Chapter 199
Power is like an addictive poison. For these hereditary guards officers, they are born with the taste of power. Although military generals are grandsons in front of civil servants, they are high-ranking uncles in front of ordinary military households.
No matter how poor the guard station is, the officers of the guard station are actually not poor. Otherwise, when Cheng Shijie spent money to buy an official, he would not have spent eight thousand taels of silver. There is no way, this official position is worth this price, not to mention, the poorer the place, the more lucrative this official position is.
The mountain is high and the emperor is far away.
If Cheng Shijie wants to take over the power of these health centers, they will definitely be unhappy. Although Cheng Shijie, the boss, is pinching the sore point, it is actually not easy to get them to cooperate.
At first, Cheng Shijie wanted to deal with the affairs of the health center immediately, but this idea could only be an idea because he had too much backlogged work.
Many people naturally believe that the bigger the official position, the easier it will be. This is actually a wrong idea. One person has one mind, and ten people have ten thoughts. As the saying goes, it is difficult to reconcile the opinions of many people. To be an official or a leader, you must unify the thoughts of most people. It's like a small supervisor on a production line, supervising more than a dozen people.
As a line leader, you not only need to understand the day's production plan, product quality, and efficiency, but also understand the employees on a line. Are they feeling unwell or have negative emotions? If any one person has a problem, it will affect the entire line. Production line, and a production line affects a production workshop.
The first problem Cheng Shijie faced was that the talent at hand was far from enough. Zhenbao was the grassroots management unit in southern Liaoning, and the even smaller one was the Baihu Office. In fact, many town guards and mayors are illiterate, and the problem of illiteracy is even greater. Even simple figures such as the population of each town, place of origin, youth, male and female, cannot be counted.
Because without data, it is impossible to arrange farming tasks in various places. In future generations, it would be very difficult to do something that can be done by just grabbing an individual. In this era, it is very difficult. In order to increase the number of literate talents under his rule, Cheng Shijie could only ask Sun Zhilan to spend money to hire clerks trained by the firm in the capital.
But the problem is that these people cannot be used directly. If a clerk is placed directly in the position of a manager, Cheng Shijie's eyes can be pulled out if there is no problem.
Don't be too naive, human nature is the most complicated thing. If you are a wolf in the mountain range, you will become rampant when you are ambitious. This is actually the majority of human nature. Everyone has friends around them. There must be some who are simple and kind, but most of them are actually really villains.
This is the problem Cheng Shijie faces. He promotes young people from poor backgrounds. Ordinarily, they should also care about the poor. In fact, they are the ones who really have no bottom line and principles.
On the first day Cheng Shijie came back, he signed thirty-nine death warrants. Cheng Shijie also knew that it was easier and cheaper to save a cadre than to raise a cadre, and the thirty-nine death warrants he signed were actually He is the kind who refuses to change despite repeated admonitions, and he is stupid and bad.
Cheng Shijie stipulated that any merchant doing business in Liaodong must pay taxes in accordance with the regulations. However, these merchants corrupted the officials of the Ninghai Clan. They turned a blind eye to these merchants. Not only did they not collect taxes, they also used their hands to power and engage in unfair competition.
The most annoying thing is that these businessmen treat these young officials like monkeys and just find a few prostitutes from Jiangnan who look passable and the problem is solved.
Cheng Shijie feels worthless for them, but the problem is that everyone has the right to choose their own life, and every choice can bear the consequences.
As we go further and further down the road of seeking death, who can blame us?
Cheng Shijie was busy working, but Zhu Weiti was very curious about Liaonan and wanted to go out for a walk. Cheng Shijie was also overwhelmed by the various documents and reports on his desk. It seemed that it was urgent to establish his own secretarial team.
Cheng Shijie and Zhu Weiti went out in a carriage. Although Liaonan was Cheng Shijie's world, the problem was that every time he went out, Cheng Shijie had to take dozens or hundreds of people with him. His safety was very important.
Cheng Shijie's prestige in the hearts of the people is not low, but the problem is that he has offended many people. Those who want Cheng Shijie dead can line up from Jinzhou to Lushunkou.
At this time, the streets of Jinzhou were very prosperous, with various shops. The shops here were different from those in the capital, more like the shops of later generations, with larger facades and large bays, which looked very grand.
Cheng Shijie has a deep understanding of following women when shopping, but the problem is that Zhu Weiti doesn't get off the carriage easily. Whether she encounters a ready-made clothing store or a rouge and gouache store, she just looks at it at the door.
Cheng Shijie thought Zhu Weiti didn't bring any money, so he smiled and said, "Most of the things here are from my own business. It doesn't matter if you have money or not!"
