Chapter 296: Deputy Envoy Hai Rui
After several days of discussions, the matter of the DPRK and China sending relief to Shandong has basically been decided. The plan was to send 100,000 taels of silver to Taicang by the household department, and Yu Huajiao, a guerrilla general with the rank of 1,000 households in the five military camps, led 500 troops to escort them, and went to Jinan first, and then purchased grain for relief.
What Shandong lacks now is relief, and there is no shortage of Qincha, so it is normal for relief money to go first and Qincha to go. In particular, the candidate for this Qincha is not easy to send. Although Yan Hong was appointed by the Lord, the deputy envoy really had a hard time.
You must know that this is the notoriously unreliable, and the burden on the deputy envoy is much heavier. It is necessary to have strong administrative ability, and at the same time, it is also necessary to be able to endure this genuine Qincha. The so-called work is all about him, he has meritorious service, and he has to be responsible for accidents. Ordinary people, of course, are unwilling to be this thankless errand. Therefore, the six Shangshu groups went around for a few days, but they couldn't find anyone willing to go.
But soon an unlucky ghost who was sent to death broke into the sight of the bigwigs in the DPRK and China. This person's surname is Hai, his name is Rui, and he is the new household department, and he has just been transferred from the post of Chun'an County Order.
It is said that Hai Rui is also famous as an outlier in Zhejiang officialdom. When he was the commander of Chun'an County, he seized all the officials and businessmen who were backed by the princes of various counties and prefectures, and Chun'an became the target of public criticism. Later, he almost beat Hu Zongxian's son, and made Yan Song's godson Yan Maoqing so angry that he took a detour, and his reputation suddenly increased a lot.
Yan Maoqing wanted to ask Yan Song to come forward to clean up Hai Rui, but Yan Song ignored him. So Yan Maoqing used his authority to attack Hai Rui. However, Zhu Heng, a servant of the court, heard of Hai Rui's honesty and integrity, and vigorously protected him. The two forces wrestle at the same time. Zhejiang officialdom is in line with the attitude of sending the plague god. took the opportunity to ask Li Wenzao, the prefect of Shaoxing, to come forward in time. moved up and down, and finally bombarded Hai Rui to the Beijing Division, and was reappointed as the household department.
As a person in Hairui District, he was able to enter the Beijing Division, and he was in charge of the household department, which was simply a miracle of officialdom. Although the county order is seven grades, it is from the seven grades in the matter, and it is a loss to talk about the grade alone. However, the foreign official was transferred to the Beijing official, and the downgrade was normal. Not to mention that he was transferred from the magistrate to the county, and he was promoted again, and from Hai Rui's point of view, it was still profitable.
And from the perspective of Zhejiang officialdom, sending such a-stirring stick away is also a happy thing, as for what kind of official to be, as long as you don't harm Zhejiang, you can be any official if you like to be an official. For Hai Rui, who loves to scold people, it is really appropriate to be a spokesperson. Again. Didn't you Yan Maoqing and Yan Vice Xian want to clean up Hai Rui, let's put him directly under your nose. It's up to you, so you can clean it up.
This Hai Rui is indeed not a master of dissipation, he has not been in office for a few days, and he has been on the books one after another, bluntly talking about many ills and bad rules in the household department, and saying that officials are greedy for ink and lazy. It's just that no one in the court knows about these things? It's nothing more than the norm of officialdom, as it should be. Therefore, Hai Rui's indignant criticism, in addition to making everyone secretly laugh at the fact that this foreign turtle really doesn't know the rules of officialdom, is to make the emperor shake his head and sigh, criticize the song and leave it in the middle, and then throw it aside to wait for mold, and there is nothing else to achieve.
That Yan Maoqing originally saw that Hai Rui was transferred, and really wanted to clean him up and avenge Chun'an's revenge. But after careful inquiry, Hai Rui is simply a monster, and his style makes people unable to grasp the handle at all. If you want to make something out of nothing, I saw the momentum of Hai Rui's desperate performance after coming, and quickly stopped. We are people with status, don't worry about this crazy person, there is no benefit if you win, and you will end up miserable if you lose.
Hai Jui's seal of bullet was lost in the sea, but he did not care, and continued to tirelessly criticize all kinds of shortcomings of the imperial court, and the more noisy he became, the more cheerful he became. The uncle found that there were also many Shandong refugees in the capital, and he was quite interested. So he went to talk to the victims on the street all day long, and went to the Yamen of Wanping County, and muttered to Zhang Junfeng, the commander of Wanping County. Within two days, Hai Jui had a lot of twists and turns, or accused the officials in charge of the security of the capital of dereliction of duty and failure to guide the refugees in time; or accuse household officials of failing to provide relief to the victims. Even Ling Yin and Taishou, who were thousands of miles away in Shandong's prefectures and counties, were scolded by him for the birth of one Buddha and Nirvana for the second Buddha.
As for the arrangement of Yan Hong as the Qin Mission's disaster relief this time, originally due to the complete tacit understanding between Xu Jie, the second major force in the court, and Yan Song, the first major force, the emperor's edict passed through all the processes unusually smoothly. Those who played with their lives were restrained by their respective factions and did not dare to move. Occasionally, there are some unscrupulous lords who do not belong to any faction, and they can't make a fuss, and a few bullet stamps are just scratching the itch in the boots and chatting about the form.
But the only one who made the most trouble was the new Hu Ke to Hai Gangfeng. As soon as the holy decree appointing Yan Hong as the Qincha was promulgated, Hai Rui immediately jumped up, and wrote thousands of words overnight, with sonorous words, bluntly saying that this decree did not comply with the system, and it was really a chaotic life. Millions of victims in Shandong are waiting to be fed, how can they go to the place where they live! When the three auxiliary ministers of the dynasty can't speak out to admonish the king, but blindly flatter, there is a way to lose the way of the ministers, what face is there to be listed in the court again?
