Chapter 19 Patrol

The superintendent of the imperial history is at the same level as the magistrate, and they are all seven-grade officials. But compared with the respect of a county, the actual status can be described as a world of difference.

Not to mention the general practice of officialdom in which the Ming Dynasty is respected by Beijing officials, although the level of supervision of the imperial history is low, but the real power is very great - "investigate and correct the official evil of the hundreds of divisions inside and outside, or impeachment in the face of the seal, or impeachment in the seal." Inside, the two capitals brushed the scrolls, inspected the Beijing camp, supervised the township, the examination and the martial arts, inspected the Guanglu, inspected the warehouse, inspected the inner library, the imperial city, and the five cities, and took turns to board the drums. Outside the patrol press, the Qing army, the admiral school, tea horses, patrols, patrols, transportation, India horses, Tuntian. The division will supervise the military discipline"! All in all, there is no one in the world who they can't scold, and there is nothing they can't manage! Especially when he goes out to inspect in August every year, he is known as "patrolling on behalf of the Son of Heaven": "Major events are judged, small matters are decided, and the prefect and below are all under his orders"!

The prefect is a four-grade one!

Four products? Oh, well, obedient!

Understand?

Don't talk about the fourth grade, even the first, second and third grades, give me honesty, otherwise you won't be negotiable! Even if it's chasing after the wind and scolding you for being a bloody dog, you have to continue happily!

No one can stop the supervision of the imperial history: not only does it not need to take the ordinary road of the political secretary, you can go directly to the saint, but also have the exclusive power of "hearing the wind and doing things" - when you hear the grapevine, you can make a small report to the emperor anytime and anywhere, and you don't need to be responsible for the authenticity!

This is a beautiful difference that all officials have to stutter about.

But Yang Mingzhen, who believes that he is "saintly and long", does not eat this set.

A fledgling scholar, if he hits a wall early, it is not necessarily a bad thing; On the contrary, if you are lucky by mistake, it is easy to go astray. This is the case with Yang Mingzhen.

The Metropolitan Inspectorate, commonly known as the Imperial History Observatory, has 13 departments to supervise the imperial history, with a total of 110 people. From among them, 21 more inspectors should be selected to patrol various places on behalf of the Son of Heaven in August every year: two from the North Zhili, three from the South Zhili, and one each from Xuanda, Liaodong, Gansu and the Thirteen Provinces. It is somewhat similar to today's Central Inspection Team, but with more power. Each inspector must be recommended by the Metropolitan Procuratorate for the Son of Heaven to choose two candidates - the selected one can be said to have ascended to the sky: the object of his report is no longer the headquarters of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but the Son of Heaven himself!

This year, Yang Mingzhen was unexpectedly ordered by Emperor Daozong to patrol Henan Province. There is a saying among the people that "the Eight Mansions Patrol", but in fact, they were fooled by film and television dramas, nonsense, and there is no such an official at all. Many of the provinces of the Ming Dynasty were divided into eight provinces, but there were not enough of them, and some of them were exceeded. The Bafu Patrol is catchy to read a few words, it sounds majestic, and the brain-dead film and television drama is adopted, and then, the misleading is doubled.

Yang Xun was full of ambition and rode a black donkey to Henan. The patrol has great power, high status, but low position, the same product as the county, and the standard of the mount can only be a donkey - can not exceed the standard, what level and what treatment is the same in ancient and modern times, this is called the state of Confucian culture and etiquette! Xiao Yang also carved a "Xiaoxuan" seal for himself and hung it on his waist.

Everyone knows that this young man's ambition is to motivate himself with the allusion of the "strong order". During the Guangwu period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Xuan was the order of Luoyang. Princess Huyang's family killed people, and Dong Xuan wanted to enforce the law impartially. That guy was also scared, Princess Huyang was protective again, and took this guy with her all the time, what do you think a county order can do? Unexpectedly, Dong Xuan openly stopped the princess on the street, dragged the bully slave out of the car and killed him on the street. The princess ran to Liu Xiu to cry, and Liu Xiu made a gesture to kill Dong Xuan to vent her anger to the princess. Dong Xuan generously stated: "Your Majesty wants to be the master of Zhongxing, and if you kill slaves and kill good, how can you care about the world?" Suicide, please! "When he finished speaking, he struck the pillar with his head, and his face flowed with blood. Liu Xiu hurriedly asked Xiao Huangmen to hold it, played a round and said, "You can't compensate the princess." Dong Xuan refused, the little yellow door was pressed, Dong Xuan refused to bow down with both hands, and the eloquent Guangwu Emperor laughed, so he gave the name of "Strong Order"!

