Most of the female envoys were released, leaving only the maidservants Yanghao and Langhao Sheng Changbai were used to, but were unwilling to leave the palace to get married.
He also selected four girls aged 12 or 13 from the family's family. These people were obviously more trustworthy. It would not be too late to hire other unimportant people when they arrived in Xuzhou.
The cook and the mother-in-law also brought two of them each.
In addition, arranged by Sheng Hong and Wang Ruofu, there are four elderly people in their thirties and forties who have worked with Sheng Hong for many years and have rich experience.
Sheng Changbai was already trying to streamline things as much as possible and brought more than thirty people with him when he went out.
With so many people and things, there is no need for a large passenger ship.
It can't be compared with the six or seven ships that the Sheng family brought to Beijing, but considering that these only serve Sheng Changbai, it is not a small number.
This is only the first wave. If Sheng Changbai wants to buy property in Xuzhou, he will need to continue to send more manpower.
After the summer harvest and autumn sowing time, Sheng Changbai will still promote his own improved seeds.
Not to say too much, at least several boatloads of seeds will be transported.
On the day of departure, friends, colleagues, and family members came to bid farewell to Sheng Changbai at the Bianjing Pier.
"Brother Sheng is serious!"
"Have a happy journey, Zecheng!"
In this era, when literati send each other off, it is better to be more elegant, with willow branches and farewell poems.
If the Sheng family were not so wealthy, friends might have given them a certain amount of money as gifts.
After drinking a lot of practice wine, Sheng Changbai also accepted dozens of farewell poems.
At Bianliang Wharf, the farewell poems written every day may be enough to load a boat, and there are only a few dozen famous poems that can be passed down to future generations.
Even though Sheng Changbai only came into contact with the first few Jinshi, contemporary talents, the farewell poems he received were somewhat mediocre.
Sheng Changbai is an ordinary laissez-faire. He was not forced by a traitor, nor was he demoted due to party disputes. He also does not have friends like Li Du, a great writer. He lacks some storytelling and lacks emotion, so it is difficult to produce any famous works. .
"Changbai, after you get settled in Xuzhou, you will write to your family. If you still need anything, just tell me and my mother will send someone to deliver it to you." Wang Ruofu was the first to say goodbye to Sheng Changbai, and even had tears in his eyes when he spoke.
This time I came to see off Sheng Changbai. Everyone from the Sheng family, big and small, with the surname Sheng, was here. Even Hualan, who was already married, also came to the pier to see her off.
"Mother, children can't be filial by your side. Take care of yourself and don't have any unnecessary fights with Lin Qige. As the saying goes, if you fight, you won't fight. If you don't fight, you will fight. As long as the mother does her duty as the eldest lady of the house, , naturally it can overwhelm Linqi Pavilion."
Seeing Wang Ruofu reveal his true feelings, Sheng Changbai was polite and polite, but he still whispered to Wang Ruofu worriedly.
Lin Zongshuang is getting older and older, a concubine has lost her beauty, no matter how you look at it, her life is declining.
If you didn't want Sheng Hong's back house to be too noisy, if you let Sheng Hong have a concubine in the house at this time, Lin Zongshuang would have been out of trouble.
"Erlang, don't worry if you're out here. After you leave, I will go home to see my father and mother more often."
"Well, I feel at ease when I have my elder sister back. Sister, after I leave the capital, you should take good care of yourself. If there are any changes in Uncle Zhongqin's house, you can write to me and I will continue to think of a solution. You Regarding the issue of heirs with Yuan Wenshao, just let nature take its course. When fate comes, the child will come naturally."
Hualan is also a person who likes to worry and has never been worried.
Sheng Changbai just went to Uncle Zhongqin's backyard and gave away his concubine, which solved the problem of Mrs. Zhongqin being too busy.
Without the evil mother-in-law to target her all day long, Hua Lan should have lived a more relaxed life.
But she began to worry about not giving birth to a boy for Yuan Wenshao.
"Second brother, here you can show your talent and your ambitions."
"The sea is high enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly."
"Stepping up to success."
"step up."
Sanlan and Changtong also have their own blessings for Sheng Changbai. No matter how sincere they are, they always have the same attitude.
"Second brother, this is the farewell poem I wrote for you."
Sheng Changfeng has not changed his original intention. He is still a literary young man and still likes poetry.
These are all people living in the Sheng residence. Sheng Changbai has already given all the instructions he should give, and there is no need to say more before leaving.
"Changbai, as a father, I don't have much to teach you now. Loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, diligence and love for the people, I don't need to tell you more. My father has been an official for half his life, and I dare not say how much political achievements he has made. I only have two sons, Chun Chun, to give it to you in the new year, so that we, father and son, can learn from each other."
This time, Sheng Hong spoke his mind. Sheng Hong was an official based on this principle.
"Kid, remember this."
