The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 663
Recently, the Peasant Army started to make trouble again. First, Zhang Xianzhong rebelled, then Li Zicheng came out of the mountains again, and Shandong lost its harvest. Not to mention the refugees from outside, Shandong Province is everywhere.

Chang Hui is organizing people to cook porridge, An Min, and also knows that a new governor will arrive today.

He led a group of people near the gate of the city, and when he saw soldiers and horses approaching, he hurried forward.

Liu Yuan's flag tent, the brand is very obvious, more than a dozen civil and military officials rushed forward, Xixi Lala's voice was weak.

"Meet Du Xian."

Liu Yuan is now the right deputy capital censor and the title of minister of the military department, so he can be called Lord Duxian.

Many people looked at Liu Yuan strangely, because most of the governors took the bridge when they took office, and civil servants riding horses were indeed rare.

Liu Yuan jumped off the horse expressionlessly, and glanced at the steaming cauldron beside him.

There are both sides of the inner street of the city gate. It seems that there are a lot of pots, there are more than a dozen, and there are hundreds of victims on both sides. will fall to the ground.

They stared at the big pot eagerly, waiting for the next pot of porridge.

Liu Yuan immediately felt that Chang Hui and the others were acting for him.

He strode to a pot, glanced at the pot, stretched out his hand and shouted, "Bring a chopstick."

Immediately, soldiers from the left and right stepped forward and handed them chopsticks.

Liu Yuan inserted the chopsticks in, but they couldn't stand at all, and the top was covered with a layer of soup.

He was furious, turned around and yelled: "When cooking porridge for disaster relief, you need to be able to stand up your chopsticks. Now the chopsticks are full of water. What kind of porridge is this, and the people can eat enough?"

"..." Chang Hui and the others were dumbfounded, never heard of such a saying?
Because the need to set up chopsticks for cooking porridge was not an idea of ​​this era, but Ding Yi asked Denglai to do so.

"Come here--" Liu Yuan shouted sharply, ready to ask someone to kill these dog officials first.

"Cough cough" Ma Zhengfu coughed a few times beside him.

Ma Zhengfu is a civil servant from Lushun, and he reminded Liu Yuan that this is Dengzhou's practice.

Liu Yuan suddenly realized, what a mother, she was too much pretending to be an upright official.

"Open the granary and release the grain." Liu Yuan changed his tone. Originally, he wanted to say that someone came to take them down, and changed it to someone who came to open the granary to release the grain.

"Lord Duxian, there is no food." A civil official on the opposite side cried, "All were taken away by Jiannu. Last month, the imperial court brought in [-] shi, which is almost used up. We are helping the victims every day."

Liu Yuan looked back at Ma Zhengfu, Ma Zhengfu nodded, and Liu Yuan said, leave the disaster relief here to others, and you don't have to worry about it.

Ding Yi's people have full authority to handle the drainage and resettlement.

And Liu Yuan immediately started to reorganize the Jinan Third Division, quantify the land, and settle the refugees.

Jinan Prefecture and Jinan City are now the same as Dengzhou in those days. The rich and officials have basically been killed, and the killings are more serious than in Dengzhou.

The Tartars suffered a defeat at the hands of Ding Yi, and all their anger poured out to Jinan City. In addition, they needed to plunder wealth and food. All the big households in the city, as long as they did not hide or escape, were almost wiped out.

Below Prince De's Mansion, officials at all levels have been wiped out by [-]%.

Most of the remaining people were looted, and finally transferred to Jeju and Dayuan by Ding Yi.

As soon as Liu Yuan arrived, he had to first set up the third department office, then measure the land, count the population, and then drain the victims, resettle and distribute them, and he was extremely busy.

Fortunately, Ding Yi's subordinates from Dengzhou are all experienced.

This kind of thing is easy to do.

The first is to build the third division.

The local officials were almost slaughtered and arrested, only Chang Hui and a dozen others remained.

