Chapter 203 Promotion must be made for the people

Shandong was originally a land of plastering in the Central Plains. However, the Jin attacked the Northern Song Dynasty and fought with the Mongols for many years, and this Shandong was repeatedly plundered and captured, and gradually lost the rich atmosphere of the Song Dynasty; Yuan took the Central Plains, thousands of miles east of Lianghe Mountain, and the children of gold silk were robbed; At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the rebel army and the Yuan army fought several times in Shandong, and this place suffered a catastrophe. Although there were several military immigrants during the Hongwu period, Shandong was one of the main battlefields in the Jingjing battle when Emperor Jianwen was established.

As a result, even the Qufu Kong family is also seriously damaged, and the other old families are almost not one in ten. In addition to the Confucian family and the vassal kings under the Han Wangfu of the Lu Dynasty, most of the powerful people in the countryside today have developed from the immigrants who have migrated in the past few decades. The same immigrants, some of them have become poorer and poorer in the past few decades, and some of them have become wealthy. In addition, the salt merchants who went to the South China Sea to buy salt through the opening of China and France, this Shandong is full of poor people, rich people are rich thieves, and there are many landlords who own thousands of hectares of land.

Although he has money but no foundation, this is the meaning of the word Du Zhen, an upstart.

That night, Zhang Yue had been listening carefully to Du Juan's suggestions and suggestions, listening to them in great detail one by one, and he had been thinking for two hours until the moontop was in the treetops. As he guessed, Du Zhen did guess his promotion based on his understanding of the imperial court institutions, but this teacher had no congratulations and only worries about the students. On the fourth day after Zhang Qian left for Beijing, Zhang Yue received an official letter from the Ministry of Officials, and also received an urgent letter from Zhang Fu.

The official documents of the Ministry of Officials are very simple, exactly the same as those that Liu Zhong said. And Zhang Fu's urgent letter had no other concern, but stated a very simple fact in a light tone - Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, lightly covered up the assassination, and at the same time recommended him Zhang Yue as the prefect of Qingzhou! At first glance, Zhang Yue almost thought it was a joke, and then realized the reason for the teacher's concern.

Han Wang was recommended to Beijing, and he could almost imagine that kind of thousand eyes. The pomp and circumstance of the land referred to by the thousand husbands. This is not fueling the flames at all, but it is precisely the killing that brought him to the forefront!

When Zhang Yue was nervous, there were many happy people. Ma Cheng, who was still in Anqiu County, almost went crazy with joy when he learned that he had become the acting magistrate of the county and was no longer the unruly chieftain. Promotion has long been a matter of unhope for him in his life, and if he can get the county master's book, it will already be a thousand joys, let alone the county? It wasn't until he learned that Zhang Gao had been promoted to his boss that he gasped. I know that the spell on my head is still there.

So, on the day he got the news, he immediately went to the backyard of the county government to look for Lingxi, reported the good news with a smile on his face, and asked: "This looks like the New Year is coming to an end, and there are thousands of things on the side of Qingzhou Mansion, I think the old man must move to Qingzhou Mansion before the year." I know that Miss Lingxi has purchased a lot of New Year's goods before, and I am afraid that it will take a lot of effort to move here. Why don't I ask Clumsy Jing to bring a few girls to help clean up? ”

Lingxi still received a letter from Gu from Beijing ten days ago, but it was all simple instructions, and there was no mention of the current changes at all. Although it was easy to settle here, and it would take a while to move the place, what she was most worried about at this time was that Zhang Yue would be promoted to a high position at a young age. Although she doesn't understand the truth of officialdom. But after following the Gu family for many years, he was almost half an internal housekeeper, and he had seen a lot of means to pick up and fall down, so he naturally didn't blindly think that promotion was a good thing.

"When the young master comes back, Ma Dianshi will be printed. I also have to say congratulations to Ma Dianshi! ”

"I'm just a fluke, a fluke." Thinking of Luo Wei Zhao Ming's tragic end, Ma Cheng felt more and more that it was most appropriate to use the word luck to describe his peculiar encounter, and the corners of his mouth were deeper at the moment, and he thought about it more thoroughly, "Speaking of which, the people of Anqiu are all thinking about the master, maybe the master will come back for the New Year and leave." It's better to pack up the things that don't need them first. The others take their time, there are a lot of people anyway, and when the time comes, everyone will help together, and the day will be over. ”

Although he agreed, Lingxi knew that it was impossible to go to Qingzhou after the New Year, so he took the Cui family's Li family to do some things, and instructed Chang Sui to sort out public and private documents, and warned the people in the Hou Ya not to discuss this matter in vain. However. This yamen was a place where the wind could not be hidden. Small news will be conveyed into big news, not to mention that the history of the history Ma Cheng wishes that the people in the entire county knew that the county magistrate was going to be promoted? And so. Within a day, the streets and alleys were full of discussions.

