Wang Tu, who was far away in the remote mountains of northern Guangdong, did not know the details of the new Chief Envoy of Guangdong until Cheng Yongfeng arrived in Guangzhou and officially performed his duties accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Personnel. candidates, and then hurriedly used various connections to inquire about Cheng Yongfeng's specific situation.
Wang Tu, before he came to Guangdong, he had already guessed that Cheng Yongfeng was sent to Guangdong, but he didn't know the specific position and the detailed time.
In the following months, Wang Tu also continued to pay attention to the trends in the high-level politics of the empire. When he heard that the Minister of Industry and Commerce was seriously ill and could not be a director, he thought of rumors that Guangdong Governor Li Qihua had been ordered to Beijing to report to the emperor.
At that time, Wang Tu basically had an estimate of Cheng Yongfeng's specific duties and approximate time.
When he learned that Li Qihua had been officially transferred to Beijing half a month ago, and that Tang Tiangui, the chief envoy, was acting as governor, Wang Tu was basically 90% sure about the matter.
His former boss in the secretariat, Cheng Yongfeng, who had favored and promoted him, was about to be sent to Guangdong Province as chief envoy.
According to the tradition of appointment and dismissal of high-level officials in the empire, he even guessed that Cheng Yongfeng would be sent to the provincial council and then take over the post of chief envoy in an acting manner.
Therefore, when the outside world was shocked and made various inquiries, Wang Tu sat firmly on Diaoyutai and focused his attention on Heping's local industry and commerce, especially the development of several key projects that he had finalized.
Tea planting and processing, camellia oil planting and processing, porcelain, soybean planting and yuba processing, bamboo and wood processing,
These five industries are regarded by Wang Tu as the main industries to revitalize the local economy and improve people's livelihood.
These industries are not just simple processing industries, they bring some industrial output value to the local area and create some secondary industry jobs.
What's more important is that these industries are deeply tied to the local area, and their raw materials need to be obtained from vast rural areas.
Tea processing can drive a large number of farmers to plant tea, thereby increasing the income of tea farmers.
The same is true for Camellia oleifera processing.
Bean curd and other small amounts of soybean processing industry will also cause huge demand for soybeans, driving contemporary farmers to plant soybeans and obtain more agricultural income.
Bamboo and wood processing can provide rural labor forces with job opportunities and income during slack periods.
Porcelain processing does not have a great driving force and does not directly provide many jobs. However, as long as it can provide jobs and tax revenue, it is a good industry.
Wang Tu has great ambitions. He wants to open up the situation as soon as possible and achieve results.
As long as he can achieve results, no one can erase his political achievements, at least in Guangdong.
It is highly likely that we will go further by then.
Why?
Because Cheng Yongfeng is his backer...
As a member of the Secretariat, his greatest concern is His Majesty the Emperor. Of course... that's all.
And his true backer is Cheng Yongfeng.
However, just when Wang Tu was immersed in work and looking forward to making great achievements as soon as possible, his backer Cheng Yongfeng was in trouble in Guangzhou.
Sitting in the office on the second floor, Cheng Yongfeng didn't look very good.
Just in the morning, Governor Tang Tiangui held a meeting to discuss economic work matters, more precisely, industrial development matters.
Tang Tiangui performed as efficiently as ever at the meeting. In just half an hour of the meeting, he proposed and promoted several future industrial and commercial development priorities. The most important one was to finalize the Guangzhou Dongcheng Industrial Zone. construction plan.
It is planned to focus on the development of comprehensive machinery industries in this Dongcheng Industrial Zone. In the future, it will be connected with Guangzhou First Industrial Zone, Panyu Industrial Zone, and Foshan Industrial Zone. Relying on the Guangzhou Industrial Railway Line under construction, an industrial cluster will be created to further increase the number of Guangzhou industrial clusters. In terms of industrial leadership, we can compete with Songjiang!
Judging from the planning of this Dongcheng Industrial Zone, the plan is very good. Once successfully implemented, it will be of great benefit to the industrial and commercial development of Guangzhou.
All aspects are good, except for one bad thing: this plan was not proposed by him, Cheng Yongfeng, but by Tang Tiangui himself.
Moreover, Tang Tiangui had never mentioned the plan in the so-called Dongcheng Industrial Zone to him before discussing it at the formal meeting.
