Beggars are not only responsible for watching the streets, but also collecting roads and dumping corpses, putting out fires and carrying water, opening and closing river gates, clearing ditches and siltation... They are involved in almost all daily municipal work. If the upper echelon and big bones of Guandi Temple's people are not completely knocked down, these jobs will only become a tool for them to exploit citizens and beggars.
"If you want to make it easier to rule and save money, the Guandi Temple troops are very useful tools for the rulers," Lin Baiguang said. "They do not use a penny of government funding, and they also bear many responsibilities that should have been borne by the government. work. It is simply perfect social management..."
"But there is actually a price." Mu Min said.
"Yes, this price is actually borne by the common people." Lin Baiguang said, "In fact, the government also has a price: the Guandi Temple people have robbed citizens in various ways for hundreds of years, sheltered criminals and harmed the interests of citizens. In fact, it is The government has transferred part of its tax collection and security powers to obtain their services. The result will inevitably be damage to the government's credibility and authority, which is uneconomical from a governance perspective."
Mu Min nodded, but did not express an in-depth opinion on this issue. She asked: "Director Lin, what is your opinion?"
"Let's not be busy for now, let's find out their details first. Finally, we will catch them all." Lin Baiguang said.
The beggar group has a complex composition, a large number of people, and a large number of disabled people, the elderly and children who are unable to work. If they do not find out the details, formulate a proper resettlement plan, and take rash actions, it will be easy to knock off collars and bones at all levels. Dispersal remains a social problem.
"Okay!" Mu Min nodded. To find out the details, we must start from improving the grassroots organization. Mu Min decided to personally conduct the household census and find out the details of the Guandi Temple personnel during the investigation.
Mu Min immediately began to form a team. In the past few days, she has initially established a police agency and enriched its personnel. However, these measures basically focus on "maintaining public order" and are still far from achieving the purpose of "governance".
She knew that the Senate's ideas on policing and grassroots governance had been learned from the previous thirty years. Many of them are inherited from the old Japanese police system, so police work has a strong tendency of "police administrativeization". In other words, police agencies are not just law enforcement units. It also undertakes the work of grassroots administrative governance.
To meet this demand, we must strengthen grassroots strength as soon as possible. The police will not be able to fulfill their duties for a while. We have to make use of the old armor protection system.
She sent a message to Meng Gongchang and asked him to send a message immediately to convene a meeting of the security chiefs of the whole city and all gates.
Guangzhou's old grassroots Baojia system was basically established according to the method proposed by Wang Shouren and Hai Rui: one A for every ten households, and one Bao for every number of A's. There are "Paijia registers" stored in the cabinets of prefecture and county yamen. Residents, regardless of their status or gender, must be registered in the Paijia register as long as they are over fifteen years old and are permanent residents of the household. Its data accuracy is much higher than that of the Yellow Book. It is already similar to the modern household registration system.
But the card list is not perfect. First, it only registers men and women over the age of fifteen, and second, it does not have enough grasp of population changes. Although there are regulations for the registration of floating population, the problem is that there were no police stations in the Ming Dynasty. Whether to register or not depends entirely on the conscientiousness of the chief. Therefore, this registration material can only be used as a reference.
There are thousands of Jia chiefs in the whole city of Guangzhou, so Mu Min naturally cannot call all of them to the meeting - even if he only summons the Bao chiefs, there will still be several hundred people.
The security chiefs cautiously came to the Lingnan Road Yamen - logically speaking, the security chiefs would go to the county government offices to meet with officials, but this time it was the Australian "chief arrester's office" who summoned them, and the Australians' new "quick police officer" "The leader" turned out to be a woman! I have occasionally heard of female gangsters and bandits. This is the first time I have heard of a woman being a police officer. In short, this Australian does everything with a sense of curiosity.
There was probably an element of curiosity, and the guardians came in full force. Except for a few people whose whereabouts were unknown and who were really sick and unable to move, almost all the security chiefs in the city came. Because so many people came, not only the lobby of Lingnan Dao Yamen was full of people, but also the courtyard and under the eaves were filled with the security chiefs who came to the meeting, and it was dark and full of people.
When Mu Min appeared on the stage wearing the black uniform of a senior police officer, there was an immediate commotion at the venue: a well-tailored black uniform top, black uniform skirt and boots, a heroic and capable "Australian outfit", made the security guards instantly stunned. His eyes widened: This girl has a green face! The security guards in the back row all stood up. Standing on tiptoes and looking around.
The only female concubine they knew was Pei Lixiu, but Pei Lixiu wore Ming Dynasty women's clothes most of the time. Sometimes I also wore "improved Hanfu" clothes - which were generally within the scope of people's cognition at the time. Mu Min's completely modern uniform gave them a huge impact instantly. Everyone was stunned.
Mu Min was used to this kind of behavior from the natives, but there were quite a lot of people "watching" today. It's still a bit embarrassing.
Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, several government officials quickly came out and shouted "Mighty--" in unison, suppressing the once-commotioned security guards back.
