Chapter 42: Going to the county seat (two chapters in one, please follow up)
There is naturally no suspense in this battle.
Zhu Qi and his group were still stirring brine in the salt field a few months ago, so how could they defeat the guardsmen soldiers trained by Su Ze.
Although Su Ze's "art of war" is at the level of Level 2, the Changning Guards soldiers formed in formation are more than enough to deal with a mere thirty Japanese pirates armed with wooden sticks.
In less than half an hour, all the Japanese pirates, including Zhu Qi, were arrested.
[Defeat the Japanese pirates, military experience +5, Lv2, 50/200]
After gaining another wave of experience, Su Ze escorted Zhu Qi and his group back to Changning Guard under the cover of night.
By the time we returned to Changningwei, it was already dark.
A few lonely rooster crows woke up the red sun on the sea. As soon as Su Ze and his party entered the guard house, they attracted the attention of the early guard people.
After everyone arrived at the ancestral hall, a group of Japanese pirates were imprisoned in the backyard. Since the government would not accept them, Su Ze planned to imprison them for a few days, and then go to reclaim the wasteland with the Arhats.
Lin Deqing handed the money from selling salt to Su Ze in public, and Su Ze handed a package of money to his grandfather.
After opening the copper coins in the package, everyone in Changning Guard looked at them in amazement. They didn't expect that Su Ze had made so much money in less than a month of tinkering on the tidal flat!
A scholar is a scholar! There are ways to make money than farmers!
However, the people of Changningwei cannot afford to be jealous of scholars like Su Ze. Who wants scholars to be capable?
The method of drying salt on the seaside is not difficult to learn, but how to remove the bitter taste and produce refined salt is a magical method for the people of Changningwei.
Next, Su Ze distributed the several hundred coins seized from Zhu Qi and his party to the soldiers from the guard station who went to war, and paid for them to have a hearty breakfast before leaving. Su Ze's prestige in Changning Guards rose to a new level. steps.
After everyone dispersed, Su Ze said to his grandfather,
"This group of gangsters actually have the uniforms of county government officials. The origins behind this may not be that simple."
My grandfather stroked his beard and said, "Our Chang Ning Guard is a military guard. Catching Japanese pirates is a matter of course! The situation in the county is also very complicated, but we are not afraid of their revenge."
Then the old man took out two documents from his sleeves, handed them to Su Ze and said:
"Azezai, you are a scholar. What are your plans?"
Su Ze was stunned for a moment. During this time, he was busy with liver skills and only thought about making salt to make money, but he didn't think much about it.
The old man continued: "Students always have to go to school. Grandpa knows that Changning Guard cannot keep you. One of these two documents is a letter of guarantee issued by the guard, which proves the identity of your ninth aunt's nephew." "One
. It's the road guide opened by Wei Li."
The old man took out another letter and said:
"In the early years, a hundred households once sponsored a junior student in the county school. If you want to take the boy examination, you need someone to be your guarantee. Take this Send a letter and that person will definitely guarantee you."
Su Ze was a little touched that Chang Ningwei had made all the arrangements for him.
The school system of the Ming Dynasty was complex, and it was not easy to qualify for the imperial examination.
First of all, to be able to participate in the imperial examination, he must be a scholar with a clean background. This requires Libao to issue a letter of guarantee to prove that the scholar has good conduct and has not committed any crimes by his ancestors.
Then a junior student from the county school is required as a guarantor, so that he can be qualified to participate in the county examination held by the county.
After the county examination, there is the government examination. After passing these two levels, there is the Taoist examination hosted by the academic administration of the province.
Those who pass the Taoist examination are called shengyuan (shengyuan) or "xiucai" (xiucai), so they can enter schools in various counties.
Linsheng is a scholar who studied in the county school.
Although in the late Qing Dynasty, scholars were always said to be poor, but in today's era, scholars are still very valuable.
First of all, this junior student is allocated money from the imperial court and studies at public expense, earning him 50 cents per month.
Ma Sheng in the "Preface to Sending Ma Sheng to Dongyang" in the early Ming Dynasty was a Linsheng. "The county official has a daily supply of Linshao," which means that there is a supply of Lumi every month.
