How could a seventh-grade civil official of the imperial court, a county magistrate from a Jinshi, suffer from gains and losses? Someone may be about to say, author, this is not too exaggerated, you said earlier that the Ming Dynasty was noble and martial, even if Huang Degu is unbearable, it will not come to this point! Just this little thing, I'm too scared to go out?

Speaking of this issue, we still have to review some common sense of the Ming Dynasty, so that we may be able to find some basis to explain the gaffe of Huang Degu from the things that were familiar to people at that time here.

The military leadership and command structure of the Ming Dynasty differed greatly between peacetime and wartime. At the local level, the military leaders in peacetime are the commanders of the envoys, that is, the capital divisions. The guard of the capital division is subordinate to the five prefectures and obeys the orders of the military department. The metropolitan division is not subordinate to the administrative secretary and the judicial department of the province where it is located. It is the highest military leadership body in the Ming Dynasty in peacetime, responsible for managing all military-related affairs in the area under its jurisdiction. There is a guard under the capital division, and the chief of the guard is the commander of the capital. There are thousands of households and 100 households under the guard, and the guards lead thousands of households generally divided into left, right, front, back, and middle.

Like Yu Feng, his own inspection position, in the eyes of people from such imperial examinations, is simply a miscellaneous fish, not much different from those small officials, what Huang Degu really cares about is Yu Feng's military position. Yu Feng led the Lingshan Wei Qianhu position, that is a world official, not enough to shine. Above him is the commander of Lingshanwei, Tong Shan, and above is the commander of the Shandong capital, under the suppression of layers of layers, Yu Feng, as a military household, even if he is an officer, has nothing to worry about.

However, after Yongle, some changes occurred in the command system of the Ming Dynasty. Originally, the status of the highest local military and political commanders was reduced, and they became subordinates of the chief military officer. In the Chongzhen period, this situation is even more obvious, the general military officer is the military chief sent by the central government to the key areas to guard, under which there are deputy general soldiers (also known as deputy generals), staff generals, guerrilla generals, garrisons, thousand generals, local generals and so on. After the chief military officer became the commander of the local garrison, when there was a war, he sent a senior member of the central government to the local governor, and he was reinstated.

In fact, the current situation is that the military generals who support the army and respect themselves, in the face of the orders of the imperial court, are vain and wrong, and it is already the norm to disobey the yang and the yin, and it is even more clear that the attitude of listening to the tune and not listening to the propaganda is clear, and the court wants to use me, okay, take the benefits, and if there are no benefits, then there is no need to talk about it. Of course, the words are not so vulgar, but this is what it means. For these generals with soldiers in their hands, the court has almost always been appeased, and they will not use knives. Today's emperors, although cutting off the heads of their courtiers is like mowing grass, but carefully, counting, most of the people who have their heads cut off are unarmed civil officials and those military generals who are ineffective in quelling the chaos but have no soldiers, and those who support the soldiers, but none of them have been touched.

And Yu Feng's position as a Lingshan garrison is what Huang Degu is really afraid of. Under the general army of Shandong, there are sub-garrison generals, there are guerrilla generals, this garrison, it seems to be nothing, but the garrison of this town guard place has the qualification to set up a camp, that is to say, if the imperial court is afraid of those soldiers who support the army and respect themselves, this garrison is just enough to be feared by the imperial court. Not long ago, I didn't hear that horse thieves were rampant near Qingzhou and dared to patrol near the county seat, so it is not a strange thing that there are really "horse thieves" sneaking into the county seat, which is not conducive to the county. Huang Degu has no doubts about this possibility.

There is no doubt that the garrison of Lingshan is under the control of the chief military officer of Shandong, if Huang Degu is in Shandong, he can have a little friendship with that general soldier Qiu, this matter, he can easily settle it, this military general is domineering, and he is also facing the imperial court, he is really right to the boss, and he is also domineering to his colleagues in the army, does he still want to be a man? The problem is that the civil officials are proud of themselves, and most of them treat those generals with the attitude of the night pot, when they use you, they are very cool, and when they are not used, they are far away, in this case, where can he find someone to speak?

I don't know how many times Huang Degu sighed for a long time this night, until the sky was light, he fell asleep, but unexpectedly, he had just fallen asleep, but he was woken up by the little guy who served him and didn't know whether he was alive or dead. He got up and was about to be furious, but he was told by the little guy that Yu Feng, the Lingshan Inspection Division, asked to see him. As soon as he heard this, he still had the scheming to disturb his sleep, hurriedly washed up, and then personally welcomed Yu Feng into the back office.

"I have long heard that Lord Huang is diligent in the king's affairs and pities the people, presumably yesterday was another sleepless night, Yu took the liberty to visit, and he was abrupt!" said abruptly, but Yu Feng did not look abrupt, arched his hand at Huang Degu, and looked at Huang Degu and the flowers and trees in Huang Degu's back office with interest.

