After reading the military newspaper summary and government affairs summary, Chen picked up the record summary of the record department and started reading it.

For Chen Ke, the Records Department is actually a very important department, and its status is even not lower than that of the Military Department. In order to prevent the Records Department from becoming corrupt, Chen Ke requires that the records made by each recorder be made in triplicate.

In addition to keeping one copy for yourself, one copy needs to be submitted to the next level as a backup, and the other copy needs to be posted locally for everyone to review.

The recorders' records were reviewed by the people, which meant that all local officials were being scrutinized by the people.

This can prevent officials from corruption to the greatest extent. After all, if the records made by the recorder are incomplete or evasive, they will be discovered by others, which is equivalent to mutual supervision with other officials.

Even so, Chen Gu was still not completely reassured, so he re-organized the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei and divided it into two parts: light and dark.

At present, the number of Jinyiwei is not large, and the Ming department has been deployed to every county town. The number of An department is even smaller, but most of the people in the An department are mobile, some are businessmen, some are soldiers, and some are students.

They would move freely in various prefectures and counties, and even in various towns, wherever they went. Based on the gossips of the people, various rumors and other information, they would then make targeted investigations into illegal activities in the area.

Therefore, every time Chen Ke read the record summary of the Record Department, he would read it together with the summary of the Jinyiwei. If there was no overlap between the two, Chen Ke would generally not take it too seriously.

Once the summary of the Jinyiwei and the summary of the record department overlap, whether it is the overlap of place names, names of people, or events, Chen Gu will attach great importance to it and send someone to investigate.

For example, Chen Jue has just discovered that the Records Department’s Guilin Branch in Guangxi has recorded an incident in which a bride was forcibly kidnapped, resulting in the destruction of a family.

The incident happened in Chaoyang Township, Lingui County, three months ago. It started with the son of the Guilin prefect forcibly seizing the bridal sedan, and ended with the groom's family being destroyed.

The local recorder recorded that the bride's family owed money and offered their daughter as payment, while the groom's family forced the marriage and the prefect's son was just seeing injustice.

However, the rumors that Jinyiwei heard two months ago were completely the opposite. The matter is under investigation and the results are yet to be known.

The reason why Suan Xiucai and Lao Nian both made a summary of this matter and submitted it to Chen Gu was probably because they took into account the current situation of Guilin being autonomous.

Chen Gu tapped the book in his hand lightly on the table, thinking about Guilin.

Guilin's autonomy was not because Guilin needed it, but because Chen the Judge was in a hurry to come to Wuhan, and Xie Qikun led the city's officials to surrender with a sincere attitude, so Chen the Judge gave Guilin a chance for autonomy.

I also want to see whether the original prefectures and counties would be a good choice under the condition of self-governance. After all, at that time, and even now, the Huaxia Department does not have so many officials.

Although Guilin is autonomous, the laws used are those of the Chinese nation.

Chen Gu thought about it and annotated on the Jinyiwei's summary with a red pen: Be sure to find out the inside story of this case and seek military support from nearby when necessary.

As for the summary in the record department, Chen Gu wrote the two words "read" in black pen to express his dissatisfaction.

Chen Gu frowned and thought for a while, then gave Yunhua an order to send a thousand soldiers from Lingqu to Nanning for replacement of the guard, and the route must pass through Guilin.

The soldiers' marching speed for rotation was slower, only forty miles a day. In this way, a rotation of the two armies would take at least half a month to pass through Guilin.

This time is enough for the Jinyiwei to investigate the cause and effect of the matter, and this may be an opportunity to lift Guilin's autonomous status.

Therefore, Chen Gu's order to Dao Ba was to send troops to Guilin if conditions were ripe. Chen Gu's order was conveyed at an expedited speed of 300 miles and soon reached Yun Hua and others.

Lao Nian, who was in Wuchang, sent a fast horse to convey the order to Guangxi.

The matter was soon clarified. Scar didn't even need to send troops. A thousand soldiers who set out from Lingqu Canal took Guilin.

After all, after Guilin surrendered, Chen Gu would naturally disband their military forces, so the entire Guilin Prefecture actually had less than a thousand yamen runners to maintain public order, and they could not possibly be a match for a thousand troops, let alone a thousand main forces.

Moreover, Chen the Executor had said before that if something happened in Guilin, it would be designated as a rebellious area. If the army came in and did not surrender quickly, the consequences would be terrible.

So when the Jinyiwei contacted the thousand soldiers who set out from Lingqu and the army was preparing to attack the city, Xie Qikun decisively led the officials of Guilin to surrender again.

Scar then took over Guilin with 3,000 main forces and 5,000 joint defense teams, and sent a military report to Chen Gu.

Chen Gu immediately gave instructions, requiring all relevant persons involved to be dealt with strictly, severely and quickly, and for officials from all departments to move into Guilin as soon as possible, and to conduct an investigation of the gentry in Guilin, so that the people could get their grievances and revenges, and to quell the people's grievances as soon as possible.

At the same time, Xie Qikun was asked to report on his work in Wuchang.

The weather was getting hotter, and when Chen Gu had nothing to do, he liked to take a walk by the river.

It is the slack season for farmers, so there are many people living by the river, not only adults but also many children. The adults are fishing, while the children are fishing for fish, shrimps and crabs.

Crabs are cold in nature, so they need to be eaten with wine, or with lots of seasonings such as ginger, onion, garlic, and chili peppers. They can also be fried, or simply steamed or boiled. Eating too much can easily cause diarrhea, so most people in this era don't like to eat them, especially ordinary people.

Of course, if you live in a year of famine, you may be left with nothing.

However, it is far from a famine at the moment. No matter how poor the people are, they can always have sweet potatoes to eat.

So there are a lot of crabs in the Yangtze River.

Chen Gu came to a little boy who was fishing for crabs alone and watched him fishing for crabs.

The boy was probably about five or six years old. He fished with about ten rods. When he pulled up the first rod, he found it was covered with crabs. The kid shook the crabs into the bucket, put the rod down again, and then took the second one.

He took them from the beginning to the end, and then came back to start from the first place. The supply was endless, which amazed Chen Gu.

"How many crabs are you going to catch in a day?" Chen Gu couldn't help but ask.

The little brat glanced at Chen Kui with his eyes slanted, and said, "Who would fish for crabs all day long? You'll stop fishing when the bucket is full."

"That's right. It's useless if you catch too many and can't sell them!" Chen Gu said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)