Zhu Hongsan saw his son get up and said, "The morning after tomorrow, you can prepare and go to the homeless camp with me to have a look!" ”

Zhu Hai heard Zhu Hongsan say this, and hurriedly asked, "Father, aren't these things being done by Ying Tianfu?" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Yes, I'm afraid that these killings will fool me, so I'm going to check the work myself!" ”

The crown prince Zhu Hai doesn't understand anything, the emperor goes to inspect the work with such fanfare, and the surface engineering must be done in advance, and he can't see anything when he goes.

"Father, if you want to see your sons, you can accompany you to pay a private visit, and I'm afraid that you will go with such fanfare..."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and shook his head, and said, "You will know when you go, fake is always fake, and no matter how much you do it, it can't become true!" ”

Zhu Hai saw that his father had made up his mind, and he had no choice but to retreat and prepare. However, Zhu Hai still passed the news to Shangyuan County to order Qian Yiai, after all, Qian Yiai is his own person, and it is not good if something happens to him.

In fact, there is no need for Zhu Hai to inform him, as soon as Zhu Hai left the Shangyuan County Yamen, the officials of the Jiangsu Political Division Yamen came to Shangyuan County and informed Qian Yiai to go to the Yamen of the Political Division, and the political envoy Zhu was invited.

Qian Yiai didn't dare to delay when he heard the news, although he was very hard in the background, but the county officials were not as good as the current management, and the political envoy was his top boss, so it was better not to pretend to be big.

Qian Yiai put on his official uniform and hurriedly got on the official sedan chair and rushed to the Yamen of the Political Secretary in Dongcheng.

After more than 200 years of peace, the population of Nanzhili has grown to 20 million, and the economy accounts for one-third of the national economy. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not stupid, at the beginning of the Jiajing Dynasty, Nanzhili has always been divided into several governors, but the places in charge are different, sometimes two and sometimes three. However, the governor system of the Ming Dynasty was different from that of the Qing Dynasty, the governor of the Qing Dynasty had become a complete magistrate, and the governor of the Ming Dynasty still had some of the nature of the governor, which was only set up for specific things, and he was relieved of his post after the matter was completed. Therefore, the actual local officials in Nanzhili are still political envoys.

However, it is precisely because the southern direct envoy is too important that the political envoy of the southern Zhili is divided into two political envoys on the left and right, the left political envoy is stationed in Nanjing, in charge of the government affairs of the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and the right political envoy is stationed in Xuzhou, which is in charge of the government affairs of the provinces north of the Yangtze River. However, with Zhu Hongsan's ascension, the governor system was fixed into the local head system, and the political envoy became the second-in-command of the locality. At the same time, Zhu Hongsan was afraid of the economic dominance of Nanzhili, and did not set up a province according to the situation of mountains and rivers, but divided northern Jiangsu to Jiangsu according to later generations, and divided several prefectures south of the Yangtze River such as Ningguo Mansion and Huizhou Mansion to Anhui.

But that's it, because Jiangsu Province is in charge of the rich Taihu Lake Basin, the total economic volume is still among the top among all provinces in the country, probably except for Zhejiang Province, which will be Jiangsu's turn. Therefore, Jiangsu's political envoy is still very important.

The current political envoy of Jiangsu is Zhu Guoshou, a Jinshi of Chongzhen for four years, Lao Zhu is a native of Huguang, and he is considered to be the emperor's descendant, but Lao Zhu went to the unlucky place in Henan to be a magistrate when he was a Jinshi, and after Chongzhen hanged himself, he followed the officials who went south to Nanjing. However, when he arrived in Nanjing, he encountered the "shun case" carried out by Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, and Lao Zhu lost his official position. But at that time, I happened to meet Feng Ruoshu who was fooled south by Zhu Hongsan, Lao Feng was the governor of Henan for a term, Zhu Guoshou was Lao Feng's former official, Nanjing couldn't go on, and followed Feng Ruoshu to Guangzhou.

Zhu Guoshou was born in Huguang, and he was still an official with actual administrative ability, and he was naturally deeply trusted when he arrived in Guangzhou, starting from the prefect of Chaozhou, and this time he took advantage of Zhu Hongsan to occupy the east wind of Nanjing, and became the political envoy of Jiangsu, a newly established province. At the same time, because Zhang Guowei, the governor of Jiangsu, followed Ma Jiyuan and was far away in Yangzhou, now the whole Jiangsu has the final say on Zhu Guoshou.

In the afternoon, Zhu Guoshou received an edict from the General Administration Department to inspect the resettlement of displaced people outside Nanjing on the sixth day of the first month of March two days later. It's not that Zhu Guoshou has any criminal record and is afraid that the emperor will come to check it, but Zhu Guoshou knows what these officials under him look like, and now the emperor has transferred a large amount of grain from Guangdong in order to settle five or six hundred thousand displaced people outside the city.

Zhu Guoshou has just taken over the post of political envoy for less than half a year, and it stands to reason that what happened has nothing to do with him, but Zhu Guoshou still wants to go further, it is best to enter the Central Committee as a squire or something, if something happens now, it will be a widow who has died of her son - there is no hope. Therefore, Zhu Guoshou's first step in receiving the holy decree was to find Ma Jingyuan, the prefect of Yingtianfu, and the prefects of Shangyuan and Jiangning counties, so that they must not make any mistakes.

