The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 666 Bullying

They occupy other people's houses, find out other people's house deeds, burn them down, and then say that there is no proof, and now they can't tell whose shop is whose and whose house is whose.

Whoever lives now belongs to him.

The magistrate's yamen was also burned, and no evidence could be found.

Anyway, in Jinan City, whoever occupies it will belong to him.

Liu Yuan was not in a hurry. While re-selecting a thousand officials from the common people and refugees, and at the same time training new officials, the officials brought in were first counting and measuring the fields in Jinan Prefecture.

Because all the members of Prince De's Mansion were killed, Zhang Qidong was also taken aback by counting the people in Prince De's Mansion.

De Wang Mansion alone accounts for one-third of the size of Jinan City. De Wang Mansion has a total of 110 hectares of land, totaling [-] mu.

In addition to having so many fields of its own, King De’s Mansion also has the annual salary of the imperial court. The prince is [-] shi, the county king is [-] shi, and there are also generals of the town, generals of the state, generals of the state, etc., and princesses with horses and princesses, etc. Can't wait.

Every year in the entire Prince De's mansion, all kinds of kings, generals, princesses and county masters add up in a mess, and the Ming court will give them [-] shi.

Even Liu Yuan was scolding Zhang Qidong in private.

A King De's Mansion occupies one-third of Jinan City, owns more than 100 million acres of good land in Jinan, and the imperial court will give them more than 4 Shi Sui Lu every year. How many such clans are there in the whole world?Daming has become like this now, are you okay, old Zhu?

In June, the imperial court received news that none of the heads of the Jinan Third Division had arrived.

I didn't realize it was strange at the time, because communication was difficult in ancient times, distances were difficult to travel, and the country was in turmoil.

When Liu Yuan arrived in Jinan in July, he stopped reporting to the capital and concentrated on his own business.

At this time, after the Manchu massacre in Shandong, the population has been greatly reduced. Now it mainly relies on drainage of victims, and the progress is very slow.

Almost half a year has passed, and there are less than 5 people in the city.

Ding Yi asked Liu Yuan to immigrate directly from the prefectures and counties in Jinan, and first move to the counties in the south near Yanzhou Prefecture, because Yanzhou is now Liu Zeqing's territory.

Liu Zeqing, the garbage general in the late Ming Dynasty, was the best at running in battle, and like Zuo Liangyu, he was quick to rob.

Therefore, starting from September, Xintai County, Feicheng County, and Laiwu County, which are adjacent to Yanzhou in the south of Jinan, have a population of more than 8000 in all towns and villages, and all of them have moved to Jinan.

There are houses and farmland in Jinan City, and it is in the prefectural city, so the people are quite willing.

Then from the remaining 26 counties of the 23 counties in the four prefectures of Jinan, the people were relocated from the villages and counties that were severely damaged by the entry.

It took a year before and after, and a total of nearly 7 people moved into Jinan Prefecture. In addition to more than a year of drainage and immigration, Jinan Prefecture had a population of nearly 20 in one year, and it gradually became prosperous again.

But Ding Yi's large-scale relocation of people from other counties and towns made it impossible to see a single person for tens of miles in many places in Jinan.

Much farmland has also been abandoned.

So they still used the old way to drain the victims and resettle them on the spot, and resettled the displaced victims in the counties of Jinan to replace the original people.

Ding Yi also has targets for Liu Yuan and Zhang Qidong.

Jinan is a big city, a prefecture city, and it has just been massacred. Of course, there is no requirement for farmland tax and commercial tax for the time being, but one year later, Zhang Qidong must train at least [-] soldiers and [-] soldiers.

Of course, the two agreed unanimously.

In Zhang Qidong, Liu Yuan quietly trained troops in Jinan, hoarded land, immigrated, and trained officials.

It was not until October that the capital unexpectedly learned that the leaders of the Jinan Third Division had not yet arrived in Jinan.

The courtiers were in an uproar, the farthest Shao Jiechun, did you crawl over from Sichuan, you are almost there.

Soon the court ordered a thorough investigation.

