After Wang Tu took office with the goal of achieving rapid promotion, he did not stay in the county office for too long. Instead, he only stayed for half a month and basically had contact with the main officials of the county government and the county supervisory office next door. , people from the trial court and the tax bureau met, and after saying hello to each other, they began their frequent inspections.
As an official, he must first know what the place under his rule is like and the situation of the people.
If he doesn't know the situation in his jurisdiction, how can he lead the tens of thousands of people under his jurisdiction to live a good life?
After a tour, he visited many towns under his rule. Not only did he personally visit each town and learn some basic local conditions, but he also gained a basic understanding of the main officials in each town.
During this process, he also had several simple ideas for economic development in his mind.
Given the scarcity of local resources, the mountainous terrain and inconvenient transportation, there is basically no hope for large-scale industry, nor for ordinary agriculture.
The only thing that can be expected is to use a large amount of mountainous land to plant some economic crops, and at the same time, rely on the economic crops to develop some simple processing industries, and then transport these processed products through the Dongjiang River to the economically developed places in the south for sale, in order to obtain valuable capital inflows.
Tea was the industry he planned to develop as the first priority.
It’s not just tea. During his inspection, he also discovered that there is a local tradition of growing camellia oil in the mountains. If the local camellia oil is well produced, it can effectively utilize the large amount of local mountainous land, thereby obtaining more additional income for farmers. .
Tea and camellia oil are the two economic crop planting directions that Wang Tu has initially finalized. He will rely on tea leaves to develop the tea industry and rely on camellia oil to engage in edible oil processing.
In addition, the most critical issue is how to sell the produced and processed tea and edible oil once they are grown on a large scale?
In fact, the biggest problem with this kind of industry that is neither unique nor distinctive is not cultivation and processing, but sales!
But this is not a problem for Wang Tu... Since he dares to come to the impoverished mountainous area of Northern Guangdong to take charge of the political affairs, he does not worry about being like others and doing nothing for a few years after arriving there, and finally sinking into the local grassroots for the rest of his life.
Of course he has the confidence!
This confidence is naturally not due to his superb business skills. To be honest... he is not very proficient in business. After all, he is from the History Department of the Imperial College... If you ask him to write articles, he will definitely be top-notch, otherwise he would be the best at the beginning. Nor will he be selected to enter the Hanlin Academy.
Of course, the good writing of this article does not mean that the words and sentences of the article are beautiful, but that it is well-founded...
Many of Luo Zhixue's speeches at some large conferences were the first drafts he drafted, and were finally polished by the deputy directors.
Wang Tu relied on his beautiful articles to gain the respect of his boss and even Luo Zhixue, and then became the third secretary.
If he doesn't let it out, maybe he will be able to find a second secretary in the secretariat in ten or eight years.
And someone who can write such a well-founded speech is naturally not a nerd who only understands stereotypes. In fact, when Wang Tu took the imperial examination, he was also very good in subjects such as astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Chengshun ranked fifth in the top 20 in 18 years.
It's not enough to write well in eight-part essays alone. You also need to be at the top level in subjects such as mathematics, physics and chemistry to be able to defeat a large number of competitors.
When serving as an official in the Great Chu Empire, it was impossible to understand the Eight-parted Part (Eight-legged) essay, because it was a stepping stone... It is difficult to judge whether ordinary articles are good or bad, but whether the Eight-legged essay is written well or not can be seen at a glance.
Therefore, even if the Eight-part Shiwen has many flaws, it is still an important subject in the imperial examination. If the Eight-part Shiwen is well written and you can get enough points, then you can also get enough points in subjects such as astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. It can help you pass the imperial examination.
Of course, the above is still a stepping stone. It can only allow you to pass the exam, but it does not mean that you are good at nouns.
If you want to get a better ranking, you have to look at the selection during the re-examination!
For exams, you can choose finance, justice, business administration, administration, and many other subjects. Basically, you can choose whatever system you want to work in.
