As the saying goes, money makes the devil grind.

Having money is always a good thing.

But if you have money but can't use it in the right place, no amount of money will be in vain.

Zhu Yuanzhang originally set a salary for his officials, and the annual salary of Zhengwupin was less than 100 taels. And officialdom socializing and giving gifts or something, it costs tens of hundreds or even tens of thousands at every turn. This is particularly painful for Jingguan.

If you have a high official position, you may be able to maintain a balance by receiving gifts. But for low-level officials, no one will give them if they want to receive gifts, and not all officials can receive gifts.

In fact, the income of civil servants within the 'revolutionary army' is not high, but the income of some technical personnel is higher than that of civil servants. Zhou Qingfeng implements extremely strict supervision within his own system, and severely punishes any bribery and corruption. At the same time, he also took care of the lives of public servants as much as possible, so that they would not be forced to find ways to make money because they would not be unable to survive.

Most of the people who can mix with Zhou Qingfeng are the mud legs he cultivated. These people are low-demanding, highly enthusiastic, and not very particular about treatment. Because of this series of circumstances, the official positions of the 'revolutionary army' were not attractive to the officials of the Ming court, but there were always some exceptions......

If Marco's father-in-law wants to show his talents, the way to quickly expand his power is to dig the corners of the Ming court. Naturally, he would not dig up those high-ranking officials and dignitaries, such as Ouyang Jun and Luo Lie, and it would be useless to dig them. He dug up those low-level officials below the seventh grade, wearing green robes and green robes. These officials are large in number and poorly treated, but they are the backbone of the real work of the imperial court.

Wang Kunpeng gave Marcos 20,000 taels of silver, but he didn't just throw away the silver. Ma Gonggong did the preparation, he wrote the request report below, and dug up a person to fill in the preparation. The monthly salary is higher than that given by the Ming Court, mainly because the one-time payment of a few hundred taels of Anjia silver according to ability and grade is slightly attractive.

According to Zhou Qingfeng's statement, sprinkling silver is not a big water, it must be used in practice. Otherwise, no amount of silver will be in vain, but it will attract a group of useless people who are mercenary.

In this way, there are only a limited number of people who are willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. The people of Dongchang and Jinyiwei do not lack the means to make money, and they will not easily come to take refuge. However, there are a lot of poor officials in the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Industry, who are so poor that they have to borrow usury to make a living - that's right, there really was such a thing in our Ming Dynasty.

It also takes courage to take refuge in the thief. The Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 200 years, and its orthodox status is still there, and at the beginning, there were only a dozen or so unsatisfactory bureaucrats under Ma Gonggong. These people can be regarded as desperate, dragging their families to Tianjin, and they have become the only people who can open up the situation for Ma Gonggong.

However, there are few people and few people, and there are not so many bad habits of the original officialdom.

When Wang Kunpeng instructed Ma Keshi, he arranged his position in half an hour. Marcose took up the post of deputy minister of security, and when a dozen of his men held a meeting together, he began to distribute files and arrange tasks. At present, most of the people under his command are people from the Criminal Department, and some people opened the file and looked at it a few times and said happily: "Father-in-law Ma, this poisoning case is easy to handle, and you can know if you arrest the beggars in the city and ask them." ”

In the Ming Dynasty, being a bad guy was professional. For example, Xu Hongru of the White Lotus Sect likes to swagger and deceive, which is all about dividing territory and techniques. A group of people do one thing, and others can't interfere if they want to. Peers are enemies, and grabbing food will definitely fight.

The one who spoke was a real official, he was not even from the Criminal Department, but a lowest-level official from Shunyi County, near Gyeonggi, from the Jiupin Dian Shi - as the saying goes, 'those who are difficult will not, and those who will not be difficult', this famous history is dealing with the bottom of the society and solving the mystery of the case.

In ancient times, there was really a 'beggar gang', but it was not a chivalrous person, but actually a gang of underworld members. The leaders of these people live in mansions and have beautiful wives and concubines, but they make a living by oppressing the poorest beggars, and they do the most insidious and sinister things.

Ma Gong Fair Day deals with high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but they don't know much about these parasites at the bottom of society. After explaining the situation in the canonical history, he sneered: "The marshal said that the immediate requirement is to immediately restore the normal order of production and life in the city, and to carry out preventive cleanup of any personnel and organizations who dare to disobey the 'revolutionary army'. ”

What is a 'preventative clean-up'?

None of them understand.

Ma Gonggong sneered again: "It is to confirm their identities after arrest and kill them immediately." He looked at the copy of the dossier at hand, "Everyone here has ambitions, since you have taken refuge in the commander and the 'revolutionary army', you should no longer be restrained." It's just a group of beggars, who are caught and interrogated, and killed and killed. ”

The canonical history continued: "These beggars are often intertwined...... ”

"Anyway, they're not good people, and no one will speak for these scum if they are arrested and tortured." Marcose was unceremonious, and he said to the famous historian: "I will approve the document immediately, and you go to the bottom and determine who you want to arrest and shoot immediately." There are 5,000 militiamen in the city to maintain order, and there is no problem at all in transferring a few hundred troops, and it is guaranteed to be fast and easy to use. ”

"Before the little one came, I heard that the 'revolutionary army' was doing things differently and acting resolutely." The pawn who opened his mouth immediately laughed and said: "Happy, happy, this is the atmosphere of the new dynasty that innovates and stands up." I have been a pawn for more than ten years, and I have long wanted to kill the majesty of those beggars. ”

In the Ming Dynasty, no matter what you do, it is a bunch of constraints, and you have to coordinate the interests of many parties. After a long time, no one will do anything, and no one will be able to do anything. In contrast, although the 'revolutionary army' has a grass-roots career, it can do things in pursuit of efficiency.

