Daming talker

Chapter 371 It doesn’t smell good at all

Time has entered April of the fifteenth year of Wanli, and it is already the late spring season.

In the south of Suzhou City, at the site of the overall restoration project of the Canglang Pavilion Scenic Area, Lin Daguan squatted on the flower bed, his face full of sorrow.

"Old Gao, the progress of your project is too slow." Lin Daguan couldn't help complaining.

Gao Changjiang, who had been trained for a long time, was not angry and gritted his teeth and replied: "You personally decided to sit in the hall. It will be completed before September."

Official Lin sighed, "This is because the plan cannot keep up with the changes. Since the former Zuodu Censor Xin Zixiu was taken down last year, it triggered a series of chain reactions."

Gao Changjiang thought for a full quarter of an hour, but he still didn't understand. What does the capture of a big boss like Zuodu Yushi have to do with the overall restoration project of the Canglang Pavilion Scenic Area in front of him?

Lin Daguan patiently explained to Conglong's confidants: "Last year Xin Zixiu was taken down, which caused the Qingliu forces to lose their pillar in the field of personnel supervision.

And this year is the year of Beijing Chaos. Faced with the chief assistant who also controls the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Yushi of Zuodu, the Qingliu forces have to rush to break the situation at the beginning of spring.

And after they took action in the spring, I had to fight back fiercely, and then replaced the Suzhou prefect with someone from the Wang family.

This resulted in the fiancée following her brother to Suzhou City to get married probably half a year earlier than expected.

But Suzhou Chenglin Mansion is still under construction. What do you think we should do? "

Gao Changjiang was immediately disappointed, "This is the situation. Even if we sit here and talk nonsense, we won't be able to finish it this month."

Lin Daguan jumped up and said accusingly: "Have you, those of you who have made great contributions in the past, completely lost your ambition and fighting spirit? Have you become proud, complacent and corrupt, and are you enjoying your blessings on your merits?"

Gao Changjiang: "."

If we talk about pride, who can be prouder than sitting in front of you? Don't you think your tone is very royal?

Official Lin then gave instructions: "You have three months to open Hengtang College for me!

In the future, I will vigorously promote the new generation of cadres and promote the rejuvenation and professionalization of cadres! "

At this moment, a soldier ran over and reported: "Commander Li asked Chief Lin to go to the Ministry of Health! There seems to be an imperial edict issued!"

After hearing this, Official Lin let Gao Changjiang go, got up and left, arriving at the Suzhou Health Department.

"Congratulations, brother Lin!" Li Tianyou, the commander of the Suzhou Guard Palm Seal, congratulated upon meeting him. "The imperial court has issued an edict to appoint you as the commander of the Suzhou garrison."

Official Lin asked a little nervously: "Then do I still have the official position of supervising the transportation of thousands of households?"

Commander Li didn't understand why Lin Tailai was so nervous about this. He already had the rank of fourth-rank official, so he was still worried about another fifth-rank official rank?

Then he replied: "Commanding Qianshi Suzhou's garrison is a promotion, so the original officer will naturally still be there."

The military officers of the Ming Dynasty can be divided into two categories: secular officials and floating officials. Shiguan is an official position obtained through hereditary inheritance, such as commander, thousand households, and hundreds of households.

Liuguan is an official position that is obtained through appointment and cannot be hereditary. It includes the commander-in-chief of the army, the general, the governor, etc., as well as the commander of the generals and the garrison.

On the basis of the world official, if a promotion official is added, the original world official must be retained. In the future, descendants can continue to be hereditary officials, but they cannot be hereditary officials.

For example, Lin Tailai's thousand households are the officials of the world. You can't cancel the hereditary thousand households just because of the addition of command and garrison.

So Official Lin was completely relieved, "That's good. If I didn't have the official position of supervising the transportation of thousands of households, it would be inconvenient for me to travel to Yangzhou."

After settling their feelings, Lin Daguan sighed to Li Tianyou: "I didn't expect that the imperial court would set up an additional garrison in Suzhou. This will divide the power of my brother, which makes me very embarrassed."

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has a mixture of the camp system and the guard system, which is very complicated.

The duty of garrison is in the camp system, usually in border town castles, with one garrison stationed in each castle.

Located in Suzhou City, of course, he is responsible for leading the battalion to guard Suzhou, which overlaps with the original duties of the Suzhou Guard.

Commander Li quickly replied: "The garrison is responsible for city defense and suppressing the ground. It has little profit and has to bear responsibility. Brother, just take it.

From now on, the city defense and camp troops will be handed over to my brother, and I will concentrate on taking charge of military law, military households, farming, military craftsmanship, recruitment and other matters. "

Lin Tailai killed the best magistrate in the world and the governor of the border area at the same time, and almost killed the imperial envoy. In the eyes of Commander Li, it was a disaster as if the sky was falling.

But the court actually gave Lin Tailai a promotion! I don’t know if others are afraid, but he, the commander, is a little afraid.

Although Lin Tailai repeatedly said that the two unlucky officers committed suicide, Commander Li still firmly believed that it was Lin Tailai who killed them.

In addition, Commander Li actually didn't understand. Are all high-level officials in the imperial court so stupid?

Lin Tailai, the biggest organizer behind the many civil commotions in Suzhou City, was actually asked to serve as a guard and responsible for preventing civil commotions.

Hearing that Commander Li was so generous, Lin Daguan also responded with kindness and said:

"Don't worry, brother, I will only work for a year and a half! Besides, I won't let you suffer, brother. Yangzhou Lin's Salt Industry counts as your share!"

"That's great!" Commander Li was overjoyed.

