Among the many physics disciples, the highest official position has been achieved as a temple secretary, and many have been exiled as magistrates.

Who is in charge of the Railway Division, Wang Yuan really has a headache. Many abilities are sufficient, but the qualifications are not enough, and the things of one division should be selected for the old and heavy.

After choosing, Wang Yuan decided to use Zhang Xuan, although Zhang Xuan was not a physicist.

Zhang Xuan Hongzhi has been a scholar for fifteen years, and is currently an official in the Hanlin Academy, and is also one of the prince's teachers. Although he is only a Zhengliupin official, the Hanlin official was transferred to the department, and it is just right to be a Zhengwupin Langzhong, and this old gentleman is fifty-three years old, so he can't be left in the Hanlin Academy to spend time.

"Would you like to be a railway division?" Wang Yuan personally went to the Hanlin Academy to invite people, but he was afraid that Zhang Xuan would be unwilling, maybe you think it was a promotion, and people still feel wronged.

Zhang Xuan had been bored with staying in the Hanlin Academy for a long time, but he didn't agree directly, but asked: "I have also heard of railways and trains, can you really travel thousands of miles a day?" ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Not only can you travel thousands of miles a day, but you can also transport countless people and goods at one time." The money for the construction of the railroad was allocated directly from the Inner Treasury; The stone and timber used for the construction of the railroad were purchased at a discounted price from the Ministry of Industry's Seshen Warehouse. Two years later, the Ministry of Railways was completely independent of its finances, and only needed to give the household and the Ministry of Work the benefits to stop their messy statements. ”

"I'll go see the real thing first." Zhang Xuan still has no bottom in his heart.

Zhang Xuan is also a great Confucian, but he specializes in "The Book of Rites", and the rest can only be regarded as a bypass, and he is inferior to Wang Yangming, Luo Qinshun and others in terms of knowledge.

If you want to know what kind of person Zhang Xuan is, just look at his etiquette thoughts:

First, courtesy. Etiquette, can not win affection, can not be because of etiquette, can not ignore people's basic emotional and physical needs, otherwise it is called etiquette cannibalism!

Second, etiquette is reason. Etiquette starts from righteousness, etiquette must emphasize benevolence and righteousness, and etiquette must be reasonable. The real gift is that the world is for the public, it must benefit the people, and it must be recognized by the public, otherwise it is a false reason and a hypocritical gift.

Third, profit and loss at any time. Rites are not immutable, they should change with the times, and ancient rites cannot be copied ꓹ otherwise they will be rigid and self-decaying.

Fourth, keep the right and honest. No matter how etiquette changes, the basic bottom line of etiquette, righteousness and honesty should be observed. We must not take advantage of the rules of etiquette and religion to do things that harm the people and harm others and benefit ourselves.

Fifth, practice the ancestral law. Etiquette is the system and the law. The ancestral system and the core of the law of the Ming Dynasty are definitely no problem. It's just that some details can't keep up with the development of the times, and these have to be corrected; Some details are very good in themselves, but they have been corrupted by later generations, and these must be restored - to put it bluntly, under the guise of the ancestral system, the reform of the law will be carried out!

Zhang Xuan was taken to the western suburbs to get in touch with the train, and after learning about the theoretical speed and cargo carrying capacity of the train, he instantly became excited. He got into the car again and took a test ride to feel the power of the steam beast, and the next day he agreed to Wang Yuan's invitation.

The chief officer of the Railways Department is as follows-

Lang Zhong: Zhang Xuan.

Wailang: Wang Jiao, Xu Jie, Wang Chong.

Principals: Jiang Xin, Nie Bao, Ling Xia.

As soon as this appointment came out, including Yang Tinghe, all the officials in the DPRK and China looked stupid.

Zhang Xuan ꓹ Zhengde has been on the list for fifteen years. Xu Jie, Zhengde's eighteen-year list. Wang Jiao, Zhengde eighteen years of flowers. Wang Chong, Shuji Shihan Lin Official. The small Ministry of Industry and Railway Department actually threw away so many "storage phases", Wang Yuan didn't think it was overkill?

As long as he works hard for another two years, Zhang Xuan is fully qualified to be a waiter, and Wang Jiao, Xu Jie, and Wang Chong can also have better development.

