This method was quite effective in dealing with the Ming Dynasty government. The Ming Dynasty government's local rule only reached the county level at most. Below the county level, it was basically laissez-faire and belonged to the territory of the squires. Once the gentry class adopts "soft confrontation" to oppose the government, the latter cannot find a proper reason, and it is not easy to kill the chicken and scare the monkey.
But the political structure of Qiong Haijun is completely different from that of the Ming Dynasty. They shout "short manpower" all day long, and there is no one to rule the land. This refers to complete control at the grassroots level, including the village and town level. status. If you just arrange for one or two people to be masters floating on the water like a dragonfly, then you don't need to spend so much effort at all.
The ideal template for "rule" of the Qiong Haijun regime is precisely the Qiongzhou Prefecture model under Zhao Lide, with Qiong Haijun's self-built farms and factories as the backbone. A large part of the food, materials, financial resources and manpower needed to maintain the regime They all come from these subordinate departments.
With these departments that can make their own blood, although the gentry and landlord class still exist in Qiongzhou area and constitute the majority in number, they are not irreplaceable. Wanting to control and threaten local political power is a pipe dream. You won't cooperate? Are you soft on confrontation? It doesn't matter, there is someone else who can take your place anyway, and then Hum, settling accounts after the fall is the best skill of all officials.
In addition, the reason why Qiong Haijun was determined to implement the "375 rent reduction" and the new tax system during that period was because they had completed one thing before and completed the discharge placement of the first batch of veterans. When these veterans returned to the local areas, they did not go back to be farmers, but existed as an armed force rooted in the Qiong Navy at the grassroots level. Those in the countryside served as militia captains or brigade captains, and those in towns became police officers or urban management members. In short, they were still Of course, those who eat "public food" will continue to serve the government.
It is precisely because of the existence of these forces that no matter whether it is a civil attack or a military fight, whether it is public or private Qiong Haijun is confident, so he dares to propose a new tax change policy. Even if the Ming court comes out to oppose it, it will be useless, let alone Not to mention a few country gentry.
What's more, the so-called "gentry class" has never been monolithic. Their internal strife and competition are far more intense than when they work together to fight against the outside world. Zhao Lide is not the kind of Long Aotian who will go up without difficulties and create difficulties. He will not launch some stupid policies to challenge the entire gentry class.
He was very patient and slowly disintegrated divisions, fostered the gentry who were willing to move closer to them, and attacked hostile forces mercilessly. As for those guys who are neither yin nor yang, who are not opposed to those who are secretly making trouble on the surface Hum, the parliamentary system that was introduced later was used to deal with them.
"The Qiongzhou Prefecture Local Council is a subordinate organization of the Qiong Navy Management Committee Before all members can run for election, their representative qualifications must first be reviewed and approved by the Qiong Navy Management Committee."
This rule fundamentally eliminates the possibility of those two-faced and disgusting people entering the parliament. Whether he is qualified to represent the local people or not must first be decided by Qiong Haijun. And whether one can enter the parliament will undoubtedly become a watershed in the status division within the gentry class in the near future.
In this way, Zhao Lide silently put a rope around the necks of those gentry. As for whether it would become a ladder to guide them forward, a dog rope to control their movements, or a noose to kill them It depends on their own choice.
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After this series of efforts, Zhao Lide led the leadership team of Qiongzhou Prefecture to successfully survive the most difficult moment of the implementation of the New Deal. After one year of implementation, no one dared to openly speak ill of the New Deal. Being hit was one thing, but in the end Mainly because the New Deal has indeed reduced the burden on ordinary people and increased their income. With this ironclad fact, no matter how shameless those opponents are, they can never turn black into white.
Zhao Lide asked Chi Zhengjie to investigate the new policy measures. After this year of practice, various conflicts have been greatly alleviated, and everything is basically on the right track. But even so, after Chi Zhengjie went down, he still encountered many phenomena that he found unbelievable. He came back and cursed those landlords and rich people to deserve death
Zhao Lide could only smile bitterly at this, saying that this was already the area where Qiong Haijun had the best control. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to let those young guys who clamor in the committee all day long come and experience it for themselves.
Of course, what Chi Zhengjie sees is not entirely the dark side. After all, the Qiongzhou Prefecture area is their short-haired "ruling model". After several years of struggle, everything here is completely different from the Ming Dynasty. Chi Zhengjie only took a rickshaw ride last time, and he felt many differences. Now that I have made up my mind to stay here permanently, I can certainly feel the drastic changes during this period.
?“Cities are expanding so fast!”
