Chapter 017: How to be a good magistrate
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How are you a poor family in the Ming Dynasty, fortunately you have the opportunity to read, and even more fortunately you picked up a few bottles of life No. 1, or a backgammon reader, in short, you passed the county test, the township test, the meeting test, from Xiucai to the Jinshi, or you look like five people and six, successfully passed the "beauty contest" of the Ministry of Officials, and gave you a county.
Here's the problem, your family is poor, you can't afford to hire a master, and you have never been in contact with officialdom, let alone have any experience in governing one side.
Now suddenly you're going to govern a county. And you, the magistrate of the county, are also the director of the public security bureau, the president of the court, the director of the tax bureau, the director of the land bureau, the director of the agriculture bureau, the director of the education bureau, etc., and even the director of the funeral home is concurrently served by you, and there is a large group of treacherous officials waiting for you, do you know how to carry out your work after you arrive?
Don't brag, the answer is definitely not knowing, there is no one in the world who is born to know.
But you don't have to worry, as the "well-dressed beast" of my Ming Dynasty, you are very lucky.
Back then, when my Taizu Zhu Emperor had never made a career and was still catching lice in the corner, he practiced a good skill of grasping everything with one hand, and my Taizu Zhu Emperor had already thought of such a problem for you.
For this reason, Emperor Taizu Zhu personally presided over the compilation of a "Arrival Notice", which is unique to this dynasty, and he has no official secrets in the dynasty, comparable to the "Sunflower Treasure Book", you only need to do it according to this secret, when a county is just "astringent water"!
The broken car kept creaking, all the way west, because the road was long and boring, Qin Mu put a soft pillow on the car, and also picked up a copy of "Instructions for Arrival", wanting to see how Zhu Chongba taught people to be officials.
Qin Mu originally thought that the first priority after taking office was to check the accounts, but according to Zhu Chongba's "Instructions for Arrival", the first thing the county magistrate had to do after he took office was: to find out where the place to pretend to be a ghost was.
Of course, pretending to be a god and playing ghosts is an ordinary saying, and the literary point of view is: how many gods are worshipped?
It means that after you take office, you must first find out how many Sheji altars, land temples, and city god temples there are in this county.
As the so-called major events of the country, in the worship in Rong, a county is also like this, the second sacrifice of spring prayer and autumn report is the top priority, as the county must first figure out these.
The second thing is: to inspect and comfort the orphans and elderly in the nursing home.
This is also easy to understand, the past dynasties have established the country with filial piety, and it is necessary to respect the old and love the young, so after figuring out that you are pretending to be a ghost there, you have to go to comfort the lonely old first.
The third thing to do is to inspect the prisoners.
The life and death of the prisoner is really a serious matter, so the time to report to the gods must be known. How many of the proposed prison discussions have been completed in this yamen? See several? If the discussion has been completed, even if it is a matter of former officials, it is advisable to deliberate and decide in detail, and it is especially appropriate to be attentive when the person who asks the question arrives. In the middle, you must know that the ban is close and the weight is light. What is the proof of the facts? What is in doubt? Those who understand must be summarized, and those who are involved in doubt should be examined in detail, so that the matter will be settled and not wronged.
The fourth thing is to find out the official land and people's land, and the official grain and people's grain.
There are a total of 31 articles in this "Arrival Instructions" (Haoyuan specially attached the next 27 articles to the end of the chapter, and those who want to see the end can take a closer look at them at the end of the chapter), and the methods of disposal are explained one by one under each article, and Qin Mu has read them in detail.
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's "Arrival Instructions" is definitely a great initiative, and Jinshi who has no experience as an official, as long as they follow this "Arrival Instructions", they can generally sort out the affairs of a county. It avoids the disadvantages of harming the people due to ignorance.
Qin Mu plans to start from a small county, and the things of later generations may not be applicable in this era, so it is necessary to learn from Zhu Yuanzhang's rules.
For example, the first one pretending to be a ghost is very worth learning from!
This was not very useful in later generations, but in this era, it is of great significance: whoever fights for the right to communicate with the gods (the right to sacrifice) becomes the agent (ruler) of the earth.
This reminded Qin Mu that he was just able to communicate with the gods and predict the future? There's a lot to be done here!
When you go to the Taiping Mansion, you can feel a scene that is completely different from the glitz and glitz of Nanjing, which is a scene of the last days, where the rich are extremely poor and vicious, and their brains are full of fat; The poor have no clothes and no food.
Along the way, you can see the families of refugees dragging the old and the young, all of them are yellow and thin, their clothes are ragged, and the children are crying weakly, and the old man's tears are dry, and his expression is numb, like a walking corpse.
There are no new graves on the roadside, and it is not difficult to guess that they are all starving people who have been hastily buried by their relatives, and some of the bodies are not even buried at all, only covered in the field with broken straw mats or leaves.
