When Liu Xuanchu and Yang Qilong were preparing to leave for Guangzhou, Zhu Heji was reading a map in the east study room of Xingshizi Mansion in Guangzhou City.
The so-called Xingshizifu is actually the semicolon of Jieyang Shizifu. It is also the center of power of the "Guangzhou Base Area".
Now the third prince Zhu is still "happy" in Jieyang, so in Guangzhou it is Zhu Heji, the sage prince, who has the final say. To manage the base areas of eleven counties, of course a larger yamen is needed, and this yamen is Xingshizifu!
Zhu Heji's Prince's Palace was located in the former Prince's Palace of Shang Zhixin. Earlier it was the Prince's Palace of Jingnan, which was a quite luxurious residence. The area is large and there are enough houses.
Prince Zhu's palace simply couldn't use that many houses, so he also placed his personal army town, Jinyi's army camp academy, and Zhuge's military advisor's marching division's mansion in this palace.
In addition, the great sage Zhu and Chizhu also opened a hospital and a small pharmaceutical factory that produced allicin by distillation in Xingshizi Mansion. Leave it to Obo Rei and Aoi Saiwu to take charge, so that he can take care of the affairs of the Prince's House while continuing to be his great sage who heals diseases and saves lives.
Zhu Heji is now not only the Crown Prince of Ding, Zhongshu Ling, Commander of the Imperial Guard, and former Confucian scholar, he is also the Confucian Sage Zhu!
This is an existence that can add a "子" after the last name!
When a sage governs a country, he must of course convince others with virtue. Therefore, after seizing the capital of Guangzhou, Zhu Heji did not expand aggressively to surrounding areas, but implemented virtuous governance first.
Of course, they also occupied some territory, including Conghua County and Zengcheng County to the north, Dongguan County and Xinning County to the east, Sanshui County to the west, and Xinning and Heshan counties to the south. Including the four counties of Shunde, Xiangshan, Panyu, and Nanhai that were captured on the way to Guangzhou, a total of 11 counties were controlled.
These are eleven counties in the Pearl River Delta!
Although Shang Kexi has been fooling around for more than 20 years, the total population of these eleven counties still exceeds 1.2 million!
On average, the population of each county exceeds 100,000 - the Han population of Yanping County Prince Zheng Jing in Taiwan is only 200,000, which is only equivalent to two counties in the Pearl River Delta.
Da Laohui's territory in Chaozhou only has a population of hundreds of thousands, which is only equivalent to one county in the Pearl River Delta.
Just by calculating the population, you can imagine how big Zhu Heji's victory in Guangzhou was!
However, once the population reaches one million, the difficulty of management and control increases many times.
Originally, Zhu Heji was in charge of tens of thousands of people and dozens of townships on Jieyang Island. And now we have to manage more than one million people...that's dozens of cities and thousands of townships!
Not to mention extending the tentacles of the political power into every township below, organizing these more than one million people, and twisting them into a rope. Just to find out how many townships there are down there? What is the population of each township? How much land is there? and their approximate location. It’s quite a huge project!
Fortunately, Zhu Heji is now a saint... one hand has wall-penetrating bullets, and the other hand has allicin, as well as saltpeter ponds, sugar cane wine, special white sugar, Pingnan Prince's vassal land, coastal off-limits land, Macau commercial port, etc. Six major benefits can be distributed. He also wiped out the entire Shang Kexi family, which had the most enemies in Guangdong. Moreover, in the process of seizing Macau and entering Guangzhou, more than 100,000 strong men and the people of Guangzhou City were brought under the banner, placing them under the direct management of Xingshizi Mansion.
Otherwise, he really wouldn't be able to figure out all these major issues in less than two months.
And now on the map of the eleven counties of Guangfu and Zhaoqing that is placed in front of Zhu Heji, Zhuge Sanhe, Guo Youde and Da Boling, the name of each township, city, village and town is clearly marked. , the approximate location of the wharf, the cultivated land and population of each township.
Shang Kexi, who had been in charge of Guangfu for more than 20 years, had never seen such a picture, let alone the Qing Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, only the three counties of Xinhui, Qingyuan, and Longmen in Guangzhou Prefecture have not yet been recovered. The remaining ten counties, plus Heshan County in Zhaoqing Prefecture, are all under the control of Prince Xing's Prefecture.
