Qiming 1158

Chapter 1491 Knowing mistakes can change Xie Yuanliang

After Xie Yuanliang really reformed, he followed Su Yonglin's footsteps and promoted the establishment of grassroots political power in Guangzhou and outside Guangzhou, built communication channels between organizations at all levels and the government, and expanded the Guangzhou Renaissance from scratch. the size of the organization.

Then he made great achievements in the work of local public opinion consultation rooms. He built local public opinion consultation rooms from scratch, fully integrated with the people, built a fairly smooth transmission channel, and continued to serve the people.

In Hongwu 11th and Hongwu [-]th years, government affairs and revival association assessments, Xie Yuanliang was rated as excellent in both the imperial court system and the revival association system, and he was one of the very few officials and members who achieved excellent evaluations at both levels.

So in March of the 11th year of Hongwu, Xie Yuanliang was officially promoted to be the governor of Guangdong Xingshangshu Province, officially in charge of Guangdong Province, and became the first governor of Guangdong Province since its establishment.

Afterwards, the Guangzhou Renaissance Association and its temporary organizations were officially recognized by the center of the Renaissance Association, and expanded into the Guangdong Provincial Renaissance Association.

Xie Yuanliang was subsequently promoted to the deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Revival Association Branch, and officially entered the top management of the Ming Dynasty and the Renaissance Association.

This period was also a period of large-scale construction and development in Guangdong Province, which basically inherited the achievements of the previous 1000 years of development in Guangdong.

Xie Yuanliang was hands-on, guarded against arrogance and impatience, and followed Su Yonglin's approach of conducting research in local areas and then promulgating policies. He led people to conduct research and inspections from county to county, and counted the area of ​​wasteland, fertile land, mountains, rivers and lakes, and provided information on agricultural production, industry and commerce in various places. Evaluate development prospects.

From the ninth year of Hongwu to the end of the tenth year of Hongwu, while small-scale rebellions continued to break out in various places, Xie Yuanliang worked tirelessly and dangerously, and spent [-] months doing in-depth research and inspections on the entire Guangdong province.

On this basis, at the beginning of the 11th year of Hongwu, he submitted a memorandum of "Guangdong Xingshangshu Province's Development Outline" to Su Yonglin, with nearly a million words in eloquence.

After Su Yonglin read it, he greatly appreciated the performance.

He noted that Xie Yuanliang used the county as the reporting unit, and a county-by-county detailed description of the county's historical evolution, geographical and hydrological conditions, climatic conditions, land conditions, resource conditions and population conditions. made an estimate.

And he also made a budget for the manpower, material resources and funds required for the development of this region through more precise calculations, and gave detailed and reliable data.

For this rigorous attitude, the Ministry of Finance first spoke highly of it, believing that if local officials across the country had the attitude of Xie Yuanliang, their overall planning would be much easier.

At that time, Lin Jingchun also highly praised Xie Yuanliang, saying that one more local official like this would make him live an extra ten years.

Su Yonglin even joked about whether ten more officials like this would make him live 100 years longer.

Whether I should say it or not, it is better to do a truly meaningful thing after saying it a hundred times that I know I am wrong. Su Yonglin saw Xie Yuanliang's serious action to correct his mistake, and Su Yonglin also let Su Yonglin know that Xie Yuanliang has really changed his mind.

So on the issue of promotion, Su Yonglin will not be vague.

Later, when Su Yonglin promoted Xie Yuanliang, he also advertised the matter.

He set Xie Yuanliang as a model for local officials to have good governance, praised them vigorously, and called on officials across the country to learn from Xie Yuanliang's spirit of walking the mountains and rivers down-to-earth, do things in a down-to-earth manner, conduct evaluations seriously, and do not engage in false and empty things.

With Xie Yuanliang's lead, there has indeed been a wave of local investigations among officials across the country, especially among middle and high-level officials, and there is a faint tendency to make this trend a fixed practice, which is a good thing.

In the past, some high-level local officials had a one-sided understanding of their own jurisdictions, relying mainly on reports from their subordinates rather than conducting research on their own.

This situation was deeply criticized by Su Yonglin, who repeatedly rebuked these high-level local officials for breaking away from the masses.

And now, with the leadership of Xie Yuanliang's example, Su Yonglin can also target and solve this problem in a targeted manner.

After Xie Yuanliang brought a wave of new trends in Guangdong Province, he did not step up in terms of specific development. He could analyze and investigate, and he could do things the same.

Guangdong Province was first established. Although the first wealth was accumulated through the land revolution and local tyrants, the amount of wealth was limited, so it needed financial support from the Ministry of Finance of Central Capital.

Su Yonglin held a meeting with the Ministry of Finance and agreed to the request of Guangdong Province.

The financial support required by other provinces is directly allocated by Zhongdu, but because of the existence of Guangzhou Shipping Division in Guangdong, the final conclusion is to allocate a certain amount of the annual tariff revenue of Guangzhou Shipping Division to Guangdong Province. as central financial support to local governments.

With money, land and manpower, Xie Yuanliang flexed his muscles and launched a large-scale infrastructure construction campaign in Guangdong Province to persuade farmers to cultivate.

In more than two years, Xie Yuanliang has more than tripled the area of ​​land under cultivation in Guangdong Province, and the large-scale production movement is in full swing.

More meaningfully, he also greatly increased the number of households in Guangdong that pay taxes directly to the government, greatly increasing the government's legal revenue.

The population of the exterminated landlords and barbarian tribes was liberated by the Ming army and became registered accounts.

Some mountain escapees who had been cornered into the mountains were also persuaded to become registered accounts.

People who had not been strictly investigated because of the government's inaction and laziness were also checked out and re-registered.

Births in the past two years are also registered.

In just two years, not many immigrants have entered Guangdong and Guangxi, but the total number of people in Guangdong Province has expanded from [-] million in the first survey of Hongwu in nine years to [-] million.

This is obviously not a natural factor, but a large number of people caused by human factors that have not been included in the statistics, and cannot be included in the statistics.

And now this part of the population has been completely included in the statistics, and the productivity they release has increased the productivity of the entire Guangdong by one third.

This move allows the Guangdong government to receive considerable financial revenue in the future without always relying on the financial support of the Central Capital.

At the same time, Xie Yuanliang also vigorously developed other industries besides food production.

Although the tax revenue of sea trade is controlled by the municipal shipping department directly under the central government, Guangdong Province can only get a part of the tariff, but it can't get much money, but commercial trade is not only profitable for overseas bulk trade.

There are also many branches in the catering industry, accommodation industry, transportation industry, etc. The commercial income driven by the large number of floating population brought by Shibosi is also very considerable.

To put it simply, the Ministry of Finance's direct management of the Ministry of Shipping takes a bite of meat, and Guangdong Province can also follow along with a bowl of rich broth, eat some minced meat dregs, and add some protein and oil to its malnourished body.

By developing these industries, the Guangdong government can also receive a commercial tax and increase fiscal revenue, so that more things can be done, more roads can be built, and business development can be more convenient.

Under the management of Xie Yuanliang, the Guangdong province has prospered and developed rapidly, and the neighboring province of Guangxi is not far behind.

Under the leadership of Xu Hua, the provincial governor of Guangxi, the Guangxi area has also carried out quite good construction.

Compared with Guangdong Province, the geographical environment of Guangxi Province is more complex, the cost of expenditure is higher, and it does not have the advantages of Guangzhou Shipping Division.

However, Xu Hua had the cheek to approach Xie Yuanliang to discuss with the intention of not separating Guangdong and Guangxi.

(End of this chapter)