After Xie Yuanliang truly reformed, he followed Su Yonglin's footsteps and promoted grassroots political power building in Guangzhou and outside Guangzhou, built communication channels between organizations at all levels and the government, and expanded the Guangzhou Renaissance Association from scratch. The size of the organization.
Then he made great achievements in the work of public consultation rooms in various places. He built local public consultation rooms from scratch, fully integrated with the people, built a fairly smooth delivery channel, and continued to serve the people.
In the assessment of government affairs and the Renaissance Society in the 10th year of Hongwu and the 11th year of Hongwu, Xie Yuanliang was rated as excellent in both the imperial court system and the Renaissance Society system. He was one of the very few officials and members who were rated as excellent at both levels.
So in March of the 11th year of Hongwu, Xie Yuanliang was officially promoted to the position of Councilor and Political Officer of Guangdong Province, and officially took charge of Guangdong Province, becoming the first Councilor and Political Councilor since the establishment of Guangdong Province.
Later, the Guangzhou Renaissance organization and temporary organizations in various places were officially recognized by the Central Committee of the Renaissance and expanded into the Guangdong Provincial Renaissance branch. The Renaissance organizations in all states and counties in Guangdong Province began to be fully established.
Xie Yuanliang was subsequently promoted to deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Renaissance Society Branch, and officially entered the senior management of the Ming Dynasty court and the Renaissance Society organization. He swept away the haze of the past and embarked on a new path in life.
This period was also a period of large-scale construction and development in Guangdong Province, which basically inherited the results of the previous thousand years of development in Guangdong.
Xie Yuanliang must do everything personally, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and adhere to Su Yonglin's method of conducting in-depth local research and then promulgating policies. He led people to conduct surveys and inspections county by county, and counted the areas of wasteland, fertile farmland, mountains, rivers and lakes, and carried out comprehensive analysis of agricultural production and industry and commerce in various places. Evaluate development prospects.
From the ninth year of Hongwu to the end of the tenth year of Hongwu, while small-scale rebellions continued to break out in various places, Xie Yuanliang worked tirelessly and dangerously, spending sixteen months conducting in-depth and detailed research and inspections on the entire Guangdong Province.
On this basis, at the beginning of the eleventh year of Hongwu, he submitted a memorial to Su Yonglin, "Outlines of the Development of Guangdong Shangshu Province", which contained nearly a million words.
After reading it, Su Yonglin greatly appreciated the memorial.
He noticed that Xie Yuanliang used the county as the reporting unit, and described the county's historical evolution, geographical and hydrological conditions, climate conditions, land conditions, resource conditions and population conditions in detail one county at a time, as well as the agricultural development prospects and industrial and commercial development prospects of the county. An estimate was made.
In addition, he also made a budget for the investment of manpower, material resources and funds required for the development of this area through relatively precise calculations, and gave detailed and reliable data.
Regarding this rigorous attitude, the Ministry of Finance first spoke highly of it, believing that if local officials across the country had an attitude like Xie Yuanliang's, their overall planning would be much easier.
At that time, Lin Jingchun also praised Xie Yuanliang greatly, saying that one more such official in the local area would help him live ten more years.
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Upon hearing this, Su Yonglin joked that ten more officials like this would allow him to live an extra hundred years.
Should I say it or not? It is better to do something truly meaningful than to say it a hundred times that I know I was wrong. Su Yonglin saw Xie Yuanliang's serious action of correcting his mistake and let Su Yonglin know that Xie Yuanliang had really changed his mind.
Therefore, Su Yonglin will not be ambiguous when it comes to promotion.
Later, when Su Yonglin promoted Xie Yuanliang, he also publicized the matter.
He established Xie Yuanliang as a model of effective governance for local officials, praised him highly, and called on officials across the country to learn from Xie Yuanliang's down-to-earth spirit of traveling through mountains and rivers, to do things down-to-earth, to conduct evaluations seriously, and not to make false claims.
