1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 404 Adjustment and Planning ([-])

On March 1641, 4, Hanzhou, Jianye City.

The Dutch fleet that was stuck in Jianye Port last month finally left after wandering for more than ten days and went to their Ocussi stronghold on Timor Island to obtain necessary supplies.

After Han Zhou sent two flying fish boats to search around, he finally confirmed that the meddling Dutch had retreated.Immediately, the large amount of materials accumulated at the dock was quickly loaded, and the latest instructions from Jianye City were sent to various parts of Hanzhou along with the goods.

Qi Yuanshan sat quietly on a chair by the wall, watching Qi Tian flip through the confessions of a dozen of Hu Wenjin's guards, waiting for his instructions.

In fact, the confession about Hu Wenjin's plot to assassinate Qi Tian has already been obtained, and all the facts have been announced to Hanzhou.But Qi Tian still instructed Qi Yuanshan to continue to press for other information that the Ottoman guards knew, about the development of the Nanyang True God religion, and the political, economic and military intelligence of several Sudanese kingdoms.Even, some basic information about the distant Ottoman Empire must be obtained from these people.

In short, all the things these people know must be dug out one by one, and any information they confess will be recorded and archived.For Qi Tian's request, Qi Yuanshan vaguely knew his purpose.

In the future, Hanzhou will not only focus on Nanyang and Ming Dynasty, but also open its perspective, look at the whole world, and gradually understand India, Persia, Ottoman, and even Europe.

"It's been more than a month. It should have been dug out." Qi Tian put down the thick confession record in his hand, looked up at Qi Yuanshan, "deal with all those Ottoman guards, don't keep a single one. As for those Mingren guards..., kill them too."

Qi Yuanshan nodded, and then asked softly: "What about Hu Wenjin's wives and children?"

"..." Qi Tian was stunned for a moment, then said: "Leave them here, they are all poor people. Let's discuss later..."

"There are nearly 40 people involved in the Black Clothes Guard and the Patrol Office. Do we need to deal with all of them?"

"How many people are informed and how many people are deceived, have you screened it?"

"Nine people were directly involved in the planning, and the rest should be acting under the orders of the superior."

"Those who participated in the plan were executed, and those who did not know the truth were all sent to Weiyuan City (now Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) and sentenced to five years of hard labor. The commander of the black guards was replaced by Cao Ming, and the commander of the patrol department was Guo Linlu. He was transferred to Danyangbao (now Gladstone, Australia) as the commander, and his position was taken over by Zhang Kai."

In response to the major change in Hanzhou this time, Qi Tian, ​​in addition to directly dealing with the personnel involved in the planning, took the opportunity to replace all the key departments with his own people.

Although Zhang Jiawen, the commander of coastal defense, was not recruited by Hu Wenjin to participate in it, his attitude was ambiguous. He was transferred to the head of the Military and Political Logistics Department, and Chen Changyi, the head of the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, replaced him.

At the same time, the Hanzhou Gendarmerie was newly established, with Qi Dalu as the commander.The main duties are to guard Jianye City, defend important military places and government agencies, and escort military supplies.In wartime, it is still necessary to maintain military discipline, restrain the behavior of soldiers, enforce battlefield discipline, and interrogate prisoners of war.

As for local personnel adjustments, it is mainly aimed at several overseas territories.Considering that the commander of Xinsheng Island (now Fuguo Island, Vietnam), Hu Pingjiang and Hu Wenjin are uncles and nephews of the same clan, and they have served in this position for more than four years.Therefore, after the immigrant fleet arrived near Daming in June and July, he would be recalled to the mainland of Hanzhou to serve as the governor of the newly established Yunyang area in the east of Hanzhou, and preside over the colonization and settlement of the area south of Yunyang (now Mackay, Australia). Zhang Wenqi, commander of Hanxing Island, succeeded him.

