Taiyuan's city defense, public security, many affairs, and repairs to the city damage caused by Sun Chuanting's previous siege, Li Guo was of course very busy.
His calmness, solemnity and approachability quickly won the favor of the army and people in Taiyuan. When Li Laiheng sent Mrs. Xing to Taiyuan some time ago, it was Li Guo who spoke out and persuaded Li Zicheng:
"We defeated Xi'an and Taiyuan. We didn't even kill the governor of Shanxi. We only killed Feng Shikong who tried to resist in Xi'an. In addition, we didn't even kill the kings of Qin and Jin in the Ming Dynasty. The Xing family had another
No crime can be higher than that of the Qin and Jin vassals."
It is said that at that time, Li Shuangxi and other generals in the middle camp, including some generals who were familiar with Mrs.
But after Li Zicheng heard what Li Guo said, he simply said "Let her go", let Mrs. Xing and her party go, and sent someone to arrange housing for them.
Lian Fang Yiren, a person with a temperament like Li Laiheng and Li Guo's adoptive father-son relationship, often visited the commander's mansion in recent days because of Li Laiheng and Li Guo's relationship. He also deeply admired Li Guo's conduct:
"Commander Bu governs Taiyuan, treats people with kindness, and has a good reputation. Commander Bu's bright spots are all in the obscurity where no one pays attention. This is the person who does not want others to take credit for his work, but only knows how to do his own errands and duties."
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"Master Liu's Qing Rui is unparalleled. My adoptive father and he are good brothers. When it comes to going to the battlefield, how can Qing Rui be inferior to Master Liu? But when we are not on the battlefield, my adoptive father is really a person who is not tainted with any tackiness.
Character." Li Laiheng also said.
Fang Yiren exclaimed: "That's true... I visited the commander-in-chief's mansion several times. Every time I saw him, he was either doing official business or reading military books and strategies. He was always dressed in linen clothes, not thinking about anything, and he didn't even have tea.
Drink, just drink water, you will really be considered a fairy."
Li Laiheng smiled and said: "Haha, you only drink clear water and wear linen clothes. This is the same as our Highness. Your Highness is now the overlord of the party. Except for the clothes, he has changed into our Yangwulan's new arrow uniform, and he is still as rough as the soldiers.
In short...hey, I can't do this anymore. I can endure the hardship for a while, but I can't let myself be so miserable every day!"
"Haha, in fact, the palace master's appetite is just like that. When I was in my uncle's court, every meal he had as the governor of the Ming Dynasty was very frugal, but it was still at least ten times better than the fish and meat that the palace master recently had.
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"You kid!" Li Laiheng cursed with a smile and put the pen aside, "I wonder when you can get your Tongcheng Fang family's cook back? I also want to have a taste of what you, the family of Zhongming Ding Food, are eating.
What kind of stuff."
Fang Yiren shrugged and said: "My favorite things in life are food, gardens, and ancient books. When the world is peaceful, I will definitely invite the master of the palace to taste the delicious food of Suzhou chefs."
"The food that the governor eats may not be to my taste!" Li Laiheng said with a smile, "Did you know that Hui Shiyang has been appointed Youping Zhangshi?"
When Fang Yiren heard this, he hesitated for a while and then said: "Previously, when the Central Plains Army was establishing government in Kaifeng, they had promoted Zhan Liuchang, the former Shao of Zhanshifu, who was at home in Dingyou, as Minister of Ceremony, and He Ruizheng, a native of Xinyang who had served as a Hanlin scholar, as the official of the government
Li Zhigang, a student in Jiaxian County, is the minister of the military government. Zhao Ying, who was elected in the same year as Niu Qiweng, is the minister of the household government. Another minister, An Xingmin, who was elected in the same year as Qiweng, is the minister of the criminal government. Xu Shangde, who was elected in Luoyang, is the minister of the labor government. These six government ministers
They are all from Henan, but this time King Chuang returned to Taiyuan from Shaanxi, and I also heard that the official ministers of the six governments were officially established, and most of them are Shaanxi people."
"Your Highness hires people by accumulating salary, which is quite a bit like the latecomers taking the lead." Li Laiheng said, "The six ministers of government established in Kaifeng are basically from Henan, and they are basically related to Niu Jinxing. Niu Jinxing is now
He was already granted the title of Zuopingzhang, but His Highness immediately appointed Hui Shiyang as the title of Youpingzhang. His tendency to re-employ civil servants from Shaanxi is also very obvious."
Hui Shiyang was a native of Qingjian, Shaanxi. He was a Jinshi in the thirty-third year of Wanli's reign. He rose to the rank of Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and Shaoqing of Dali Temple in the Ming Dynasty. His fortune was far above that of a down-and-out judge.
Hui Shiyang was a veteran of the three dynasties of the Ming Dynasty. He personally handled the three major cases that affected the entire political situation of the late Ming Dynasty: the siege case, the red pill case, and the palace transfer case. He even impeached the then chief minister because of the three major cases.
Fang Congzhe.
Later, during the Tianqi period, Wei Zhongxian forcibly included Hui Shiyang, who had long been demoted and returned to his hometown, into the Donglin Party, and arranged Hui Shiyang as one of the so-called five tiger generals among the 108 generals of the Donglin Party, calling him
He was called the "Thunderbolt of the Fierce Star", which fully shows Hui Shiyang's prestigious status at that time.