According to the results of the census, there are a total of 38 villages, 186 vassals, 1,058 townships, more than 2,300 surnames and three out-of-boundary wastelands in these 11 counties. ...In total, there are more than 300,000 young men, more than 1.1 million people, more than 3 million acres of cultivated land, and more than 2 million acres of wasteland that can be easily reclaimed. "
The person who was reporting to Zhu Heji on the investigation situation in the eleven counties was Master Guo, who was always "lucky". During this march into Guangfu, he and Da Bo Ling were in charge of the logistics of the three armies. Da Boling took care of the accounts and money, while he took care of the chores and errands. The large-scale inventory projects in the eleven counties were classified as "miscellaneous tasks", so Mr. Guo was in charge.
"Have you checked everything out?" Zhu Heji frowned and asked again as he looked at the account books piled up with eleven Eight Immortal Tables next to the map table.
"Your Majesty, please don't worry, I've already sent people to do a careful count, and there's not much difference." Guo Youde said proudly, "This time, I used a combination of self-inspection and mutual inspection by each county. The solution is not to ask officials from Chaozhou to come forward, but to let the people of Guangfu investigate on their own.
I asked each county to conduct its own self-examination first, and then randomly select people from other counties to review it. Moreover, the temporary county magistrates and poor officials in each county were all drawn from the neighboring counties of Guangfu and Zhaoqing, as well as from the military personnel of Guangfu. I am familiar with the local situation and don't have many entanglements with the local area, so I can handle things relatively efficiently. "
Master Guo said that "people with military registration in Guangfu" refer to the young men from Guanzhaqiang and Guangzhou refugees who were registered as military personnel by Zhu Heji when he took over Guangfu - those who were expelled from Guangzhou by Shang Zhixin. Proletarian".
These people are now settled in Guangzhou City, and have been incorporated into the military register of Xing Shizi Mansion. Their food, clothing, housing and transportation are also managed by Xing Shizi Mansion. Naturally, they have become Zhu Heji's best friends.
"Well done! It took just over a month to get such a difficult thing done. It's really not easy!" Zhu Heji seemed very satisfied and nodded with a smile. "Guangfu, Chaozhou, and Hakka have always had outstanding achievements. It’s contradictory, if we want to manage the foundation of Guangfu well, we must be able to be harmonious... and be able to use Guangfu people to govern Guangfu.”
In fact, there were not many civilian officials who came from Chaozhou with Zhu Heji, and they could not take over the eleven counties in the Guangzhou base area.
In this life, Zhu Heji was born and raised in Guangdong, a member of the "second generation of Guangpiao". In his previous life, he was a Chaozhou native for generations. Therefore, he is very familiar with the grudges and resentments between the three major ethnic groups in Guangdong: Cantonese, Hakka, and Chaozhou people. Of course, he also knows about the powerful clans under these three ethnic groups.
He knew that in order to govern Guangdong well, he had to coordinate the interests between the three major ethnic groups and the powerful clans below. A bowl of water must be held evenly, and it cannot be too biased towards the Chaozhou people...and the Chaozhou people are very good at sticking together. If many Chaozhou people are used to govern Guangfu from the beginning, then the officialdom of Guangfu will be all Chaozhou people.
That's why he made Mr. Guo, a Tianjin native, the general manager of Guangfu's civil affairs, and also asked him to use a large number of Guangfu locals to manage the affairs of Guangfu's counties.
In addition, if Zhu Heji and his Xingshizifu want to reconcile the rift between Guangfu, Chaozhou, and Hakka, they have to solve two major problems.
One is the land issue.
The second is the issue of student status.
Historically, the struggles between the three major ethnic groups, Guangfu, Chaoshan, and Hakka, basically revolved around land and school status.
In an agricultural society, this land issue is an issue of the right to subsistence!
As for student status...that is, household registration issues related to the imperial examination, of course it is the right to development!
Moreover, Guangdong was still a clan society in the early Qing Dynasty... Nowadays, clans are not just a place to worship ancestors during festivals, but real survival and development units. The land in Guangdong is basically collectively owned by clans, and each clan will set aside a part of the land as a school field for the children of the clan to study and take the imperial examination.
Of course, the children of the clan who are admitted to the imperial examination must fight for the interests of their clan.
Therefore, if Zhu Heji wanted to know the more than 2,300 surnames in Guangfu, he could only start from "land" and "student status".
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji smiled and said to Zhuge Sanhe, Guo Youde, and Da Boling: "Since we have all the eleven counties in Guangfu under our control, we can start to govern them now... As long as we can Governing the eleven counties of Guangfu into an era of great harmony where all under heaven is for the common good, it will be a matter of course to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
When Military Advisor Zhuge heard this, he frowned a little, "Your Majesty, there are so many things about governing the country, where should I start?"
"Of course it's education!" Zhu Heji said, "Education should be established first, and then we can have talents. Once we have talents, we can then implement our ideas and get twice the result with half the effort."
