Chapter 694: No War in the Southwest
Zhu Hongsan has always been concerned that the emperor is not worth hungry, and doing things for me will bring you benefits. In addition to giving He Tengjiao a position of governor, he also granted him a title. A hereditary marquis is already the peak of civil servants. He Tengjian, who is just running errands, also has an official position as a county magistrate.
He Tengjian, who had been taking the exam for half his life, was very happy to be a scholar.
"Caomin thanked Your Majesty for knowing her favor. Caomin went home today and made an arrangement to set off. He will definitely convince his brother to change his mind and submit to His Majesty!"
Zhu Hongsan likes such a good person: "Okay, go, don't worry about staying in Liping, I'll take care of you!"
The threat in Zhu Hong's three episodes is very obvious. As long as you can't do this, your family will be buried with you.
He Tengjian was so scared that he was scared when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this. His family was more than 20 people in Liping, and he was over 50 years old this year. He would not have the ability to have children anymore. If he couldn't do this, he would be completely out of the family.
He Tengjian quickly swears in front of Zhu Hongsan that he will do the emperor's affairs, and then he makes a big tent and goes to Changsha to convince his stubborn brother.
Zhu Hongsan stayed in Liping Prefecture for half a month. In addition to adapting to the climate of Guizhou, he also integrated the local garrison troops. Zhu Hongsan selected more than 10,000 young and strong people from these people and trained them into paramilitary troops to form Guizhou's security forces.
Most of these guys were descendants of the Ming army who followed Fu Youde to fight in Guizhou. After making meritorious service, they stayed in Guizhou. After more than 200 years, they have completely become natives of Guizhou. These military households who are familiar with the local environment and are still Han people, are the best candidates for the security team and return home team like Zhu Hongsan.
At the same time, Zhu Hongsan had to wait for the officials sent from Nanjing in Liping. Guizhou has always been a poor place and there were very few Han officials, so Zhu Hongsan transferred 120 people from the 326 palace examinations and Jinshi in this year to enrich the local officials in Guizhou.
On May 20, these new Jinshi came to Liping Prefecture. The leader was Zhu Hongsan's old rival, Hou Fangyu and Hou Chaozong, known as the four princes of Jiangnan.
Hou Fangyu achieved good results of 46th place in the palace examination, so naturally he was the leader of the 3rd place Jinshi of 120 people. He brought 120 people to pay homage to Zhu Hongsan.
"I'm here to pay homage to Your Majesty!"
Zhu Hongsan looked at the 120 people with different heights, fatness and thinness, and opened his mouth and said, "I have changed my policy of being a new Jinshi for two years to follow the government this year?"
"I don't know!"
"I have no choice but to do so. Guizhou and Yunnan are right in front of me now, but these places have been away from the central government for hundreds of years, and local forces are mixed up! Many local officials have vacancies, so I have transferred you new Jinshi to enrich the local officialdoms in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces! You are the first batch of Jinshi since I became emperor, and are also my disciples of the emperor! I hope you will go to the local area to encourage childbirth and resume production. I hope that in a few years, Yunnan and Guizhou will no longer allocate food from the mainland, but will be self-sufficient! Do you know?"
These 120 people were all ordinary people just half a year ago, but now they have become officials. In addition, they were fooled by Zhu Hongsan, and they were all excited and shouted that they would live up to His Majesty’s hope and that they would definitely manage the place well.
Zhu Hongsan looked at the new officialdom and continued, "I am different from the emperors before the Ming Dynasty. I have never missed hungry soldiers. Your seventh-rank salary is 120 silver dollars. I am adding a subsidy for you in a difficult area, each person is adding 100 silver dollars every year!"
Zhu Hongsan changed the salary system of the Ming Dynasty when he was in Guangdong. In the past, a county magistrate's annual salary was only seven stones of white rice, which was less than ten taels of silver. This was the operating expenses of the entire county government office in a year. As long as he had a little political mind, he knew that this amount of money could not maintain the operation of hundreds of people in a county government office, so he could not live without corruption.
Zhu Hongsan greatly increased the salary of the magistrate to 120 taels a year. Later, after the silver dollar was passed, it turned into silver dollars, and it was stipulated that this was only the salary of the magistrate, and other officials, each house clerk, and the yamen runners were supported by the state. In the Ming Dynasty, silver was very valuable, and one tael of silver was equivalent to one thousand yuan in later generations in terms of purchasing power, and 120 silver dollars a year was 120,000 yuan, which was not the difference between silver dollars and silver dollars. Therefore, working under Zhu Hongsan, even if he was not corrupt, he could live a very generous life.
Zhu Hongsan also knew that it was impossible for these guys to not let them embezzle. While paying the officials, he also strengthened the supervision of the Jinyiwei. I have already given you ten times the salary. If you are embezzling, don’t blame me for being cruel.
These new Jinshi knew that the court treated officials very well. Now that they heard that the emperor gave them salary again, they all promised to contribute their life to the Ming Dynasty, contribute to Zhu Hongsan's career, etc.
"Okay! It depends on your efforts! Don't worry, as long as you work with peace of mind, I will not treat you badly! You probably know the system of this dynasty. I have changed the regulations that the Prime Minister of the Cabinet must be from the Hanlin Academy. The Prime Minister of the Cabinet must serve as a magistrate, prefect, governor and other local officials, and must have local administrative experience. So as long as you work hard, the Prime Minister will have hope of becoming the Prime Minister in the future!"
