"As soon as I send Xiaolang to the side of the box, there are two hangs of money under the box......"

In April, when Zhu Zhanyu was on the way from Dali to Longchuan, everyone heard singing when they walked to a roadside.

"Stop!"

Zhu Zhanyan's voice sounded from inside the carriage, and more than a dozen Xichang wrestlers who were responsible for escorting him immediately reined in their horses, and the carriage also stopped.

Zhu Zhan Yan stepped out of the carriage and stood beside the road, which was built on the mountainside, and the terraced fields were like steps up and down the mountainside.

In the terraced fields, some ethnic groups are working and singing in the paddy fields.

Zhu Zhanyan watched all this with great interest, and when the people in the terraces saw them, not only did they not restrain themselves, but they laughed and sang louder and louder.

Although he didn't understand the meaning, looking at their happy appearance, Zhu Zhanyan himself had a smile on his face.

Standing on the side of the road and watching for half an hour, Zhu Zhanyan left in a carriage.

"As you expected, His Royal Highness really doesn't hide, I originally thought that he had been fighting in Mobei for more than a year, at least he would learn some finishing methods, but I didn't think about ......it."

There were a lot of stationery inside, and Zhu Zhanyan planned to send people to the capital after arriving in Longchuan, otherwise the frequent delivery of a letter in a few days would inevitably be a waste of manpower and material resources.

After climbing over the mountains, they saw a wide river valley.

Zhu Zhanyan and the others moved forward, and during this time, they also saw a group of merchants who came here to trade.

"The local village officials said that the people can get a small amount of silver from sugar cane and mulberry leaves all year round, so when some roads are built, they can properly hire people in some areas to start the construction together, although it costs a lot of money, but it is also built quickly, and the actual cost is not much in the end, and the people can also get benefits."

Opening the car window, Zhu Zhanyan did not hesitate to praise the local folk customs and simplicity.

With such terrain and road conditions, it is undoubtedly difficult to build a railway.

Unlike the Central Plains, the land here is vast and sparsely populated, and no one will make a fence to fence their fields, as if there are no thieves here.

In the carriage, Zhu Zhanyan wrote down what he saw and heard on letterhead, most of which were about people's livelihood.

At the end of the year, there is enough food to eat, and you can sell sugar cane to earn money to buy supplies.

Zhu Zhanyan was not used to the tropical climate here, and only felt as if he had been soaked in water.

Therefore, after the land was changed and returned to the river in some areas, some young people would be relocated to build villages on both sides of the road and open up terraced fields in the local area.

Many children stood on the side of the road and watched Zhu Zhan's carriage and horses with envy in their eyes.

Caravans' carriages were usually open-topped, carrying a large number of supplies, while travelers' carriages were like huts for rest.

Due to the construction of the official road, Zhu Zhanyan could only get off the carriage and walk through this distance.

With a sigh, Zhu Zhanyan also picked up the letter paper and dried it and put it into a small box on the carriage.

In Zhu Zhan's view, such a day is very hard, but in the eyes of those young people who have been liberated, the current life is more than the past, and it is simply heaven.

Sugar extraction in Yunnan has benefited from the promotion of Jianghuai, who have grown sugarcane on sloping land and rice on slightly flat land.

Not to mention building in batches, not individually.

Zhu Zhanyan asked Xichang Lux to inquire, and it didn't take long to know Jianghuai's intentions.

Continuing to hurry, about two days later, Zhu Zhanqi and their Yongchang Mansion rested for three days, and finally crossed the Hengduan Mountains and entered the land of Longchuan, where the climate was sultry.

"This Southwest Railway is destined to not be built."

Yunnan does not have so many river valleys, and some of the river valleys have a sultry climate, which is not as cool as the mountains and forests.

When you open the window, you will see a mountain with a rugged path that surrounds the mountain like a giant snake strangulating its prey.

Along the way, Zhu Zhanyan basically saw scenes of various ethnic groups living and working in peace and contentment, and a few people could also encounter scenes where officials were not responsible and not serious, but for the people, as long as they didn't toss them, they themselves could take good care of themselves.

You can still see the mountains in the distance, but the terrain is a little smoother.

Although they were only five or six years old, they could already tell the difference between a caravan and a traveler.

Obviously, there are only less than three miles of official roads that need to be rested, but there are hundreds of people working here, which has to be surprising.

