There is a simple way, that is, use a map of Guangzhou from another time and space as a blueprint, and compare it with the map of Guangzhou drawn by the Ministry of Urban Affairs. If there is no specific name, use the streets and alleys in places with roughly the same location to name them one by one with modern place names. In this way, many nameless streets and alleys have roughly names. However, Lin Baiguang, the Comprehensive Management Office who carried out the specific instructions, still proposed that "guests should follow the host's wishes" as much as possible. If the people living in the surrounding area have a customary name, they may as well use it.
Lin Baiguang and his people worked hard for several days and finally got the names of the streets and alleys. The street signs and house numbers were made of tinplate, with blue characters on a white background. His plan was to nail the street signs and house numbers while conducting household surveys and establishing household registration books. Before he could arrange the matter properly, Liu Xiang called him over again.
"Old Lin, the current demolition situation in Guangzhou is not optimistic..."
"Just tell me, do you have any new plans? You're welcome." Lin Baiguang said.
"The illegal buildings on Chengxuan Street have been demolished, but there are still many similar places in the city. It is naturally easy to carry out a campaign-style demolition of illegal buildings, but we must consider long-term management." Liu Xiang first came to show off. He said, "So I am considering taking advantage of the opportunity of household census registration to conduct a real estate registration?"
"Real estate registration?" Lin Baiguang thought for a while, "This is indeed necessary. The problem is that real estate property rights are quite complicated and require original materials..."
"Original materials are available," Liu Xiang said. "There are original house deeds and land deeds in the second-level warehouses of Guangzhou prefectures and counties. I checked a few copies, and the records are relatively clear. According to the house clerks who have retained them, , Theoretically, anyone who owns a house will have a house deed and land deed. We can use this to re-register the real estate title."
"But this is not an urgent matter." Lin Baiguang felt that although demolishing illegal buildings is a good thing, it is not necessarily very urgent. "The work of demolishing illegal buildings on our main roads has been carried out one after another, and there is not much resistance. Several roads in the city have been demolished. The main roads should be demolished and the traffic should be straightened out. As for the demolition of ordinary residential houses and shops, we can proceed slowly, don't rush to become fat in one go."
"Old Lin. I am also helpless." Liu Xiang sighed heavily, "You know, in our plan, in addition to demolishing illegal projects, we also have to clean up the city's sewers. You also know that we will soon go back to Nantian ’.”
Guangzhou comprehensively renovated its sewers in the 1950s. Before the East Lake was excavated, Guangzhou suffered from urban waterlogging due to the city's geographical environment. Moreover, every year after March is the so-called "Return to the South", during which there is often light rain or heavy fog. It is the first test of the urban drainage system before entering the flood season.
Lin Baiguang has been in Guangzhou for several years, so he naturally knows the power of returning to Nantian. He nodded.
"I've heard people say that Guangzhou has a drainage system called Liumai Canal. However, in the past few days, I summoned the retained clerk's office and government officials and went to visit it myself. The results were not optimistic." Liu Xiang pulled out a map. Come on, "No one can tell the direction of Liumai Canal!"
As the name suggests, Liumai Canal is a drainage system composed of six rivers. It originated from six natural and artificial rivers in Guangzhou during the Song Dynasty. It uses the natural topography of Guangzhou to form a river-type drainage system that is high in the north and low in the south. It not only has the function of drainage, but also has the advantage of transportation. For example, some channels also have the purpose of water supply. but. This system has undergone great changes in the Ming Dynasty.
After several large-scale expansions and reconstructions in Guangzhou during the Ming Dynasty, the integration of the three cities into one and the construction of the South City caused great damage to the original natural water system in the city. Natural rivers and lakes including Wenxi and Ancient West Lake gradually became silted up and gradually evolved into A simple drainage channel. Since the transportation function in the city was basically lost, residents began to gradually encroach on the rivers, and gradually the open channels became culverts. If the Liumai Canal in the early Ming Dynasty still maintained the appearance of a "river" in the past, and in addition to drainage, it could also be used for boat navigation; then by the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the Liumai Canal had become culverts. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the Qing army massacred the city, a large number of Guangzhou citizens took refuge in the Liumai Canal and were drowned by the floods. This shows that the canals in the past were already culverts at this time.
The open drains became culverts, and houses were built on the culverts. As a result, when they entered the city, the specific locations and directions of the open ditches and culverts in the city were mostly buried under large blocks of houses, making it a mystery faced by the elders of Guangzhou.
The most typical one is where the sixth meridian of the Liumai Canal is, which has been an unsolved mystery since the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was the several dredging operations in the late Ming Dynasty or before the mid-Qing Dynasty. There is no trace of the sixth vein. Tan Qinghai, a native of Dongguan who lived not far from the time traveler in the early Wanli years, wrote "Explanation of the Six Meridians", in which there are only descriptions of the five meridians.
