"Honbudo is not petty. ←,." Zhang Renjun rolled his eyes and said, "Write the last one and check everything."

This is the rhythm of throwing apart! Chen Wenqiang finally found out all Zhang Renjun's thoughts. He knew that this old guy knew he would leave Guangdong and Guangxi soon, so he ignored it.

"The adults are so wise and decisive, and they don't hide their own personalities." Chen Wenqiang also acted as a straightforward and generous person, and slapped his thighs. "If you set up a militia, the guns and ammunition of the camp will be the ones. The adults don't have to worry about this trivial matter."

"Well, this is how it looks!" Zhang Renjun nodded in admiration and said, "The court is in financial difficulties and the local area is in short supply. It is just a lack of capable talents like you. If you can suppress Guangdong bandits, you can sit in this position as the headquarters."

"My lord is so ruthless." Chen Wenqiang hurriedly expressed humility, "I am still young and reckless in my position. If there is any mistake, I still need more care for the senior and calm officials in the border areas like the adult!"

"You should do it boldly, and the headquarters will take charge of you." Zhang Renjun waved his hand with great responsibility, paused for a moment, and asked tentatively: "I heard that the court intends to transfer Lord Zhang Zhidong into the center, but I wonder what Lord Zhang is thinking?"

Chen Wenqiang smiled faintly and said, "It is up to him to go, and it is up to him not to go. Governor Zhang has been in charge of Huguang for 17 years, and his subordinates are full of old friends, which is deeply rooted in Huguang!"

Zhang Renjun sighed silently, with the same surname as Zhang and the same rank of the border officials, but this foundation is incomparable!

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Chen Wenqiang, who walked out of the Governor's Office, smiled happily and gained a lot! Although he was burdened a lot, he was not as Zhang Renjun thought.

Just talk about Qingxiang. Chen Wenqiang doesn’t think it is a clever method. If it works, how could Guangdong bandits be so rampant?

Although Qingxiang is getting bigger and bigger, the number of troops used to mobilize more and more, and many people are killed. Qingxiang has not curbed the fierce thief in Guangdong for many years. The result is often "the soldiers come and go, and the soldiers come and go", and some areas even more violent bandits, so that the Qingxiang army has to use artillery.

There are several reasons. First, it will fall into the root of the administration of the late Qing Dynasty. Officials are corrupt, tired, or reverse right and wrong, and use public service to help private affairs; or greedy and disturb the people, complain about the people; or perfunctory and slackening in their duties.

Secondly, the military discipline in Qingxiang was corrupt, harassing the local area, and robbing and extorting through the opportunity of robbery. The people could not bear the trouble and moved one after another, which led to the spread of the bandits and the situation worsened.

The third is that it lacks the strong cooperation of local gentry. The gentry either fears disaster and hides, or forces them to conquer them, and use rats and dogs to steal responsibility, or falsely accuses good people of bandits. Some gentry even collude with bandits, protecting bandits indiscriminately, and sharing the weight on the ground. The bad gentry has seriously weakened the enthusiasm of the righteous gentry to arrest bandits, so that the righteous gentry dare not stand up and the evil gentry controls official duties.

Fourth, paying the flower bonus became a means of profit for officials and gentry, which instead encouraged the thief. Real bandits were full of plunder. Civilians were chasing the pain of pursuing the flowers, and the snatching the flowers turned from means to the purpose of officials clearing the countryside. The result was "the stolen wind in Guangdong was the same, and the stolen flowers were the same."

The last point is that the indiscriminate killing under the law has further intensified the contradictions in grassroots society. Originally, heavy punishments and chaos were an extraordinary means, but those killed by the "on-site law" in the clearing township are often the ones who steal rats and dogs, or even good people. Therefore, "the people do not know that the bandits die if they die, and they will die if they do not, they will die for a moment. And they will inevitably fight each other and fight for trapped beasts."

On the surface, the reason for the failure of Qing Township is caused by the ills. But in the final analysis, the ills that appeared in Qing Township were like the new policy introduced by the court, which was a concrete manifestation of the decline of the regime in the late Qing Dynasty. Corruption of officials, corruption in the army, the differentiation and deviation of gentry, and the loss of legal authority in the indiscriminate killing more of the deep reasons for the decline of the Qing Dynasty's rule.

Governor Zhang Renjun was not unaware of this, but he did not know as deeply as Chen Wenqiang. But Chen Wenqiang explained it clearly, thoroughly, and was very confident and determined. He wanted to use this as a bargaining chip to protect his position as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. At the same time, Chen Wenqiang also gave him a promise or guarantee, "Shanghai and Qiongzhou have a place for peace and well-being, and he is willing to use his life to guarantee that the adults will be safe in the future."

