Liu Sandao: "I am not a local magistrate, nor a judge. If you have any grievances, go to the city and go to the city government. There will be someone there to receive you..."
The girl who called herself He Xiaoyue shook her head and said: "It is true that I have a grievance, but if you don't save me now, I will never escape the sea of misery."
Liu San took a closer look at He Xiaoyue and saw that she was very young, only sixteen or seventeen years old. She had probably been through thorns. Her hair and clothes were messy, her clothes were torn in several places, and her face was scratched several times. A bloodstain. He thought that this girl must have run away from Qingjie Yuan, otherwise how would she know that she was "Liu Dianyi"?
He asked: "Did you run away from Qingjie Courtyard?"
"Yes!" He Xiaoyue said, "Please show me mercy and take this slave back to the city! Save this slave."
The detective team officer leading the way whispered: "Master, this cannot be done. She is a virtuous woman in the Qingjie Courtyard. There is absolutely no reason to escape secretly. If word spreads, it means that you, master, are kidnapping women, which will hinder the official reputation... "
Liu Sanyi thought it made sense. He had just come to Puji Hall to inspect the work, and he changed hands and took a young widow to the city. What would the outside world say about him? Some suspicions should be avoided. Thinking of this, he said:
Seeing the hesitation on his face, He Xiaoyue knelt down a few steps and said: "Master, you are a living Bodhisattva who saves the suffering. Please save this slave. If I stay here any longer, I will only die." She fell to the ground and cried loudly.
Liu San was shocked by the pitiful cries and felt soft. He thought to himself that this girl ran out and hid in the gloomy cemetery. If she didn't have great injustice, she wouldn't have done this. He asked, "Is your home in the city?"
"Yes, but I can't go back home." He Xiaoyue said with a sad face, "Please take me back to the city. As long as I return to the city, I will always have a place to go, no matter where I go, I don't need to worry about it."
Although this place is not far from the city. But just like in the outside world, where bandits even commit robberies during the day, a woman traveling alone is like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth.
Liu San took her with the guards one after another. The group returned to the city and ordered He Xiaoyue to be sent to a temporary detention center - the former prison cell for temporary detention. Wait until you find a suitable place to go and then send someone to take her there.
After a day of running around, he was very tired. Wang Sangou brought him dinner. After a hasty dinner, he went to Lin Baiguang's office again. He saw the lights inside and the door just opened. A group of naturalized cadres walked up the steps. File down. Lin Baiguang saw each other off at the door - probably the meeting had just ended. When he saw Liu San coming, he invited him to come in and sit down.
Liu San saw that his eyelids were swollen and he probably slept very little, so he advised: "You have to pay attention to rest even if you work a lot. Lack of sleep and excessive fatigue can easily lead to sudden death."
Lin Baiguang nodded, but didn't say much. This was the first time Liu San came back to his office. The east wing is bright and dark, with a conference room in the middle and a bedroom in the south, with bamboo curtains hanging on it. To the north is his office. Lin Baiguang invited him to sit down in the office. The kerosene lamp was brightly lit. On the desks, one large and one small, there were piles of documents on the bookshelves and on the brick floor, labeled with various colors.
See Liu San's eyes. He smiled: "I'm half the mayor now. All the chores are mine. Tell me, what do you think after wandering around these days?"
Liu San said: "The burden is not light. There are too many things to do." He opened his notebook and briefly talked about his impressions and opinions.
The first is to clear the channel of silt. Clean up city garbage. This is the established policy of the municipal government, but Liu San still puts it first because he feels that the problems here are too big.
"...According to my investigation, various serious infectious diseases have occurred in Chengli. Now that the weather is gradually getting warmer, a peak period of incidence will soon enter. Once an outbreak occurs, we have no other means to deal with it except setting up isolation camps. So we only We can work on 'prevention'. Clean ditches and garbage, improve environmental sanitation, and eliminate intermediate hosts. Garbage dumps and sewers are natural habitats and breeding grounds for mosquitoes, flies and rats. They will also cause pollution to groundwater - in the city Most drinking water is still groundwater," Liu San continued. "I took a cursory look and found that the quality of groundwater is generally pretty good. Even those who drink river water know to use alum to disinfect and boil it. But a large number of extremely poor households do not have this condition - especially there are tens of thousands of pigs on the Pearl River outside Guangzhou. Citizens, although they are not in the city, they are actually very close to the city. If a plague breaks out, it will be transmitted to the city. If conditions permit, I suggest that public wells with guaranteed water quality should be set up in the city to provide water."
Lin Baiguang just nodded and said nothing.