The high bridge of that height may not be built in the next twenty or thirty years, let alone today.

Xichang Lux and Zhu Zhanyan walked through this official road that needed to be repaired, and when they heard the other party's explanation, they also had a smile on their faces:

When he entered the range of Nandian, some officers and soldiers had already noticed their team and sent the news to the Longchuan Bofu in Nandian early.

Zhu Zhanyan said, they also passed the road that needed to be repaired, got into the car and headed towards Nandian City, which was dozens of miles away.

"It's like his style, not suffering from inequality, he used to say this to me back then, and now he is really a bowl of water."

"Jiangnan is densely populated, and this kind of scene is not seen in Jiangnan."

They brought salt, soy sauce, vinegar, cloth, and other supplies, and what they bought were bundles of sugar cane.

They will haul the sugarcane to the county seat to extract sugar, which is the world's most stable cash crop.

The carriage gradually moved forward, and from time to time you could see some villages built around the official road, most of which were mainly small people.

As they walked forward, they saw many people who were repairing the official roads.

Zhu Zhanyan looked carefully, if the railway was built along the river valley, it was okay, but at least a high bridge of seven or eight zhang or even a dozen zhang had to be built.

Zhu Zhanyan also asked about this carefully.

The paved roads are lined with mulberry trees, rice, sugar cane, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and various vegetables.

In the hall of the Longchuan Bo Mansion, Wang Xuan, who was in his forties, shook his head, and the years had left a lot of marks on his face.

Sitting at the top of him, Jiang Huai, who was the prefect of Longchuan, could only smile bitterly when he heard this:

"I know His Highness's character too well, and His Highness doesn't know how to use these methods, but I just don't think it's necessary to use them."

"It's just that he did it, but it hurt us."

"That's right." Wang Xuan stroked his short beard, and after groaning, he said:

"But having said that, we have to see Your Highness, whether it is for the present or the future, we should make our attitude clear."

"Well, I'll take the initiative to do this." Jiang Huai made up his mind, although he believed that officials should not form gangs, but with his strength and energy, he could not protect himself, nor could he resist the rules of officialdom.

Only if he adapts to the rules can he create the possibility of changing the rules in the future.

"It's not good to greet with great fanfare, you can bring Your Highness down to see me at that time, if I go out to greet you, I'm afraid that all the officials in Longchuan will know the identity of Your Highness."

"Good!"

After talking to Wang Xuan in detail, Jiang Huai got up and walked out of the Longchuan Bo Mansion and quietly waited for Zhu Zhanyan's arrival.

While he was waiting quietly, Zhu Zhanyan also took advantage of the night to rush to a post station twenty miles north of Nandian to rest.

He went up to the room on the second floor to rest, and when he opened the door, he saw a one-armed man standing in the room.

Seeing Zhu Zhanyan, the man hurriedly waved with one hand: "Wang Lian, the official of the West Factory in Yunnan, see Your Highness!" ”

"You are Wang Lian, I heard my father say you, please hurry up, don't call me Your Highness, just call me Guo Yan."

Zhu Zhanyan helped Wang Jian up, and after sitting down with him, he cordially inquired about the affairs of Longchuan and Yunnan.

In this regard, Wang Lian, who is responsible for the collection of intelligence in Yunnan and the three propaganda and ten consolations, also knows everything and says everything.

Generally speaking, Yunnan is still quite peaceful, in order to welcome Zhu Zhanyan, Wang Xuan withdrew to Longchuan after suppressing Meng Yang's rebellion, and vigorously cleaned up some bandits.

As for the southern Mubang, Mengken, Burma, Diwura, Babai Dadian, Laos, Dagula and other propaganda and consolation divisions, because Mu Chun and Wang Xuan were in charge, they were all quite obedient.

Perhaps it was precisely because of the stability of the frontier that the emperor dared to send him to Longchuan as a servant.

After listening, although Zhu Zhanyan felt a little regretful, he also felt a burst of warmth.

His father rarely said anything about him, but he never fell behind in his actual actions.

"Your Highness, are you going to serve as a village official, or as a county and government official?"

Wang Jian asked Zhu Zhanyan, hoping that he would choose to serve as a village official, after all, the village official's work location is relatively fixed and easy to protect.

In contrast, the scope of work of county officials and government officials is too large, and it is more difficult to protect.

"Tomorrow, I'll ask Jiang Huai, what he lacks, just arrange something for me."