Zhu Weiti looked surprised: "Is this all our own business?"
"yes!"
"That gold shop too?"
"It's not just a gold store, the one in front is Liaodong Bank, and it belongs to our family too!"
At this moment, Cheng Shijie felt a little thirsty at the teahouse in front of him. Although he could make tea directly in his carriage, the problem was that with the improvement of people's living standards in southern Liaoning, there were dozens of tables in the teahouse. It was actually mostly full of customers.
Cheng Shijie was about to get off the carriage when he suddenly noticed a commotion in the teahouse.
"Please get out, your business is not going on here!"
Cheng Shijie witnessed with his own eyes the discrimination in southern Liaoning, and it was naked discrimination and unreasonable discrimination. The targets of the discrimination were not the Jian slaves or the Mongolians, but two blond and blue-eyed missionaries.
At this time, Europa was still very conservative, and their biggest characteristic was that they didn't take baths. The reason for not taking a shower is actually very funny today.
With the advent of the Age of Discovery, exchanges around the world increased. Europeans occupied the Americas, and they also searched for "girls" from local indigenous people for their sexual pleasure. However, these women also spread the pathogen Treponema pallidum to The colonists returned to Europe and spread the pathogen to their home countries.
This triggered another wave of abstinence, scaring Europeans away from bathing again. Because at that time, bathing centers across Europe often also provided certain "special services". Therefore, bathhouses have become a source of infectious diseases.
But people don't know what's going on, and they still have horrible memories of the "Black Death", so many people think that taking a bath is a sinful thing. ”, and you should quickly pray and ask God for forgiveness afterwards. This also caused the bathing industry to decline in Europe in the 16th century. Even in the 17th and 18th centuries, many nobles still smelled bad and only took three or four baths in their lives.
Europeans have relatively developed sweat glands, so when they take a bath normally, the smell will not be mentioned. Last year, the author took the subway on Line 7. There were not many people at the time, but there were five Europeans in the car. They were sweaty due to the weather. , that taste, I would rather squeeze into the bus.
This is also the case now. Although the clothes of the two missionaries are relatively clean, the smell on their bodies is simply a biochemical bomb.
The waiter in the teahouse pinched his nose and said: "We can't entertain you two, it will affect the appetite of our customers too much!"
One of the missionaries was so angry that his hands were shaking, his face was red and he was speechless.
Cheng Shijie felt something interesting. When the conflict broke out, he notified the guards to take the two missionaries away.
Zhu Weiti asked in confusion: "Husband, are you going to kill these two students?"
"No, I let them go to school and become teachers!"
"be a teacher?"
Did Cheng Shijie know that missionaries these days are just like college students in the 1980s? They are full of talents and have dabbled in various fields such as mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and medicine. Many of them are even masters in certain fields!
Matteo Ricci and Tang Ruowang are very famous people, but they are also extremely incompetent missionaries. What they did most when they came to China was not to preach, but to spread astronomy, mathematics, geometry and other aspects from Europe. knowledge and translate European scientific and technological works! Matteo Ricci is a typical representative. He collaborated with Xu Guangqi to translate "Elements of Geometry". After his death, the Ming Dynasty buried him with great splendor. He also wrote to the Portuguese in Macau, asking them to send people to help translate Ricci. Matthew's unfinished translation of "Taishi Water Conservancy" has been completed
These two men probably haven’t showered in several months. They shoulder the important task of saving the lost lambs and returning them to the embrace of God. However, their ideals are full, but their reality is skinny, and places with better missionary foundations have been left behind. The believers were divided among themselves, and they were pushed to southern Liaoning where the foundation was extremely weak. Not to mention preaching, they didn’t even have food to eat. They probably had to starve to death on the streets...
"Two guys with red hair and blue eyes are so dirty!"
"You can take a bath if they are dirty! Give them a new set of clothes, give them two buckets of water and let them rub for half an hour. Then they will be clean, right?"
"Aren't you afraid that they will scare the children?"
"How could it be! Aren't they just a little redder in hair and a little blue in eyes? They're not monsters, so what's there to be afraid of?"
"No matter what, I just don't like those two monsters!"
"It's just that they don't like bathing. I threw them into the river and soaked them for three days and three nights. I soaked them clean and then asked them to shave their beards..."
Cheng Shijie's words were an imperial edict in southern Liaoning.
If they were soaked for three days and three days, they would definitely not contain any moisture. It was exactly three days and three nights. Fortunately, the weather was still a bit cold, so they were not thrown into the river, but put in a wooden bucket. The water was cold. He was very considerate and provided them with hot water, and only allowed them to come out when eating or for convenience.
