Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 636

When many gentry and big households were reluctant to sign the documents, they planned to follow the privately discussed strategy and give some benefits to familiar bookkeepers, so as to conceal the amount of land under their names as much as possible when measuring At that time, Cao Sili, the gatekeeper of the Suzhou magistrate's office, informed everyone that the Fang Zhifu had ordered that from now on, every household must hand over the land deeds and immediately dismiss the private slaves in the government.

One of the crimes against the four surnames of maritime merchants is: harboring private slaves and having unruly intentions.

The official also specially warned everyone that according to the imperial decree, all prefectures and counties will begin to check the acres of land in three days. If someone tries to conceal the report, if there is a field that is not claimed during the check, it will be taken as public property.

The official also told everyone that the lord Fu Zun personally told him not to use money to buy the officials of the book office in private. Jin Yiwei will strictly monitor them. times.

During the process of inspecting the fields, the officials at all levels will be supervised by the censor and Jin Yiwei. This dispatch must be completed within three months, and all the chief officials of the government who are not completed within the time limit will be dismissed and returned home.

In order to encourage and stimulate the office of officials and officials in the government office and the servants to devote themselves to the work of Qingzhang's fields, Fang Wen used the fire consumption silver in the government treasury as a subsidy.

Every person in the government office who goes to the countryside to do business will have a monthly food allowance and a business trip allowance, which will be settled at the end of each month.

Calculated according to the division of labor, there is about two taels to five taels of subsidy per capita. This amount of money is not a small amount of income for many low-level officials who work in the yamen.

The work of Qingzhang is divided into four teams, which are led by the prefect, Tongzhi, Tongju, and Tuiguan personally, and go down to the prefectures and counties under the prefecture. They can only come back to deal with official affairs after the task is over. Jinyiwei will supervise in the dark and in the dark. If someone bends the law for personal gain and reduces the number of acres for acquainted gentry, he will be fired immediately after being discovered.

In the winter slack season, there were not many things to deal with in the yamen, and the current criminal case had been handed over to the Procuratorate Division for handling.

Although southerners are fond of litigation, not only criminal cases, but even trivial matters such as neighbor disputes have to be filed in the yamen. If all the yamen masters go to the countryside, many lawsuits will be delayed.

It's not that Fang Wen hasn't thought about this issue, but compared with the New Deal that is related to the overall situation of Ming Dynasty and his own future, all these can be put aside for now.

After everything was arranged and the government officials were sent to put up notices, Fang Wen, Ren Yuanshan and others led their men out of the city.Suzhou Mansion also became the first mansion in the entire Ming Dynasty to implement the new policy of gentry and gentry paying grain together, and the inscription jointly submitted by Fang Wen and the assistant officials was also sent to the capital immediately.

Of course, the quick-witted Fang Wen did not forget to deliver a document to Lu Xiangsheng in Songjiang Mansion ahead of time, which of course contained relevant information about Suzhou Mansion.

Fang Wen knew in his heart that the reason why the emperor sent important ministers south was definitely not just because of the case of attacking officials, but supervising the New Deal was the most fundamental purpose. It would be beneficial and harmless for him to be able to get acquainted with this cabinet minister.

For this head work, it is necessary to grab it.

Regardless of any mistakes or omissions during the implementation of the new policy, the attitude must be expressed, and the emperor must know which side the Suzhou government is on.

Fang Wen has long understood that what a strong emperor likes most is to say what he says, and his subordinates immediately follow suit. be forgiven.

And just when the Suzhou government was about to implement the new policy of gentry and gentry paying grain together, Lu Xiangsheng, who had been going south for some time, left Songjiang Prefecture, took a group of entourages by water, and arrived at Nanjing Prefecture after passing through Zhenjiang, Jiangyin, Nantong and other counties.

The experience of fighting around for many years made Lu Xiangsheng very displeased with the ostentation that he was most keen on in the officialdom. This time when he came to Nanjing Mansion, he did not send someone to say hello in advance, so the official ship arrived at the wharf more than ten miles outside the city of Nanjing. Lu Xiangsheng, who didn't care about it, got into a carriage hired from a carriage and horse dealer, and went straight to Nanjing Fucheng.

He has been in Songjiang Mansion for more than a month. In addition to personally presiding over the daily affairs of Songjiang Mansion, he also uses his free time to travel between the prefectures and counties below, selecting people with outstanding abilities from among the surviving officials of the prefecture and county yamen to serve as the governor. Temporary chief officer to maintain the normal operation of the government.

A few days ago, the Ministry of Officials urgently dispatched more than [-] officials from Jining Mansion in Shandong to Songjiang Mansion, and the exhausted Lu Xiangsheng finally felt a little relieved.

After the relevant officials took over Songjiang Mansion and the prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction, Lu Xiangsheng traveled around Songjiang Mansion again, comforting the officials who were temporarily in charge, and asked the new chief officials to work in these familiar places. With the cooperation of local officials and customs, enter the role as soon as possible, and after getting a good understanding of the local situation, go all out to implement the New Deal.

Before leaving, Lu Xiangsheng told those officials who were ecstatic at first, and then fell into despair, that as long as they did their work sincerely, he would report to the Holy One and give special promotion to those who made outstanding contributions.

His words were not indiscriminate.

Lu Xiangsheng knew that the emperor didn't pay much attention to the background of officials, as long as he was a person with outstanding ability, it would be no problem to give him a post.

In the past few years, the government of the Northern Region of the Ming Dynasty has successively promoted many officials without fame, and his promise is not a taboo.

Due to the haste of the matter, the number of officials dispatched by the Ministry of Officials was not many, and the positions of county magistrates and chief clerks in many places were vacant.

These positions are extremely attractive and tempting to the officials who are extremely eager to enter the system and become official officials of the Ming Dynasty. They were all very excited, and expressed that they would do their best to cooperate with the new Shangguan to do a good job, and strive to make decent political achievements as soon as possible to serve the court.

The official officials who came to Songjiang Mansion from the capital to preside over the handover also expressed their views. The speech made by Master Lu is definitely not a lie. As long as everyone has the corresponding credit, the official department will not make things difficult for them.

After Lu Xiangsheng saw that the various parts of Songjiang Mansion slowly began to operate in an orderly manner, he followed Zhu Youjian's latest instructions, packed up and set off for Nanjing Mansion with a small number of entourage guards. Arrived at the document submitted by Fang Wen.

After boarding the ship, Lu Xiangsheng browsed the documents submitted by Fang Wen and couldn't help admiring him inwardly, and his affection for this extremely rare talent in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty greatly increased.

At the same time, this detailed document also greatly increased his confidence in the outcome of the trip.

(End of this chapter)