lied to Kangxi

Chapter 552
In the morning, Yuzhu was still sleeping in Yongmei, and the gatehouse of the governor's yamen was already full of candidates, big and small.

In the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, Yuzhu could not see these alternate subordinates, but they had to come to the governor's yamen to sit on duty.

If you miss the opportunity to fill the vacancy, you will regret it for life.

In the Qing Dynasty, from the later years of Kangxi to the Daoguang period, the total number of officials in the country remained at about 23000, including about 15000 civilian officials and about 8000 military officers.

Compared with the total population of over [-] million, this total number of officials is really pitifully small.

However, in the Kangxi Dynasty, there were more than 8 alternate officials across the country. In the most popular words at the time, alternate officials were "like crucian carp crossing the river."

However, this does not mean that the burden on the grassroots is light.

Although there were few officials in the Qing Dynasty, there were as many subordinate officials and servants as a cow's hair.Among these people, the subordinate staff had very little salary and could barely make ends meet, and the white servants had no salary at all.

However, they would rather die than stay in the yamen as errands, and they cannot be driven away.

Shaanxi is not a land of prosperity, and there are very few Jinshi over the years.Therefore, most of the alternate officials in the province are from donated or hidden backgrounds.

When Wu Jiang came out, there was a tea party in the gatehouse of Fu Ya.

"I said, Yu Gongbao shouldn't be here so early, so why don't you just see us?"

"That's right, the new Futai took office. No matter what happens, it's impossible for him to be promoted to the office the next day."

"But we must come every day."

"This Master Futai has a lot of background, Nian..."

"Speak carefully, speak carefully."

"Oh, oh, thank you brother for reminding me."

Hehe, the one who reminded must be a sensible person.

Is there any reason to openly talk about the governor and the governor in the governor's yamen?
Wu Jiang walked to the door of the concierge, and said loudly: "My Lord Gongbao has ordered you to come down, please all adults above the alternate Taoist priests, come with me!"

"Yes." said the twenty or so alternates present, they got up one after another, followed Wu Jiang, and entered Fuya.

Wu Jiang led the crowd into the East Flower Hall of the Third Hall of Fu Ya.

As we all know, the official office in the third hall is where Yuzhu himself works.

All the alternate Taoists were refreshed.Could it be that today's luck is very good, to be able to meet Yu Gongbao so soon?
In Shaanxi Province, there are seven official vacancies for Taoists, namely: Liangyan Road, Yichuan Road, Hanxing Road, Tongshang Road, Shan'an Road, Shenmu Road and Yulin Road.

However, there are as many as 24 candidates for Taoist priests.

In the East Flower Hall, more than [-] sets of tables and chairs and the Four Treasures of the Study have been placed.

Seeing everyone looking at him in blank dismay, Wu Jiang smiled slightly and said: "My Lord Gongbao has given orders that the matter of Shaanxi is especially important for grain storage. How to transport grain to Xining smoothly, please sit down and write slowly. .”

To be honest, the incumbent Daoist officials are definitely not as motivated to do business as these alternate officials.

Back then, after the fourth son ascended the throne, the officials under him refused to listen, so he simply appointed alternate officials on a large scale, and stared at the incumbent officials at all levels one-on-one.

If the incumbent officials do not perform well, or show signs of corruption and bribery, they can easily be replaced by alternate officials.

Now, after Yuzhu has served as the governor of Shaanxi, other things are actually trivial matters.

Only, transporting grain from Henan to Shaanxi, and then transporting grain from Shaanxi to Xining has become a top priority.

In this era, the Yellow River Basin at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan was not navigable due to the problem of excessive drop.

After the grain in the eastern region arrived in Shanzhou (Sanmenxia), it had to be unloaded from the ship, and carried to Sanhekou in Tongguan by manpower and animal power, and then transported to Xi'an and other places.

As a result, the cost of transporting grain to Xining by land is astonishingly high.

Someone calculated specifically to transport one hundred shi of grain from the major grain-producing provinces in the east into Xining.The actual amount of grain Xining received was only about two shi, which is a fifty-to-one ratio.

There is no way, limited by the transportation conditions, transporting grain to Shaanxi and then to Xining is completely an act of accumulating national strength.

Objectively speaking, the three emperors of the early Qing Dynasty, Kang Yongqian, were all ambitious emperors.

The three emperors Kang, Yong, and Gan, fought westward one generation after another, and fought against the Junggars for more than 70 years before bringing Xueyu, Qinghai, and Yili into the actual control territory of the Qing Dynasty.

Even the fourth child who didn't know much about military affairs fought and failed repeatedly, gritted his teeth, piled up national power and soldiers, and refused to give up the western expedition to Junggar at all.

If the three Emperors Kang, Yong, and Qian were too short-sighted to bear such a huge consumption, the question of the ownership of Xueyu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang would be a big question mark now.

After the demise of the Junggar Khanate, the Minister of the Qing Dynasty in Tibet was the actual controller of Xueyu, and the Minister of Xining was the Supreme Emperor of Qinghai.In addition, General Yili is the emperor of the entire north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and he can completely kill him.

Since Qianlong, in the Xueyu area, the official appointment of the great eminent monks has to go through the ceremony of drawing lots from the golden urn and the imperial court's decree for recognition.

If the Qing Dynasty does not recognize it, it is illegal, as simple as that.

The opening of the map is just a talk on paper, and it is not worth mentioning at all.