Zhu Hongsan's words were purely to paint a big cake for them, and the court's regulations were true, but the Chinese officialdom has always been a member of the senior citizenship since ancient times. Under the same conditions, you can't compete with the first class of the first class. However, Zhu Hongsan's words still give these people hope. In the past, these three-class Jinshi had no hope of becoming high-ranking officials, and at most they would just become a prefect to retire. Although the hope is also slim now, there is hope after all, right?
Hou Fangyu was also excited when he heard it. He was born in the 46th grade. According to the official rules, his future career will be much better than those of the 3rd grade guys, but he was also 50 steps and laughed a hundred steps. At most, he could do it to the level of governors. There was no difference in essence. Now that he heard that he had hope to enter the cabinet, he naturally felt hot and felt that Zhu Hongsan in front of him was not so annoying.
In fact, according to Hou Fangyu's intention, he would never come to serve Zhu Hongsan, but Hou Fangyu's father Hou Xun is a powerful old guy. This old guy has served as a governor and a minister. He has a rich experience in the officialdom and has a very thorough understanding of the general trend of the world. If Zhu Hongsan was not noticed when he was a small warlord in Guangdong, but Zhu Hongsan occupied Nanjing. After the world was shocked, Hou Xun knew that 80% of this remote royal family, the rogue emperor Zhu Hongsan was the second Liu Xiu. So after Hou Xun knew that Zhu Hongsan reopened the imperial examination in Nanjing, he immediately forced his son Hou Fangyu to take the exam.
With his father's order, Hou Fangyu had no choice but to pack his luggage and go to Nanjing, and won the ideal ranking without any pressure. Ancient Chinese literati may have thousands of shortcomings, but there is still one advantage, that is, loyalty to the emperor, especially the literati of the Ming and Qing dynasties. No matter why your emperor is not a thing, as long as you are kind to me, I can die for you. Emperor Hongguang took aphrodisiacs and persecuted the Donglin Party, but after the city of Nanjing was broken, a large number of Donglin Party members still died for the foolish emperor they mentioned.
Hou Fangyu was deeply educated by Confucianism, so he also had this advantage, so he was very disgusted with the foolish monarch Zhu Hongsan. However, after learning that the emperor wanted him to become an official in Guizhou, he still packed his clothes without hesitation.
Seeing that these young officials had almost fooled them, Zhu Hongsan said to Zhang Huangyan beside him: "Xuanzhu, these people are all your subordinates, you can take them down and teach them!"
Zhang Huangyan bowed and took the 120 people from the tent, leaving only Hou Fangyu alone.
Hou Fangyu didn't know that he was transferred by the emperor as a military aircraft. He thought he was here to be the magistrate, and now he was confused to leave him alone.
Zhu Hongsan looked at Hou Fangyu in front of him. Hou Fangyu was a few years younger than Zhu Hongsan and was thirty-two years old this year. After more than ten years of displaced, Hou Fangyu was no longer as full of energy as he was in Nanjing. Now he is just thirty years old and has white hair on his temples.
"Chapter Chao, since I parted in Nanjing in the 17th year of Chongzhen, I have not seen you for five years!"
When the emperor asked, Hou Fangyu was also full of sighs. He didn't expect that the vassal king who was shady five years ago became a hero of the Ming Dynasty, and instead became an official under him. The facts of the world are unpredictable!
"Your Majesty, yes! I didn't expect it!"
"What have you done over the years? Li Xiangjun is still alive?"
Zhu Hongsan was afraid that Hou Fangyu would know that he raped Li Xiangjun. Although Zhu Hongsan was not a human being, this kind of adulterer still lacked confidence when he saw her husband!
Speaking of his confidante Li Xiangjun, Hou Fangyu sighed and said, "Hey! Go back to Your Majesty, the capital was broken back then, and I was at the Shige Division of Yangzhou! When I returned to the capital, things had changed, and the Meixiang Tower had already disappeared. I also inquired about Xiangjun's whereabouts, but the news I received was groundless, and none of them were true. So I stayed in the capital for more than two months, and then returned to my hometown in Henan to support my father!"
When Zhu Hongsan heard Hou Fangyu say that he did not find Li Xiangjun, he let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he hid Li Xiangjun and Kou Baimen in Jiming Temple and sent troops to protect them, not allowing their two daughters to go out. Otherwise, according to Li Xiangjun's character, he must look for Hou Fangyu.
When he learned that the authentic husband was hidden in the dark, Zhu Hongsan, the adulterer, felt relieved and pretended to be hypocritical and said, "Don't worry, Chaozong, I will send someone to find Xiangjun's whereabouts when I return to the capital, and you will definitely get married if you have lovers!"
Hou Fangyu knew that the Jinyiwei of the Shenwu Dynasty was powerful, so he quickly bowed to thank him after hearing the emperor said this.
Seeing Li Xiangjun's authentic husband thanking him, Zhu Hongsan, the adulterer, said: "Chaozong, I have been in love with you for many years, don't worry!" After saying that, Zhu Hongsan was funny. As the saying goes, friends' wives should not be bullied! But the friend's wife would ride under her crotch!
Chapter completed!