After sending scouts to Jiange, Deng Ming continued to inspect the work of the Chengdu government office and found that most of the work was done roughly. The main reason for this situation was not that Liu Jinge lacked work ability. Although Liu Jinge did a very bad job due to lack of experience, more importantly, there are too many things that the Chengdu government has to manage now.

Since the Song and Ming dynasties, local officials have great power and are the agents of the emperor. They are both the eyes and ears of the court and the minions of the court. However, the actual rights used by local officials are very limited. They compromise with the powerful and clan forces, acquiesced to control the judicial power in the townships, recognize and help them obtain various privileges. Because local officials can't control so many things, they are too busy with the two things of prefectures and counties to determine cases and collect taxes, and they all need the assistance of famous criminals and local tyrants.

Under Deng Ming's intentional guidance, the young Chengdu government office ambitiously intervened in all aspects of society, and its scope of authority far exceeded that of the traditional local government, which of course led to a sharp increase in the burden on the government. Now Chengdu has implemented judicial and administrative separation, which slightly reduced Liu Jinge's burden. Ting Shi is responsible for mediating general civil disputes. Although Ting is an administrative unit, if the people are dissatisfied with the mediation result, they will appeal to the criminal prosecutor instead of complaining to Liu Jinge. Yuan Xiang was very busy with this matter alone. After meeting Deng Ming, Yuan Xiang said that he needed to recruit a large number of divisions and establish a shogunate to complete the work. Deng Ming told him that the staffing could be expanded and more formal criminal prosecutors would be promoted to share the work. Specific training and qualification issues can be further discussed.

Although there is no need to ask about judicial issues, Liu Jinge's work pressure is still ten times that of a local official under normal circumstances, so he can only choose to do some of the most urgent tasks in his opinion.

At a young age and in good health, Liu Jinge didn't seem to realize how much his burden would be in the future. He said, "Admiral, the view of Huyi is that when the farming harvest is mainly for protection fees, and when the farming is slack, Huyi mainly focuses on Chunxi Road..."

As for now, Liu Jinge's main energy is of course on auctioning plowing oxen. In order to grasp the first-hand situation, Liu Jinge has to go to the auction site to supervise almost every day. In recent days, store taxation, water control projects and pavilion construction have not had time to ask about it.

"There is also the problem of reading and recognizing words." Deng Ming asked about education again. He did not give Liu Jinge a clear instruction before leaving, but asked him to collect information first.

"Tingshi is learning words every day, and the pavilion chief has been selected." Liu Jinge didn't seem very confident when answering. Because people's energy is limited, he has not asked about pavilion construction for a long time, so he can only answer Deng Ming based on his impression.

"I asked not only Tingshi, but also other people's questions about lyricism. For example, Yuan Tixing just said that he needed more personnel. As a senator, in addition to justice, he must understand the law? You can't judge right or wrong by throwing copper coins." Deng Ming said with his fingers: "Every business bank needs a custodian and a mate, and the people need to learn how to grow food better. This requires the teacher to teach you."

"These things need to be underestimated?" Liu Jinge was shocked.

"Of course, the prefectural school is in charge of the prefecture." Deng Ming said it well, but in the past, although the prefectural school was nominally responsible by the county magistrate and prefect, they actually did some work assigned to Lu Mi, and occasionally took time to inspect it. The local officials ignored the specific teaching and how to teach. To be precise, they even wanted to manage it but had no energy to take care of it.

However, Deng Ming, who came from modern society, obviously would not ignore education. He told Liu Jinge that Chengdu Prefecture must support the education industry and train qualified accountants and workers to meet the current social needs, promote advanced industrial and agricultural production experience, conduct legal education, and eliminate illiteracy.

Liu Jinge was stunned for a while, and vaguely felt that the workload was probably not less than tax collection. However, Liu Jinge was a young man under the age of 20 after all. He quickly abandoned his fear of difficulties and slapped his chest to Deng Ming and promised: "Don't worry, admiral, even if he doesn't sleep at night, he must do all these things."

"Okay! I'll count on Brother Liu." Deng Ming encouraged a few times, and then came up with another question: "What are your plans for the future selection and assessment of pavilions? And how do you determine the staffing of the officials in the prefect's yamen? How to select? How to replace?"

