Chapter 204 Lieutenant Long School

The spring of Chongzhen's second year is not like a gradual process, but more like a weather battle of winter and spring, sneak attack and counter-sneak attack.

A few days ago, the willow trees by the canal had turned into a cloud of green smoke, and even the early swallows rested on the willow that had just sprouted. But overnight, a sudden blizzard brought the early spring scene back to the middle of winter. Those who had just changed their jackets had to put their leather jackets back on.

It was not yet dawn, and a dozen people in the same room were still sleeping. Tian Lu'an, who had just gone out, trembled and came in again, tiptoed out the leather jacket in his baggage, took it in his hand, and then tiptoed out again.

Compared to the people in the house, he looked very young at the age of twenty, he was a catcher from Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province. In July last year, all counties in the Ming Dynasty received an official document from the imperial court, and all county officials, as long as they were not more than 30 years old, could go to Beijing to take the examination of the imperial court government affairs college.

He was born in a family of fast catchers, and since his grandfather, he seems to have served in the county government. Therefore, although he is not bad at reading, he did not say a word when he failed in the government test, and according to the previous agreement with his family, he directly became a catcher again. However, even so, in Ji'an, a remote and impoverished small mountainous county, he looked like a beggar who didn't even have enough clothes to catch fast. He has never received his own Yulu once, let alone him, even the magistrate has never received it. The only specialty of their county is the soldiers. That's right, as long as the quota for conscription is completed every year, even taxes and conscription are exempted for them.

It can be seen that Ji'an County is a place with strong folk customs. And I was able to do a good job in this place for two years. Although Tian Lu'an doesn't admit it, in fact, his fist and foot kung fu is much better than his own reading kung fu.

The only advantage in the county government is that it is well-informed. As soon as possible, Tian Lu'an obtained an official document from the imperial court. Although this is already almost a month later than the counties on the plains. He hurried to the capital on the deadline. There aren't many people who sign up, and most of them seem to come from remote, barren places like Ji'an County, where there is little oil and water to fish.

The content of the entrance exam has little to do with the Four Books and Five Classics, which surprised Tian Lu'an, who was still preparing for the imperial examination along the way.

There is only one question in total:

"What kind of position did you have in the county government, and what should this position do in peacetime, disaster, and wartime."

In the end, 372 people applied for the exam, and 172 passed. But the imperial court was good this time, whether it was admitted or not, it gave a lot of travel subsidies in accordance with the standards published in the official documents.

Today is the beginning of the school year. It wasn't held at the academy yet, and the carriage was waiting outside now, and outside the carriage was a group of men in black. Tian Lu'an felt that he had gotten up quite early, but he didn't expect that when he arrived at the place where he was riding the carriage, there were already more than a dozen people gathered there. It was a four-wheeled carriage he had never seen before, with tall black wheels and carriages. The black-clad instructor stood at the entrance, surrounded by a pile of items.

"I said that this group of students should be trained in our army academy for a few days."

"Don't talk, it seems that there are a lot of people over there today, otherwise they wouldn't have asked us to come over to help."

"Have the people who stayed in school and waited for their instructors to graduate?"

"There's still a month, and now isn't the time to be in the dark."

Soon, Tian Lu'an was at the front.

The man in black looked at him.

"Take off your clothes outside."

"What?" He didn't hear clearly.

"Didn't I give you school uniforms yesterday? Why didn't anyone tell you to wear the academy clothes today? ”

"Oh."

Only then did Tian Lu'an understand. With great difficulty, he unfastened his belt of the wide cloth he usually used, and took off his sheepskin jacket, revealing the indigo garment inside.

"Give." The other party looked at himself for a moment, and took out a large piece from the pile of items behind him.

"Go back to the dorm and change into this, and then call the other people, there's a big guy here today, don't be late."

By the time Tian Lu'an and them were thirty miles away, the sky was already bright, but the snow was getting heavier and heavier. Tian Lu'an looked at the guards standing straight and covered in heavy snow next to him, and he also tried to be more upright.

"This weather, you don't have to let people suffer this outside." It should be someone from the same dormitory who spoke, and he didn't dare to be loud, only dared to mutter.

