Chapter 88 Selection of Officials and Utilization of Talents

Yang Ming sent 50,000 troops to besiege Chongqing City, which really made Chen Shiqi pinch a cold sweat, although the Han army had retreated for a long time, he still did not dare to transfer the officers and troops of Chongqing Mansion at will, and even transferred tens of thousands of officers and troops from Leshan and Luzhou to ensure safety.

Of course, because of this, Chen Shiqi had no intention of marching into Kuizhou Mansion again, and now except for Qin Liangyu, no Sichuan army has just competed with the Han army.

However, Qin Liangyu has always advocated taking advantage of Yang Ming and the Han army's unstable foothold to recapture Kuizhou Mansion in one fell swoop, after all, Kuizhou Mansion is the first gateway to eastern Sichuan, and if it is not recaptured, the Han army may move south to occupy Chongqing or even Chengdu at any time. But Chen Shiqi ignored Qin Liangyu's suggestion, and did not allow Qin Liangyu to leave Chongqing Mansion, he also knew that Chongqing Mansion was still in the hands of the imperial court because Qin Liangyu was in this town, and he was not willing to take this risk.

Qin Liangyu only had hundreds of white-pole soldiers in her hands, and without the support of Governor Chen Shiqi, she would have become a tiger without claws, and she would not be able to counterattack Yang Ming, so the two sides maintained calm very tacitly.

Chen Shiqi has ordered the officials and troops in Kuizhou to withdraw to Chongqing Mansion, but these officials and soldiers did a robber before withdrawing, it seems that the people of Kuizhou Mansion are no longer the people of the Ming Dynasty, the officials and soldiers are really digging three feet into the ground, especially in the Xinning, Liangshan area swept Zeng Ying's subordinate Hu Mingfeng's department, because of the looting of millions of property and hundreds of thousands of stones, grain and grass and stranded in Kuizhou Mansion for more than ten days.

In this way, it gave the Han army the opportunity to win the hearts of the people, Yang Ming heard the evil deeds of the official army and ordered the soldiers of each battalion to immediately retaliate against these officers and soldiers, so these officers and soldiers finally robbed the countless property into the Han army's pocket, but also laid the foundation for Yang Ming's next development of production and expansion of the army, and the Han army also won the favor of the people of Kuizhou Mansion.

However, after the end of the war, Yang Ming did not become easy because of this, he had to start to reorganize and expand the Han army, but also to deepen the reform, and the top priority was to restore the economic and living order of the entire Kuizhou capital as soon as possible, many counties because there were no officials, it has become very chaotic, and there are no bandits and robbers in various places, and these need to be immediately sent by him to send officials to govern, but because his Han military government is not a legitimate government, strictly speaking, it is still a first-class thief regime, Many bureaucrats and gentry did not cooperate, and even secretly rebelled; Although some and a few bureaucrats do not care about this, most of them are of bad character, and it is more about messing up the place than governing the place.

Therefore, Yang Ming must step up the recruitment of officials to maintain order, but before that, these officials must be screened, and he must also try to appoint the elderly, after all, these talents are the most trustworthy, and people follow you, you have to give people a bigger dividend, otherwise who wants to follow a thief regime like you.

Yang Ming decided to divide the administrative region first, that is, the original Dongxiang County Military Government was changed to the Kuizhou Military Government, under the jurisdiction of two prefectures. Among them, Dazhou, Xinning, Dongxiang, Taiping, Ziyang and other counties form Suiding Mansion, and the rest of the counties and towns are still under Kuizhou Mansion; Then, the selection and appointment of officials will take place. The central organs of the military government are divided into two systems, one is the separate patrol road and the other is the separate patrol road.

There are three main types of officials to be elected who are now attached to the Han Army: first, people from the original Hanjia Village, that is, young people who have graduated from Xilin Academy and old people with certain educational backgrounds such as Zhang Youcai and Lan Liangshan; the second is the people who attached themselves to the Han army when they occupied Dongxiang County, and the representative of them was Chongchun; The third is the surrender of bureaucrats and court officials who were recruited or forcibly controlled by the Han army, such as Shang Daoxing.

