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Chapter 618 Unexpected, Unexpected

Under the repeated urging of Yang Reform, Shi Fenglai, the first assistant, could barely reveal his political achievements. In order to achieve results as soon as possible, Yang Reform even tacitly allowed Shi Fenglai to use [-] miles to speed up the speed, so that the official document speed of [-] miles per day could be reduced. The increase has more than doubled, otherwise, Shi Fenglai's political achievements, I don't know when it will be improved. Even so, it has mainly collected the main political achievements of the north. As for the south, it has basically not. Considering that the south can grow Most of the land has been developed, there is no extra land to grow sweet potatoes, and the economic value is not high. Most of them have a negative attitude towards planting sweet potatoes. Collecting the achievements in the north, it can be regarded as basically getting the results of planting sweet potatoes in the whole country.

Shi Fenglai has been very busy recently, and the achievements the emperor spent so much money on are finally released.

Yang Reform still took a break by the Taiye Pond and went to work by the way.

Shi Fenglai came over happily.

"I see Your Majesty." Shi Fenglai was overjoyed, and came over to salute.

"Oh, Shi Shoufu, looking at your appearance today, could it be that there is a happy event?" Yang Reform asked with a smile. Let Shi Fenglai figure out the problem of growing sweet potatoes.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, there is indeed a happy event. Your Majesty, the production of sweet potatoes has already come out. Although the production of some southern states and counties has yet to be delivered, it does not affect the overall situation. Your Majesty, this is the report compiled by the minister." Shi Fenglai hurriedly said to himself Handed in the report card, for this achievement, Shi Fenglai has been worrying a lot lately, working overtime day and night, and the emperor forced him, so he annoyed other cabinet ministers, six ministries and nine ministers every day, and anyone he could annoy Everyone knows that this is the political achievement that the emperor "bought" for Shi Fenglai. If you want to procrastinate, you can't stop this from happening. What's more, this is an achievement bought by the emperor with real money. Even if you want to do something bad, it's impossible for all the states and counties in the world not to grow a little bit of sweet potato. That's enough, Shi Fenglai has been busy for a long time, and finally sorted out a decent report card.

"It finally came out, good..." Yang Reform praised Shi Fenglai once, took the report card, and looked at it carefully.

It has to be said that some people are born to be the trendsetters of the times. Although history has been deflected, the peasant rebellion that should have erupted on a large scale did not happen, and it is almost impossible for the post-Jin entry to pass. It is impossible for people who became famous in Jin Dynasty to stand out as they did in history and appear in the vision of the Ming Dynasty, but in the long river of history, some people are still outstanding and will not be buried because of the deflection of history .

On Shi Fenglai's "report card", Yang Reform clearly saw a few very "familiar" names.These names are not high officials of the imperial court, nor are they people from the side of the frontier. It stands to reason that it is almost impossible for the emperor to know the names of these people, let alone know much about them, because the Ming Dynasty is too big and there are too many officials.But Yang Reform has now seen a few "familiar" names.

If these names are to be mentioned at this point in time, they are almost unknown, and few people know them, but if we want to explain the history of the dynasty, especially the history of the late Ming Dynasty, we have to mention them.

They have Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng...

Yang Reform looked at the report card, and had to sigh, a character is a character, destined to stand out and become the focus of attention, without the peasant rebellion, without the post-gold entry, but there is still a sweet potato competition, the times are different. Talent will be buried.