No matter what, it was Sheng Hong's words from the bottom of his heart. Even if Sheng Changbai didn't follow his instructions, he still had to respect them.
"Okay, let's set off as early as possible. We don't want to keep the boat waiting for too long." Sheng Hong waved his hand and said.
After saying goodbye, Sheng Changbai boarded the ship and left. Sheng Changbai left Beijing to take office in a serious manner, and of course he took an official ship.
There are not too many benefits of official ships. First of all, official ships are much safer than civilian ships. No matter what subordinates, gangs, bandits, or bullies, they will not easily provoke official ships.
Then, when there are various crowded intersections, the official boat can go first, which is much more convenient.
After living in this era for so long, Sheng Changbai has adapted to water transportation.
He sailed during the day, stayed at the inn at night, and left the capital. At Sheng Changbai's level, he was not considered a humble official, so he could naturally do things much more freely.
In less than ten days, from Bianhe River to Sishui, Sheng Changbai also arrived at Pengcheng, the seat of Xuzhou.
After the inspection, reception, and move, Sheng Changbai officially took up his post in Xuzhou.
After coming here, Sheng Changbai learned that Huang Zhizhou of Xuzhou had been promoted by the Hai family and was regarded as a disciple and former official of the Hai family.
Sheng Changbai's appointment as general judge this time can be said to be a simple model.
This period of tenure is for Sheng Changbai to accumulate experience.
If you choose someone who is not motivated, you can just choose to lie down without any problem.
It can be said that there are no constraints at all when it comes to work.
After Sheng Changbai took office, he first engaged in a political struggle for power.
Although the magistrate is the top leader of a state, his rank is usually higher than that of the general magistrate.
Sheng Changbai was only at the seventh rank, while Huang Zhizhou was already at the sixth rank.
But Tongpan, a capital official sent by the central government to the local area to supervise the prefecture, naturally knows the prefecture in vain.
If you play politics smoothly, it is not surprising that the second-in-command has more power than the first-in-command.
I accepted some banquets, got to know the local gentry and elders, and became familiar with the personnel of the yamen.
There will not be too few officials in a prefecture's yamen. Those who are in charge of various affairs include managers joining the army, judicial officers joining the army, division households joining the army, recording affairs joining the army, supervising government affairs and writing, state science professors, recommending officials, inspecting, and signing books.
Jiedu judges the official affairs of the government office and signs the official affairs of the state.
The next level down from the yamen are the subordinate officials who are in contact with the people. Although these subordinate officials are not of high rank, they have no political future.
But because they are all locals and have intricate connections in the local area, many of them work in the yamen for a lifetime, and their influence cannot be ignored.
After sorting out these things, Sheng Changbai no longer stayed in Pengcheng. He first visited various counties in the area to understand the actual situation.
After a round of inspection, Sheng Changbai discovered that Xuzhou was considered wealthy only in relation to the feudal dynasty.
Sheng Changbai mainly stayed in several places. One was with Sheng Hong in Yangzhou.
One is to go back to his hometown Youyang by himself, and the rest of the time is to stay in Bianliang.
These places were the highlight of the Zhou Dynasty, and the people's lives were just about average.
Compared with these places, Xuzhou is one or two levels behind.
The life of the common people is far from being very prosperous. The common people work hard and work as a family, just to make ends meet.
Their families can't save any savings, and when encountering natural disasters or man-made disasters, these people don't even have the ability to withstand risks.
Most families are in similar situation to what they were before Miss Wei Shuyi married Sheng Hong.
After encountering trouble, he was reluctant to sell his land and lost his livelihood, so he had no choice but to sell his sons and daughters.
After traveling around and returning to Pengcheng, Sheng Changbai returned to the state office and met Huang Zhizhou.
"Sheng Fan, you have been in Xuzhou for half a month, what do you think?"
"Ming Gong, the first thing I want to do is to improve the public security in Xuzhou. Firstly, I want to clear out the gangsters and bullies in the city. Secondly, I want to clear out the bandits and water bandits in the countryside outside the city, in the mountains and rivers."
The first step is to improve public security. There are so many water bandits, road bandits, and businessmen who go to Xuzhou, and they are stripped of their skins before doing any business, and they pay so much money to buy the way. How can business prosper?
Although the main responsibility of Tongsheng is to collect taxes and supervise the prefecture.
But in fact, if you want to intervene, the power of the Tongjian is also very broad. It can adjudicate on all matters such as military affairs, household registration, money and grain, taxes and servitude, hearing and judging of lawsuits, etc.
That is to say, the general magistrate also intervened in matters that the magistrate could take charge of.
"Grand judgment, there are indeed some banditry in the local area, but it is just some scabies. The scale of these bandits is not very large, and they are not related to the climate. They are some local unruly people who collude with the bandits and the people. They are familiar with the mountains and rivers geography, and the officers and soldiers go there
They will run away during the suppression, and will return as soon as the officers and soldiers leave, which is very troublesome. Besides, if you want to mobilize the Xiang army, you need to report it to the court."
