Nanjing Household Department has a lot of things to do this year, very busy, no problem, add people!

Another time the yellow book is made, this time it will be created to lay a good foundation for the new law of the Jiajing Dynasty, no problem, add money!

“…… The yellow book is serious, and the Nanjing household department has said that Tejana, and the quasi-state palace is requested to increase the number of officials and allocate special silver. Xia Congshou was diligent and diligent, loyal and able to advise, and Yin Yizi entered the Nanjing Guozijian and was awarded the title of Doctor De......"

Xia Congshou knelt in front of Zhang Jin, listening to the content of the holy decree, and his heart sank.

In the face of such a big event, such a large sum of money, this is the efficiency of his recital in Beijing and the decision was made immediately?

No, just wait for the Nanjing household department to make a move.

Now Xia Congshou has made a move, but on the surface it is purely based on the needs of work, so he has been praised and rewarded by the emperor.

But the matter of the Yellow Book Library at the bottom is in charge of the newly added Nanjing Household Department Land Clearance Division? This division has not yet sent Langzhong, but the full-time director and manager of the Yellow Book Library...... All of them were officials sent by Beijing.

How people manage and how to spend money, he Xia Congshou naturally has the power to arrange. But can he mess around? Is the rhetoric up and down right?

Xia Congshou also got thanks: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for observing the situation and sending this special grace, the minister is ashamed ......"

The top-level grace of a virtuous doctor, and the grace of a Nanjing Guozijian: If you want to guard the authority of Nanjing's household department, you will always stay in Nanjing.

Zhang Jin smiled and waited for him to thank him for receiving the order, and after he got up, he said: "Xia Shangshu, there is a new director of the Yellow Book Library, and before Director Zhan arrives, our family will tell his slaves and maids to guard the door first." ”

“…… As it should be. ”

"Congratulations to Xia Shangshu."

“…… I'm tired of Father-in-law Zhang. Xia Congshou handed the holy decree to his son, and then took a calligraphy and painting from the housekeeper's hand, "It's not a respect, I hope that Father-in-law Zhang won't dislike it." ”

"How dare you."

Zhang Jin took the things over.

He used to be the master of ceremonies, and now he is guarding Nanjing, and there are few people who are qualified to thank him for passing on the decree.

The ushering and sending between these characters and him, Zhang Jin knows the proportions, not to mention what the emperor's will means, can Xia Congshou not understand?

Seeing that he handed over the calligraphy and painting to the little eunuch behind him to hold it first, Xia Congshou was a little relieved.

is willing to accept it, indicating that his temptation has not turned the road into a dead end.

At this time, he smiled bitterly: "The officials of the household department in Nanjing, this time they met Beijing Cha in addition to their heavy official duties, so that they complained a lot. I am really ashamed to take up my new post in Nanjing, lack of talent, lack of control, and worry about the imperial court. Only His Majesty, the chief assistant, and the princes of the imperial court have learned wisely, and they have solved my urgent need. When the whole household knows this good news, they will surely call it holy and work hard. ”

In front of the emperor and the emperor's relatives and ministers, Fei Hong is the chief assistant.

At other times, Fei Hong is the boss.

The difference between one word is the attention of officialdom.

Xia Congshou hurt himself in front of Zhang Jin, and he also had the intention of complaining, indicating that this time Nanjing's household was suffering due to a variety of reasons, and he just couldn't help it as the head of everyone.

Zhang Jin smiled all over his face: "Nanjing Zhubu, it's like this, and Xia Shangshu is also difficult to do." His Majesty and Mr. Fei are both considerate of this. Xia Shangshu, once the will is received, please submit the thank you form as soon as possible. ”

"Nature...... Nature......"

After sending Zhang Jin away, Xia Congshou stood at the door of the main hall of the house in a daze.

"Father, Your Majesty knows that Nanjing's affairs are difficult to handle. That grace, let Saburo ......"