Zhu Zhanyan responded disapprerovingly, and Wang Jian shook his head when he heard this.

"By the way, Wang Qianhu, you are Jianghuai's teacher?"

Zhu Zhanyan suddenly asked, obviously Jiang Huai told him about it, and Wang Jian did not hide it, and told him how he and Jiang Huai met.

"At the beginning, it was because I thought he was a manufacturable material, so I promoted him to Jiangning Middle School, and now it seems that there is no mistake in guaranteeing him."

"That's right."

Facing Wang Li's words, Zhu Zhanyan chuckled and nodded, and chatted with Wang Jian about some other things, and finally Zhu Zhanyan was a little sleepy before letting Wang Jian go to the next door to rest.

Maybe it's because he hasn't seen his old friend for many years, so Zhu Zhanyan is obviously very sleepy, but he tosses and turns in bed until late at night before gradually falling asleep.

Early the next morning, Zhu Zhanyan did not choose to take the carriage again, but rode towards Nandian County with two Xichang wrestlers who had changed their clothes.

Before noon, they came to the Longchuan Mansion to report, and Zhu Zhanyan also took his own order and followed the government officials to the prefect's study.

"Governor Jiang's Mansion, the Guo officials transferred by the imperial court have arrived."

"Come in!"

Although it is only a transfer of officials, for the Longchuan Mansion, which has only seven or eight hundred officials in the whole government, any official needs to be interviewed by Jianghuai and choose a position after testing the school's ability, so no one is surprised.

"You go in"

The clerk who led the way looked back at Zhu Zhanyan, and Zhu Zhanyan also pressed the excitement in his heart and walked into it.

Not long after, he saw Jiang Huai sitting on a chair, and he was wearing a prefect's regular clothes, and his face was still beautiful, worthy of being the Tanhua of that year.

"Grass people Guo Yan, I've seen ......"

Zhu Zhanyan still wanted to pretend, but Jiang Huai couldn't sit still when he saw this, so he hurriedly got up: "You still don't want to do this, I'm afraid that you will find me to wear small shoes in the future." ”

"Haha!" Hearing this, Zhu Zhanyan was sure that Jiang Huai had not changed, and Jiang Huai also showed a smile and signaled:

"Pull out a chair and sit down, and tell me why you want to come to me."

"That's naturally ......" Zhu Zhanyan sat down and said his thoughts, just because he felt that Jianghuai would not protect and protect him, so coming here was his best choice.

Besides, he has already gone to the north and learned about the situation in the north, while he can't go overseas in the south, so he can learn more about Yunnan by choosing Yunnan.

Hearing this, Jiang Huai said: "It's right, Longchuan often needs to communicate with Kunming Mansion, Manmo, and Zhenkang here, and the situation is different from place to place, and it is very complicated." ”

"If you come here, I will naturally not protect you, nor will I give you any extra treatment."

"Since you come to study, it's best to start learning from the government office, but the government needs to run more places, and you can't learn real things in three or five years, the county government is more suitable for you, so you can serve in the Nandian County government."

"If you can learn well, then you can study in the government government when the time comes, and forget about the village officials......"

"Not to mention anything else, just if your temperament is thrown into the village, as long as the officials who go to communicate are not blind, they all know that they should not mess with you, and it is difficult not to succeed if you want to do things."

Zhu Zhanyan wants to hone himself, so Jiang Huai naturally wants to find some people who are not afraid of him.

Among the county officials, there are many heirs of meritorious heroes, as long as these people don't know that Zhu Zhanyan is the identity of the prince, they will naturally not be afraid of him, after all, these people are also very popular.

But it's okay to use Zhu Zhan to kill their prestige, and you can also use them to sharpen and sharpen Zhu Zhan Yan.

Thinking like this, Jiang Huai opened his mouth and said: "How about the warehouse officials in the yahu house of Nandian County? ”

"Warehouse Officer?" Zhu Zhanyan was slightly puzzled, and Jiang Huai smiled bitterly when he heard this: "You haven't even studied these?" ”

Seeing this, Jianghuai could only introduce himself to Zhu Zhanyan.

In the early county government of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to a small number of "court officials" such as the magistrate, the second (adjutant), and the chief official, a large number of daily administrative affairs were completed by the officials in each room and section.

The official secretary is the joint name of the official and the secretary, in which the official is appointed by the imperial court, registered in the official department, and the status is lower than that of the official, which is roughly equivalent to the civil servant of later generations.

