The Red Mansions

Chapter 173 Inspection
On the outskirts of the capital, Xiaoshitan.

In just a few days, workshops sprang up one after another.

Under the scorching sun, tens of thousands of refugees have become workers, sweating and busy.

Although it is tiring, for the refugees who can't even eat, there is work to eat, and they can earn a few pennies a day to support their families. Tiredness is nothing.

There are also scholars among the refugees, who are organized to temporarily act as stewards, just use their pens, not only decent, but also much better than the farmers.

But the most well-paid are those craftsmen, craftsmen, carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, bamboo craftsmen, etc., as long as they have a skill, their salary is generally higher than that of other workshops in the city.

In addition to the workshop, the Eighteenth Workshop has also specially divided the living area, and is building many houses at the same time.

The houses are all brick and tile houses, all of which were built with advance funds from the Xue family, and will only be rented and not sold in the future, so that the workers in the workshop can afford to live in the house in the future.

Jia Yun and Yin Jianghuan of Shuntian Prefecture brought a group of officials to Xiaoshitan for inspection.

Jiang Huan is Jia Yun's teacher.

Regardless of whether Jia Yun is an official in the capital or not, as long as she is in the capital, she will often visit Jiang Huan, so the relationship between the two has always been good.

Shuntian Prefecture is the highest local administrative body in the capital.

The prefect's status is particularly prominent, and his rank is the third rank, which is two to three ranks higher than the general magistrate.

Zhengsanpin Yamen uses copper seals, but Shuntian Mansion uses silver seals. It is the governor and governor of the same feudal Xinjiang official.

Although the 24 counties under the jurisdiction of Shuntian Prefecture are within the jurisdiction of the governor of Zhili, there is no affiliation relationship between the prefect and the governor.

The area outside the capital city wall is under the "dual leadership" of Zhili Governor's Yamen and Shuntianfu Yamen, and major measures must be handled by the Yamen.

Within the walls of the capital, the governor of Zhili has no right to intervene.

Jia Yun's appointment as the censor of Xuncheng inevitably had to deal with Zhili Governor's Yamen and Shuntian Mansion.

Therefore, he not only visited Xu Renzhi and Jiang Huan in his personal capacity before taking office, but also visited them in an official capacity after taking office to win more support from them.

Just like the land in front of me, the Xue family bought it at a low price.

Of course, this land is also a rocky beach, not worth a lot of money, but if it doesn't matter, it is not easy to buy so much land in the capital.

"Zizheng means that he plans to build a small town here that is equivalent to a county seat?" Jiang Huan asked in surprise.

Jia Yun nodded and said with a smile: "Teacher, nearly 5 people have gathered here, and they are already qualified to build a city. Of course, building a city is also for the convenience of registering households and managing refugees."

Jiang Huan pondered for a while, and said: "That's true. Although many refugees have been repatriated during this period, there are still more than one hundred thousand refugees staying in the capital. If these people are all arranged to come here, they must be managed properly." Just do it."

He frowned, sighed and said, "It's summer now. In summer and autumn, there are frequent famines in various places. Maybe there are still many refugees flocking to the capital this year. We can't take them in without restraint, right?"

Jia Yun shook her head and said, "This student has no choice but to take one step at a time."

"To put it bluntly, if we want to truly solve the problem of refugees, we still need the court to think of ways."

"The workshops I let people run can only be used as a temporary solution, and the number of refugees we can take in is limited after all."

After a pause, he said worriedly: "Recently, many people who are seeking to survive in the water transport, after hearing that we are building a workshop here, they also come to grab work. This is extremely detrimental to the resettlement of the refugees!"

Jiang Huan stared and said, "Let Tongzhou's Water Transport Yamen handle this matter. It really adds to the chaos. Don't worry, I will send them a letter as soon as I get back, ordering them to strengthen control. Otherwise, don't blame me for participating in their book."

"At that time, I will also attach a reference book!" Jia Yun said with a smile.

Jiang Huan's face changed from gloomy to sunny, and he said with a smile: "That's not necessary, I can handle this matter, if you get involved, the commotion will become big."

Although Jia Yun's official position is not high, he is a censor and can go directly to Tianting.

If he impeaches any official, the other party must immediately ask for leave and stay at home to wait for the review. It can be seen that Yushi does not impeach easily, but once impeached, it is not a trivial matter.

Jia Yun didn't force it either, he has been looking for someone to impeach recently.

But I don't know what's going on, since he became the censor of Xuncheng, he has formulated many policies, but no one came to trouble him, which made him unable to say anything.

Regarding this matter, Jia Yun asked Jiang Huan for advice by the way.

Jiang Huan smiled and said: "Zizheng, don't rush to impeach others. You are now the five-party city patrol censor, which is completely different from the usual patrol city censor, and your power has greatly increased."

"At the same time, you are also the governor of the patrolling battalion, holding military power, and you are in charge of the military department, so you have done so many things now, but none of them have exceeded your scope of authority."

"Although you have done a lot of things to offend others, you have only done things in an upright manner through the government. You have acted well and walked rightly, so no one else can trouble you."

"One more thing, although what you do has a wide range and great momentum, it only involves people's livelihood after all, and it doesn't harm the interests of others too much, and others will not come to you just because of dozens of taels of silver. son."

