Chapter 43 Pengzhou guards the thousand generals

In desperation, Chen Shiqi publicly stated that it was only an expedient measure to temporarily act as a Pengzhou magistrate in order to quell the rebellion of the local rioters, and now the local rioters have been expelled from the boundaries of Pengzhou and should restore the system of non-local office of court officials.

In order to comfort the other party, Chen Shiqi continued to enlighten, saying that in the long run, he would take back the squire's business endowment and contract system to benefit the country and the people, and say that Yang Lin was already a tribute student at a young age, as long as he worked hard in the field, he would definitely be able to enter high school, and when he had the name of Jinshi, he would definitely be able to drastically eliminate malpractice, so that his future achievements would definitely not be under the ancient sages.

Yang Lin knew that the general trend had gone, and rejected the other party's kindness in public: "Although it is not a day's work to eliminate maladministration, abolish the apportionment of the government at all levels, and recover the tax contracting rights of the squire, just like today, although everyone knows that this is really a great policy for the benefit of the country and the people, there are some people who are willing to join forces with the local tyrants, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and hinder innovation."

If I am in a peaceful and prosperous world, I should work hard so that I can be a Zhang Juzheng in high school in the future.

But now Liaodong Jiannu has repeatedly entered the customs to rob the people, and there are two tributaries of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the Central Plains to bring disaster to the world, that is, we are even more violent in northern Sichuan. ”

Chen Shiqi exclaimed: "You don't participate in the imperial examination?" After all, the imperial examination is the right way. ”

Yang Lin looked very resolute, shook his head and said: "Everyone has their own life, the student decided to abandon literature and follow the martial arts, and decided to become a general." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Chen Shiqi arched his hand and said: "Ruzhen, why don't we jointly recommend you to the Ministry of Officials to be a magistrate in other provinces, so that you can also be in charge of the government, and you can also protect the territory and the people in local training." ”

As mentioned earlier, in the Ming Dynasty, most of the officials granted by the third-class jinshi were foreign magistrates, pushiguan (prefect yamen) and other seven-grade official positions, but there were too few jinshi in the country (more than 300 people every year, most of them stayed in the imperial court as Beijing officials, and a small part was released, plus the officials were kept in the system because of the death of their parents and relatives during their tenure), and the official gap was very large.

In this case, most of the low-level official positions such as local magistrates, magistrates, and judges are held by the magistrates, and the local officials select some outstanding officials from among the magistrates, wardens, chiefs, and county officials, and then the officials select talents from these low-level officials such as magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates.

Yang Lin Gongsheng (prison student), served as a warden, pusher and other low-level officers during the war, plus this eradication of the local tyrants, the suppression of the rebel rebellion is the first, according to the normal process, of course, he can be recommended to other provinces to serve as a low-level magistrate.

Although Chen Shiqi knew that the new policy would benefit the country and the people, he was worried that it would cause local instability.

Yang Lin was happy on the surface, but he didn't think so in his heart, as a traverser, of course he understood the importance of the base area, if he left the base he worked hard and went to other provinces rashly, it was really a tree without roots.

Quickly thought of a good rhetoric, claiming that the ancient Huo Qu was sick and the Huns were not destroyed, why did he think of his home, he was not willing to compare himself with the sages, and the local tyrant would not take off his armor if he was uneven for a day.

If you abandon your own trained soldiers for the sake of a better future, and abandon the local villagers who fought side by side, what is the difference between this and desertion on the battlefield?

Chen Shiqi has no choice, according to the rules of the imperial court officials serving in different places, of course, they can justifiably remove the state from their posts, but this thousand general military positions are completely different.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the system of civil officials serving in different places, and the military attache serving in the local system (military households), and Yang Lin was the second in the battle to exterminate the local tyrants, and he had already attracted the attention of the local government.

In addition, what is more important is that the Ming Dynasty implemented the system of civil officials serving in different places, Chen Shiqi, Long Wenguang, Shi Jinchen and others are all people from other provinces, and they need to rely on the power of local gentry for political needs.