Then he impeached Yan Hong, who is not only a thousand households, but what is an official student? When I heard about his original talent and fame, I didn't know what to do. After studying in prison for only a few days, he was released from prison and went to Jiangnan without any homework, so how could he drop out of school? Yan Hong has no military merits, how can he be awarded a military position in Jinyi? All these are the rules of chaos in the world. Wangtianzi dismissed his military position, official status, so as not to give excessive rewards, and replaced others as Qincha to rush to Shandong.
Jiajing looked at this recital, raised his eyebrows several times, and almost wanted to tell Jinyiwei to take this guy to the edict immediately, so that he could sober up and say again. It's just that Huang Jin admonished him bitterly, and it was difficult for him to make a decision for a while, so he kept this excerpt together.
But this matter is well known. So much so that Yan Shifan asked Yan Hong in private, you said that this Hai Rui is a little friendly with you, why can't you see any friendship as a father?
However, Hai Rui's troubles also solved a big problem. The bigwigs reached a tacit understanding almost instantly. If an unlucky guy like this doesn't take the blame, who else will? Especially since the other party is from a high background, there is no backing in the court, and when the dark pot comes down, it is nothing more than stoning him to death, and no one else is implicated. Since your brother is so concerned about the victims of the disaster in Shandong, it is better to do so. Judging from the above excerpts, this person is really familiar with the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, and he can do it easily, presumably he can make do with it.
So Xu Jie specially nominated and appointed Hai Rui as the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission to go to Jinan to preside over the relief work. Although Yan Song was worried about whether this guy and Yan Hong would get along, Yan Shifan was very relieved, and comforted his father and said that Hong'er was just going to marry a little wife anyway, and Hai Rui would take care of these things, and it would be his. So Yan Song was relieved. As for Lu Sanfu, of course, there is no objection.
There are all the main and deputy ministers, and there is still a representative of the palace - the lieutenant official. It's very easy to do. It happened that under Zhang Hong, the chief celebrant of the palace, there was a young eunuch Zhang Cheng, who was young, but he was good at reading ancient books and reading words, so he went with him.
These two Qincha, one is a military attache in a five-grade brocade cloth, and the other is a mere seven-grade service, and on average, he is not even six-grade. plus a little eunuch who doesn't care about anything, but he is still responsible for picketing Shandong officials. This extremely strange Di newspaper was sent down, which was enough to entangle the officials of Shandong officialdom.
Yan Hong is also not idle at home. He knelt down on the first day to receive the decree, and before his majesty could leave the next day, countless posts of treats came. It is nothing more than a group of noble children in Beijing, who have posted to invite Yan Hong to the banquet and drink, this face cannot be given anyway, no matter what, people are also characters who rest with the country. The place of the banquet is naturally not good in the restaurant of Yanfu, otherwise whose host is it? So I chose the famous Shuangfu Restaurant at the top of Chaoyang Gate.
When I arrived at the place, I saw Xu Wenbi, the son of the Dingguo family, Zhu Shitai of the Chengguo family, and the children of the British prince, the Marquis of Anyuan, the Marquis of Fengcheng, the Bo of Xiangcheng and many other hereditary princes.
The purpose of these companies is only three words, and the set is almost. Although Emperor Jiajing said fiercely, he killed all the little eunuchs if he leaked the news, but which of these nobles did not have eyeliner in the palace? A lot of silver is spent, and there is naturally news in return.
The Son of Heaven secretly summoned Yan Hong and was very interested in the sea he had opened, and Yan Hong said that after opening the sea, the news of using a ship to lead instead of salt spread far and wide, and he couldn't help but care that these nobles didn't care. After all, after the civil engineering change, the nobles had no place in the court, and they were left with the idea of making money.
Although as far as the status quo is concerned, the forbidden sea faction has the upper hand, Jiangnan Haoqiang has made a fortune by relying on smuggling trade, and the interests of the princes of the DPRK and China are also equal. But look at the limelight, the way of the world is about to change. Regardless of whether the opening of the sea trade is a heavy blow to the interests of some groups, as long as the sea is really opened, then in this process, it will inevitably contain white flowers, who can let go? The powerful people of the dynasty have always been eating in the bowl and staring at the pot, the bribe of the forbidden sea must be collected, and the benefits of opening the sea cannot be thrown away!
Although it is said that the sea cannot be opened immediately for a while, who can't see that this is a piece of fat? If you wait for it to get out of the pot and then catch it, you may not even grab the dregs, so you can only take advantage of it now and hurry up. Naturally, these gentlemen will not go to sea to trade by themselves, fight against the wind and waves, wait for the ship to be lured, and sell or rent it, isn't it just that people sit at home, and wealth falls from the sky, where can this good thing be found?
And looking at this limelight, most of the people who will deal with the development of maritime affairs in the future will be Yan Hong. The Son of Heaven can summon him secretly, this grace, no one in the country has enjoyed it in the past ten years, and there is Yan Ge Lao as his backup, can this son's achievements be small in the future? Taking advantage of the cold stove now is much more useful than the icing on the cake in the future.
Many nobles even sighed, why did this guy get married so early? Otherwise, if you marry your own daughter, won't this relationship be nailed? There are also some people who have a lot of eyes and don't take their faces seriously, and they have already started the idea of their own concubines or distant female dependents, even if they want to be small, this is also a relationship. (To be continued......)