Starting from the mid-Ming Dynasty, the Lumi earned by Lin students was converted into Luyin, and they received a monthly subsidy of two taels of silver.
In addition, there are certain privileges such as tax exemption and exemption from military service. It can be said that only by becoming a shengren can one enter the ranks of scholars.
There are only twenty graduate students in the entire county. The graduate students provide guarantees for others before the county examination, which is also an extra income.
Fujian is a province that is famous for its imperial examinations, and this income is quite considerable.
My grandpa prepared all the guarantee papers in order for him to take the county examination. It can be said that he took great care of Su Ze.
The other document is the road guide, which is proof of Su Ze's travel to the county seat, and also prepares all the procedures for Su Ze.
Su Ze bowed respectfully to his grandfather and said,
"Grandpa, Su Ze will never forget Chang Ning Wei's kindness today."
His grandfather stroked his beard and said, "If you become prominent in the future and can think of Chang Ning Wei, then... That's enough."
"Tomorrow Xianyang is going to the county to fight for fines. You should also go to the county with him to have a look, and come back together after completing the qualifications for childbirth." Su Ze nodded quickly. He had traveled through time for so long
, Finally I can go to the county town to see it.
Su Ze returned to his family temple and was about to pack his things when he bumped into the angry little Luotou Lin Liangjun.
"Brother Aze, why didn't you take me to the ghost market yesterday?"
Little Carrot Head asked when he came up.
Su Ze said patiently: "I went to fight the Japanese pirates yesterday. Why did I take you with
me?" "Why didn't you take me with you to fight the Japanese pirates? I'm the next Baihu!"
"Go, go, as long as your hair is still long. We want to fight the Japanese pirates."
However, Lin Liangjun quickly adjusted his mood, rolled his eyes and said,
"Brother Aze, I heard that you are going to the county seat? As long as you take me to the county seat, how about letting everything go as planned? "
"It's a deal, it's a write-off!"
Su Ze raised his hand and was about to slap Lin Liangjun on the head. He immediately jumped away and said,
"My brother asked my old grandpa to do this for you to go to the county seat! You Why don't you thank me quickly!"
"Your brother?" Su Ze thought of a certain upright figure, but he still wanted to beat the naughty kid. He grabbed Lin Liangjun and said, "Your brother
is your brother, and you are you. Let me I will teach you what it means to respect teachers!"
After giving the little carrot head a lesson, Su Ze said,
"Why are you going to the county town?"
Lin Liangjun said, "The county town is so much fun! From my father I haven't been there since I died."
Su Ze raised his head and saw Lin Liangjun's head lowered, and couldn't help but feel a little soft.
Su Ze also found out everything about Changning Guard. Lin Liangjun's mother died of an illness just after he was born, and his father had just died in battle, leaving only Lin Mojun to depend on.
Lin Mojun, a female from a hundred families, was either training at the school grounds or patrolling the sea all day, which made Lin Liangjun become the devil in the guard station.
Although this disciple was usually naughty, he also contributed a lot of "enlightenment" experience points to Su Ze. Thinking of this, Su Ze said: "It's not impossible to
take you to the county seat, but we have to make a three-part agreement."
I heard that Su Ze was willing to take him. Going to the county seat by himself, Lin Liangjun immediately jumped up and no longer looked as lonely as before.
Su Ze only felt that he had been tricked by this kid, but since he had agreed, Su Ze said:
"First, don't run around. If you are kidnapped by someone, I won't be able to explain it to hundreds of households." "No. Problem!"
"Second, you have to listen to me when you get to the county seat. The county seat is not Changning Guard. If you commit a crime, no one can catch you." "
No problem!"
"Third, don't neglect your studies on the road and study with me. "
Lin Liangjun's little face wrinkled up when he heard the reading, but in order to go to the county seat, he still nodded heavily: "No problem!"
The next morning.
After a simple day's rest, Su Ze told Lin Cainiang to take good care of the three acres of land he had opened, and asked Aunt Ninth to find someone to watch over the Arhats who were pioneering land, and then set off on the road to the county town.