Among them, the competition in administrative management is the most fierce, because this is also a key battlefield among traditional civil servants. It is called the Chu Empire's version of the Jinshi Department!
As for administrative management, in addition to other messy examination content, it focuses on historical theory and policy theory.
The scores for each selective examination are arranged according to a unified weight, and the rankings are finally ranked according to the scores... There will be no failure in this term, because the candidates who can participate in the re-examination are all candidates who have passed the imperial examination.
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The retest is just to determine the nouns and assignment direction.
This series of imperial examination procedures led to the fact that a student in the Chu Empire who wanted to participate in the imperial examination had to understand not only the eight-part essay, but also conventional mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and he also had to be good at a certain professional field.
In order to be successfully selected, it does not mean that you can pass the exam if you are good at eight-part essay, nor that you can pass the exam if you are excellent in mathematics, physics and chemistry, but you must be excellent in both!
After all, the regular imperial examinations of the Great Chu Empire selected officials...not literary masters or scientists. What was needed were comprehensive talents, not students with partial subjects.
Of course, it is actually easier for scientists and even writers to become officials.
For scientists, there is a simpler and faster academic path. As long as you have sufficient academic ability, it is normal to become a teacher or even a university professor. You can get a knighthood in minutes based on your scientific research achievements, which is better than those senior civil servants who have to work hard all their lives. It's much better if you can't get a title.
As for litterateurs, they can also work their way up the ranks by joining the various sections of the Chudi newspaper in the Chaobao Department of the Ministry of Ethnic Education and working as reporters and editors, without having to compete with thousands of students to take the single-plank bridge of the regular imperial examination.
If you really want to squeeze in, you can't squeeze out top compound talents like Wang Tu.
His eight-part essays are top-notch, his mathematics, physics and chemistry are also top-notch. He is from the history department and has all kinds of historical theories and theories at his fingertips. In the traditional administrative field, how can you compare with him?
But people have their own strengths. Although Wang Tu is versatile enough, he is still not good at business operations.
Therefore, it is impossible for him to say that he would personally set up a government-run factory or the like to help the people get rich.
But it doesn't matter, he won't, others will!
What is Wang Tuzui’s advantage?
Is it his own ability?
no!
But his background relationship!
Why did the prefect above let Wang Tu serve as the magistrate of Heping County, a remote and remote county? He didn't expect Wang Tu to rely on his own connections to get some money for a poor place like Heping.
This is also a common method used by local governments to deal with officials who have great financial background.
Aren’t you here to get gold plated? Aren’t you here to work around for a few years and earn a fortune and get a promotion?
Okay, I'll set the stage for you, you don't have to do anything else, you just have to use your strengths.
What's the advantage...getting money!
Regardless of whether you attract investment from outside to build factories to develop industry and improve people's livelihood, or whether you can get support funds from higher-level finances, that is your ability, and the local government will recognize it.
As long as you get enough investment or financial support funds, it will be a top-notch political achievement, and you will definitely have good things to say when the superiors come to inspect it.
In this way, your political achievements will be good, and the evaluation of the local chief officials and colleagues will be high. After the inspection, promotion will naturally be a piece of cake.
What? You can't get investment or support funds from above?
You can't even get the money, but you still have the nerve to say you're here for gold plating? What kind of big-tailed wolf are you pretending to be!
Roll, roll, stay where it’s cool!
If you encounter some petty local officials, they can keep you in the ravines for decades. If they don't leave, you can't even hope to escape.
Therefore, not everyone can do gold plating. People who are not strong enough to do gold plating can easily get themselves into trouble.
But Wang Tu, his background relationship is naturally full of gold.
After finalizing the preliminary plan, he wrote several letters in his own hand. One was sent to the deputy director of the Agriculture and Forestry Department of the Guangzhou Governor's Yamen, one to the conference office of the Guangzhou Machinery Company, and one to the deputy director of the commerce department of the Western Trading Company. .