BTW, foolishly thought that the revival of the Han Dynasty, the battle of Kunyang personally commanded 3,000 tigers and wolves to counterattack 100,000 male soldiers, beheaded General Wang Mang, chased the dead and chased 50 miles to the north, and the enemy corpses were congested so that the Yellow River water did not flow Emperor Guangwu can be called "eloquent strategy". And many people use these four words on Emperor Wu Liu Che - Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, the difference of one word, the former defeated Wenjing's family background, halved the household registration in the world, and invented the whistle-telling system (mobilizing hundreds of officials and people to tell each other, and the reward for the confiscated person's family property is half of the informant, and those who do not report it are guilty of the same crime), forcing his son to kill his wife, and worrying all day long for fear that others will use witchcraft to murder themselves...... Just such a product, also worthy of these four words? Phew!

When Yang Mingzhen arrived in Henan, he lived up to his holy hopes, starting from the river workers, eating and living on the embankment of the Yellow River, not only did he personally calculate the work of every square of soil and stone, and personally handled the distribution of every grain of grain, but he really caught a typical example that was almost exactly the same as Dong Xuan's play.

The river superintendent is in charge of the river, but someone has to supervise it, and Emperor Daozong sent Cao Xiwang, the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, to supervise the river workers. Not only did he supervise the project, but he also had to distribute the money, food, and materials needed for the work. Father-in-law Cao listened to the drama in Kaifeng Mansion and waited for the cashier, and asked his godson Cao Fu to supervise the work on his behalf. This Cao Fu was bold, not to mention corruption or anything, but later his heart became darker and more courageous, and he actually resold most of the grain eaten by the river workers. Lord Yang, who was patrolling the embankment on a donkey, found that the coolies were gnawing on the bark and was furious!

The consequences were serious: the adults on horseback and sedan chairs knelt on the spot, and Yang Mingzhen went directly to the embankment for public trial. Cao Fu himself is not a eunuch and cannot be regarded as a saint's house slave, so Xiao Yang does not have any psychological burden when he greets him. As soon as the punishment process came down, this Cao Fu asked what to do.

Xiao Yang couldn't bear to slash to death and waste living teaching materials, and sentenced the station cage to the principle of waste utilization, and exhibited it on the embankment - every official had to come to visit, and after reading it, he had to write his anti-corruption experience, and every coolie could come and take a sip and then thank the emperor for being the master of the people...... After more than ten days, Cao Fu died alive at the construction site! At the same time, he "asked" the magistrate of the county, and after returning to Beijing to restore his life, he even went to the prefect's mansion and the governor of the river, and sued Cao Gonggong: "More than 100 people who are corrupt and corrupted, more than 10 things are not urgent, and many of them are alive......

Shengshang Longyan Dayue: There is such a stunned young man doing difficult things for himself, Bu Tianen, he is so happy, he is very cool!

The inspection period of the imperial history is generally one year, and the place of inspection is relatively fixed. Daozong is lazy, but not stupid, it's easy to catch a trustworthy and cheap person, but can't you call hard? In July of the following year, he returned to Beijing to resume his life, praised him in person, rewarded some bits and pieces, and sent him directly to patrol the salt road. Xiao Yang once again fulfilled his mission: he insisted on pulling out nearly one million taels of silver for the imperial court! Then, Xing Chong rushed to patrol Liaodong......

Liaodong is a military powerhouse, and Yang Mingzhen is familiar with military affairs here, and he is also familiar with the various "flower heads" of large and small military leaders.

Of course, in the past few years, Yang Mingzhen has gained the blue eyes of Emperor Daozong, and at the same time, he has also offended almost all his colleagues who can be offended! In the end, he got the nickname of "stubborn sheep".