As for Hanxing Island (today's Miyako Island in Japan), Chen Dalang, the commander of Xinxiangbao, went to take office. In addition to the main island, he also took charge of the nearby Xinghe Island (today's Ishigaki Island in Japan) and Luzon's Ping'an Island (today's Catan in the Philippines). Tunes Island), continue to improve and develop these most critical immigration transit points.Luo Ziwei, Qi Tian's father-in-law, succeeded Chen Dalang as the commander of Xinxiangbao.

Many discerning people can easily see from the recent personnel adjustments that Qi Tian is quickly placing his confidantes, or officials who agree with his ideas, in various key departments and important areas of Hanzhou.Some old Hanzhou people who were not able to use them began to gradually withdraw from the affairs department.

Although their actual power has been stripped, they still enjoy a relatively high political and economic status in Hanzhou.In Hanzhou, besides the first batch of Chinese merchants from Batavia, the establishment of workshops and business companies, these former Hanzhou veterans, with their extensive contacts and strong economic strength, opened many small factories, Workshops, and some established a number of trading companies through the resources of the Hanzhou Navy and the immigrant fleet to resell materials and commodities that were urgently needed in various places.

Qitian is positive about the investment of private capital in Hanzhou, and all industries are fully liberalized, because the current lack of production capacity in Hanzhou cannot meet the growing needs of Hanzhou people.If all industries rely on the Hanzhou government to invest, it will definitely not be able to take into account all social needs.

The newly established Hanzhou Bank, in addition to undertaking the management and regulation functions of the central bank of later generations, also takes care of the private capital lending business.Hanzhou Big Bank plans to set up local branches and sub-offices in every town in Hanzhou and overseas territories, and conduct fund review and lending to workshops, commercial companies, and even individuals that need funds.

With the government's encouraging policies, fund-raising channels, and gradually increasing market demand, Hanzhou's various private factories (fields), as well as individual industrial and commercial households, will surely show explosive growth.Over time, Hanzhou and several overseas territories will gradually form a production and consumption market that has begun to take shape.Then, through continuous increase in market investment and improvement of new technologies or new production methods, and with the increase in population and expansion of colonized areas, it will eventually in turn drive the overall industrial and agricultural progress of Hanzhou.

Of course, with the continuous improvement and improvement of production technology and production mode, the production scale will also expand accordingly. At that time, the surging capital will not only meet the limited domestic market demand, but they may actively promote Hanzhou's external expansion. Seek a broader overseas market, just like a certain colonial empire in later generations.

"Commander, this is the resetting of the civil government organization. Let's take a look. What changes, additions or deletions need to be made?" Pan Qifeng came to Qi Tian respectfully after seeing Qi Yuanshan leave, and presented a Han The structure of the state government was reorganized.

After Qitian took over the position of the Grand Commander of Hanzhou more than a month ago, he handed over the position of chief executive of the civil government to Pan Qifeng, who was responsible for the specific management of Hanzhou's civil affairs.Compared with being a bit cautious when reorganizing the military government, Qi Tian was relatively able to make a one-word decision on the civil government that he had been in charge of for several years.

Given that the current population of Hanzhou has more than [-], and there are more than [-] administrative prefectures, counties, and towns, civil affairs have also increased and refined accordingly.Qitian directly upgraded the specifications of the civil government, and set up the Prime Minister's Office, imitating the establishment of Ming and later institutions, with various functional departments, departments, divisions and other institutions to manage all civil affairs in Hanzhou.

Pan Qifeng immediately changed from the general manager of the Hanzhou government to the prime minister of the Hanzhou cabinet. Although this position is called differently from the first assistant of the Ming cabinet, he secretly thought that he was the cabinet scholar of Hanzhou, which the literati dreamed of. The highest honor (official position).Coming here today is to present to Qi Tian the establishment of cabinet departments and the list of candidates for each chief officer in order to form a new cabinet.

"This Department of Industry and Commerce must be listed separately from the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, so that we can carry out detailed management and overall planning of the increasing number of business affairs in Hanzhou." Qi Tian looked at the various departments of the cabinet, and then said: "In addition, there are also To add a trial and judicial department, it is best to be independent and not affiliated to the following prefectures and counties and several general districts. To take over all the judicial duties of the original prefectures and counties, it must be impartial according to the laws promulgated by Hanzhou Trial."

