Her words were sincere and humble, and her attitude of facing up to reality and refusing to admit defeat brightened up the minds of the cadres who had originally expressed doubts about her and were discouraged about their future. The originally dull and dark air was swept away.
After Pinda finished speaking, he asked everyone to give some more ideas about the current situation and share their opinions. She often saw others using this method when she was on the work team, and she also used it herself. Not only can you get a lot of good ideas, but it can also improve everyone's sense of participation and increase cohesion.
The atmosphere of the meeting really became lively, and everyone expressed their opinions. Especially how to open up the situation in Yangshan. Some people propose to expand the number of locally recruited soldiers and expand the National Army; others think that we can arm as many Yonghua Yao people as possible; others think that the current strength is not enough and it is not suitable to fight, so we should start with the villages around the county. Fight over these wavering villages...
Fenda felt that what they said made sense, so he wrote down everyone's thoughts one by one. She was not highly educated and found it difficult to record. She often had to ask everyone to "speak slower" and "say it again." In the end, Luo Yiming took the initiative to take "meeting minutes".
Finally, she said: "Everyone's opinions are very good. When I took the cadre training class in the past, some veterans gave us lectures. When it came to how to carry out work? It is to make our friends more and more friends and our enemies less friends. Now our If we are weak, we need to make more friends. We need to make more use of local manpower and material resources."
"County Magistrate Wang has said this in the past, but it is difficult to handle." Luo Yiming said, "There are only four powerful forces in this county: Yao village, Jin gentry, clan, and bandits. Most Jin gentry and clan's attitude towards us They all keep a respectful distance, and some even refuse to bear reasonable burdens - blindly shirk the blame. And if local forces are used too much, they will inevitably become powerful..."
"As for local forces, we will definitely transform them in the future, but now our main contradiction is suppressing bandits." Pinda said, "The direction of the big gentry households is very important to us. If they can support us, we can To a certain extent, we can curb the expansion of bandit power, and even use their power to eliminate bandits on the spot - after all, bandits are a great scourge to the local area."
"But County Magistrate Wang was worried about this matter at the beginning..."
The Jin gentry and clan forces have always been regarded as the number one enemy within the Senate. In Hainan, after several years of unremitting attacks and differentiation, the military, political and economic three-pronged approach has basically eliminated these two grassroots forces - of course, Hainan's own economic backwardness and sparse population also have a lot to do with it.
As soon as the mainland strategy began, grassroots governance immediately encountered the problem of how to treat local gentry and clans.
With the military and political power of the Senate in Guangdong, it is naturally impossible to do what Hainan did. At the level where a few county cadres lead one or two squadrons of the National Army to rule a county, it is impossible to smash the old system and establish new grassroots governance. Therefore, we have to continue the extensive governance model of the past. It can be said that except for the counties in the Pearl River Delta and other places, most counties are no different from the past when the Ming Dynasty ruled. It's just that county administration is clearer than before, and the tax burden is lighter than before.
And this kind of extensive rule must obtain the cooperation of the local gentry and large clan families. Naturally, the county magistrates sent there, whether they are naturalized citizens or elders, consider the simplest "maintaining rule". No action will be taken against them until they receive adequate administrative and military support.
This situation aroused dissatisfaction among some senators within the Senate, who considered it "liver" and seriously deviated from the Senate's concept of "grassroots governance." Because the shortage of governance resources is an objective reality, some elders have raised the banner of "land reform" again, believing that this should be used to fully mobilize the masses and use mass movements to destroy the old governance foundation and establish a new system.
Naturally, this argument immediately caused a fierce debate within the Senate. Naturally, no one could convince anyone of this debate. However, the consequence of this was that the naturalized county magistrates generally stayed away from the gentry and clans in county administration. . Even if you can't offend, you don't want to get too close.
Panda naturally knew the current debate in the Senate. She knew she was taking a big political risk by doing so. But she didn't care too much: she was only acting county magistrate, and had no intention of becoming a permanent official. He is even less interested in the list of official titles in the Senate.
"I know there are risks here. I bear all the responsibilities." said Pinda.
Luo Yiming was surprised to see the dark and thin young girl in front of him taking over the responsibility without hesitation, and was quite moved. Said: "Since you, the county magistrate, have said it, we will definitely implement it! However, the big gentry households are not so easy to deal with. The situation here is particularly complicated."
Due to the geographical environment and the relationship between Yangshan and the Yao District, the Jin gentry and clans have strong independence and internal cohesion. Yangshan is also a poor place. Han Yu once said: "Yangshan is the poorest place in the world." The land is barren and the people are poor. Historically, it has been a place with strong folk customs. The influence of the county government on various local forces is not great, and it is quite similar to the "Emperor of the Ten Miles of Land". Even when Wang Chu first arrived in Yangshan and "the situation was very good", many large local households also had influence on the county. The village is also very indifferent, and each village in the county can collect less than half of its reasonable burden.
