Beginning (2)

A few horses, along the newly built cement official road, galloped quickly. The people lingering on the side of the road raised their heads and looked at the back of the rider, and a proud smile appeared on their faces.

"I'm going in the direction of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the front line must have won another big victory!" Someone said confidently, in order to prove that he was not guessing, at the end, he also added a sentence, "That horse is specially raised to pass on information, and the fifth uncle of my third aunt's second cousin works at the post station, and I have seen the brand on the horse's buttocks!" ”

"Come on, you, bragging, who doesn't know that it's a big eating horse, and Lord Wen specially raised it to be a stagecoach!" Immediately, someone laughed and laughed. "There are four or five horses running on this street in a day, and which one is not branded with the same mark!"

"The pattern is the same, but the number is different!" The braggart was stubborn, but the small vendors next to him changed the topic and began to discuss whether it was a "big event" to close the stall earlier and buy a few glasses of wine at the restaurant to celebrate.

Since October, the good news has been transmitted along the official road leading to Liangzhejiang and Liangguang. Nowadays, the market is prosperous, people have some surplus money in their hands, and they like to go to the teahouse and restaurant at night to drink a few sips of light wine, and talk nonsense with the wine friends they don't know. The clever hotel owner also widened the space for standing drinks on the ground floor, and some brave people even put the table on the open space outside the restaurant, and sold some pickles, dried fish and other things to fill the stomach of the "poor wine" drinker. The mayor of the district, Rimasa, who is in charge of street safety, has sent people to rectify the situation several times in the name of preventing the plague, but as the plague ended, the people became emboldened, and the effect of the rectification became less and less obvious. Gradually, a tacit understanding was reached between the manager and the managed, one party reduced the number of inspections, and the other party tried their best to keep the site and food clean, and they were at peace with each other.

Chinese people love to get together, this is nature, and no one can change it. And when getting together, the best topic is current affairs, especially in the past month, the good news ahead, which has encouraged people's interest.

"These are all the benefits of the Covenant!" Most people think bluntly. In the past, Confucius was afraid of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the chaotic ministers and thieves were afraid. As for the rebellious ministers and thieves, a few of them were frightened by "Spring and Autumn" and turned to the right, the era was too far away, and everyone had no way or interest in researching. However, after the adoption of the "Provisional Covenant", the achievements of the Broken Army were clearly displayed in the newspapers, and the Western Front once again defeated the Yuan army killed by the Yunnan side and recovered the entire territory of Guangxi. On the eastern front, Chen Hangyan and Li Xing with 20,000 horses and horses, killed the shrimp soldiers and crabs under the command of Fan Wenhu, and the army was dispatched in less than a month, and they had already recovered Wen and Chu Prefectures, and transported the autumn grain that had just been stored in the two states to Fujian. According to the news in the newspapers, there was even a Northern Yuan general who saw Li Xing's banner and collapsed without a fight, and obediently handed over the grain and grass equipment in the city to the broken army.

There are also careful people who have discovered the difference between the re-entry of the captive army into Liangzhejiang this time and the last time. Last time, Zhang Tang and Du Hu waved their troops into Zhejiang, marching all the way, only attacking but not defending, and in a blink of an eye, the two Zhejiang were stirred up. However, this time, the two generals Chen and Li fought steadily, and every time they recovered a place, they must clean up the remnants of the Fan clan and the bandits entrenched in the mountains and plague the people with the assistance of the local rebels. In addition, the seized "ownerless" land was redistributed to the people, and at the same time, in accordance with the rules of the "Provisional Covenant Law", four levels of government were established: li, district, county, and prefecture.

But the careful do not dare to speculate on the intentions of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, since the end of the plague, the orders of the Dadu Governor's Mansion are the royal law in the eyes of ordinary people, even if they do not understand it, they will carry it out to the letter. The previous example is clearly laid out there, the Metropolitan Governor's Office asked everyone to move into the city, and when everyone came, they found that there was a better way to live in the city than farming. The Metropolitan Governor's Office ordered everyone to sprinkle lime on the roadside, and they were not allowed to dump garbage or dirty water, and everyone carried it out, and the plague did not kill as many people as before. The Metropolitan Governor's Office paid for the construction of sewers and the smoothing of the roads, and now the streets are no longer stinking and mosquitoes flying. Even when it rained heavily, there was no water pouring into the house.

