Broadly speaking, the Guangzhou Municipal Government plans to launch a "New Life Movement" in Guangzhou City. [Feng\/黄\/ updates quickly, please search]
"Although the name is a bit unlucky, I think it is very appropriate." Lin Baiguang said with a smile, "We want to bring a new concept of life to Guangzhou citizens, change customs, and let them know what a 'civilized' lifestyle is like. .”
Specifically, it mobilized government workers, the military, and ordinary people to conduct a city-wide cleanup to clear ditches and urban garbage.
"But I think there is still a lot of work that needs to be implemented," Liu San said, "for example, the long-term management of street sanitation and the implementation of the food hygiene law."
"This is only the first phase of work." Lin Baiguang said, "It is far from enough to transform the city. So we still have the second phase - we are currently short of manpower and do not know the details of the city in detail. It’s easy to check the soft persimmons first. It’s easy to announce a few laws. The key is to enforce the law in place. In the old time and space, they were very diligent in formulating various laws and regulations. They were all principles. There were no implementation details and no specific implementation methods. , law enforcement is ineffective. Over time, the government loses credibility. No matter how many laws and regulations you publish, the people will just think you are farting. So we either don’t say it, or we must ensure that it is implemented if we say it.”
"Okay, I have no objection to this. It's all up to you." Liu San agreed.
After Liu San left, Lin Baiguang carefully read the "Guangzhou Special City Police Station's First Phase Police Recruitment Training Plan" sent by Mu Min.
In fact, at today's meeting, there was a debate about the civil service recruitment examination. Liu Xiang's opinion was that the examination started too early, which could easily cause the old forces to enter the ranks on a large scale - his opinion was that three or four people in Guangzhou Do this again after a month or even half a year. After all, the Senate’s civil servant recruitment examination cannot continue to use the eight-part essay, and it is impossible to use the Four Books and Five Classics as the scope of the examination. The test scope and sample questions should be given, and various tutoring materials and collections of real questions should be published, so that candidates can think according to the new thinking mode.
Test-taking is a great exercise in thinking. And the Chinese are the most pragmatic in the world. As long as you set the rules, a lot of people will study them. New thinking patterns and knowledge concepts are also penetrated.
Such a transition will take at least half a year.
But Lin Baiguang, Mu Min and Liu San all said that there were too many civil issues that needed to be resolved. The manpower shortage has reached an extreme level and must be resolved immediately, at least partially.
After discussion, it was decided to recruit police officers first. Because what they lack most now is grassroots management capabilities. Police with violent law enforcement powers can effectively play a complementary role. The police at the grassroots level do not need much advanced knowledge. Literacy is the best, and illiteracy is not a big problem. They can be recruited from the large number of urban poor. Even if some people are not suitable for it after using it, it can be easily replaced. The most important thing is that there is no "class problem" that Liu Xiang is worried about.
There is a police force. They have a human base to do a lot of things next.
The plan put forward by Mu Min is to recruit a thousand people in the first phase, all of which will be used as patrol officers.
Patrol police are the most basic type of police force. They do not require high personnel quality and do not require much professional training. As long as you patrol on time and at fixed points and respond to emergencies on the street in a timely manner, you don't need too much training. Just implement "according to the rules".
Mu Min plans to hand over this group of local police to the leadership of naturalized policemen transferred from Hainan, and deploy a small number of former fast-shift personnel who are familiar with street conditions as appropriate. In this "three-in-one" approach, people who work and learn at the same time can Training. After one month, they will be given separate training based on their study and work performance. If it doesn't fit. It won't hurt to quit - after all, it didn't cost much in training.
This compromise won their approval. With these 1,000 patrol officers, the National Army can be liberated from the large number of daily security patrol tasks it undertakes. Prepare for the next few large-scale operations.
But then there was a new problem.
Adding more people means increasing expenses, not to mention that the uniforms of these one thousand police officers are a huge expense. Once they take up the job, they must be paid monthly wages.
The Ming government never paid or paid a nominal salary to its grassroots civil servants. Since the Senate has put forward unprecedented work and disciplinary requirements for grassroots civil servants, it cannot be so stingy. It has to be at least on the same level as Hainan: the basic income of a grassroots cadre should be able to afford the food and clothing expenses of a family of four.
A rough calculation shows that as the number of cadres increases, the financial pressure they face will virtually increase.
Now the Guangzhou Special City Government is extremely poor in terms of fiscal revenue. It has no place to "cut back" and can only "source money".
Although Lin Baiguang doesn't care about the finance department, he knows that the current fiscal revenue of Guangzhou Special City is only two yuan: the "start-up fee" allocated by the finance department; the loot from the prefecture and county treasury and the financial return of the property of confiscated bureaucrats and subordinates.