The important officials of the three local divisions are appointed as the political envoy, and the procuratorial envoy for punishment. They all command the envoy.

The chief officials of these three main departments are naturally appointed by the court, and no one is here now.

The left and right chief envoys are Xia Shangji from Yixing and Shao Jiechun from Fujian.

This Shao Jiechun is also lucky, now he is in Sichuan, the former governor of Sichuan, Fu Zonglong, was transferred back to the capital to serve as Minister of the Ministry of War in May.

This time, because Liu Yuan was the governor of Shandong, the court thought about it and transferred Shao Jiechun from Sichuan.

The new Shandong inspectorate is Zhao Guangzhang.

Zhao Guangzhang was the governor of Miyun in the 11th year of Chongzhen. Not long after he took office, he reported Deng Xizhao, the military supervisor of Miyun, for treachery and collusion with the enemy.The imperial court summoned Xizhao back and sent eunuch Sun Maolin to check it out. Unexpectedly, Maolin and Xizhaoxiang had a personal relationship, lied about "there was no evidence for the investigation", and they were convicted and exiled to Guangdong.

Originally, he would not be reinstated until 15 years after he arrived in Chongzhen. This time, Chongzhen somehow thought of him in advance, recalled him from Guangdong, and served as the inspector of Shandong.

To talk about these three people, capable ministers dare not say that they are all officials. The so-called officials have several characteristics. First, they are loyal to the court and Chongzhen, and then they are more able to endure hardship and are willing to do things. Chongzhen is still very good at selecting people, so Liu Yuan will be under a lot of pressure.

Jinan is not like Dengzhou. He is the governor of Dengzhou. Below him is the prefect Zhang Yingqiu, who can be regarded as half of his own. Other officials and small officials can directly ignore it.

But there is Shandong Sansi here, if these three giants are all here, and if they are dedicated to Chongzhen, Liu Yuan will definitely have a hard time.

As soon as Liu Yuan came, he heard the candidate for the third division, and his heart skipped a beat. It was a bad comer.

"Who is the instigator? Over there?" Zhang Qidong asked Chang Hui at this time.

"Zhao Baihe, he's from the capital."

Liu Yuan's complexion was even worse.

Zhao Baihe is also an acquaintance of Ding Yi. When Ding Yi went to Dengzhou to quell the chaos, Zhao Baihe, who was then a thousand households of the Jinyiwei, wanted to bring the Jinyiwei's own army to arrest Ding Yi, but was almost killed by Ding Yi, and fled in fright.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, Zhao Baihe, a thousand households of Jinyiwei, unexpectedly transformed into the commander of the Shandong Metropolitan Commander, whether it was aimed at Lu Chao and Ding Yi.

But at this time, the chief officials of the three divisions have not arrived. Like Zhao Guangzhang and Shao Jiechun, who are far away, either the imperial order is still on the way, or they have just started on the road. It is estimated that it will be a month or two before Jinan, Shandong.

The nearest one is Zhao Baihe, who came from the capital. Chang Hui said that he must be there tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

When he spoke, he looked resigned.

This time the Qing soldiers went on a killing spree in Jinan, killing all middle and high-level officials who could be caught.

He managed to survive. He thought that he could at least be promoted to a higher level, so he could command and understand, but he didn't expect to stay where he was.

Liu Yuan looked at him without a trace, and said worriedly: "It's so far away, it will take some days to arrive. Right now, bandits are everywhere and chaos is everywhere. I hope they can arrive safely."

Zhang Qidong sneered again and again.

This is still the chief officer of the third division, and there are a small number of officials below the third division.

Generally speaking, the imperial court will appoint some, and the chief official will recommend some.

But now that the chief officer is not here, Liu Yuan started recommending him as the governor.

In fact, there were not many officials in the Ming Dynasty. Taking the chief secretary as an example, the left and right participated in politics, and the left and right participated in the deliberations.