"Why don't you see those big officials come out. Isn't it hiding in ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw someone preach in a loud voice:

"Scholar of Huagai Palace, the first assistant of the cabinet, Lord Han Yinghan, has arrived."

At this time, I saw Lu Xiangsheng, the head of the Royal Academy of Administration, leading a group of bureaucrats to greet him, and Han Ying didn't sit down, just stood and talked to Lu Xiangsheng.

"Yesterday, His Majesty brought up the matter of Shandong again, and wanted to send a strong minister to go down."

"I recommended Hong Chengchou, Your Majesty seems to be a little hesitant." Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly wanted to communicate with Lord Shoufu.

His Majesty asked Weichen's opinion, and Weichen still wanted to stay in Beizhili for a while. After all, these twenty-one counties have just begun, and there is such a big thing as the college. ”

"What Your Majesty wants is to promote land clearance, aren't you doing a good job in Beizhili?"

"But what about my Shousuke-sama. Beizhili is doing well because others don't know, you still don't know? First of all, the two princes fell, and Changping County on the back was empty at once. Plus the Imperial Village to which the Imperial Family belongs, which was allocated by His Majesty the Emperor. When Weichen hadn't done his work yet, His Majesty had already finished half of it. According to Jinyiwei's report on the landlord, anyone with blood stains on his body and hands will be killed at one time. This is not much land with the few left, and the silver is enough to send it. ”

"It's good if you recommend it." Han Ying shook the hood on his head.

"The meaning of the cabinet is also Hong Chengchou, but I think Your Majesty seems to be worried about the problem of the northwest. The snow in the capital is getting heavier day by day, and there has not been a drop of rain in the northwest from October last year to today. Han Ying was also very sad when she looked at God.

"Shandong is full of people. Isn't Li Jingbai, the governor of the Qilin, still in office, and a few days ago, he tossed the auspiciousness of a white deer. Immediately afterwards, the political envoy Chen Yingyuan also gave His Majesty the Emperor a New Year's excerpt, saying that Shandong would be able to give the imperial court an additional 900,000 taels of silver for the Liaodong military salary this year. Sun Yuanhua told me that in the past seven or eight years, there have been about 100,000 displaced people from Liaodong alone. These hundreds of thousands of people are now gathering in the area of Dengzhou and Laizhou. The Liaomin and the locals are about to knock out the dog's brain. Do you now know why His Majesty transferred Mao Renlong back from Liaodong? Let me tell you, Shandong, it's really not something that he Hong Chengchou can handle. ”

The distance between Han Ying and Lu Xiangsheng is not far or close, and Lu Xiangsheng cannot threaten Han Ying's position at present, so sometimes Han Ying can tell the truth in front of Lu Xiangsheng.

"Shandong borders North Zhili and Liaodong, let me tell you, either it's okay, or it's a big deal. Plus Your Majesty's temperament now is really ...... from a year ago"

After a year in office, Han Ying is already full of gray hair, and it is getting thinner and thinner. He looked a little sadly at the two sin chiefs who were trembling not far away and were going to kill chickens to show monkeys today. I don't know why, but he still has a little sympathy in his heart.

"Your Majesty has arrived!"

As he spoke, everyone stood up. Han Ying and Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly turned around and came out to greet them.

Zhu Youzhen nodded lightly to everyone present, and then sat down in front of him.

The opening ceremony was simple and crude.

The lieutenant of the thirty-mile shop was the first to be pushed up.

"In the first year of Chongzhen, when he served as the head of the thirty-mile shop, he ignored the express orders of the imperial court, and in order to embezzle the subsidies given by the imperial court, he fabricated fourteen households of his relatives and friends as subordinate households, and reorganized the real subordinate households into middle households. As a result, the 14 households not only did not receive subsidies from the imperial court, but also spent an additional 17 taels of taxes and silver, and 24 people were forced into labor for 53 days. A total of 37 stone of grain, 22 taels of silver, and three school places were embezzled by the imperial court. ”

It was Lu Xiangsheng who read out the charge of the head of the thirty-mile shop, and he was accompanied by Jiang Hongchen, the county magistrate, and Jiang Hongchen was also introduced by Lu Xiangsheng as the first batch of outstanding students who graduated from the School of Administration.