His son's joyful voice and footsteps appeared behind him, Xia Congshou suddenly burst out, turned around and waved it over: "Stupid!" ”

After that crisp sound, his son looked at his father with his face covered in confusion, not understanding why he liked to make stupid comments.

Isn't Your Majesty praising your father?

Xia Congshou finished beating his son, his palms were trembling, and his steps weighed a thousand pounds.

Early in the morning, before he went to the household department, Zhang Jin came to announce the decree.

The will comes faster than the official documents of the imperial court.

At present, in the whole of Nanjing, who knows the decision of the imperial court, and knows that there are more than 100 people who will take up the post of Nanjing Household Department, who are the people?

What is certain is that only Tobe knows about it!

The reward was given, the thank you gift was received, what did you do Xia Congshou?

But what are Your Majesty, Fei Hong, Yang Ting, and what are you going to do! Do you really have to turn it out and dry it thoroughly?

The additional allocation is only 6,700,000 taels of silver, but the total number of fields in the world that have been greasy and have problematic records has been accumulated over the years, is the total number of hundreds of thousands of hectares, or has it reached a million hectares?

One acre of 100 acres, the number of taels of silver per acre of land ranges from 120 taels of silver, what is the total amount of benefits involved? One side is the official gentry, the other side is the common people, the imperial court is so confident that there will be no big problems to take over the Nanjing Yellow Book Library with such fanfare?

With only an extra six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver, he Xia Congshou will be able to properly handle the recreation of the Yellow Book this time, and help the imperial court safely survive the difficulties of comprehensively clearing the land and land, which will inevitably kill many people and give birth to many things in all dynasties, and suppress the turbulent waves with a total benefit of tens of thousands of taels of silver!

This is Xia Congshou's reliance, but this holy decree tells him: The pattern is small.

“…… Crazy, crazy......"

Xia Congshou muttered to himself, his son also felt that his father was crazy, how could he commit hysteria after slapping himself?

Xia Congshou was indeed guilty of hysteria, and he didn't know how to choose.

Impossible. The idea of the emperor and the imperial court was to bring the anger of so many officials and gentry and the people to Xia Congshou's head: it was the Nanjing household department that wanted more money and completely handled the major event of recreating the Yellow Book.

There are so many gentry who need to be forced to spit out the land that they have obtained by unclean means before, and so many officials who have participated in tampering with the yellow books at the county, government, provincial, and ministerial levels before, they may not have the courage to rebel, and they must have the courage to pull a few high-ranking officials to vent their anger.

Fight for the right of the household department in Nanjing? Not that anymore.

The greatest power of the household department in Nanjing is the collection and transshipment of grain in the four provinces, as well as the Nanjing Yellow Book Warehouse and salt introduction. How much power there used to be, how much responsibility there is now!

Xia Congshou's face became more and more pale: When I went to the household department today, how did I tell the officials below and ask them to do something?

Zhang Jin has already said that during this time, the Yellow Book Library has closed first, and no one should go in and move anything.

Can't we just keep the status quo? Those fields that are now attributed to the gentry and wealthy households, their psychological expectations have been lowered, and they are ready to pay the land tax every year in the future, is this not enough?

Xia Congshou didn't have much time, because the official decrees and documents from the State Hall and the Ministry of Household Affairs in Beijing must also be on the way.

No matter how high the priority of the Holy Decree is, it will not be much faster than the official documents delivered by the Post Office today.

He had only one day, two days at most, and he had to make a decision.

…… No, the current Beijing, and now the northern provinces, are already looking at the Nanjing Household Department from a distance to see what the Nanjing Household Department is doing.

Xia Congshou, who has been praised, is back from the middle or is he making contributions to the emperor?

“…… Prepare a sedan chair and go to the governor's yamen! ”

……

On that day, Yang Ting and Xia Congshou in front of him were unfazed and Zhizhu was in his hands.

Today, after the sedan chair of the Hubu Shangshu stopped at the gate of the Governor Yingtianbu's courtyard, Xia Congshou entered the courtyard gate with a heavy heart.