There are only about a dozen people participating in the three provinces and political councils. Some larger provinces may have more, and there are only one or two people in each province.

Look, this is the permanent staff of a provincial unit in the Ming Dynasty, with a total of less than 20 people.

Another provincial-level unit, the Department of Procuratorate and Procuratorate, also has a small number of staff. In addition to the procuratorate and the deputy envoy, there are the following divisions, institutes, and bureaus:

In the experience department, there is one person for the experience, one person for everything, and two people in total.

According to the grinding institute, there is one person for the grinding, and one for the proofreader, a total of two people.

In the Liwen Office, there is one person for the reasoning, one for the deputy, and one for prosecuting the case, a total of three people.

The jailer, the prisoner alone.

There is one ambassador Ku and one deputy envoy, a total of two people.

There is one ambassador Cang and one deputy envoy, a total of two people.

There is one ambassador each from the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau, the Military Weapons Bureau, the Baoquan Bureau, and the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, and one deputy envoy each, a total of eight people.

Add up seven, seven, eight, eight, and there are more than 20 inspectors.

Including the city-level staff in the Jinan prefect Yamen, it is estimated that there will not be more than 80 people.

There were only a dozen officials who were still alive, and Liu Yuan recommended all of them first, and they were basically recommended by those who were higher than their original positions.

All the officials were overjoyed and expressed their thanks one after another.

But there are still not enough officials, and the court will definitely add them slowly.

But there are still a large number of officials below who are not included in the compilation, but hired by themselves.

So in less than three days, before the chief officials of the three divisions arrived, Liu Yuan had selected a thousand officials to fill in the ministries, bureaus and divisions.

Officials at all levels were stunned.

In the past, before Jinan was massacred, there were only more than 100 officials including government officials and arresters.

Therefore, when Jinan was besieged by Qing soldiers in history, there were only thousands of soldiers and horses, and all the arresting yamen servants were present.

Now that Liu Yuan has arrived, 1000 people have been arranged as soon as he arrives.

The salary expenditure of so many people must be borne by the Chief Secretary.

Now the left and right political envoys have not arrived, and Liu Yuan is in charge, and of course he will also handle the money.

As long as you can pay the salary, even if there are two thousand officials, the officials below will have no objection. The more people there are, the easier things will be.

But soon they will find that the officials here only listen to Liu Yuan's words, and no matter what other officials say, it doesn't work.

Due to the lack of a large number of officials, many departments are directly in charge of officials, and Liu Yuan has not added officials. This has led to the entire Jinan Prefecture being slowly controlled by Liu Yuan.

Except for his orders, the orders of any officials are useless.

After Liu Yuan arrived, before the giants of the third division arrived, Liu Yuan hurriedly arranged them.

The governor's yamen newly established a tax department, and there are 200 officials alone.

500 people were arrested in Jinan Prefecture, and another 300 people were responsible for re-measurement of the fields. The routine was exactly the same as that of Jiaozhou and other places.

Then, because there are no local officials, all the officials still have part-time jobs in various departments of Jeju Prefecture.

Liu Yuan and Zhang Qidong had been busy for half a year before the preliminary work was done.

At this time, someone discovered, why hasn't the head of the third division arrived yet?
Most of the other officials newly transferred by the court have arrived, and a few have returned.

At this time, it has been almost a year since the Qing soldiers slaughtered the city, and the Shandong Third Division has not yet completed the reorganization, and the efficiency is extremely slow.

But at this time Liu Yuan and Zhang Qidong began to recruit officials again.

Select 1000 people from local people and newly arrived refugees.

In this way, the number of officials in Jinan City reached an astonishing 2000.

Jinan has fewer than 30 officials.

The ratio of officials to staff was seriously out of balance, and all the officials were dumbfounded, but there was nothing they could do.

At this time, the smart people have already thought that the heads of the three divisions have not arrived yet, and there may be something serious wrong.

(End of this chapter)