"The second thing is to clean up the cemeteries and coffins in the city and suburbs. Now there are cemeteries and cemeteries outside the city, and there are also many funerals in temples. Many of them are only separated by a wall and a street from the shops and households. I think Some coffins have become rotten because they have been inactive for too long, and corpse juices have leaked out. As for the cemetery, the situation is even worse. The graves are almost piled up on top of each other. The ground in some cemetery is already higher than the surrounding areas. Many people came. Neighbors reported that when it rained, not only did smelly water flow across the river, but corpses were washed everywhere. Many of them were washed directly into the streets and rivers. It polluted the environment greatly. And many shantytowns are located in free graves. The land next to it is a high-density residential area with poor sanitation conditions, and once the epidemic spreads, it will be devastating."
The third is to implement laws on garbage removal, feces disposal and food safety as soon as possible in Guangzhou. These laws have been implemented in Hainan for a long time and have achieved good results. Liu San suggested that they should also be vigorously implemented in Guangzhou, and the intensity may even be higher. Larger than Hainan.
"The last thing is to establish infectious diseases hospitals as soon as possible to isolate patients with severe infectious diseases. There are almost no isolation measures for infectious diseases. Now, except for leprosy patients who have been expelled out of the city and there are isolation measures, other infectious diseases are left unchecked. The situation of artesian flow." Liu San said, "The establishment of an infectious disease hospital must not only be fast, but also be large-scale. There is another thing," Liu San said, "I went to inspect Puji Hall today. There are big problems inside. Although the charity The cause has nothing to do with my business, but I think it should be taken over by us as soon as possible."
He talked about what he had seen and heard in Puji Hall, and especially mentioned that there were more than 2,000 pieces of cloth in Puji Hall and that people should be sent to transport them back as soon as possible.
"The relationships in Puji Hall are complicated and it is a dark den. If we can conduct a thorough investigation, we should be able to seize a lot of property. This can also pay for the expenses of the new charity organization."
After listening to his suggestions, Lin Baiguang lit a cigar:
"You are right. We are now in a state of exhaustion." Lin Baiguang showed an expression of excitement and seriousness on his face, "But we are now short of people - lack of people who can effectively implement our policies, so , the food to improve Guangzhou’s environment can only be eaten one bite at a time.”
Lin Baiguang just held a meeting with Liu Xiang and Mu Min today - the household survey is currently being carried out smoothly, and it will take about half a month to twenty days to be completed. At present, all cadres who have entered the city and most of the military and police forces ——Whether they are naturalized people from Hainan or newly recruited subordinate officials, almost all of them are invested in this and cannot be reached. The current Guangzhou Municipal Government is only barely maintaining law and order, and this is only possible with the help of Fubo Army.
The lack of cadres became the primary problem they faced. In fact, the Guangzhou Municipal Government not only used its own cadre team, but also occupied all the cadres that the Qiongya detachment had not sent out - after all, there are still some counties in Guangdong Province that have not been occupied and taken over. , the cadres were temporarily stranded in Guangzhou.
Although they have utilized some of the old personnel, both in terms of personnel quality and quantity, they are far from meeting the administration and management needs of the new Guangzhou Municipal Government. Therefore, Lin Baiguang suggested holding the "Civil Service Recruitment Examination" in Guangzhou.
His reason is simple. It is impossible to expect enough cadres to be allocated from the existing administrative cadre system of the Senate. To meet the needs of the Guangzhou Municipal Government and the entire Guangdong Province for cadres, we can only rely on the local area.
Although the cultural and imperial examinations in Guangzhou during the Ming Dynasty were not as good as those of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it was still one of the most prosperous cities in China, and the proportion of the literate population should be higher than that of other regions. Lin Baiguang believes that this part of the population can be fully utilized. Basic administrative staff are obtained through open recruitment.
"With the naturalized cadres of the Qiongya detachment as the backbone and guides, it is much easier to lead and train this group of new people than it is for us to use the old subordinates with extremely bad habits. After all, the new people are a blank piece of paper. As long as we give them If they have a good environment, they can grow according to our needs.”
Lin Baiguang believes that the quality of cadres is first of all a major environmental issue. The old-style officialdom and the team of subordinate officials are themselves a big dye vat. If upright people enter, they will either end up being like the light or drowning in it. Even upright ministers like Hai Rui and peerless generals like Qi Jiguang could only maintain their official positions, lives and ideas by adhering to the principle that "loyal ministers are more treacherous than treacherous ministers", which wasted a lot of energy and time.
Although the cadre team of the Senate is not flawless, it is still much cleaner and more efficient than the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. The cadres trained in such an environment are not only capable officials, but at least they are mediocre people who can act according to the rules.
The only problem is that they have not been ashore for a long time, and most of the people are still waiting to see how long the red flag can fly. Only by doing a few things in a down-to-earth manner can they deeply understand what it means to change the day and attract people to come. Work for this new regime: Whether he really wants to benefit the people or just for personal development, as long as he takes this path, he will naturally become a member of the Senate cadres.
Lin Baiguang said: "Doctor Liu, this is the result of our discussion today. Next..." (To be continued.)
