Henan Road has already made preparations for King Yong and his entourage to welcome the guests. The banquet was held in the largest restaurant in the port, Donghai Pavilion. Jiaozhou Port has begun to take shape as a port city. Except for the fact that the administrative level is still lower than that of Jiaoxi County and the lack of a comprehensive administrative management system, other infrastructure is very complete, especially business and people's livelihood conditions.
Since twenty years ago, a special phenomenon has appeared in Michigan. The state magistrate is not in the state, and the county magistrate is not in the county. They all like to go out to inspect the people's sentiments. As for the inspection location, nine out of ten are at Jiaozhou Port. The reason is obvious: they are greedy for the wealth and prosperity of the port.
Later, Jiaoxi County simply moved the administrative office to the port without permission and chose a geomantic treasure land as an office space. The reason is also very simple. Along the line around Jiaozhou Bay, the population has surged and public security has deteriorated. Moving the administrative center makes it easier to manage nearby.
However, the result is that the security situation in Jiaozhou Port has not improved at all, but has become increasingly worse. There are shadows under the sun, and evil often lurks behind prosperity.
With the rise of overseas trade, relying on the Haili of Jiaozhou Harbor, and decades of development, the population and economic structure of Michigan have undergone tremendous changes. Although agriculture and fishery are still the main industry, both the government and the private sector have They all pay more attention to the sea.
Therefore, land conflicts under the jurisdiction of Michigan are not acute. In fact, due to the influx of a large number of people into the harbor to make a living, some land has been abandoned for farming. The biggest problems in Michigan are corruption and public security.
A developed place is often accompanied by some negative things, and this is the case in Michigan. Relying on the excellent port and foreign trade conditions of Jiaozhou Port, all kinds of forces swarmed in, and all kinds of forces were mixed. Especially among the people, a large number of gang forces were born. During the rapid development of Jiaozhou Port, they also grew wild like weeds. .
Benefits move people's hearts and bully good people. Not to mention the common people, in order to fight for territory and financial resources, they kill each other. Hundreds of injury cases occur every year. The crime rate in Jiaozhou Port has always been high. Even if the East China Sea Fleet is stationed nearby, it does not have much of a deterrent effect. After all, the navy has no power to go ashore to intervene in local affairs.
Public security has deteriorated, and social order and good customs have been severely challenged. However, the governments of Michigan and Jiaoxi counties have not done much in the past. On the one hand, there is the compromise nature of the bureaucracy itself. As long as there is no big trouble, the appearance of stability is maintained, the normal payment of taxes is ensured, and the reputation and future are not affected, other things can be discussed, and there is ample room for compromise.
The Michigan government, which owns Jiaozhou Bay, actually does not need to do anything more. The annual two-tax quota is allocated to them without any pressure and even with a lot of profit. Even in difficult times, there are still enthusiastic local gentry who can help and ensure that the court's taxation tasks are completed, and this situation is rare.
In order to make the officials feel comfortable when they are in office, the people below are more considerate and will never cause any big troubles. If they do, they will be suppressed long ago. Even if a person's life is caused, he will take care of it in advance and never cause any trouble to the superiors. There are even some unspoken rules. Anyone who violates them will be attacked in groups, which is more binding than the court's legal restrictions on beheading. powerful.
If we want the market to be prosperous and people's livelihood to be stable, isn't it easy to make an illusion about small things? At least when Shangguan comes to inspect, Mizhou will always have good government and good people, and all industries will prosper.
In the past twenty years, Michigan has been a very magical place, where the most absurd, cruel and real aspects of the world are perfectly presented.
The collusion between power and money is an objective law, as if it is the truth, and no one can violate it or control it. Many officials in Mizhou have taken the benefits and colluded with those black and gray forces. In fact, the government in Mizhou even needs their help in maintaining law and order.
Otherwise, the population that has exceeded the management limit of the existing state and county yamen will not be able to control it at all. After all, Mizhou has not been upgraded, and there is a serious shortage of various subordinate officials in the government. In this regard, the imperial court has made clear restrictions.
As a last resort, the Mizhou and Jiaoxi governments, under the original official system, set up some "non-staff personnel", which is translated as "temporary workers", to assist management.
Although these non-official positions are nothing in the eyes of the government, they are even chess pieces that can be discarded at any time. However, these positions are sought after by the local gangsters in Michigan. Even if they are temporary workers, they are still covered with official skins. For the ordinary gangsters and evil forces, they are also real power and even whitewashing. Opportunity to go ashore.
What's more, what do ordinary people in Guizhou know? They only recognize official status and often weakly succumb to violence and power. The people in power in the government have their relatives and elders to take care of, and the local squires, county magistrates, and merchants also need to arrange some of their own people to facilitate work. With these forces colluding together, it is conceivable what the past of Mizhou was like. What situation.
Those "temporary workers" who have the government as their backing and hold the power of law enforcement are naturally unscrupulous and do whatever they want to ordinary businessmen and farmers.
The dirty situation in Michigan even leaked out of the state and spread to the Taoist authorities. Forced by public opinion, the Henan Taoist Inspectorate once conducted a crackdown on the Mizhou government and took down some state and county officials. However, as time goes by, the old ways return. Even if the style has been restrained, the essence has not changed much.
The local forces colluded together and were extremely stubborn. They did not dare to resist the imperial court and did not have many strong counterattacks in the face of attacks. However, it was also impossible for the imperial court to eradicate them. As representatives of the imperial court, bureaucrats often cannot stand temptations and threats and collude with them. The scenes that Emperor Liu hated deeply were especially prominent in Mizhou.
