Chapter 679: The Crown Prince is going on a killing spree
Thirty years of Hongwu.
Ming Dynasty seemed to become a stranger to everyone overnight.
In the sky of Yingtian Mansion, it is rare to see the blue sky in the past. The gray sky fell layer by layer, turning into white tax money in the treasury of Yingtian Mansion.
The Zhili Governor's Office is in full swing taking over power from the 18th Prefecture of South Zhili. The mature industrialization reforms accumulated by Yingtian Prefecture are also sweeping away from the capital to the 18th Prefecture of South Zhili.
The cement road starting from the capital is getting longer and longer, and has begun to form a dense road network in the 18th Prefecture of South Zhili.
The Ministry of Industry is ambitiously planning an unprecedented project.
Under the leadership of Zhang Ergong, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, they want to build a bridge across the natural moat of the Yangtze River that has been flowing for hundreds of millions of years to allow people to walk on flat ground.
Technically, the River Governor's Office has accumulated a lot of experience for the Ministry of Works.
The water reduction dams on the upper reaches of the Yellow River have been basically completed. After the beginning of the new year, Pan Deshan, the Governor-General of the Yellow River, sent the imperial court from Luoyang City a summary of the experience of the five-car river water conservancy road system.
The white silver and the brilliant gold were mined and transported back from the four roads of Yingzhou and the southern regions, and then turned into money and food for employing people to work in the hands of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Taiping Prefecture, to the west of Yingtian Prefecture, is building a huge steel industry cluster. With the Yangtze River as a link, steel raw materials and original steel parts produced in various places in the upper reaches are continuously transported to Taiping Prefecture.
The output of large steel structures such as heavy artillery and steam engines required by the imperial court is increasing day by day.
The raw material requirements for the new armored steam warship issued by Longjiang Shipyard have also been delivered to the Taipingfu Steel Industry Cluster.
Rivets as thick as an adult's wrist were forged in batches and sent across the railway connecting Taiping Prefecture to Yingtian City before being transported to the Longjiang Shipyard.
With the help of the water hammer driven by the river, it was lifted up all day and all night, and then dropped heavily, forging each piece of steel to the standards set by the craftsmen.
Once these steel sheets are forged by water hammer, they will be sent directly to the Longjiang Shipyard via river ships.
The people of Southern Zhili no longer only pursue working in government-run workshops.
Because the Zhili Governor's Office issued a brand new new policy order.
Starting from September 18, the 30th year of Hongwu, all people working in the 18th Prefecture of Nanzhili will receive a guarantee called pension insurance.
This guarantee naturally has limitations and requirements.
People need to completely break away from farming and work in government or private workshops during the day for at least 20 days every month.
After meeting the requirements, these people need to work in the workshop continuously or for a total of twenty years before they can start to receive insurance.
The money is not much. According to the preliminary plan of the Zhili Governor's Office, he can probably receive a guarantee of 300 yuan per month.
This amount of money will be paid entirely by the workshops where the people work, and will be collected by the tax divisions of the Southern Zhili Domestic Taxation Office, and transferred to the Ming Dynasty Bank for overall planning and investment in various local commercial investments.
After experiencing Zou Xueyu's last destruction, the merchants in South Zhili were completely ruined.
If they move from Nanzhili at this time, they may be severely levied another unknown tax by the government.
As long as they pay a hundred cash pension insurance to those workers every month, they will not lose money after all calculations. In addition to honestly starting to implement the administrative orders of the Governor's Yamen, these people also began to think about what to do.
Escape this rule.
Starting from southern Zhili, the Ming Dynasty is gradually becoming something that people could not understand and imagine in the past.
At the same time that Zou Xueyu was working hard to implement various reforms in Southern Zhili, the assessment of government officials at all levels below the Governor's Office in Zhili, which had been decided before, was finally put on the agenda.
According to Governor Zou, the tenth day of August is a good day, and the entire Nanzhili Prefecture and County Government, including the Transportation Department, the Lianghuai Supervisory Salt Transportation Department, and the Water Transportation Department need to participate in the assessment.
For this reason, several transshipment departments in southern Zhili jointly supervise the Salt Transshipment Department and the Water Transport Department to report to the cabinet to oppose such unreasonable demands of the Zhili Governor's Yamen.
Their reasons are very good.
These yamen have always been under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court.
Each transshipment department was established for the imperial court to allocate money and grain. The Lianghuai Supervisory Salt Transshipment Department was related to the Lianghuai region, with a business worth millions of taels of salt every year. And water transportation firmly maintained the empire.
Food and grass supplies in the north.
In the past, these yamen were either managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs or directly appointed by the emperor.
Now Zou Xueyu took it upon himself to include all the officials in these yamen into the evaluation of officials in Nanzhili.
Naturally, these yamen opposed it with one voice.