The above three people, like him, all came from the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, and they were seniors to each other. It was common for them to help each other when they were working in local places.
And these people are also privately called by some local officials: secretarial department!
There are not many people in these secretarial departments, but they all have great energy, and they also help each other. The most important thing is that many senior core members are the kind of people Jian Zai Dixin... wants to do something to them. Dead hands are troublesome.
In addition to sending letters to several senior secretaries working in Guangdong, explaining the situation and requesting certain assistance, he also wrote a carefully written letter and sent it to Jinling City.
The content of the letter is very ordinary. It is just a daily greeting. It briefly introduces some of my recent life, and talks generally about the hardships of the local people's livelihood. It also talks about how I want to develop the local people's livelihood, benefit the local people and live a good life. ambition.
The content is not important, what is important is the recipient!
In the twelfth year of Chengshun, he was the top candidate in the imperial examination, deputy director of the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, first secretary, and fourth-grade lecturer. He strongly recommended Wang Tu to be promoted to third-class secretary, and he was kind to Wang Tu:
Cheng Yongfeng!
After learning that Wang Tu wanted to go abroad, Cheng Yongfeng also appreciated Wang Tu's ambition and hinted in his words that he would let Wang Tu take up a post in Guangdong.
This is why when Wang Tu was released to the public, he took the initiative to apply to go to Guangdong, and after some final operations, he went to the poorest and most miserable mountainous area in northern Guangdong!
Because Cheng Yongfeng hinted that he should go!
Wang Tu is actually not opposed to going there. No matter where he is, he is confident that he can achieve great results, not because of his strong ability, but because his background is strong enough!
Since Cheng Yongfeng hinted that he should go to Guangdong, he should go.
Although Cheng Yongfeng didn't say anything at that time, and Wang Tu didn't ask why, Wang Tu was not a fool, on the contrary, he was very smart!
There were already speculations before he was released last year.
If nothing unexpected happens to his mentor Cheng Yongfeng, he should be released soon, and the place of release will be in Guangdong!
With Cheng Yongfeng's qualifications and rank, as well as the particularity of the deputy director of the Secretariat, once he is sent to a local position, if he goes to a remote province, he can even be directly promoted to the third rank of chief envoy by two levels in a row.
Even if he was to serve in an important province like Guangdong, it would be reasonable to arrange for someone from the third rank to be in charge of official affairs, industry and commerce, etiquette and other real affairs.
And this is just an early transition, just like Wang Tu's previous experience of serving as the sixth grade in Heyuan Prefecture was just a transitional period. When the transitional period is over, I am afraid that Cheng Yongfeng will take office as the chief envoy of Guangdong and take charge of the economy and people's livelihood of the province.
As for Wang Tu, he is looking forward to the day when Cheng Yongfeng will be sent to Guangdong to take office and participate in politics!
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After writing letters to his seniors and Cheng Yongfeng, Wang Tu once again thought about his specific policy direction.
He has already finalized the initial development of tea and camellia oil planting and processing. Next, he is also planning to support the development of several good specialty industries in the county, among which he thinks the yuba is quite good.
He has also tried the local yuba, which tastes good. It is different from the specialty yuba in Fuzhou, Jiangxi. However, due to transportation, it is still difficult to transport the yuba from Fuzhou, Jiangxi to Guangdong. If If Heping under his own rule can form an industrial chain for the yuba industry, then it can be transported south along the Dongjiang River and sold to the Pearl River Delta region with a developed economy and strong consumption power, and even further expand the market.
If the local yuba can open up the market in the Pearl River Delta, it will also encourage local farmers to plant a large amount of soybeans. Soybeans are not rice and do not have such high requirements on land and water resources. They are very suitable for planting in local hills and mountains.
Also during the on-site inspection, he discovered that there were sporadic porcelain workshops and two brick factories that used steam engines in the local area. After inquiring, he found that there was a lot of ceramic clay suitable for firing ceramics locally, and there were also some in the county. Small coal mines, in this case you can also try to develop the local ceramics industry.
