In the morning, Yuzhu was still lying on the high bed of Yongmei, and the gatehouse of the governor's Yamen was already full of waiting officials, big and small.
In the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, Yuzhu could not see these alternate subordinates, but they had to come and sit in front of the governor's office.
If you miss the opportunity to fill the gap, you will regret it for life.
In the Qing Dynasty, from the late years of Kangxi to the Daoguang period, the total number of officials in the country remained at around 8,000 civilian officials and 8,000 military attachés.
Compared with the total population of over 100 million, the total number of officials is really pitiful.
However, during the Kangxi Dynasty, there were more than 80,000 candidate officials across the country. To use the most popular saying at the time, candidate officials were "like crucian carp crossing the river."
However, this does not mean that the burden on ordinary people is light.
Although there were very few officials in the Qing Dynasty, there were countless subordinate officials and servants. Among these people, the subordinate officials had very little salary and could hardly make ends meet, while the white servants had no salary at all.
However, they would rather die than stay in the yamen and work as errands, and they would not be able to drive them away.
Shaanxi is not a land of prosperity, and there have been very few Jinshis in the past years. Therefore, most of the province's candidate officials are from donated classes or from shady backgrounds.
When Wu Jiang came out, a tea party was being held in the concierge of Fu Yamen.
"I said, Jade Gongbao shouldn't meet us so early, right?"
"That's right, when a new Futai takes office, no matter how hard he tries, he won't be promoted to a government official the day after he takes office."
"But we must come every day."
"This Master Futai has a long-standing background. He is old..."
"Be careful what you say, be careful what you say."
"Oh, oh, thank you for reminding me, brother."
Hehe, the person who reminded me must be a sensible person.
Is there any reason to openly argue against the governor and the governor in the governor's office?
Wu Jiang walked to the door of the concierge and said loudly: "My Lord Palace Protector has given orders. Please come with me, all the gentlemen above the level of Alternate Taoist Master!"
"Yes." The twenty or so candidates present said, and they all stood up and followed Wu Jiang into Fu Yamen.
Wu Jiang led everyone into the East Flower Hall of Fuya Santang.
As we all know, the official hall in Santang is where Yuzhu himself works.
These candidate Taoist priests were all in high spirits. Could it be that they were so lucky today that they could see Jade Palace Protector so soon?
In the whole province of Shaanxi, there are a total of seven official vacancies for Taoist officials, namely: Liangyan Road, Yichuan Road, Hanxing Road, Tongshang Road, Shaan'an Road, Shenmu Road and Yulin Road.
However, there are as many as twenty-four candidates for Taoist priests.
In the East Flower Hall, more than twenty sets of tables, chairs and the Four Treasures of the Study have been placed.
Seeing everyone looking at him in confusion, Wu Jiang smiled slightly and said, "My Lord Gongbao has given instructions. The matter in Shaanxi is particularly important for grain storage. How to transport grain smoothly to Xining? Please sit down and write slowly."
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To be honest, the current Daotai officials are definitely not as motivated as these alternate officials.
Back then, after Lao Si ascended the throne, the officials below him refused to obey. He simply appointed alternate officials on a large scale and stared at the current officials at all levels one-on-one.
If current officials do not perform well or show signs of corruption or bribery, they can easily be replaced by alternate officials...
Now that Yuzhu has served as the governor of Shaanxi, other things are actually trivial.
However, transporting grain from Henan to Shaanxi, and then from Shaanxi to Xining, has become a top priority.
During this era, the Yellow River Basin at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan was unnavigable due to the problem of too large a drop.
After the grain from the eastern region reaches Shaanzhou (Sanmenxia), it must be unloaded from ships and carried to Sanhekou in Tongguan using manpower and animal power, and then transported to Xi'an and other places.
As a result, the cost of transporting grain to Xining by land is astonishingly high.
Someone specifically calculated that one hundred dan of grain would be transported into Xining from the major grain-producing provinces in the east. The actual grain received by Xining was only about two dan, which is a transportation-to-revenue ratio of fifty to one.
There is no other way. Due to the constraints of transportation conditions, transporting grain into Shaanxi and then into Xining is completely an act of accumulating national power.
Objectively speaking, the three emperors of the early Qing Dynasty, Kang, Yong and Qian, were all ambitious emperors.
The three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong carried out Western expeditions one after another, and fought against the Junggar people for more than seventy years before they brought the Snowy Region, Qinghai and Ili into the Qing Dynasty's actual control territory.
Even Lao Si, who didn't understand military affairs, fought and lost many battles, gritted his teeth, piled up national strength and troops, and refused to give up the western expedition to Junggar.
If the three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong were so short-sighted that they were reluctant to spend such a huge amount of money, the ownership of the Snowy Region, Qinghai, and Xinjiang would now be a big question mark.
After the fall of the Junggar Khanate*, the Qing minister in Tibet was the actual controller of the Snowy Region, and the minister in charge of Xining was the Supreme Emperor of Qinghai. In addition, General Yili was the emperor of the entire north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and he could kill and seize them.
Since Qianlong's reign, in the Snowy Region, the official appointment of all the eminent monks has required the ceremony of drawing lots from a golden urn and recognition by the imperial court.
If the Qing Dynasty didn't recognize it, it was illegal. It's as simple as that.
The map opens borders, that's just talk on paper, not worth mentioning at all.
Actual control is king. That is to say, the officials of the Qing Dynasty had real power in the local area and could really have the final say.
In the Qing Dynasty, working Taoists obviously could not suffer from poverty, and everyone was well fed.
However, even if a candidate has some financial background, he is still in an unfavorable situation.
The butt determines the head, this is the truth!
Therefore, Yuzhu called all these candidate Taoists in and asked a question: how to transport food to the front line at the lowest cost.
If you answer well, Yuzhu will naturally reuse it.
If he is wrong, Yuzhu will continue to question the candidate prefects.
Opportunities always come to those who are prepared.
There is no need to say more about who Yuzhu is.
In a word, if you get the appreciation of Yuzhu, you will rise to the top and be just around the corner!
Now that Yuzhu has spoken, these candidates all sat down obediently and began to answer the questions slowly.
Wu Jiang and Wu Sheng acted as proctors and would never allow anyone to cheat.
Yuzhu wanted to get up, but Cao Yi insisted on pestering him and pretended to be Guanyin again.
Although Cao Yi was still the wife of Nersu, her virginity was handled by Yuzhu, and she also gave birth to Fu Peng to Yuzhu...