Chapter 306: Don’t ask about people and ghosts.
Hai Rui is packing his things.
After he was transferred from Zhejiang to Jiangxi Xingguo County Magistrate, he has been doing well in his position as Xingguo County Magistrate.
Hai Rui cleared the land, cracked down on the criminal activities of the wealthy households in the city to hide their land and population, and tried the lawsuits of squeeze. The people of Xingguo County called him Qingtian.
However, Hai Rui was deeply influenced by Su Ze and did some things that were different from the historical timeline before Su Ze traveled through time.
Hai Rui used his last savings from the government treasury in Xingguo County to build five government-run workshops in Xingguo County.
Although Xingguo County is poor, it is rich in natural resources.
Hai Rui built a lime workshop, a rosin workshop, a coal mine, an iron mine and a paper mill based on the local specialties of Xingguo.
These workshops were all built by Hai Rui based on the methods in the Tiangong Kaiwu that Su Ze sent to him. Relying on advanced technology, these five workshops became profitable in just one year.
The big families in the city came to Hai Rui one after another, hoping that he could open some industries to the wealthy families.
Hai Rui naturally wanted it, but he insisted that the mines must be run by the government. He only agreed to open the technologies of iron ore processing, lime processing, rosin and paper mills to these wealthy households, allowing them to set up their own workshops in the city.
Suddenly, Xingguo County, a small county close to a mountainous area with not very developed transportation, became richer and richer day by day after Hai Rui took office.
The Feilong Army invaded Jiangxi, and a large number of refugees appeared in Jiangxi. The other counties in Jiangxi tried their best to prevent the refugees from entering, except Xingguo County, which had developed industry and commerce.
Hai Rui took in many refugees, arranged for them to work in government-run workshops, and led them to build water conservancy and hydraulic workshops. Xingguo County became increasingly prosperous due to the influx of a large number of laborers.
However, the reason why Hai Rui was promoted was not because of his great contribution in governing Xingguo County, but because he repeatedly defied Yan Dang's superiors and publicly criticized Yan Song and his son.
After Hai Rui arrived in Xingguo County, Jiangxi was the home of the Yan Party. His immediate superiors tried to intervene in Xingguo County's industries many times, but Hai Rui used the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" to stop him.
Hai Rui was also dissatisfied with the corruption in the court and believed it was caused by the strict dictatorship of the Party, so he constantly criticized Mr. Yan Ge in public and private occasions, and often said that he would go to Jiangxi Fenyi to become a county magistrate.
Fenyi is Yan Song's hometown. What does Hai Rui, an anti-Yan Song guy, want to do when he goes to Fenyi, Jiangxi to become the county magistrate?
Hai Rui's remarks spread to the capital, and both Yan Dang and Qing Liu began to promote Hai Rui's promotion.
In addition to supervising officials, the Yushiyanguan also had the responsibility of recommending talents.
Jiangxi Dao, a member of the Qingliu faction, wrote a letter on the matter, saying that Hai Rui, the magistrate of Xingguo County, was good at managing the people and was rated high in any party, so he recommended Hai Rui for promotion.
The bureaucracy controlled by Yan Song's party immediately arranged a position for Hai Rui, and Hai Rui's promotion was approved immediately.
The Ministry of Personnel issued a document summoning Hai Rui to the capital to serve as the chief of the Yunnan Qing Li Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
To be fair, the head position of the Thirteen Cleaning Officials Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs is considered a good position.
The financial system of the Ming Dynasty was extremely chaotic and complex. The Household Department was the largest of the six departments in terms of number of people and the affairs it governed, and sometimes even surpassed the Personnel Department.
The reason is also very simple. The Ministry of Personnel is said to be in charge of personnel appointments, but can your small Ministry of Personnel be in charge? It's beyond my control.
After Yan Song came to power, he often provided military training to the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, making them look like minions.
Every time the Ministry of Personnel recommends a list of officials, officials must be sent to the cabinet for education. Only when the cabinet bosses decide on the recommended candidates, the Ministry of Personnel will draft the list and give it to the emperor.
The emperor selected his suitable candidate from the list.
The Ministry of Personnel has no right to recommend senior officials, and the power to appoint middle- and low-level officials has also been usurped by the cabinet.
Yan Song imitated the political affairs hall system of the Tang Dynasty and also brought about the elimination of the hall in the Ming Dynasty cabinet.
After the selection of middle- and lower-level officials by the Ministry of Personnel, they must be reviewed and approved by the cabinet before they can be issued. The cabinet overrides the Ministry of Personnel and completely treats the Ministry of Personnel as a secretariat.
However, because of its professionalism, the Ministry of Household Affairs has escaped the murderous hands of the cabinet and has become a department with relatively high autonomy.
Under the Ministry of Household Affairs, there are thirteen Qing officials divisions, which correspond to thirteen provinces in the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty.
The Yunnan Qing Li Department of the Ministry of Personnel is connected to the Yunnan Chief Envoy Department and is responsible for managing, supervising, and accounting for the finance of Yunnan Province. It is also a Beijing official, which is indeed a very good position compared to the county magistrate of Xingguo.