Ceramics is still an industry with a relatively large scale of production and sales in contemporary times. Not only is the domestic demand for various types of daily ceramics large, but the export demand also continues to be strong.
The ceramic industry also has great potential.
In addition to these specialties, the rich bamboo and wood resources in the county cannot be wasted. The wood processing industry and the bamboo industry can be developed. The wood can be used to make furniture and so on. Even if the wood is not available, the wood can be exported.
Heping is located in the mountainous area of northern Guangdong. It doesn't have much, except for mountains and trees.
There are also many bamboo forests, and you can start a bamboo processing industry, such as bamboo mats and chairs.
Relying on local resources and special products to further develop economic crop planting and simple processing industries is Wang Tu's initial development plan.
As for developing large industries and high-tech products, Wang Tu has never thought about it... The local area lacks convenient transportation, lacks local markets, and lacks funds and technical talents. To engage in these so-called high-tech industries is Very nonsense.
There are no supporting packages.
Only a fool would go to a remote mountainous area to build an advanced technology factory!
Even if it is done, it will not be able to compete with other places. Not to mention the big cities in Guangzhou, it will not be able to compete with several coastal areas in Huizhou Prefecture and even several counties and towns in the lower reaches of the Dongjiang River.
Speaking of which, the current economic development of Huizhou Prefecture in the Great Chu Empire is pretty good.
Huizhou Prefecture under the rule of the Chu Empire was very large, bordering Jiangxi in the north of the mountains of northern Guangdong, Haifeng in the south to the sea, directly bordering Guangzhou Prefecture in the west, and Chaozhou Prefecture in the east.
Among them, the lower reaches of the Dongjiang River and the coastal areas have benefited from the great industrial development in Guangzhou, and have also developed preliminary industry and commerce.
At the same time, the agriculture in Huizhou Prefecture is actually pretty good. In the early years, with the support of the Provincial Governor's Office, the Lighthouse Basin was vigorously developed. This basin is also the main grain-producing area in Guangdong. The grain it produces can not only meet the needs of The local area needs it, and it is also transported to Guangzhou in the south through the Dongjiang River.
It’s just that the further north you go, the poorer you get…
And the northernmost peace is the poorest one!
But it is precisely because this place is the poorest that Wang Tu came!
If you want to achieve outstanding political achievements, it is actually more difficult in places with better conditions, because people are already doing well, and if you do well, it is just the icing on the cake, but once you fail in the local area, let If the local economic development stagnates or even regresses, then it will be relegated to Siberia or Southeast Asia in any minute...
At the same time, Wang Tu is also self-aware. His abilities in other areas are average, and the resources he can use are not unlimited. Those seniors will be able to help because they are both from the Secretariat, but the amount of help is limited. It will also be limited.
After all, Wang Tu is just a sixth-grade county magistrate, and his grade is too low to be on the stage.
If people are willing to make some investment, it is for the sake of his future potential.
Therefore, the resources at his disposal are also limited.
If these limited resources are invested in economically developed places, they will be of no use... but if they are invested in a poor place like Peace, the effect they can exert will be very great.
At the same time, this poor place also has an advantage that is not a benefit, and that is that the population is actually not large, with a population of only 50,000 or 60,000 at full count. This population is not as good as a town in a densely populated and economically developed area.
But there are also advantages to having a small population!
Just doing some economic planting can quickly increase the per capita agricultural income of the local people.
Any development of industry and commerce can provide employment for a large proportion of idle young adults.
If the industrial output value is increased by 1.8 million, the per capita output value will soar rapidly.
After sending this report, the superiors will think: Wang Tu is okay. In just two or three years, the income of the local people has increased several times, and the per capita industrial output value has increased several times...
In other places, economic welfare is increased by single-digit percentage points, but in this country, economic welfare is increased by dozens of percentage points or even doubled.
Isn’t this political achievement coming soon?
