"If you don't get an official, you won't be honored if you lose an official, don't be useless if you don't have an official, and the people rely on one official"

Although the power of the magistrate is now handed over to full-time officials such as the criminal magistrate because of the judicial power, the power of the magistrate is not as great as before, but in the hearts of the people, the magistrate is still the parent of the place, and in the eyes of the magistrate himself, he is still a herdsman of the Son of Heaven.

For Yao Wencan, who is the magistrate of Tancheng, he also has such thoughts, so after taking office, it took him less than a month to travel all over the 4 townships and 45 societies under his jurisdiction, although now the magistrate has ignored the judiciary, but as a pro-people official, he can still put forward some suggestions, of course, this kind of visit is what every magistrate must do, and he must fully understand the locality, which is the duty of the magistrate.

In fact, now the pro-people officials of the Ming Dynasty are "happy", because the power of judicial trials has been swept away, and most of the government affairs are handled by the yamen, so Yao Wencan, as a pro-people official, has time to talk about articles with local scholars every day, and even has time to listen to students' final exams in school.

On this day, as in the past, Yao Wencan, who is the county magistrate, wore civilian clothes in the classroom of the county school and took the exam in person.

The county school is the highest institution in a county, and the old time for students to study, the current students in the county school are from all over the county in the social science of the best students, according to the law of the imperial court, the Ming people, regardless of the age of eight must enter the social school, otherwise the father and brother will be punished, after five years of social studies, if the academic excellence is willing to continue to study, you can go to the county school.

Different from social studies, the county school established in the county seat is equivalent to the junior high school in later generations, and the students of the county school are provided by the government, but they need to pay tuition, and in order to ensure that the children of poor families can enter the county school, the government will subsidize some students in the form of scholarships every year.

Because the number of places is only 20% of the number of students in each class, the competition for scholarships is fierce, and because of this, every time the exam is held, the magistrate will come in person, and Yao Wencan is naturally no exception, of course, as the magistrate, he has no right to speak, just as a supervisor to watch. Of course, this does not mean that he cannot make some decisions, if he wants, he can sponsor a student in the name of the county magistrate, of course, in order to get his funding, you must be good enough.

The questions answered in the oral examination are not only Chinese studies, but also geography, etc., every student who takes the exam is extremely good, after all, even the children of rich families need to go through a strict examination before they can enter the county school, and the county school and the government school are like a sieve to screen them out.

Unlike in the past, which focused on written exams, the oral exam is also a crucial part of the test.

"Huh?"

When Yao Wencan scored the previous student's answer in his heart, the next student entered the examination room, and it was actually a fourteen or fifteen-year-old woman. Standing there in a cleanly washed green coat, his face was particularly beautiful.

"Student Li Ziting has seen three teachers, the county honor."

Li Ziting first saluted the principal and the two teachers in front of her, and then saluted to the magistrate, after all, this is a school, and the status of the principal and teacher is higher than that of the magistrate.

"I didn't expect it, but after only a few years, Daming now has a female talent ......"

Although he knew that the current county school students were not the students of the past, Yao Wencan couldn't help but think to himself.

The current Ming Dynasty is completely different from the past, the difference is not only the kind of "all the households in the city do not learn, the family has no people who do not learn", the key is the change of the way of education, the old education is to select talents for the country, and now it is to cultivate talents for all industries, such as the professional schools of law, medicine, engineering, literature, science, agriculture and commerce in each province, as if it was a specialized school in the 17th century, becoming the preparatory school of the major academies, and sending many excellent reserve forces to Qinghe Academy and other academies.

Because of this, county school education is often based on further education, with relatively high curriculum and teaching requirements, and attaches great importance to basic scientific knowledge, with courses such as algebra, geometry, physics, and chemistry. For Yao Wencan, who is the magistrate of the county, he didn't know much about these things, so he just played the role of "spectator", compared to the woman's fluent answer, he was more surprised that there would be a "female showman" at this time.

Just when he sighed like this, there was an official letter from the prefect who hurriedly sent him, and then after the official document, his brows jumped suddenly, and he said dissatisfiedly.

"How can this be justified, how can this be justified!"

Even after returning to the county office, Yao Wencan was still unhappy.

"How can this be reasonable, how can this be reasonable, where are the ministers of the court? Don't you know how to dissuade Your Majesty? ”

At this moment, Yao Wencan had countless questions in his heart, in his opinion, His Majesty has always been a Ming Jun, but why would he make such a central decree. What annoyed him even more was that the ministers of the court did not persuade His Majesty, and actually let His Majesty come nonsense.

“…… This, this, this is too uncontrollable......"

Not to mention, Yao Wencan thinks so, and even the county Cheng Li Jie, who is his adjutant, thinks the same.