You know, Cheng Yongfeng has been in Guangzhou for more than half a month. This long time is enough for Tang Tiangui to discuss this matter with him a hundred times... What's more important is that among the other people present, everyone knew about Dongcheng Industry in advance. Only he, the chief envoy in charge of economic affairs, didn’t know about the district plan!
This is not normal!
Because he, the chief envoy, is the one in charge of economic affairs!
Theoretically speaking, no matter whether it is the Xicheng Industrial Zone plan or the Dongcheng Industrial Zone plan, he should first make preliminary preparations, then propose it, discuss it at the meeting, and finally make the decision by the governor.
Rather than the other way around, let the governor propose it and then ask him, the chief envoy, for his opinion!
Damn it, before the meeting, I didn’t even know what Dongcheng Industrial Zone was. Now you come to ask me what I think about this issue, and you said that you, Lao Cheng, are the person in charge of economic affairs. Let me share your opinions. !
What other opinions does he have... I can only say that you have a very good vision, Mr. Governor, and the Dongcheng Industrial Zone has a great future. However, I have just arrived, and due to my negligence, I have not had time to understand the details of this industrial zone. I will learn more about the situation later. See you again.
People who don't understand the internal operating structure of the officialdom of the Da Chu Empire would think that Tang Tiangui, as a governor, respected his subordinates so much that he would ask his subordinates for their opinions when making a plan.
But in fact, they just stepped on him to the ground during the meeting!
Because this procedure is wrong!
To put it more seriously, Tang Tiangui did not treat him as the chief envoy in charge of economic affairs, but as an ordinary subordinate counselor.
The Third Rank Councilor of the Great Chu Empire was directly under the jurisdiction of the governor, and its powers were determined by the governor himself, and there were no fixed powers.
But not the Chief Envoy!
In the affairs of a province, the governor can assign counselors or other people to handle other matters, but not economic and people's livelihood affairs, because this is the fixed scope of authority of the chief envoy.
In the imperial edict for the appointment of the Chief Envoy, there will always be this sentence: "Under the control of the governor to handle economic and people's livelihood affairs in a certain place." Although they are still under the jurisdiction of the governor, the powers of the Chief Envoy are clear, that is, to handle economic and people's livelihood affairs. Industry, commerce, and agriculture all fall under his management.
This is also the reason why among all the officials in a province, the chief envoy of the third rank is only one level higher than the governor of the second rank, but higher than all other officials.
As for Cheng Yongfeng, although he is still serving as a provincial councilor from the third rank, he is actually acting as the chief envoy on orders!
Acting as chief envoy is also a chief envoy!
And what he lacks is only a few months of transition time. After a few months of transition, he can naturally take off the word "Agency" above his head and transform from a third-rank counselor to a full-fledged third-rank chief envoy.
However, Tang Tiangui treated him as an ordinary counselor.
How could Cheng Yongfeng bear this? If he didn't take pictures and leave during the meeting, he was worried about the impact.
After all, if he leaves in a hurry, I'm afraid even the ordinary people outside will know the next day that the new governor and the chief envoy are fighting.
As an acting chief envoy who came down from the air, he couldn't do too much, otherwise it would end badly.
Not to mention anything else, just letting His Majesty know that Qianqiu sent me to Guangdong would cause such a big trouble in less than a month, which would be troublesome.
It's not that His Majesty will be unhappy because of the trouble he caused, but that His Majesty will be disappointed in his own abilities.
A chief envoy was so completely ignored...
Yes, everyone knows that Cheng Yongfeng has been sidelined, and he knows it too!
The governor Tang Tiangui is suppressing him at the top, and several councilors are decentralizing power at the bottom. Even that bastard from the Guangzhou prefect dares to step on him. He supported the Dongcheng Industrial Zone in a high-profile meeting at the meeting, talking about various benefits, but the words There were all kinds of instructions from Tang Tiangui inside and outside, but Cheng Yongfeng had nothing to do with him.
You can guess with your toes that this Guangzhou prefect is Tang Tiangui's direct confidant, otherwise he wouldn't have danced so happily at the meeting.
Damn it, if I offend you and read a book, if you write a few more letters, you can still be promoted to a third-rank counselor in this life, and I will take your surname!
But...he can't do this kind of thing, even secretly. Others may not know it, but as the former first-class secretary, Cheng Yongfeng knows very well that one by one of those senior officials in the court, they did it at night. The Internal Affairs Department of the Hanlin Academy would have a chance and report it to the emperor.