Although the latter are numerous. But most of them are not cash but exist in various physical forms, which must be liquidated before they can be used. This is another headache for Liu Xiang. Lin Baiguang knew that he had been arguing with the Planning Institute and the Finance Institute on the telegraph machine in recent days, and wanted to "sell" various returned trophies to the Planning Institute.
Naturally, his wishful thinking failed. The Planning Institute stated that they never "buy or sell" any supplies, only allocate them. The financial outlet believes that the return of the seized materials is the "transfer" procedure of the Planning Institute. It has nothing to do with finance. No matter who the materials ultimately belong to, Finance and Economics has no obligation to pay for the "purchase".
Looking at the various expenses listed in Mu Min's report, he couldn't help but touch his chin. He couldn't help but think of the time when he had just graduated from college and worked as a writer in the county's writing team - there was no land finance at that time, and the five small industries in the county were completely ruined. Except for a little agricultural tax from "broken straw hats", the county's There are almost no decent tax sources. Therefore, paying salaries to cadres has become a headache for the secretary and county magistrate every month.
Liu Xiang's mood at this moment was probably the same as theirs. Lin Baiguang smiled and picked up the next document.
At this time, Liu Xiang was walking around in the office, worrying about financial issues.
The government is the same as everyone else: there are seven things to do to open the door, and everything costs money. Liu Xiang had already experienced the difficulty of running a household when he was the director of the Qiongshan County Office.
However, that would be a huge financial package. Although it feels like there are many constraints, the basic administrative expenses of the county are contracted by the central government. His idea of "open source" for construction is just the icing on the cake. If it is done well, political achievements will be achieved, but if it is not done, it will be the icing on the cake. Coming down is no problem. Now, he has to find a way to achieve financial balance on his own - not only that, the Senate did not build the territory for his political performance. Guangzhou must provide new financial resources for the Senate's great cause as soon as possible.
The start-up fee allocated to him by the Senate was 1.2 million yuan: 200,000 yuan in coins and 1 million yuan in banknotes. Most of them are banknotes, and whether they can be circulated smoothly depends on the specific implementation - after all, abolishing the two reforms to the Yuan is a big battle and cannot be accomplished overnight. What is left to take advantage of is the so-called "financial rebate". The biggest problem for him is this "financial return".
"The central government decided to issue silver coins and establish a silver zone, which solved a big problem for me!" Liu Xiang was talking in the office with his hands behind his back. "Now the Ministry of Finance has approved my return of part of the loot to the Guangzhou area as a financial return - first. Just sign the pot and transfer the accounts. I'm very grateful. But what do I have on hand here? Let's not talk about the problem that the accounts and inventory don't match up, just talk about what's inside: The bank account is good Yes! Mottled silver is considered good! Food, no matter how old it is, is still good! There is also a whip of silk tokens that were put into the warehouse before. It looks like a layer of lime rice, but even the cloth is included when you pick it up. It shattered into pieces - I don't know how many years it's been there, it's all rotten!" Liu Xiang began to pour out his bitterness.
"There are also copper coins! The ropes through which the copper coins are worn are rotten. You don't have to wait for a prosperous age. There are more in the treasury of Guangzhou Prefecture and County! And there are all kinds of copper coins! Not to mention all kinds of weird official and private coins, the Northern Song Dynasty's I found a lot of "wen's" and "dangwuwen" coins, and I found hundreds of Han five-baht coins!" Liu Xiang looked bitter and resentful, "You said, I treat them as government assets. Should I keep it for use, or should I turn it over to the state as an antique?"
Meng Xian, the president of Delong Bank and the president of the Guangdong Branch of the Central Reserve Bank, smiled cooperatively. He has lost the foreign-style demeanor that he had when he was an overseas student, and his behavior is no different from that of a mature and steady businessman from the Ming Dynasty.
In Guangzhou, he is not only the president of the bank, but also the director of the finance department of the Guangdong and Guangzhou governments. It is his job to ensure the issuance of new currency, stabilize financial order, and expand fiscal and tax revenue.
Generally speaking, the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty that did not pay much attention to minting money. Most emperors did not mint much money when they were in power. The coins of previous dynasties were all in common use, and private money was also rampant. This has brought great trouble to Liu Xiang's financial work. Because he simply couldn't estimate how much money there was in Fuku County's treasury. And the various physical inventories cannot be used directly - Emperor Yongle once did this kind of thing using treasures of spices to pay officials, and it was very hateful.
"There are also various kinds of taxes in kind that have been put into the treasury, and moso bamboo five to six meters long has also become a government inventory! The purpose is clearly stated, and it is used for digging wells and cleaning. What do we need this for? There are also feathers and isinglass , dyes, spices...as long as there is something available on the market, there is nothing that cannot be kept in the official treasury. And it lasts for thirty to fifty years, and what is taken out can only be treated as garbage!" (To be continued.)