With so many outstanding reserve talents, it would be a waste to throw them out to occupy important positions at a critical moment, and now they will be stuffed into the Railway Division!

The ministers said that they couldn't understand it, but Yang Tinghe knew that Wang Yuan wanted to do things again.

As for the three principals, Jiang Xin was cast from Wang Yangming's family, followed Wang Yuan to Kaihai, Zhejiang, and was the first principal of Hangzhou Industrial and Commercial School. At present, he is a state governor in Henan, and was recalled by a letter from Wang Yuan.

Nie Bao is Wang Yangming's student, the first in the county assessment in the country, and half of Xu Jie's teacher. After this person was transferred to the imperial history, he offended three eunuchs, one capital secretary, one political envoy, one inspector, two deputy envoys, two political secretaries, one prefect, and four counties, and the political achievement was to make Fujian's customs revenue surpass Zhejiang in one fell swoop!

However, Nie Bao's rectification of the cities in Fujian touched the interests of too many powerful people, and even Liao Ji, the secretary of the ministry, did not keep it, and was secretly thrown to Zhizhou in Guangxi by Mingsheng. coincided with the Tusi rebellion in Guangxi, Nie Bao recruited the township to defend the city, and held the state city for more than two years, but finally lost because he was outnumbered, and wanted to commit suicide but was stopped by his subordinates, and was finally captured by the rebels. Although he took the opportunity to escape, he was still demoted, and Wang Yuan took the opportunity to transfer Nie Bao back to the capital as the director of the Railway Department this time.

Ling Xia is more interesting, he was born in a craftsman family and has no fame.

Wang Yuan asked his disciples to develop a steam engine, and everyone else gave up, only Ling Xia has been insisting, and now the train is also Ling Xia taking the lead in developing it.

It would be a pipe dream to let a craftsman be white, and directly be the head of the Ministry of Justice, without attracting impeachment. Liao Ji, the official who has always had a good relationship with Wang Yuan, resolutely disagreed this time, but he couldn't survive the emperor's forcible appointment.

There are also a few eighth-grade and ninth-grade adjutants, who are also similar to Ling Xia, either Xiucai is from a background, or Xiucai is not. But these appointments don't matter, the adjutant can do it casually, and he can be promoted to the seventh rank in this life.

Even a large number of officials are disciples of the physics school!

A perfect interpretation of what is called "nepotism", the Ministry of Industry and Railways has become the backyard of Wang Yuan's family.

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Wenyuan Pavilion.

Jiang Mian was reviewing the chapters of each department, took a sip of tea, and flipped through the letter sent by the account opening department.

"Poof!"

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"

Jiang Mian squirted out a sip of tea, and hurriedly closed his mouth to stabilize it, but he choked himself and coughed constantly.

The other four ministers all looked at it curiously.

Jiang Mian slowed down for a while, wiped his mouth and said: "The household is sparse, there is rice to Tongzhou, the first batch of 20,000 stones!" Request devaulting. ”

Yang Yiqing was puzzled: "At this time, where did you get 20,000 stones?" ”

"Could it be that it was postponed last year?" Yang Tinghe was also puzzled.

Jiang Mian explained: "Tan Haibo brought back gold and silver from the extreme east, and directly bought rice in Nanyang through Jinyi Haiwei. 400 Wen and one stone, chartered to Tianjin Port. This is just the first batch, and there are several more to come. ”

"Four hundred wen and one stone are still transported to Tianjin?" Although Wang Qiong likes to be a dog, he is very talented, he is very sensitive to all kinds of data, and can even allocate materials through calculations, so that there is not much room for corruption in various projects.

Jiang Mian nodded: "That's what Song Zhang said." ”

In the entire Ming Dynasty, when the price of rice was the cheapest, it was only 300 wen and one stone, but that was the price of rice during the harvest in some parts of the south.

And this batch of rice, 400 wen and one stone, was also transported to Tianjin!

