1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 421 Who is in charge

Whether it's the internal credits of the Ministry of Justice or the public praise of the executive committee, this is already a great achievement for a naturalized citizen.Fu Li has been in the Haihan system for nearly two years, and he has gradually become familiar with Haihan's bureaucratic system. He also knows that receiving these official rewards will play an important role in his future development, so he is naturally very excited.

Not only that, but the executive committee also decided to assign him a new task, which is to be fully responsible for the reception and accompanying work of Huang Que, the representative of Shizidong, during his stay in Sanya.It was like drowsiness meeting a pillow. Before Fu Li had time to apply, the executive committee took the initiative to hand over the job to him.Of course, in terms of the current situation of the naturalized civilian cadres under various departments, there are indeed not many senior cadres from the Li nationality, and there are even fewer people like Fu Li who know the basics, are loyal enough, and are relatively good at handling things. He also participated in the work of the previous stage throughout, and then continued to complete the remaining tasks, so that there would be no disconnected handover.

Just as Fu Li expected, the oriole was overwhelmed by the prosperity here when it entered Victory Port by boat.Danzhou has been the furthest place since Huangque was born. However, compared with Shengli Port, the port of Danzhou Bay is at most the size of a rural wharf. Most of them are civilian ships and fishing boats, and merchant ships can only be seen every now and then. one ship.In the past, there were two large freight exporters in Danzhou, the salt field and the coal field, but after the Haihan people settled here in Shengli Port, these two businesses in Danzhou have basically been occupied by Haihan's high-quality and cheap refined salt and clean coal. Even the people in the coal yard have run away, and the merchant ships that go to the local area to engage in trade are becoming more and more rare.

Danzhou has become so depressed, how can the counties under its jurisdiction be better?In a small place like Changhua, many materials have to be supplied from Danzhou, not to mention the market situation.And the small port on the coast of Changhua is even smaller than the Shengli Port. Huang Que was shocked when he saw the densely packed ships berthed at the shore wharf.

Fu Li understood Huang Que's feelings very well, because when he walked out of the mountains and came to Victory Port two years ago, he also suffered a similar impact.However, at that time, the renovation of Victory Harbor had not yet been completed, and there were not many foreign merchants visiting here, which was not the same as today's prosperity.If what he saw at that time was the current appearance of Victory Port, he might not have reacted as calmly as Huang Que.

Fu Li immediately went to the guest house to look for the oriole after he was assigned a task by the executive committee.Just as Fu Li expected, the oriole was obviously full of curiosity about everything in this place, including the ceramic bathroom and running hot water in the room. All the new gadgets that could be touched made this young man who had just left the mountain full of curiosity. A desire to find out.

Huang Que was also very happy to see that Fu Li had arrived. He happened to have a lot of problems and couldn't find anyone to ask them for advice.

"Look, Fu Li, when the water pipe is twisted, the water will flow out by itself, the cold water goes to the left, and the hot water goes to the right, what's the reason?" Ask yourself the puzzling question: "Could it be that there are two streams of spring water connected to this pipe, one of which is a hot spring?"

Fu Li smiled and said: "Your imagination is good. Although you missed it, it is not far away. This water pipe is not a spring connected to it, but a large water tank on the roof. When you twist this end, the water will automatically It was pressed out of the pipe. One of the tanks has been heated with coals, and what comes out is naturally hot water."

"So that's the case, but why do the Haihan people have to do such a laborious thing? Isn't it enough to dig a well in the yard?" Huang Que asked puzzled.

"Digging a well requires carrying water, wouldn't it be better to just unscrew it?" Fu Li responded.

The oriole shook its head and said, "But you said that the water tank is placed on the roof, so don't you have to carry the water to the roof?"

"No, come and see." Fu Li brought the oriole to the window, pointed to the roof of another row of buildings in the Guest House and said, "Look, just use a windmill to lift the irrigation device, basically no one needs to be guarded, and the water will flow naturally. It will be poured into the tank."

"So that's how it is, this thing is wonderful!" Huang Que rubbed his fists and said, "After I go back, let Dongzhu also get this kind of thing that can automatically flow water."