Therefore, when Emperor Liu's minions extended their claws to local Daozhou, Mizhou was a key target in Henan, and Wang Jiang, the special envoy of Wude Division, was even more ruthless.
As the largest port in the northern part of the Han Dynasty, Jiaozhou Port has attracted quite a lot of attention, and it is impossible for Wu Desi not to be aware of it. However, in the past, their focus was on national security surveillance, and official governance was only a very small part of it. If all the energy is focused on these local bastards, then Wude Si may not be able to do other things.
What's more, although Mizhou was full of ills and crimes in the past, on the surface it did show a scene of prosperity and vigorous development. The authority of the government was very strong and the rule of the court was very solid. This exceeded the Wude Division's screening standards. .
However, this time, under the will of Emperor Liu, Wu Desi naturally shifted the focus of his work and served Emperor Liu's government clarification campaign wholeheartedly, focusing all his energy on anti-corruption and eliminating evil.
Wang Jiang is also the clan nephew of former Wude Envoy Wang Yinwu, and was originally implicated. However, when Wang Xuanzhen unexpectedly rose to power, gained Emperor Liu's trust, and became the Wude Envoy, Wang Jiang also resurrected and was later appointed as Wude Secretary. Everyone in Henan Province knows it.
Naturally, Wang Jiang is not ignorant of the situation in Mizhou. It can even be said that he understands it very well. In the past, if he did not move, he would not care. But now that the edict has come and the political frenzy has come, Mizhou is the number one in Henan Province. A place for surgery.
Wang Jiang and the special envoy from Beijing cooperated with each other. Based on the evidence collected, they checked the list and searched according to the map. Starting from the prefecture government office, they locked up the relevant persons one by one. The whole process was not smooth sailing. With Wu Desi's intelligence and emergency operations, the arrest of the bureaucrat went smoothly. He did not dare to resist, lest he implicate his family members for one person's crime.
The problem lies precisely with those who have interests, whether they are powerful country squires or those evil forces, who dare to resist, especially those who are reckless and who actually gather a crowd to resist the arrest of officials.
Those people were so bold that they lived by being ruthless and fearless, but no matter how ruthless they were, they could not be as ruthless as Wude Si, who directly characterized them as rebellion. So officers and soldiers were dispatched to suppress the rebellion and suppress the bandits. Most of the large and small civil forces entrenched in Jiaozhou Harbor were wiped out. Many people were killed without even a chance to be interrogated. After all, they have already rebelled, so why should they be interrogated?
The comprehensive rectification operation against Michigan lasted for nearly two months. Two months later, 80% of the officials in the state and county governments of Michigan were dismissed. Some were dismissed from their posts on the spot, while others were exiled. He was taken to Xijing not to be tried, but to be sentenced. In order to avoid delegating power too much, Emperor Liu made a stipulation that, except for special circumstances, all officials who committed official crimes would be sent to the capital to serve their sentences.
It has to be said that this time's major rectification was very traumatic for Mizhou. The originally good economic situation was severely damaged, private business operations were severely hit, the government was in chaos, and the administrative order was paralyzed for a while. The port was also in depression for a time, and everything seemed to prove that the court's efforts to combat corruption and eliminate evil were wrong. That is to say, Liu Chengxun came back late. If he had come back half a month earlier, what he would have seen at Jiaozhou Port would have been a different scene.
With Daosi's subsequent intervention, everything finally slowly improved. Shi Dejun dispatched some grassroots officials from all over Henan to fill the vacancies, and even asked his deputy Quan Mizhou to preside over the state to clean up the mess after the Wude Division was swept away, restore the functions of the government office, and maintain civil stability.
As Emperor Liu said, today's Han Dynasty really has no shortage of officials, but overdeveloped places like Mizhou lack officials. Corruption in the imperial court certainly frightens bureaucrats all over the world, but it also gives more opportunities to a large number of middle- and lower-level officials who are struggling. After all, if someone goes down, someone will go up. When there is a flow, vitality will show.
This is what happened in Mizhou. There are not a few people in Henan Province who are willing to serve as officials in Mizhou. Not to mention its economic conditions, considering that it has just been renovated, it should be a relatively safe place. After all, two artillery shells will not fall in the same crater, and the court cannot repeatedly mess with a place. On this point, the bureaucrats see clearly.
As a result, the vacancies in Mizhou were quickly filled temporarily, and personnel arrangements involving important positions only had to be reported to Xijing for confirmation and implementation by the Ministry of Officials. Generally speaking, there would be basically no refutation. Of course, in this situation of constant turmoil and chaos, the Ministry of Personnel is probably the busiest department due to heat stroke. After all, it involves too many bureaucratic changes and position changes.
Taking advantage of the great purge in Michigan, Shi Dejun also solved some administrative problems accumulated in the past. The first was to upgrade the ports of Michigan and Jiaozhou, especially Jiaozhou Port, which was independent from Jiaoxi County and became The county-level ports directly under the jurisdiction of Michigan are well-equipped with bureaucracy personnel. At the same time, the number of officials in Jiaoxi and Jiaozhou Ports has been greatly expanded to meet management needs.
After all, the total number of people in Jiaoxi County, including police officers and township officials, was less than 300. However, it was unreasonable to manage the entire Jiaoxi County and the coastal areas of Jiaozhou Bay. It could not keep up with the development speed of Jiaozhou Bay. It needs to be adjusted appropriately to meet development needs.
After Shi Dejun implemented various rectification and appeasement measures, Mizhou gradually settled down. After all, the foundation is there. As long as order is stabilized, everything will return. In fact, due to the removal of those blood-sucking silverfish, many people have discovered that the air in Jiaozhou Bay today seems to be much fresher than in previous years, and people are much more relaxed.
(End of chapter)
