Volume 1 Chapter 2 Bragging is risky
If the country is broken, the family will die, if the Ming Dynasty dies, ordinary people may still have a way to live, but a family like Zhang Bin, whose father and son are both officials of the Ming Dynasty, is afraid that it will be difficult to survive.
Zhang Bin naturally didn't want to be a slave of the country, let alone a minister of the country, he was determined to save the Ming Dynasty.
So, how to save Daming?
Coincidentally, he really knows this problem.
Because when he is usually relaxed, his favorite thing to read is the novels of the Ming Dynasty, the starting point history channel, the novels about the Ming Dynasty, as long as he can read them, he basically finishes them.
There are very few novels written in other time periods in the Ming Dynasty, most of them are written at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that he still has a good understanding of the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and he has read a lot of ways to save the Ming Dynasty.
He also has a huge advantage, that is, his experience in later generations, he learned mechatronics in later generations, and he has been in this industry for many years, with rich practical experience, if he lets go of it, he can even set off an industrial revolution at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not impossible to save the Ming Dynasty.
However, he is also familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty and understands that it seems impossible for a county order to save the Ming Dynasty.
Because the power is too small, a seven-grade sesame official, who will bird you!
At the very least, you have to become one of the six books or enter the cabinet, and only then will anyone listen to what you say.
If you go down according to the normal way of promotion, even if there is no accident, it will take nearly thirty years to be promoted to the first rank in three years and the six Shangshu of the second grade, and at that time, the Ming Dynasty would have died long ago!
In other words, if you want to save the Ming Dynasty, you can't climb up slowly, you must find a way to improve your official rank as soon as possible, and take power as soon as possible, otherwise, even if you have the ability, it will be too late.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, how to get promoted quickly?
According to historical records, the most reliable way is to brag!
If you want to reach the sky in one step, you must first blow yourself into the sky.
In the face of the chaotic situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is Emperor Tianqi or Emperor Chongzhen, they are a little sick and rushed to the doctor, as long as you dare to blow, they will dare to promote you!
Don't talk about the pretentious guys of the Donglin Party, they will blow the light one by one, and they seem to be able to govern the world, stealing a high position but having no good way to govern the country, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty can be said to have a lot to do with them.
There is another person who is even better than the Donglin Party, and compared to those people in the Donglin Party, he is a scumbag.
This person is the famous Yuan Chonghuan, and if you take a closer look at his promotion path, you will find that he is simply a boasting god.
According to historical records, it only took him a total of six years to be promoted from a seven-rank county order to the superintendent of the Supreme People, that is to say, within six years, he was promoted to more than twelve levels!
In the second year of the Apocalypse, he was still only a county commander, and at that time he began to boast that he was proficient in the art of war.
This is just an appetizer, and then he played the Emperor of the Apocalypse: As long as I give me enough money and food for soldiers and horses, I can defend Shanhaiguan alone!
The Emperor of the Apocalypse also believes this! immediately promoted him to be the military preparation of the fifth grade, bragged about it, and was promoted to three levels in a row, which is no one.
Of course, he still has a little ability, and immediately after, he won the Ningyuan victory and the Ningjin victory in the sixth year of the Apocalypse and the seventh year of the Apocalypse respectively.
However, his luck was not good, and it happened that Wei Zhongxian and Wei Gonggong needed to use the credit of these two great victories as the basis for his nephew and nephew to be promoted to the knighthood.
As a result, he only promoted to the rank of one rank and was promoted to the imperial envoy of Zuo Du, while Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing was promoted to Taishi because of Ning Jin's great victory.
In fact, Wei Liangqing is nothing, although he has never been to Liaodong, but he is an adult, what is even more exaggerated is that Wei Zhongxian's other nephew, Wei Liangdong, who is still nursing in the arms of the nurse, was also named the Marquis of Dong'an and promoted to the crown prince Taibao because of Ning Yuan's great victory and Ning Jin's great victory!
What a, Yuan Chonghuan was so angry that he resigned directly and returned to his hometown, and quit.
After Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, Wei Zhongxian and other eunuchs were removed, and his opportunity came again.
He deliberately exaggerated his role in the great victory of Ningyuan and Ningjin, and blew the myth of the five-year Pingliao.
Emperor Chongzhen actually believed this! Immediately appointed him as the secretary of the military department and the right deputy imperial envoy, to supervise Ji Liao!
The title of superintendent is terrible, and any general soldier and governor have to listen to him, and he can be said to be a very popular minister.
In six years, he was promoted from the county order of the seventh grade to the superintendent of the quasi-first grade!
In six years, Yuan Chonghuan has completed the promotion road that many people can't finish in their lifetime!
However, he finally blew the cowhide this time, and not only failed to level Liao for five years, but also ran Huang Taiji to the capital of Daming to spread wild.
As a result, Emperor Chongzhen was angry and scraped him alive!
It can be seen that bragging is also a science, and it is not okay to brag blindly.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, bragging was not illegal, as long as you dared to brag, promotion was definitely faster than riding a rocket.
However, bragging is also risky, the cowhide can't be blown too hard, once the cowhide is blown out, it is Chiguoguo's bully, and he will die a miserable death.
Zhang Bin knew that at this time, the muddy waters in Liaodong could not be waded.
Because Houjin is now in full swing, but Daming has been made into a miasma by party strife and corruption, and it is difficult to clean up Houjin under the rise of one and the other.
To blow, you have to find something simple, easy to blow.
He thought for a while, and then thought of another person, this person was Xiong Wencan.
The reason why he thought of Xiong Wencan was not because this benevolent brother was bragging badly, and this benevolent brother's specialty was also on his lips, but it was not bragging, but fooling people.
In the first year of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan was appointed governor of Fujian, and the pirate leader Zheng Zhilong attacked Tongshan from Xiamen, but as a result, he surrendered!
In the tenth year of Chongzhen, he was recommended as the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of the imperial history because of his meritorious service in the management of pirates, and was responsible for encircling and suppressing the peasant rebel army on behalf of Wang Jiazhen, the governor of Nanzhili, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang and Sichuan.
He used his magic trick again to recruit Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant rebel army, to surrender.
However, this time it was actually Xiong Wencan who was fooled, Zhang Xianzhong surrendered by fraud, and in less than a year, Zhang Xianzhong came back and made a more fierce scene.
As a result, Xiong Wencan was also beheaded by Chongzhen.
Of course, Zhang Bin didn't want to learn from Xiong Wencan to fool people, he just wanted to brag at the right time and replace Xiong Wencan as the governor of Fujian.
Because he knew that the pirate leader Zheng Zhilong had actually wanted to surrender for a long time, and no matter who went, he could easily get this credit.
What's more, this county commander Zhang Bin's father is the Qianhu of Dajin under the Fujian Metropolitan Division, and his future father-in-law is even more expected to be the commander of the Fujian Metropolitan Division!
As long as he can become the governor of Fujian, he will be like a fish in water, not only can he easily recruit Zheng Zhilong, but he can also quickly establish his own power.
Of course, not everyone can be a governor, and the county order is not qualified to be a governor.
If a local official wants to be a governor, he must at least be a prefect, or a political envoy or something.
The requirements for court officials to be governors are a little lower, and seven-rank officials such as the military department's squire, Langzhong, and even the Imperial Inspectorate are qualified to be governors.
Therefore, in the first step, he was going to go to the military department or the metropolitan procuratorate first, and obtain the qualifications of the governor of the country, as for the prefect or the political envoys left and right, it would take at least ten years to be promoted from the county order.