Wang Qiong asked: "Who will pay for the sinking of the sea ship?" ”

Jiang Mian said: "Jinyi Haiwei will pay compensation, and you must pay rice, not silver." ”

Yang Yiqing sighed and said: "This brocade Haiwei, I thought it was His Majesty's pastime, but I never thought it would be so useful!" ”

"No, it's definitely not," Wang Qiong shook her head and said, "In the past, the ministers had disputes over transportation and shipping, and I also inquired about the price of Nanyang rice. 400 wen and one stone, you may be able to buy it occasionally, but it is impossible to buy 20,000 stones at once, not to mention that this is only the first batch, and it will be shipped to Tianjin! In this way, even if Jinyi Haiwei does not lose, it is at most to protect the capital. Is there anyone who is not greedy? ”

Mao Ji said with a smile: "Elder Wang Ge, you can't say this, don't eunuchs and warriors be allowed to have honest people who serve the country?" In my opinion, Zhu Ying, the commander of Jinyi Haiwei, and Jinyi Haiwei are both in command of Manzheng, these two must be incorruptible and capable of doing things, and the imperial court should commend their merits and let them continue to transport grain. ”

Wang Qiong said: "It is easy for one or two people to be honest, how many people do you have to use to transport 20,000 stones of grain?" Are all of them incorruptible? ”

Yang Yiqing suddenly said: "I'm afraid that these grains are coming from the wrong way." ”

"Coming from the wrong way?" Jiang Mian asked.

Yang Yiqing said: "It's nothing more than robbing." ”

Wang Qiong said: "It must have been robbed." ”

Jiang Mian smiled and said: "Don't guess, since the grain has arrived in Tongzhou, I will approve them to unpack Taicang." ”

It was a bit disgraceful to say this, and the five ministers stopped talking about it. If you have a bargain, you don't take advantage of the bastard, it doesn't matter if he stole it or robbed it, anyway, he didn't exploit the people of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were changes in the grain, and during the Zhengde period, the annual quota was four million stones.

This time there were 20,000 more stones, and it was only the first batch, which had already made the cabinet bigwigs happy.

It was Mao Ji, who had always been against Wang Yuan, and he smiled and said at this time: "Although Wang Ruoxu is deviant, he has nothing to say about his ability to see and employ people." That Zhu Ying and Man Zheng are both talents he promoted, although they are far away in Nanyang overseas, they can be loyal to the imperial court to transport grain, which is very rare! If you have merit, you will be rewarded, but you can give Zhu Ying's sons and nephews a shadow official, and then give Man Zheng a martial arts rank. ”

Yang Tinghe nodded and said, "This matter is okay." ”

Wang Qiong sneered and didn't speak.

Yang Tinghe and Mao Ji were making small calculations, and when they saw that Jinyi Haiwei was of great use, they wanted to entrap Zhu Ying and Man Zheng.

Wang Qiong, a data-sensitive person, knows very well what an incredible thing it is to transport rice from Nanyang to Tianjin. Moreover, Jinyi Haiwei is still overseas all the year round, so it stands to reason that he should have been disobedient a long time ago, just think about those Ming border generals.

However, the grain was delivered like this, and the emperor and Wang Yuan's control over Jinyi Haiwei was extraordinary, how could they be bought by such small favors as Yin Guan and promotion?

Actually, Jinyi Weihai is really not as obedient as he imagined, these guys are full of fat one by one. Even Ning Botao, the eyeliner planted by Wang Yuan, already had his own will and took many clan relatives to Nanyang for development.

If it is allowed to develop, it will take another 20 years at most, and Jinyi Haiwei will listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement.

Wang Yuan deliberately, who doesn't leave a way back for himself, not to mention that he still wants to reform and change the law, and few people who have changed the law since ancient times have a good end.

In any case, the 20,000 stone of grain arrived, and no one in the DPRK and China spoke ill of Jinyi Haiwei. Who dares to say that the brocade clothes and Haiwei will be abolished, the cabinet and the household department are absolutely angry, and they still expect to continue to collect grain.

Peng Ze, the head of the household, was the first to get angry.

Of the 20,000 stone of grain that had just been put into storage, the Railway Department directly took 5,000 stone, saying that food was needed to build the railway, and planned to call the disaster victims and displaced people to work for relief.

But Peng Ze's anger was useless, although he was the head of the household, but Zhao Huang, the waiter of the household department, was Wang Yuan's person, and Wang Yuan had been stuck in the money bag of the household.