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"Next!"

Said it was the next one, more than a dozen were escorted in an instant, all tied up by slaves to report to the official.

Zheng Sen walked slowly through the streets and alleys, watching all this silently, his heart was already turbulent.

His biological mother is Tagawa Matsu, the daughter of the owner of Hirado Island in Japan. Zheng Sen lived in Japan until he was seven years old.Just learned to walk, his mother let him practice kendo, and also instilled the spirit of Bushido that had just emerged.

After arriving in Fujian, he was taught by a famous teacher and a great Confucianist. He studied the Four Books and Five Classics for seven years, and learned loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, benevolence, righteousness and propriety.

Until the last half month, Zheng Sen came into contact with Datong Thought.

The booklet "The Collection of Datong" is very thin, and Zheng Sen finished it in one day.It took several days to savor and think carefully. Although it had a great impact on him, it still only stayed in the aspect of thinking.

Now, after witnessing many strange scenes in Guangzhou, and recalling the content of "Datong Collection", Zheng Sen finally has a better understanding.

who is right

From the point of view of classics and principles, Zhao Han did nothing wrong, and all policies are in line with the words of sages.

If "The Collection of Great Harmony" is correct, should the servants of my own family be released?Should they return their freedom?

Fourteen or fifteen-year-olds are easily influenced by advanced theories, and Zheng Sen has already begun to lean towards the booklet "The Collection of Great Harmony".

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foshan.

The wealthy businessman Xie Shijun began to regret that he should not have handed over the firearms at home.

At this moment, a group of officials dared to go to Xie's house to show off their might with water and fire sticks.The rich merchants in the whole town are like this, honestly registering their slaves, there is no room for resistance.

Suddenly, another group of officials came, wearing black clothes with blue borders.

The official who was doing business trembled when he saw the person coming.Although they don't know the people, they know the clothes - ICAC!

"You postpone your work," the ICAC official ordered.

"Yes." Ordinary officials responded quickly.

The ICAC official took out an official document: "Foshan Xie Shijun, Xie Yunwen and his sons bribed Datong military officers 500 taels. With this bad deed, they refused to repent and bribed 300 taels to the Nanhai county magistrate. The Nanhai county magistrate has been imprisoned and confessed. The evidence is all there. Xie Shijun, Xie Yunwen and his sons should be arrested and imprisoned immediately, and a trial date will be set for sentencing!"

Xie Shijun was dragged out and shouted in horror: "I didn't pay bribes, I didn't pay bribes!"

The ICAC official continued to read: "The servant Xie Chong was instigated by Xie's father and son to bribe him, and he was arrested and sent to prison together."

Xie Shijun quickly said: "It was the slave who betrayed the master, the old man has no knowledge of it!"

"Whether you know or not, let's talk about it at the office of the ICAC." The ICAC official sneered.

Seeing the Secretary of the ICAC arresting the three of them, ordinary officials trembled with fear.

Officials in Guangzhou now call the Secretary of the Integrity "Black Clothes Guard", which is already equivalent to Ming Dynasty's "Bright Clothes Guard".These guys seem to be everywhere, arresting corrupt officials everywhere, and now they even took away the owner of the Xie family.

Many wealthy businessmen in Foshan hid at home and dared not go out.

Their original plan was to cooperate with Zhao Han in everything, and when Zhao Han left Guangzhou, they would knock the officials unconscious with money.

But now the Department of Integrity suddenly appeared, and the office of the Department of Integrity in Guangzhou was officially established.In the past few days, a group of domestic slaves have also been recruited as spies, making the wealthy businessmen feel insecure, and they always feel that all the servants at home are the eyes of the Secretary of the ICAC.

Once a bribe is given, at least ten times the fine will be imposed.

If the bribe exceeds a hundred taels, all the embezzlers and bribers will be sentenced to death, and several of them have been publicly killed these days.

The merchants were all terrified, they had never seen anything like this, and they even regretted taking the city and donating it.

Until now, Zhao Han still hasn't made it clear what the rules are for doing business in the future.

To govern a group of merchants, do you still need to fight wits and courage?

First confiscate their firearms, then let them release the house slaves, and what to do with the rest.Zhao Han was annoyed, so he didn't mind killing a few more, and let the Secretary of the Integrity of Government keep an eye on him from now on.

By the way, the merchants in Guangzhou are too corrosive. In the future, people will be sent from Jiangxi regularly to secretly investigate the Integrity Department in Guangzhou, so as to prevent the merchants from corrupting the Integrity Department.

Chapter 271 [Change]

"General Town, the prefect of Qiongzhou has surrendered." Zhang Bingwen sent a military report.

"Down?"

Zhao Han was quite surprised.

