Chapter 417: Punishment of the Scholars

Zhang Wenxi quickly understood why Ye Agui was so frightened, and said, "I didn't expect that in the Huai'an area, the people are afraid of officials to come here!"

After saying that, Zhang Wenxi said to Ye Agui again: "You don't have to be afraid, the Holy Emperor loves the people, so he has issued a clear decree to strictly prohibit the Qing army from colluding with the army, and has executed the corrupt officials and evil officials such as Zhou Qi and Du Yan, the culprits of plundering Huai'an in the past, and this official has been appointed as the new governor of Fengyang."

After hearing Zhang Wenxi say that Du Yan and the others had been killed by the emperor's order, Ye Agui couldn't help but burst into tears for a while.

Although he didn't know what the Ming Emperor looked like who had only heard his story and had not seen him, at this moment, he was still moved by Zhu Yijun.

You must know that this kind of great hatred, he himself does not dare to revenge it except to swallow his anger.

Seeing this, Zhang Wenxi didn't say anything more, just turned around and left.

It is now the early summer of the thirteenth year of Wanli, the area of Qingjiangpu, the river is green, the birds on both sides of the bank are constantly crying, the fisherman is lazy, and there is no official errand, only the cool breeze crosses, and the rice fragrance is strong.

The people began to continue their cultivation in peace, and in twos and threes, they began to emerge from the water.

When Zhang Wenxi, the imperial historian of Fengyang, saw this scene, he also felt that he was in a good mood, and when he stayed in the wild shop that night, he said impatiently to Zhu Yijun:

"Chen Fengyang patrols according to the imperial history Zhang Wenxi respectfully plays Your Majesty, since the minister landed in Mangchong Dengqingjiangpu, he saw that there is no official nuisance in the Huai'an area, and the township farmers and workers are safe, and His Majesty is blessed and loves the people deeply, so that there is no water and drought in the sky, and the trade routes are more complicated. It's just that the common people have been so deeply harmed by the Qing army that they have been sent by the Qing army before them, so that the officials and the people have deepened their mustard, and many of them dare not go to the towns to buy and sell and dare not be diligent in the producers, and it will take time to restore the prosperity of the past."

After Zhang Wenxi finished writing the notebook, he began to think about how to make a few good achievements in office in the thirteenth year of Wanli when the reformers were in power.

After all, today's Wanli Dynasty looks at the actual political achievements, not the reputation, and the situation of him playing the Qing army to harass the people is just a matter of duty, and it is not a political achievement, and what really needs to be regarded as a political achievement is the change to the local area.

You must know that the previous governor of Fengyang, Lu Kun, dared to organize the craftsmen among the displaced people to set up practices, and now he has been promoted to Beijing as the right attendant of the criminal department.

Including Shen Li, the governor of Yingtian, and Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian, who were also concerned about the establishment of practical matters, were also promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials and the right attendant of the Ministry of War.

How could Zhang Wenxi not want to make one or two actual political achievements?

It's just that the previous Fengyang governor Wang Jian and Fengyang Governor Cen Yu were exiled and executed because of the Qing army's hook army, which made him have to admit that the emperor and the rulers of the Ming Dynasty wanted not only good political achievements, but also local bureaucrats to really take the new rites to heart and really treat the common people as human beings.

Therefore, Zhang Wenxi chose Weifu to take office in Huai'an, and chose to take the initiative to inquire about the people's situation, and this inquiry also allowed him to really inquire about some content that he couldn't see.

But Zhang Wenxi has not yet found a way to let the above see his ability.

Until this day.

When Zhang Wenxi braved the rain and continued to search for the road in the wild village and headed for Huai'an, two battalions of soldiers belonging to Huai'an Mansion were being beaten by a group of slaves, and the owner of these slaves was a soldier wearing a square scarf.

The gentleman was sitting on a chair beside him, eating loquats, and shouting, "Beat me hard! Isn't it just that he has to shirk and not do it if he lifts a sliding rod, and he has his true appearance in his eyes?!"

