Chapter 148: Promoting the Officials
"In addition, we will set up the Governor's Mansion in Beijing, and Xiong Tingbi will serve as the governor, and the armies in Shanxi and Hebei will be reorganized according to the new army." Zhu Youxiao said. In this matter, Zhu Youxiao has already been angry with Xiong Tingbi, and Xiong Tingbi already has his own plan in his heart. As for Jingshi, Zhu Youxiao was ready to wait for him to return to Beijing before dealing with it.
"Your Majesty is requested to set up an Imperial Military Academy in Taiyuan, Shanxi." Xiong Tingbi said.
"Exactly." Zhu Youxiao said.
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After dealing with the affairs in Shanxi, Zhu Youxiao left the next day. This time, Zhu Youxiao did not plan to attend the burial ceremony of the martyrs. The Battle of Datong was the first battle in which Zhu Youxiao participated, these dead Longteng Army, all died under his nose, the last time he saw only a coffin, but this time he saw a fresh life disappear in front of his eyes.
As a person who has crossed over from the afterlife, he is really not used to it. When he saw the corpse of a fallen soldier in front of him, he felt a chill from the bottom of his heart, and he didn't know whether it was fear, cowardice, sympathy, or something else.
Concubine Fan Hui also told him that he often had nightmares at night during this time, sometimes shouting and killing, sometimes crying in his dreams!
Zhu Youxiao didn't want to stay in Datong for too long, he was afraid that he would become cowardly. The current Ming Dynasty does not need a cowardly Son of Heaven, and a cowardly Son of Heaven will not lead the Ming Empire back to glory, so Zhu Youxiao is gone, and he is going fast, he needs time and space to adjust himself.
However, Zhu Youxiao's trip to Shanxi was still full of gains, and through the investigation and handling of the case of collaborating with the enemy and the anti-corruption case, he obtained more than 7 million taels of silver, as well as a large number of fixed assets, etc., with an estimated total value of more than 15 million taels.
The money houses left by Fan Yongdou and the other eight people were directly changed to Imperial Bank by Zhu Youxiao. The money village left by Fan Yongdou and the other eight people covers the whole of Shanxi, and there are also a large number of outlets in the north, and even a few major cities in the south have one or two outlets.
These outlets have a large amount of silver in reserve, but many of these silver are someone else's, and when Fan Yongdou and the other eight people had an accident, the silver tickets they issued were quickly cashed out, and there were many places where there was no silver to cash out. Zhu Youxiao can't do anything about this matter, even in later generations, the bankruptcy of the bank cannot guarantee the rights and interests of everyone. Zhu Youxiao only wants the people and real estate of the money village, although Zhu Youxiao also wants the silver, but this is not what he wants.
By confiscating the money banks of Fan Yongdou and eight others, the Imperial Bank soon spread over most of the north. This was a major gain from Zhu Youxiao's trip to Shanxi.
The cash obtained by Zhu was divided fifty-fifty between the school and the treasury. After the treasury received this cash, it finally became rich. Officials no longer have to always come out of the inner nu, and disaster relief and other things finally don't have to hold back anymore.
As for other valuables, all of them were brought back to the palace by Zhu Youxiao, and there was not much left of the field except for the martyrs' pension, and the rest became an imperial village. Shops and other items have also become personal belongings of the royal family.
In the Datong Collaboration Case, more than 60 officials and businessmen were beheaded, and more than 70 percent of the officials and officials were implicated, and most of them were dismissed from their posts or even exiled from their homes, and the whole of Shanxi fell into a state of anarchy. This brief period of anarchy did not cause any social upheaval.
Xu Guangqi was in a hurry to obey the power and activated a large number of capable officials. Although Zhu Youxiao punished a large number of officials, Xu Guangqi's actions made the remaining officials see the hope of life for the first time. In the Ming Dynasty, Xu officials could not be officials, it was a lowly position, but Xu officials could be said to be a high power, Xu officials had no power, but the actual political affairs were done by them, and it could even be said that they were in charge of the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty. The corruption of officials in the late Ming Dynasty was not unrelated to the system of officials.
Xu Guangqi's move made those officials who had no hope of promotion see hope, and their enthusiasm for work naturally increased a lot. It seems that the Xu officials in Shanxi have become the most efficient officials in the entire empire overnight.
The next series of policies that Xu Guangqi was going to implement, under the impetus of this group of officials, were implemented much more smoothly than imagined. A person who has been engaged in government affairs at the grassroots level for a long time is far more familiar with and understands how to handle government affairs at the grassroots level than those who only know how to study hard and have never engaged in government affairs.
Yao Junping used to be a Xu official, and he was also a person who had been engaged in Xu official work for nearly three years. Yao Junping was originally a poor scholar, but when the imperial examination was hopeless, he became a Xu official in order to make a living.
After becoming a Xu official, he saw that his direct boss was corrupt, and he originally wanted to make a little follow, but he grew up here since he was a child, and he never got started.
Today, Yao Junping suddenly received an official letter from the Yamen, which stated that he was transferred to another county to serve as a county magistrate. He read this official document ten times, word by word, and confirmed that the person on the official document was indeed him, and he couldn't help but burst into tears with excitement.
This time, Xu Guangqi appointed officials very low-key, and Zhu Youxiao also gave him the power to handle special affairs. Xu Guangqi first directly signed the appointment document, and then reported it to the Ministry of Officials, and many officials could not know in advance about their promotion to the county order. Yao Junping himself is a Xu official, and after the official document came to the county, it came directly to him, and he was the first person in the entire county to know the news.
"It's finally over." Yao Junping read a sentence silently.
This voice didn't seem to be enough to vent his inner emotions at this time, and Yao Junping couldn't help but shout loudly and loudly: "I finally got out of it!" I'm finally making it through! ”
"Yao Junping, what's your name?" Yao Junping's neighbors were startled by Yao Junping's voice.
"Ding Xiucai, offended, it's just that I'm too happy." Yao Junping said with a smile.
"What is there to be happy about as a Xu official, will you be the county commander just because Li County Commander was arrested?" Ding Xiucai said dissatisfiedly.
"Huh...... It's hard to say. Yao Junping said with a smile.
"You're too whimsical, don't scream, I still want to read the book." Ding Xiucai said disdainfully.
"Ding Xiucai, I wish you high school next year! We will be able to become officials in the same dynasty! Yao Junping said.
Ding Xiucai felt that Yao Junping was already stupid, and a Xu official wanted to be an official and wanted to go crazy, so he was too lazy to take care of Yao Junping anymore.