Before landing by boat, the top official of Hainan Island actually offered the city to surrender.

When he opened the military newspaper, he burst out laughing.

Jiang Yiming, the magistrate of Qiongzhou, was only a scholar. He spent money to pay tribute to the Imperial College, and then spent money to get a real shortage.No matter how remote the Qiongzhou Prefecture is, it is already the limit for a scholar to be a magistrate, and it is impossible to be promoted again in this life.

Moreover, Jiang Yiming is from Quanzhou, Guangxi, which is next to Huguang.

If he does not surrender, Jiang Yiming has no hope of promotion, and his hometown is likely to be beaten.This guy was very smart, and he took the initiative to write a letter to Zhang Tieniu, cooperating internally and externally to donate the city of Qiongzhou.

Now Zhang Tieniu is fighting across the sea and has occupied the three cities of Qiongzhou, Chengmai and Ding'an.

The lookout of Lingao County is attached.

Putting down the military newspaper, Zhao Han said to Zhang Bingwen: "Order Nanhai County Magistrate, Panyu County Magistrate, Xiangshan County Magistrate, Mission Department, and Farmers' Association. If the three counties do not have enough land and excess population, they will all be relocated to Qiongzhou Island. Let them arrange immigration immediately. The officials were transferred to Qiongzhou Prefecture to sub-fields."

Zhang Bingwen immediately sat down and called Hu Mengtai. After the two finished writing the official document, Zhao Han checked it, signed and stamped it and sent it out.

There are too many people along the coast of Guangzhou, and the land is not enough to distribute, so a group of people must be relocated, otherwise smuggling will be difficult to stop.

It happens to be transferred to develop Hainan Island, killing two birds with one stone.

Alas, immigration is going on again, and most of the grain shipped from Jiangxi has been consumed.

There is no shortage of money, and the four major customs in Guangdong can provide a lot of tax revenue every month.But even if you have money, you can’t buy food. Guangdong has suffered three consecutive years of disasters and wars for three consecutive years.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Han said to Zhang Bingwen again: "Decree that Zhang Tieniu, the hereditary general of Qiongzhou Prefecture, who owns more than a hundred acres of land, will confiscate all his homes! The land will be distributed to military households and common people, and food will be supplied to the immigrants. grain."

There are many guards on Hainan Island. Except for dealing with the Li people in the mountains, they have not fought much in the past 200 years.

I don't know how many lands these hereditary generals have occupied, and how many people they have hidden.

After various orders were issued, Zhao Han said to Zhang Bingwen: "I will return to Ji'an in a few days, you can stay and be the magistrate of Qiongzhou."

"Is this considered exile?" Zhang Bingwen was qualified to joke after following Zhao Han for more than half a year.

Zhao Han said sincerely: "Thank you for your hard work. From now on, the main tasks are to resettle the refugees, reclaim wasteland, and educate the Li people."

Since the incident until now, apart from the officials of the newly established agency, Zhang Bingwen is the third person to be over-promoted.

There is no way to set up a new organization. For example, the navy, Gu Jianshan has been the commander of the navy since he came, and needs to train the navy from scratch.Song Yingxing, Tian Younian and others all belong to this situation.

The first person to be promoted was Liu Huan, the magistrate of Ganzhou in the Ming Dynasty. Due to the complicated situation in southern Jiangxi, he directly served as the magistrate of Ganzhou after the surrender.

The second super-promotion was Deng Yunzhan, a scholar from Guangzhou who came to join him and was directly promoted to be the head of Guangdong Shipping Department.

The third one is Zhang Bingwen, Jiangxi Right Chief Envoy who surrendered. He only worked as Zhao Han's secretary for a few months, and now he will be transferred to be the prefect of Qiongzhou.

At this time, the prefect of Daming Qiongzhou was a guy from a scholar background, so it was conceivable that it was not a good job.

It's like a distribution.

Zhang Bingwen cupped his hands and said, "Do your best."

Zhao Han said with a smile: "If things are done well, you will be promoted to be the right minister of Guangdong in three years' time."

Zhang Bingwen suddenly became motivated. He is 53 years old this year, and if he really wants to get through the magistrate slowly, he is afraid that he will die of old age when he is promoted to the magistrate.

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Zhao Han really left whenever he wanted to. He came to Guangzhou for three purposes: one was to meet Zheng Zhilong, the other was to meet the Portuguese, and the third was to frighten Guangzhou merchants.

Things are done, what are you doing left?

Zhao Han needs to rush back to Ji'an to make a series of administrative adjustments.

Changed the Chief Secretary of Ming Dynasty as a province, and set up Jiangxi Province, Hunan Province, and Guangdong Province.