As a result, it was found that Xia Shangzhen appeared in Shandong, while Zhao Baihe disappeared in Tianjin.

Shao Jiechun and Zhao Guangzhang didn't even come to Shandong, and they disappeared before entering Shandong.

Chongzhen was shocked and angry, what happened?
Some people said whether they were trapped somewhere due to the turmoil, and others said whether they would be killed by the bandits.

It's hard to say who killed this, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

You, Ding Yi, are too courageous, even want to occupy Jinan?Chongzhen wanted to turn the table again in the harem.

But this matter cannot be so arbitrary. It is true that there are military turmoil everywhere in the country. Originally, Xia Shangzhen could come from Fujian by boat, but he wanted to understand the people's conditions in Shandong, so he took the overland route.

It is easy to have accidents by land.

If there is no evidence, you can't wrongly accuse a commanding general, right?

Besides, someone said that Jinan is not a good place now.

The population is small, and it has been plundered by the Qing soldiers. The imperial court now regards it as a chicken rib, and it is difficult to abandon it.

At this time, the DPRK and China were discussing a matter, and the ministers were divided into two factions.

One faction thinks that there is no one in Prince De's Mansion, and wants to send a new king to inherit the family business of the Prince's Mansion over there.

The other faction believes that this is a good opportunity, there are fewer clans, and the imperial court has to give more than 4 Shi Suilu every year, which is just a saving.

But the former group thinks that the palace has a lot of land.

The latter group believes that it can be used for local hoarding of land, just to collect taxes.

After much deliberation, Chongzhen decided to let the local government stockpile the land, and the imperial court collected [-]% of the tax.

In this way, taxes can be collected from the fields of King De's Mansion, and the annual salary will be reduced, killing two birds with one stone.

But to do this, of course, it is best to send officials from the third division.

When the courtiers heard the words, they all avoided talking about him, and no one wanted to go to Jinan.

In October, Liu Yuanshangzuo, Zhao Guangzhao, Xia Shangji, and Shao Jiechun all came, but Zhao Baihe was not there, so I don't know where he went.

Chongzhen: "..." So I blamed Ding Yi wrongly?

Liu Yuan also said that he recommended Chang Hui as the commander of the Shandong capital.

Liu Yuan also said that as long as the imperial court strongly supports it, the Jinan government tax will be guaranteed to be 30 taels next year.

Note that this refers to Jinan Prefecture, not Jinan City.

The court was in an uproar again, and Chongzhen was also very excited.

30 for a government?Ten prefectures give 300 million?Everyone does what Liu Yuan does. Isn't my Chongzhen prosperous?
In fact, Liu Yuan is also a well-known tax collector in the court. When he was the governor of Denglai, he completed tax collection exceeding the standard every year.

But Liu Yuan was famous for measuring all the fields, and he was deeply hurt by the landlords and gentry officials.

If Jinan hadn't been slaughtered this time, and Ding Yi had thought of ways to let him go to Jinan, the courtiers would not have let Liu Yuan go.

Chongzhen was also afraid of poverty at this time, and after hearing the words, he made a decision on the spot to support Liu Yuan.

As long as the money comes up, I support you.

Of course he knew what Liu Yuan meant. Supporting Liu Yuan meant agreeing to Chang Hui as the commander of the capital.

So at the end of October, the imperial court appointed Chang Hui as the commander of the Shandong Capital Command Division. Zhao Guangzhang, Xia Shangyi, and Shao Jiechun also came to Jinan at the same time.

But after the three of them entered Jinan City, they already had an extremely strange feeling.

On the day he entered Jinan, Liu Yuan summoned various officials, including the new Jinan prefect, and hosted a banquet for the three of them.

The three of them were not interested in the banquet, so they told Liu Yuan privately that we were robbed and that Shandong was in a bit of a mess, so we should send people to arrest these bandits.

Liu Yuan said, you can find Chang Hui, he is now in command, let him send troops.

The three found Chang Hui, and Chang Hui agreed without hesitation, but there was no movement. Every time they asked him, he said that it was coming soon, that it was being arranged.