The Son of Heaven is happy, although Yang Mingzhen's career is smooth sailing, but his life has always been very poor. Compared with Hai Rui's kind of extreme poverty, it will certainly be better, but for decades, until he became a member of the third grade, even the daily food is much worse than that of the normal seven-grade Zhixian (of course, not Luo Yonghao). The children of the family did not get any benefits - the lady actually wanted to do some textiles to subsidize the family, and her big belly tripped over the spinning wheel, and she had a miscarriage, and the second son died.

Dao Zong knew very clearly in his heart that Yang Mingzhen was a tendon, even if he had to get along with himself if he had a strong temper, at most he would scold a few words, and he would not really care. is even very relieved in private to be able to have a few guys like Yang Mingzhen and Li Yuting to assist him. Of course, we can't use today's concept of equal (well, theoretically, relative) identity to understand the relationship between the characters of that era, in the eyes of the Son of Heaven, all courtiers are private "supplies" that serve themselves: you may like a chair very much, but you will not feel any gratitude for that chair just because you sit comfortably! The Son of Heaven knows that the golden mean of "the water is clear, there is no fish" is the royal way, and it is necessary to have loyal ministers, but also to have the kind of capable ministers who are "not very strict with themselves, always fighting fiercely, but are very capable" to do great things for themselves, and the two check and balance each other and are indispensable. Chongzhen of later generations is the most convincing negative teaching material: let the hypocrites of the Donglin Party cover the sky with one hand, and they all seem to be moral models.

When Emperor Daozong controlled the dragon and Emperor Zhuangzong succeeded to the throne, Yang Mingzhen's good luck came to an end. As early as when Zhu Qijun* was the crown prince in the East Palace, Yang Mingzhen participated in the "Bahu" of the young Zhan affairs of the Zhan Mansion, and many such small awkwardness has been around for a long time, plus it is hated by everyone, how can the new monarch let go of this good opportunity to ascend the throne - of course the new emperor has to use his own people, how to arrange the position if it is not vacant? Everyone understands this. So everyone scolded the stubborn sheep together: sharing "worries" for the saint, and keeping his official chair with a good impression for the new monarch, killing two birds with one stone. Fortunately, Zhuang Zong was not a faint gentleman, and he knew in his heart that this guy was stubborn, so he sent him to Nanzhili to be the head of the household. has been promoted to an official in name, but in fact, out of sight is pure, give him a fictitious position and let him live in peace.

Because of the experience of "Qing Army Patrol" in Liaodong, Yang Mingzhen, who was used to playing tricks by those military leaders, knew it all in his chest, and when he received the copy of the side newspaper from Yulin Mansion, he saw the flaws at a glance: What? "The horses in the camp are short of forage, and they encounter horse plague, and many of them die?"

Phew!

The horse belongs to the official family, will you feel distressed when you die? The government-run horse farm buys bad horses at the price of good horses and reports the flowers, and the generals of the border towns except for privately raising one or two fast horses for escape are desperate to report the death of the horses every year, everyone has more money, and the soldiers usually change the law to embezzle horse materials, toss the horses to death, and everyone eats meat and beats their teeth! Your foreshadowing now is to talk about the dead horse after defeat!

Don't talk nonsense, Lao Tzu wants to join them: this battle will not only be lost, but also will be lost ugly! Anyway, in addition to reading the Di newspaper, Lao Chen is drinking tea, and he is so idle that his eggs hurt, if you can trust it, Lao Chen originally intended to go to Shaanxi to stare at these dogs who have lost their conscience!

It turns out that it was Lao Yang himself who lost, and how ugly and ugly it was to lose. Of course, that's an afterthought.

*Daozong, Zhuangzong, and the radicals of Jinmu, Water, Fire, and Earth, including the emperor's name, are only for the storyline. Sometimes the plot needs to rub the affairs of several emperors together, which is not more serious. All the real emperors directly mentioned in the text, such as Wanli, Mr. Wu, etc., are all fictitious emperors such as Daozong, Zhuangzong, etc., and they are all the affairs of several emperors mixed with one person~ However, in addition to the names of people, most of the events have indeed happened.