Following the old system of the Ming Dynasty, each province has a chief secretary, an inspection department, and a capital command department, and the administrative, judicial, and military powers are separated.

The Metropolitan Command Division is temporarily vacant.Its relevant functions and powers belong to the Military Affairs Department and the Military Academy. At least after the unification of the south, the capital command departments of each province will be established.

Jiangxi Province: Ouyang Zheng, the chief minister on the left, and Huo Tao, the chief minister on the right.

Guangdong Province: Liu Ziren, the chief minister of the left, and Liu Mai, the chief minister of the right.

Hunan Province: Yuan Yunlong, the chief minister on the left, and Wan Hongsheng, the chief minister on the right.

This is a huge change. In the past, Jiangxi Province's affairs were actually in charge of the General Military Office, but now a provincial-level institution has finally been established.

Different from Ming Dynasty, Zhao Han's provincial officials did not participate in politics or deliberation.Instead, the Office of Official Selection, the Office of Propaganda and Education, the Department of Finance, the Department of Industry and Commerce, etc. were set up, and the directors of the departments were responsible for affairs in related fields.

A large number of officials are about to be promoted!

The arrangements for coastal trade will be handled by the Guangdong Industry and Commerce Department.Thoroughly promote the business name system of exclusive trade, to put it bluntly, it is the "corporate system".In the future, if you want to open a factory and trade, you must obtain a business name license issued by the Department of Industry and Commerce.

Knowing that Zhao Han was leaving, merchants from Guangzhou came to see him off one after another.

Looking at the fleet that was drifting away, wealthy businessman Guan Jialun sighed, "This King Zhao Yan finally left."

"King Zhao Yan is gone, but the guard in black is still there." Huang Xuanshen shook his head.

Feng Yucheng said: "From now on, let's do business honestly."

Doing business dishonestly is not enough. These wealthy businessmen engage in smuggling because Europeans cannot directly come to Guangzhou for trade.Therefore, they have the opportunity to take advantage of the loopholes and secretly hire fishermen to transport the goods from Guangzhou to Macau.

Now it's cool, merchants from all over the world can trade in Guangzhou.

Moreover, let go of the cargo transportation in Xijiang.A large number of commodities from Jiangxi, Huguang, and Guangxi can be directly transported to Macau through the Xijiang River.

In a word, the maritime ban is completely lifted, and serious maritime merchants do not need to purchase goods through smuggling.

As for those fishermen who used to smuggle, they are all given land now, and they can fish while farming.Those who were not allocated land, some were recruited by the navy, and some would immigrate to Qiongzhou.

Merchants are mixed.

What is worrying is that it will lose its monopoly position on export trade.

The good news is that in the future, you can do business without paying bribes, and you are not afraid that officials will ask for cards.Any official who dares to act recklessly should report directly to the ICAC.

This time Zhao Han killed two families, one named Xie and one named Xu.All the main men were captured and either beheaded or mined, and the women were forcibly assigned to soldiers who did not marry wives.

The cause was bribing officials, and then a bunch of bad things were found out.

For example, the Xu family is involved in human trafficking!

Just when Zhao Han's fleet disappeared, a group of officials suddenly appeared and escorted more than 60 people to the pier.

The rich businessman Deng Yunqiu was trembling with fright: "Which one are we going to kill this time?"

"Go and have a look."

This time it's just an ordinary official post, not the king of Hades from the Secretary of Integrity.

An official announced: "These 62 people are all crutches, abducting good people, kidnapping and extorting, and murdering Shenjiang. The crutches in Nanhai and Panyu counties are all here, and Xiangshan County has also arrested more than 30 crutches. From now on, if there are crutches Any clues can be reported to the officials, don't be afraid of revenge from those villains!"

"Execution!"

Brush brush brush brush!

A group of ten people queued up to behead, and saw the heads falling one by one.

"it is good!"

"Good kill!"

There were thunderous cheers on the pier, and everyone hated these kidnappers.No matter in the country or in the city, there are always men and women who go missing, and it's all due to these guys.

"Execution!"

Brush brush brush brush!

As the lights of swords fell, more and more onlookers gathered. This section of the wharf has become a execution ground, and a group of people will be killed every few days.

In order to prevent the plague, after killing, not only clean up, but also sprinkle lime for disinfection.

"Long live King Zhao!"

"Long live King Zhao!"

I don't know who took the lead and shouted, and countless people followed.

First kill gangsters, then corrupt officials, then kidnappers, and even a group of profiteers.At the same time, domestic slaves were released, low-ranking status was eliminated, household registration was given to homeless people, and land was allocated to peasants and military households.

After a series of measures, Zhao Han has already won the hearts of the people in Guangzhou.