On the morning of the second day after successfully sending Ding Yunyi away, Gan Xingfan, at the invitation of Lin Tongxi, convened a meeting with all the officials and gentry.
The theme of the meeting was the handover between the old and new mayors. Lin Tongxi planned to make use of Gan Xingfan's last strength in Ruihe Town.
There was no way. Although Chen Yunxuan had been a captain of police for a while and had made many contributions before and after, he was still young and could not get the recognition of the forces under Ruihe Town.
Therefore, in order to ensure smooth management in the future, Lin Tongxi decided to ask his patron Gan Xingfan to help them in the town.
Because the yamen was too small, Gan Xingfan held the meeting at the Zhen family's mansion.
The Zhen family is the gentry that supports him the most, and Gan Xingfan will discuss many of his actions with them.
Gan Xingfan finally took his seat, holding the manuscript prepared by Lin Tongxi and ready to speak.
The others sitting at the main table were Chen Yunxuan, Lin Tongxi, Zhen Guhan, Su Ruoxue, and Yue Lingyun. On the left side of the main table were the gentry, and on the right side were the officials.
"I am very grateful to everyone for giving me this honor to participate in this meeting." Gan Xingfan, who was sitting at the main table, spoke first and then announced the news that he would take over as the magistrate of Guangyang County.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone congratulated him and speculated about who would be the next mayor.
Although the topic was the handover between the old and new mayors, no one else was told the topic of the meeting.
However, Gan Xingfan specially convened so many people for a meeting and announced that he was leaving Ruihe Town. He must have found a successor and was paving the way for him.
The two people next to Gan Xingfan are naturally the most likely to be elected.
On Gan Xingfan’s left is the chief constable Chen Yunxuan, and on his right is his legal advisor Lin Tongxi.
Obviously, Chen Yunxuan has made greater contributions. After all, he openly arrested the Song family thieves, participated in bandit suppression, etc.
As for Lin Tongxi, apart from Sun Youcai who knew his deeds, others knew very little about him.
For this reason, they speculated that Chen Yunxuan would take over.
Sure enough, Gan Xingfan quickly mentioned Chen Yunxuan's name and talked about his deeds, while emphasizing that it was General Wen and he who jointly recommended him to succeed as mayor.
"In the future, I hope you will support Mayor Chen. That's all I have to say." After Gan Xingfan finished speaking, he handed the stage to Chen Yunxuan and enjoyed the tea on the table.
Afterwards, Chen Yunxuan announced the general policy for Ruihe Town in the future. One of the major goals was to build schools and promote education.
The rest of the objectives remain the same, such as protecting the people and maintaining law and order.
At the end of the meeting, Lin Tongxi invited all the gentry to gather at Fulai Inn in the evening, and all the gentry nodded in agreement.
With the end of the meeting, Gan Xingfan was finally about to set off for Guangyang County. After all, he was actually the county magistrate of Guangyang County, and now it was his responsibility to manage the entire county.
"Sir Gan, I will live up to General Wen and your trust, and will do my best to govern Ruihe Town well in the future." Chen Yunxuan clasped his fists and expressed his determination to Gan Xingfan again.
"Hahahahahaha, that's all you need to be determined! This county magistrate will be looking forward to your reports in the future." Gan Xingfan laughed, then looked at Lin Tongxi: "Tongxi, don't be too restrained, remember to assist your brothers!"
"Brother Yue, Miss Su, the people of Ruihe Town also rely on you to protect them."
"Everyone, Gan is leaving first. I hope we can meet again in the future!"
After saying that, Gan Xingfan rode away from Ruihe Town on horseback, leaving the place he once governed.
Lin Tongxi sighed and said silently in his heart: "From now on...it will depend on them to govern this place."
The situation in the village is already complicated enough, and now with so many people in the town, it will probably be even more troublesome.
As for the officials, many of them were forced to do their work because of Gan Xingfan's aura.
Chen Yunxuan is a newcomer and so young, I'm afraid some officials will refuse to obey his management.
Although they are officials, in fact these officials only represent the government and may not even be considered clerks.
The only official in the town is actually Chen Yunxuan. The mayor is just a county official who was delegated by the county to manage the town.
The others actually do not have formal staff positions and are equivalent to temporary workers, and their income depends entirely on the mayor.
Although Gan Xingfan had the support of General Wen, he actually did not have much money and had to rely entirely on funding from above.
Therefore, his previous approach was to let the officials make money on their own, which to a certain extent led to poor public security and even collusion with businessmen.
Of course, Chen Yunxuan could also adopt such a strategy, but he was too young, and the officials might not obey him, and might even defect to the gentry, causing Chen Yunxuan to be unable to leave the government office.
And this is very terrifying.
Sure enough, not long after Lin Tongxi finished his analysis, bad news came.
Su Ruoxue counted the number of people attending the banquet and found that only a few gentry came to show their support!
It seems that this is to give these newcomers a warning!
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