With Xie Yuanliang's leadership, a wave of local surveys has indeed been set off among officials across the country, especially among middle- and high-level officials, and there is a faint tendency for this trend to become a fixed practice. This is a good thing.
In the past, some high-level local officials had a relatively one-sided understanding of their jurisdictions, relying mainly on reports from their subordinates rather than conducting their own research. Their understanding of the local area was characterized by a "suspended" nature.
This situation was deeply criticized by Su Yonglin, who repeatedly criticized these high-level local officials for being out of touch with the masses.
But now, with the example of Xie Yuanliang, Su Yonglin can also solve this problem in a targeted manner.
After Xie Yuanliang started a new trend in Guangdong Province, he did not hesitate in specific development. He could analyze and conduct research and still be able to do things.
When Guangdong Province was first established, although the first wealth was accumulated through the agrarian revolution and the suppression of local tyrants, the amount of wealth was limited, so financial support was needed from the Ministry of Finance in Zhongdu.
Su Yonglin held a meeting with the Ministry of Finance and agreed to the request of Guangdong Province.
Other provinces that need financial support are directly allocated by the central government, but because of the existence of the Guangzhou Shipping Division in Guangdong, the final conclusion is to allocate a certain amount of the annual tariff revenue of the Guangzhou Shipping Division to the Guangdong Province. As financial support from the central government to local governments.
With money, land and manpower, Xie Yuanliang flexed his muscles and launched a large-scale infrastructure construction campaign in Guangdong Province to encourage farmers to cultivate.
In more than two years, Xie Yuanliang more than tripled the area of land cultivated for grain in Guangdong Province, and the large-scale production movement was in full swing.
More significantly, he also greatly increased the number of households in Guangdong that paid taxes directly to the government, greatly increasing the government's legal fiscal revenue.
The population belonging to the annihilated landlords and barbarian tribes were liberated by the Ming army and became registered households.
Some mountain escapees who were forced into the mountains and wilderness were also persuaded to become registered residents.
Populations that were not strictly investigated due to government inaction and laziness were also found and re-registered.
People born in the past two years are also registered.
In just two years, although not many immigrants entered Guangdong and Guangxi, the total registered population of Guangdong Province expanded from 2.03 million in the first survey in the ninth year of Hongwu to 3.09 million.
This is obviously not a natural factor, but a large number of people caused by human factors that are not included in the statistics and cannot be included in the statistics.
Now this part of the population has been fully included in the statistics, and the productivity they have released has increased the productivity of the entire Guangdong by one-third.
This move will allow the Guangdong government to receive considerable financial revenue in the future without having to always rely on financial support from the Central Capital.
At the same time, Xie Yuanliang also vigorously developed other industries besides grain production.
Although the tax revenue from sea trade is controlled by the Municipal Shipping Department directly under the central government, and the Guangdong Province can only get a part of the tariff, but it does not get much money, commercial trade is not only about overseas bulk trade that can make money.
There are also many branches such as catering industry, accommodation industry, transportation industry, etc. The commercial income driven by the large floating population brought by Shibo Division is also very considerable.
To put it simply, if the Ministry of Finance directly manages the Ministry of Shipping takes a bite of meat, Guangdong Province can also drink a bowl of rich broth and eat some minced meat dregs to replenish some protein and oil for its malnourished body.
By developing these industries, the Guangdong government can also receive a commercial tax and increase fiscal revenue, so that it can do more things, build more roads, and make business development more convenient.
Guangdong Province prospered and developed rapidly under Xie Yuanliang's management, and the neighboring Guangxi Province did not make much concessions.
Under the leadership of Guangxi Provincial Councilor Xu Hua, Guangxi has also undergone considerable construction.
Compared with Guangdong Province, the geographical environment of Guangxi Province is more complex, the costs required are higher, and it does not have the advantages of Guangzhou Shipping Company.
However, Xu Hua shamelessly came to Xie Yuanliang to discuss matters based on the principle that Guangdong and Guangxi should not separate their families.
