Liu Ziguang always felt that the name Lin Ruhai was somewhat impressive, so he asked Sun Gang and found out that Lin Ruhai was the son-in-law of Cao Yin, the former Jiangnan weaving envoy.
Later, he was reactivated by Qian Qianyi and promoted to the right deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, entrusting him with important responsibilities.
Lin Ruhai was the number one scholar in the previous dynasty. He was not only talented but also talented in appearance. He was once called the most handsome man in the capital. Many dignitaries wanted to recruit him as their son-in-law. In the end, Mr. Cao of Jiangnan Weaving came out on top.
, it is a coincidence that Lin Ruhai was dressed in red and decorated, and when he was parading around the streets to praise his officials, he happened to meet a young lady from the Cao Mansion tossing a hydrangea to attract a bride. Among the people in the street, Lin Ruhai was hit on the head by the number one scholar, so he achieved something wonderful.
Cao Yin's daughter was named Cao Min. She was born like a fish and a wild goose, and the old man felt sorry for his daughter and admired his uncle. He used his connections to help him find a real job as a salt inspector, which cost hundreds of thousands a year.
It's a good job for two silver coins, but young Lin Ruhai doesn't buy it. He insists on being an upright official, but which salt merchant doesn't have a backend? He, a small censor, can't do anything, and can only watch these moths.
After embezzling money from the imperial court, Lin Ruhai had no choice but to bow to reality over time. However, he remained clean and self-sufficient and never corrupted the law. The family mainly relied on his wife's natal family to support his family. Fortunately, Cao Yin's family was rich and had strong connections, so Lin Ruhai's career as an official over the years had not been great.
smooth.
Liu Ziguang overthrew Cao Yin when he was patrolling the south of the Yangtze River. Lin Ruhai also suffered a disaster. Not only was he dismissed from office, his wife Cao Min also fell ill and died of anger, leaving only a teenage daughter to depend on him. He thought he would be depressed like this, but
Lord Qian Qianyi thought that he had been upright for many years and promoted him to the position of deputy censor of the capital. This made Lin Ruhai full of vitality again and cheered up to put on the censor's hat again.
Lin Ruhai is an upright official and a straight minister, an out-and-out straight minister, and he is an upright official and a straight minister who does not understand the unspoken rules of the officialdom such as flattery and shunning the most important. Liu Ziguang does not like such a person because of the patrolman who was killed by him.
Censor Guo Zheng was a so-called upright and upright official. An honest official does not mean a capable person, which is often ignored by people. However, Liu Ziguang knew this very well, so his criteria for selecting officials were professional and technical skills and no major moral flaws.
good.
"Sir, do you want your subordinates to send someone to collect dirt on Lin Ruhai and remove him from his position as censor?" Sun Gang asked surreptitiously. This guy must have also thought of the Guo Zheng incident. They Nanchang and Ducha
The Yuan was a sworn enemy. Originally, Nanchang still had the power to supervise all officials. However, after this internal adjustment of the government, Nanchang was deprived of this power. Sun Gang's mind must not have thought that the emperor made adjustments for the sake of balance. He thought
It was the Metropolitan Procuratorate who was behind this, so they wanted to get this place back.
Liu Ziguang waved his hand, indicating that Sun Gang did not need to mobilize so much: "He is just a nerd. No matter what he does, these censors are crazy. The more you pay attention to him, the more energetic he will be. But I am surprised. I just entered the capital."
Why did someone notify these censors? I don’t know which link went wrong. Please help me investigate this matter."
"Sir, you don't know. Recently, my brothers have been having a hard time running errands. Those who are officials say that we are not qualified to take care of them. They say that officials are only under the supervision of the Ministry of Personnel and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. When they encounter those who should cooperate, they always go against us.
." Sun Gang complained.
During this period of time, there were great changes in the court, and power was reshuffled. Dong Lin and Wei Zhongxian in Beijing did not lose anything, but Liu Ziguang was really deprived of power. From now on, Nanchang can only be responsible for counterintelligence work, and domestic supervision tasks have been
The Procuratorate and Dongchang were divided up, while the Jinyiwei expanded their armed forces and were responsible for the security of the Gyeonggi region. The five-city military division that originally belonged to them was dismembered, and a large number of Shandong soldiers were sent back to Shandong. The officers were demobilized and a large number of local officers were appointed.
All this happened in a very short period of time. Liu Ziguang, who was far away in Beijing, could not react at all, and it was impossible for the red shirt regiment to react. This was just a normal personnel adjustment of the imperial court. Is it possible to rebel against orders?
"If you are not allowed to investigate someone who is an official, you can investigate him under another name. Why don't you label him as a Manchu spy? Let's see who dares to show off." Liu Ziguang solved Sun Gang's depression for many days with one sentence.
question, and happily bowed out.
Liu Ziguang was sitting in the lobby of the Nanchang Yamen, with his feet up on the public case, staring blankly at the "Mingjing Gaohang" plaque hanging above his head. Over the past year or so, he had been promoted so fast that it was almost too much for others to see.
, and there is no time to cultivate their own basic strength. Whether it is the South Factory, the Red Shirt Regiment, or the newly formed Beiyang Navy, although they have powerful military force, they seriously lack high-level civilian officials and counselors.
Nowadays, the right to speak in the court is completely controlled by the Donglin Party. Among the six ministries, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of War are all from Donglin. Hu Xuezhai of the Ministry of Households is about to be eliminated. Only the Ministry of Industry, headed by Song Yingxing, is under his control.