Don't ask Mr. Lin Daguan why he didn't give shares in various industries of the Lin Group in Suzhou and was only willing to give shares in the industries in Yangzhou. If you ask, it's just an imperial idea. Commander Li reciprocated the favor and said: "We have craftsmen in the Guards. I will ask the craftsmen to make plaques for the garrison and replace them with your Suzhou Guards Branch."

The two were talking when they suddenly saw the soldiers from the express delivery shop running over and shouting to Commander Li: "Edict! Imperial edict!"

Both of them were quite puzzled, why did the imperial court issue another edict? There are more than 300 guards in the world, why is the imperial court so busy staring at the Suzhou guards every day?

"Li Caihao, the governor of Yunyang, gave lectures and ordered soldiers to serve the people. He also changed the general office into a school palace.

Later, a mutiny among the officers and soldiers was aroused, and the governor's office was invaded. Governor Li Cai jumped over the wall and escaped.

General Mi Wanchun claimed to have imitated Lin Qianhu of Suzhou in mediating the mutiny and hijacked the governor, blaming Ding Weining, the deputy envoy for inspection.

There was also a flood in Huaisi, and thousands of people rebelled. In the name of mediation, the leaders besieged the prefectural and county government offices.

Lin Tailai was the first to start a bad trend and set an example for others. Lin Tailai was punished with a salary of three years and was not allowed to be promoted within three years! "

After reading the edict, Lin Daguan had to accept the fate that he would not be promoted within three years. There was no hope of being promoted to commander before he changed his military status to civil service next year!

"Look, this is the revenge from the chief minister." Lin Daguan slapped the edict and complained loudly: "Our chief minister looks generous and easy-going, but in his heart he is still a bit vindictive and stingy!"

Commander Li didn't know whether he should accept this, but after thinking twice, he still said: "Is there a possibility that the chief assistant warned you not to engage in mutiny or civil commotion again?"

Official Lin said disdainfully: "It sounds like I can only engage in mutiny or civil commotion. I, Lin Tailai, have many ways to do things!"

After that, Lin Daguan returned to the Suzhou Health Branch, or in other words, it should be renamed the Guard Bureau now.

What he was thinking about was the construction period of the restoration project of the Lin Mansion Ah Bu Canglang Pavilion Scenic Area.

The reason why the progress of the project cannot be accelerated is because it is not a slack time for farming, so there is a shortage of labor on the construction site.

But now that I have become a garrison and want to take over the camp, can I send the soldiers to work on the construction site?

While Officer Lin was making calculations, his third brother Lin Fulai suddenly came to the door.

Among the Lin brothers, the third brother Lin is considered to be more intelligent. He was originally sent to Mudu Port Customs by Lin Tailai to serve as the leader of He Kuai.

Last year, the Lin Group started building an industrial park in Nan'an. At the beginning of this year, it installed 100 looms and recruited workers.

Because of the proximity, Brother Lin also served as the supervisor of the industrial park and became one of the persons in charge of park affairs.

"What's wrong with Third Brother today? Why did you come to the city to find me?" Lin Daguan asked curiously.

Lin Sange replied: "The Weaving Industry Office sent people to the industrial park and said that we treated the weavers too well and broke the industry rules!"

Lin Daguan was speechless. Why did it sound so magical?

Brother Lin continued: "Although our salary is five cents a day, we provide free accommodation or rental subsidies to the weavers. We also provide affordable meals in the industrial park. In addition, the weavers also enjoy priority in the relief of the agricultural warehouse, so The Weaving Industry Office is dissatisfied."

Lin Daguan asked curiously: "If they are not satisfied, what does it have to do with us? When we are doing our business, do we care whether they are satisfied or not?"

Brother Lin explained: “We opened a park with 100 looms, and when we recruited workers, the ones we hired from the city were all skilled old workers!

Recently, they were preparing to install another hundred looms and continue to recruit workers. The expansion was fierce, so they were a little panicked. "

Lin Daguan rubbed his chin and said to himself: "All the forces in the textile industry are in Dongcheng. I didn't have much involvement in Dongcheng in the past."

As one of the few pentagonal cities in the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou City not only has developed agriculture, commerce, and culture, but also has very developed industry.

Suzhou City claims to have tens of thousands of looms and tens of thousands of weavers, most of whom are concentrated in the east city.

This is a force that cannot be underestimated. Even the number of weavers and their families accounts for one-tenth of the population of Suzhou City. It also appeared in middle school history textbooks in later generations.

Whenever topics like the emergence of capitalism or the earliest industrial workers are mentioned, the tens of thousands of weavers in Dongcheng will be used as examples.

In the past, Lin Daguan's main footprints were in the Xujiang Taihu Lake area to the west of Suzhou City, which is dozens of miles away, as well as in major business districts in Xicheng.

Regarding the industrial zone in Dongcheng, Lin Daguan had relatively little involvement, mainly because there was no interest entanglement, and Dongcheng was not within the radiation range of the base area.

Unexpectedly, when we set up large-scale industrial parks and rapidly increased the number of looms, we actually aroused the dissatisfaction of the "budding capitalism" mentioned in the textbook.

The most violent thing about this group of people is none other than "walking together to call for a break", or a strike to cause trouble, which can also be understood as a civil uprising.

Thinking of this, Lin Daguan was suddenly frightened. I will not be threatened by the civil uprising, right?

Under normal circumstances, reactionaries like Lin Daguan would not be afraid of popular uprisings, and would not be afraid of anyone who would exchange violence for violence!

But now he is a garrison in Suzhou. The imperial court appointed him in this way to make him responsible for preventing civil unrest!

Lin Daguan, who had only been promoted for a long time, suddenly felt that the promotion was not good at all.

　Holidays are of no use to me. . . Keep asking for monthly tickets! ! !

　　

　

(End of this chapter)