Meng Gongchang served as the Cantonese translator for the meeting. Mu Min did not waste any time and immediately assigned three tasks.
The first is to re-register all the security guards. The current Baojia chief must report to the city police station within a time limit, and those who fail to come within the time limit will be removed. At the same time, pay a copy of "Personal Autobiography" and fill it out according to the sample format.
Secondly, the security chief conveys each license plate, and the police station prepares to re-register the license plate. Ask everyone to cooperate fully.
The third sample format is for the insurance director to fill in the "Basic Situation Report of a Certain Insurance Company" on the spot.
Based on the basic situation reports they filled out, the staff of naturalized residents marked the jurisdiction of each province on the map of Guangzhou in order to arrange the order of the census.
Mu Min was busy arranging the census and mobilizing census personnel. Due to the limited number of naturalized cadres, most of the personnel on the census team are old personnel. However, Mu Min arranges at least three naturalized cadres who can speak Cantonese in each team to supervise each other. In addition to the team leader, the writer responsible for filling out the registration form and household registration book must also be a naturalized citizen. Civilize the people to prevent the retained subordinate staff from causing trouble secretly. For this purpose, not only the city-wide naturalized civilian cadres who were proficient in Cantonese were transferred, but also many soldiers from the National Army and the regular army who were proficient in Cantonese were seconded.
Zhang Yu has not been to social studies in the past few days. Since the Australians came to the city, social studies have been closed. It is said that his husband has hid in the countryside and has not come back yet. If there is no one to teach in the social studies department, the school will be closed for the holidays.
Others may be saddened by the closure of the social school, but all the children in the school are secretly happy - in ancient society, colleges and private schools only had a few days off during the Chinese New Year throughout the year. On weekdays, unless the teachers asked for leave for something, they usually never took off. Nowadays, students can openly and openly not go to school, and every one of them is like a monkey picking a lock. We traveled around with our friends and watched the "Australian scenery", forgetting the teachers' warning of "don't run around".
Zhang Yu was not so lucky: he could have skipped classes and went out for fun in the name of "going to school", but now he was on vacation openly, but his family asked him to help - after the Australians "recovered" Guangzhou, far away from the city People come to buy this "Australia's favorite" walnut cake. I don’t know if I am trying to establish a connection with the Australians, or if I am trying to understand the nature and habits of the Australians. In short, his walnut cake business suddenly doubled several times. This makes the already busy business even more difficult. Zhang Yu had no choice but to help at home.
He knows how to do the job - he knows how to do it even when he is young. But being stuck in the shop all day long, busy making noodles and peeling walnuts, is really not what a curious person like him wants to do. Furthermore, he had never done much work since he was a child. He was busy all day long, and when he climbed into bed to sleep, he felt that his limbs and bones were all sore. I couldn't help but moan secretly.
Fortunately, my family always asks him to go when they need to deliver special goods, so I finally have a chance to go out and relax.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to deliver goods, Zhang Yu traveled to many places in the city. As for the difference between the arrival of the Australians, it seemed to be no different from the Ming Dynasty - I just heard that they demolished the shacks on Chengxuan Street and the Qing Dynasty. Out of the road. A group of subordinate officials were also captured and killed. The Foxes and Rats in Chengcheng suddenly became much more honest. As the proprietress of Tofu House put it, "I feel refreshed when I open the door."
The subordinate officials continued to exist. They all wore the copper basin hats passed down from the Australians. They also had sleeve bands on their sleeves with the word "xie" written on them. They patrolled the streets and behaved in a well-behaved manner. He no longer had the energy to yell at the store and hit the store at every turn.
The Australians brought troops, which can be seen everywhere. Some were wearing blue-gray uniforms, while others were wearing gray uniforms. Zhang Yu had been reading various "Australian magazines" for a long time and knew that those wearing gray short coats were called "National Army" - Li Ziyu said that the official name of the Song Dynasty was "Xiang Army", and the other kind was probably the so-called "Forbidden Army".
These Xiang troops and imperial troops were stationed at the city gates, in large temples and government offices, and I heard that many were stationed in teaching centers outside the city. They are on duty and sentry all over the city. Their uniforms are neat, their weapons are sophisticated, and they are full of energy when patrolling. Compared with the officers and soldiers who are either tired and poor or brutal and violent, even if you look at it from the perspective of a common person, you will know that they are two completely different armies. .
Zhang Yu has never had a good impression of officers and soldiers - they only bully the common people, and they ignore the water bandits who kidnap, kidnap, rob and kill people outside the city; they don't think that being a soldier is a glorious thing - it is a desperate situation. Only ghosts can make a living. When I first read an Australian magazine, I couldn't quite understand when it was said that Australians were "glorious as soldiers". At most, I could only think of the martial arts masters of the Qin and Han Dynasties - this was what Wu Ji said. But now he saw the majestic military appearance of the Australians regardless of the Xiang Army and the Forbidden Army, and he suddenly understood a lot. To be continued.