, but before Old Man Song became Minister, he was just a small county magistrate and an eighth-rank official. He had no connections in the officialdom. It would be good if he could control the Ministry of Works and not be ignored. He had no energy or ability to serve in court.
Tang Shangzhi spoke for Liu Ziguang. As for the two local officials, the Suzhou Prefect and the Shanghai Governor, although they were considered members of their own faction, they were not direct members after all. They would defect at the slightest sign of trouble, so there was no hope.
As for counselors, there is even less. There is only one Li Yan who is barely qualified, but the military books he is familiar with are all from the cold weapon period. He is completely unfamiliar with the large-scale firearms and mechanized warfare that are about to appear, and cannot do a good job as a staff officer.
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Not to mention Li Yan, even Liu Ziguang himself has no experience in this area. His understanding of war in the era of hot weapons is limited to various film and television works and the nonsense of a few experts on the Central Military Program.
Thinking of this, Liu Ziguang suddenly jumped up from behind the public case and shouted loudly: "Prepare your horses, I want to inspect the Jingshi Lecture Hall and the Jingshi Polytechnic University Hall."
It takes ten years to cultivate trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Rejuvenating a country is based on education. Liu Ziguang knew this truth very well. As early as the early days of the establishment of Nanchang, he invested in the construction of two schools. One was called the Jingshi Lecture Hall, which as the name suggests is a military school.
, but it is not a military school run by the imperial court, but a private school run by Liu Ziguang, who specially recruits aspiring young people from the society to participate. Those who are literate are the best. It doesn’t matter if you are not literate. Anyway, in addition to teaching fighting, the school also teaches literacy. This military school has
There are two parts, the junior class and the senior class. The junior class lasts for one year, and you learn basic firearms mechanics and bows, sabers, and guns. After graduation, you can serve as a flagman of the red shirt regiment. The senior class lasts for three years, and all young people are selected.
, young people whose minds have not yet been imprisoned by traditional ideas, selected personnel from the Red Shirt Regiment, the Ministry of Industry, and the South Factory to serve as instructors, teaching physical and chemical knowledge, weapons principles, combat command, logistics support, intelligence analysis and other subjects. In fact, the instructors
There are no systematic textbooks. Here, they are compiled while teaching. Everyone discusses together and compiles the military school textbooks, which is equivalent to development in practice. This martial arts school is the cradle of Liu Ziguang's cultivation of military talents.
The Imperial College of Science and Technology is an institution that specializes in science and technology. This school has close ties with the Ministry of Industry and recruits many craftsmen who are ingenious. In addition to learning theoretical knowledge, they also insist on scientific experiments every day. The campus is located in Xiaoling Yiyi.
The territory is extremely vast and has a large number of machinery and equipment, including looms, slipways, railway tracks, locomotives, steelmaking blast furnaces, circular runways, shooting ranges and other facilities.
Both schools provide accommodation and employment, and recruit young people under the age of twenty. These people are quick-minded and not rigid, and can easily cultivate loyalty. Liu Ziguang also stipulated a scholarship of up to twenty taels per month for each subject.
Students with excellent academic performance can obtain it, and it will be awarded by the respected Marshal Liu personally. Speaking of which, it has been several months since he visited these students. As the school director, Liu Ziguang took time out of his busy schedule to visit today. The students have not yet visited.
I know how to be happy.
Arriving at the gate of the Martial Arts Lecture Hall in the capital, Zhenwu Hou and his party were stopped by the guards. The gate of the school is very similar to the gate of the military camp. It is composed of two carts tilted up. Four people wearing green shirts and iron helmets
The young student soldier stood at the door, blocking their way with a red tassel gun, and shouted in a childish voice: "The martial arts hall is an important place, no trespassing is allowed!"
Liu Ziguang was happy. He turned around and was told by the soldiers to tell them who I was.
The soldiers stepped forward on horseback and shouted: "Master Zhenwuhou has come to inspect the martial arts hall in person, why don't you report it quickly?"
The student soldier twisted his neck and said: "Master Xueyu has an order. No one is allowed to enter during the exercise. Anyone who violates it will be killed. We only obey the order of Master Xuyu and dare not disobey it. Please also ask the Marquis to wait until the exercise is over before entering."
Late."
"You've got the guts of a leopard. You know that the Marquis is coming and you still dare to block him. Believe it or not, I'll chop you to death with a knife?" The soldier said as if he was about to draw his sword and kill someone, but the student soldier didn't even dodge and kept shouting.
Said: "No matter who it is, they are not allowed to enter during the exercise."
"Okay, okay, don't scare the children." Liu Ziguang waved his hand to the soldier who was deliberately scaring the children. He jumped off the horse, patted the answering soldier on the shoulder, and asked: "Young man did a good job, just
Military orders should be strictly enforced like this. What is your name? How old are you?"
"Back to the Marquis, the younger one's name is Meng Zhiqiang. He is sixteen years old this year and is a student in the advanced class of the Jiangwu Hall. Today he is the squad leader of the camp guard." There is a small silver star on the young student's chest, which is the rank mark of the student.
It shows that he is an outstanding student.
"Yes, there is a future." Liu Ziguang said kindly, and asked the soldiers to lead the horses to the shade of the trees on the roadside to enjoy the shade, but he stood guard with the cadets under the scorching sun. The weather in Nanjing was very hot and the sun was very scorching.
, the iron helmets of these four young men were all very hot from the sun, and their young faces had become dark, but their expressions were very determined.
This is the hope of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Ziguang thought to himself.