In the blink of an eye, it’s the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month again!
The entire capital was as noisy and lively as ever, with crowds of people and bright lights, just like the stars reflecting the myriad weather conditions.
Boys and girls from rich or poor families, as well as children who loved playing, couldn't wait to run to the streets to enjoy the lanterns and play.
It seems that the commotion caused by last year's Lantern Festival did not affect their mood at all.
In fact, the streets of Beijing at this time are cleaner than ever before.
Those petty thefts and messes have basically been cleaned up.
For a long time last year, the capital would send a large number of criminals to Shanxi Province for labor camps almost every once in a while.
A popular novel "Kaifeng Mansion" forced the court and government to take a heavy blow, and the intensity and effect were no joke.
The green-skinned gangsters who can still be left behind either have big backers or are cautious guys. How could they easily show up and seek death?
As for kidnappers or philanderers from out of town, it is completely impossible to prevent them, but it is impossible to cause too much damage.
This is also the case. This year’s Lantern Festival is especially clean and friendly.
Ningfu Girls' School, as well as the Jia family's children in the clan school, were organized to participate in the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, and everyone had a great time.
This time, Jia Rong did not go overboard and mix with the officers and soldiers of the Wucheng Army and Horse Division. He knew that he might not be well received.
The new patrol censor in Xicheng guarded him as much as he guarded against thieves. He was afraid that Jia Rong would do something cruel again. How could a mere patrol censor survive this?
Jia Rongcai has no interest in participating in such a mess. There are people in the Five Cities Military and Horse Division who he has placed, so we can't ask the censor patrolling the city to find an opportunity to kick them out.
With the new year and new weather, he still had some ideas in order to collect more luck.
I wanted to test it out, and if it succeeded, it would be a great thing for Daqian and himself.
Of course, what he thinks is a good thing is not so friendly to some beings.
What he didn't expect was that before he could test the situation, Lian Er, the magistrate of Tongzhou, and Jia Zhu, the magistrate of the area, ran into trouble first.
At this time, Jia Zhu was standing in the back hall of the county government office, looking at the dirt-covered woman kneeling in front of him, her face turned livid.
In order to show his activeness and diligence, he didn't even spend the Lantern Festival in Rongfu, so he took his wife Li Wan and his son Lang Ge'er, who had not yet entered school, to return to any place early in order to show off.
Inadequate ability to do things is not enough, but a positive and progressive attitude must be shown, otherwise it will not be so easy for Chain 2 to help him get an excellent evaluation in the future.
As a cousin, he didn't want to trouble his cousin Lian Er too much. It would be shameless to tell him.
It was only with his wife Li Wan by his side that Jia Zhu could return to normal from an unbalanced state of mind, otherwise he was afraid something would happen.
Think about how prosperous he was as a middle-school student when he was in the government?
It is no exaggeration to say that he is the future hope of Rong Mansion with the love of thousands of people.
How long did it take to enter the officialdom after passing the Jinshi examination?
The cousin, who has always been undistinguished, entered the household department through a backdoor relationship, and unexpectedly started a meteoric rise.
And he started as the eighth-grade county magistrate of Xia County.
A few years later, his cousin Lian Er became his Shangguan. You can imagine how complicated the feeling in his heart was.
No matter what, he himself was promoted, which is a good thing.
After picking up her mood, Jia Zhu wanted to make a difference even though she was not an ordinary person.
If nothing else, at least when you are a county magistrate, you have to do something for the people.
Years of Confucian education gave him some ideas about "asking for orders for the people."
If you do well, your reputation and official reputation may spread to the capital.
Given his conditions, it is easy to perform well.
Backed by the Rong Mansion, and being the eldest son of his second wife, he had no shortage of money or resources, so there was no need to be greedy for the money obtained by exploiting the common people.
As long as you are not forced to do so by the officials below, it is quite easy to make something famous.
His wife Li Wan supported his idea very much and gave him a lot of suggestions in private.
To be honest, it was only then that Jia Zhu discovered that his wife Li Wan was very talented. At least she had made rapid progress in her understanding of officialdom and her views on handling government affairs.
This was also the main reason why he was willing to take his wife with him when he took office. Otherwise, the ones he brought with him would have been the maids and aunts given to him by his mother, Mrs. Wang.
By strengthening the supervision of government officials, it has been quite effective.
According to Li Wan's understanding, if people in the yamen were less involved in local affairs, the lives of the people at the bottom would be easier and more comfortable.
Jia Zhu didn't believe it at first, but later as certain things happened, she had to believe that it was a fact.
Officials in the yamen, even minzhuang who do not need money to support them, have a little bit of power in their hands, and can easily bully the people and take advantage of them.
Add in the local clans and gangs, and the layers of pressure are really tight.
Jia Zhu couldn't do anything else. Strictly restraining low-level officials was not a problem.
His confidence lies in the ethnic studies students sent by the tribe to help. They are all very smart and capable, and they are really useful.
It's just a pity, and I don't know what Brother Rong of Ningfu thinks, that the foreign ethnic studies students are rotated every year.
Originally, after a year of getting along, we were already familiar with each other, and even understood each other's styles of doing things. However, in the blink of an eye, a group of new people were replaced, and we still need to continue to get familiar with each other. Isn't this unnecessary?
For this reason, Jia Zhu specially discussed it with Jia Rong during the Chinese New Year.
Jia Rong did not put on the airs of a clan leader and spoke very clearly and thoroughly: "As long as the ethnic studies students who are sent abroad are willing, they can leave the clan studies and become official officials in the local yamen!"
"But their future future and destiny all depend on Uncle Zhu!"
Those words immediately made Jia Zhu give up her intention of keeping anyone.
He asked himself that he did not have the ability to arrange the future future and outlet for outstanding students in ethnic studies.
One bad move and his reputation in the clan will be completely ruined.
Compared with such a heavy responsibility, what does it mean to get familiar with the new ethnic studies students?
To put it bluntly, Jia Zhu still pursues his career selfishly. He doesn't want to give up some of the resources he has to the intern students sent to the clan school. He thinks it is too wasteful.
These resources can be exchanged with the powerful local squires, and a lot of real benefits can be obtained.
But he forgot that if he wanted to make a difference, he would definitely have to touch the interests of local powerful people and country gentry, which was not easy to deal with. He was now in trouble...