Wang Tu, who had limited resources, chose such a seemingly poor mountainous county.
His goal is very pure, just for political achievements.
As for the harsh environment, no matter how hard it is, it won't be as hard for him as the county magistrate. Besides, although his salary as an official is not high, his family is not poor...
Although the Wang family is not a powerful family, it is also a traditional gentry family in Hangzhou, northern Zhejiang. Wang's father was born in Juren in the Qianming Dynasty, but he did not become an official in the Qianming Dynasty. After entering northern Zhejiang, Wang's father recruited local scholars. Like many other scholars in his hometown, he chose to join the new dynasty.
He has been an official for more than ten years. He served as magistrate of many counties and prefectures, and finally in the 19th year of Chengshun, he became seriously ill and became an official while participating in political posts in Shanxi.
According to the latest official system reformed thirteen years after Chengshun, the left and right political advisors and left and right advisors in the provincial governor's yamen were merged into political advisors, who were ranked as third-rank officials. In addition, a few important prefects could be specially invited to be given the title of political advisors, who were awarded third-rank officials.
After the restructuring of the provincial governor's office, the governor is in charge of the overall situation and is in charge of personnel. The chief envoy is in charge of industry, commerce, economy and people's livelihood affairs. Several political participants are specifically in charge of other affairs, such as finance, justice, official affairs or etiquette. There is no set rule for the specific affairs in charge, and the governor Designated after consultation.
The entire structure actually imitated the top imperial study room system of the Great Chu Empire, that is, the chief envoy and the political counselor were each responsible for a part of the affairs and assisted the governor in managing the province.
Wang Tu's father had already been involved in the administrative decision-making circle of a province before he became an official. Although he was only a low-profile political participant, he was not a chief envoy, let alone a governor.
But in any case, as a third-rank official, he was already a high-ranking official in the Chu Empire.
The Wang family is naturally not an ordinary family. I dare not say that the family fortune is large, but it is more than enough to maintain a decent life for the Wang family.
Even if Wang Tu came to take office in a remote mountainous area, even if he came in ordinary casual clothes and only brought a document... But in fact, it was just to worry about the influence.
After taking office, especially when he expected that he would struggle in this mountain for several years to come, he had already begun to make arrangements.
A group of his servants will arrive later.
Along with him will be several of his confidante.
Well, the Great Chu Empire strictly prohibited polygamy and bigamy. Taking concubines and marrying concubines was absolutely not allowed, but no one stipulated that you couldn't live with your confidante...
As long as you are in love with me, we will not announce each other's husband and wife to the public. We insist that we are confidante and only sleep together occasionally.
This is at best a moral issue, and the law can’t control you!
Of course, the law can't control you. However, as an official, Wang Tu, if he goes too far and is impeached by someone saying: "Lust leads to bad influence," then don't expect to be promoted, let alone promoted. It would be good if he is not removed from office. .
Therefore, these confidantes did not come with Wang Tu at the beginning, but came quietly later, and even after arriving at the place, they would not make the building public.
You should enjoy life and not make it too hard, but you should also be careful not to have any negative effects that will affect your career.
After arranging his life affairs properly, Wang Tu continued to immerse himself in work. He went to inspect places every two days, either to find places suitable for growing Camellia oleifera or to see places suitable for building various factories.
In the midst of the busyness, a group of inspection teams from Guangzhou, invited by Wang Tu, also arrived in Heping on the Liuhe Shipping Company steam liner.
One of them was a middle-aged man in a brocade suit. He looked at the hills and mountains on both sides of the river, the simple little pier in front of him, and the small, dilapidated houses beside the pier.
Thinking about the many information about this place that I had seen before, I couldn't help but frown again.
It's not a good idea to invest in this place. If he hadn't been entrusted by others, he would never have come to such a bad place in his life.
But now, he wants to invest here, which makes him feel like throwing money into water!
It seems that investment needs to be carefully considered. Even if it is a favor, you can't really throw money into the water!