Calligraphy includes the scrivener, the arithmetic, the scrivener has the main text, the book and other titles, is hired from the people, to assist the clerks in handling clerical and accounting affairs, roughly equivalent to the later generations of business editors.

Miscellaneous servants were mostly engaged in errands, arresting thieves, collecting taxes and other coolies, which was roughly equivalent to the auxiliary police in later generations.

With the implementation of the Yongle New Deal, the original county government has also undergone rectification and restructuring, and there is no longer a book and miscellaneous service, and the establishment of the entire county is divided into a county magistrate, a county officer, a chief bookkeeper, six six-room historians, six six-room officials, a county teacher, a county inspector, a total of seventeen chief officials above the ninth grade.

Under the chief officer, there are county officials and village officials with a size of more than 200 people, as well as soldiers and horses with a scale ranging from 100 to 300.

The county officials mainly work in the various housing sections of the county government and deal with the affairs of the case and the transfer of documents.

Village officials are mainly officials who hold the positions of town mayor, lieutenant chief, and grain chief in villages and towns, and are mainly responsible for tax collection, recruitment, construction, and population statistics.

The soldiers and horses were mainly responsible for catching thieves in the city, patrolling the streets, and inspecting the official roads outside the city.

The imperial court defined five or fewer people as thieves and more than five people as bandits.

The thieves were dealt with by the Soldiers and Horses Division, and the bandits were handled by the army, with a clear division of labor.

On both sides of the county yamen hall, the yamen will have six rooms for officials, households, ceremonies, soldiers, criminals, and workers.

In addition, the county's government schools, inspection departments, tax bureaus, delivery offices, water horse posts, river berths, warehouses, sluice dams and other institutions have officials.

The position of officials in the execution of official affairs is very important, and the Ming Dynasty decided with the chief official and the officials carried out.

A large number of criminal names, money valleys, and transfer documents rely on officials to complete, which naturally gives officials room to cheat and gain power.

Since many specific administrative matters are actually carried out by the officials, when there is a problem, the officials are the first to ask.

The new policy stipulates that in the event of a collective crime committed while performing official duties, the officials should first be held accountable and investigated from the bottom up.

Of course, the officials are not so easy to be, they are assessed every three years, and if they fail to pass the assessment, they will be issued three months' salary and the county government will be eliminated.

Zhu Zhanyan was awarded the position of one of the six rooms, and the house had one warden and one secretary, and there were more than 30 officials under his command.

Among them, the warehouse clerk is the warehouse keeper, and each room needs to verify the documents and sign the materials before taking out the materials.

"It's good for you to come, in your situation, I don't worry about your lack of money, let people who are not short of money take care of the money and food, this is the best."

Jiang Huai poured a cup of tea for Zhu Zhanyan and pushed it to him with a smile, while asking for advice with his eyes.

"It's a bit offensive, but I'm not afraid."

Zhu Zhanyan knew that this errand offended people, but he came here to hone it, so he was not afraid of offending people.

"Okay, this is your waist card, do it!"

Jianghuai seemed to have expected Zhu Zhanyan to say this, so he even prepared the waist card.

Along with the waist tag, there is also a key with a wooden tag hanging from it.

"I bought you a small courtyard with two entrances and exits, but it is not expensive for five yuan, it is not too expensive, it is considered to repay part of the kindness of the year, you don't have to push it, the regular clothes and everything are prepared for you inside, you can just move in."

"In addition, the warden of the household is called Gao Guan, and the priest is called Fang Ji, I won't say what about the two, just feel it yourself."

Jiang Huai didn't give him a hint, and Zhu Zhanyan didn't need it: "Okay, then I'll go rest first, and I'll take office tomorrow." ”

"No, you take a break for ten days first, familiarize yourself with Nandian County, and then take office."

"If you haven't left in three months, I'll take you to see Uncle Long Chuan then."

Jiang Huai explained, Zhu Zhanyan also nodded clearly, and then turned around and walked out.

After he left, a figure walked out from behind the screen, and said with a complicated look: "I really didn't expect that you really know the prince." ”

This figure is a high view, and although he had known for a long time that the prince would come, he didn't expect the relationship between the prince and Jianghuai to be so good.

"You should also prepare well, next year the imperial examination will come back, anyway, now that you have him, you can be a lot easier."