"This..." In Liu Jinge's impression, both the official and the lieutenant are similar to the lieutenant in the traditional sense. The method of selecting lieutenant is very simple, with blood inheritance and the recommendation of the old official: "Of course, the son inherits his father's business, and the brothers are the younger brothers. If there is a lack of lie, the lieutenant will be recommended by the lieutenant."

"No!" Deng Ming vetoed without hesitation. In his opinion, this was the same as the imperial power in feudal society that did not go to the countryside. It was just because local officials could not control it, so he simply gave it to local tyrants for free. He gave his ideas to Liu Jinge a brief introduction, which was to establish a system of selection and assessment, and a survey of the people's sentiments of fellow scholars.

At this time, Xiong Lan and Yuan Xiang both cast sympathetic eyes at Liu Jinge. They originally thought that the workload of the three of them was similar, but the situation is now very obvious. Although Xiong Lan and Yuan Xiang had to carry three on their backs.

The young man Liu was full of ambition and was full of generous and heroic feelings: "Well, I just told the admiral that I would run the prefectures well if I didn't sleep. For this assessment and selection, it seems that I had to sell two days less and take the time to make it." Liu Jinge thought that if he had to stay up for a few days and establish a set of rules, he promised again: "Don't worry, the admiral, I will personally ask about all the official selection matters."

"Okay." Deng Ming nodded in praise and continued to place a mountain on Liu Jinge's shoulder: "What do you think about water control and road construction?"

"This... is this also a humble position?" No matter how strong Liu Jinge's optimism was, his forehead began to sweat.

"Yes." Deng Ming pointed out that building bridges and paving roads has always been the job of local officials. Although dozens of local officials often did not carry out any road and bridge construction for hundreds of years, at least in name, this still belongs to their work.

Building bridges and roads involves raising funds, organizing manpower, engineering planning, and purchasing land and materials. No work is simple. Under normal circumstances, even if local officials have any ideas in their minds, they will give up if they carefully consider specific difficulties. Not to mention the roads outside the city, even if the roads in the county and the city are not repaired for a hundred years or even hundreds of years, it is common. Therefore, although this is the responsibility of local officials, 99% of officials will not have this idea. They hope that wealthy businessmen and gentry will come forward to do this, and those rich and leisurely people will complete this extremely energy-intensive project. Local officials are willing to use plaques and commendations from the court to repay the leader's hard work.

"Just like Chunxi Road, reasonable road construction can allow us to collect more taxes, which is the government making money; in addition, the construction of the avenue can help us mobilize troops faster, which is conducive to the defense and offense of the capital. This is the government spending money appropriately. Liu Magistrate Liu has time to study it." Deng Ming emphasized the importance of this job, and then threw all the work to Liu Jinge without hesitation.

In addition to building roads, Deng Ming also hinted that Liu Jinge should consider the construction planning of the construction and commercial districts so that Chengdu can become more prosperous, have higher production efficiency, and allow the government to get more benefits.

"I don't know if I can do it." Liu Jinge just thought for a while and felt his scalp numb, and a lot of things that needed to be considered were mixed together, and it was tangled in his mind.

"Magistrate Liu can't do it alone." After hearing Deng Ming's idea, Yuan Xiang thought for a while with interest and found that these things were far more complicated than they imagined. He immediately pleaded with Deng Ming and said, "So many things must be distributed to at least three more people before it is possible to do it."

"If it is divided into several people, it is easy to have their own ways." Deng Ming certainly wanted to separate his powers, because no one could do so many things alone, and he was unwilling to hand over such great powers to one person. The power of traditional governments is very limited compared to modern governments, but local officials can still get everything they want; and it seems that it is not difficult for modern government officials to become billionaires, at least Deng Ming has this impression.

However, everything requires strategy. Although Deng Ming does not trust the self-discipline of officials at all, he will never show distrust of Liu Jinge, Yuan Xiang and others. Deng Ming said worriedly: "If I separate tax collection, education, and construction planning, they may each do their own things. You have heard just now that these things are closely related. My plan is that Brother Liu, you take responsibility for the matter, and Brother Yuan is responsible for reviewing whether the specific methods will be harmful to the people. In this way, the government can make money as much as possible without harming the people."

"It's better to do this," Xiong Lan suddenly made a suggestion: "The admiral can set up a yamen for tax collection, teaching, building bridges and roads or other matters like a bank, but these yamen are under the control of the yamen, like the bank. The yamen Liu is responsible for coordinating the overall situation so that each yamen will not do its own thing. The yamen Liu is responsible for judging whether the methods of different yamen are harmful to other yamen, and Yuan Tixing is responsible for judging whether they will harm the scholars."