If it had been a year ago, some people had questioned the measures of the Metropolitan Governor's Office in public, and perhaps they would have heard echoing it. Now, if anyone dares to question Prime Minister Wen's decree in public, he will definitely be drowned in rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs in a moment. When it's over, someone will tell you, "Sample? Haven't you read a book for a few days? How much do you read? He is the champion of the Great Song Dynasty, and he has laid this country from scratch. You cow, your methods are reasonable, and you have the ability to go to the north to play a piece of the world by yourself! ”

This situation makes some people who pretend to be sober anxious. They did not dare to openly oppose the Dadu Governor's Mansion in front of the people, so they shifted their positions to the newspapers and constantly wrote articles to remind the Fujian people that Chen Hangyan and Li Xing's merits were not so great, and that the Fan Jiajun in the two Zhejiang areas had long been a dead crab, and with the strength of the Fujian Dadu Governor's Office, they could drive the Fan Jiajun out of the two Zhejiangs and even recover Lin'an. The reason why Wen Tianxiang sent troops into Zhejiang was to grab grain and alleviate the danger of food shortage in Fujian. The malicious speculation is to fool the people and show that his "Provisional Covenant" is correct.

The Provisional Statute stipulates that the people have the right to think and express their opinions, and this right has nothing to do with the correctness of their views. In line with this principle and a certain sensationalism, the businessman's own tabloid "Minjiang" published the article, and as a result, it was refuted by the joint efforts of the other dozen or so newspapers. A newspaper angrily asked, "You said that the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion entered Zhejiang to rob the grain in the treasury of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, can you live without eating?" You said that the record of the recovery office and Wen Prefecture is to fool the people, so what is the record of not fooling the people? Is it true that the captivity army has to cross the sea and march north and directly win most of the capital? ”

After a pen war, the popularity of several newspapers participating in the war has increased significantly. Although in terms of sales, it was still far from the goal of making a large profit for the founders, the combatants found a way to increase the popularity of the newspaper. That is, to make a fuss about current affairs and the "Provisional Covenant", others support it, and if others oppose it, they will support it. Since then, the wind of debate in the newspapers has risen sharply, and as the number of times it has been mentioned, the four words "Provisional Covenant" have slowly left an indelible mark in people's hearts.

In the Provisional Covenant, the most relevant to the interests of the reader is the second paragraph of Article 3, the method of selecting officials. Those who have a heart look back and take a closer look, and the origin of the Dharma Covenant Conference, which has been in trouble for several months, is the issue of the selection system of officials in the Guangfu region. Therefore, the controversy over whether or not to attack Liangzhejiang came to an end, and the focus of the controversy in the newspapers soon converged on the appointment of officials in Liangguang.

The two states of Wen and Chu are facing the battlefield. How Chen Hangyan and Li Xing tossed there, and which of the governors appointed by the metropolitan governor who was not afraid of death to be the county magistrate and governor, the officials and Confucianists didn't care. However, the two Guangxi are different, especially the more than a dozen prefectures near the sea, such as Qinzhou, Lei, Lian, Hua, Guangzhou, and Hui, which no longer border the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and are backed by the sea, so they can be taken care of by the military and naval divisions at any time, and they have suddenly become fat in the eyes of everyone. Those places have been combed by the cold-faced Yan Luo Duhu, and the deep-rooted family has long been swept away, and when governing the government, there is no place to be strong and strong, and there is no comparison of the merits of predecessors, such as white paper and ink, and you can write whatever you want.

For a time, he tried to contribute to the country with sincerity and sincerity; Under the guise of expanding the power of the family; There are also those who think that their talents have been buried for many years and try to show them, and they all have their eyes fixed on the officials. Zhao Shijun, the new secretary of the ministry, complained bitterly, and in three days, he set up a carriage and ran towards the Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

"Prime Minister, you better let the last general come back as a staff officer. If this continues, even if the last general is not annoyed by the noise of the adults, sooner or later he will have to be arrested by King Liu Yan for morning tea! Zhao Shijun blocked in the room where Wen Tianxiang handled government affairs every day, and kept begging.

His elder brother Zhao Shi rewarded Wen Tianxiang for saving his life, and he himself was the royal family of the Zhao family, so he was not so taboo when talking to Wen Tianxiang, and he could mention whatever he wanted.

"Why, I can't stand it after only half a month, is it more dangerous to be a secretary than to carry a knife to the battlefield?" Wen Tianxiang asked with a smile. After the "Provisional Covenant Law" was passed, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs were under the greatest pressure in a short period of time, so he recommended Zhao Shijun, a relative of the imperial family, to top the shortage of officials and scholars. There are royal blood supporters, even if someone wants to frame Zhao Shijun, they must also consider the result after failure.

"When you go to the battlefield, you are all swords and guns, and it hurts to die. When Shangshu died, he didn't know how to die! You also know that there are not many others in our Da Song, but there are many officials. At present, they are pouring from the north to Fujian to Zhixian and Zhizhou, and they are too guarded and grabbed a handful. There are still so many imperial histories, waiters, and staff in the court waiting to make up for the lack of space, and there are many monks and few porridges, so they naturally try all kinds of ways to go to the door. Since the last general took office, except for the emperor and the queen mother, almost everyone has privately handed me posts, and in order to become an official, all tricks that can't be put on the table are used. Knowing this, it would be better to let General Miao throw them down at sea, so as not to show up on land! Zhao Shijun muttered and complained, very disdainful of the behavior of his colleagues.