Jiang Huai said optimistically to Gao Huai, but Gao Huai shook his head: "What you said is good, I am worried that my burden is not only not easy, but also aggravated." ”

"Haha, don't worry, after you get along, you know that he is a good person."

Maybe it's been too long since I've seen my old friend, and Jiang Huai can't help but be a little happy.

Seeing this, Gao Guan could only sigh: "I hope it is as you think......"

With a sigh, he said that the internal peace of Longchuan Mansion was not peaceful, and Zhu Zhanyi's letter was also sent to Beijing urgently before entering Longchuan.

In the next ten days, Zhu Zhanyan was familiar with the situation inside and outside Nandian County, and the Xichang also sent the letter to Beijing after 800 miles of expedited and waterway parallel.

When Zhu Gaoxu got the letter, it had been twenty days since Zhu Zhanyan arrived in Longchuan County, which means that Zhu Zhanyan had already served as a warehouse official in the household.

Sitting in the Wuying Palace, he looked at the dozens of pages of letter paper written by Zhu Zhanyan slowly, and looked at the palace scholars who were dealing with the music in the main hall from time to time.

After the processing of these five scholars, the recitals that could be sent to Zhu Gaoxu's desktop basically had a rough suggestion, and he only needed to approve or modify the red, and the workload dropped sharply.

"No wonder Lao Zhu got out of the palace, when he was short of energy, this kind of day was really comfortable."

After more than 20 years of high-pressure governance, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly relaxed, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't feel a little enjoyable.

Leaning back on the chair, Zhu Gaoxu read the pages of the letter, then put them in the wooden box, picked up the teacup and took a sip before saying to Yishiha beside him:

"This guy is going to suffer, and it's not so easy to be a warehouse official."

"Isn't that exactly what you want?" Yisha had a smile on his face, and Zhu Gaoxu did the same:

"Indeed, it's good to frustrate the sharpness, look at this book of Jianghuai."

Zhu Gaoxu sent the Jianghuai recital with the wooden box successively, but this recital was a secret recital, and it was obviously also played through Wang Lian, and it crossed the sixth.

If others and Xichang cooperate so much, Zhu Gaoxu will inevitably be angry, but Jiang Huai and Wang Jian will not.

First of all, this matter is about Zhu Zhan Gully, so it is also appropriate to take secret music to protect Zhu Zhan Gully.

The second is that Jianghuai is responsible for the construction of the Longchuan Railway, and he does have the qualifications to play secretly, while Wang Jian is Bohai's old brother, and Zhu Gaoxu trusts him very much.

"The slave is rude......"

Yishaha picked up Jianghuai's recital, which mainly told Zhu Zhanyan's personality problems, and also explained why he was sent to the household to serve as a warehouse official.

The warehouses in Longchuan Mansion are different from other places, and nearly one million dollars and grains have been accumulated in the warehouses of Longchuan Mansion because of the construction of the Longchuan Railway.

This money and grain is not something that ordinary warehouse officials can watch, after all, there are many chief officials and officials with strong family backgrounds in Longchuan Mansion.

Whether Zhu Zhanyan can watch this money is not only a tempering for him, but also a test for him.

If it passes, then Zhu Zhanyan can be promoted to the six-room household warden, and then he will have to do more than just take care of the warehouse, but also need to use money and food reasonably.

The rational use of money and food is the knowledge that every emperor should learn, but few emperors can have such qualifications to learn before becoming emperors.

Jianghuai is equivalent to creating a platform for Zhu Zhanyan, so that he can understand that it is not easy to mobilize money and food.

If it fails, at most, there will be economic problems in Longchuan Mansion, and it will be simple for the imperial court to remedy it, and Zhu Zhanyan can also remember it for a long time.

Although this cost is very high for Longchuan Mansion and even Yunnan, compared to the failure of Zhu Zhanqi to supervise the country, this cost is simply too cost-effective.

"This Jianghuai is a wonderful person, it's too wasteful to stay in Longchuan Mansion."

After reading the recital, Yizha only felt that Jianghuai was a bit wasteful in Longchuan Mansion and even Yunnan, and he should be transferred to Beijing to realize his value.

"Don't worry, wait for the completion of the Longchuan Railway."

Zhu Gaoxu sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, stroked his eight-character eyebrows, and squinted his eyes at Zhu Zhanyan's letter:

"Let me see what the hell this kid is going to do......"

(End of chapter)