After the Double Ninth Festival, the autumn harvest was also in full swing in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. The entire Ming Dynasty was immersed in the joy of autumn harvest. This year's autumn harvest, officials in the officialdom of the Ming Empire were particularly happy.
After all, all these officials were landlords. Even if they were poor people before, as long as they passed the imperial examination, a large number of villagers would contribute land, and then the poor scholars would transform into the landlord class. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, as long as they passed the imperial examination, they would definitely make a fortune. There were never only poor scholars, but no poor scholars or poor Jinshi. Unless you claim to be noble and do not accept the land donation of your neighbors.
The family has hundreds or thousands of acres of fertile land. When harvesting in autumn, it is naturally time to make money and grain account. Therefore, the entire Ming Dynasty was filled with the joy of autumn harvest.
Also, Liu Jin fell this year and no one extorted these civil servants...
In the past few years, when Liu Jin was in power, he relied on the control of key departments such as the Ministry of Personnel to force civil servants who returned to Beijing to report their duties to bribe him. Otherwise, he would give bad reviews and even impart to officials in the border areas. In addition, Liu Jin made the "finishment of rice", in those years, there were many officials who were bankrupt by Liu Jin. Therefore, after Liu Jin fell this year, the civil servant group was overjoyed. From then on, the money they made was no longer "filial piety" to Liu Jin, but could all be put into their own pockets...
By the way, because of Malin's interference, Liu Jin was not cut into pieces like in history. Similarly, the officials of Liu Jin's party were not as miserable as in history.
For example, Liu Jin's former strongest horseman, Zhang Cai, did not die in prison as in history. However, Zhang Cai naturally had no future because of his disgraceful experience of seeking refuge with Liu Jin. Although he saved his life, he was demoted to a commoner and would never be used...
In fact, Zhang Cai is really not a big traitor. This guy is at most lustful, for example, always coveting other people's beautiful concubines. Of course, in ancient times, concubines could also give each other. Su Dongpo even gave pregnant concubines to others, but afterwards, many people called themselves Su Dongpo's son...
Liu Jin doesn't have very strong abilities and his cultural level is not very high. However, he can use people. For example, his own cultural level is not high, but he brought the memorial back to his house and discussed with his sister-in-law Sun Cong and Huating native Zhang Wenmian (equivalent to the master) and others how to deal with it. Then, he asked Grand Secretary Jiao Fang to polish it and then handed it over to Li Dongyang for review.
Zhang Cai is the most advanced capable man that Liu Jin won over. The most famous "method fine" in Liu Jin's reform was Zhang Cai's idea.
In addition, Zhang Cai is not greedy. In addition to being a little lustful, he is not too greedy for money. He also advised Liu Jin not to accept bribes. Therefore, Zhang Cai is a more contradictory person. But it is undeniable that this person is a very capable person.
The day Zhang Cai left the capital was very desolate. There was only an old servant who had been following him from his hometown, driving a broken carriage that was about to fall apart and took Zhang Cai and his family out of the capital.
Because he was a sinner, Zhang Cai did not have the treatment of a retired official and had no other privileges he had enjoyed in the past. Even most of the land in his family was confiscated, leaving only 20 acres of ancestral land that were not confiscated. It is conceivable how difficult Zhang Cai would be in his future life.
Malin admired Zhang Cai's talent very much, so he deliberately went out of the city to travel. On the way, he met Zhang Cai who returned home in a down-and-out manner.
Although only a few months have passed, Zhang Cai has gone from being a full-time Minister of Personnel more than a month ago to a timid old man.
When he saw Ma Lin, Zhang Cai, who had been demoted to a commoner, had to get out of the car to salute...
Marin looked at Zhang Cai for a long time and asked:
"Mr. Zhang is willing to go to Dongfan Island to become an official?"
"As an official?" A light suddenly burst out in Zhang Cai's eyes.
But, he hesitated:
"But, I am already a sinner. If Lord Ma accepts Zhang, he will probably get into trouble."