Liu Xiang's understanding of the Liumai Canal generally comes from the records of this ancestor - as for the hundreds of textual research papers and monographs on the Liumai Canal in the big library, the basic basis comes from this.
"I've been walking around the city in the past few days. I've seen a lot of open ditches and a few culverts. But I asked the office clerk. No one knows the detailed distribution of drainage ditches in the city." Liu Xiang shook his head. "Although I am not a water supply and drainage major, I probably know from looking at the situation that building houses on nullahs like the one on Chengxuan Street is quite common in Guangzhou."
"So..." Lin Baiguang finally understood his intention. He knew that even in the Ming Dynasty, it was forbidden to occupy river canals and build houses on culverts. It was impossible for the government to issue land deeds for such buildings, and it was a natural "illegal construction".
It is simply impossible to figure out the location and direction of the channels in the city and to clean the ditches without demolishing the illegal structures covering them.
"Yes, that's my idea." Liu Xiang said, "It's not difficult to figure out the location and direction of Liumai Canal - we have historical materials left by the ancients, and there are clerks who have done dredging, but the entire Guangzhou’s drainage system is not only six-veined canals, but also has many open ditches and underground ditches. This system is not recorded in detail in historical records, so we have to find it ourselves - not only must we find it, but we must find it as soon as possible.”
Liu Xiang's worry is not unreasonable. Liu San, who is in charge of health and medical care in Guangdong, went to the city a few days ago. He took a general look around the city and warned that if a large-scale health campaign is not implemented as soon as possible, he will return to Nantian. It is inevitable that a large-scale infectious disease will break out in the city.
"Okay, I'll try my best to do it!" Lin Baiguang nodded, "My current idea is that we can walk on two legs. First, you issue a notice telling the whole city that illegal buildings will be demolished within a time limit." Based on the current momentum, , many people will probably do it themselves; the second is to conduct household surveys through household registration to find out about illegal construction."
Liu Xiang sent Lin Baiguang away, and asked Xiao Zhang to send a telegram to Lingao, asking when the Guangzhou Police Chief would be in place. Then he asked someone to call Jia Jue.
Jia Jue was still yawning when he came in - they, the old yamen secretarial office, had never experienced such high-intensity work day and night. Can't break up. This was still them. If the chief had brought the "fake Kun" from Qiongzhou Prefecture, they would have continued to work when they left. According to the retained cleaning workers, it was common for them to be busy all night.
In ancient local yamen, since the government basically did not undertake many social management functions, the affairs were quite leisurely. The key to a clerk's errands is "compliance with regulations." In other words, official affairs mainly depend on the clerk's familiarity with various stereotyped "ministry regulations." Although clerks like Jia Jue are not as impressive as clerks, they don't have to come to the Yamen and direct their disciples to run errands directly at teahouses or at home. However, they only have very little time to go to Yamen every day. Most of the time they come to Yamen Just Mao. Even if there were errands to do, they would be gone after noon.
The Australians' work style of micromanaging and interfering with everything is really too much for Jia Jue's group of senior officials.
However, you have to bear it even if you can’t bear it. The wind outside is getting tighter and louder. Everyone who used to eat at the yamen is worried about being reported, and they are afraid that someone will report them and be thrown into the cell to be "interrogated" by their former colleagues. He heard that Zhen Haoren, the household secretary of the government, was "in jail" - people in the Zao class whispered that he was "tortured to death". It is said that according to his confession, a total of nearly one hundred thousand taels of silver were copied - this figure He took a breath of air, he didn't expect Zhen Haoren to be so rich! He didn't dare to think too much now. Only by working hard to please his new master could the whole family have a safe place.
These days, Liu Taizun has been investigating the drainage channels in the city. Jia Jue is busy: looking for workers, looking for files, and leading the way to see the situation at several major channels. However, he couldn't be of much help in this matter.
Like many professional jobs in the old yamen, Guangzhou's "gou map" is also in private hands. Just as a fish scale book has become a cash cow for the Household Book Office, the ditch map is also a secret that has not been passed down. This "ditch map" is in the hands of a hereditary labor leader. Every year when the ditches need to be cleaned and repaired - as usual, the ditches are cleared every year and repaired every three years - they have to pay him to come up with ditch maps to locate them. He would take out a few pages when clearing a paragraph, and take them back as soon as he was done. It is a hereditary patent, so although the labor leader is called a labor servant, he actually does not work. I still live a pampered life on weekdays. Although the government rarely cleans ditches in recent years, people sometimes ask for help when the ditches are clogged, which of course costs money.
It was obviously an atlas produced by the government, but in the end it became a private "family secret." This was also one of the many strange things Liu Xiang encountered when he arrived in this time and space.
It is not difficult to find the ditch map, and the more valuable fish scale book has also been found by the Australians - if caught with three sticks in the prison, any kind of hero will have to speak. However, the labor leader disappeared. Jia Jue took people to look for him, but he was already empty. (~^~)
