"Your Majesty, Li Yanzhi, the father of Fujian General Li Yanzhi, has arrived in Jinan." Wang Chengen said.

"Li Yanzhi's father? The Li family should be from Jiaozhou, right? Zhu Youzhen's eyes flickered and asked. Li Yanzhi is a native of Jiaozhou, and his family seems to be a landlord, is he involved in the rectification of corrupt officials and corrupt officials?

"Jiaozhou, which belongs to Laizhou Mansion, Your Majesty has not sent anyone to Laizhou." Knowing what Zhu Youzhen was thinking, Wang Chengen hurriedly said.

Zhu Youzhen nodded, it's good that he hasn't been involved yet, Li Yanzhi is a general sent to the southeast by himself, shouldering the heavy responsibility of maritime trade, and his family must not be involved in such a thing.

"Father Li seems to be here to donate his own land to Qingtian Division, involving Li Zongbing's family, and the officials below don't know what to do, so they asked the slaves and maids to ask Your Majesty." Wang Chengen continued.

"Take the initiative to donate land?" Zhu Youzhen suddenly became interested, whether it was the gentry or the landlord, they only thought that their own fields were not enough, how could they take the initiative to send the fields, this kind of thing was really the first time I had seen it.

"Li Yanzhi is good, and the Li family is not bad." Zhu Youzhen praised that this matter was definitely done by Li Yanzhi in a letter to his family, and he could guess the thoughts of the gentry and landlords in Shandong from thousands of miles away, and take the initiative to show his support, Li Yanzhi is really good.

"Then let Chamberlain come in, and I will see him." Zhu Youzhen said.

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"Grass man Chamberlain to see Your Majesty." Chamberlain was about fifty years old, burly, with a cold face, and looked quite similar to Li Yanzhi.

"Flatten, give me a seat." Zhu Youzhen said.

Wang Chengen personally brought a chair and put it behind Li Bolun, Li Bolun thanked him for his kindness, and then saluted Wang Chengen before sitting down steadily, his demeanor was very free, and there was no nervousness of the people seeing the emperor at all, and this calm and calm demeanor made Zhu Youzhen quite appreciated.

"I heard that you are going to take the initiative to donate your own land, why do you want to do this?" Zhu Youzhen asked directly.

"In fact, the dedication of the land was not out of my own will, it was my son Yanzhi who wrote a letter asking me to do so, and Yanzhi said in the letter that although I had a vast territory in the Ming Dynasty, most of the land was in the hands of the gentry and landlords, and the gentry never paid taxes and the treasury revenue decreased year by year. He said that my Li family has become a big family in Jiaozhou because of him, and he has annexed a lot of land in recent years, which makes him deeply uneasy. My Li family has a population of only a dozen people, and the output of 100 acres of land is enough to make a living, plus I have my own business, which is enough to ensure that my family has no worries about food and clothing, and there is no need to occupy too much land.

Because of Yanzhi, my Li family's fields do not have to pay taxes, but the Li family receives one bucket less income for every bucket of grain that the treasury pays. Jiaozhou has a large population and barren land, and for every additional acre of land occupied by the Li family, other people will have one acre less, and some people will starve or even starve to death. Therefore, after receiving Yanzhi's letter, after thinking deeply, the grass people decided to leave only 100 acres of land to support their families, and donated more than 8,000 acres of other fields to the imperial court, and asked His Majesty to accept it! ”

"I really know the righteousness!" Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but praise.

Regardless of whether it is directly instructed by Li Yanzhi, this Li Chamberlain can make the act of donating his own land, which is worthy of praise, and such a person should naturally be commended.

"Are you famous?" Zhu Youzhen asked.

Chamberlain shook his head and said a little shyly: "The grass people have been reading books for several years, but they are only children, so they have no choice but to do business. However, my eldest son Li Yanxiu and second son Li Yanlang are both famous. ”

"In this case, Li Yanxiu and Li Yanlang were given the status of prisoners of the country, and Li Yanxiu was named the Cheng of Yidu County, and Li Yanlang was named the lord of Licheng County." Zhu Youzhen said immediately. Guozi Jian is qualified to be an official, the county is the eighth grade, and the main Bo is the ninth grade, which is naturally sealed by Zhu Youzhen.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Chamberlain was overjoyed, kneeling and kowtowing. donated thousands of acres of land, and actually got official bodies for his two sons, which was really profitable. In fact, the Li family mainly made money by doing business, and did not attach much importance to land, which is one of the reasons why Chamberlain was willing to donate land.

"Your Majesty, this is an official document proposed by the cabinet to appoint officials in Shandong." Wang Chengen put a booklet in front of Zhu Youzhen.

Although Zhu Youzhen is not in Beijing, the jade seal is by his side, and his consent is required for major matters, so even if it is a cabinet resolution, he has to be sent to Pegasus in front of the car, and he can only be implemented after he wears the red seal.

Zhu Youzhen took a look at it and drew circles on the appointment of provincial-level officials such as political envoys and envoys from the left and right sides of Shandong, and directly crossed the pro-people officials such as the prefect of Jinan Prefecture, Licheng County, and other pro-people officials.

Most of the officials of Jinan Prefecture and County have been removed, and all prefectures and counties have sent business graduates and clans as officials, and the yamen has been enriched, but in fact, it doesn't matter whether there is a prefecture or a county. Zhu Youzhen decided to imitate the example of Li Yanxiu's brothers, and gave some well-behaved business students the status of supervisors, and let them serve as the chief bookkeepers of prefectures and counties.

Yes, just do it!

Zhu Youzhen's instructions were quickly sent back to the imperial court, and after reading them, everyone in the cabinet looked at each other.

"The appointment of His Majesty by the political envoys and the envoys from the left and right sides of Shandong has been approved, but the officials of the prefectures and counties have been beaten back, why is this?" Huang Liji was surprised.

"Is there a problem with the list recommended by the ministry?" Sun Chengzong guessed.

"What's the problem, they are all carefully selected candidates by the Ministry of Literature and Literature." Wang Yongguang, the secretary of the ministry, said aggrievedly.

If it is possible to say that the appointment of other officials is tired, there is absolutely no problem with the appointment of officials in Shandong Prefecture and County, because of the official clean-up just now, because the emperor is still staying in Shandong, there are no officials willing to go to Shandong to be officials, and these officials appointed are all people with no background.

"Let's draw up another list of appointments." Huang Liji sighed and said.

Wang Yongguang nodded: "That's the only way." ”

According to the usual practice, the Ministry of Officials has the right to appoint officials of the four grades, and all the official candidates drawn up by the Department of Literature and Literature of the Ministry of Officials, neither the cabinet nor the emperor will call back, and the cabinet scholars are more concerned about the promotion of officials in the court, and the emperor is not familiar with these petty officials at all, so it is naturally impossible to oppose them, but I didn't expect that there was an accident this time.

Soon the second list of appointments was drawn up and sent to Jinan City. However, there was no movement like a stone sinking into the sea, and the emperor did not agree or object, so he left the appointment document without approval at all.

Without the emperor's consent, the appointment documents would not be counted, and the officials would naturally not be able to take office.

In response to this situation, the court officials suddenly felt that they had returned to the Wanli period, and the Wanli Emperor often did not approve the appointment of officials, resulting in a very vacancy of officials in the court and local yamen, and there were often only a few officials in the six yamen.

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