Yang Reform read the report card in more detail.Frowning, he said after a long time: "It's really good. Who is this Lu Xiangsheng? The output of a mansion is as much as 60 shi, and this Hong Chengchou is not bad. Bi Zisu is indeed an honest man. This credit should have been given to him." His, he gave it all to Hong Chengchou." Yang Reform said, these two historical celebrities, it is not that Yang Reform wants to pick them out, but that they have indeed made achievements, and now they are listed in Shi Fenglai's report , They are the first achievements. After seeing this report card, Yang Reform can only sigh once again. Excellent characters are destined to jump out!However, I also saw a lot of problems from this report card, and I couldn't help frowning.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this Lu Xiangsheng is the magistrate of the Daming Mansion, and a Jinshi in the second year of the late emperor. He is the one who puts the most effort into planting sweet potatoes this year." Shi Fenglai couldn't help but feel a little sad when he came here, and he also knew his own ability. It is extremely difficult to promote national policies and reputation. This year, many places have played tricks on him.Although they took the money to grow sweet potatoes, there are not many people who grow the ideal amount of sweet potatoes, and more people just deal with it. There are only a few people who work hard to grow sweet potatoes like Lu Xiangsheng.As far as growing sweet potatoes is more active, that is, the territory controlled by the imperial party, such as Shaanxi, because of Bi Zisu's full support, the production there is much higher than that of other provinces, and the northern provinces are even higher than the southern provinces. Dadu, from this report card, we can see a lot of things.

"Oh, the magistrate of Daming Prefecture? How old is this year? People there?" Yang Reform asked.Yang Reform had estimated this huge difference in performance a long time ago. With the inertia of bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to grow sweet potatoes so smoothly. It will not fail.The problem was as expected by Yang Reform.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Lu Jiandou was born in the 28th year of Wanli, the ancestor of the god. He is 29 years old this year. He is from Yixing, Changzhou." Shi Fenglai immediately replied. It's hard for him not to pay attention to a person.

"Under 30 years old? Became the magistrate of the Daming Prefecture? What a talent! Hahaha..." Yang Reform said with a smile, but his brows were still furrowed.

"Returning to Your Majesty, he is indeed a talented person. He was selected as a Jinshi at the age of 22." Shi Fenglai seemed to have a strange look on his face when he saw the emperor, but he couldn't be happy.

"Hong Chengchou is okay. Although Bi Zisu gave the credit, but Bi Zisu is an honest man. If Hong Chengchou doesn't work hard, it is impossible to give him the credit..." Yang Reform said again, because Shaanxi is his base. , with Bi Zisu sitting in town, and his brother is the Secretary of the Household Department, a hardcore imperial party, so there is basically no problem in promoting sweet potatoes over there, but Hong Chengchou is very hardworking. As the first work.

"Return to Your Majesty, yes." Shi Fenglai agreed a little sluggishly. Seeing the emperor's brows furrowed tightly, he knew what was going on. This time he was carrying out the national policy, and the emperor used money to buy him political achievements, but the result could only be said to be unsatisfactory. It's no wonder the emperor is like this. If hundreds of thousands of silver go down, most of them will be in vain.

"Sigh, this kind of result is not beyond my expectation!..." Yang Reform frowned for a long time, and finally he said it.The same money, but the results of planting are quite different. It can be said that there is a huge difference.Having personally practiced the operational and execution capabilities of the government at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Reform can be regarded as experiencing the difficulties of the Chongzhen government in history. No decree can be carried out. Animals, I am not the Chongzhen in history now, I still have such a strong control over the country, and I still have a lot of basic boards, but it is just like this, no wonder Chongzhen in history, Xu Guangqi also Well, the promotion of sweet potatoes was unsuccessful.

"Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent, wastes the country's money, and accomplishes nothing, please punish him." Shi Fenglai was no longer happy, and this was the result of throwing millions of silver. It can only be said that it is sad. Buying political achievements seems to be a failure.

"..." Yang Reform did not speak, but began to think about it. This matter can be regarded as a test to test the executive power of the Ming Dynasty government. With a specific, detailed, and intuitive understanding of the executive power of the Ming Dynasty, there will be a basis for the implementation of policies in the future.In terms of gains, there are also some. Lu Xiangsheng seems to have appeared in his field of vision. He did not rise by resisting post-gold as in history. The rise in this way shows Lu Xiangsheng's ability. Gold can shine everywhere. Hong Chengchou can also be regarded as the founding hero of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and he can also be regarded as a "brilliant man". The value of these two people is not small.