After seeing him in Yang Tinghe's official hall and the official hall where he entertained guests, Xia Congshou was very simple, very sad and angry, and bowed down.

"The lower officials are open-minded! Nearly 200 new officials went to Nanjing, and the lower officials were appointed to the household department of Nanjing, but they didn't know what the strategy of His Majesty and the imperial court was, and what was the best way to solve the battle between the provinces and the land. In vain, I don't know anything, the pavilion teaches me, what to do? ”

The others knelt, but the words were very sad and angry, not like the posture in front of Zhang Jin.

It's as if Yang Tinghe is his own person and can say something from his heart.

Dignified second grade, I don't understand what the court relies on to pick such a thing, is he Xia Congshou wrong?

“…… Why should such a mountain be? Get up first. ”

Yang Tinghe recalled his sentence "The lower officials are a public heart", and personally went over to help him up and invited him to take a seat.

That's right, the possible conflict of interests involved in the Yellow Book Library is his reliance, so the public heart of asking for "good" old books and an additional hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is also his reliance.

Can anyone deny that making the Yellow Book as clear as it was during the Hongwu Yongle period was creating a crisis?

But Xia Congshou's last sentence was what he really shouted to Yang Tinghe, to the court, and to the emperor: As a second-class high-ranking official, why are some people in the position of counselor, and some people are pinched and played far away from the center?

Who is worse than whom?

In the process of reforming the government office, the distribution of central power that began in the 16th year of Zhengde will always have winners and losers.

He Xia Congshou is different from Meng Chun, he doesn't want to rebel, he just wants to show his ability, emphasize the value of the existence of Nanjing's household department, and want to fight for the power he should hold as a member of the second grade.

So the two sat down, and Yang Tinghe opened his mouth first: "You can see that if you want to resign as the chief assistant?" ”

Xia Congshou's mood jumped out of the grief and anger of the previous half-act, and he was slightly stunned: Yes, if you talk about power, isn't the power of the chief ruler fragrant? For Yang Tinghe, it was already at his fingertips.

“…… Ask for advice. ”

Xia Congshou can't say: You are afraid that the party leader will suffer disaster after a long time, and you will protect yourself.

But he still knew very well that at that time, to be able to refuse such a temptation, how strong the mind was, and there must be other considerations.

Yang Tinghe asked him: "Rushan thinks that with the prime minister and minister of state, the governors of all provinces, twenty-four counselors, and seven people in the state hall, are these important ministers more powerful or heavier burdens?" ”

Xia Congshou didn't answer, and sat there motionless.

"Did you receive a will? Rushan now knows that the burden is heavier, right? Yang Tinghe smiled, "Rushan said that he didn't know anything about the second grade, wouldn't he be guilty of ignorance?" ”

Xia Congshou had to answer this, anyway, Yang Tinghe pointed out his grievances: "The government and the opposition don't think that the lower officials don't know anything!" The lower officials bear the brunt, do they want to obstruct the officials of the Beijing faction to thoroughly investigate the yellow book and clarify the land in the world? Or is it despite the steady implementation of the new law, which makes the provincial officials and gentry panic? The lower officials don't understand, the general ruler wants to reform the land for a hundred years and accumulate disadvantages for a hundred years, and finish his work in one battle? The Huguang Rebellion is not far away! ”

He was referring to Fei Hong, but in fact he was referring directly to the emperor.

Xia Congshou always believed that it would be better for the Ming Dynasty to retain the settings of the Nanjing Provinces and leave a buffer in a place far away from the emperor and the center, and in a more convenient place.

In the world, things cannot be black and white, there must always be a buffer zone.

Not only let them pay the land tax, but also beat up the rich officials and gentry and divide the fields of their ancestors?

Even if it's just the fields they don't get clean of, it's their land at this moment.

No one is in a hurry?

How can an emperor always stimulate his subjects to rebel!

"Who said that the Yellow Book should be thoroughly investigated? Who said it was all about a battle? Yang Tinghe asked strangely.