However, Hai Rui was still a little unhappy. He had just made some achievements in Xingguo County, and others were busy picking peaches.
The person who took over as the magistrate of Xingguo County was a member of the Yan Party. I heard that he was a Jinshi in the previous subject. He waited for three years in the capital and finally spent a lot of money to get Yan Shifan, and then he was selected for the position of magistrate of Xingguo County.
Hai Rui thought of the business he had managed to build with great difficulty, and also thought of the greedy eyes of the new magistrate when he handed over the seal. Seeing that the new magistrate couldn't wait to take over the workshop with his own hands, Hai Rui felt bad.
Hai Rui hitched the horse to the carriage and asked his old mother and wife to sit in the carriage, while he supported himself outside the carriage. He refused the Wanmin Umbrella because he only had one carriage and no room to put it.
Hai Rui did not take off his boots as a souvenir for the people, because these were almost worn out. They were his only official boots, and the dense stitches on them were all sewn by Hai Rui's wife under an oil lamp.
Hai Rui only had a few pieces of luggage, all of which he brought from Zhejiang.
With mixed feelings of joy and sorrow, Hai Rui embarked on the road to the capital.
In the capital, there was a lively scene of flowers blooming in spring. At this time, the streets of the capital were bustling with activity. Ying Tianfu spent great efforts to drive all the beggars and hungry people in the capital out of the city.
Because today is the day when the three imperial examination companies parade on horseback.
The results of the palace examination in the 41st year of Jiajing came out. Xu Shixing, a tribute scholar from Suzhou Prefecture, ranked first in the first class and was the top scholar in the undergraduate program.
Suzhou Gongshi Wang Xijue ranked second in the first class and second in the undergraduate program.
Xu Guo, a tribute scholar from Huizhou Prefecture, ranked third in the first class and was the top pick in the undergraduate program.
This year Xu Shixing is twenty-eight years old, Wang Xijue is forty-two years old, and Xu Guo is thirty-five years old.
The people in the capital looked at the young champion and sighed with emotion as if there were many talents in the Ming Dynasty. This grand event in the imperial examination hall could finally dilute the painful memories of some people in the capital.
Xu Shixing, who was riding on the horse, felt a little dazed. He didn't expect that he had won the first prize?
Although natural and man-made disasters continued in the Ming Dynasty, this year's imperial examination was still the most demanding since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Yes, every year is the busiest year.
But Xu Shixing felt like it was a dream to be able to find a special volume in the 41st year of Jiajing.
Xu Shixing, who was wearing a red robe and riding a tall horse, suddenly thought of a person. If he came to take part in the imperial examination, it would definitely not be his turn to win the top prize, right?
Thinking of Su Ze who fought against the Japanese in Fujian, Xu Shixing once again lamented that he was picked up as the top pick this time.
Not only Xu Shixing thought so, but Xu Guo and Wang Xijue on both sides of him also thought so.
The content and form of the tribute examination held in February were similar to those of the provincial examination, and the main examinations were imperial essays. However, the results of Gongshi have little impact on the final ranking of Jinshi. This is a test to qualify for the imperial examination. It is the imperial examination that determines the final ranking of the imperial examination.
As the highest-level examination in the country, officials who pass the Jinshi examination are theoretically officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the top few in the imperial examination are regarded as the country's future prime ministers.
The content of the palace examination is no longer the examination of the imperial examination papers, but the strategy proposed by the emperor himself.
The questions for this year's palace examination were also set by the emperor himself, but all the candidates who got the questions were confused when they got the questions.
"On Xu Fu's Search for Immortals at Sea", what the hell is this title?
The country's highest talent promotion ceremony doesn't even ask the common people or ghosts and gods?
Several angry young candidates were immediately furious!
But what about anger? After ten years, or even decades of studying hard, I have finally reached the stage of the imperial examination. Can I still hand in a blank paper?
Xu Shixing was confused when he got this paper. He didn't know much about things like formulas and elixirs, and he was unwilling to flatter the emperor and write some stories about immortals.
He followed Su Ze's theory of overseas colonization and combined it with some new overseas species in South America that Su Ze had talked about when he was in Suzhou, and described to the emperor an overseas world full of rare treasures.
Xu Shixing's writing level is very high. He doesn't like the gorgeous parallelism of Taige style. He advocates plain and graceful, graceful and thoughtful, and does not use exaggerated and shocking words.
However, with his writing style, the overseas world he writes about is convincing.
In accordance with Su Ze's theory of colonial expansion, Xu Shixing put forward ideas for solving the silver problem, food problem and land problem of the Great White Sea, looking for a way out to a wider overseas area, reviving the glory of foreign development in the Xia Dynasty, and once again took the initiative to send Xu Fu to explore the world. Overseas spirit.
Although this article did not match what Jiajing wanted, what Xu Shixing wrote still aroused great interest in the emperor. Maybe in that magical land overseas, there really is a pill that can become an immortal?