"Stop!"

Seeing this, Zhang Wenxi shouted loudly, so he walked up to the scholar and asked in a deep voice, "Where did you go to school, what is your name, and why did you serve as a soldier?"

When this scholar saw that Zhang Wenxi was dressed up, he also hurriedly got up and gave his hand: "I am Wang Xiangdong, the student of Huai'an Mansion, I don't know who Your Excellency is?"

"Don't ask me who I am!"

Zhang Wenxi waved his hand in a solemn tone, and then asked the gentleman, "You just have to tell me, who asked you to serve in the battalion?" What qualifications do you have to serve in the battalion, even if you are the magistrate of the local prefecture and county, you have no right to call the battalion without authorization!"

When Wang Xiangdong saw Zhang Wenxi's attitude, he knew that Zhang Wenxi must be an official, very imposing

In an instant, there were no eight points, and he replied truthfully:

"It's not who served, it's the cards and tickets sold by the guards, I bought a few, and I can naturally serve these battalions along the way, if they don't want to, Lu Bingxian, who guards the road, can't do this business, so the students serve them, Lu Bingxian is also willing, who is the public, why do you care about these idle things?"

The so-called sale of cards and tickets means that officials sell their warrants for exercising power, so that soldiers can also serve the gentry who cannot dispatch and command soldiers.

Of course, there have been cases in history where officials have given their warrants to relatives and friends, so that relatives and friends can also serve their own soldiers.

This kind of thing seems to be just a sale and gift of power, but if it is more serious, it can be regarded as someone illegally transferring and usurping military power, and can be convicted of rebellion.

"This is the order to watch! Isn't this an idle business?!"

After Zhang Wenxi said this, he said to his staff: "Grand Master Xingwen, remove this person's fame, and lock this person up and put him in prison pending sentence!"

"Another manuscript was written to impeach Huaiyang Dao Bingxian Lu Liangui for selling official tickets privately, using power for profit, making the battalion soldiers like house slaves for the gentry and the nobles, and even making the battalion soldiers inferior to the big family slaves, and they were also beaten by their house slaves.

"In addition, I would like to ask for permission to investigate the matter of the official gentry and the strong military envoys in the Fengyang Prefecture, as well as the bureaucracy's private sale of cards and tickets to encourage the official gentry to forcibly enforce the battalion soldiers!"

"The battalion is recruited by the state, and it is the responsibility to defend the territory and open up the territory.

"This is contrary to the New Rites, and it is not a matter of courtesy to the people of our own country!"

Zhang Wenxi obviously found a way to cater to his superiors' desire to rectify military affairs and to his superiors' refusal to burden the people, that is, not to clear the army, but to investigate the enslavement of soldiers such as battalion soldiers.

After all, the Qing army seemed to be rectifying military affairs, verifying the number of local troops, and seeing if there was any empty salary, but in fact, it was asking the local bureaucrats to take the opportunity to wantonly harass the people and plunder the people because they did not want to be found out that they were eating empty salaries and could not prevent the soldiers from fleeing.

However, the investigation of the situation of the battalion soldiers being enslaved only in violation of the law and the gentry did not involve the common people, because the ordinary people did not have the financial resources and power to serve in the battalion.

Wang Xiangdong didn't expect that he would be discredited because of this, so he hurriedly said, "Feng Xian is angry! For the sake of the student's first offense, spare the student once, not to mention that the student didn't know that this matter would be so serious, and the student thought that this card ticket service was just an ordinary thing."

"Don't quibble!"

"How can a person who reads not know the nature of the unauthorized use of troops by a person without office or power?!"

Zhang Wenxi stopped Wang Xiangdong from talking further, and also interrogated.

Wang Xiangdong had no choice but to kneel down, looking depressed: "But it's not easy for students to achieve fame! Please also ask Feng Xian to forgive the students once for the sake of the fellow Shilin!"