Lin Duan and Jia Cong, two young men in their early ten years, have become scholar-gong!
When the news came back to Rong Mansion, everyone was surprised and happy, except of course Mrs. Wang, who was filled with jealousy. Now Baoyu was completely suppressed.
In addition, this time, there are still students in the clan school who have passed the examination as scholar, and more students have passed the examination as children, which shows the increasingly powerful teaching ability of the Jia clan clan school, which not only satisfied the clan members, but also surprised relatives and outsiders once again.
By the time Lin Duan, Jia Cong, and their classmates came back from the south, it was almost the Mid-Autumn Festival.
At the invitation of Lin Ruhai and Jia Min, the eldest man and his family went to the Lin Mansion to celebrate. When they returned to the Rongguo Mansion, they also had a banquet, which made everyone in the mansion happy.
Although he noticed the jealousy in Mrs. Wang's eyes, the elder didn't care. Where in the capital is there any room for her to take action?
After a few days of excitement, Jia Cong and Lin Duan both went to the Imperial College to study. This made Lian Er feel a little sour, saying that he had never been to the Imperial College and the previous opportunity was forcibly given to Jia Zhu. Now that he saw Jia Zhu
Cong, a concubine, has the opportunity to enter the Imperial College to learn and make connections, so I feel a little jealous.
"What are you doing? You should work hard and wait until Zhuo'er is admitted as a scholar. I will send him to the Imperial Academy for further studies. Don't show off to me that you are wronged!"
The elder was not polite at all, he laughed and cursed and spit on Lian Er's face.
Family affairs are going quite smoothly, but state affairs are a bit difficult.
The war in Northern Xinjiang, which had been quiet for many years, resumed this autumn. The arrival of several emergency reports from the border made the Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere in the entire capital not good.
Da Qi has not yet reached the stage of Wen Tian's martial arts, but many years of peace have worn away too many people's blood, and they have no deep understanding of war.
In particular, almost all the generals who had experienced the war in the founding and subsequent generations died. The overall combat effectiveness of the Daqi Dynasty's official army declined sharply as time went by.
The border warriors this time are the best example. There was not much defense at the border in northern Xinjiang, and the barbarians from outside the Great Wall broke through multiple passes at once, almost leading to a tragedy of opening the door wide.
When I heard the news, I almost vomited blood. Several northern Xinjiang guard generals were dismissed from their official positions. At the same time, there were also many northern Xinjiang generals who were imprisoned and were about to have their heads chopped off.
While ordering the Northern Xinjiang border troops to make emergency defenses, they quickly dispatched troops from the Beijing camp to support Northern Xinjiang.
But at a glance, there are almost no generals in the government who can take charge.
The Xungui family is indeed quite powerful in the court, but after living in peace for so many years, the battlefield skills passed down from their ancestors have been almost forgotten.
A military general who can squeeze into the court has average abilities, mainly due to the strong power behind him, and he is very good at maneuvering in the officialdom. Such generals are placed in important border areas where the military situation is urgent at the moment, not to help defend against foreign enemies, but to provide assistance to foreign enemies.
It's a gift of heads for war achievements.
As for the civil servants, there is no need to count on them. The civil servants of Da Qi are not as powerful as those in the Han and Tang Dynasties. They have completely abandoned the model of being able to run the army and manage the people. Instead, they concentrate on playing the tricks of the literati. They have completely lost it.
The ability to command troops.
If we really want to choose civil servants to go to the battlefield, I am afraid that the outcome will be very bad. It is better to let military generals with noble backgrounds take action. At least they can follow the military command notes left by their ancestors. Not to mention how well they can do it, at least they won't.
Make the border troops crippled.
Fortunately, Wang Ziteng, the governor of the nine provinces, is still patrolling the border. Now that we are looking for good candidates for generals, we can only let Wang Ziteng take the top position first. We do not expect him to have the demeanor of a famous general in ancient times, but we hope that Wang Ziteng can control the border.
The critical situation stabilized.
The situation was urgent, and the Beijing camp dispatched troops very quickly. Thanks to the crazy infrastructure construction of the Ministry of Industry in recent years, the Beijing camp dispatched 30,000 infantry and cavalry vanguard troops. Both the marching speed and the speed of transporting logistics supplies were more than twice as fast as before.
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Such a fast march also shocked the present and the court officials. After regaining consciousness, there was a series of praises and various praises for the Ministry of Works and the great master.
Before, I only thought that the Ministry of Industry was investing heavily in infrastructure construction. Although it increased the speed of vehicles, it also cost a lot of money. If the big boss hadn't set up a traffic bank to raise infrastructure funds by absorbing the people's spare money, I'm afraid the industry would be
Even if you have the intention, you are unable to take action.
But now it seems that the old man’s original persistence was correct. If he hadn’t persisted and even endured countless impeachments, he could have improved the infrastructure level in the Gyeonggi area and at the same time increased the traffic flow speed in the Gyeonggi area. Gyeongying
The marching speed will never be faster.
At this critical moment, whether it is faster or slower is a major matter involving the fate of the country.
