Although the scene in front of him was quite shocking, Wei Chenglong had always seen Shi Zhenfeng, who was too rotten, how could he withstand the squeeze? Dang even walked to the yard next door with a dark face, called his wife and several accompanying servants,
I packed my bags and prepared to leave, but I felt like I was sitting on pins and needles even if I stayed for a moment longer.
"Master Zheng, please come to the room for tea first!" Shi Zhen watched his resentful sister-in-law leave with no expression on his face. He just invited Zheng Tu to sit down and drink tea in the living room of the middle courtyard.
Wang Zhang and Shi Xiong followed closely with a dozen guards and soldiers, but they only stood on the corridor and on duty in the courtyard.
"There's tea! Jiang Xie, come over and make tea for Mr. Zheng." Hearing Shi Zhen calling in the living room, Jiang Xie quickly picked up the hot water from the stove and rushed to the living room.
Shi Zhen's second son, Shi Xun, and Shi Zhang were standing in the side courtyard, separated by a moon gate, and they didn't know whether to get close to each other.
In this courtyard, there were a few women who were inspired to be the most active. They despised Huaiyuan as a remote and remote place and wanted to go there. At this time, they looked at the dozens of armored soldiers in the middle courtyard, who were like a cliff.
Looking at each other, no one dared to mention leaving Chushan again.
After a while, when Jiang Xie came back after making tea, Shi Huiniang, Shi Zhen's second daughter, asked her husband, "What is Zheng Jingcheng talking to his father?"
"I just helped make the tea. After making the tea, my father came out to talk with Zheng Jingcheng. He didn't intend to ask me, who was irrelevant, to listen," Jiang Xie said.
"Yesterday, a large group of people drank happily over bowls of cold mutton and jugs of light wine. They looked like they had never seen the world. Today they are acting like this again. This is just to scare people."
Shi Huiniang curled her lips and said a little unconvinced, "Is it true that the higher the mountain is and the emperor is far away, the more he likes to put on such a posture?"
Shi Zhang was still young and inexperienced in worldly affairs, but Shi Xun had been working in the Ministry of Household Affairs in the past few years and had some experience.
As the chief seal officer of the county, the magistrate may be able to dominate the local area. He usually comes and goes in the hall, and he is inevitably surrounded by government officials and scribes.
The county magistrate and county captain have the power to control the county magistrate, but as an assistant official, the ceremonial guard is much simpler. In addition to personal servants, after taking office, the local government will transfer at most two or three old soldiers from the government officials to wait for dispatch.
In some remote and rural areas, there may not be too much concern about the court's regulations, but the problem is that the more rural and remote the country is, the more money and food are in straits. The number of manpower that can be dispatched by the county government is extremely limited. How many people can be transferred to the assistant official for personal dispatch?
Now the Chushan County Government not only directly transferred six servants and cooks to help take care of the daily life of his family, but also sent dozens of armored soldiers with strong armor to wait for orders beside his father. What kind of treatment is this?
This is the treatment that the supervisory censor would receive from Liexinxi and Uemoto after learning about it!
In addition to the sense of oppression caused by dozens of soldiers standing in the middle courtyard, the Shi family, young and old, were also afraid that Shi Zhen would be discussing matters with Zheng Tu, so they stayed in the side courtyard, thinking wildly, and watching.
Wei Chenglong's family originally left Beijing in a hurry. After arriving in Huaiyuan, they had no intention of settling down. They didn't buy anything and packed their bags very quickly.
After the hired carriage arrived, Wei Chenglong suppressed his anger and came with his wife to say goodbye. However, when he entered the middle courtyard, he was stopped by the guards and wanted to report first.
Shi Zhen and Zheng Tu
When talking with open doors and windows, except for Wang Zhang and Shi Xiong who were guarding the porch, no one else was allowed to approach casually, lest anyone inadvertently let others in on the secret. Even the Shi family wanted to avoid suspicion.
That's the rule.
Wei Chenglong resisted the urge to stomp away, and waited for a while before seeing Shi Zhen come out with the report from the guards.
"Since Chenglong has decided to move his family to Xiangyang to settle down, I will no longer persuade him to stay. The current situation is turbulent. You must be careful in everything you do after arriving in Xiangyang. I asked your sister-in-law to prepare a Chengyi, which is very meager. Chenglong
"Long, don't refuse!" Shi Zhen clasped his hands and said calmly, "Jiang Xie, Xun'er, Zhang'er, please send your uncles and aunts off for me. I don't know when we can meet again after we say goodbye today!"
Wei Chenglong remained silent, and Shi Zhen didn't care about his mood. After speaking, he went back to the courtyard to talk to Zheng Tu.
Jiang Xie saw his uncle Wei Chenglong walking away angrily, and hurriedly tugged on Shi Xun's sleeves, motioning for Shi Zhang and his wife Shi Huiniang to follow him, and walked out of the yard to see his uncle and aunt's family off.
Jiang Xie and others saw him off at the Baijian River ferry. They saw his uncle and aunt's family boarding the ferry before turning back to Huaiyangfang.
Zheng Tu had already left at this time, and many bodyguards were on standby in the vacated west courtyard. Only Wang Zhang and four others were on duty in the middle courtyard.
"Jiang Xie, Xun'er, Zhang'er, come here,"
Shi Zhen walked to the threshold and called his second son and son-in-law into the living room to talk.