Qin Mu saw this kind of tragic scene for the first time, and his heart couldn't help twitching, in later generations, Qin Mu would often complain that the country was so bad, that it was not good, but compared with such a chaotic world, people in later generations did live in heaven.
In this troubled era of wailing and displacement, the bones are exposed in the wild and no one is buried, living on the bark and grass roots, and even forced to eat the child, life is as cheap as grass mustard here, although Qin Mu has been prepared in his heart, but when he really saw this tragic scene, he was still deeply shocked.
Under an old elm tree on the side of the road, an old woman with white hair was driving a barefoot man who was approaching with a wooden crutch, and there was a woman in her twenties beside the old woman, who was nursing the child, and several of them were unclothed, the woman thought that she had been hungry for a long time, and there was no milk at all, and the child could not absorb milk, and was crying dying, and the woman was also crying.
Qin Mu couldn't bear to look at it anymore, closed his eyes tightly to prevent his tears from flowing down, Qiao'er pulled his sleeve, he shook his head, and pulled again
He had to stop the car with the handlebars, take down a dozen pancakes from the car, and stuff them into the woman, plus a tael of silver. Then, ignoring the gratitude of the woman and the old woman, he returned to the car without saying a word.
After that, every time he encountered such a thing, the little girl would come to pull his sleeve, and Qin Mu gritted his teeth every time he didn't look at the tragic scene on the side of the road, and he didn't give alms anymore.
After many times, the little girl stopped pulling his sleeve and rolled up in the corner of the car silently crying.
Qin Mu had to say: "Qiao'er, we have a thousand taels of silver on us, but we can't save them like this, let alone save all, I have to keep this money, I must!" I'm going to use this money to do more important things, and if I do, I can really save them." ”
"But Childe"
"I know, I can't bear it, but now our Liliang is too weak to save a few people."
"What is Childe going to do?"
"You'll know, you will, you'll know."
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In February last year, Zhang Xianzhong's troops captured the Chaohu area, which is across the river from Taiping Province. Including Luzhou (Hefei City), Shucheng, Lu'an, Wuwei, Lujiang and other cities were broken by the rebels, after capturing these places, Zhang Xianzhong practiced the water army in Chaohu, had the intention of attacking Nanjing in the east, and defeated the officers and troops of Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo.
Gao Douguang, the governor of Fengyang, and Zheng Eryang, the governor of Anqing, were imprisoned by the imperial court and replaced by Ma Shiying.
The tug-of-war between the rebels and the official army on the north bank of Taiping Mansion lasted for nearly a year, the rebels came to rob the rebels, the officials and the army came to rob, and the people on the north bank were ruined and killed.
If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing a "tiger skin", I was afraid that this journey might not be so smooth, Qin Mu just wanted to hurry to Huichang and didn't stay long when he passed through the Taiping Mansion.
Out of the Taiping Mansion westbound for more than ten miles, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves behind him, Qin Mu lifted the curtain and saw that the yellow dust was everywhere behind him, and there was a person riding in pairs;
The big man on the horse wore a hat to cover his face, carried a bow and a knife, and rushed straight towards his carriage, like thunder!
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PS: (5) a number of people who make the decree of the festival and send the edict to the officials and the people; (6) A number of official codes of the Yamen; (7) The officials of each house are not allowed to transfer the affairs, and the offender shall be beheaded; (8) A certain number of undertaking affairs have been completed, a number of outstanding tasks have been implemented, and a number of outstanding affairs have not been implemented; (9) a number of Yamen in the city seal letter; (10) a number of warehouses; (11) A number of domestic warehouses and warehouses; (12) a number of official heads; (13) Accounting grain reserves, a certain amount of official and civil tax grain collected per year, and a certain amount of expenditure; (14) A number of various courses; (15) How many fish lakes, a number of annual lessons, and how many lakes are prepared; (16) The gold and silver fields are divided into a number of places, located in He Shan River, where a number are located; (17) What is the name of the kiln and the bricks and tiles; (18) There are a number of boiling sea fields in coastal counties; (19) the number of public rooms and the number of common utensils and mattresses; (20) There are a number of official houses in the euphores and villages; (21) a number of scholars; (22) Elderly geometry, virtuous or not; (23) Filial sons and grandsons, righteous husbands and wives, a number of them in the territory, each open; (24) There are several households of scholars and gentlemen who are officials in the court; (25) There are a number of Confucians in the territory; (26) The territory controls public and private affairs, and there are several litigants, and the surname is clearly noted; (27) There are a few people who are idle and do not do physiology, and there are many teachings of different sages; (28) This yamen and its subordinate archers shall report the number of each one; (29) The scholars in the territory are officials in the court, and if they commit illegal acts, they will depose a few who are idle and a few who will be sentenced to death; (30) Several households of people in the territory who have been punished for violating the law; (31) A number of police signs in the territory.
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