Xia Congshou was stunned, and then became even more sad and angry: "Therefore, the lower officials are in vain and don't know anything!" ”

Yang Tinghe restrained his smile, and the majesty of Shoufu for many years exuded, and he said coldly: "Why don't you go to the mountain to be Zaifu, so that you are satisfied?" ”

Xia Congshou suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

"Why do you bother to do this show when you came here today? Have you seen the Governor, and in the future, you can take the Governor with you? ”

Yang Tinghe continued to output: "What? If you do the second product, you can do everything without obeying the order and following the order? ”

“…… This is not what Xia Guan meant. ”

"In the sixteenth year of Zhengde, you were still the political envoy of Fujian, and now you are the secretary of the household department in Nanjing. Is it because the governor treated you poorly when he was the first assistant, or is it because His Majesty doesn't know your talent and is biased in appointing others? ”

“…… The lower officials did not dare. ”

But look at Zhang Fujing!

"Dignified and second-class, bow down at the entrance, who do you want these gossip to reach to their ears?"

Xia Congshou was sweating profusely: "Xia Guan really has no such intention." ”

Yang Tinghe softened his tone a little slowly: "What you can think of, could it be that the princes of the court are all stupid, and Your Majesty is also a dumb king, and you don't know the stakes involved?" Do you think His Majesty is forcing you to do anything by praising you? It's you who are smart, you haven't talked about Nanjing Guoben yet, and you have given His Majesty and the court the petition they want! ”

"Xiaguan ......" Xia Congshou feels that he is not so smart now, could it be that the reaction of Nanjing Hubu and himself is also in the calculation?

"The imperial court decided to implement the new law to the provinces this year, only to clear the land and reform the government office, and the final result of clearing the land was naturally remitted to the household department in Nanjing. If you don't pick this burden in Nanjing, then Beijing will pick it. Now if you want to pick, then pick well. If you can pick well, you are the real talent! ”

Yang Tinghe looked at Xia Congshou, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Rushan is willing to carry the burden, so the Sacred Heart is very relieved and praised." ”

“…… Isn't it to thoroughly investigate the Yellow Book? Xia Congshou's voice was much quieter, and he looked at Yang Tinghe with blank eyes.

Then I have to be able to know if this burden can be carried or not!

Carrying the burden also talks about posture, how many sets of preparatory plans have you made for the reaction of the Nanjing household department to the matter of clearing the land?

"Check, naturally, it is necessary to check. I checked what the yellow book does, but it is exquisite. In the past two years, the Nanjing household department has really been afraid of investigation, and Rushan has forgotten how he came to Nanjing? ”

Xia Congshou was shocked.

Why did the Nanjing household department suddenly boil when it encountered Jingcha this year?

In the third year of Jiajing, Yin Mengchun of Yingtianfu and the Nanjing Household Department planned together, and sent official documents to the four provinces and governments of the Nanjing Household Department to collect grain on behalf of the Nanjing Household Department, and then they were taken away by Jinyi Weiti riding south, accused of rebellion.

How many of the remaining low-grade officials and officials in Nanjing's household department have been frightened?

Could it be that the yellow book is only used to continue to purge these low-grade officials and "world officials" in Nanjing?

Yang Tinghe looked at him with deep meaning in his eyes: "You are a second-class jinshi in the sixth year of Hongzhi, Xixian was the great uncle at the time, and his son Liu Dong is your subordinate official." I'm not your teacher, but now I can call you a word. ”

“…… The lower officials are taught, please make it clear to the cabinet. ”

"You are not from a Qingliu background, you should have figured it out a long time ago." Yang Tinghe sighed, "If the new law wants to be implemented well, the biggest difficulty is not the officials, but the officials. With the reform of the government office and the establishment of eight or nine high-grade officials in various provinces, giving titles, births, and salaries, is it possible that Your Majesty and the imperial court want to support the officials who have drunk the flesh and blood of the township, and coax them to help implement the new law? Widen the township to try Enke, add a sub-list, and wait until when all the people below the seventh grade are well aware of the righteousness, and many decrees will not be so that even some second-grade members can't fully know about it! How much better is your Nanjing household than a sieve? ”

Xia Congshou finally received the empowerment and bowed sincerely: "Xia Guan knows how to write the thank you table, and he also knows the proportions of this time." ”

To deal with the officials who handled the most of these official documents from the matter of the Yellow Book does not mean to thoroughly find out which fields have changed hands in question, and to forcibly take them back from the hands of the current landlords.