When he said this, Jiang Hongchen's face was as red as a prawn in a boiled canal.

The second pole restaurant that was pushed up was the head of the restaurant.

"During the search for foreign enemies in the whole city, the real prisoners were easily let go because they received two catties of barbecue."

The verdict was simple, but it caused a lot of discussion among the new students below. The chief of the Jingshi, how could he easily let go of the foreigner who committed the monstrous eucalyptus for the sake of two catties of barbecue?

Two pounds of barbecue? Going to hit the ground today?

As he spoke, the two executioners took the stage and dragged the two ashen elders to the Dharma field not far away, and with a wave of the ghost-headed knife, the two heads rolled down, and the discussion of these students behind was even louder. Zhu Youzhen listened, and then stood up. It was the first time I saw His Majesty the Emperor, and it became quiet below.

"I listened to it a few times in front of me just now, but I couldn't hear it clearly, did anyone say something to me."

With the blessing of the emperor's identity, naturally no one dared to stand up at this time.

"Come on, it's you." Zhu Youzhen waited, and when he saw that no one dared to stand up, he directly named him.

The one who was pointed out happened to be Tian Luan, who was tall and straight, and was very conspicuous in the crowd.

"The student Tian Lu'an is also a catcher in Ji'an County." Tian Lu'an was still stammering at first, but as he spoke, he became fluent. It's nothing more than talking to the prefect, and you can still eat me?

The students helped the farmers in the fields to find the lost buffalo and also received a bacon pig hind leg from someone else. Today, I heard that the chief of Youli received two catties of barbecue and beheaded him after embezzling a dozen taels of silver, and he was still a little puzzled in his heart. ”

"Okay." Zhu Youzhen silently wrote down this bold name.

"Starting this year, the lieutenant chief will become the lowest official position in the Ming Dynasty. Since they are officials, there is a standard for judging officials. Let me ask, if that night because the chief received these two catties of meat, he would have regarded the affairs of the inspection as child's play, and this alien successfully lit a fire in the capital that night, and more than 10,000 people died in the fire. So, it was two catties of meat that convicted this lieutenant chief? Or 10,000 lives? ”

"The mayor of Thirty Mile Shop has only revised the list of more than a dozen households. But just last winter, three of these dozen families died of hunger and illness because they did not receive subsidies. I would also like to ask, are we going to be condemned according to ten taels of silver? Or do you want to be convicted according to the three lives? Or do you want to be convicted according to the anger of these people at the court? ”

"This is a big question, and it is also the question I left for you. Hopefully, in ten months' time, you will be able to hand in your answer to this question. ”

Two heads and an exam question are Zhu Youzhen's first lesson to this group of new lieutenants. He doesn't expect these more than 100 people to stand out, as long as there is a 30% gain, he will be happy.

"In the future, I will also go to the School of Administration to study for ten months after the middle school, and then start from the inside. This is a matter of ten years of credit, and there is no need to be so anxious for quick success. ”

Zhu Youjian came down and said a word to Lu Xiangsheng again.

"Your Majesty......"

"Hold on!"

"I haven't complained yet, you have been complaining every day. On the side of Beizhili, you have to bear it first. At the very least, we must finish the land affairs completely, otherwise it will be a failure. What's more, you still have Jiang Hongchen and a few of them on hand, and when this batch is completed, all of them will be left to you Beizhili. ”

Lu Xiangsheng didn't have anything to say, and he also knew that although His Majesty the current emperor didn't say anything ambitious, the reforms he promoted were obviously much bigger than those of the previous dynasties.

"There is also a priority in things, and you can't do everything, Lao Lu. Now there is only one thing in Beizhili, that is, to ensure that everyone has a household registration and every family has a land. For this matter, I have handed over all my imperial estate to you. You can put the rest down. At the same time, I remind you that you must be reasonable, poor people, and do it only when the reason is clear. However, for those landlords and squires, sometimes, the knife is much faster and more effective than reasoning. You sometimes get it the other way around. ”

"Before the beginning of spring this year, if you don't know about the field, I'll tell you, Song Yingxing and their new seeds won't be able to go down. If you miss this season, you miss this year. Still not clear? ”

"Your Majesty, some landlords just don't want to exchange their cultivated land for money in the money village or real estate in the city, and Wechen has stepped up efforts to talk to them."