"Hehehe, how can you blame the Qing family for this kind of thing? I have expected this kind of result. If I issue an imperial decree, the world will immediately follow my imperial decree to the fullest, or even exceed the quota, then it will be strange... Yang Reform loosened his brows and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty!..." Shi Fenglai looked at the emperor in puzzlement. The little million taels of silver was almost gone, so the emperor didn't feel distressed or angry?
"This matter, I said, was already in my expectation. I don't blame the Qing family, but there are actually things that are beyond my expectation. Generally speaking, it is actually a good thing..." Yang Reform I didn't expect myself to grow sweet potatoes under the imperial decree, and the world would immediately plant sweet potatoes to the brim. If so, there would be no additional channels to promote sweet potatoes.

"Your Majesty...? What His Majesty expected?..., good thing, this..." Shi Fenglai asked puzzled.

"...If this sweet potato is easy to promote, then I won't let Tian Hongyu grow sweet potatoes. Although this road has not been successful, other roads have been successful. With the current sweet potato wine, I think about next year's The situation will definitely be much better..." Yang Reform said with a smile.

"That's it, Your Majesty,...that's..." Shi Fenglai's sweat came out. It seems that this matter really did not exceed the emperor's expectations. The emperor knew early on that it would be like this to buy himself political achievements with money. The whole person withered down, everything could not escape the emperor's grasp!
"... This matter, speaking of it, is still a good thing. Don't the Qing family think that Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou are talents? I won't talk about Hong Chengchou. This Lu Xiangsheng is an imperial party? Does he have a backer? 30 To be the magistrate of the Daming Prefecture before the age of one is the fourth grade! Don’t the Qing family think that this is the biggest gain of the Qing family?” Yang Reform smiled and enlightened Shi Fenglai, seeing Shi Fenglai’s listless look, although the chief assistant It's not good, but Yang Reform is doing it smoothly, and he doesn't intend to replace him, let alone make him decadent.

"Uh..., this..." Hearing what the emperor said, Shi Fenglai immediately regained his energy. At the age of 30, he will be the fourth rank. The future...

"...Returning to Your Majesty, then Lu Xiangsheng is not an imperial party. In terms of background, he is not actually a Donglin party, that is, he was not afraid of Wei Ni in his early years, so..." Shi Fenglai immediately replied happily...

"Since it's not an imperial party, why do they work so hard to grow sweet potatoes? Not to mention that it's so dirty to join the imperial party, it's just that they really just want to do something practical and make a living for the common people. He is also a rare good official." , and looking at the yield of his sweet potatoes, there is no need to doubt his ability to do things. With so many advantages added up, Shi Shoufu, are you still going to let it go? Isn’t this kind of person what the imperial party lacks the most?” Yang Yang Reform explained with a smile that the imperial party is not too bad at the top and bottom, not to mention the top, almost occupying the entire cabinet, not to mention the bottom, those who came out of the Guozijian, the immigration officials of the Secretary of Agriculture, etc. It can be regarded as a low-level imperial party, but it is a pity that there are high-level and bottom-level parties, but unfortunately there is no connection, the middle level is almost blank, and it is very easy to be disconnected. Liu Yanyuan had an accident, and Yang Reform couldn’t find anyone to replace him. Not letting Sun Chengzong go up to the top made Yang Reform a headache.Although this buying of political achievements did not buy many achievements, it "buy" some first-class middle-level people.

"Your Majesty, I understand, I understand... Thank you, Your Majesty, for your enlightenment, I am really stupid..." Shi Fenglai said happily, the emperor was implying that he accepted those people as the imperial party, especially that Lu Xiangsheng, listen When the emperor said this, the future was boundless!Now that he has such good results in Sweet Potato, he should be won over, more discreetly, recruit him under his command, so that he will have successors in the future.

"Now, here, I will give Shaanxi a reward of [-] silver coins first, which can be regarded as a reward for Shaanxi, and then give a reward of [-] silver coins to the Daming Mansion. First, let the people of the world blow the wind and let the Dibao brag about it Let these few people with good grades in growing sweet potatoes show their faces in front of the world, and then recruit these two people to Beijing, carefully assess their abilities and morals, those who should be promoted, and those who should be trained..." Yang Reform said with a smile.

