Li You hurried to the government office and saw several layers of people surrounded by the eight-character wall outside the gate, vying to see a new notice that had just been posted.

As he walked to the periphery, he heard someone reading aloud, "... Wusong River, Loujiang River and other rivers are very heavily silted up in recent years, the water of Taihu Lake is not allowed to be drained, and Wu is low-lying, but every heavy rain, the flood overflows, the rivers and lakes are inundated, several counties suddenly become Zeguo, often for the people of Li to suffer a big disaster. Therefore, for water conservancy, this year and next year, the prefecture and county of this province will work together to dredge the upstream and downstream, and order the er, etc., each of the miles, compartments, and workshops, and after the end of the year, the people will be sent out twenty, so as to listen to the government..."

Six big words instantly popped up in Li You's mind: The honest man is crazy!

He was tall, and standing behind the crowd, he could clearly see the blood-red and square prefect's seal at the end of the notice, as well as the signature of "Suzhou Mansion Zhengtang King", and was shocked by these usually familiar marks for a while-Wang Lao's prefect is really domineering, and he will recruit 100,000 people at the first order, and he will not have this realm when he drags the official to the sky.

In addition, the river network in Suzhou Prefecture is dense, and several main streams such as the Wusong River are hundreds of miles long. I really didn't expect that Mr. Wang, who has always been partial to inaction, will now have the courage to start dredging all the way, although these rivers have indeed been silted up badly in recent years.

The announcement of the government office will be sent to all the townships in seven counties and one state under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture within a few days.

Li You calculated in his heart that at present, there are about 5,000 li (fang, box) of 600,000 households in the yellow book of the whole house, and it is estimated that a total of more than 100,000 people will be gathered after the autumn harvest.

Heroic, whether it succeeds or not, not to mention, such a big move is rare in recent years, only the governor of Jiangnan a few decades ago organized the same number of people, also for the river matter. However, the governor of the family was requisitioned from Su Songchang's three mansions, which was relatively relaxed, and it was not as intense as Lord Wang sending out all the idle manpower of the government, and it seemed that he was really hurt by Shi Shenzheng.

Old man Wang wouldn't have been overexcited after taking aphrodisiacs... Li You entered the gate of the palace and walked towards the back hall of the prefect's mansion. But he happened to meet the scribe Guan inside the door, and learned a news that shocked him:

The prefect of Wang ordered all prefectures and counties that before the autumn harvest, Wujiang, Xujiang, Kunshan, Changshu, Jiading, and Taicang counties should pay 10,000 taels of river silver to the government treasury, and Wu and Changer attached to Guo County should pay 20,000 taels.

It's really nothing to ask for money for the river workers, but the last sentence of the edict is: Those who dare to fail to pay within the time limit are incompetent!

According to the system of the state and the dynasty, once an official is incompetent, nine out of ten will be dismissed and demoted. After being dismissed and demoted, you can still be re-employed, and the specific situation depends on your relationship with the officials.

However, if you are dismissed from office because of incompetence in the examination, it is equivalent to a lifelong stain, and it is a big killer weapon that is more shameful than being found to be corrupt and bribery. This trick is easy not to use in officialdom, and once it is used, it can be called a life-and-death enemy. And now the prefect of the king actually took this out to threaten the county lords under his rule... It's really desperate.

100,000 silver and 100,000 dings... Li Tuiguan, who was still out of the situation for the time being, couldn't help but wipe his sweat nervously, and after a little thought, he guessed one or two inside stories.

Obviously, the prefect of the king is using the fierce way of fighting against the water to say goodbye to Shi Shenzheng, and Shi Shenzheng wants to build a huge project, so he also has to propose one. Moreover, it is not inferior to Shi to participate in politics, it is more meaningful and practical, and it is much more beneficial to build water conservancy than to build a city wall.

There is another consequence, when the prefect of the king exhausted the manpower and material resources of the government, what did Shi Shenzheng do to repair the city wall empty-handed? After all, Shi Shenzheng is not a pro-people official, and many things must go through Suzhou Mansion, so the Wang Governor's Mansion has an absolute advantage in the transfer of people, money and property, and it is really convenient to curb Shi Shenzheng.

The big project shook the big project, and the prefect of the king wanted to use this to demonstrate the authority of the dignified four-grade mansion. If you participate in politics, you are only a third-grade official, and the main hall of Suzhou Mansion is still an official, and you can't tolerate your life in front of you!

Thinking of this, Li You couldn't help but sigh again, Shi Shenzheng really broke the old man's heart. The honest man couldn't help but explode after being bullied, and it was really even more powerful, is this still the amiable Wang Lao that he knows? Was it intentional or impulsive?

Li Tuiguan, who had no self-knowledge, did not realize that in fact, there was also half of his military merit medal, although it was a very unintentional half.

Understanding the cause and effect, Li You was worried that the prefect Wang's head was too hot-headed, so he asked, "How does the Fuzun want to control the river?" ”

He presided over the river crossing work in Xujiang County, and he also knew a little about the situation, and he was afraid that Wang Zhifu would have to burn money to build a stone pond embankment. This is not a void river of one or twenty miles, but a main stream of two or three hundred miles, not including other rivers and ditches.

Guan Shuguan replied: "The government has its own plan. The river works mainly clean up the siltation, dredge the river channel, repair the soil pond, and dig a new river channel at the joint to divert it into the sea, and then add a pond dam at the critical place. ”

Hearing this, Li Tuiguan breathed a sigh of relief, if this is the case, the situation has not yet gotten out of control.

