Although a considerable number of gentry were still dissatisfied with the rule of the Jinan government, by this time, no one dared to take direct measures to confront time travelers, and all the main hopes were entrusted to the Qing court to file a lawsuit.

So Xu Chang, Jiang Mingyi, Zhao Pinghe and others were also actively engaged in secret. On the one hand, they found someone to write a letter to the court, and at the same time they also recruited people to jointly sign. Of course, the most important thing was to raise money, because it would cost a lot of money to sue the emperor, and even if there was no money, they would sue the emperor. Although the Wu family was confiscated, the 50,000 taels of silver he promised was of course wasted. However, the gentry still collected 180,000 taels of silver as the activity fund. Now they were just waiting for the court to arrive. Xu Chang also asked his friends in Zhengding Prefecture to help him and sent his confidant family to inquire. When there was news, they would immediately return it.

In fact, the activities of the gentry could not escape the eyes of the intelligence personnel, so the complaints had long been discovered by the time travelers. However, after discussing with the public, Wang Sheng believed that the actions of the gentry could be ignored, because the time travelers and the Qing court had long reached a consensus. Now Shandong is actually in fact separatist. No matter what the time travelers do in Shandong, as long as they do not openly raise the flag to sue the rebellion, the Qing court would not care. Let these gentry go to demolish them, as long as they do not cause trouble in Jinan. After all, the Jinan government still has many things to do now, and it is impossible to devote most of its energy to these gentry.

After the financial office stepped up work, the results of various materials harvested by the traveler after taking over Jinan were finally counted. Of course, the harvest was very huge. In terms of silver and materials, there are more than 665,700 taels of silver, more than 150,000 copper coins, about 320 tons of various grains, more than 73,000 tons of various cloths, 7,200 kilograms of salt, more than 30 donkeys, horses, cattle and animal power, more than 50 pigs and sheep animals, 55 vehicles, and various gold, silver, copper, jade and ceramics.

There are more than 12,700 utensils, more than 600 calligraphy and paintings, more than 1,500 furniture, more than 800 fur, and more than 1,800 various clothes, shoes and hats. In terms of real estate, there are more than 10,000 mu of land, 4 houses, more than 3,600 square meters, and 12 residences in Jinan City, totaling more than 6,500 square meters, and 24 shops, totaling more than 4,500 square meters. If all the materials obtained are dismantled into silver, the total value is about 2.5-3 million taels.

After seeing this statistical list, Wang Sheng couldn't help but shout that he would be rich now and could do it very well. However, the East China government still needs to decide how to distribute these gains. However, the Jinan government first proposed 100,000 taels of silver from it. Of course, Wang Sheng also asked the finance office to keep a record of wealth and reputation and report it to the East China government together with the list. Since the warehouses of these materials cannot be stored, except for money, grain, cloth, salt, etc., the rest of the materials are temporarily classified and stored in Anluo Hall.

In addition, in terms of arresting personnel, a total of 1,567 related personnel were arrested. After review and handling, 71 people were executed and 754 of them were released. These people were basically servants in their homes. They did not do any evil deeds when they were sent to their daughters, but most of them were retained by the Jinan government. After all, the Jinan government now lacks manpower; while the rest of the personnel were the families of the executed people, and they were all sent to Qingdao to serve their sentences.

While counting the materials, various aftermath work is also carried out step by step. The ban on smoking and gambling have been fully implemented, and the rectification of pawnshops and brothels is also being carried out intensified.

Strictly speaking, pawnshops are not an industry that has social harm, and to a certain extent, they are still an indispensable industry in this era, because in ancient China, the financial industry was very backward, and pawnshops actually undertake some of the private financial functions such as capital turnover, financing, and emergency response.

However, overall, the sound of pawnshops among the people is not good, mainly because most of the people are poor, and pawn items are mostly used for emergency use. Therefore, they are in an obvious weak position in the game with pawnshops. Pawnshops can shorten the pawnshops and increase the interest rate, and try their best to lower the price of pawnshops. Most people in the end have no money to redeem the goods, so they can only watch their pawnshops swallowed up, or leave them for their own use, or sell them at high prices to make profits.

The Chinese pawnshop industry was very developed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Most of the pawnshops were rich, and there were more collusions than the government. Some pawnshops would rely on the power behind them to redeem some valuable pawn items even within the time limit of the pawnshop, or they would play tricks of stealing dragons and turning phoenixes, replacing pawn items with fakes, etc.; therefore, not only are the general poor people exploited and exploited by pawnshops, but even some wealthy families were on the verge of bankruptcy due to pawnshops. In this way, the reputation of pawnshops will naturally not be good.

However, although the reputation of pawnshops is not good, they are still indispensable now, so they cannot be forcibly banned. They can only gradually develop the economy, increase the income of the general public, enhance their risk resistance, and social relief capabilities; in addition, they are developing the financial industry and increasing social loans and financing channels, so that when an auxiliary industry will naturally decline.

