Zhu Hongsan has always paid attention to the fact that the emperor is not a hungry soldier, and he will give you benefits when he does things for Lao Tzu. In addition to giving He Tengjiao the position of governor, he also gave him a knighthood. A hereditary marquis is already the pinnacle of civil officials, and at the same time, He Tengjian, who is just running errands, also has an official position of magistrate.

He Tengjian, who took the test for half his life before he was a showman, was very happy to hear that he could also mix with the magistrate.

"The grass people thank Your Majesty for your kindness, and the grass people will go home today and set off, and they will definitely persuade my brother to change his mind and return to His Majesty!"

Zhu Hongsan likes this kind of Taoist person: "Okay, you go, your family can stay here in Liping and rest assured, I will take care of it!" ”

The threat in Zhu Hong's three words is very obvious, as long as you can't do this, then your family will give you a funeral.

He Tengjian was frightened when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, his family of more than 20 people is in Liping, and he is in his fifties this year, and he will not have the ability to live again, if he can't do this, he will be completely wiped out.

He Tengjian hurriedly swore in front of Zhu Hongsan that he would definitely complete the emperor's affairs, and then went to Changsha to prepare for the big tent, ready to persuade his stubborn brother.

Zhu Hongsan stayed here in Liping Mansion for half a month, and in addition to adapting to the climate of Guizhou, he also integrated the local guards. Zhu Hongsan selected more than 10,000 young men from among these people and trained them into paramilitary units to form Guizhou's security forces.

Most of these guys are the descendants of the Ming army who followed Fu Youde to fight in Guizhou, and they stayed in Guizhou after making meritorious contributions, and they have completely become the natives of Guizhou for more than 200 years. This group of military households who are familiar with the local environment and are still Han people are the best candidates for Zhu Hongsan's kind of security team and homecoming regiment.

At the same time, Zhu Hongsan still has to wait for the officials sent by Nanjing here in Liping, Guizhou has always been a poor place, and Han officials are very lacking, so Zhu Hongsan transferred 120 of the 326 Jinshi for this year's palace examination to enrich the local officials in Guizhou.

On May 20, this group of new science and technology scholars came to Liping Mansion, led by Zhu Hongsan's old rival, Hou Fangyu and Hou Chaozong, who were known as the four sons of Jiangnan.

Hou Fangyu achieved a good result in the second class and forty-sixth place in the palace examination, and naturally led the top three jinshi among the one hundred and twenty people, and he took one hundred and twenty people to meet Zhu Hongsan.

"Your Majesty!"

Zhu Hongsan looked at these one hundred and twenty people who were different in height, shortness, fat and thinness, and opened his mouth and said, "I changed the policy of the new science and technology jinshi to observe the government for two years this year, do you know why?" ”

"I don't know!"

"I am also forced to do so, now Guizhou and Yunnan are in front of me, but these places have been far away from the central government for hundreds of years, and local forces are intertwined! There are many vacancies in the local officials, so I have transferred you new science and technology scholars to let you enrich the local officialdom in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces! You are the first batch of Jinshi since I became emperor, and you are also my protégé of the Son of Heaven! I hope that in a few years, Yunnan and Guizhou will no longer allocate grain from the mainland, but will be self-sufficient! You know? ”

These 120 people were all ordinary people half a year ago, and now they have become officials, and they were fooled by Zhu Hongsan, and they all shouted that they would live up to His Majesty's hopes and definitely govern the place well.

Zhu Hongsan looked at these new officials in the field, and then said: "I am different from the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty, I have never been short of hungry soldiers, your seven-grade Yulu is one hundred and twenty silver dollars, and I am adding a hardship area subsidy to you, and each person is adding one hundred silver dollars per year!" ”

When Zhu Hongsan was in Guangdong, he changed the wage system of the Ming Dynasty, and in the past, the annual salary of a county magistrate was only seven stone of white rice, which was less than ten taels of silver, which was the operating expenditure of the entire county government for a year, as long as a little political acumen knew that this money could not sustain the operation of hundreds of people in a county government at all, so it was impossible to live without corruption.

Zhu Hongsan greatly increased the salary of the magistrate, reaching 120 taels a year, and later the silver dollar became a silver dollar after the passage, and stipulated that this was only the salary of the magistrate, and the other masters, secretaries, and officials were supported by the state. Silver in the Ming Dynasty was very valuable, one tael of silver was equivalent to a thousand yuan in later generations according to purchasing power, and one hundred and twenty silver dollars a year was 120,000, which was not counting the difference between silver dollars and silver taels. Therefore, working under Zhu Hongsan, even if you don't embezzle, you can live a very good life.

Zhu Hongsan also knew that it was impossible for these guys to prevent them from being corrupt, and while raising the salaries of officials, he also strengthened the supervision of Jinyiwei. Lao Tzu has already given you ten times your salary, don't complain about Lao Tzu's ruthlessness if you are corrupt.

These new scholars all knew that the imperial court treated officials very well, and now they heard that the emperor had raised their salaries again, and they promised one after another that they must contribute their lives to the Ming Dynasty and contribute to Zhu Hongsan's career.