"That's not a problem. As long as you are willing to be loyal to me, I can give you 500 mu of fertile land on Dongfan Island, with an annual salary of 1,000 taels. In addition, your descendants, as long as they are not too bad, can be a favor to the official!"
Zhang Cai was immediately moved...
He has almost nothing now. Not only has he been demoted to a commoner, but his two sons have no hope of future. Even civil officials in the court are discussing whether to exile Zhang Cai's family to Qiongzhou.
If you follow Marin, you can at least become rich and become an official. Once a man gets involved in it, he can quit than drugs. Many leaders in later generations are full of energy when they are in power, but once they retire, they will age quickly. The main reason is that they have power in hand, and they are full of energy and naturally have a refreshing spirit. After losing power, they are like addicts who cannot absorb drugs, who are extremely uncomfortable and will age quickly.
Zhang Cai once served as the Minister of Personnel of the Ming Empire and was half a step away from entering the cabinet. How could he be willing to be a commoner? Moreover, within the Ming Dynasty, it was unlikely that Zhang Cai would become an official again, because the imperial edict was issued, which explained that Zhang Cai would never be used, which was equivalent to severing his career.
But to be honest, Zhang Cai is already 56 years old and doesn’t care much about his career. What he is most worried about now is the future of his two sons. Because he helped Liu Jin deal with the Qingliu minister, but now Qingliu is in power, Zhang Cai’s son must have no hope of future. Even if he is talented, he will be suppressed. Some people even discuss exiling Zhang Cai’s family to Lingnan.
Therefore, for Zhang Cai, being able to be kind to his descendants as an official is what he values ​​most...
Thinking of this, Zhang Cai bowed to Ma Lin without hesitation and said:
"Thanks to the lord of the country, Zhang is willing to serve his work. But, the court..."
"You can find an inn nearby to stay and wait for my news!" After saying that, Malin threw a small bag of silver to Zhang Cai, enough for his family to stay in the store for many days.
...
The reason why Malin wanted to win over Zhang Cai was because Zhang Cai was indeed very capable; and the other was that Malin was not at ease with Kong Tai's ability...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Kong Tai is a translation talent trained by Marin himself, and was appointed by Marin as the prime minister of Dongfan Island. However, after investigation during this period, Marin discovered that Kong Tai only had diplomatic talents and average governance skills. Even because he admired Chinese civilization too much, his behavior became a little closer to the pedantic Confucian scholars. Moreover, Kong Tai was still very young and had no experience.
So, seeing that Zhang Cai, a very talented person, no one wants, Marlin immediately began to think about finding a bargain...
You know, a talent like Zhang Cai is not something that is very capable but no one wants.
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But how can we take Zhang Cai away and not offend the Ming Dynasty? Ma Lin kept thinking about it on the way back...
After returning to the city, Marin thought about it for another night before coming up with a countermeasure...
The next day, Malin came to the Jinwu Health Campus to try his luck to see if he could meet Zhengde, but he didn't meet him; he didn't meet him either on the third day; it was not until the fourth day that Malin saw Zhengde who came to find the "Erhat Two Generals" to practice knight-horse battles...
Taking advantage of Zhengde's happiness, Marin suddenly asked Zhengde to take Zhang Cai to Dongfan Island...
"What do you want Zhang Cai to do? He is a sinner."
"But he is also a talent. I heard that Liu Jin's 'meal punishment' was created by him."
Zhengde nodded and said:
"That's true, I know that he is talented. However, now all the civil and military officials in the court hate the people of Lao Liu's party. Even if Zhang Cai is talented, I can't use him. If you, a vassal state lord, if you dare to use Zhang Cai, you will probably be hated by the ministers."
Marin's eyes rolled and said:
"Your Majesty, I heard that the court officials are discussing whether to exile Zhang Cai's family?"
"It's true, but they couldn't find evidence that Zhang Cai was evil, so they could only let it go. Moreover, Zhang Cai refused to plead guilty. Actually, I wanted to keep him, but the ministers were angry, so I couldn't keep him."
| "How about you send a message to exil Zhang Cai's family to Dongfan Island?"
Zhengde was stunned:
Chapter completed!