Even if they don't take the initiative to find trouble with some officials and wealthy households, they will be divided into two categories in order to avoid disasters and for the sake of the new rules of village sages.

In this long period of time when only officials were served, there were always those who were interested in finding ways to take the initiative to get out of trouble, or donate them to official land, or donate them to school fields, or sell them at a low price.

The clever ones have become village sages, the old problems have been solved, the new status has been established, and in the end, those who stubbornly defend the fields they have obtained by means are the next targets to be implicated.

The court played a good blunt knife.

Since the purpose is to be a judge, how can it be publicized in advance? Which official document of the yamen did not pass through the hands of the clerk first?

In the yamen of Nanjing's household department, low-grade officials with official status are still uneasy, but the officials and errand servants who work in Nanjing's household department are still only servants, and they do not have the opportunity to get official status like other provinces.

"Go to the Qinhuai River again tonight to be happy?" The servant on the other side of the concierge frowned, "Recently, the girls' business has been all taken care of by us." Listen to the top card of the Snow Pavilion, and now he is willing to see people like us. ”

His good friend exclaimed, "Jingcha is so good." ”

As soon as Jingcha came, the officials of the five, six, seven, and eight grades did not dare to play around, and the officials of the science and Taoism consulted everywhere.

Because the officials of the Kedao Yan consulted everywhere, these officials who may have been consulted in their yamen have seen more smiling faces of Shangguan during this period of time than before, and there are even some "rewards" (seals) of silver.

I just look forward to Jingcha every year!

"You said that Si Nong's invitation, will the court allow it?"

"If you allow it, it will be a day that you will not be allowed, and if you don't allow it, it will not be a day that you will not allow." Taking a sip of tea, he said lazily, "But if you allow it, the cost of transcribing this yellow book will also have to rise." Don't say seventy percent, three percent five will rise, right? ”

"Thirty into five?"

Good friends are looking forward to it.

The workload of transcribing the yellow book is of course to be done by another person. If you want to work in Nanjing, of course, it costs money to ask someone to intercede. If you want to do anything on the Yellow Book, when is it not that the mouth of the top and bottom must be sealed?

Lord Shangshu asked for an extra seventy percent, and they only asked for an additional thirty percent or five, what a conscience!

"Lord Shangshu has arrived."

The errand officer standing at the gate outside shouted, and the two hurriedly changed their expressions and walked out of the gatehouse, ready to welcome Xia Congshou.

Xia Congshou didn't squint when he passed by them, but just nodded with a straight face.

It's wonderful. If you have an official status, then you have another set of rules of conduct. It's committed, it's easy to check. He is only a servant, not responsible.

Give the official body first, and then do it, let them know that it will be different in the future, that is to establish a new rule.

Xia Congshou thought that the imperial court would be embarrassed for a long time for the other hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but now he suddenly wanted to understand why the imperial court was so rich.

In the local county, how many generations of officials are from families, but they are actually richer than the county family?

went straight to his official hall, only to see Liu Dong also sitting there, and after seeing Xia Congshou, he stood up and saluted: "Dasi Nong." ”

Then, it was Tong Rui.

"What?" Xia Congshou sat down and looked at them.

"I heard that Gonggong Zhang went to Sinong's Mansion early in the morning to announce the decree?" Tong Rui asked solemnly.

"Then I went to the Governor's Courtyard."