"Don't look at it as inconspicuous, it's very expensive to make." Fu Li poured cold water on the high-spirited oriole: "This water tank and water pipes are all made of fine iron. something that can be made."

"Ah..." Huang Que was obviously shocked by Fu Li's answer.Although I am very envious of the convenient setting of the Haihan people, it is obvious that the so-called convenience must be based on certain material conditions, and this is precisely the shortcoming of the Li people's cottage like Shizidong.

"It's nothing, you don't have to envy the life here, if you want, you can also live here in the future." Fu Li spared no effort to sell Haihan's way of life to Huang Que: "You can be like me, while living here Studying here while working, the heads of Haihan are happy to hand over some important work to us Li people. They are not as hostile to us as the Han people in Ming Dynasty. There is no distinction between Han and Lemiao here, only Haihan. identity!"

"Sounds good, but why are the Li people doing things for them, and not they doing things for the Li people?" Huang Que was not immediately seduced by Fu Li's words, but put forward her own opinion.

"That's because the chiefs are capable enough! They know everything about astronomy and geography. Everything you see in Victory Port was designed by the chiefs, and then built bit by bit with the people here. What they can do , we can’t do it, but we can follow them to do more things!” Fu Li pointed to the Shengli Port Wharf in the distance outside the window and said: “This is the most prosperous port in Qiongzhou Island now, but the chiefs hope that one day the entire Qiongzhou The island has become the most prosperous area in the South China Sea! Wouldn't it be very interesting if the chiefs ruled Qiongzhou Island one day?"

"You mean... Haihan will occupy Daming's place one day?" After all, Huang Que felt the authority of the Ming court since she was a child, and she didn't dare to agree with Fu Li's arrogant argument.

"You don't have to one day, go out now and grab someone on the street to ask, who is in charge here, the Ming government, or the supreme Haihan Executive Committee!" Fu Li laughed: "I promise you won't listen Until the second answer appeared. The authority of the executive committee here has already surpassed that of Daming!"

Huang Que was puzzled and said, "But when I went ashore, I saw the flag of the Ming Inspection Department on the pier..."

"The Daming Yulin Inspection Department is now under the orders of our Haihan Justice Department." Seeing Huang Que's unbelievable expression, Fu Li smiled and said: "I know you probably won't believe this kind of thing. We will go to the pier later Talk to the people in the Inspection Department, and you will understand."

Of course, the inspection department is under the jurisdiction of the Yazhou prefecture, but in view of the current special political environment in Yazhou, all local Ming government departments are under the orders of the Haihan Executive Committee, and the inspection department is no exception.As for Wei Ping, he has long since forgotten his morals after he tasted the sweetness. If the executive committee still needs to maintain the existence of the Inspection Department, I am afraid he would have quit his old job and gone to Apply for a naturalized citizen status with better benefits.

Of course, besides inspecting the official position of Ming Dynasty, Wei Ping also has an informal establishment on Haihan's side.Before the Haihan militia launched a large-scale attack on Hue, the Executive Committee and the Yazhou government established a cooperation organization for maintaining security. The main purpose was to manage the large number of Ming immigrants who had recently poured into the Sanya area in the name of joint law enforcement.The main source of these immigrants is from Guangdong and Guangxi. The weight of Haihan in the hearts of the new immigrants is obviously not as important as that of Daming, and the law enforcement actions of the police department are often resisted by the new immigrants.

Under such circumstances, the executive committee had no choice but to resort to the tried and tested shield of the Ming government again.Fortunately, now the Yazhou government and the executive committee basically have a relationship of wearing a pair of trousers, and naturally they will not be too entangled with this "small problem". The Yulin, Fenghuang, and Nanshan inspection departments under the prefecture formed a joint law enforcement brigade with the police department under the Haihan Executive Committee to manage the civil security affairs in the area from the Liangjiang River Basin to Nanshan Town—in fact, The scope of the Sanya New District planned by the Executive Committee.

And the head of this temporary joint law enforcement team is Wei Ping, and the deputy is Ren Liang from Haihan's side.Of course, this kind of appointment must be a deputy with real power, but the principal is just a temporary position.And the adoption of such an organization is also to facilitate the law enforcement and handling of immigrants - those who obey Haihan will be managed according to Haihan's rules, and those who do not obey Haihan will be governed by Ming's laws.