When Li Zicheng was a boy, he was still working as a cowherd boy in northern Shaanxi. He had already heard the name of Shaanxi Qingjian, a veteran of the Ming Dynasty. So after he defeated Guanzhong, Guangluo Talents immediately thought of inviting people who were old because of their age.
Hui Shiyang, who lived in seclusion in his hometown, participated in the establishment of the new political power, and from the very beginning, he was given the high-ranking official Youpingzhang who rivaled Niu Jinxing in Hui Shiyang.
However, Hui Shiyang is already very old. Although he accepted Li Zicheng's recruitment, he also said that he was "born as an old minister to benefit His Majesty." However, due to Hui Shiyang's age, it was difficult for him to handle daily government affairs, and he was more concerned about getting married.
It had a symbolic influence, but did not really challenge Niu Jinxing's status as the first civilian official in the army.
But Song Qijiao and others are different.
Song Qijiao was also from Shaanxi, and he was from Qianxian County, Shaanxi. Song Qijiao was a Jinshi in the Tianqi Dynasty, and he reached the rank of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. His wealth and status also far exceeded Niu Jinxing.
When Li Zicheng pacified Guanzhong, Song Qijiao was living in his hometown. Unlike the elderly Hui Shiyang, he had both ability and energy, and he had no small ambitions. He put forward many suggestions for Li Zicheng to recruit talents in Shaanxi, and also relied on what he had done
The background of the Minister of Civil Affairs managed to recruit a large number of talents who had held middle or higher official positions in the Ming Dynasty.
For example, Gong, who was scheduled to be the Minister of the Rite Government, although specifically from Gansu, there was not much distinction between Gansu and Shaanxi people in the Ming Dynasty, and he could also be counted as a "Qin Party".
Gong was a Jinshi for the fourth year of the Chongzhen Emperor's reign, and was promoted to deputy inspector of schools in Shaanxi Province. He was a man of great energy and real ability. Gong was the one who drafted almost all the specific institutional arrangements for the establishment of the Chuangjun regime. Of course, his ability
not bad.
Most of the newly appointed ministers of the Six Governments were high-ranking officials who had taken refuge with the Chuang Army in Shaanxi. This group of officials, headed by Qijiao and Gong of the Song Dynasty, were basically native of Shaanxi and came from Jinshi, and without exception, they all had served in the Ming Dynasty court.
A higher official position.
In comparison, the original ministers of the six governments during the Kaifeng period were headed by Niu Jinxing. Their basic characteristics were that they were from Henan and had a Juren background, and almost all of them had never served as high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty.
Niu Jinxing insisted on treating himself, Tian Jianxiu, and Li Shuangxi as some kind of Niu Party, and then forcibly excluded Li Guo, Li Laiheng, and Liu Fangliang as some kind of Li Party. It was really pointless.
In Li Laiheng's opinion, if Niu Jinxing really wanted to fight with the party, he should go to Song Qijiao and Gong and the others!
These two groups of people are really different factions with some Ming Dynasty partisanship. One group is the "Qin Party", the other is the "Yu Party", one can be said to be the "Jinshi Party", and the other is
It can be said to be the "party that lifts people up".
Thinking of this, Li Laiheng couldn't help but laugh again. Could he be considered the leader of the "Chu Party"?
Fang Yiren further commented: "However, this Minister Gong Gong proposed that in the future, if the imperial examinations are to be held in the army, the eight-legged essay should be abolished and the policy theory should be changed. This is a very wise point of view. I have seen him and Jiang Xueyi, the newly appointed minister of the Li government.
The new imperial examination model essay I wrote is called Dingding Chang'an Lun. Not to mention the strategic insights, at least in terms of writing paradigm, it is indeed much freer than the eight-legged essay."
"Oh? Is there anything else going on?"
Li Laiheng became somewhat interested in the matter mentioned by Fang Yiren. He didn't expect that any of the Ming Dynasty officials who surrendered to the Chuang Army wanted to reform the imperial examination?
"Well, Gong Shangshu said that all students should not use eight-legged antithesis and answer questions in prose. In fact, there are many scholars in the south of the Yangtze River who hold this view. It's just eight-part essays to select scholars. The Ming Dynasty used hundreds of
Although most scholars agree that it is necessary to change the imperial examination, this change will involve all aspects of things, so it has been delayed for many years, but the imperial court has not seen the change of the imperial examination."
Li Laiheng knew in his heart that if the Donglu were allowed to seize the world, they would only learn how to do it in Handan, calling for the Qing Dynasty to accept the Ming system in vain, and treat the Ming Dynasty scholars as the ancestral legal system and maintain it for hundreds of years.
It would be better to let the Chuang Army, relying on the vigor of the rebel army to establish the new dynasty, directly implement various reforms in one step.
In Li Laiheng's view, giving birth to a child is certainly easier and more effective than saving lives.
To revive the Ming Dynasty is to save the dead; to uphold the Ming Dynasty with Qing Dynasty is to create a zombie.
The creation of the Dashun Dynasty was the birth of a brand new child.