When the open Dian Shi heard that he could still transfer troops to help, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Where do you need hundreds of soldiers, it's just a bunch of beggars." As long as no one asks for obstruction, a dozen officials are enough to arrest them. Nine times out of ten, they did the big and small cases in the city. ”

"Then we will arrest these guys as a big case of our Gyeonggi branch." Marco has just arrived, and he also wants to solve a big case immediately to show his ability. He simply spread out all the files and let his subordinates go through them one by one, feeling that all the cases related to the beggars in the city were dealt with, "It is a great achievement to clean up all these city fox society rats." ”

Marcos took the task and immediately recorded it in his daily briefing. After Wang Kunpeng read the report, he forwarded it to Zhou Qingfeng for approval. Zhou Qingfeng is furious about the security of this ancient city, and some trivial but extremely influential things run out every day.

It's still rare to put poison into the well, and it's really disgusting to in the well. Incidents like this have affected the stability of the people's mind, and even the personnel of the 'revolutionary army' have been recruited. However, this matter is difficult to investigate, so people are unable to guard against it, so they have no choice but to send troops to garrison next to each well.

Regarding Marco's judgment, Zhou Qingfeng agrees very much. He personally instructed at the briefing: "We must severely crack down on all kinds of criminal activities at present. It is necessary to deal with it strictly, severely, quickly, and quickly. Idle persons who have committed misdeeds may be arrested and then investigated without evidence. Stability prevails. ”

With the approval of the handsome, Marco's courage instantly increased. He really applied for a thousand militiamen to conduct a city-wide raid and arrest all the suspects who were identified. For a time, several prisons in Tianjin were overcrowded, and a small prison could squeeze more than a dozen people.

The effect of the large-scale arrest was immediate, and the city fox and society rats were swept away, and the chaotic situation of law and order was immediately brought under control. On the contrary, Zhou Qingfeng was worried about whether there would be a large number of unjust, false and wrongful cases, so he deliberately went to Ma Keshi's office to inspect, and saw that the former eunuch of the Ming Court East Factory was actually organizing people to study. The content of the study is also the cadre training booklet he wrote.

"The marshal said that we must be good at mobilizing the masses, relying on the masses, and guiding the masses. This crowd is the common people. The meaning of this is that we should put down our posture, not put on an official show, and have a good relationship with those ordinary people. We have arrested so many people this time, but we can no longer arbitrarily decide cases as we did in the past, and we must do a good job, and this is indispensable for mobilizing the masses.

In the past, we were all too powerful, and the common people were afraid of us and didn't dare to talk to us. I know that you are all learned people, and you usually can't say a few words to those shabby households, but you have to talk about it from today onwards. We've all read these articles of Dashuai, and it's really well written. You still need to learn a lot. ”

Ma Gonggong wore a civil servant's uniform with four pockets, and spent two hours during the lunch break to gather his colleagues to grasp ideological education. When Zhou Qingfeng entered his courtyard, he was stunned. Waiting for the people in the courtyard to see him and hurriedly stood up, he wondered if he was making a show for himself.

"Are you really studying?" Zhou Qingfeng asked suspiciously.

These petty officials who took refuge in the Ming court all had a study booklet in their hands, which really felt a little absurd. The 'revolutionary army' repeatedly tried to recruit the existing intellectuals into its own management system.

However, no matter whether it was a down-and-out scholar, a captured military general, or a civil official, none of them took the initiative to actively study the ideology of the 'revolutionary army'. They all felt that this was just a change of place to become officials.

For example, those generals led by Liu Ling, those guys are very stubborn about the matter of 'soldiers for generals'. They never thought of themselves as mere officers, their goal was to be warlords. Similar ideas are so ingrained that they can't be changed. The 'revolutionary army' was forced to educate from the bottom of society and cultivate its own talents.

Because law and order in Tianjin must be improved. The imposition of martial law is effective, but in the long run, it will affect the vitality of the entire city. Ways must be found to screen out the criminals who mingle with the citizens. This recruitment of Marcose was originally an emergency, but I didn't expect this emergency guy to be brilliant.

Seeing Zhou Qingfeng coming to inspect, Ma Keshi and the others were a little at a loss. Some people bent down, some knelt and kowtowed, and some were stunned. Even Ma Keshi himself was very embarrassed, before he shouted in front of Zhou Qingfeng, 'Da Ming also has loyal ministers'. As a result, the loyal servant has taken refuge.

"Are you really studying?" Zhou Qingfeng asked again, "Don't show me a show." ”

"Dashuai, our family is really learning, and our family plans to memorize these articles and experience them with heart." Marcose bent over and treated Zhou Qingfeng with the same attitude as the emperor.

"Stand up straight." Zhou Qingfeng doesn't like others kneeling and servile kneeling, "The article I wrote specifically explained the etiquette of meeting superiors and subordinates. It is correct not to be arrogant or humble, and to treat it calmly. ”

He looked around and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I know that you all worked in the Ming Court, and you are more or less uncomfortable with my 'revolutionary army'. But because of this, I hope that you are really learning and changing your thinking. If you study well, I will definitely not hesitate to promote. If you just want to be an official, you won't be able to do it for long. ”

Zhou Qingfeng left not long after the inspection, and Ma Keshi and the others breathed a sigh of relief. The official beside him whispered, "Master Ma, congratulations!" ”

"What's the congratulations on? Our family was also taken aback. It seems that the handsome man is not very at ease with us. ”

"Look at what you said, isn't this a happy event? This is Jane in the emperor's heart, and the daughter will not be changed! ”