I want to be emperor

Chapter 165
Dong Xin stood under Dengzhou City, behind him was a group of low-level officials in Dengzhou City, of course not all the former Dengzhou City officials!

There are also very few officials who have committed suicide, but most of them escaped from the city or hid in the city while taking advantage of the chaos.

Behind Dong Quanxin, on the top of Dengzhou City, there are dozens of soldiers of the Township Protection Army in gray uniforms.

Half an hour ago, the [-]st Infantry Battalion as the vanguard and some coordinating cavalry had arrived in Dengzhou City. Wang Dazhuang, the deputy brigade commander of the [-]st Infantry Brigade who led the team, initially accepted their surrender, and then sent his troops into the city to control the surrounding areas. The city gate and various important places in the city.

But this matter is not over yet, Dong Xin and the others have to continue to wait at the city gate, waiting for Luo Zhixue's arrival.

Dong Quanxin looked at the army slowly approaching ahead, and with sharp eyes, he saw Luo Zhixue in front of the army at a glance.

It's not that he knows Luo Zhixue, but that the current Luo Zhixue is too recognizable.

First of all, he was wearing a dark blue military uniform made of woolen material that was different from the generals of the surrounding rural protection army, and he was riding a tall maroon horse.

At the same time, there were more than a dozen generals of the Township Protection Army on horseback, and all of these generals were wearing gray uniforms. Deputy brigade commander Wang Dazhuang.

However, Wang Dazhuang, who had his nostrils turned upside down before and didn't regard them as human beings at all, is now staying beside that young man with a charming smile on his face.

Just from this attire and this position, one can know that this young man in dark blue military uniform is the leader of the army, and the only leader of the army who can appear here is Luo Zhixue.

Dong Quanquan looked at Luo Zhixue, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly, as expected, Luo Zhixue, the leader of the rebels in the protection army, was not very old.

Even though the young man in front of him looked more mature in his attire, it could still be seen that he was at most 20 years old, and most likely not yet.

This person has tens of thousands of troops at a young age, and it is not easy to occupy the land of Nanyang and Xiangyang.

If I surrender myself to this person, there may not be a day when I will win glory and wealth in the future.

That's right, the reason why Dong Xinxin was willing to take a group of officials to take the initiative to surrender to the county was not just to save his life.

In fact, if he simply wanted to save his life, he could also abscond directly like other officials, and there was still a chance of escaping the search and arrest of the Township Protection Army.

And the surrender of the county is not for the lives of the people in the city, because without him surrendering, the people in Dengzhou City will not be in any great danger.

After all, the Township Protection Army is famous for its rules. Now there is no one soldier in Dengzhou City, and the Township Protection Army does not need to launch any siege operations. Than there is any fear of life.

No matter how bad it is, surrender is also possible.

However, Dong Xin did not abscond, nor surrender, nor resist, but chose to surrender.

This has a completely different meaning.

Dong Xinxin just wanted to vote for a thief, and then win some glory and wealth.

Dong Quanxin is famous for his career. In the early years, he failed the Jinshi examination and simply became an official. He started from a small county edict and spent more than 20 years in low-level official circles. .

Having been an official for more than 20 years, he considers himself a good official, and he has done a lot for the people. When he was young, he served as a county instructor and devoted himself to cultivating talents for the imperial examination. During his tenure, he also produced several candidates and many students.

Ten years ago, he was transferred to a certain county in Shanxi to serve as the county magistrate. He spent several years repairing water conservancy, paving roads, persuading farmers and suppressing bandits.

But these credits were snatched away by a new appointment Ling who was only his grandson at an age.

The new county magistrate on top of him traveled to the mountains and rivers every day. After the three-year term, he got an excellent evaluation, and was transferred to Nanjing as a Taoist official. The future is bright!
But as for Dong Xinxin, he has worked hard for several years, but in the end, not to mention the credit, he didn't even get anything for his hard work. He even did too many things when he was doing things, which caused his immediate boss, the novice county magistrate, to be very upset. Dissatisfied, he got stuck in the evaluation.

So much so that he wasted several years in the rank of the eighth rank. Last year he couldn't bear it, so he got promoted by bribing his superiors with thousands of taels of silver, and then transferred to Dengzhou to serve as the general judge of the seventh rank.

But he is very clear that with his Juren background, starting from the seventh rank is basically the final career of a direct official career. Even if his character explodes in the end, he will only be a county magistrate of the seventh rank if he dies.

In his life, it is almost impossible for him to cross the limitation of the seventh rank and rise to a higher position, even if he continues to bribe him.

If in the middle and early stages of the dynasty, there were still cases of juren occupying high positions, then in the late period of the dynasty, such situations would rarely occur.

As a man of Juren background, he is basically at the end of his career as a county magistrate, and it is basically impossible to go further.

But he refuses to accept it!

Speaking of doing things, he has done a lot. Speaking of qualifications, he has been an official for more than 20 years.

But, the novice county magistrate boss he used to be when he was the county magistrate in Shanxi, a kid in his early twenties, traveled to the mountains and rivers every day, and got promoted early after he didn't do anything.

Why!