Also going to the county this time was Lin Xianyang, my grandpa's boy. He wanted to send the fines for fighting to the county government, and also take care of the county and handle some Changning Guard affairs.
After hearing that Lin Liangjun was going to the county seat, Lin Xianyang's nephew Lin Anzai also made noises about going.
Su Ze saw that Lin Xianyang's legs and feet were not yet strong, so he simply borrowed a mule from the family temple and a cart from Lin Xianzong's family, put a cart on the mule, and took Lin Xianyang to the county seat.
It was Lin Anzi's first trip to the county town and he was very excited along the way.
Lin Liangjun went to the county town with his father. At this time, he pretended to be very experienced and explained to Lin Anzai the precautions for going to the county town.
With a person with handicapped legs and two children, the group walked very slowly.
Su Ze, who had become accustomed to technological navigation, had no sense of direction at all and was confused as soon as he left the county.
Fortunately, Lin Xianyang often went to the county seat. He pointed to the west and said,
"Let's go all the way west and we will reach Nanping County." "
Wait, Nanping County? Is it Nanping County, Yanping Prefecture?"
Lin Xianyang looked at Su Ze in confusion and said. "Yes, the civil affairs of our Changningwei are under the jurisdiction of Nanping County, don't brothers Ze know?"
Su Ze asked doubtfully: "But Yanping Mansion is not close to the sea? Aren't we closer to Fuzhou?"
Lin Xianyang had never thought about this problem. He shook his head and said, "Since the establishment of Changning Guard, our civil affairs have been under the jurisdiction of Nanping County. But you are right, Fuzhou Prefecture is indeed closer than Nanping County." Su
Ze I also didn’t expect that Changning Guard, a guard station close to the sea, would be managed by Yanping Mansion, which was not close to the sea at all.
Changningwei is located in central Fujian, and its geographical location is somewhat closer to southern Fujian, but it is under the jurisdiction of Yanping Prefecture in northern Fujian.
However, the administrative divisions of the Ming Dynasty were often messy, and even his mentor sometimes couldn't understand them.
According to the instructor, "When you encounter such a messy zoning problem, don't ask. Ask about the checks and balances of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang!"
However, Nanping County is not far from Changning Guard. According to Lin Xianyang's experience, you can reach the county seat before evening. .
Being bored on the road, Su Ze asked Lin Xianyang about the situation in Nanping County.
Ever since Su Ze avenged Lin Xianyang last time, Lin Xianyang had great respect for Su Ze and naturally knew everything.
The two carrot heads also pricked up their ears and listened to Lin Xianyang's talk about the situation in Nanping County.
"Nanping County is Yiguo County, and the Yamen of Yanping Prefecture is also in Nanping County, so there are several masters above the heads of the people of Nanping County." "It stands to reason that the
biggest one in Nanping County is the prefect, but after the previous prefect was dismissed by the court last year, he has been There is no new magistrate."
"Without the magistrate here, the government office has no backbone, but it is overpowered by the magistrate."
Su Ze thought to himself, this Nanping magistrate is really lucky.
The most fearful thing for anyone who is a county magistrate is to be the magistrate of Yiguo County.
In the system of the Ming Dynasty, "the prefect is the leader of the state and county, and the governor of the state and county." This shows that the prefect has great power and has great power over the magistrates within his jurisdiction.
The magistrate may not be able to control other counties, but Yiguo County, where his own government office is located, must be able to intervene. Therefore, there is a saying in the Qing Dynasty that goes, "If you do evil in your previous life, the magistrate will attach himself to Guo; if he is full of evil, he will attach himself to the provincial capital of Guo." But the magistrate of Nanping
County Taking advantage of the vacancy in Yanping Prefecture, he usurped the power of the government office, which made Su Ze feel a little incredible.
However, it stands to reason that if the prefect is gone, there will still be co-prefects from the second prefecture, general judges from the third prefecture, and recommended officials from the fourth prefecture. These can be appointed by superiors to act as the prefect when the prefect is vacant, but I don’t know what Yanping Prefecture is. Condition.