This is Chi Zhengjie’s biggest feeling. When he last came to raise rabbits, many places were still deliberately selected suburban wastelands. Now that he comes back to visit again, they have become residential areas. Qiongzhou Fucheng, as the state seat of Hainan Island, was originally just a small area. The city wall was only eight miles long in total. How big could the enclosed area be?
But now, from the original Fucheng location to the Baisha Port Market, along the wide Qiongbai Avenue, everything has become part of the city. This is a matter of course for modern people. This was originally part of Haikou City in later generations. But in the eyes of the locals and investors from out of town, the short-haired man who dared to carry out such major repairs and construction despite being separated from the protection of the city wall really has great confidence in his own armed forces!
In fact, Qiong Haijun itself did not deliberately focus its financial or human resources on urban construction. Most of the refugees they collected from the mainland were based on collective needs, mainly establishing reclamation farms in various places, and providing production to industrial and mining enterprises. Sex department transfer. For the city itself, which consumes a lot of materials, it only carries out infrastructure construction step by step and does not pursue rapid development.
"However, human beings' own yearning for a better life cannot be stopped. Since Qiong Haijun has made Qiongzhou Mansion more livable than any other city in the world today, it is natural that Anju guests from all over the world will gather here. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, there were so many investors from the mainland. It was like the wealthy people from the capital in later generations were deceived to travel to Hainan, and then they couldn't help but buy villas there, and then slowly invested more In the end, they simply invested in Hainan's business industry. went.
Specific to today’s Qiongzhou Prefecture, due to the existence of Qionghai Market, the agglomeration effect of wealth has caused a large number of people to naturally begin to gather here. In the beginning, people from all over the world came to do business and make money. Later, they found that this place was very suitable for living. With the purpose of "three cunning rabbit holes", they bought a house here as a place to stay. Later, slowly, the entire family moved here.
In any era, the rich are always the most sensitive. They can sense the doomsday situation that is gradually emerging in the Ming Dynasty, and they also have the ability to prepare for it in advance. Under the rule of Qiong Haijun, Hainan's Qiongzhou Prefecture, which is like a rising sun and has a completely different weather pattern from that of the Ming Dynasty, is undoubtedly a paradise that is very suitable for immigrants.
Many of them wanted to buy a house in the original Qiongzhou capital city, but soon found out that they couldn't buy it at all. It wasn't that the housing prices there were sky-high, but that no one could sell them.
There are not many residential houses in Qiongzhou Prefecture itself. "Build a city to protect the emperor and build a wall to protect the people." In ancient China, city walls were first built to protect the government, and only when there was spare capacity would a high wall be built to protect the civilian residences. The Central Plains continent has abundant human resources, and it is relatively easy to build large-scale cities that can accommodate civilians. But this is not the case on Hainan Island. Back then, the government recruited civilians and mobilized the army to build city walls hard, not to protect the property of ordinary people.
Therefore, most of Qiongzhou Prefecture is government land, and in order to avoid future disputes with the Ming Dynasty over land ownership issues, and to save unnecessary demolition costs, Qionghai Haijun did not renovate Qiongzhou Prefecture at all. Most of the new projects are placed on vacant land outside the city.
Anyway, Hainan Island in this era has not much else but a lot of wasteland. It only costs a few bucks to buy it, and then the government will invest money to build a road, build a diversion canal, and level the land Just have these two roads and one level, and then it can be handed over to a government-run real estate company, waiting for customers. Pay at the door. As for the house, you can wait until the land is sold before starting construction, which basically does not occupy funds.
The houses here are all made of wood, and several prefabricated stilt buildings originally designed by Pang Yu for the rapid resettlement of farm residents have been fully developed here. So far, there have been many expanded models and subsequent deepening content. But the basic principle of modularization of major components has not changed.
Customers only need to select the model on the drawing and buy a plot of corresponding size, and the real estate company will send a construction team to install it, which can be completed in up to ten days. Even if additional follow-up work such as decoration, painting, and furnishings is required, which requires close cooperation from the customer, it can definitely be completed within a month. Moreover, the finished product is very beautiful and practical, with reasonable layout, perfect streamlines, and complete water supply and drainage. It is definitely much better than traditional houses.
There are only two disadvantages: one is that the fire resistance is slightly poor, and the other is that the wood will eventually rot. However, the former takes maximum precautions by setting up the kitchen and other parts separately and leaving sufficient fire prevention distance around them. As for the latter the owners can usually solve it by themselves with minor repairs. The main structure has been treated with anti-corrosion treatment, so it will not be a problem for at least more than ten years. If it really doesn't work anymore, it can be easily replaced since they are all universal and modular. 8)