In terms of law formulation and implementation, Haihan's method is obviously more scientific and rigorous. The Ministry of Justice in charge of Gu Kai refers to various professional laws of later generations, and formulates a legal framework for all aspects of social life. The Daming Law is mainly Five punishments, ten evils, and eight suggestions.Among them, "Ming Li" has 47 articles, which is the outline of the entire law.The household law, which is closely related to ordinary people, is divided into seven volumes: "Household Service", "Field House", "Marriage", "Warehouse", "Course", "Money Debt" and "Store", covering the Social fields such as population, household registration, religion, land, taxation, corvee, marriage, banknote law, treasury, salt law, tea law, alum law, business tax, foreign trade, lending, market, etc. seem to be rigorous, but in Gu Kai The eyes of this legal expert are full of loopholes.

The meaning of the Executive Committee is to implement the Haihan legal system as early as possible in its own area, so although the inspection department usually takes the initiative to arrest people, the trial and execution are in the charge of the Haihan Justice Department. .This kind of strange situation that only appeared in a special period was also used by later generations of scholars as research materials for the history of law after a long time.

Half an hour later, Fu Li and Huang Que found Wei Ping on the pier of Sanya Port, where he was supervising the assembly of a ship of new immigrants from Guangzhou.The department that Wei Ping usually deals with the most is the Ministry of Justice besides Commerce and Trade. He naturally recognizes Fu Li, the little celebrity in the Ministry.After listening to Fu Li's explanation of his purpose, Wei Ping signaled them to follow him to the office tent.

"Have you seen this seal? Yulin Inspection Department, do you recognize this thing?" Wei Ping picked up the official seal and handed it to Huang Que.

Huang Que looked at Fu Li and saw him nodding, then took his hand to confirm.

"How useful this thing can be depends on how much combat power you have in your hand and how powerful your backstage boss is. A name alone is of no use. In the early years, Victory Port was often Some pirates went ashore, and even the guards set up by the Ming government and army were withdrawn, and the Yulin Inspection Department is just an empty sign.” Wei Ping said with some sighs: “I have been an inspection officer for four years. The fact that I came to Yulin to do things is actually after the Haihan people built Shengli Port here. If there were no Haihan people, this place would still be a wasteland, so the Haihan people want to take care of this place, I am convinced. Yes. As for the inspection department of Ming Dynasty, it is really not necessary, if not for some immigrants from Ming Dynasty who are not so peaceful, and the executive committee doesn’t want to make troubles, this inspection department could have been abolished long ago.”

Huang Que had spent a few days on the territory of the Han people, and knew the general relationship between the top and bottom of the Ming Dynasty's officialdom system. After hearing what Wei Ping said, he couldn't help asking: "Then the inspection department obeys the orders of the Haihan people, and Yazhou doesn't care. ?”

"Master Zhizhou also listens to the Executive Committee." Wei Ping said with a smile: "Master Zhizhou's precious son-in-law, General Luo Shengdong Luo of Yacheng Shuizhai, is now the largest private salt dealer in Qiongzhou Island, and the source of his supply is the Shengli Port Salt Field. , which side do you think Master Zhizhou will help?"

"What about Qiongzhou Prefecture?" Huang Que continued to ask.

"Those officials in Qiongzhou Fucheng just want to make money. As for who is an official in Yacheng and who is in charge of affairs, they don't care at all." Wei Ping shook his head helplessly and said: "The Haihan Executive Committee sends There are at least tens of thousands of taels of silver in Qiongzhou Fucheng. Even if those officials don’t give Haihan face, they will definitely give these silver face. Haihan people in Yazhou can do whatever they want, as long as they don’t openly raise their flags to rebel. It doesn’t matter who is in charge here.”

Speaking of this, Huang Que can probably feel the extent of Hai Han's prestige in the local area.Since even the official law enforcement agency like the Inspection Department is helping the Haihan people, it seems that the Haikou that Fu Li boasted about before may be true.Thinking of this, Huang Que couldn't help becoming more curious about Haihan as a group.

(End of this chapter)