"Good! It's up to you to try! Don't worry, as long as you work with peace of mind, I will not treat you badly! As you probably all know, we have changed the rule that the prime minister of the cabinet must be from the Hanlin Academy, and the prime minister must have served as a magistrate, prefect, governor, etc., and must have experience in local administration. So as long as you work hard, there is hope that Shousuke will be able to become a leader in the future! ”

Zhu Hongsan's words are purely to draw a big pie for them, and the imperial court regulations are true, but Chinese officialdom has always been seniority since ancient times, and under the same conditions, you can't compete with the top three under the same conditions. However, Zhu Hongsan's words still give these people hope, in the past, they had no hope of becoming high-ranking officials at all, at most they were mixed with the prefect, and now although the hope is also slim, but after all, there is hope, isn't it?

Hou Fangyu also heard the blood boiling, he was born in the second class forty-six, according to the rules of officialdom, his future career will be much better than that of the top three guys, but it is also fifty steps and a hundred steps, at most to the level of supervision, there is no difference in essence. Now that he heard that he also had hope of entering the cabinet, he naturally felt hot in his heart, and felt that Zhu Hongsan in front of him was not so annoying.

In fact, according to Hou Fangyu's intentions, he would never come to work for Zhu Hongsan, but Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Sui, is a powerful old guy. This old guy has served as a governor and a scholar, and he has extremely rich experience in officialdom, and he has a very thorough view of the general trend of the world. If Zhu Hongsan was not noticeable when he was a small warlord in Guangdong, but after Zhu Hongsan occupied Nanjing and the world was shaken, Hou Sui knew that Zhu Hongsan, a remote clan and rogue emperor, was the second Liu Xiu. Therefore, after Hou Sui knew that Zhu Hongsan had reopened the imperial examination in Nanjing, he immediately forced his son Hou Fangyu to take the exam.

With his father's order, Hou Fangyu had no choice but to pack his luggage and go to Nanjing, and won the ideal ranking without any pressure. Ancient Chinese literati may have a thousand kinds of shortcomings, but there is still one advantage, that is, loyal to the monarch, especially the literati of the Ming and Qing dynasties, no matter how your emperor is not a thing, but as long as you are kind to me, I can die for you. Back then, Emperor Hongguang took aphrodisiacs and persecuted the Donglin Party, but after the city of Nanjing was broken, there were still a large number of Donglin Party members who died for the whole family of the faint monarch in their mouths.

Hou Fangyu was deeply educated by Confucianism, and naturally he also had this advantage, so he was very disgusted with this faint monarch Zhu Hongsan, but after learning that the emperor was going to let him go to Guizhou to be an official, he still packed his bags without hesitation.

Zhu Hongsan saw that these young officials were almost fooled, and said to Zhang Huangyan beside him: "Xuanzhu, these people are all your subordinates, you can take them down and teach!" ”

Zhang Huangyan bowed and saluted, and took the one hundred and twenty people out of the big tent, leaving only Hou Fangyu alone.

Hou Fangyu didn't know that he was transferred by the emperor to serve as a military aircraft, he thought that he was here to be the magistrate, and now it is inevitable that he will be confused if he is left alone.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Hou Fangyu in front of him, Hou Fangyu was a few years younger than Zhu Hongsan, and he was thirty-two years old this year. After more than ten years of upheaval, Hou Fangyu is no longer the high-spirited when he was in Nanjing, and now he has just arrived and stood up, and his sideburns have gray hair.

"Chaozong, since Chongzhen's seventeenth year of farewell to Nanjing, I haven't seen you for five years!"

Listening to the emperor's question, Hou Fangyu was also full of sighs, where did he think that just five years ago, the bullshit vassal king became a hero of Zhongxing Daming, and he became an official under him, the facts of the world are unpredictable!

"Your Majesty, yes! I didn't expect it! ”

"What have you been doing all these years? Is Li Xiangjun still alive? ”

Zhu Hongsan is afraid that his rape of Li Xiangjun will be known by Hou Fangyu, although Zhu Hongsan is not a person, but this kind of adulterer still has the confidence to see her husband!

Speaking of his confidante Li Xiangjun, Hou Fangyu sighed and said, "Hey! Back to Your Majesty, when the city of Beijing was broken, the minister was in the Yangzhou Cabinet Department! When I returned to Beijing, it was already a thing, and Meixianglou was empty. The minister also inquired about Xiangjun's whereabouts in many ways, but the news he got was groundless, and none of it was true. So after staying in Beijing for more than two months, he returned to his hometown in Henan to serve his father! ”

Hearing Hou Fangyu say that he didn't find Li Xiangjun, Zhu Hongsan breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, he hid Li Xiangjun and Kou Baimen in Jiming Temple, and sent troops to protect them, and they were not allowed to go out, or they must go to find Hou Fangyu according to Li Xiangjun's character.

Knowing that her husband was hiding it in the dark, Zhu Hongsan, an adulterer, put his mind at ease, pretended to be sanctimonious and said: "Chaozong rest assured, when I return to Beijing, I will send someone to find Xiangjun's whereabouts, and I will definitely let you have a lover and eventually become a family!" ”

Hou Fangyu knew that the Jinyi Guard of the Shenwu Dynasty was powerful, and when he heard the emperor say this, he hurriedly bowed down and thanked him.

Seeing Li Xiangjun's genuine husband thanking him, Zhu Hongsan, an adulterer, said: "Chaozong, I have been friends with you for many years, don't worry!" After saying that, Zhu Hongsan was funny in his heart, as the saying goes, friends and wives can't be bullied! But it's refreshing to have a friend's wife riding under the crotch!