As the palace rebuilt from Pujia Garden was about to be completed, the Xing Dynasty, which had lived in Liuqiu for more than a year, also began to move to Quanzhou one after another. The "Provisional Treaty" stipulates that the officials of all ministries will henceforth be under the leadership of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and that some departments and personnel that are not needed during wartime should be abolished as soon as possible in order to reduce the expenditure of the state treasury. Therefore, many officials, especially the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry, originally had positions in vain, and they just followed the emperor to eat. After merging with the corresponding departments of the Prime Minister's Office, there are a bunch of officials who have no actual power and only have false titles.

The Great Song Dynasty has always had the habit of raising idle officials, and the generous treatment and idle vacant positions made many people grateful, and in times of crisis, these people refused to abandon the royal family and escape alone. Now that the royal power is falling, and the Prime Minister's Mansion refuses to pay the same amount to idle officials as it does in peacetime, many people have the idea of doing things.

The most critical point is that the main force of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was trapped in Liaodong and could not pull out, and the prospects for the revival of the Great Song Dynasty were promising. Being an official at this moment, even if it is a small county order, is also the founding father. Even if you can't inscribe the name on the Lingyan Pavilion, you can still leave a heavy mark in history. Moreover, the Metropolitan Governor's Office advocates high salaries and incorruptible maintenance, and pays the salaries of officials with real positions very generously.

The "Provisional Law" stipulates that the right to appoint officials above the county level is the prime minister, and the right to recommend is in the ministry, so officials facing "unemployment" have sought Zhao Shijun to go to the door. But Zhao Shijun, who has been following Wen Tianxiang's side, clearly knows that Wen Cheng trusts his subordinates very much, but he will not give up supervision. In order to prevent Liu Zijun from coming to the door, he simply ran from Quanzhou to Fuzhou, on the one hand, complained to Wen Tianxiang and sought a solution. On the other hand, avoid the suspicion of accepting bribes and buying official porridge.

Wen Tianxiang sighed and didn't answer Zhao Shijun immediately. He also regretted the death of the electoral system. If it weren't for the all-out obstruction of the officials and subordinates, where would the local officials appoint so much trouble. But the limitations of the times are the limitations of the times, and I can't always hold a steel knife to force everyone to accept the election. This step, since it has been retreated, can only respect reality. Moreover, between advancing and retreating, the metropolitan governor is the biggest beneficiary, and now the opportunity to reorganize the forces of all parties in the Great Song Dynasty has arrived, and the appointment of officials is a rare opportunity.

"Otherwise, our Prime Minister's Mansion will draw up a list and use those redundant officials for talent!" Zhao Shijun saw that Wen Tianxiang didn't speak, and asked tentatively.

Wen Tianxiang still didn't speak, his eyes fell on the stone tablet paper pattern sent by Chen Longfu. This is the Prime Minister's Office specially allocated funds to be erected in front of the yamen of major states and governments, and at the intersection of traffic arteries. In order to reflect the solemnity of the covenant, Lu Xiufu personally wrote each word.

It would be good if Miao Chun rescued a few fewer officials back then, so as not to make trouble with these white-eyed wolves. Zhao Shijun thought viciously in his heart, he looked down on the redundant officials who came to the door. This group of people has fame, and their articles are all written like flowers, but governing the local area is not something that can be done well by writing articles. The duty of the government is to maintain local law and order, to create ways for the people to make money to support their families, to build roads, build bridges, and improve water conservancy. With the current local government system of the Great Song Dynasty, people who really spend their minds on governing the country have absolutely no time to write those fancy articles.

However, Zhao Shijun did not intend to recommend only his colleagues from the former Dadu Governor's Office as local officials, although his colleagues had a much better understanding of the duties of the government than the redundant officials of the Imperial Court and the Jinshi who were idle at home. According to his understanding, it took several months to build the "Provisional Covenant Law" in order to make all the forces of the Great Song Dynasty compromise, and if the conflict was exacerbated because of the appointment of officials, it would live up to the trust of the prime minister in him.

What to do? He looked at Wen Tianxiang, waiting for a definite answer. found that Wen Tianxiang had been looking at him, his eyes were full of encouragement and expectation.

Zhao Shijun was a little nervous in his heart, his gaze drifted to the "Temporary Covenant", and suddenly, his eyes lit up, and a wonderful attention appeared in his heart.

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