Qian Yiai came to the yamen of the political secretary in an official sedan chair, and saw that the magistrate of Jiangning County had arrived, and the official sedan chair stopped outside the yamen. Qian Yiai hurriedly took out the prayer post, stepped forward and handed it to the official at the gate of the Yamen of the Political Secretary, and asked to see the political envoy Zhu. But now the prefect Ma has not come, and the official at the door invites Qian Yiai to wait in the tooth room on the side.

Ying Tianfu as a capital division, the magistrate in addition to bad luck is still a little treated, should be Tianfu prefect from the third grade, than the three products of the political envoy, according to the inspection of the envoy is only half a level lower, Ying Tianfu below the two attached Guo County Shangyuan and Jiangning county are from the sixth grade, it is a little comfort to the local officials attached to Guo.

After Qian Yiai entered the house, he saw that there was already a middle-aged literati sitting there in the tooth room, wearing a heron supplement uniform from the sixth grade, sitting there drinking tea. Qian Yiai knew that this was Zhang Yuanlin, the magistrate of Jiangning County, and Master Zhang. Zhang Yuanlin is a Jishi of Chongzhen's sixteenth year, and this identity is much higher than Qian Yiai's, but Zhang Yuanlin's fame is enough, but he doesn't have a good father. Zhang Yuanlin is a native of Jinjiang, Fujian, and is not the emperor's old Huguang department, after Li Chengdong anyway, Zhang Yuanlin finally easily caught up with Yuan Pengnian, the governor of Fujian, and took Tong Tuchang through this line, and then mixed with a county attached to Guozhi.

Zhang Yuanlin was born in Shujishi, so he naturally looked down on Qian Yiai, who was born as a person, and thought that he was only on an equal footing with him by relying on nepotism, so Zhang Yuanlin closed his eyes when he saw Qian Yiai entering the house, pretending not to see it.

Qian Yiai smiled bitterly, there was no way for people to ignore him, he couldn't lick his face to set it off, so he had no choice but to sit aside and wait for the prefect Ma.

After waiting for less than ten minutes, Jiangning Governor Ma Jingyuan also came, and after entering the house, Zhang Yuanlin was no longer pretending to be forced, so he quickly stood up and bowed down and said: "Xiaguan Jiangning County greets Governor Ma!" ”

Qian Yiai was just about to stand up and salute, Ma Jingyuan said: "The two of you arrived first, let's see Master Zhu quickly!" After speaking, he took the two of them out of the tooth room and entered the second hall to meet the political envoy Zhu.

Halfway through, Zhang Yuanlin asked in a low voice, "Master Ma, I don't know what happened to Lord Zhu who brought us here in such a hurry?" ”

Ma Jingyuan already knew the news halfway through, sighed and said: "There is news from the palace that the emperor will inspect the homeless camps outside the city in two days, and it is estimated that Lord Zhu has passed on us to come to this matter!" ”

Zhang Yuanlin's face was a little unsightly when he heard this, his Jiangning County also received 50,000 displaced people, and the imperial court sent down 8,000 stone of grain, but these grains were swallowed by Zhang Yuanlin by one-third, and now the price of grain in Nanjing City is high, and a stone of white rice costs five silver dollars, and more than seven taels of silver, this temptation is too great.

Ma Jingyuan didn't care about Xiao Jiujiu under him, he was also very anxious in his heart, this time with the help of the prince, he finally entered the ranks of senior officials, and he must not make any mistakes in this matter.

The three of them came to the second hall study, and the political envoy Lord Zhu was waiting for them, and when he saw them coming, Zhu Guoshou was not polite, and asked directly: "Three adults, can all the food allocated to you by the imperial court be used for the displaced people?" ”

Ma Jingyuan is not the stunned young man he was back then, after more than ten years of encountering a wall, coupled with the experience in Dongguan County, he knows what virtues those officials under him have, so he stood up and said: "Lord Zhu, now the officials under Ying Tianfu are all Xu officials left by the former Ming Dynasty, and Lord Zhu also knows what virtues these officials have, and it is estimated that half of the officials can be used on the displaced people!" ”

Zhu Guoshou nodded, what Ma Jingyuan said was about the same as he estimated, but Zhu Guoshou, as a senior official, could say that he could let his subordinates use illegal means to get by.

Zhu Guoshou said with a cold face: "This official doesn't care, if something happens, you can carry it yourself!" "It's not that Zhu Guoshou doesn't talk about human feelings, he has to say this when he becomes an official, on the surface, he is righteous and awe-inspiring, and he talks about some great truths for the country and the people, so that if something happens, he can push 625, and everything is done by the people below, I don't know.

Qian Yiai and Zhang Yuanlin have just entered the officialdom and don't know this kind of unspoken rule, but Ma Jingyuan is an old fritter and knows that what Zhu Guoshou said is a fart.

Ma Jingyuan said: "Lord Zhu, we are all new officials, and it is inevitable that we will be deceived by these officials, and I believe that there are also bigwigs in the DPRK and China to defend them. But as magistrates, how can we watch the people not be able to eat? Therefore, the lower official suggested that it was possible to borrow some grain from the grain merchants in the city to make up the quantity, and it would be good to deal with this inspection first? ”

Ma Jingyuan's words were very in place, first picking himself out and others, explaining that he and others were newcomers, even if there was anything, they could be pushed to those officials under him, and at the same time named himself as having the big power of the Ma family as a backer, nothing big. In the end, a solution was given, first borrowing some food for emergency use, and fooling the emperor into the past.

Zhu Guoshou was very happy when he heard Ma Jingyuan say this, but he didn't speak, just served tea and sent it off.

Ma Jingyuan knew that Zhu Guoshou had promised himself, so he quickly stood up and said goodbye with the two magistrates.