If you engage in some shameful tricks in private, His Majesty will definitely know about it.
Of course, there is a high probability that His Majesty will pretend to be stupid. In the past few years, Luo Zhixue basically pretended not to see the dirty things done by so many ministers in private... Because if he really wanted to take care of it, he would have to kill all the officials in the dynasty. .
However, even if His Majesty doesn't care, it will still leave a very bad negative impact on His Majesty. This negative impact is not anything else, but the impact on work ability.
Just like you can't completely fall out with Tang Tiangui openly,
And the two parties completely fell out... Although Tang Tiangui would be reprimanded, his ability to work, especially at the local level, would be deeply doubted.
Maybe some people will say that a person who carries bags and serves tea in the secretariat has the nerve to go to the local government to take charge of the livelihood of tens of millions of people?
As soon as I came down, I had a falling out with the local people. Why, are you going down to become an uncle?
Don't look for any random reasons. If you really want to ask for a reason, there is only one reason: there are so many Beijing officials sent abroad every year, why can't they work here?
Others will not be completely ignored, but you are?
Is it someone else's fault or your own?
Cheng Yongfeng absolutely does not want to be judged as incompetent!
Cheng Yongfeng is not just a person who carries bags and serves tea. Not to mention assisting His Majesty in handling various military and political affairs in the Secretariat, he also had a very rich resume before joining the Secretariat.
In his early years, he worked in the Ministry of Personnel Affairs, and later served as a magistrate and magistrate. Later, he went to Beijing to work as a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel Affairs, and later joined the Secretariat.
He, Cheng Yongfeng, also started fighting from the bottom, not a jester.
Isn't it just playing power? I, Old Cheng, will put down my posture and have some fun with you, Tang Tiangui, to see who is better!
It's just that before you can play with power, you have to find a way to increase the real power at hand, and you also have to win over a few councilors and prefects, as well as a number of department heads and other officials.
Pulling a group and beating a group is the right way.
After all, the governor's office is so big, and he, the chief envoy, is at best the second in command, and he is still an empty second in command. He cannot do it by himself.
The first and most important thing is to grasp economic affairs, especially the most important industry and agriculture in economic affairs. These two powers are the greatest authority of his chief envoy.
No one else is allowed to get involved, not even the governor Tang Tiangui!
The provincial governor's yamen consists of governors, chief envoys, inspectors, and four or more councilors. These governors' yamen are senior officials of third rank or above.
There are rules for their work allocation. Generally speaking, the governor is in charge of the overall situation, sets the strategic direction, and pushes the situation in the predetermined direction.
The chief envoy is responsible for taking charge of economic and people's livelihood affairs. Specifically, the main ones are industry and commerce, agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry. The specific focus depends on the local economic structure. For example, in Monan Province, the most important thing is animal husbandry. The scale of industry, commerce, agriculture and forestry is too small to be on the table.
Due to the developed economy in Guangdong, the chief envoy's authority mainly focuses on industry and commerce, as well as agriculture, where food is the most important thing for the people.
The Chief Envoy is the Inspector-General. Like the Counselor, this Inspector-General is from the third rank. Some are transferred from the Counselor, and some are directly appointed by the Director of the Patrol Department. They are mainly in charge of judicial affairs. Of course, the jurisdiction of this judicial affairs basically does not control the inspector. The Court and the Trial Court, these two institutions are directly under the superior authority and have nothing to do with the governor's yamen.
Then there are the counselors, from the third grade, the number of people ranges from two or three to as many as five or six. The situation in each province is different and the number configuration is different.
According to the instructions of the governor, the counselors manage different affairs respectively, or are responsible for official affairs, etiquette and education, water conservancy and flood control, transportation infrastructure, farming and mulberry affairs, etc. There is no clear scope of management, and the governor directly assigns powers.
The above people constitute the decision-making circle in the governor's office and are also a handful of the top civil servants in the province.
Come and try it quickly. 】
Well, the officials of the three major institutions of the provincial taxation bureau, the supervisory bureau, and the tribunal of justice are not included in the traditional civil service hierarchy, and the people who govern the yamen are not from the same group.
People basically don't like the governor's yamen.
The reason why the provincial yamen of the Great Chu Empire formed this kind of decentralized political management was that other prefectures, states, counties, and towns also had similar decentralized management models, which mainly imitated the Gyeonggi's participation system.