Huang Zhizhou obviously disagreed with this attitude, and it was not the words of Zhizhou who was given a military talisman by the emperor on the front line of Bianzhou.
When there is no bandit army attacking the city, the magistrate who is nominally in charge of the military affairs of a state cannot dispatch more than ten Xiang troops.
Under such a situation, the mobilization of Xiang troops must be reported.
It would be fine if we could mobilize once and really eliminate the banditry.
However, it is difficult to eradicate bandit troubles. Most of them are caused by the collusion between bandits and people and the collusion between bandits and gentry.
The local government often mobilized Xiang troops to suppress bandits, and the imperial court inevitably thought that the prefect was incapable of governing the local area.
Therefore, most of the magistrates of the Zhou Dynasty were not very enthusiastic about eliminating banditry.
The old Zhao family did have a high level of centralization of power over the military, but such a system resulted in rampant banditry in the Zhou Dynasty.
"There is a mere banditry, so why mobilize the Xiang army? We only need to recruit a few hundred archers, and the banditry can be easily defeated."
Sheng Changbai has long thought about this problem. Sheng Hong has been a local official for more than ten years and is aware of the twists and turns and unspoken rules of local states and counties.
In the past three years, they have been taught to Sheng Changbai one by one. Sheng Changbai is not a fool and breaks local rules easily.
The Sheng family only had the experience of being a low-level official, but Sheng Changbai had a lot of experience advantages as an official.
This shows how much advantage a family of high-ranking officials can get in the hands of the officialdom.
Not only did they have an advantage before the imperial examination, but after the imperial examination, the aristocratic families had an even greater advantage.
Archer is not the abbreviation of archer. Archer was a professional service in the Zhou Dynasty.
Generally, people are recruited from third-class households. If third-class households don't have enough people, they are recruited from second-class households. These are considered well-to-do households.
Archers were "all-round civil servants" at the grassroots level in the Song Dynasty. They could catch thieves, smugglers, collect rents, guard prisons, serve as bodyguards, and even join the regular army on the battlefield at special times, possessing the dual attributes of police and militia.
The Yamen's recruitment of these archers won't increase any big expenses, as long as they take care of their food and housing.
The benefits these archers get are that they can be exempted from labor service and taxes, and they also have some opportunities for reuse and promotion.
"It's not difficult to recruit some archers, but it's dangerous to be a warrior."
Huang Zhizhou said worriedly, whether it was the relationship with the Hai family or the responsibilities of the chief officer.
Huang Zhizhou definitely didn't want anything to happen to Sheng Changbai.
"My Lord, please rest assured. Sheng is not an ignorant person. He will ensure his own safety. If he is not sure, he will naturally not go to the front line."
After reassuring Huang Zhizhou, Sheng Changbai began to recruit and train troops, collect intelligence on banditry, and became busy.
The people of the Zhou Dynasty were very fond of martial arts, so Sheng Changbai recruited either strong men or people who liked to dance with guns and sticks.
It is impossible for these people to practice from scratch. Sheng Changbai does not have that much time, that is, to practice simple obedience and compliance, to be able to understand some simple commands, understand some simple flags, and be familiar with some simple battle formations.
method.
Xuzhou is also a large iron-producing state. It has its own mine supervisor and the weapons in its treasury are quite sophisticated.
Even if it was easy for bandits to obtain weapons because Xuzhou produced iron, in comparison, the officers and soldiers still had an advantage.
The first battle of the archers as a group is to clean up the ruffians, scoundrels, bullies, and gangsters in the city.
As far as Sheng Changbai's status is concerned, there is no need to give any face to these squires in Xuzhou.
They are just some gangsters and gangsters. No matter who is behind these people, Sheng Changbai doesn't have to have any scruples when cleaning them up.
These people should be punished, beaten, exiled, decapitated, and exiled.
The most common punishment in the Zhou Dynasty was actually banishment from the army. As long as the sentence was slightly longer, these criminals would be sent to the army as cannon fodder or to the Xiang army as engineering soldiers.
The system of the Great Zhou Dynasty is also quite interesting. No matter what kind of person they are, if they become a security risk in society, they will be sent to the army.
Whether they are the old, weak, sick or disabled who have no one to take care of them or victims of natural disasters, they can be packed directly into the military camp.
Those who were convicted and sentenced were all decorated with various marks on their tattoos. They were all sent to the army and served as soldiers.
This is almost equivalent to providing work-for-relief and allowing criminals to create their own value and use sewing machines.
This system actually has certain merits.
Cannon fodder camps and engineering corps are indeed good places for these people.
As long as these people are not expected to go to the battlefield and fight as the main force, there is actually no big problem.