Actual control is king.That is to say, the officials of the Qing Dynasty have real power in the local area and can really have the final say.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was obviously impossible for the working Daotai to be poor, and all of them were well fed.

However, the alternate Daotai, even if he has a little family background, is still in a bad situation.

The ass decides the head, this is the truth!

Therefore, Yuzhu called all these alternate Taoists in, and asked a question: how to transport food to the front line with the least cost.

A good answer, Yuzhu naturally spared no effort to reuse.

If the bull's head is wrong, Yuzhu will continue to question the alternate magistrates.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.

Who is Yuzhu, needless to say.

In a word, if he is appreciated by Yuzhu, he will be able to rise to the top, just around the corner!

Now that Yuzhu had spoken, the alternates all sat down obediently and began to answer questions slowly.

Wu Jiang and Wu Sheng acted as invigilators, and no one was allowed to cheat.

Yuzhu wanted to get up, but Cao Yi insisted on pestering him and pretended to be Guanyin again.

Although Cao Yi is still the wife of Naersu, her virgin body was handled by Yuzhu, and she also gave birth to Fu Peng to Yuzhu.

No matter how bad Yuzhu was, he wouldn't be able to put on his pants and deny recognition.

Besides, Cao Yi is Fu Peng's biological mother, and because of this relationship, Yu Zhu has to give Cao Yi some kind of favor.

As soon as Yuzhu had finished his breakfast, someone handed in the exam ahead of time.

After carefully reading the test paper, Yu Zhu shook his head, it was too far off topic, not worth reading.

Papers were handed in one after another, but Yu Zhu was not satisfied.

By the time the last paper was handed in, Yu Zhu was already tired of reading it, so he casually glanced at it, but was immediately interested.

"My humble opinion is that building ships and transporting grain to Xining is the best strategy..."

Yu Zhuzai read it carefully three times, and finally felt that this person was quite knowledgeable.

From the eastern region, transporting grain to Xining via the land route in Shaanxi is actually a detour, and the cost on the road is too huge.

It should, from Shanzhou (Sanmenxia), use the inherent river course of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, take the waterway of Yuzhu to lead troops to Xining, and transport grain into Xining.

Moreover, this person is very good at learning, and actually used Yuzhu's old experience in attacking the Raksha Kingdom in snowy weather to propose a method of using sledges to transport emergency food in winter.

His surname is Kong, his first name is Zhi, and his courtesy name is Xiangshan.

"Come here, please come and talk to Brother Kong." Following Yuzhu's order, Kong Zhi was invited into Yuzhu's office.

"Humble post Kong Zhi, I pay my respects to Yu Gongbao." After Kong Zhi came in, he bowed respectfully to the ground.

"That's all. Come, let's take a seat and serve tea." Yu Zhu waved his hand, signaling not to be too polite.

After serving tea, Yuzhu and Kong Zhi chatted for over an hour.In the end, Yuzhu was sure that this Kong Xiangshan was really capable.

Not to mention anything else, this Kong Xiangshan actually knows that near the old surrendered city (Baotou) in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the river is wide and the oasis is lush, which is very suitable for sailing.

Yuzhu felt that he had found a treasure, so he smiled and said, "I don't know what ambition Brother Kong has?"

"Returning to Yu Gongbao, I have always been thinking about it, to regain the Western Regions, and go straight to the homeland of Congling, the strong man." Kong Zi expressed his long-held wish very boldly.

Congling, today's Pamirs.

"Very good, our Ministry intends to recommend you for the newly established North Shaanxi Grain Road. I don't know, what do you think, Brother Kong?" Yuzhu is an extremely pragmatic guy, as long as he has the ability, he dares to reuse it.

As for the question of whether to be greedy or not in the past, Yuzhu didn't really care much.

If you want your horse to run fast, you must not only eat more grass, but also add a few handfuls of black beans with high nutritional value from time to time.

Being an official for thousands of miles, it is impossible to serve grassroots for free, this is human nature!
Kong Zhi was so pleasantly surprised that he half-knelt down, and said reverently, "I would like to do my best for Gong Bao."

He has been on the waiting list for eight years, and if he continues to suffer, the family will be in trouble.

Yu Zhu nodded with a smile. To be honest, he really didn't care if Kong Zhi was loyal or not.

The foundation of the Qing Dynasty has always been in the nine-door admiral's yamen in the capital.

Whether it is the old fourteen or Nian Gengyao, they are all great generals with heavy troops in their hands, but they still lose to the old four who is far away in the capital.

There are three main reasons. The first is that the fourth child was the first to ascend the throne and grasp the righteousness.Secondly, almost all the family members of the elite of the Eight Banners are in the capital.

The last factor is even more important. Without the food supply of the imperial court, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia would not be able to feed an army of 10,000+ at all.

The battle for dominance in the Northwest between Yuzhu and Nian Gengyao will break out sooner or later.

However, as the governor of Shaanxi, not only will Yuzhu not embarrass Nian Gengyao in terms of food supply, but he will cooperate sincerely and do his best to assist the military operations in the Northwest.

Not for the Qing Dynasty, nor for the old emperor, and it is even more impossible to be afraid of Nian Gengyao, just for the territory and territory of the Huaxia Empire, which must be as large as possible.

Objectively speaking, no matter how bad Yuzhu is, he still has the consciousness to maintain the great unity!

(End of this chapter)