If the support troops from the Beijing camp arrive late, the entire Northland will be in chaos, and the energy and cost required to clean up the situation cannot be measured in simple money.
The Beijing camp was dispatched, and the Grand Master and the staff of the Ministry of Industry became busy. Today and the imperial court saw the benefits of infrastructure construction, and naturally wanted to renovate the official road directly to the border area in one go, so as to provide good traffic conditions for future military support.
The eldest boss sat in charge of the Ministry of Works, and methodically divided the huge project into small tasks, and then summoned a team of powerful craftsmen in the capital to subcontract them in just three days. The Ministry of Works only needed to send out enough officials to supervise.
With the enthusiasm of these private craftsmen, I believe that it will not take long to repair all the main official roads from the capital to the border, achieving the purpose of increasing the marching speed desired by the court.
However, although today's announcement is made about a major infrastructure construction project, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is quite unhappy when it allocates funds for the project, which makes the elder very unhappy.
After urging for many times, the Ministry of Finance kept complaining that it was only about three layers of project money that had been allocated. As for when the rest would be available, the Ministry of Finance said it would be very soon, but what exactly is this 'soon'?
How long has it been since he refused to guarantee it?
Isn't this deceiving?
The eldest man was not a vegetarian. He went directly to the palace to file a complaint with the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and complained unceremoniously in front of him: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue is too unhappy. The money for the project to repair the official road at the border has been spent so far.
We have only reached about the third floor, are you trying to gain nothing?"
His face turned dark and his heart was filled with anger. The border war was the most important thing at the moment, and the official road repair project of the Ministry of Industry was related to the speed of support of the Beijing camp's officers and soldiers. No mistakes were allowed.
"Call the Minister of the Ministry of Finance and ask him to explain it to me!"
The big boss usually doesn't try to harass people, but once he opens his mouth and wants to target someone, he's not sure he can survive even today.
Although the intelligence network formed by that gang of beggars seems very unstable and fragile nowadays, we have to admit that the role it can play is still very amazing.
When the eldest master really wants to punish someone, and basically makes sure that he doesn't miss a beat, sometimes he is not happy for the eldest master to speak during court meetings, because once this guy opens his mouth, someone will be in trouble.
Although the low moral integrity of some people is really shameful, nowadays we don't want the court situation to be chaotic. A stable court is still very useful.
Fortunately, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance hurried over. When he saw the eldest master, he immediately understood what was going on. Without waiting for the current and eldest master to get into trouble, he started crying about his poverty.
The income of the Ministry of Revenue is getting less and less year by year, the natural disasters have continued in recent years, and the Ministry of Revenue has taken out too much money, and the border war that just broke out, the Ministry of Revenue has taken out a lot of money. In short, there is only one
I mean, the Ministry of Finance is in a tight financial situation right now.
"Are you really so nervous?"
Nowadays, his brows are furrowed and his face is very ugly. He said angrily: "If I remember correctly, it seems that the income of the imperial court has been rising steadily in the past few years, right?"
I really think I am a fool now. Ever since the sea trade boomed during the time when the great master was in power in Jiangsu Province, the tax revenue in the Jiangnan area has been increasing year by year. He is the first to not believe it if the Ministry of Household Affairs has no money.
"Your Majesty, there is a lot of money in the accounts of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and most of it is tax money from various places that has not yet been sent to Beijing. But it will take time for these tax money to be sent to Beijing!"
The Minister of Revenue also had reasons to defend himself and directly stated the most difficult situation at the moment.
The elder, however, was an old god standing aside as an audience. As for the Minister of the Ministry of Finance's way of speaking that avoided the important and ignored the important, he was quite disdainful.
How could the household department be out of money?
Maybe you have other ideas, or maybe you are interested in the transportation bank owned by the Ministry of Industry?
It's just that the big boss will never give up this thing easily. Communications Bank is just like the modern Bank of Communications. It is of great significance to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry and must not be given away easily.
With the Transportation Bank in hand, the yamen of the Ministry of Industry can basically get rid of the hijacking of the Ministry of Revenue. Some small and medium-sized projects can be decided on their own, instead of having to discuss everything at the court meeting and then ask the yamen of the Ministry of Revenue for money just like asking for rice.
silver.
The key point is that there are huge interests involved. Every time the Ministry of Accounts allocates money, at least it has to go to the third floor. This is the result of the Ministry of Works directly asking for money. If the Ministry of Works is just a middleman, the Ministry of Accounts will withhold the money.
There will only be more.
The money that has been withheld will not remain in the national treasury, but will flow directly into private pockets.
According to the eldest man, all the powerful officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs were killed without injustice. This bad official custom has been going on for many years. If the eldest man is not capable, then forget it, but when he is capable now, he will naturally not do it again.
Tolerating adultery.
The Ministry of Industry can raise money on its own to solve the problems of small and medium-sized projects. Later, the Ministry of Accounts will naturally have to make up the money. The key is that the amount of project money is not what the Ministry of Industry says.
As for the large-scale projects that are of concern today, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development does not dare to interfere with them. A lot of benefits will be lost at once, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction and backlash from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.