"Yes, Commander." Pan Qifeng nodded in agreement and said, "Then our cabinet will add another Dali Temple, which will be of the same level as other departments to independently hear cases from various places."

"Dali Temple?" Qi Tian was taken aback for a moment, and then realized the meaning of the name of this official position, um, it must be Dali Temple.

"Commander, I have another question here, and I need to ask you for instructions." Pan Qifeng pondered for a while, and said: "Recently, many workshop owners and shopkeepers of business companies have asked me about the Hanzhou People's Government, oh, the Prime Minister's Office of the Cabinet. According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, in the past year, with the successive arrival of the previous immigrant service period, many clerks and workers left one after another, and went to the nearest colonization point to accept the land granted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. As a result, many private workshops and commercial companies There is a shortage of manpower, almost unsustainable."

"Won't those factory owners and shopkeepers give more salaries to those guys and workers who are leaving, and find a way to keep them all?"

"Commander, you may have underestimated the strong desire of the immigrants to obtain a piece of land!" Pan Qifeng said: "The immigrants who came to Hanzhou, when they arrived, they were almost all alone, or even empty. After living in Hanzhou for several years, it is enviable to see those immigrants who came early have granted fields, built houses, and had a family business that can be passed on to their children and grandchildren. Therefore, the various folk workshops and commercial companies Almost all the workers wait until the three-year service period expires, and immediately go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to settle in a new colony site so that they can be granted land."

"What about the factory under the control of the civil government?" Qi Tian couldn't help asking curiously.

"Although the workshops and commercial companies under the control of the civil government will have many immigrants who leave after the expiration of the service period, a large number of immigrants arrive in Hanzhou every year, and they will be uniformly distributed according to the civil government. Let the workshops and commercial companies controlled by the Ministry of Civil Affairs It can receive a lot of new apprentices, which just fills the vacancies after the personnel leave."

"In addition, when the service period expires, half of the staff will choose to continue to stay in the workshop trading company, or they are greedy for the convenience of life in the city, or they think that it is a government-run workshop with more guarantees and more welfare items. There are many folk workshops."

Qi Tian was a little speechless when he heard this, most ordinary people's love for the land is deeply rooted in their bones, and they always want to save some money and try to get a piece of land that can be passed on to future generations.However, Hanzhou wants to encourage industry and commerce and promote industrialization. If there is no supply of a large amount of cheap labor, how can the immature Hanzhou industry continue to advance.

In a factory, it is very easy to train skilled workers, but after a few years, people don't want to work anymore, and they have to accept the government's land grant and become farmers. How can this not worry the workshop and trading company!
However, it would be unfair to them if the immigrants from the workshops and trading companies were not allowed to accept the land granted by the government.However, if the factory owners want to increase the treatment of workers to retain workers to continue working, it will inevitably erode their profits and affect the continuous expansion of investment scale.

We must know that when the population of Hanzhou was not abundant, there was no so-called surplus of agricultural labor.Moreover, officials from various prefectures, counties, administrative districts, and overseas territories welcome any increase in the population of the region, and are competing with handicrafts and commerce for labor in disguise.

"Starting from May this year, all immigrants who apply for land grants will not be resettled on the spot in principle, but will all be sent to the new settlements in the eastern part of Hanzhou. In this way, it may be possible to somewhat prevent some workers from quitting the industrial and commercial fields." Qi Tian thought for a while Yes, said: "In addition, you can encourage the shopkeepers of those workshops and trading companies to send people to Daming to find ways to bring people back. These people can extend the service restriction period to five years."

"They don't have a boat." Pan Qifeng was taken aback for a moment. Is the Grand Commander planning to transfer part of the immigration affairs to the people?

"They don't have a boat themselves, so they can rent a boat controlled by the government. If one person can't afford the cost, they can rent a big boat with several people, or even a dozen people." Qi Tian said with a smile: "Think about it, as long as you pull people When you come back, you only need to pay a small amount of money every month, and you can use it for five years if you have enough food. They must be able to settle this account themselves!"

(End of this chapter)