Shi Diwen's instructions were not surprising to Tao Hongfang. He knew very well that his first task after coming to Nanjing was to take over local government affairs from Shi Diwen so that he could leave Nanjing and return to Hangzhou.
But taking over a city as big as Nanjing within a day or two is not easy. What's more, before this, Tao Hongfang had been engaged in business and trade, and had never managed local administration, so he had no experience at all.
But this arrangement is obviously irrefutable. The work of the Executive Committee is certainly a hundred times more important than local affairs in Nanjing. After Shi Diwen finished explaining in a few words, he served tea to see off the guests.
As a high-ranking imperial official with great power, being able to do this for Tao Hongfang was already giving his father enough face.
After Tao Hongfang came out of Shi Diwen's study, Shi Chengwu told him that the residence had been arranged and it was another mansion not far from Zhanyuan.
When Tao Hongfang arrived by car, he realized that the residence Shi Chengwu had prepared for him was not an ordinary house, but the house of the previous Yingtian Prefecture Yin. When the Ming Dynasty withdrew from Nanjing, the governor naturally followed the Ming army, leaving only this empty house.
With Tao Hongfang's position, it is reasonable to move into Yingtian Fuyin's mansion.
Although the status of Yingtian Fuyin is not as prominent as that of the Duke of Wei of the Xu family, Fuyin is of the third rank. There are dozens of prefectures in the Ming Dynasty. Only Yingtian Mansion and Shuntian Mansion, where the capital is located, have the position of Fuyin. All other places are of the fourth rank. The prefect is the highest local governor.
Therefore, the living conditions of Yingtian Fuyin's mansion are naturally not bad. The mansion faces five courtyards from north to south, and there are two courtyards across the east and west, so it is no problem whether it is for meetings or banquets. The house has a private garden and all kinds of living and office facilities. There are almost no shortcomings to fault.
The only thing that made him feel uncomfortable was that he and a few followers brought over from Hangzhou only lived in this huge house. Even with the servants, cooks, coachmen and other servants here, there were only about ten people. If it's just an individual, it will inevitably appear empty and unpopular.
In addition to the luggage and belongings of Tao Hongfang and his party, there were also a large number of gifts that had just arrived.
Judging from the attached gift list, the gift-givers were almost all local officials and gentry who had just met at the Zhanyuan meeting today. It seemed that they even learned the information about Tao Hongfang's destination earlier than Tao Hongfang, so they sent the gifts here in advance.
However, these people were somewhat measured and did not openly send gold and silver. The gifts were mostly the Four Treasures of the Study, calligraphy and painting works, local specialties and the like.
Tao Hongfang is no stranger to this. When he first arrived in Hangzhou, local celebrities also gave him many gifts. The purpose of these people giving gifts is not necessarily to bribe him or to ask for something. Many people do this just to follow the crowd.
After all, everyone else has given it away, but you don’t. If you act so independently, won’t you attract people’s attention? If this offends a disciple from a famous family like Tao Hongfang, it will be more than worth the loss.
Tao Hongfang didn't have the time to count the gifts at this time, so he simply packed them up and then went to bed. For him, the next period of time will be very busy. Only by taking a good rest can he ensure that he has enough energy to cope with the busy work schedule.
The next day, Tao Hongfang had breakfast at home and then took a bus to the Administrative Committee Yamen in the east of the city to report for work.
Although Tao Hongfang had expected that there would be a lot of local government affairs accumulated during the war, the actual number still shocked him.
The official requests for help sent by the counties under the jurisdiction of Tianfu date from before the war started until recently. Although the invalid official documents requesting Ying Tianfu to send reinforcements and asking for instructions on whether to evacuate have been eliminated, there are still nearly a hundred documents placed in front of Tao Hongfang. Most of them were applications for relief supplies and food from Nanjing to help the large number of refugees displaced after the war.
In some places, the number of refugees has exceeded 10,000. It is unbearable for local governments to support so many people. If they do not provide help, they may soon fall into a new wave of chaos.
The situation in some areas is even more serious. Due to the trouble caused by rioters and refugees, local security has fallen into chaos. Nanjing is requested to send troops to clear it out as soon as possible.
However, such official documents are easier to deal with. Local security is the area that Shi Chengwu is responsible for. Tao Hongfang only needs to approve the opinions and forward them to Shi Chengwu, so that he can dispatch troops to carry out clearing and suppression as appropriate.
The real trouble lies in relieving the large number of refugees caused by the war. Most of the new territories Haihan occupied during this war are still in the post-war reconstruction stage. The Haihan officials who just took over have no more control over the local situation than Tao Hongfang. How much better.
Official and private grain in many places were requisitioned by the army during the war. Now not only are the grain depots empty, but many people have no surplus grain in their homes. The local government can only pin its hopes of raising relief materials in Nanjing.
If the superiors don't allocate money and rice, they will have nothing to do at the local level and can only watch the refugee group grow larger and larger.
Although Shi Diwen had organized a large amount of grain, grass and materials to be transported to the newly occupied areas from other state capitals in the Donghai Region before this, the specific transportation and distribution to each county and subordinate towns and villages was still a very cumbersome task.
The operational efficiency of these areas that have just experienced war is obviously not the same as that of areas under Haihan's rule. By the time supplies arrive in the area, the number of refugees is often much higher than previously reported.
What causes local complaints the most is that such relief only treats the symptoms and does not cure the root cause. If refugees cannot wait for relief in one place, they will often coerce each other and move to the next nearby area.
And if news spreads that relief grains are distributed or relief points are opened in a certain place, it will often attract a large influx of refugees from surrounding areas, causing local relief measures to be overwhelmed.
After the siege of Nanjing ended, refugees from other places began to flock here after receiving the news. However, due to the ban on entry and exit, these refugees were not yet able to flood into the city in large numbers.
But even so, several clusters of refugee shacks have begun to appear outside the city. The number of refugees is estimated to have exceeded 10,000, and the number of refugees is still increasing by 1,000 every day.
Of course, there are also some areas with better conditions that have begun to organize refugees to return home and implement self-rescue through production. However, there are still many refugees who have had to flee to survive because all their property was destroyed by the war. Moreover, due to various objective reasons, it is difficult to resettle these refugees whose native place is not in the local area.
How to get these refugees to settle down as soon as possible and resume production and labor is the first problem facing Tao Hongfang.
In comparison, the situation in Nanjing is not bad.
After all, this is the city that the Executive Committee focuses on. Not only are there a large number of armed forces stationed there, but there is also a relatively sufficient supply of supplies. In addition, the newly established police station is continuing to carry out arrest operations. The security in the city has basically returned to pre-war levels. Level.