of the East China Government, they did not want to use the original Qing government officials, but were grassroots officials, because most of these people were infected with serious bad habits in the officialdom and it was difficult to correct them. A few people even became local disasters. Although most of the behaviors were not harmful, they would seriously undermine the grassroots management of the East China Government and corrupt the reputation of the East China Government. Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the East China Government, all of them gave up the original grassroots officials of the Qing government and directly selected them from the people.
But the result proved that this practice was not effective. First of all, in the eyes of traditional intellectuals, officials did not belong to formal official positions, and they belonged to the lower-ranking and lower-class people in society. Intellectuals who were determined to seek fame and fortune were not very interested in such grassroots management positions. Ordinary farmers did not know anything and naturally would not sign up. Therefore, the final recruitment was either a social vagrant or a rogue gangster, and a small number of original officials who had changed their appearances and were simply useless. Fortunately, the scope of rule of the East China government was not large at that time, and relying on veterans and students they trained could be spared enough.
However, as the scope of rule of the East China government expanded, there was obviously not enough manpower, so we could only try to use a group of grassroots officials from the Qing court. However, after the trial, we found that these people were indeed much stronger than the vagrants and scoundrels. After all, they worked at the grassroots level for a long time, and they were familiar with each other, and had a wide range of social relations. People from all walks of life know each other, and their work ability was really nothing to say.
So later, when the East China Government occupied a new area, a group of grassroots officials from the original Qing court would be launched. Of course, they were the grassroots officials who did not have great evil and were not very angry. They also summarized some better experiences of grassroots officials from the original Qing court, and slowly transformed them in their work, and of course, they also cultivated new young people.
First of all, we will naturally conduct training and education to let them know that the rules of the East China government and the Qing court are different, and we can no longer act according to the rules of the Qing court; secondly, we will strengthen supervision and constantly indoctrinate and learn the rules of the East China government to form brainwashing, and we must never relax for a moment; at the same time, we should constantly remind and warn the cadres we trained, not only should we strictly supervise the grassroots officials of the Qing court, but we should also be alert and not be corrupted by them. Once we find that the grassroots officials of the Qing court used their power to do evil, or the cadres they trained were pulled down, we must severely punish and not lend money to warn others. We must not just because the grassroots officials of the Qing court were capable of doing things, or it was not easy to train cadres by themselves, and it was a pity that they would be open to the Internet. Only in this way can we generate enough shock.
This time, this method was still adopted in Beijing. First, a group of people who did not do much evil and were not angry were selected from the original Qing dynasty officials in Beijing. In this regard, the original Beijing office did quite sufficient homework. The officials who usually do many evils in Beijing and caused the anger of the people had long been recorded by them. When the People's Army occupied Beijing, they were arrested for public trials. More than 30 people were executed alone.
Moreover, under the publicity and inspiration of the Beijing office, a group of young students were also recruited for the East China Government. Therefore, the first batch of grassroots management personnel recruited by the Beijing Municipal Government totaled more than 1,200 grassroots management personnel, and half of them accounted for each of them, and then they were trained and educated.
Of course, since it is urgent to hire people, it is impossible to educate slowly. Instead, while receiving training and education, they are carried out some work under the leadership of the East China Government and observe everyone's performance at work.
However, these people cannot engage in the work of the whole body now, and the East China Government cannot rest assured that they are. They mainly do some counting the population, identifying household registration, registering vacant houses, cleaning up items, etc. These tasks are very complicated, but to rule the place well, it is necessary to do it.
Although Beijing has relevant household registration files, these materials are not managed well and are not ineffective. Moreover, since Beijing has been occupied by foreign troops twice in recent decades and has been severely damaged. After the Boxer Rebellion, Cixi and Guangxu returned to Beijing and ordered people to reorganize Beijing's household registration files. However, Cixi did not take this matter seriously at all. The officials who handled it were perfunctory, and the information they sorted out was incomplete and full of errors. Moreover, before the East China Government occupied Beijing, a large number of people fled from Beijing. Therefore, the current information can only be used as a reference, not as a basis, and must be re-counted, formulated, and compiled.
In addition, a large number of people fled from Beijing, so a large number of houses and mansions were naturally vacant. These houses and mansions were naturally accepted as public ownership by the East China government and closed first, and then depending on the situation, they were either opened as museums, or used as offices for government agencies, or used as residential buildings. In addition, some houses and mansions will be demolished due to the renovation of Beijing City, of course, this requires a detailed planning.
Moreover, most of the original owners of these houses were high-ranking officials and nobles, and there were several princes alone. Naturally, these people were rich and had many good things in their families. Although they took away a lot of gold, silver, fine and soft items when they fled Beijing, many utensils and antiques were left behind, and many large items could not be moved away. These items were not only valuable, but also had great cultural value. They could be called national treasures, so they naturally could not be careless. They should not only be counted, registered one by one, and then packed and sealed, and then kept for their use.
At the same time, before the People's Army entered the city, it promised that after the East China Government occupied Beijing, those who were willing to leave Beijing would let them leave and issue passes to pass. At this time, the East China Government had initially controlled the situation in Beijing, so it was time to implement this promise.
After the announcement of allowing the departure of Beijing was issued, there were many people who registered, hundreds of people on the first day alone. Later, when people saw that the registered people were fine, they all became bolder and signed up one after another. Because there were indeed many people who wanted to leave Beijing, they were the Manchus and the royal family. On the one hand, they were unwilling to accept the rule of the East China Government; on the other hand, they were rich and could transfer the trouble. Of course, the East China Government raised their hands to welcome them, which not only reduced their burdens, but also gained a group of houses and mansions for nothing.
Chapter completed!