"To enrich the entertainment of the people, it is advisable to carry out entertainment activities such as lantern guessing in the summer, and the government should also organize opera troupes to perform in the evening......"

Li Definition's brows are tightly locked, and the so-called "middle purpose" is very simple, that is, let the government organize various entertainment activities in the summer, guessing lantern fans, acting and other activities. This is the first time in history that these things have been mentioned in the middle decree.

"Your Majesty is too ...... to do this"

Without waiting for him to finish, Yao Wencan said angrily.

"Could it be that in the eyes of Your Majesty, I have to be "Wen Xi Wu Tian" to be considered a prosperous posture? In Yao's opinion, there must be traitors in the court, so someone has so bewitched His Majesty to make an indiscriminate decree......"

If it weren't for the fact that there are no eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty now, I'm afraid Yao Wencan would definitely attribute this crime to the group of eunuchs who only know that flattering the country is in trouble, but even so, he is still angry that the ministers did not stop the emperor.

"What are the cabinet ministers doing, how can they just make Your Majesty so frivolous......"

Indeed, the emperor's encouragement of the people to have fun at night and enrich the "nightlife" was indeed frivolous by 17th-century standards, and to the annoyance of the magistrates, the central government failed to stop the emperor.

Of course, they don't know that the cabinet center has done its best, and even this "frivolity" to the extreme may even lead to the decline of the social atmosphere after Jiajing from thrift to luxury.

"Could it be that Your Majesty has forgotten that all the people in the world pursued indulgence and extravagance back then, and caused the chaos in my Ming Dynasty?"

When Yao Wencan was so annoyed, Li Definition also shook his head and sighed lightly, looking worried about this tendency of "frugality and extravagance".

"County honor, then is my county in accordance with this central order, or is it ......?"

looked at the county zun with a worried face, just when Li Jian thought that the county zun would definitely refuse the order, he heard the county zun say.

"Although this decree can cause the people to become more luxurious, but after all, it is the decree issued by His Majesty, and we, as human ministers, know that this decree is not conducive to the people, but if it is against the decree, it will not be a matter of ......."

After a lot of big truths, in the end, there is only one sentence - obeying the order. In fact, this is precisely the characteristic of officials, maybe they will oppose a certain will of the palace or the political order of the court, but in the end they will choose to accept it, which is not only out of self-preservation, but also has another mentality - to make things bigger. As long as it makes a big fuss, it will prove their prescientcy.

From the time the telegram was sent on the ninth day of June, in just a few days, Zhu Mingzhong finally breathed a sigh of relief with the news that Shandong, Beizhili, Henan, Gyeonggi, Nanzhili, and other places had given back.

With the rapid liveliness of night markets in various parts of the country, the government has attracted the people by inviting opera troupes in order to make the night markets as attractive as possible.

"Even the people in the countryside are happy to ...... the time"

Deliberately pulled out Tancheng's official documents from many documents, the corners of Zhu Mingzhong's lips raised slightly, what he needed was for the people to go out of the house after nightfall, instead of going to bed early.

He can't remember exactly when the Tancheng earthquake occurred on that day, but with the impression of reading the text, he can conclude that it should have happened at night, and it should have been in the first half of the night, after all, there are words such as "to candle drink" in the record of the earthquake, which indicates that the earthquake occurred in the first half of the night, and it should have been shortly after nightfall.

Find a way to "drive" the people out of the house and let them go to the streets and markets, so that the casualties of the people can be minimized, which can be regarded as a compromise!

"Yun Ting, why do you say that they will definitely do everything possible to add fuel to the fire, and will do everything possible to make the night of the town market very lively in a very short period of time?"

Zhu Mingzhong looked at Ning Yunting and asked,

"Your Majesty, because only when the people are addicted to it, can they be justified, and once the people of the world are "tired of drinking at night, and do not get drunk and have no home", they can use this as an excuse to criticize "the world is declining, and the hearts of the people are becoming extravagant", so that all the responsibility can be attributed to Your Majesty. ”

Ning Yunting's voice was not loud, and there was inevitably a slight mockery in her crisp and gentle words. It seems to be ironic that when those officials are fueling the trouble, they do not know that the more they are like this, the more happy His Majesty will be.

Then why aren't you worried that after this decree is issued, "the world is declining, and people's hearts are becoming extravagant"? ”

When he asked rhetorically, Zhu Mingzhong had a smile on his face, and Ning Yunting helped him solve a big problem.

"The minister is just a woman, without His Majesty's great wisdom, even if His Majesty is not worried, then the minister naturally does not need to worry......" Ning Yunting did not answer directly, but slapped a sycophant, her sycophant made Zhu Mingzhong laugh, and after the laughter, he said.

"Decree the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and order them to count and report the military supplies and materials ...... all over the country"

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