Xu Shixing was selected as the number one scholar.
After parading on horseback, a few days later, officials were awarded according to their rankings in the imperial examination.
Xu Shixing became the first Jinshi and was awarded the Imperial Academy's official title of compilation.
Wang Xijue passed the imperial examination with the second place, and was awarded the Imperial Academy editorship.
Xu Guo passed the imperial examination with the third place, and was officially awarded the title of Editor of the Hanlin Academy.
The remaining second-class Jinshi, five people under the age of 28, will take the Hanlin Academy's library selection examination. Those who pass will be awarded Shujishi and stay in the Hanlin Academy to observe politics.
The remaining second-class and third-class scholars, together with the Jinshi, wait for their appointment in the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs according to their rankings in the imperial examination.
Next came the Qionglin Banquet and the banquet of the same year. Xu Shixing attended several more banquets in the capital. Everyone praised him as a young hero who would become the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
But when Xu Shixing remembered what happened in Suzhou Prefecture and Shanghai County, he always felt that his time in the capital was a complete waste of time.
When Xu Shixing entered the Hanlin Academy again, his daily routine was to read in the Hanlin Academy. Occasionally, as a Hanlin official, he had to write poems for the emperor. All of this made Xu Shixing feel empty.
Everyone is working hard to perform and work seriously. Those old scholars who are knowledgeable and poor in scriptures carefully consider every word every time they receive the task of writing Qingci for the emperor.
The imperial decrees and government documents in the Hanlin Academy have long been covered with dust. Instead, everyone has a copy of alchemy and Taoist books.
The aftermath of the fight between Yan Dang and Qingliu is also rippling in the Hanlin Academy. Everyone is cautious for fear of being caught.
Xu Shixing deeply discovered that in the majestic palace walls and grand official offices of the Ming Dynasty, there could be power, calculation, fame and fortune, but nothing beneficial to the Ming Dynasty could be accommodated.
Under the ostentatious scrolls of officials in the capital, among these gorgeous poems and political orders, none of them had anything to do with the people of the Ming Dynasty.
In April, the emperor issued an edict, ordering the imperial censors Jiang Zhen and Wang Daren to travel across the country to visit alchemists and talisman secretaries.
He also ordered all the officials of the Hanlin Academy, including Shu Jishi who studied in Guanzheng, to study the Taoist elixirs stored in the palace to find elixirs that could prolong life.
What shocked the whole court even more was that Xu Shixing, the new champion in science and newly appointed as editor of the Hanlin Academy, was sent to Fuzhou by the emperor's decree, asking him to go to Fuzhou to contact the Ryukyu envoys in search of overseas elixirs and prescriptions.
Xu Shixing couldn't laugh or cry about such a ridiculous edict, but what greeted him was the jealous eyes of his colleagues in the Hanlin Academy. Even the entire Hanlin Academy was speculating on which cabinet elder Xu Shixing had embraced. Only then can you get such a "good job"!
Xu Shixing had no choice but to pack his luggage and head south from the capital.
On the water transport ship, Xu Shixing passed by Hai Rui who was entering Beijing.
In May, the trade wind blew up in Fuzhou City, and the Ryukyu envoy's trade ship docked at the port.
The wolf-like officers and soldiers boarded the Ryukyu envoy's ship and directly dragged the Ryukyu envoy Lin Changjing, who was carrying his credentials, off the ship.
By the time Eunuch Tao received the news, the Ryukyu envoys had already been imprisoned in the prison of the patrol yamen.
"Master Yan! You treat the tribute envoy so harshly! The Zajia family will come to join you!"
Leaving a harmless threat, Eunuch Tao could only lead his people back to Shibosi Yamen.
He sent the young eunuch to Chuanshi Island to find Su Ze to find a solution, but he heard the news that Su Ze had led Yang Fan, the new naval force, to set off.
Sitting on the flagship New World, Lin Liangjun hurriedly climbed onto the deck from the messaging boat and reported to Su Zehui:
"The clipper ship has not found any trace of Japanese pirates on the target route!"
Everyone looked at Su Zehui. Ze, the Qi family army has gone north as planned and ambushed around Fuzhou City. The direction of the fleet's advance is the route used in the war game.
But now the clipper ship has not found the enemy. Could it be that the guess is wrong? Didn’t the Japanese pirates attack Fuzhou Prefecture?
Su Ze pondered for a while and said: "The results of the war game are not wrong, and our intelligence is not wrong either. The sea is vast, maybe the clipper ship searched the wrong area!" "Get the sea map!" Everyone hurriedly brought the
sea
map Su Ze looked at the wind direction of the weather beacon, and then began to draw and calculate on the chart.
Using the [Calculation] skill, Su Ze quickly calculated the result.
"Has this area been searched?"
"No!"
"Send a clipper ship to search this area!"
First, typos will be corrected immediately. This chapter is a bit difficult to write. As of now, I have gone to work and I will revise it when I get to work.
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