The one who delegated power, centralized power was Zhang Renjun, and the one who centralized power was Chen Wenqiang. The General Office of the Patrol Police, the General Office of the Lijin Bureau, the Chairman of the Qing Township Committee, the Commander of the Patrol Battalion, the General Office of the Militia Coach Department, and the promotion of the currency-making bureau between the two, Chen Wenqiang can be said to have combined seven duties and completely took over the various matters of Qing Township and suppressing bandits.

In Chen Wenqiang's view, the greatest economic support provided by Zhang Renjun is similar to the Huguang example. The government treasury bank deposited into banks, and the salaries of officials are all paid and spent by the joint venture bank's banknotes, and can be overdrawn by 300,000 yuan. In other words, the banknotes of the joint venture bank also have the nature of an official currency in Guangdong and Guangxi. In addition, Chen Wenqiang's energy in the chamber of commerce has no obstacles to large-scale circulation.

Although there are reserves for issuing banknotes, and now they should be two precious metals, gold and silver, they can implement partial preparation system and maximum issuance system. As long as there is credit support, the bank has one silver dollar, which can actually issue banknotes equivalent to two silver dollars. The excess can be offset by foreign exchange, commodities, securities, etc.

Chen Wenqiang's biggest purpose in finance is to establish credit currency, decouple currency from precious metals with price fluctuations, and gradually establish a modern national financial system. Therefore, in this regard, he took another big step forward.

Of course, after taking so many official titles, Chen Wenqiang naturally had to start the operation of extermination of bandits. The plan did not seem to be too novel, but the most important thing was that Chen Wenqiang had to start from the root and form a clean and efficient bandit suppression team. At the same time, there was also a set of comprehensive governance methods. In addition, Chen Wenqiang had a secret weapon that was unknown, but could achieve twice the result with half the effort.

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Admission of outstanding graduates from Guangzhou Political and Law School as members of the Qing Township Committee; recruitment of outstanding members of Guangzhou Army Primary and Secondary Schools, and the outstanding members of the security school are coaches of the League Coach Department; using counties as units, they name the township bureaus in various places to come to the meeting, and those who fail to meet are punished by bandits; the patrol police divide their responsibilities, divided into two major situations: armed police and public security police, and plans to set up branches in each county, and set up police stations in each township; invite directors of the chamber of commerce to raise donations, and those who collect strong merchant groups enter the police team; set up a total of six branches such as Xiguan and Shibajie, etc., and expand railway patrols to use railways as a line to wipe out bandits in villages and towns along the line; transfer various patrol battalions in Guangzhou to reorganize; issue a leniency clause on surrendering guns and surrendering themselves...

A series of policies and measures were introduced continuously, once again showing Chen Wenqiang's decisive behavior. The immediate effect was simply amazing. Half a month later, in the sudden attack on the closure of Xiguan, Shibajie, Henan and other commercial districts, Chen Wenqiang personally led the patrol police to participate and arrested more than 20 thieves. Among them, three thieves were aged.

The evidence is conclusive and the confession is detailed. This efficiency not only surprised Zhang Renjun, but also surprised the merchants and shops. After word of mouth and praise, the merchants and gentry donated more enthusiastically. Naturally, they did not know how Chen Wenqiang captured these thieves from hundreds of people blocked and besieged.

It is obviously impossible to bring millions of people to themselves one by one. Chen Wenqiang was stroking his forehead at this time, thinking about the steps to take action after a good start.

That's right, in order to get donations, Chen Wenqiang had to use his superpowers. He suddenly closed down a large and small street in a commercial district, and then identified the men trapped in it one by one. After three or five questions, Chen Wenqiang could find out whether the guy in front of him was telling the truth or lies. After confirming that he was a suspect, he would drag him on and let others examine and punish him in detail. He really couldn't afford the time to investigate the details.

Of course, this is a bit barbaric, but it is not unjustly accused of innocent people. Chen Wenqiang asked his subordinates to use water torture and torture. Compared with sticks and whips, flesh and blood are much more civilized.

As for interrogation skills, Chen Wenqiang certainly understood it. Although he was more familiar with the anti-interrogation training he had undergone, the principles were the same.

For example, the interrogation room should be a small, soundproof room, with only three chairs, a table and empty walls on all sides. Such a layout can create a feeling of being invisible, strange and isolated, thereby strengthening the suspect's awareness of "let me out" during the interrogation process.

For example, letting the suspect sit in an uncomfortable chair prevent him from touching anything in order to aggravate the discomfort he feels and induce his sense of dependence.