It was just that the memorial was sent to the cabinet, but was quickly sent back.
It also left a joint note from the first and second assistants of the cabinet, requiring these yamen chiefs to keep in mind the authority given by the emperor when the Zhili Governor's Yamen was established.
What are the powers of the Zhili Governor's Office?
At this time, people finally began to rummage through the piles of old imperial documents.
Finally they got the answer.
All military and civilian personnel within the territory of Nanzhili are under the jurisdiction of the Zhili Governor's Yamen.
This makes no sense.
Unless these yamen can move away from the territory of Nanzhili.
But after thinking about it, they felt that they probably didn't have the courage to move the imperial government offices away.
Don't say they moved.
Even if they move a brick in the yamen, as long as the Southern Zhili Inspection Censor finds out, they will be impeached.
For a while.
Zou Xueyu is the emperor of Nanzhili.
Such words gradually emerged locally and began to spread to Yingtian City.
But even such smear words could not stop Zou Xueyu's determination to open a civil service examination in the 18th Prefecture of Zhili Province.
Soon, on the tenth day of August in the 30th year of Hongwu, the assessment date for Zhili Taoist officials set by Zou Xueyu came as scheduled.
Zou Xueyu rushed from the Governor's Yamen to Gongyuan next to Yingtianfu School early in the morning.
All officials in the eight counties of Yingtian Prefecture will take part in the first official evaluation since the founding of the Ming Dynasty in the Gongyuan today.
Zou Xueyu, dressed in a red robe, led officials from the Governor's Office, Yingtian Mansion, Shangyuan County, and Jiangning County to stand at the gate of Gongyuan.
A lot of time has passed since Zou Xueyu took office as the Governor-General of Zhili.
As an official, you have always had a saying that your power will increase day by day.
Nowadays, Zou Xueyu just stands here without saying a word. No one among the officials behind him dares to speak, and they have to be careful even when they move.
But Zou Xueyu is in a good mood today.
At least in Yingtian Mansion, where he had been an official for more than a year, all the officials in the eight counties rushed to Gongyuan as required.
At this moment, the fence in front of the Gongyuan has been opened by the guards.
The officials of Yingtian Mansion who had gathered outside the Gongyuan early in the morning were queuing up to undergo inspection and verification before queuing up to enter the Gongyuan.
When these people saw that Governor Zou was actually present at the scene, they all looked condensed and let out a sigh of relief that they had obeyed the orders from above and came to Gongyuan for reference.
Regardless of what exactly this assessment will test, and whether some people will be eliminated, you must at least give it a try.
Otherwise, you will become the one who stands out from the crowd.
When the Governor turned around and made a fuss, the first thing he thought of was the stupid crane.
"Subordinates, please visit the Dutai."
An official named Yingtianfu walked up the steps, bowed to Zou Xueyu, and then walked into the Gongyuan with a bamboo basket and a schoolbag on his back.
Zou Xueyu nodded in response and looked sideways at Yingtian Magistrate Yu Dalian beside him.
"I very much hope that these people who are being referred today will all pass the examination."
Yu Dalian also had a smile on his face, and when he saw the governor speaking, he replied: "There are a total of 576 officials in Yingtian Prefecture and eight counties. I will refer to them all today. I hope that I can pass this assessment."
, eliminate these people who in the past only cheated and neglected their duties."
This is the real purpose of the assessment of officials in the 18th Prefecture of South Zhili.
As the top lieutenant of Zou Xueyu, the governor-general of Zhili Province, Yu Dalian naturally knew the governor's thoughts.
Zou Xueyu just smiled and said: "I am not a harsh person. No matter what their family background is, as long as they can shoulder the responsibility, do well in the errands assigned by the court and the Yamen, and do not practice favoritism or malpractice, I will hire them."
At this time, Yu Dalian just smiled implicitly and stopped talking.
It may be difficult to expect local officials to be self-restrained and abide by the law.
If these people can do their job well and obey orders obediently, it is already a high-profile matter.
Yu Dalian's heart was actually the same as what he had just said in reply to Zou Xueyu.
The imperial court established six offices for officials, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and labor in the prefecture and county yamen, which gave them the same expectations as the six ministries.
But often when they go to the local level, most of these government officials are not selected based on their poor abilities, but based on their local reputation and power.
As a Yu Dalian who worked his way from the local government to the position of prefect of Yingtian, he knew very well what kind of problems existed in the local government offices.
When a court official is awarded the official seal by the imperial court, the first thing he does when he takes office is not to understand the local people's livelihood, nor to do anything to improve the people's livelihood.
Instead, they should understand the relationship between the officials in their own yamen, and try to win over or divide and suppress these old officials who have been working in the yamen.
After thinking for a long time, Yu Dalian finally said what he had hidden in his heart for many years.
"Dutai, actually, I have something that I have been thinking about for a long time, and I don't know whether I should talk about it or not."
