It turns out that although Zunhua County is not far from Beijing, because it is close to the Great Wall, it must be prepared in summer and autumn every year.

Bibian is to prevent the Tartars and northern captives outside the Great Wall from crossing the Great Wall.

Many people may have to ask, didn't Wang Yi say it just now? The northern captives entered the Kou, all of which were detoured from the weak defenses of the Great Wall on both sides of Zunhua, and Zunhua was basically no danger.

If there is such a doubt, it is because of the lack of basic understanding of the Great Wall.

The Great Wall is not as tall as the city, so why has it been used by various dynasties to defend against the invasion of the northern grasslands and fishing and hunting peoples in the era of cold weapons for thousands of years?

That's because the Great Wall is not actually a defense against people, the Great Wall is used to defend against horses.

What are the grasslands, fishing and hunting peoples best at?

It was cavalry combat, and the Great Wall made it impossible for horses to easily enter the Great Wall, and those northern captives lost the ability to maneuver and fight, and their power was naturally greatly reduced.

Therefore, although there was no large-scale invasion of the Great Wall in Zunhua, many border people secretly crossed the Great Wall to fight the grass valley in the pass.

Especially in the autumn when winter is about to fall, in this season, the Jurchen tribes outside the Great Wall of Zunhua are still the obedient people of the imperial court during the day, and they have touched all kinds of looting at night, so that Zhu Yuan, who has not been in office for two years, is about to have a nervous breakdown.

If that's all, things are still easy to do, in the autumn harvest season, each village and fort organizes manpower, and posts along the Great Wall, and when you see the wolf smoke, the nearby Jizhen garrison will send people to clean up, and it will not kill people if you spend some silver.

So here comes the problem, the second problem is Ji Town.

There are more than 100,000 people in Jizhen, including the servants, there are about 200,000 or 300,000.

In addition to being stationed in the eastern part of Zunhua, these people are also scattered all over the place.

In these years, soldiers may not be stronger than bandits, and in summer and autumn, Zhu Yuan, the county magistrate of Zunhua County, will walk around and visit all the military leaders near Zunhua.

said that it was a labor army, but in fact it was spending money to buy peace.

Zhu Yuan didn't understand the market in his first year in office, so he didn't go to the dock, and as a result, more than a dozen Zhuangzi and Wubao under Zunhua were slaughtered by strongmen of unknown origin.

The gold, silver, grain and grass were looted, the cattle, sheep and livestock were gone, and the most hateful thing was that after the gang had robbed them, they also filled in the wells and killed them all.

At that time, Zhu Yuan stupidly thought that it was the northern captives who came, and hurriedly reported it to the general soldiers of Jizhen.

Who knew that he couldn't enter the door after asking to see him several times, and in the end, someone who couldn't stand it mentioned it, and he knew that the person who did this kind of unconscionable thing was none other than the military leaders of all over the country under Jizhen.

When he heard this, Zhou Bi's face had changed, he had been in the army for so long, and he had seen a lot of dark things.

But his own army killed and plundered the people, which was something he had never heard of.

"Why don't you write a bullet impeachment?" Zhou Bi questioned Zhu Yuan with a dark face.

Zhu Yuan smiled bitterly: "I wrote it, why haven't I written it?" But after handing it a few times, the messengers of the Yamen were all killed on the side of the road! After a few times, I don't dare to send it again! ”

"There was even a time when I woke up in the back office, and the head of the post was on the coffee table in the bedroom......" Speaking of this, Zhu Yuan's face turned white.

Xu He frowned and said, "What happened to this matter later?" ”

"Later, I got acquainted with the old officials of the county government, and the other party told me some directions, Jizhen has two guerrilla teams near Zunhua, one is stationed in Santun Camp in the east, and the other is stationed in Malanyuguan in the west! Since the year before last, I have sent 1,000 taels of silver to the guerrillas in Malanyuguan every year, and since then, there has never been a dead person like the one in Zunhua! ”

Li Yi was curious: "Why only send Ma Lanyu and not Santun Camp?" Didn't the people of Santun Camp come to make trouble? ”

Zhu Yuan took a sip of wine and said with a wry smile: "We gave the silver to Ma Lanyu's guerrillas, and he told the people I sent at that time that from now on, the matter of Zunhua is his business, so I don't have to go elsewhere to make the silver!" ”

Zhou Bi sneered: "There is a way to steal! ”

Zhu Yuan shook his head and sighed: "These silver are all made up by the people, and they have made up the silver, and I can only calculate it according to the fire consumption from the tax silver." Now the whole Zunhua, the people are safe, but the yamen will suffer, and I don't think the county magistrate will be in office for long. ”

Zhu Yuan's meaning here should be explained, the state tax used to be a tax in kind, and later it was changed to a silver tael.

Because of the change from physical to silver, there is a consumption of price fluctuations, and the silver is minted into silver nuggets to be sent to the household, and there is still a loss when the silver is minted, and the court is defaulted to the loss.

This is called folding.

For so many years in the dynasty, the fire consumption of silver has increased year by year, in fact, these fire consumption has eventually become the silver in the pockets of the yamen at all levels.

To put it bluntly, this piece is recognized by the state, and the gray income of local governments at all levels.

How much fire can consume silver in a small Zunhua, even if Zhu Yuan gives all this silver to Ma Lanyu's guerrilla, it is not enough.

It is estimated that he has also filled in a lot of county orders over the years.

Zhu Yuan, the official, was tired in front of him, and the fire was consumed by others, and the officials and officials in the yamen were not happy.

He also put money in himself.

It's not a human being inside or out!

However, Xu He was a little impressed by this fellow.

In this case, in fact, there is a lot of room for maneuver, report a disaster, report a bandit, and let the big households make up for it.

But he would rather use the money consumed by the fire, and would rather make up the silver himself than add it, this kind of official Wei Dynasty is rare.

Zhu Yuan may have said that he was sad, he drank in a hurry, and his drunken eyes were hazy, and he scolded the officials of Jizhen up and down, and finally he lay on the table and cried: "I want to go home, I don't want to be an official, if this official is a few years old, the foundation of my family will be hollowed out by me, a loser!" ”

Everyone was silent, and the new jinshi took office.

There are generally three scenarios.

One is an honest person like Zhu Yuan, who has been working for a few years, and no one wants to see him, and in the end, the official was not promoted, and he was made poor, and the result was either resigned, or lived in chaos, or he was in the same stream!

The second type is those who have no brains and no discipline, and they work with officials, hide from their superiors and subordinates, and their reputation is stinky, and they are finally transferred, and they leave and change places to make money.

The third kind is brainy and disciplined, this kind of person is more tired, both have means and backstage, and break the rules with bangbang, so that all the people around him are afraid, and the people live and work in peace and contentment for a few years, and the officials complain bitterly, just thinking about sending him away as soon as possible.

It's a pity that Zhu Yuan belongs to the first type!

In these years, Zhu Yuan is estimated to be rare animals, even Chen Hua of Hailing County and his teacher Li Zhijie will not pay their own money to be officials!

Since it's a scarce creature, it's time to protect it!

Xu He just wanted to speak, but Zhu Yuan was drunk and confused: "Also, there is a third point!" I'm miserable! ”

After saying that, "Boom" started crying!