When these professors were taught to the new members of the Qingxiang Committee, and the new members were young, strong, trendy and simple. It was no longer as corruption and corruption as the old bureaucrats, in the Qingxiang Committee trial, the unjust cases of falsely accusing good people of theft and torture and forced confessions can be greatly reduced.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of suppressing bandits, Chen Wenqiang not only wanted to improve social security in Guangdong in advance, but also planned for the after-revolution, but also set up police stations in various counties to control the entire province of Guangdong in disguise. It should be noted that Chen Wenqiang had high requirements for police officers, especially armed police officers who wanted to go to war with large groups of bandits, had combat effectiveness much higher than that of the old patrol battalions and was almost the same as the new army.

The use of suppression and appeasement, and the use of both soft and hard are the only way for the government to deal with riots or bandits in history, and Chen Wenqiang is no exception.

Combined with deterrence and strikes, confiscation of guns, rewards and arrests, and surrendering themselves, policies such as leniency are also introduced, which ensures that those who have taken the lead, tied up and killed the evil bandits can choose to live in Qiongzhou, Huguang, Shanghai and other places, and the government will resettle them to avoid the revenge of the bandits.

A gentle knock on the door sounded, and Chen Jiongming, an intern member of the Qing Township Committee who was pushing the door, respectfully reported to Chen Wenqiang that the gentry of the township bureaus of Shunde County had arrived. Will the public discussion be held immediately?

Chen Jiongming was recruited by Chen Wenqiang from the School of Political Science and Law. He had excellent grades and was also a scholar from traditional Chinese origin. He was very special. After he passed the exam for scholarship, he was reluctant to follow the exam system of the eight-legged essay scholars and did not follow the path of a juren. He continued to be a Jinshi. After a few years of satisfactory marriage life in his hometown, he left his hometown Huizhou Prefecture and came to Guangzhou Prefecture to enroll in the School of Political Science and Law.

At this time, China's political climate was already in a situation where the storm was about to come. At that time, Guangzhou, under the auspices of two governors Tao Model and Cen Chunxuan, all new policies were new, new schools were in full swing, and various new ideas were emerging. During the two years in Guangzhou, Chen Jiongming opened his eyes and was exposed to various new ideas. Recently, with the prevalence of the constitutional movement, he began to advocate that autonomy was the only way to save China, and he had the idea of ​​running for members of the Advisory Committee.

Chen Wenqiang was quite satisfied with Chen Jiongming's perseverance, courage, taciturnity, and ethics. Although he was called an intern, Chen Wenqiang had decided to open up the situation and after the inspection, he would entrust him with important tasks.

"Sir, I heard that Xian Rui, a gentry in Shunde County, was named as a bandit, so if he didn't do this, he would take it down, which might lead to a good deed in the cleansing village." Chen Jiongming accompanied Chen Wenqiang to the conference room and put forward his own suggestions.

"There is no evidence to investigate." Chen Wenqiang smiled faintly and said, "Besides, even if torture is useful, if it is taken down, the news will be difficult to block. Wouldn't it give the bandits who are in contact with him the opportunity to escape?"

"What's the point of convening the gentry of each county and township bureau?" Chen Jiongming asked in confusion.

Chen Wenqiang smiled faintly. Of course, he could not tell his own superpowers. He just said ambiguously: "Check his appearance, observe his appearance, deterrence and persuasion may work! Also, they have to pay for the donation of money to set up militias in various places!"

As a militia organization, the regiment training can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. However, the basic spirit of regiment training after the late Qing Dynasty was directly derived from the experience of "strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, building villages and training groups" when suppressing the White Lotus Uprising during the Jiaqing period. In Guangdong, internal and external troubles in the second half of the 19th century once again stimulated the prosperity of regiment training, but by the late Qing Dynasty, the development of regiment training was suppressed by the court. To be precise, the government was a contradiction that was both advocated and suppressed.

The official advocates that local groups are organized for the purpose of resisting bandits. At the same time, the official does not dare to let the local groups run freely, and to prevent the expansion of civilian force, so such a complex and contradictory situation occurred.

This complex mentality of the government will inevitably affect the enthusiasm of the gentry classes in various places to organize groups. Raising group funding is the key and difficult to organize groups. Since the group funding is basically solved by local gentry itself, the official will is too much reflected in the process of organizing groups, which in turn causes problems in the source of funds. The result is often "after reporting, the funds still have to be raised by themselves, and officials and gentry shirking responsibility."

At the beginning of the 20th century, Guangdong organized group training under the official request, but did not receive full cooperation from local gentry, which reflected the cracks between officials and gentry to a certain extent. The public opinion at that time said: "There are all subordinates of Guangdong Province, and bandits are there. Although the local government has been trained through group training, it is difficult to raise funds for the money, or it is not completed, or there is no conclusion. The rich and prosperous hometown, hiring brave to defend, is also a false appearance..."
Chapter completed!