Fortunately, the prefect's intention was to dredge the river, so it was good to ask the people to sell coolies. If you want to learn from the behavior of Lord Chen Yingzhen when he was in Xujiang County, he used the silver to pile up the stone pond embankment to improve the river, then Li Tuiguan, who was in charge of the silver treasury, would cry, make trouble, and hang himself.

Li You suddenly remembered another question and asked the scribe Guan: "Why did you make such a big move in just a few days and didn't report it to the imperial court?" It's too late? ”

"I reported to the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing, and it seemed that there was a squire who was a fellow villager of Fuzun, so he quickly replied to the permission. In addition, the concert that probably went to Jingshi is still on the way. ”

Li You once again had a headache for the administrative system of the Ming Dynasty, in recent decades, the six departments of Nanjing, which were known as acting governors of Jiangnan and Jiangbei, were considered imperial courts? How effective is its ratification?

However, how to look at the prefect of Wang now, it also has a bit of a taste of cutting first and then playing, it is simply a ruin, desperate, and does not leave a way back for himself.

The already mad Mansion is too terrifying, and once it gets close, it is easy to be injured indiscriminately, whether it is injured by one's own people or enemies. Li You, who originally planned to go to see the prefect of Wang's mansion, changed his mind and turned around and walked out.

As soon as he walked out of the yamen, a familiar gong suddenly sounded in his ears, and he immediately recognized that it was the gong that opened the way. There is only one person who has this treatment at the door of the government office!

It is estimated that the prefect of the king is going to go out on patrol, Li You and his entourage immediately avoided the crowd on both sides, he came directly from his own pawnshop, and now he is still in white clothes, not wearing official robes, so it is not very conspicuous.

The pomp and honor of the Sipin Mansion is extraordinary. The guide rode a horse and shouted, the soap servant raised his official card to follow, "quiet" and "avoid" came out of the gate, "Suzhou Mansion Hall" came out of the gate, and "Doctor Zhongshun" also came out of the gate... Standing in the crowd, Li You smiled at Zhang San and said, "Our mansion is still not enough." Others can still hold signboards such as Jinshi and the first and Jing Kui Yayuan in the back, but he only shows off his talents, and he is purely visible. ”

Zhang San flattered: "The result is not the same as the master, and there is no sign in the back." ”

The two were talking and laughing, but a sign appeared from the gate, with two big characters on it - Gongyuan.

"Xie Yuan has heard of it, what is this tribute?" Zhang San wondered.

Li You's face changed slightly, of course he knew what Gongyuan was, but he never thought that the talented Gongsheng of the Wang Governor's Mansion was actually Gongyuan, and he had never seen him raise this official card before.

With the system of this dynasty, the county school of Fuzhou in the world can be selected once a year according to the seniority of the senior Xiucai to be sent to the Jingshi Guozi Jian to study, which is called the tribute student, commonly known as the old Ming Jing. From the Guozi prison to get the birth of a prisoner, can also be an official, of course, much worse than the quality of the people and scholars, it can be regarded as a way out for the old talents who did not go well in the imperial examination.

After the more than 1,000 tribute students from all over the country reported to the Beijing Division, they had to take the court examination similar to the entrance examination, and the first place in the court examination was called Gongyuan.

In the early years of the Dynasty, the Guozijian and the imperial examination were equally important, and the tribute yuan, which was the first tribute in the world, was also a very prominent existence. But later, the officialdom focused on the imperial examination, except for Jinshi, all other backgrounds were miscellaneous, not to mention the prisoners who did not pass the imperial examination. Under this kind of utilitarian thinking, the tribute yuan is worthless, and it is not taken seriously, and it is 108,000 miles worse than the township test to solve the yuan.

But no matter how worthless it is, it is also the first in the world, or the first talent in the world, and Mr. Wang is actually low-key! Li You almost lost his voice in this regard, no wonder an old talented prisoner had the opportunity to be a prefect, and he always thought that he borrowed his good luck, but now it doesn't look like it is exactly.

The prefect of Wang's low-key nature is naturally bitter, and now the general order of officialdom is Jinshi, Juren, Supervisor, and Official, and I will not repeat the specific subdivision. All in all, the higher the background, the easier it is for people to become high-ranking officials, for example, 90% of the officials above the seventh grade of the Beijing Normal Ministry are Jinshi, and you are embarrassed to say hello when you lift someone in.

Whether Lord Wang is a fellow acquaintance or a prefect, at this level, there are still people from prison in the surrounding officialdom, and at least they are a person, and Xiucai Gongjian is simply a rare animal (a certain official is born and a talented person says that there is no pressure).

So Mr. Wang has always been ashamed of his origin, what if he has passed the tribute test? Xiucai is not a Xiucai if he wears a vest?

The tall card engraved with the word tribute has not been done before. What do you do with him, lest everyone forget that the prefect is an old showman. But now, in the honor guard of the prefect's palace, this newly made tribute official card was raised, and I don't know what stimulated it.

Thinking of Shi Shenzheng twice making trouble with the prefect of the king and his background, Li You couldn't help but sigh for the third time, Shi Shenzheng broke the heart of the prefect of the king's mansion!

"Go, ask Fuzun where this is going." Li You instructed the long follower.

Zhang San got the order, ran to the end of the prefect's honor guard, grabbed a servant and asked, "Where is the mansion going?" ”

The official was coldly stopped, and he was about to get angry, but when he saw that it was Zhang San, he replied half shorter: "It seems that I went to guard the yamen." ”

Li You received Zhang San's reply, and when he got it, he restrained his smile and looked solemn. With this posture, this heart, and this atmosphere, it is more like fighting for his life to divide the Daoist Department.

(To be continued)