Deng Ming looked at Xiong Lan deeply, and the other party did not show any abnormal expression on his face. Deng Ming thought: "Xiong Lan has no intention of concealing, evading or tacit understanding. Maybe he learned from what I said to Yuan Xiang, but this reaction speed was too fast. I thought they needed more time to think, and I had to hint a few more times. I wonder if Xiong Lan thought I was decentralizing power for the sake of decentralization, or did she really solve the benefits of modern decentralization management so quickly?"

"Governor Xiong is right, I'll think about it." Deng Ming felt that the coordination role of the municipal government should be greater than the decision-making role. In addition to preventing **, it can also prevent laymen from leading insiders. Deng Ming planned to establish the Education Bureau, Tax Bureau and Planning Bureau, but in the initial stage, the staff must be laymen. I wonder if laymen will be better than "ladders led by laymen".

Deng Ming felt that Xiong Lan might be a genius who is particularly good at understanding the modern social system: "I handed over the bank to him, and just simply said that he could quickly expand his business, realize the importance of talent training and talent reserve, and actively asked me to recruit more managers and cashiers. Well, no matter which era there will always be such a genius, he should have realized the superiority of modern management methods in the process of running a bank."

Xiong Lan's achievements must be affirmed, and his contribution to helping Deng Ming build a ladder also needs to be commended. Deng Ming announced: "I'll go to President Xiong's bank tomorrow to take a look."

Xiong Lan was immediately excited. Deng Ming was honored to the bank manager, cashier, and security brigade, not to mention the first troops that Deng Ming inspected after returning to Chengdu. Xiong Lan was very confident about the mental outlook of the bank staff. Although she did not go to the battlefield, Xiong Lan's training work was never relaxed, and her armor, knife and gun were wiped like new. The cashier held a stone lock for longer training time every day than when she was in the army. During her spare time during training, Xiong Lan also arranged for the cashier to learn some extra knowledge, including mathematics and writing. Although this had little to do with the military's job, it could also be called the icing on the cake. Xiong Lan firmly believed that Deng Ming would praise him and was very satisfied with the bank troops.

Looking at Xiong Lan's excited face and her confidence, Deng Ming concluded that the bank staff must have been well trained, so he was more looking forward to tomorrow's inspection work.

...

Chongqing.

The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi has always been very cautious about Deng Ming, so as not to be caught off guard by his sudden attack on Chongqing. However, Deng Ming was quite trustworthy, and more than 1,900 prisoners were released safely, and the Ming army did not carry out any publicity that was unfavorable to Li Guoying.

In order to exchange nearly 2,000 prisoners, Li Guoying should have delivered more than 2,000 cattle and the same number of harnesses and iron plows, but Li Guoying did not have so many cattle. After calm and friendly negotiations, Gao Mingzhan finally paid Deng Ming a total of 1,300 oxen and 500 donkeys. The remaining supplies were filled with farm tools, hoes, axes, sickles, saw blades, rakes, etc. Gao Mingzhan found that there was nothing Deng Ming wanted.

In addition to the prisoners of war requested by the Qing army, Gao Mingzhan also brought back a bag full of gold and silver. He whispered to Li Guoying: "This was what Deng Ming asked the subordinates to hand over to the Governor."

At the end of the list of personnel transferred by the Ming army, this treasure that should be transferred by Gao Mingzhan was also mentioned implicitly.

After seeing this bag, Li Guoying was so surprised that she couldn't speak for a long time, and then sneered a few times: "Hmph, Deng Ming thought that with such a little yellow and white thing, could he be able to bribe my official?"

"No," Gao Mingzhan told the truth: "Deng Ming asked the lower officials to tell the Governor that there is no order without rules. No matter what he and the Governor are on the battlefield, since the transaction has to be paid to a small account, this is called 'brother, settle the accounts clearly', and he will never break the rules."

"Bah!" Li Guoying was stunned for a moment, and finally cursed fiercely: "Although Deng Ming is a thief, he is still a giant bandit at least. How could he learn the accent of a businessman like a merchant? This clearly despise me of my official position."

"Who said no?" Gao Mingzhan echoed, but his voice changed: "Then is this burden of gold?"