"Oh?" Zou Xueyu raised his eyebrows. Seeing that the last Yingtian Mansion official had entered the Gongyuan, he turned back to look at Yu Dalian: "Of course, if it is a good thing, it will be discussed in the Governor's Yamen hall when the time comes."
Yu Dalian took a few deep breaths, seeming to cheer himself up.
Under the gaze of Zou Xueyu, and under the curious gazes of Yingtian Mansion officials behind him.
Yu Dalian finally spoke in a low voice: "Since the first year of Hongwu, the imperial court has had rules for selecting local officials to serve as officials in different places. There is also a special emphasis on the rotation of the evaluation cycle of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so officials are not allowed to stay in the same place for a long time.
The lower official believes that the most numerous officials in the imperial court should also follow this law. All officials in the government cannot be selected from local people."
Among the officials appointed and dismissed by the imperial court, not only did the Ming Dynasty insist that a local person should not be a local official, this rule had been followed in all previous dynasties.
This is to prevent officials who, if they are local officials, will tend to their own families and tribes, and use the power in their hands to seek personal gain for their families.
Zou Xueyu blinked and thought this was a good idea.
He asked: "Can you give a detailed explanation?"
Yu Dalian nodded: "I have also thought about it for a long time, and I feel that it is not appropriate for the government officials to be selected from all over the country."
After all, officials are not officials, so it is impossible for an official to travel from Shaanxi Road to Zhili Road to work.
If we really do this, tomorrow in the Ming Dynasty there will probably be only officials and no officials.
Yu Dalian said again: "The lower official thinks that one can be strict about whether an official of one's own government should be an official of one's own government."
The meaning of his words, if applied to Zhili Road, is that officials from Yingtian Prefecture cannot serve as officials in Yingtian Prefecture, but they can work as officials in the other 17 prefectures.
Officials who were born in Suzhou Prefecture can work in the other 17 prefectures in Zhili Province except Suzhou Prefecture.
"Within one territory and outside the government's territory, officials are appointed in different places."
Zou Xueyu summarized the core thoughts of Yu Dalian's words, and then nodded slowly.
Yu Dalian nodded: "This is exactly what I mean."
Zou Xueyu looked at Yu Dalian with great satisfaction: "You can write a charter later. When the governor's Yamen hall agrees that everything is correct, I will personally submit it to the prince."
As soon as he spoke, a smile immediately appeared on Yu Dalian's face.
The Yingtian officials behind him all looked surprised.
If officials were to be appointed from different places, the turmoil would probably be more serious than the current evaluation of officials in Nanzhili.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the officials in the first and eight counties of Yingtian Prefecture have already referred to it, everyone knows that out of Yingtian Prefecture, there are still many people in the 17th Prefecture of Zhili Road.
For reference for government officials.
Not to mention, these old local officials who control the real power of local prefectures and counties should be appointed in other places.
As for the evaluation of officials in the 18th Prefecture of South Zhili and various departments and offices, all aspects were quickly summarized.
"Bang!"
Inside the Wenhua Hall.
Zhu Biao, who had just received the summary of information, angrily smashed the document in his hand on the ground.
In front of him were Ren Hengtai, the first assistant of the cabinet, Xie Jin, the second assistant, Gao Yangzhi, the cabinet minister, and Zou Xueyu, the governor-general of Zhili.
Zou Xueyu also held another memorial in his hand.
It was the memorial that he asked Yu Dalian to compile for the appointment of officials from other places in Southern Zhili.
It's just that the prince's face was full of anger at the moment.
The four people present also knew it well.
The official evaluation of Nanzhili this time was ugly from the beginning to the final result.
Tomorrow will be the 15th day of August in the 30th year of Hongwu, but all four of them know that this Mid-Autumn Festival will probably not be a peaceful one.
Sure enough, after Zhu Biao threw away the summary documents, he said angrily: "What do they want to do? Do they really think they are the emperor of the country? Are they forcing me to use the knife?"
These words are a bit strong and rarely come out of the prince's mouth.
Ren Hengtai knelt down tremblingly and picked up the paperwork on the ground.
The first assistant's face was also very ugly.
For the 18th Prefecture of South Zhili, in this time's evaluation of government officials, except for Yingtian Prefecture, which was full of candidates, the remaining 17th Prefecture, in general, had less than half of the candidates.
There are endless reasons for this, such as illness, being late, being away on business, etc.
There was even a bastard from Suzhou Prefecture who started drinking wine from the very first day. He was so drunk that he ran outside the examination room and peed a lot.
Ren Hengtai lowered his head tremblingly and reached out to pat the summary documents.
Zhu Biao looked at the chief assistant coldly.
He snorted coldly.
"Ren Ge does not need to persuade Yu Gu, Gu will not tolerate it this time!"