Xia Congshou was not surprised, he knew that when the eunuch of Nanjing Town took people to his mansion, if there was a holy decree, it would be served in a yellow thick plate.

"Your Majesty has made a will?" Tong Rui's question is naturally the content of the will.

Xia Congshou slapped his son into a big fight, and several people who were qualified to hear the holy decree were strictly ordered by him not to talk nonsense first, and Tong Rui could not know the content of the emperor's will.

But Xia Congshou just Mu Ran said: "The other seventy percent of silver, it's accurate." ”

"So fast?" Tong Rui was surprised, "The State Hall and the National Policy Council were decided so quickly?" ”

Beijing household department from the second product of Shangshu, is the third product of the Lang, is the fourth product of the general department...... Just looking at the content of the reform of the government department, it is necessary to enrich the structure of the government department and directly connect with the provincial governments.

How many other reasons do Nanjing households have? How much authority will be cut?

In this case, how could Fei Hong and Beijing Hubu Shangshu agree to Nanjing's request so happily?

Xia Congshou continued: "Houhu is closed, and my Nanjing household department will also add a land clearance department, and the person in charge is Zhan Rong, a first-class jinshi of the new department. In addition, there are one hundred and seventy-six new section chiefs and deputy leaders who are heading south, all of whom are subordinate officials of the Land Clearance Division. After most of them reported to our household department in Nanjing, they had to go to various prefectures and prefectures, and the envoy was the Yellow Book Inspector. ”

Tong Rui opened his mouth, and then said indignantly: "In this case, why not directly set up a new Yellow Book Library in Beijing!" ”

Liu Dong was shocked and said: "With such a sharp edge, is the court not afraid of the world's discussions, and the government and the opposition are shocked?" ”

"What are you talking about? Shocking what? Xia Congshou glanced at him, "Could it be that the Yellow Book is indeed inaccurate now, and there are many mistakes?" ”

Liu Dong also became like Tong Rui, opening his mouth, but unable to speak.

There is a problem with the Yellow Book, and the problem is huge, but it is a well-known secret.

Who wants to take the initiative to say it, and let His Majesty take advantage of the situation to make a thorough investigation?

"Just because the officials of Nanjing want to be inspected in Beijing, it is difficult to determine the hearts of the people, so they will increase the number of people. They are new officials, and they don't need to be inspected, so they can concentrate on preparing for the reinvention of the Yellow Book. Xia Congshou said, "Besides, the will does not say that there are any errors in the yellow book. Those who remained in Nanjing were only seven new science and technology scholars, who were in the middle of the preparations. ”

“…… Is it good for those who come? Tong Rui said.

"You are a new official, and I am also a new official. Even if there is any problem with the yellow book in the library now, is it to blame you and me? After Xia Congshou finished speaking, his face was not relaxed, "I still have to prepare a thank you form, everything will wait for the official document to arrive, and the person will talk about it." ”

Two taels of silver per volume, which is lower than the cost of the budget in Beijing, Xia Congshou and Tong Rui didn't think about making any money from this matter before. They only thought that since they had been released to Nanjing, they were afraid that there would be no chance of promotion, and the authority of the Nanjing household department could not be cut - that was the hope of their future status and influence.

But given money, and given to so many people who specialize in this matter, isn't this a seizure of power? Although this right is ostensibly still owned by the Nanjing household.

Tong Rui knew that now was not the time to discuss, so Xia Congshou finally told him the news first.

Liu Dong was named by Yang Tinghe at the "coordination meeting" before, and now he is more actively linked.

Didn't anyone stand up and say a word for Nanjing? Nanjing should be the capital!

If the Datong Xuanfu is in danger, the Tartar army will immediately come to the city, and the society will be upside down!

Not only did he have to wait for the northern expedition, why did he cut off the back road of Nanjing first?

He also returned to his own hall and worked paper.

Now, only an important minister like his father can be deafening and reining in the precipice!

The surname Xie doesn't even want to talk about it, but the Liu family has always had the courage to make decisions!

(End of chapter)