What time travelers now need to do is to standardize the management of pawnshops and limit the interest and pawning time of pawnshops to a certain range. Pawnshops cannot raise interest or shorten pawning time at will, and they must be linked to the pawning price of pawn items. They will severely crack down on all kinds of embezzlement of pawn items.

Of course, time travelers did not directly formulate detailed rules for the pawning industry. After all, time travelers are not familiar with the pawning industry. Even if the rules are formulated, they are not effective, and there may be a lot of loopholes. Therefore, the Jinan government recruited more than 20 pawnshop operators and a part of the gentry to negotiate together, and only set a large framework for them to make the rules themselves. However, before the pawning rules are formulated, all pawnshops in Jinan cannot open.

These people are all insiders, so they naturally know the routines. In order to open as soon as possible, they quickly formulated a set of [Parcel Industry Conduct Rules]. After reviewing the review, the Jinan government made some modifications and added a format contract system. The tickets for each pawn shop are handwritten, which is not only irregular, but also makes the pawn shop take advantage of loopholes. Most ordinary pawn shops are not literate, so it is easier for pawn shops to operate. All pawn shops must use a unified format pawn contract, which can greatly avoid this phenomenon.

The pawn shop operators had no objection to this. They spent a few more days to write the format contract. The Jinan government immediately sent someone to step up the printing of plates and printing. Each pawn shop sent 50 copies, and each contract was 3 copies, each pawn shop, and one copy was left for each member of the pawn shop, and one copy was handed over to the government after it was used up in exchange for a new contractual sample. This was more conducive to the government's supervision of pawn shops.

At the same time, the traveler also clearly told the pawn shop operators that they would send people to enforce fishing. Once they found that the pawn shop did not use the format contract, the pawn shop business license would be immediately revoked. The traveler all comes from modern society, and of course they know that no matter how good the system is, it must be strictly supervised. This has been proved countless times in the old time and space. It is not realistic to expect pawn shop operators to use the format contract honestly, and they cannot expect the parties to report in a short period of time. Therefore, they can only use the means of fishing enforcement, which is also a powerful photo for pawn shop operators.

Although the pawn shop operators were very dissatisfied with this, because their business conditions were controlled by the Jinan government, and there was a basis for levying and pledging them in the future, they could not refuse to bow their heads at this time. However, some gentry found some positive factors from it, that is, overseas Chinese did not come up with a set of rules and forced the pawn shop operators to accept it, but negotiated and decided with the pawn shop operators. The process was basically equal, and this was indeed much better than the Qing court before. On the one hand, this showed the respect of overseas Chinese to the operators; on the other hand, overseas Chinese did not make decisions based on their subjective wishes.

In any case, the [Participation Rules of the Pawnshops] have been formulated, and pawnshops can open their doors. The rectification of brothels is another way. It does not recruit brothel operators to negotiate together, but the Jinan government forcibly designated the rules. This is mainly because the brothel business model is relatively simple and there are not many hands and feet to play with. Moreover, time travelers have accumulated a certain amount of experience in rectifying brothels in Tianjin and Beijing. Of course, under the rule of time travelers, it is collectively called customs industry, and brothels are also renamed as custom shops or customs halls, which sounds better.

There are two main regulations and rectification of customs. One is to prohibit population trading and mandatory practices. Because the operation of brothels is to purchase young girls from the private sector for training and teaching, but population trading is absolutely prohibited in the areas under the rule of time travelers. Of course, brothels can play a ball here, and buy girls from areas outside the areas ruled by time travelers; the other is that people engaged in customs must be certified to work, otherwise both themselves and the business premises of customs will be severely punished.

There are two types of certificates for the customs industry, namely the job certificate and the health certificate. The main content of the job certificate is the age of employment and the time of employment. First of all, the age of employment cannot be lower than 16 years old. In fact, this age is very controversial among time travelers. After all, in the old time and space, 16 years old is still the age of high school students, so it is required to raise the age to 18 years old, or even 20 years old. However, in this era, women's marriage age is generally between 14 and 16 years old. 18 years old is considered older, and 20 years old is the only one who belongs to the leftover woman. The same is true for customs industry. At the age of 16, they are older, and generally at the age of 14 or 5 years old can work. If they increase their age, the industry cannot continue to operate.

The working hours are mandatory. Those who have been engaged in customs for five years can withdraw from good deeds on their own, and the business premises must not be blocked. Although the East China government has not banned customs, it does not encourage the development of customs. Therefore, this regulation is to protect the interests of women who are engaged in customs. Generally, prostitutes have a working time of about 10 years, and normal withdrawal is generally around 25 years old. In this era, it is almost impossible to find a better destination at this age. It is stipulated that you can withdraw from good deeds at the age of about 20 after 5 years of employment. Although it is a bit older, there is still a greater opportunity to find a better destination.
Chapter completed!