After seeing off Yang Zeng's large group of troops, Huang Chao felt a little empty, lonely and cold. At this point, he was really weak in controlling the Lianyang area. His situation is even worse than that of Xie reporter in Wuzhou, who at least has more cadres than him. Not to mention the few cadres he has, they are divided into three places.
He set up his headquarters in Lianzhou and operated it as a base camp in the Lianyang area.
Under his chairmanship, a five-member governance committee was established in Lianzhou City for governance. The committee was composed of three gentry in Lianzhou City, Mo Jin, Zeng Rushao, and Ma Tiyi, as well as two naturalized civilian cadres: Lianzhou Governor Fu Debang and Lianzhou National Army The squadron is composed of squadron leader Zhang Dayong.
The authority of this committee is limited to Lianzhou City. It is responsible for maintaining public security and order in the city and supervising the retained Lianzhou officials.
As for places outside the city, the status quo can only be maintained temporarily and local villages are "autonomous". The most important thing right now is "security and appeasement." If the place is not stable, nothing can be done.
Cui Shizhao is still recovering from his illness. After entering Lianzhou, Huang Chao heard that he had survived suicide by taking poison, so he couldn't help secretly saying that he was lucky. As for why he failed to die, according to the health worker accompanying the army, the composition of the poison Cui Shizhao took is unknown, but his current symptoms are obviously "acute food poisoning", which is probably caused by the deterioration of certain protein components in "Excellent Heding Red" .
"...The teacher said that this kind of food poisoning is often very dangerous, with violent attacks, high mortality, and no treatment. However, he has passed the acute attack period now, and he should be fine if he takes a good rest and corrects his electrolyte balance."
The only medications that the hygienist could use for Lao Cui were oral glucose rehydration solution and normal saline. It was all thanks to Cui Shizhao's own physical fitness that he was able to withstand it.
Huang Chao visited several times, but naturally he did not receive any warm hospitality. It felt like a "hot face against a cold butt", Huang Chao cursed in his heart, but considering Cui Shizhao's influence in the Lianzhou area, he was still very valuable, so he still went to "condolence" every now and then. .
Cui Shizhao has been sent to Ma Tiyi's home. Not only is it inconvenient to stay in the state government office, but he may soon recover from his illness and suddenly commit suicide due to circumstances. It is more convenient to put him in a friend's home. Ma Tiyi will naturally take good care of him - he has many things to do now and can't take care of him. Come.
Huang Chao does not interfere with Lianzhou's specific administrative work: it is not appropriate for him to take care of small matters. Now that we have trained these naturalized civilian cadres, let them do it themselves. It's just up to him to control the general direction. Therefore, he only attended every meeting and seldom gave "instructions". Fu Debang's "request for instructions" every day, unless there is a big problem, he usually doesn't raise it specifically.
Now that the siege of the city has been lifted, the first thing Fu Debang did was to send people with notices to inform the four townships of Lianzhou and the Yaopai and Tongzhai villages: "The entire territory of Lianzhou has surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and the people should be quiet and not cause trouble." . Then armed patrols were dispatched to clear out scattered bandits in the surrounding area several times.
After the roads became smooth, food and vegetables from the surrounding villages began to flow into the city, and the imminent food supply problem was instantly alleviated. Fu Debang, who was originally worried about the supply of relief food, was relieved - in fact, the military food he brought was not much, and it all depended on the military depot's transportation by ship. Even though he is so lavish as sending fifty shi rice to the city, he is actually an empty-minded official.
On the one hand, he sent people to notify each village to send representatives to Lianzhou for a meeting to collect reasonable burdens and organize villagers and soldiers to protect themselves; on the other hand, he organized relief, provided porridge, and resumed commercial operations. I'm so busy every day.
Huang Chao was relatively free. In the Yamen, he screened the prisoners held in the jail and the prison cells. If the crime is minor or it is purely a civil dispute, all will be released on recognizance and go home. Prisoners involved in serious cases such as murder, robbery, rape, etc. are temporarily detained until the judicial office sends someone to retry them later.
Because the matter of cleaning up subordinate officials in Guangzhou had long been reported, many of the three squadrons of government officials in the city fled. Almost all the subordinate staff who usually committed more evil deeds were gone. Although there was no drama of "removing harm for the people", it also saved Huang Chao's "cleaning up team". Among the people who stayed, there were another group of people who took the initiative to "resign", so naturally he didn't want to stay. For those who were willing to be retained to serve the Senate, Huang Chao ordered their names to be posted on the screen wall outside the state government office.
Yamen agencies in Lianzhou and other places have also been reorganized. According to the "1635 version of the prefecture and county temporary agency organization plan", the county government has established a general affairs department, which in addition to various office affairs is also responsible for personnel appointments and dismissals; the household houses are reorganized into the finance and taxation department - ―This section is a vertical management department; the other is the Public Security Section, which is responsible for public security inside and outside Lianzhou.