The more Dong Xin thought about it these years, the more unhappy he became, and this time, with the killing of the rural protection army, Dong Xin couldn't help but have some thoughts that he didn't have before.

Dengzhou City is about to fall into the hands of thieves, and many civil servants in the city committed suicide or absconded, but no matter what, they actually had no good end. Even if they absconded, the subsequent court will hold them accountable.

The reason Zhizhou hanged himself so decisively was because of Sun Hong that he could run away, but he, a civil servant Zhizhou, could not.

Because civil officials such as magistrates are responsible for guarding the land, but generals are not!
If Zhizhou and others leave Dengzhou and run away directly, the court will have to settle accounts. It is a matter of minutes to ransack the family and exterminate the clan. over them.

Suicide is actually their best option.

Absconding can also affect family members.

And Dong Quan didn't want to commit suicide, nor did he want to abscond, because his whole family was brought by his side, and in Dengzhou City, he couldn't afford to abscond directly with his family at a critical moment.

If you don't want to die, you can't escape, so Dong Xin's choice is only to be a prisoner or a thief...

Dong Xin, who was directly taken as a prisoner, was also unwilling. Thinking of his past career, Dong Xin gritted his teeth and simply cast himself as a thief.

Maybe after being a thief, he can do better. He was limited by his fame in the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't break through the limitations of the seventh rank. He could only spend his whole life in low-level officials.

But if you turn to the thieves, in a new system like the Rural Protection Army, these anti-thief systems must be very short of talents, and there will definitely be preferential treatment for all kinds of talents in the early stage of development, and promotion will be easy.

Anyway, Dong Xin and his wife had already died long ago, and there were no relatives in his hometown. His wife and several children were all by his side, so there was no pressure at all to bring the whole family to join the thieves.

Many reasons led to Dong Xin's decision to voluntarily surrender the city.

As for Dong Xin's many inner thoughts, Luo Zhixue is naturally not clear. Now Luo Zhixue only sees a grandfather with a goatee in front of him, who is about five or sixty years old, looking at him expectantly.

Regardless of Dong Xin's reason for defecting to him, Luo Zhixue still paid more attention to this first mid-level court official who voluntarily surrendered to him.

At any rate, he is a serious civil servant from the seventh grade. Considering the phenomenon of the late Ming Dynasty's emphasis on literature over military affairs, his political gold content and the impact it can cause are far beyond what military generals like Huang Guangmao and Chen Yongfu can compare.

In the future, Luo Zhixue plans to publicize it well to create momentum and better leave a new image of the township protection army to the public.

That is to say, the Township Protection Army is not an ordinary rebel, let alone those so-called rogues, but a serious military and political new force with the goal of striving for world hegemony.

Tell those people with lofty ideals who are underappreciated, who want to win glory and wealth, or who are dissatisfied with today's troubled times and want to end the troubled times and benefit the common people, even if they are just ordinary people who want to come here to make a living.

You see, many court officials have defected to our Township Protection Army, which means that our Township Protection Army has a bright future, so you should come here quickly, I have it, and I can give you everything you want.

It is also to tell the many civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty that they don’t have to work so hard when confronting our Township Protection Army in the future. After all, even if you can’t become an official of the Ming Dynasty, you can just turn around and become an officer of our Township Protection Army Well!

As long as there are more civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty who think this way, the less resistance the Township Protection Army will encounter in the future!
Determined to use Dong Xin as a signboard, Luo Zhixue, who wanted to play with thousands of dollars to buy horse bones, went up to Dong Xin and didn't even ask about Dong Xin's situation in detail. He announced on the spot that Dong Xin was appointed as the magistrate of Dengzhou. Five products.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether you ask or not. Ever since Luo Zhixue decided to accept this person's surrender, Luo Zhixue had already decided to make him the magistrate of Dengzhou.

Even Dong Xin himself was a little surprised, because he found that he was directly promoted to the fifth rank, from a general judge of the seventh rank to a prefect of the fifth rank.

It's just that Zhizhou is the fifth rank, which still makes Dong Quan a little unaccustomed, after all, the rank of Zhizhou under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty is only from the fifth rank.

According to the recently enacted military regulations for the protection of the countryside, the rank of prefectures under the jurisdiction of the prefectures is the fifth rank, which is one level higher than that of the prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

Not only is the rank of Zhizhou higher, but the rank of county magistrates under the Baoxiang Army is actually higher.

As for the seventh rank, in the Rural Protectorate Army, it belonged to the ranks of the town magistrates of the county and the chiefs of the various departments under the county.

However, there is no government-level yamen officially established in the Baoxiang Army, and the scheduled prefect rank is still only the fourth grade.

The rank of the magistrate remains unchanged, but the ranks of the subordinate magistrates and county magistrates have been greatly raised. It can also be seen from this that the rural protection army pays more attention to the rule of the grassroots than the traditional dynasty.

In particular, they pay more attention to the role of the chief officials of a place, and for this reason they do not hesitate to directly raise their grades.

How should I put it, Luo Zhixue felt that a county magistrate who was in charge of at least tens of thousands or at most hundreds of thousands of people was just a mere seventh-rank sesame official, which was too low, and seriously did not match their role and political status. You have to make a regular six!

(End of this chapter)