"...If we want to win over them now, I'm afraid we can't do it without offering a good price." Luo Yiming was very worried.
"That's right, we'll collect reasonable burdens. The polite ones will talk about hardships. The rude ones will just shut us down. Even worse, when they see us, they will simply fire a blank cannon to deter us from going." The naturalized cadres immediately began to complain.
"Many big households are no different from bandits themselves. Now that the county is in such chaos, they are taking advantage of the troubled waters! The guests and natives in the county have begun to kill each other!"
"I've said it before: if we kill all these big gentry people, some of them will be unjust, and if we kill them one by one, some of them will definitely slip through the net!"
"County Magistrate Wang fell into Mr. Peng's scheme!"
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Boda did not stop them, but allowed them to vent their dissatisfaction freely, while also remembering some of the situations they told in his mind. It wasn't until their voices subsided a little that they said: "What everyone said is true. But what is our first priority now? To wipe out the bandits in the county and pacify the entire Yangshan area! All means are for this purpose. Service." She looked around at the attendees, "So now we can't care about what they did in the past, but what they can do for us now - as for the debt they owe the people of Yangshan, someone will naturally settle it with them in the future. "
You Ciren said: "The problem is that they ignore us at all. In the past, you might not see anyone when you went to the village. Now that the situation is like this, I'm afraid they will despise us even more."
"We need to show off our power first and let them know how powerful the Fubo Army is. This way they won't despise us." Fuda said, "Don't the leaders often say that when dealing with these centrists, you must hold a big stick in your hand?" , speak kindly'."
At the meeting, the naturalized cadres basically agreed with Pinda's policy. After the meeting, according to the work arrangements, they split up to do their own work. Pinda stopped Luo Yiming who was about to leave: "Where is Peng Shou'an now?"
"In prison." Luo Yiming said. Since the defeat of Dawangwei, the county cadres have been agitated and want to pull him out as a "bastard with bastard ideas" and "cut him to pieces". Luo Yiming was afraid that someone might die, so he sent Peng Shou'an to the county jail.
"If he wasn't locked up in a cell, he would be placed in the same place where the prisoner lives. It's considered house arrest. In fact, if he hadn't been a consultant appointed by Director Huang himself, I would have really wanted to kill him with a knife!" Luo Yiming said with a bitter smile, "He is now He almost committed suicide without thinking about food and tea - but I think it was just pretentious."
"I want to talk to him. You take him to the office."
"County Magistrate! County Magistrate Wang suffered the consequences because of this old guy! Don't listen to his nonsense anymore..."
"The plan he proposed to County Magistrate Wang may not work, but he has been a county magistrate here for several years and is very familiar with the situation in the county. We still need him to lead the way." Finda said.
"Then I'll make arrangements to bring him out right now."
Peng Shou'an has been like a lost dog since the defeat in Dalangwei. Any naturalized citizen who saw him would look at him angrily, and some would even scold him directly. Luo Yiming was not exaggerating - if he hadn't stopped him in time, Peng Shou'an would have been beaten to death long ago. Even so, he spent several days recovering in bed before getting up.
Peng Shou'an was ashamed, because Wang Chuyi's actions were all based on his suggestion, and now he had made such a big mistake: it was only a few soldiers who died, but it caused the county magistrate to lose a leg. This was a huge crime.
He felt that he was sorry for Wang Chuyi, and even more sorry for Huang Chao. In this Yangshan County, he has become a "traitor" that is reviled by everyone. After thinking about it, he feels that the only option is to die.
However, asking for death is easy to think about and simple to say. If he really had to hang his belt on the beam, Peng Shou'an thought of his old wife and son again. As the saying goes, "Death is the only solution for all the hardships." He held the rope loop and stood on the stool for a long time, but he still couldn't make up his mind. In the end, he got off the stool by himself and "suffered an ignoble existence."
Fortunately, Luo Yiming locked him up in the county jail and saw no one all day long. Finally, he was spared the torture of being scolded every day and being beaten by old fists from time to time. He simply "cultivated his moral character" in prison, reading and practicing calligraphy every day.
"Peng Shou'an! Come out!"
The door opened, and the prison guard shouted at the door.
This jailer was a local employee, and he didn't have much affection for the county magistrate, so naturally he wouldn't be polite to him. After all, Australians have strict rules and don't torture prisoners for any reason. Magistrate Peng did not suffer much under his control, except for a few scoldings from time to time.
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