Because the situation in the counties of the New Guangzhou Rebellion is still relatively chaotic and county police stations cannot be established, a public security department is temporarily set up to comprehensively manage and command various security forces within the prefecture and county. From the self-organized regiment training in each village, retained fast-shift yamen, Bring in the national army squadron and police. They are all under the management of this department, and the household registrations managed by the original county yamen are also temporarily managed by this department.
As for cultural and educational propaganda, Huang Chao also set up a subject. After all, propaganda work is still very important. As for cultural education, we can only talk about it later.
This type of temporary county government agency adheres to the principle of maximizing the simplification of the organizational structure, and only divides it into general blocks without making details: firstly, there are only a limited number of naturalized civilian cadres, which cannot fill the vacancies; secondly, the staff level is really limited, and the organization is too large. There are too many people in charge to take care of it.
However, seeing that he was so busy but ignored the Lianzhou city wall that was damaged by the war, Huang Chao had to "remind" him a few words, so the next day, Fu De'an put aside all work and presided over the repair of the city. A meeting was held to organize the people of the county to build the city wall.
Building cities is naturally their common work-for-relief model. Fortunately, the food supply is now stable, and it is difficult to spend more food. It's just that Fu De'an went to the city to take command in person, which was a bit fussy. Huang Chao said: "You are the governor of a state. What else can you do if you squat on the city wall every day? Let someone else come to the scene to take command."
"But everyone is very busy now..." Fu De'an was a little embarrassed. Each of the several naturalized civilian cadres is responsible for countless tasks by himself.
"Isn't there one on site? Let Zhou Liangchen take charge."
"Zhou Liangchen?" Fu De'an was a little surprised, "The county magistrate who surrendered? A nerd who can build a city wall?"
"You don't know how to build the city wall," Huang Chao said with a smile, "how to do it? There are a few old officials from the workshop here, so don't worry. It's just one person who has to sit in and coordinate the command. Since Zhou Liangchen is so proactive, he wants to serve the Senate For work, we also have to see how his work ability is and his attitude towards actual work..."
So this work was delegated to Zhou Liangchen. Zhou Liangchen originally felt that he had nothing to do and was a little panicked. Now that he was given such an important task of building the city wall, he immediately went to the city with great energy. I worked at the construction site day and night, and in less than a week, the city wall was repaired. This made Huang Chao look at him with admiration.
He originally thought that most scholars like Zhou Liangchen were incompetent in general affairs, had poor ability to do things, and were not willing to carry a handbag on their shoulders to do menial work. Unexpectedly, his performance on the construction site was unexpected. Although he doesn't have to do the heavy lifting himself, coordinating the work of hundreds of people is not an easy task - some veterans are still not qualified for management positions.
Although his defection is quite speculative, his ability to do things is not bad and he is a useful talent.
"Well done." Huang Chao praised, "Are your wife and children around?"
"Yes, yes." Zhou Liangchen said, "They all stayed in Yangshan."
"The current public security situation in Lianyang area is not good, and the social environment is also very complicated. It is not safe for your wife and children to stay here," Huang Chao said, "In the past few days, a joint logistics transport ship has arrived, and some of your family members will be brought with them on the return trip. . I thought about it and asked your family to follow me - I have already said hello to District Chief Wen and arranged for them to be settled in Guangzhou. You don't have to worry when you get to Guangzhou, everything will be taken care of by our agency. What do you think? "
Although the tone was to ask for advice, Zhou Liangchen knew that once his wife and children left, they would become the hostages of the Australians. But since he had surrendered, he naturally couldn't make a wrong statement on this joint, and said quickly: "Thank you for your kindness, chief. I have no objection! Let the chief arrange it!"
"Okay." Huang Chao nodded, "Giving the child a stable environment is better than anything else."
A few days later, Peng Shouan and a group of national troops were ordered to escort the family members of Yangshan officials who had surrendered to the Song Dynasty to Lianzhou.
Although Peng Shouan is called a consultant in Yangshan, he is not actually required to do any specific work. He was happy and relaxed, hiding in the house every day, reading and writing, and kept himself healthy. After receiving this order, he was a little confused. Why was he suddenly asked to send all his family members to Lianzhou? Could it be that Huang Yuanlao wanted to keep these family members as hostages to prevent them from escaping?
Peng Shouan had no choice but to take his family to Lianzhou.
When he arrived in Lianzhou, he got off the boat and called his name, but someone came to invite him to see Huang Chao.
Peng Shou'an was uneasy and arrived at the state government office.
Huang Chao received him with a smile.
"I heard that your son is nine years old?" This was Huang Chao's first sentence. Huang Chao was familiar with Peng Shou'an's material for a long time. He knew that Peng Shou'an had a son when he was old, so he loved his son very much and kept him with him. Teaching around you.
Peng Shou'an suddenly turned pale. What he felt most distressed about was his only son. Huang Chao might have had some thoughts about his son by asking, so he said huh, "Quinzi is indeed with the official."
"If you let him leave you, can you take care of yourself?"
Peng Shou'an was shocked and said in a trembling voice: "Please let the dog go, chief. He... he... is only nine years old..."
"I didn't say what I wanted to do to your son." Huang Chao smiled dumbly and explained, "Your son is at the age of studying. How about sending him to Guangzhou to study?"
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