Then the three discovered that almost no one listened to them in the entire Shandong Chief Secretary, according to the Procuratorate. , After the order, there is no more text.

Zuo Buzheng Xia Shangzhen called Zuo Zhengfei Fei Zhixiang this day.

Fei Zhixiang, like him, was transferred from outside. Too many officials in Jinan Prefecture were killed, so Fei was transferred from Dezhou.

He came two months earlier than Xia Shangji, and was in charge of supervising grain and road in the modern era.

"Fei Shenzheng, Jinan Guancang, how much food is there now?" Xia Shangzhen asked in a good voice.

"Food? There's not a single grain left, and it was snatched up by Jian Nu." Fei Zhixiang said.

The corners of Xia Shangyi's mouth twitched slightly: "Where did the food for disaster relief come from?"

"Liu Duxian's own private food is temporarily loaned to us." Fei Zhixiang said.

"..." Xia Shangzhen didn't believe it: "You call the pawns, Ambassador Ku, and Zandian."

The clerks are clerks and officials, responsible for daily work; the warehouse ambassadors are warehouse managers, responsible for managing grain depots; Zandian is warehouse clerks.

Originally, there were six officials in Duliang Road.

But when Fei Zhixiang called over, Xia Shangzhen was dumbfounded, there were as many as 25 people: "Why do I have so many officials in the Shandong Food Supervision Road?"

Officials in the Ming Dynasty needed to pass the imperial examinations, so how did officials come about?
There were three main sources of officials in the Ming Dynasty: Qian Chong, Punishing and Qiu Chong.

Qi charging was mainly practiced in the early Ming Dynasty. After Jingtai, seeking charging gradually replaced Qian charging as the main method of participating in charging, while fine charging was used as a supplementary method of charging. After Chenghua, it stopped due to poor results.

There are mainly two ways to fill in official officials: government selection and official selection.Officials who participated in Qian Chong must meet three conditions: first, they must be innocent, second, they must be under 30 years old, and third, they must be literate and able to count.The steps of Qian Chong are relatively complicated. First, the voluntary official must submit an application, and then the old country gentry will be sent to go through layers of review, and finally the chief secretary will file for the record before he can become an official official.Another major source of officials is fines.

If a prison student commits a crime, he may be fined as an official.Students who repeatedly failed the school exams were also punished as officials.Punishment of official officials has become an important means of punishing scholars for violating discipline and law.The third source of officials is seeking to fill.Although the status of an official is low, it is a formal occupation after all.Therefore, filling officials has become a way for some hopeless students to enter official careers and farmers' children to make a living, so there is a phenomenon of accepting money and asking for officials.Nayin is only the first step, and then you have to pass the exam before you can become an official.

Officials serve nine years of service. If they are qualified, they can be qualified as officials. However, because there were too many officials in the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult for many officials to obtain official qualifications after nine years of service. Served as a small official in a very remote area.Therefore, Gu Yanwu has a saying: "Officials and imperial examinations are as high as heaven."That is to say, the disparity between officials and officials is very large.

So, it is true that local people can recruit those who are not included in the ranks like officials, but you recruit too much in Shandong, right?
There are so many officials in one grain supervisor?
Xia Shangji asked casually, and I went, all of them were begging for officials.

They all said that they paid the money and passed the exam, and they all passed the exam a few months ago.

Xia Shangyi's face turned black. They were on the road a few months ago, but they were already Shandong's chief envoy: "Have they all filed?"

Xia Shangzheng asked Fei Zhixiang.

"Of course it has been filed, and it has been reported to the imperial court." Fei Zhixiang said.

"..." Xia Shangxie.

No wonder it blocks us all, the officials are all Liu Yuan's people.

He soon discovered that not only Duliangdao, but also the entire chief secretary had two to three times more officials than other provinces, and all of them were recruited recently.

But recently, there is no problem recruiting. The original officials were all killed by the Qing soldiers.

It's just that on the way the three of them took office, all of them have been recruited, which is a bit bullying.

(End of this chapter)