Jia Yun smiled and said, "Now the refugees on the street are being cleared and resettled one after another. After a while, I plan to crack down on some hooligans. I'm afraid it will affect the interests of many people."

Jiang Huan nodded and said: "That must be done. Various activities to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday are gradually unfolding. Stability is the premise, so when the time comes, Shuntian Mansion can join forces with the military commander and the patrol battalion to act together."

"If something happens at that time, I will block you as soon as I am a teacher, and you can do things boldly with confidence."

Jia Yun cupped her hands and said happily: "Thank you teacher for your strong support, the students will definitely make this matter beautiful!"

The two of them took a group of officials around the Shibafang construction site, but because the weather was too hot, they didn't stay long, and soon went back to the city.

After entering the city, Jiang Huan asked people to stop the sedan chair and walked slowly on the street.

Jia Yun and other officials at the back also got off the sedan chair, and then followed.

Most of the streets in the capital are made of loess roads with potholes. Once it rains, there will be mud everywhere.

At a glance, Jiang Huan saw that the hollows on the street had been filled with cinders recently.

At the same time, a layer of lime was sprinkled on the street, and the smell of urine and feces in the past is basically gone. The cows and horses walking on the street are also equipped with dung bags, and there is basically no cow dung, horse dung and other dirty things on the road. .

After Jia Yun followed, Jiang Huan praised: "Zizheng really does practical things. The capital city has taken on a new look in just a few days, and it has changed a lot."

"Not to mention anything else, just the improvement of the cleanliness of the capital can be praised."

"Accordingly, these things should have been done by Shuntian Mansion a long time ago, but Zizheng has made it to the front."

Before Jia Yun could reply, he pointed to many old men and women wearing red armbands on the street and asked, "Zizheng, what do those people do?"

"Oh, they are non-staff members of the Army and Horse Division, and they specialize in catching those who don't pay attention to cleanliness and order in the street." Jia Yun replied after taking a look.

"Order..." Jiang Huan looked at the street and pondered for a moment before he realized it. It seemed that the vehicles and pedestrians on the street were all walking on the right, orderly, and much smoother than before.

He took a few steps forward and saw the words "Bing Ma Si" embroidered on the armbands of those old men and women.

At the same time, he also found that there seemed to be more Bingmasi soldiers patrolling the road than before.

Jiang Huan asked suspiciously, "Zizheng, has the Bing Ma Division expanded?"

"No, not only did the staff not expand, but many of the unpaid and the old and the weak were demolished, and some young and strong non-staff personnel were newly added to perform duties." Jia Yun replied.

Jiang Huan asked again: "Can these non-staff personnel arrest the thieves?"

"They don't need to catch thieves, they are only responsible for maintaining general law and order and street management, and the arrests are handed over to the full-time patrol battalion," Jia Yun explained.

After a pause, he added: "The people in the patrol battalion are now all replaced by elite soldiers. After training for a while, their combat power will not be inferior to that of the soldiers in the Beijing camp."

"In addition, the Bingma Division also retains a part of the elite emergency force specialized in fire prevention and anti-theft, and the patrol battalion complements each other on patrol."

Jiang Huan thought for a while, and said with a smile: "The reason why Zizheng has to spend a lot of time is because he wants to be independent and specialize in arresting, robbing and patrolling?"

"That's right, the soldiers and horses and the patrolling battalion have always been in low positions, and they have been constrained everywhere. They are often ordered by others, and they are becoming more and more careless. They have almost become handymen and decorations."

"Now that you have specially employed some non-staff personnel for the orders of other departments, you have made a good plan. In this way, on the premise of not offending other departments, the combat power of the soldiers, horses and patrol battalions is also guaranteed, killing two birds with one stone..."

Jia Yun smiled and said: "There is a part of this consideration, and I also want to win over those nobles who have been appointed. If there is something wrong, let them come out, hehe..."

"You, this move is too damaging." Jiang Huan pointed at Jia Yun and laughed.

Even if Jia Yun didn't say anything, he could guess that in the future, the Bing Ma Si and Patrol Battalion will directly connect with institutions such as Jin Yiwei, Metropolitan Procuratorate, Ministry of Punishment, Guanglu Temple, Shuntian Mansion, etc., and they will all be nobles.

For example, soldiers and horses.

Each city's military and horse command department has a commander, two to four deputy commanders, and one official.

The yamen is the sixth grade, and the commanders are all served by civil servants of the imperial examination.

One of the deputy commanders was appointed by the Ministry of War, and the other deputy commanders were all reserved for the emperor's reward to the concubine's father and brothers.

Now Jia Yun has brought in all the emperor's concubines, fathers, brothers, and others who are deputy commanders, and given them real positions, so that they can come forward to connect with other organizations.

With the arrogance and domineering of these people, even if other organizations can use soldiers, horses and patrol battalions in the future, they will have concerns, at least they can't use them as private servants.

Otherwise, those honorable nobles will definitely fall into chaos.

With the buffer of these people, the work of the Bingma Division and the Patrol Battalion will be much easier in the future.

Jia Yun shook her head and sighed: "Teacher, the student has no other choice, so he made a bad move. It hurts a little, but it's still doing things for the court!"

(End of this chapter)