Bishop Robben should be regarded as the most unlucky bishop.
It's not that Cheng Shijie worships foreigners and favors foreigners. They must be allowed to teach the children in southern Liaoning, mainly by recycling waste. These missionaries have real talents and learning. If not, then I'm sorry, they are not even qualified to teach.
The officers of the Eight Thousand Households of the Fifteen Guards were very worried.
However, these ordinary military households are very happy. They have often heard that the military households with the happiest eyes are those of Ning Haijun. The military households of Ning Haijun do not have to fight, and they can work whenever they want. You can farm if you want. The key is that Marshal Cheng only charges 30% of the rent.
Thirty percent of the rent is actually very high. Cheng Shijie is mainly responsible for seeds, farm tools and fertilizers, and the investment is not small. The military and martyred relatives of Ruoning Navy enjoy tax exemption for five years and half tax for ten years. Regardless of the grain harvested, it belongs to the military households themselves.
As the saying goes, we don’t worry about scarcity but inequality. The military households in Ning Haijun were treated like this, which made the military households in other guard stations very unhappy. All this made them aggrieved: We are all military households, why should we? Life is miserable, haha, you can’t even eat enough rice and vegetables, but you can eat rice and white noodles every day, why!
Now, they can come to Liaonan, and they can hope to live a good life with enough food and warm clothes! As soon as all the news spread, many military households who had fled ran back in a hurry, and long queues formed in front of each Hundred Household Office and Thousand Household Office.
Cheng Shijie saw 8,000 households in the Fifteenth Ward, with a total of 429,000 people. Among them, those over 16 years old and under 45 years old accounted for 69% of the total population, about 296,000 Among the remaining people, there are 130,244 men and 167,156 women, with more women than men. There are more than 68,400 people over the age of 45, almost all of whom are demographic dividends.
These more than 420,000 people have put considerable pressure on the immigration management work in Liaodong.
Cheng Shijie took time out and had to come up with a solution immediately.
Cheng Shijie had a rough draft of the solution. The key question was whether the commanders of the fifteen guards knew what to do.
"My lords, commanders, Commander Cheng has invited me!"
The commanders, fellow commanders, and commanding officers also know that extending one's head is a sword, and shrinking one's head is still a sword. The place where they live is surrounded by Ning Haijun's garrison. These soldiers will line up in neat lines every morning. During the training, they wore black armor that was polished but not shiny. The tips of the long spears, which were one foot long, were so sharp that they were frighteningly sharp. There were also many soldiers carrying crossbows on their backs, a bag of arrows, and a scimitar nearly a foot and a half long on their thighs. Their eyes were so sharp that they could make people tremble with fear.
These days, these Ning Navy soldiers have given them too much shock, and they heard that the Ning Navy soldiers around them are just the Ning Navy's garrison troops, not real elites.
The garrison is so powerful, what should the elite soldiers look like? This has already made these commanders feel as if their heads are as big as a fight. They dare not mess around with Cheng Shijie. When negotiating terms with Cheng Shijie, they don't even have the strength.
"Meet Cheng Shuai!"
"What are you doing standing still? Sit down!"
"How can there be a place for me to sit in front of Cheng Shuai!"
"I tell you to sit down, so just sit down!"
Cheng Shijie said this, and the commanders slowly sat down.
Cheng Shijie didn't mince words, he went straight to the point: "I, Commander Cheng Shijie, accept your Majesty's respect and guard Liaodong. From now on, we are all colleagues. I hope you will take care of me."
When they saw Cheng Shijie's pleasant appearance, the commanders were relieved. They felt that Cheng Shijie was quite easy to talk to.
"How dare you!"
"You... Ouch!"
Cheng Shijie pointed to the big bellies in front of him and said: "You are too fat to go to the battlefield. It will be difficult for you to let them go into battle to fight with Jiannu. They are all generals and should behave like generals. Tomorrow you will follow Ning Haijun Train together..."
Hearing these words, the commanders and fellow commanders looked bitter.
They have long seen Ning Haijun's training. It is simply torture, excruciating torture. Not to mention that they are quite old, even young and strong soldiers may not be able to persist.
"I wait……"
Cheng Shijie just wanted these commanders and fellow commanders to retreat in spite of the difficulties.
Cheng Shijie said: "Come here and give them equipment!"
"yes!"
Ning Haijun's soldiers placed Ning Haijun's standard heavy armor in front of the generals. Although this armor looks the same as the standard armor of ordinary soldiers, it is two millimeters thicker. Don't underestimate these two millimeters, as the weight increases. weighed more than ten kilograms.
(End of chapter)