"Whether you admit it or not, things in the world are undergoing earth-shaking changes, and they will soon become completely different and completely unrecognizable to you. At this time, you must put down all your calculations and thoughts in the past and listen to my arrangements.
When you come down, I will recommend Jiang Xie to the military marquis to write history in the army; Xun'er is serving as an official in the Ministry of Households, and I will recommend you to serve next to Su Dianshi; Zhang'er has not experienced anything yet, and now he has to do it.
Learn step by step from the township secretary. Don't feel any wrongdoing. Colonel Wang Zhang is a son of the Wang family and has been a general for several generations. His father was a captain of the cavalry during his lifetime and died on the battlefield for the imperial court. He still wanted to join the army in Chushan
As an official, you don't have any qualifications to be proud of. As for military princes, no matter what rumors you heard in Bianliang or after arriving in Chushan, I don't need to remind you. You will one day know that in this world,
Some people are beyond your reach in your lifetime. At this time, you only need to remember that the military lord is a hero that your father has never seen in his life. We are going through a major upheaval that has not been seen in a century. Can we survive it safely and achieve some small achievements?
It all depends on whether the big tree of Junhou can reach the sky..."
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Shi Zhen had lunch at the house, took Jiang Xie, Shi Xun, Shi Zhang and others, and rushed to the county government office surrounded by Wang Zhang and other guards.
At this time, the Zuo Sheyuan had been vacated, and the Zuo Sheyuan, led by Shi Zhen, and the Yousheyuan, where the county officials were located, were divided into the left and right sides of the county government.
In traditional county governance, one is taxation and the other is prison litigation. The control of the grassroots is mainly accomplished through wealthy households with big surnames; even to a considerable extent, the completion of taxation and the execution of prison lawsuits all rely on wealthy people with big surnames.
The Chushan clan still exists and has not been disintegrated. Dubao and senior household heads are still mainly from the clan. But at least for now, no one dares to obey the orders and assigned tasks issued by the county government, let alone violate them.
unite to resist.
Xu Huai then set up a large number of township departments (inspection departments), not to disintegrate the clan.
What he wants to do is to further penetrate and control the clan at the local grassroots level.
He wants to manage the economy and people's livelihood and cultivate military potential directly into the villages.
And this also means that the affairs that the Chushan County Government Office has to handle are much more cumbersome and complex than those of traditional county governments.
Taking the improvement of dry land and increasing irrigation coverage as an example, traditional county governance, using the entire county's efforts to build an overflow dam on a stream and using diversion canals to benefit two to three thousand fields on both sides of the river, is enough to leave a mark on the place.
However, there are not many barren mountains and ridges in the Chu Mountains that are easy to cultivate. If we want to significantly increase the grain output of the more than 300,000 acres of dry land in the mountains in a short period of time, we need to work on several or ten strips at the same time.
Overflow dams and crossing channels were built on several streams and rivers.
This not only requires several or dozens of craftsmen with manufacturing experience to come to the site to supervise the work, but also involves large and complex labor and the deployment of materials. Ordinary docks and villages are unable to complete these tasks alone.
What's more, what Chu Shan has to do next is far more than that.
Of course Xu Huai would not let go of official affairs, but if he did not want all his energy to be involved in complicated official affairs, he would need an assistant who could control the overall situation.
Shi Zhen is obviously more suitable for this role than Su Laochang, Xu Wuliang, Cheng Yi and others.
Xu Huai also made it clear last night that in addition to the execution room, county jail, city defense and other affairs in charge of the county captain, as well as the affairs in the military room, the daily affairs of the officials, workers, rites, and households will be directly handled by the county prime minister.
The Seyuan is responsible.
Shi Zhen also enjoyed treatment that Su Laochang, Wang Ju, Xu Wujiang, Xu Wuqi, Xu Wukun, Cheng Yi, Guo Junpan, Pan Chenghu and others had never had.
In traditional county governance, there are six house officials named Jingcheng, and two to three more officials below them are enough.
However, Shi Zhen arrived at the county government office at noon. Su Laochang, Zheng Tu, Cheng Yi and others brought all the officials, workers, li, four-room seducers, and clerks to pay their respects. There were nearly forty people in total.
Even so, there is still a serious shortage of manpower.
For example, the workshop will then be divided into left and right economic courtyards, which will be responsible for the construction of farmland, water conservancy, ordnance casting, etc.
Shi Zhen met with everyone and understood the basic situation. At dusk, he took his second son and son-in-law to the county government house to meet Xu Huai:
"My son Shi Xun has worked as a clerk in the household department for several years, and he knows a little about planning and budgeting. My son-in-law Jiang Xie is nearly thirty years old and cannot study well. He has studied economics with me for several years and can serve as a clerk in the military camp. Shi Xun
Zhang is still young and inexperienced. He is not diligent, does not distinguish between grains, and cannot make weapons without thinking. It would be more useful for him to go to the village and learn about farming and herding than to study..."
Xu Huai was originally worried that Shi Zhen's son-in-law would not look down on the low-status messengers in Chushan. Since Shi Zhen himself had already settled the matter, of course he agreed to them one by one:
"Old Uncle Chang often laments the lack of people around him who are good at planning, so Shi Xun can work beside him. But ordinary people think that military camps are about fighting and killing, but this is actually a big mistake. Organizing all kinds of military affairs is not as easy as fighting and killing.
, Jiang Xie can go to the barracks to serve; as for Shi Zhang, let him first go to Lutai Township to gain experience..."
