Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 226 see
When Cao Bianjiao led his troops back to Lintao Mansion and brought back the envoys from the Tumote Ministry, Cao Wenzhao immediately rushed to Pingliang Mansion with more than ten Mongolian envoys to meet with the Shaanxi governor Sun Chuanting who was inspecting Pingliang Mansion.

Since the eradication of Gao Yingxiang and the appeasement of Ningxia Township, Sun Chuanting's main energy has been put on matters such as garrisoning the fields and reassuring the people.

Cui Shisheng, Xie Renxing, Yang Mingsheng and others, as well as a large number of officials from Xi'an Prefecture, were transferred to Pingliang Prefecture to assist local officials in many matters such as recruiting refugees, building water conservancy projects, and opening up land.

The successful experience of Xi'an Prefecture has been completely transplanted to Pingliang. In addition to the extremely rich water resources in the Hetao area, the large fertile wasteland, and the large amount of surplus food after the successive harvests of Xi'an Prefecture as support, Pingliang Prefecture has changed from the sparsely populated and lacking vitality. Like, it became very lively.Crowds of land reclamation can be seen almost everywhere in the entire Hetao Plain. New villages stand quietly on the edge of the newly reclaimed fields. Nearly a million refugees are distributed on the vast Hetao Plain. Almost everyone’s face is no longer It was numbness and despair, and the faces full of life came alive again.

Sun Chuanting ordered that all officials and servants in the governor's yamen and government offices in various places be dispatched, divided into several teams, and implement the regulations formulated by the yamen separately.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the lower-level official staff, with reference to the salary increase standard implemented by Zhu Youjian in the capital, Sun Chuanting directly distributed the large sum of silver taels obtained by suppressing the bandits as a subsidy to each of the specific staff, and stated that this is the work of the Holy Majesty. The practice of distributing silver subsidies from internal funds has greatly improved the enthusiasm of officials at all levels to handle errands.Coupled with the visits of Jin Yiwei and Yushi, the various policies for the safety of the people have basically been well implemented.

After the sowing of winter wheat is completed, the construction of water conservancy has become the top priority of the entire slack season.

Under the survey and guidance of officials from the Water Department of the Ministry of Industry, large waterwheels are being erected on the banks of the Yellow River, and ditches made of bluestone under the waterwheels lead directly to the fields.After the spring of next year, the fertile soil on both sides of the Yellow River will no longer have to worry about lack of water for irrigation, and the prospect of a bumper harvest has become the consensus of officials from top to bottom.

"Since Zhongcheng came to Pingliang in person, the second half of the ninth year of Chongzhen is a year that I will never forget. I have never thought that the government should respond to the disaster and the people in this way, and I have never seen such officials and the people work together. What Zhongcheng thinks and does is a precedent in history. Sun Zhongcheng is in power in Shaanxi. It is really a blessing for Shaanxi and Ming Dynasty! I have never realized that being an official is so fun. It is full of pride, and I hope to follow Zhongcheng to make a greater achievement!"

Xie Yannian, the magistrate of Pingliang, cupped his hands at Sun Chuanting with a red face.

Xie Yannian, who was nearly forty years old, was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Tianqi. After the pilot test, he traveled to various prefectures and counties in Daming. .

He has been in Pingliang for four years. According to the new regulations of the Ministry of Officials, he will be transferred to other places as an official after his term of office expires next year.Xie Yannian, who lacked a backer in the court, knew in his heart that Beijing officials didn't even need to think about it, and it was not easy to balance the prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although he is deeply dissatisfied with the court, the reality is that there are people in the court who are easy to be officials, and he has no choice but to accept his fate without a backer.

Out of pessimism and disappointment about the future, coupled with years of drought in Shaanxi, refugees and robbers everywhere, the imperial court has almost no support for the governments in various places in Shaanxi. Xie Yannian is also gradually slacking off on government affairs when he is struggling to support himself.

In addition to all kinds of dissatisfaction with the court, Xie Yannian is also very pessimistic about the entire Ming Dynasty. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, and thieves are becoming more and more powerful. How long can the court last?
All this has changed dramatically since last year.Especially this year, after the new governor Sun Chuanting wiped out Gao Yingxiang, took Pingliang Mansion as another important base for resettling refugees from Shaanxi, and took a series of direct and effective measures, Xie Yannian's gradually cooling heart warmed up again.