Yang Ming's trust in these officials to be elected has also decreased by these three levels; However, in the selection of officials, we must not only distinguish between relatives and relatives, and in order to achieve high efficiency in administration and reform, it is necessary to take the competent as the primary criterion. Therefore, under the premise of giving priority to the selection of old people, Yang Ming still selected according to the strengths and talents of everyone, for example, Guixian Cheng was directly promoted to the prefect of Kuizhou because of his proficiency in government affairs and obedientness, Zhang Youcai became a sub-guard, in charge of grain and taxes, Lan Liangshan became the prefect of Suiding, and the business road was still a sub-patrol, in charge of public security and supervision.

For the county orders of each county, Yang Ming naturally gave priority to the students who came out of Hanjia Village, among which Lin Jiayuan, who was only fifteen years old, became the youngest county order in the history of Dongxiang County, and the county order of Fengjie County was Uncle He, who had already had basic business processing ability and reading and writing ability and had just retired from the Han Army, and was also the oldest county order in the history of Fengjie County.

However, there are still a few people in Hanjia Village who can directly serve as officials, and Yang Ming mainly selected some outstanding talents from the original officials in Dongxiang County to serve as county officials. Not only that, Yang Ming also deliberately chose some talents or children from poor backgrounds or even children who were not scholars to serve as county magistrates, these people were naturally grateful to Yang Ming, and they also responded positively in Yang Ming's future reforms, after all, Yang Ming was going to do something to the bureaucrats and gentry next, and if the officials from the gentry class were allowed to do it, I was afraid that there would be great resistance.

"The son abandons the clear stream and uses the followers, the lower officials understand this very well, after all, these so-called righteous gentlemen and gentlemen can't do a few things to benefit the country and the people in addition to chanting the wind and making the moon, but they can't be raised in vain, now there are more and more people who have signed up for the show here in the lower officials, and even the jinshi have them, how to deal with them, and ask the prince to cut them!"

In order to stabilize the situation in Kuizhou Mansion, Yang Ming naturally had to make a posture of waiting for the wise man, so he let the business and Tao line be specially responsible for recruiting virtuous people for use, and there were many scholars who came to the business and Tao to seek officials here, but Yang Ming was rarely appointed, and many important functional departments were basically appointed by some old people or the original officials, and the scholars who came to the business and Tao to report here all regarded themselves as Fang Du and strongly asked Yang Ming to reuse them, so this made the business and Tao very difficult.

"That's right, Lord Shang, Kuizhou Mansion not only needs administrative talents, but also needs talents in education, medical care, cultural propaganda, etc., I plan to encourage a group of scholars to go to the Han family to study for a period of time from Rong and then enter the army as ideological, political and propaganda officials, and scholars with specialties in Gewu, farming, medical care, commerce and trade can also give priority to further study, and then become technical officials in all aspects; For people who are not good at anything and only know the eight articles, they simply enter the education system, anyway, the education of Kuizhou Prefecture needs to be strengthened urgently, these people are useless, but it is always good to teach people to read. ”

Hearing that Yang Ming not only did not appoint them as officials but also let them study, but also learned about martial arts warfare, farming and cropping, and miscellaneous studies, etc., these scholars exploded in an instant, and some of them simply went home indignantly and said that thieves are thieves and do some ridiculous things; Some people clamored to reason with Yang Ming in person, explaining why he wanted to put the cart before the horse and disrespect Confucianism; Some people have adopted compromises, and if they are not officials, they will not be officials, and they are willing to go to the education system to be glorious people's teachers.

Yang Ming didn't care about this, he didn't have the heart or energy to pay attention to these people. Since most people were willing to teach, he was also very supportive, so he simply allocated a sum of money to buy the original social schools in the two prefectures and thirteen counties, and established a number of public schools on this basis, which were specifically responsible for the education of Mengtong, and these scholars were also sent to these places to serve as teachers. As a result, although there is a shortage of people in each system, only primary education has achieved that every village has a teacher.