"The minister leads the decree! The minister understands! The minister understands!" Shi Fenglai immediately regained his spirits, where can he find such a good successor?I can't wait to find Lu Xiangsheng in front of me immediately, the 30-year-old Zheng Sipin, it is not impossible to get a cabinet minister in the future, and it is basically not difficult to be a minister...

"Okay, although the matter of planting sweet potatoes didn't come out this year, it still made a start. Taking advantage of this year's sweet potato wine, we can carefully select a group of reliable talents from all over the world. In the coming year, the chief assistant Basically, you don’t have to worry too much about this business, and you can basically be a hand-off shopkeeper..." Yang Reform said with a smile, although buying Shi Fenglai's political achievements this year didn't make him famous, but he still has other means to promote sweet potatoes, With the success of Tian Hongyu's sweet potato wine, in the coming year, no, in the second half of this year, the enthusiasm for planting sweet potatoes in the world will probably increase exponentially. It is said that now it is necessary to pull out those few kinds of sweet potatoes that grow well. As long as a few are promoted, those who are officials will naturally have the enthusiasm to grow sweet potatoes.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En!" Shi Fenglai was sincerely cast down, and followed the emperor. The emperor really didn't treat him as an outsider. He not only bought political achievements for him, but also paid for him. The emperor treated him, but he couldn't be better. All right.Shi Fenglai also let go of his thoughts. Originally, he planned to ask the emperor to severely punish some officials who were not active in planting sweet potatoes in order to gain prestige. He was also going to bite someone, but now it seems that there is no need to pay attention to those people.The emperor really has a unique style of doing things. Now if you don’t plant it, you won’t plant it. I won’t let you play with me.

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Seeing Shi Fenglai leaving happily, Yang Reform was also very happy. First, he tested the real executive power of the Ming Dynasty, and then he discovered a few capable people, who are rare middle-level people in the imperial party. It's an extra gain, and I secretly celebrate that I didn't rely on administrative means to popularize sweet potatoes. Although the administrative route failed, Tian Hongyu's route succeeded, and the promotion of sweet potatoes finally came to fruition.

Thinking of Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou, Yang Reform had to lament once again, gold always shines, even if this matter does not come to the fore, other things will also come to the fore, how to "use" these two historical celebrities, Yang Reform is in trouble again, Difficult to decide.

"Big companion." Yang Reform put aside his consideration of these two people and said.

"The servant is here." Wang Chengen agreed.

"Give Shaanxi [-] silver coins, which is regarded as a reward for this sweet potato achievement. I will focus on Hong Chengchou. In addition, I will reward Daming Mansion with [-] silver coins. I will mainly praise Lu Xiangsheng. This matter must be reported in the residence newspaper. In addition, let the two People enter Beijing as quickly as possible, and other people should be rewarded appropriately..." Yang Reform let go of his worries and ordered, it's too early to say how to "use" these two people, let's wait for them to enter Let's talk about Beijing.He handed over Shi Fenglai's "transcript" to Wang Chengen.

"Slave obeys the order!" Wang Chengen agreed.

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Shi Fenglai walked out of the imperial city, feeling so beautiful in his heart. Not only did he not have to worry about his political achievements, but he might also find an excellent "successor". The "successor" probably also got up, not to mention the cabinet ministers, he could be a minister, no matter how bad he was, he would be a great official in the frontier. With a certain amount of influence, the days after retiring will not be very bleak, and it can be said comfortably.

Shi Fenglai thought beautifully, following the emperor, there is indeed a future!Although sometimes you have to be a microphone for the emperor, it's worth it!After thinking about it, I suddenly remembered, some time ago, didn't the emperor say that he wanted to give himself a big gift?Is this the gift?Shi Fenglai seemed to have been hit by a thunderbolt suddenly, and stood there with bulging eyes.

(End of this chapter)