Yang Lin established a township office and took back the expropriation power of some powerful merchants, although it harmed the interests of these powerful and powerful officials, but these powerful people relied on the power of the government to make ill-gotten gains, which had already aroused the attention of local righteous people.

Now that the power to levy commercial levies in the hands of Haoqiang is withdrawn, and all kinds of local apportionments are exempted, there is no doubt that these squires support it.

If he took the liberty of deposing Yang Lin from all his positions, although he won those strong hearts, he would inevitably anger more local squires and scholars.

In addition, more importantly, such as today's chaotic generals, are precious, but talented generals like Yang Lin who can fight well are very rare (Yang Sichang, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others are different, they mostly start from the prison army).

Chinese officialdom pays attention to balance, and everyone does not dare to treat each other too badly after discussion, and dismisses Pengzhou as a civil servant on the grounds of the imperial court's non-local appointment system, and is promoted to Pengzhou Shouyu Qianzong, and the troops in the department are expanded into a department, and the local garrison is stationed to guard against the local tyrants in Bazhou.

The government provided grain according to six buckets of rice per person per month, and the military salaries of the departments were raised by themselves through various markets. (In the Ming Dynasty, there were very few local merchants, and everyone was happy with this favor.) Zeng Guofan trained the Hunan army, and the military salary came from the local money. )

Different from civilian officials, there are no rules for serving in different places in the middle and low-level military attaches in the Ming Dynasty (most of the officers in the guard are hereditary), this time to pacify the local riots in Pengzhou, to quell the rebellion, Yang Lin is the first in merit, and his performance is not inferior to Yang Zhan Zengying, these famous generals in Sichuan, and it is reasonable to be promoted in terms of merit.

Seeing such a result, the new Pengzhou Governor Xu Kongtu and Yilong County Governor Qin Mintang secretly complained that the ancient officials held positions in different places and had limited local influence, and they mostly relied on the squires and officials to maintain local rule.

Now that Pengzhou has just been recovered, most of the officials in Xiangru County and Yilong County were appointed by Yang Lin, and it is even more difficult to be a veritable local official in the garrison.

Outside the yamen, the scribes and martial artists who heard the news surrounded Yang Lin in the middle, one by one they looked indignant, everyone was upset for Yang Lin, and some even said that they would make a public petition, the world was as black as a crow, and this Ming officialdom was too dark.

This time, he led the troops to expel the local tyrants from the territory of Pengzhou, Yang Lin was the second in the meritorious service, not only did the yamen not only not give a reward, but actually unloaded the mill and killed the donkey when the banditry subsided a little, and was even instigated by the corrupt officials to remove the governor from the prefecture, and also blocked the hope of abolishing the bureaucracy's layers of apportionment and the bureaucracy's ingenuity.

Confucius had long said that there should be inequality rather than widowhood, and those local tyrants and ruffians colluded with the government and officials to seize the right to expropriate local merchants, and as compradors made ill-gotten gains, they raised high-rise buildings every now and then, and took advantage of the local people, and their behavior had long aroused the criticism of local scholars.

In the past, everyone didn't understand the doorway, and there was no way to take the lead, everyone didn't do anything, but now they found out the benefits by Yang Lin's point, and these readers were naturally unwilling to be left behind, and they expressed their support.

Seeing that everyone was excited, Menzi Yin Chengqi repeatedly warned not to cause trouble and make the governor, Daotai, prefect and other officials unhappy.

Yang Lin also gave up his hand again and again, claiming that he had just been appointed to guard a thousand households in Pengzhou, and he needed to go to meet his boss, and everyone had a lot of misunderstandings in the past, so don't add fuel to the fire.

Seeing this, Fan Mingshan, Chen Huaixi and others also knew that it was inconvenient to say what they had in public now, but in order to show their support, they still had to accompany them to the garrison mansion to meet the left and right guards.