"Lord Yu, don't make fun of the old man, where is the sleepless night, it is obviously cool in the morning, this person is always sleepy, and he is so good in the mouth of Lord Yu, I am ashamed and ashamed!" Huang Degu sneered, and said, while inviting Yu Feng to sit down in this courtyard, a small servant served fragrant tea.

"When did Lord Yu inspect this county, the official didn't know anything, it was really neglected! You and I are both officials in Shandong, between each other, we need more support, more support, this official is so negligent, Lord Yu should not go to his heart, the old man set up a banquet at noon, one is to wash the dust for Lord Yu, and the other is to compensate Lord Yu. ”

"Thank you so much, Lord Huang! Yu is disrespectful! Yu Feng smiled slightly, this smile, in Huang Degu's eyes, no matter how you look at it, has a bit of a smile on the skin.

"Lord Yu came to this county this time, is it a business trip? If there is anything that needs this county, I hope that Lord Yu will go all out to cooperate even if he speaks? ”

This is actually to knock his head on the ground, with Huang Degu's identity, whether it is for patrol inspection or garrison, such a faceless sell, if his colleagues in Beijing see it, he has to smack him hard, this is not the backbone of a scholar. Where did the reservedness of the scholar go?

Yu Feng knew it in his heart, and he didn't say anything, and said: "On business, there is no place to bother your county, Yu Mou this time, just to accompany the cheap to go to relatives, but, in the market during the day, I heard some rumors, and it is very bad for the adult's official reputation, I am afraid that the adult will not know, and I can't hold back, so I came to meet the adult!" ”

Hearing that Yu Feng mentioned something that was not related to the wind and horses, Huang Degu was a little strange, rumors? What are the rumors, or are they hindering their official reputation? Where is this and where is it, do you need to be reminded by a foreign official?

However, since Yu Feng didn't mention those things that were a little ugly for both parties, he was also happy to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and followed Yu Feng's words and asked, anyway, he couldn't see what kind of malice Yu Feng had now.

"I want to hear about it!"

"There are rumors in the market, recently the adults are going to levy on those merchants in Anqiu, what kind of "peace tax", Yu asked himself and read for a few years, where have I heard that the imperial court has this legal tax system, and immediately refuted those ignorant people, not to mention that there is no such thing, even if there is, it is the adults who are blinded, and those people below use the name of the adults to set up a name and poison the people, do you say yes! ”

"Exactly!" Huang Degu was also filled with righteous indignation: "I have never heard of any peace tax!" But in his heart, he thought, "When I go back and wait for this guy to leave, I will immediately ask someone to stop this tax, so that he will not be seized in this matter!" ”

"I said yes, adults are as honest as water, how can there be such a behavior, however, this governance of a county, how busy things are, adult negligence is also inevitable, if the people below are pampered by others, do this kind of thing, adults can not be tolerated!"

"Pick-up? Where did Lord Yu say this, didn't he hear something? Huang Degu asked.

"Yes, I also heard that there have been some charlatans recently, pretending to be the children of official eunuchs, colluding with tolerance, and preying on the common people, well, I also heard about it, and there is no verification, just listen to it, if it is gossip, adults are as wise as torches, so naturally you don't have to pay attention to it, but if it is true, adults should be careful, these charlatans, demagogic methods are strange, and the people are ignorant, so they have to guard against it!" Yu Feng's face was concerned, and it seemed that he really cared about Huang Degu's future, and he looked like a model colleague.

Hearing the strings and knowing the elegant meaning, Yu Feng's words, where else does Huang Degu not understand, this is the last time he favored Shi Huairen, Yu Feng is expressing dissatisfaction, what is a charlatan who pretends to be the son of an official eunuch, this is just about to name Huang Degu.

"Thank you so much Lord Yu for reminding me!" Huang Degu looked suddenly enlightened, "If it's not anyone, I don't know if it will cause a catastrophe!" Huang Degu took his clothes as a courtesy, and he looked like he was stunned.

After talking about these, the conversation between the two of them seemed to be harmonious, and the marginal politeness praised each other, and after a few words, Yu Feng said goodbye, and when he left, Yu Feng seemed to say inadvertently: "The owner of Gaosheng Salt Stack, can Lord Huang know?" ”

Huang Degu seemed to be slightly stunned, and replied, "The owner of the Gaosheng Salt Stack? I didn't know it! ”

"Don't know? Hehe, it's good if you don't know! Looking at Huang Degu's pretended stunnedness, Yu Feng went out with a smile.

"I haven't read the yellow calendar, how did I provoke this mourning star!" Huang Degu wanted to cry without tears, a little discouraged and sat down, this Yu Feng came to this trip, it was clearly to knock him, on the surface, it seems that the two sides are harmonious, but in Shi Huairen's matter, Gao Sheng Yanzhan matter, have exerted a lot of pressure on Huang Degu, even his excuse to visit here, also made Huang Degu resentful, his light sentence "market rumors", to Huang Degu here, but it is a loss of hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver, not to mention, his words when he just left, It is clearly to advise Huang Degu and Gaosheng Yanzhan to put aside their relationship, which is a few hundred taels of silver every month!