What he said just now was not a compliment, it was indeed from his heart.

Sun Chuanting's personal practice and various strategies have completely broken the practice that the government has always been high above and above the people, and it has also brought about a huge change in Xie Yannian's cognition: being an official can not only benefit the people, but also make him feel great. sense of accomplishment and pride.

"The lower official also empathizes with what the magistrate said! Zhongcheng can do things that others can't, do what the predecessors have not done, save millions of people from fire and water, and wipe out thousands of thieves in an instant. All these things make the lower official I can't wait to catch up; to be able to serve under Zhongcheng's command in this life is really a blessing for me as an official!"

Fang Wen, the co-prefect of Pingliang Mansion, also saluted and praised.

Because of his meritorious service in the extermination of Ma Jinzhong and other thieves, and Sun Chuanting's praise for him in the petition, Fang Wen, who was originally the county magistrate of Lingtai County, has been promoted to the post of the sixth-rank Tongzhi of Pingliang Prefecture. The post of magistrate of Lingtai County was promoted by Sun Chuanting and Yang Mingsheng temporarily replaced him.

Although Yang Mingsheng is only a student, Sun Chuanting upholds Zhu Youjian's will and appoints people on their merits and virtues only. Zhu Youjian's credit was shown, and Zhu Youjian instructed Zhou Yun, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, to approve Sun Chuanting's recommendation under his admiration.

Sun Chuanting's move also made many officials who lack fame but have outstanding practical ability see hope: as long as they work hard, they can one day be an official like Yang Mingsheng, instead of spending their whole lives in the lower class who are called around by superior officials. among.

"Being an official should be based on upholding the original heart, so that you can always have good thoughts. When I first read the books of sages, why did I think about wealth and glory? Even if I am an official for personal self-interest, when self-interest is achieved By the way, the livelihood of the people under the rule has been improved. Why not do this good thing? I hate the officials who care about their own interests and disable the people in order to succeed! It is a matter of rich wine and beautiful women, speculation and drilling, and the power bestowed by the court, but it has no responsibility to use it to benefit the people! These mediocre officials and evil officials should be punished by everyone! Shou Cun and Xiu Zhi should keep in mind the official today As I said, no matter what level you are promoted to in the future, you should put the interests of the people first in your actions, so that you can live up to the teachings of the sages, and you can also make your conscience a little easier!"

Sun Chuanting sat on the head seat of the second hall of Pingliang Mansion, looking at Xie Yannian and Fang Wen with piercing eyes, both of them got up solemnly to salute and accept the instruction.

After several months of working together, Sun Chuanting still has a good impression of Xie Yannian and Fang Wen, two young officials.When carrying out a series of decisions that they made, both of them were able to let go of their personalities and go to the front line to participate in the process of appeasing the refugees. This is still very rare in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

No matter what their purpose is, the two of them have worked tirelessly for several months, traveling to and from various states and counties in Pingliang, devoting themselves to various assignments; All of them are full of enthusiasm, and the various measures to appease the refugees can be better implemented.

Sun Chuanting was very satisfied with all the achievements he had made since he took office in Shaanxi, and he was also secretly complacent: Looking at Daming, no matter whether it is suppressing bandits or reassuring the people, who can achieve such a huge achievement in just two years?Hong Chengchou?Lu Xiangsheng?The waste materials in the cabinet?Those mediocrities in the sixth part?hum!

Although Sun Chuanting was slightly dissatisfied with the emperor's promotion of rewarding Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng to the bachelor degree, he quickly figured it out: if Hong and Lu hadn't supported them for several years, even if he became an official, he would face an unmanageable mess. Such consequences are really unimaginable.

At this moment, Xie Renxing hurried in from outside the hall, and after paying respects to Sun Chuanting, he reported, "Zhongcheng, General Cao of Lintao has arrived outside the Yamen. He said he is the envoy of the Mongolian Tumote Department, please see him!"

(End of this chapter)