"Of course I don't want it." Li Guoying replied without thinking and asked casually: "Did Deng Ming give you any small account?"

"No!" Gao Mingzhan replied sternly.

"Well, look, he just wants to humiliate me." Li Guoying firmly believed this.

In his opinion, Gao Mingzhan was once captured, and Deng Ming could not respect a prisoner, nor could he give the prisoner good; if the purpose was not to bribe but humiliation, Deng Ming would not need to give the Gao Mingzhan good, so what humiliation would be heavier than being captured?

"There are probably a few hundred taels of gold. You can share it with Wang Mingde and the others. It will be a shock to you. Besides, it will cost money to rebuild the army." After thinking about it, Li Guoying ordered Gao Mingzhan and said, "You have also worked hard this time."

"Abide by the order, the governor will forget his own selfishness, and the minor officials will definitely be crushed to death to repay him." Gao Mingzhan replied with emotion.

After learning that the Ming army retreated, Li Guoying felt much more relieved. In his opinion, it was not completely unhealthy to exchange a batch of oxen and tools for Deng Ming to retreat. If there were a large amount of military supplies in Chongqing, the Ming army would be jealous. Of course, if Li Guoying evacuated from Chongqing, he would definitely burn all the materials and not leave them for the Ming army, but the other party might have launched an attack with the thought of a matter of fact. However, in Chongqing, both the auxiliary soldiers and the short-lived farm tools of the Ming army were taken away by Deng Ming. It is estimated that the Ming army will not have the idea of ​​attacking Chongqing again. The robbers robbed them all, and they will always have to go back to the village to rest for a while. When there is no rice to be put into the pot again, they will have the urge to rob the robber again.

"We won about two years," Li Guoying calculated Deng Ming's income from robbing Jiangnan and Huguang. It is conservatively estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and tens of thousands of men. Now, with the oxen and farm tools, Deng Ming will not attack too strongly within one or two years. Li Guoying felt that this gave him a chance to breathe: "At least, it won for more than one and a half years, we can calmly return to Baoning and then fight Deng Ming to fight again."

...

"What do you think of the Governor?" Wang Mingde and others asked hurriedly after seeing Gao Mingzhan.

"The Governor wants his share, let us share it ourselves." Gao Mingzhan opened the bag and said to the captured generals around him.

"Then let's divide it."

Everyone first divided the gold into two and half, and half was given to Gao Mingzhan and the three captured generals in Chengdu, and the remaining half was given to Wang Mingde, Hu Wenke and others. The proportion they allocated was the proportion of the small account that Deng Ming paid them.

"Deng Ming is really interesting." After dividing up the gold and silver, everyone talked about the enemy's commander again. When they went to ask for their captured subordinates, Deng Ming actually paid kickbacks according to the number of people they redeemed. In the past, wars were life-and-death, and no one expected such a strange thing to happen.

Because Deng Ming spent most of his gold and silver in Huguang, he had to temporarily print a special IOU to pay to the generals in the Qing army, which was called a discount coupon by him.

"The Governor General said that Deng Ming will not come to attack us again within one and a half years to two years. We should take the opportunity to accumulate strength and attack Chengdu again in two years."

"Can you? Then why is the discount coupon he gave us valid for twelve months?" Hu Wenke took out an IOU to wave it in front of others. This time Hu Wenke redeemed 100 subordinates, and Deng Ming's gold and silver were limited, so he could only give some rebates symbolically, but he generously returned the discount coupon to Hu Wenke's twenty people, and promised Hu Wenke to get back twenty subordinates for free with this submission within one year.

"This means he thinks we will go to Chengdu in one year, right?" Wang Mingde redeemed more than 300 people and received more than 70 rebate coupons from Deng Ming.

"And then be captured by him and redeem it again?" another general asked, and then joked: "General Wang, if you are captured by Deng Ming again, wouldn't you be promoted to that 'very important person'?"

These discount scrolls also contain small words. If more than 500 prisoners are redeemed every year, Deng Ming will upgrade him to a "very important person" and enjoy "the best treatment" in the prison exchange in the next year. If more than 500 prisoners are redeemed for three consecutive years, they can also be upgraded to a "very important person for life". In the future, twenty prisoners can be retrieved for free every year and enjoy new preferential policies that will continue to be introduced in the future.

Now it seems that only Wang Mingde has the opportunity to advance to a "very important person".
Chapter completed!