Lu Xiangsheng is very diligent, but at this point, he is far from Sun Chuanting, who has cleaned up the military tun. Do you want to call Sun Chuanting back? Even if Beizhili can't make it, Shandong is also easy to use.

"If you don't want to, if you don't want to, send it to the Criminal Department! The Criminal Department has been very idle lately. Zhu Youzhen knew that Lu Xiangsheng was more gentle. It's no problem to suffer by yourself, and it's no problem to take the lead, but there are some dark methods that he can't think of and don't want to use.

"I'll give you another month, where is Han Shoufu in the Criminal Department to say instead of me."

"Mo Ruo summoned Sun Chuanting back to the center?" Sure enough, it was Han Ying, and it suddenly reached Zhu Youzhen's heart.

Zhu Youzhen was about to leave, but when he heard this, he turned back.

"Elder Ge also thinks that Hong Chengchou is not suitable for Shandong?"

"Hong Chengchou is better to stay in the northwest, the minister received a report from Shaanxi, from the first year of Chongzhen to the present, Shaanxi has not rained, and the minister is very anxious."

"Naturalized City ......"

There is no way, even if Sun Chuanting is summoned back now, it will take at least a month. It's not that you can't prepare for a lot of things, it's just that you can't prepare in advance now, and the distance is really fatal.

"In the past two years, Guihua City has been dominated by military fortresses, supplemented by trade, not to mention that Empress Yi'an is also in Datong."

"Come on. Summoning Sun Chuanting back, Shoufu also negotiated with Inspector Sun, and Governor Yuan Chonghuan naturalized the guards of the city. Zhu Youzhen was a little worried.

"Find a cautious deputy for Yuan Chonghuan, once he leaves the station, there should always be someone in the city who can call the shots."

"The Mongolian female city lord?"

"Don't we also have no banner in Mongolia, so let him marry Merlin and reorganize the Mongolian Sanwei."

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In just a few words, the whereabouts of several ministers were decided.

"I can't even go to Fengyang to worship my ancestors." finally got through the cabinet, but after all the miscellaneous things, Zhu Youzhen himself felt that he had no possibility of going out on patrol.

"Why don't I go to Shandong by myself?" Zhu Youzhen thought about it, and he felt that this matter seemed to be feasible.

In the face of the dispute between Liaodong and Shandong, or the land of the Confucian family in Qufu, he has complete room to deal with it. In addition, by the way, you can take a look at the officials in Shandong, and maybe you can find one or two sages left outside.

"Your Majesty, no."

Han Ying didn't know how to talk about it, and talked about the fact that this master was going to go on patrol.

"Never. Ying Tianfu's follow-up still needs to be observed, a few days ago, Jinyiwei reported, saying that King Fu of Henan is also actively in frequent contact with the King of Chu in Wuchang. His eldest son also had a lot of rebellious remarks. Originally, there were also sporadic villager riots in the Qinba and Yulinwei areas of Shaanxi. Your Majesty, it's better for you to be in the middle. What's more, it took a month and a half for Sun Chuanting to arrive in the capital. The affairs of Shandong have not reached the level of endangering the localities. ”

"King Fu finally can't bear it anymore." Zhu Youzhen thought secretly in his heart. He has been letting Li Ruolian operate this matter, and now it is good, he has finally become the first cabinet to take the initiative to find out. Perhaps, the thorn that he and Jin Yiwei planted in Han Ying's heart last time had a role.

"Blessed King. I think King Fu should be okay here, and I sent more than a dozen maids to the queen a few days ago. ”

Could it really be that King Fu wants to mess up this situation, not the bureau that you Zhu Youzhen arranged for the old man? Or are you secretly persecuting King Fu, Your Majesty?

"This Fu Wang is really greasy and crooked, and he is not as good as his uprightness." Zhu Youzhen is also thinking.