Chapter 203 Heavenly Official
Chaotianmen Wharf.

On the red-headed ship, after some courtesy, the sour scholar Chen Minghua was the first to get off the ship, followed by Bai Yunqing and other heads of various departments.

Seeing Suan Xiucai, Chen Gu couldn't help but reveal a look of emotion on his face. After Liu Er's death, Suan Xiu was the only one who could be considered his elder in this world.

Chen Gu led the people from Chongqing Prefecture to welcome them down to the dock.

"Hello, leader!" The sour scholars were the first to bow and greet Chen the Executor.

The Huaxia Department is people-oriented, so naturally the bad habit of kneeling was abolished. Words like "pay a visit" and "see you" were also banned by Chen Gu. Even when meeting the leader Chen Gu, one only needs to bow in an equal manner and simply say hello.

"Sir, everyone, thank you for coming all the way here!" Chen Gu returned the greeting.

Then everyone went up the stairs together, Chen the Assassin walked in front, and Suan Xiucai lagged behind half a step.

"Is everything okay in Jiangjin County?" asked Chen Gu.

The sour scholar smiled and said, "Of course it's good. After the land is evenly distributed, the people have hope. Each person has five mu of land. Although the land is not their own, the harvest is theirs.

In the future, as long as you work harder and raise some chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, etc., it will be enough to eat dry rice every day, and you can eat some meat occasionally. After all, in addition to farming, there are many other jobs in Jiangjin County, so you don’t have to worry about not making money to supplement the family income. "

After all, the Buddhist treasure was too small, so many armaments were first produced in Jiangjin County. But even Jiangjin County was not enough to meet the needs of Chen Ju's rapid expansion, so the main production site of the armaments was finally placed in Luzhou.

Although technology is not well developed in this era, there are only 100 to 200 million people in such a vast country, so the per capita resources are definitely sufficient. As long as the distribution structure is slightly optimized, everyone can live a good life.

For a country with a small peasant economy, the best way to optimize the distribution structure is to distribute the land equally. For ordinary people, they don't know how to get anything else except land.

The sour scholar paused for a moment, feeling that Chen Gu was not asking about this. After thinking for a while, he continued, "All the major clans are doing well and are strictly following the various rules you set."

Only then did Chen Gu nodded with satisfaction.

Although the major clans in Jiangjin County lost their land, Chen Ju gave them many other compensations, such as various military equipment manufacturing, and most importantly, political status and power compensation.

Although Jiangjin County is located at a strategic point on the Yangtze River and has a population of 200,000 to 300,000, it is ultimately just a county. Although the large clans in the territory are powerful, they have reached a bottleneck in their development. As they are unable to intervene externally, they can only kill each other internally.

The fight between the Bai and Bian families originated from this. Of course, the fight between the big families is not as simple as it seems on the surface. The final result may very well be that the other eight families will be ruined, and the Bai and Bian families will become the dominant ones.

Chen Gu's outward expansion would undoubtedly be a good solution to the embarrassing situation faced by the big families in Jiangjin District. Therefore, even though Chen Gu's conditions were very harsh and required exchanging their root lands, the big families in Jiangjin County finally agreed.

Firstly, Chen Gu came out with the knowledge of his great victory in annihilating Le Bao's 9,000-strong army, which made Bai Yunqing and others lose the courage to resist. Secondly, taking advantage of Chen Gu's expansion could also solve the problem of the bottleneck in the development of the big families in Jiangjin County.

Facts have proved that Bai Yunqing and his team made the right bet this time. At least for now, it is definitely a huge profit. They exchanged a county for the entire Sichuan. As long as the children in the family are talented, they basically serve as officials in various places, and their positions are not low, at least they are high positions that they could not reach before.

Even anyone who can read can get a government position. The salary alone is better than what they earned from farming, not to mention that having power can bring them some benefits.

Although they were afraid of Chen the Assassin's ruthlessness, no one dared to act too ruthlessly, but even if they acted impartially, they could still make a fortune. After all, with power, they could divide the cake, and for the same piece of cake, there were many tricks involved in deciding who to give it to and how to divide it.

Under the same conditions, you can't say that giving it to the Li family is right, but giving it to the Wang family is wrong, right?

This is only now, and the development of a family is not a matter of one or two generations. Chen Gu is indeed cruel, but he will die eventually. It is impossible for the second and third generations to be cruel forever, right?

Just like the Ming Dynasty, no matter how ruthless the first generation Zhu Yuanzhang was, his successors gradually changed generation after generation. Now they are at the top of power, and after three or two generations, good days will come.

This is the idea of ​​the big families like Bai Yunqing.

Chen Gu had no way to deal with the fact that most of the administrative power in Sichuan fell into the hands of the big families in Jiangjin County. His expansion was too fast and he had no time to train talents.

As for recruiting the original Manchu officials to surrender, after careful consideration, Chen Gu felt that it would be better to use the children of the wealthy families in Jiangjin County. At least they had compromised with him and understood his political inclinations.

Moreover, the big families of Jiangjin County serving as officials in various places can just form a confrontation with the local forces, so as to reduce the occurrence of collusion between officials and local big families.

In Chen Gu's opinion, it doesn't matter who is used. The key is to make everyone, or all forces, reach a balance point.

The balance point built by Chen Gu is the big families in Jiangjin County who have administrative power, the local forces in various places, and the military forces based in the original mountain strongholds. The three can just form a fragile balance point.

Chen Gu doesn't need to worry about other things, but the military power must be firmly controlled in his own hands. With military power comes the power of life and death. If anyone disobeys, the worst that can happen is that he will be killed and someone new will be chosen to trust.

After the group returned to the Chongqing government office, Chen Gu first announced an appointment.

"Appoint Han Yuanxiao as the head of the Organization Department. The Organization Department does not need to go deep into every town. It only needs to set up branches in every prefecture, city, and county. From now on, any position arrangement, as long as the person receives a salary, needs to be reported to the Organization Department for filing."

Everyone couldn't help but look at Han Yuanxiao in surprise. Isn't this so-called Organization Department the Ministry of Personnel of the imperial court?

The Ministry of Personnel can be said to be the head of all ministries, which is the so-called heavenly official. Even Han Yuanxiao himself was surprised when he heard the appointment. He never thought that he would be assigned to such an important department.

"I obey your orders. Thank you for your trust. Han Yuanxiao will definitely abide by the responsibilities of the Organization Department!" Han Yuanxiao quickly stood up and expressed his gratitude.

Chen Gu nodded, looked at everyone and said: "We are different from the Qing Dynasty. First of all, we have to make changes in the laws. However, the laws are complicated and it is not easy to make laws. So I hope that everyone can come to Chongqing and contribute their efforts!"

(End of this chapter)