If Zhang Yue takes office like the previous ones and does nothing but be the big shopkeeper, then this promotion or debasement is none of their business, but Zhang Yue has brought down the two most rigid mountains in this county, and he is stunned to return justice to the people who have no way to complain. The most rare thing is that the hard-earned money that was extorted by Luo Wei Zhao Ming actually returned some to the sufferers, this alone is enough to make some people grateful to Xinzhi County, who has been in office for less than three months, and they don't know that Zhang Yue did his best to peel off a layer of skin from the silver in Jinyiwei's hand.

The Qingzhou Mansion finally has a master, and according to the judge, it also ushered in a white-haired old man - it was Song Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who supervised the construction of most of Beijing City and dredged the entire Huitong River. This is known for being good at engineering, and the lord of the land was born in the criminal name, and in his early years, he successively served as the official position of the inspector and the criminal department, so the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di rejected the candidates proposed by the ministry again and again, and finally appointed this old Shangshu to come to Shandong to treat the prison, and did not follow the name of the inspector to act according to the post of the inspector. Faced with such a result, although Zhang Yue couldn't make a special trip to Jinan Mansion, he still hurriedly handed over the seal of the judge to Jinyi Wei for transfer.

Zhang Yue wanted to quietly go to Anqiu to hand over the post of magistrate, and then took Lingxi and the others to go together, not to alarm the place, but as soon as he returned to Anqiu and entered the city gate, he was recognized. Although it is not enough to empty the alley, everywhere he goes, someone pokes his head out to look at the scene of shouting, but it is enough to make his heart hot, and at the same time he blushes.

It's a shame to say that at most, he just cleaned up the atmosphere of the yamen, and then purged the two big corrupt officials, and he really didn't have time to take care of doing practical things for the people. So, when he rode back to the county office and found that there were several men in front of the lotus wall, excitedly carrying a large black lacquer plaque with two sleeves hanging from the mirror, the wry smile on his face became even stronger.

Fortunately, he came back with good news this time, otherwise he would have been able to hide his face and leave without shame.

Sure enough, Ma Cheng personally took the six-room officials and messengers to greet him outside the archway of Zhongyifang, he went up and talked cordially with his successor for a while, and then simply turned around and said something to the people, nothing more than saying that Ma Cheng would definitely be conscientious, honest and self-controlled, and then said another thing with a smile.

"Half a month ago, it has snowed repeatedly, and our Anqiu has also reported a snow disaster, the heavy snow not only collapsed the house, but many people are even without food and clothing. Now Lord Du and Master Zhang have decided to distribute grain to the households in the snow-stricken areas in Qingzhou Mansion and allocate 1,000 stones of Anqiu white noodles. So, the last thing I did before I left office was to distribute these relief grains through Lizheng! ”

This Anqiu also has relief in times of disasters on weekdays, but the number of places above has always been secretive, from the county master to the official Lizheng, to the hands of the people are almost deducted to a little bit, so at this time I heard that a thousand stone white noodles were dispatched down, and the surroundings suddenly burst into applause. The men carrying the black lacquer plaques straightened their waists even more, thinking that this time there was really no mistake or mistake, and the last thing the county master did before leaving was to care about the people.

As for the errand officials who plucked the feathers of the geese in the past, no one dared to complain when they remembered the tragic fate of the two mountains in the past, and when they learned that Zhang Yue was actually preparing to transcribe the books of the victims of the disaster and paste them on the eight-character walls on both sides of the county government, they could only sigh. Just with Zhang Yue's group of capable followers, they don't dare to use their brains indiscriminately, let alone have this hand?

So, all the people who were going to pack up left their work at hand and gathered together, and the number that was reported in the statistics was reported, and a group of people followed the messenger to the countryside in the snow to verify. Finally, on the 28th day of the lunar month, the last batch of disaster grain was loaded into the car at the gate of the county ya.

When that Xinli in Wanli Township was escorting the car, he was almost so happy that his mouth was crooked. Not far away, the people looked at the bags of grain, still pointing excitedly. Among the countless praises, there were a few deliberately suppressed voices that were out of place.

"This dog officer is really good at pretending!"

"Brother Zhao, if he only pretends, the villagers will applaud so loudly? As soon as this thousand stones of grain is issued, at least this winter will be stable in Sixiang. However, I doubt that he can be so upright when he arrives in Qingzhou Mansion! ”

At this time, a bearded man interjected: "You all underestimate him, as far as I know, the reason why the political secretary's side is so happy to allocate grain to Qingzhou Mansion this time is because he asked the political secretary for help." It is said that the envoy of Du Bu is his teacher, and the teacher does not look at the students differently? But with this batch of food, we can't watch everyone starve. ”

While four or five people here were discussing some forbidden words, two middle-aged men in silk collars and big sleeves were also exchanging opinions in a low voice. When he saw the last big car out of the alley in front of the county office, an older and slender man muttered to himself: "The subordinates are so strict, the people below are not beneficial, and they can be suppressed for a lifetime?" ”

"This is a newcomer, and the means are naturally not as strict as the means. If the food for disaster relief still needs to be rubbed with oil, isn't it the bad luck of this Xiao Zhang to provoke a popular uprising? At this time and that time, it will not be like this after he takes office in Qingzhou, the third uncle can rest assured, I have prepared the charter for this visit. ”