Lin Xianyang continued to remind:
"In Nanping City, in addition to the two government offices of the prefecture and county, there are also the Taxation Department, Warehouse, Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, Hebo Office, Approval Office, Delivery Office, Metallurgical Office, etc. If you see the iron office, gate officer, dam officer, these yamen can go around as far as you can, don't get close."
Lin Liangjun and Lin Chunzai quickly asked: "Why?"
Lin Xianyang said: "These yamen If you are detained for corvee service, the guard station will have no money to catch you!"
Su Ze frowned and said, "Aren't we, the remnants of the guard station, temporarily exempted from service? Besides, can these yamen directly arrest people for corvée service?"
Lin Xianyang said He sighed and said: "It stands to reason that it is not possible, but after the chaos in the southeast, there was a shortage of people everywhere in the yamen. People ranging from 70-year-olds to their seven or eight-year-old children may have been detained for corvee service. Previously, a clan brother entered I was selling goods in the county town, so I was arrested by the delivery office and sent to deliver military rations to the front line. If my father hadn't stepped forward in time, I might not have been able to come back." At this time, the two carrot heads were also frightened, and they quickly promised themselves that they would never give up
. Will be close to these government offices.
Su Ze sighed. Although Jiajing was a scam, compared to the bigger scams behind it, it was better to impose excessive taxes and corvee.
After the One Whip Law was implemented, the court briefly used silver to eliminate corvee labor and instead hired people to do corvée work.
But soon the Ming Dynasty was reluctant to give up free labor. While collecting the silver to pay for corvee labor, a larger scale of corvee service was once again established. Not only did they have to serve, but they also had to pay to serve. This led to endless waves of peasant uprisings.
Nowadays, the corvée service in the southeastern region is heavy, and there is a near chance of death as a result of corvée service. Many people even abandon their fields and flee, or hide in big families and work as adopted sons and domestic slaves, just to avoid the corvée service.
Lin Xianyang added: "Finally, there are two yamen that we must go around in Nanping County. One is the Yanping Guards Commander's Yamen, and the other is the Gongcha Department Yamen." The two little Luo heads raised their ears, and Su Ze was confused
. Asked:
"The Yanping Guards command the Yamen. Aren't they the same as our Changning Guards?"
Lin Xianyang shook his head and said: "The Yanping Guards are the Commanding Yamen of Fucheng. They are the headquarters of five thousand people. They obey the orders of Fujian. Dusi Yamen, the commander of the guard station is a third-grade general."
"Our Changning Guard is just a small guard post, and it is directly subordinate to the Beiwa Commander-in-Chief of Haiwei, but it is different."
Lin Xianyang said disdainfully: "The discipline of the Yanping Guard is corrupt. Soldiers often go out of the city to set up checkpoints and robberies. In Nanping County, Everyone is afraid."
Su Ze was speechless for a while. There are often records in history books of hundreds of Japanese pirates besieging Fucheng and counties. It turns out that the Ming Dynasty's army was just such a bunch of bugs.
"The Tribute Tea Department is even closer. Yanping Prefecture wants to pay tribute to Wuyi Mountain Tea from the two capitals. If you are caught picking tea, it will be a life-threatening job!" Su Ze discovered for the first time that the small county town actually
had It's such a dragon's pond and a tiger's den.
In this Ming Dynasty, pills!
There are also nights.
(The civil administration of the southern garrison and the northern garrison are different from that of the northern garrison. In the nine-border garrison in the north, the civil administration belongs to the garrison, while the northern garrison combines military and political affairs. In addition to managing the army and military families, the northern garrison can also Non-military citizens who manage registration can be considered to be a special zone in Northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty that integrated military and political affairs.
However, in the non-Northern Xinjiang garrison, the military and administration were basically vested in the provincial capital's Yamen. However, during the Jiajing period of the Haibian garrison, the Beiwaba General Department was established. , under the management of the counselor general or the governor. The civil affairs of the Southern Guards Station are under the jurisdiction of the nearest county government. Many litigation records retained by the county offices in the Ming Dynasty include many litigation rulings involving the health stations, which can prove this.) 2
. Please read the chapter on unity!
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