The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 59
There is no absolute bad thing in the world. After the Jin army entered the customs, Wang Qia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, fell down with blood mold and was taken to Zhao Prison for interrogation. However, Liang Tingdong, the censor of the capital of Youqian, was promoted three times in a few months and became the second rank. Senior member, became Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that the emperor was happy, he read the list of criminals reported by Liu Shilang on the spot.

The generals who captured Zunhua were all little-known scraps. The officials of the Ministry of War had no impression of these people, and the emperor had never heard of these names.

But one person's name attracted Chongzhen, because this name was in the jokes circulated in the court a few days ago.

That was when Zheng Guochang came to the capital to plead guilty with dozens of gains, and he asked his servants to spread the good story about his relationship with Huang Han.

Originally, these empty words were not convincing, but with the addition of dozens of ranks of Jiannu and Baijia soldiers, the head of the Jin army gained confidence.

One party's officials are sympathetic to the people's feelings and go to remote mountain villages to have fun with the people. It is beyond reproach to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new with the peasants in the countryside, but this time point is quite intriguing. How could Zheng Ancha be so lucky to escape the Jin army Siege Yongping Fucheng?
No one can tell the mystery of it, and the chief banner officer is really grateful for Zheng Yacha's kindness. He didn't rest during the New Year's Eve.

So far, the good story has come to a perfect conclusion. Although it is weird, but now the heads of post-gold soldiers are in the Ministry of War, and the results of the fake battles are obvious to all. What else can be done about this matter? What about accusations?

In the end, Zheng Guochang was not caught by the princes, and the emperor did not pursue his responsibility for the loss of Yongping Fucheng. Zheng Guochang was still the third-rank inspector of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor comforted Zheng Guochang with kind words and encouraged him to wait for the opportunity to lead Master Wang to take back Yongping Mansion.

The Huang Yizhou father and son recommended by Zheng Guochang had actual decapitation skills. Of course, the imperial court will reward them for their merits, and they will have the following within three days.

After all, Zheng Yacha, a high-ranking and well-paid official, is a great official in the frontier, and there are so many former officials!There is no doubt about his connections in the capital.

He intends to support the Huang family, knowing that Huang Yizhou and his son are limited to too few troops and can only make small troubles, and he wants to take in some Ming cavalry soldiers whose camps have been dispersed near the capital.

Zheng Guochang soon learned that there was a group of troops who were dedicated to sheltering the rout soldiers who had lost their organizational system. They were collected and stationed near Liangxiang by the Ministry of War.

It's not that the court is mean, but that it's incompetent. The established battalions can't get food and pay. What can these big soldiers who have no organization do?

The reason why the Ministry of War gave food to these soldiers was because of the lessons learned from the past. The Qin Wang army that broke up in Shanxi plundered and fled all the way back to their original places, which caused a bad impact. The consequences were very serious, which directly led to many officials and lords being imprisoned.

If no one cares about these scattered soldiers, it will inevitably lead to these people taking risks, and it will be a big trouble if there is another incident of looting and looting.

Although the composition of the troops stationed in Liangxiang is complicated, most of them are elite frontier soldiers. There are more than a dozen cavalry who have fought with Mangui, and some of them are even family soldiers who have no branches to rely on after the death of the Patriarch.

Zheng Guochang knew the fighting power of the frontier army, so he went out of the city to appease the soldiers, and made a public announcement that he wanted to recruit some good men who were skilled in bows and horses to be servants.

The news that the civil servants are going to come to the army to select servants gave the miserable frontier soldiers the hope of getting ahead, and gave the servants who lost their patriarchs a chance. Many frontier soldiers who thought they were good at riding and shooting rushed to accept the selection. more active.

Zheng Guochang didn't dare to ask for more, and from the more than [-] strong cavalry recruited, he selected [-] big-headed soldiers who were loyal in appearance and outstanding in cavalry and archery as servants.

But he emphasized that it was not that he needed so many cavalry to be servants, but that he reciprocated the good story and accepted the thirty knights for the Huang family.

It turned out that it was not a job for a civil servant, but a servant for a boss. Some people were inevitably disappointed.

Of course Zheng Guochang saw the change in the hearts of these warriors. He didn't explain too much, and asked the servants to give each of them 20 taels of silver as settlement expenses, and told everyone that the money was paid by their patriarch Huang Yizhou and his son.

Those who are willing to take the settling allowance will be Master Huang's servants in the future, and those who don't want to follow to Yongping Mansion can leave now, and the places they left behind will be replaced by other frontier cavalry immediately.

After finally winning the chance to become a servant from hundreds of people, there are hundreds of frontier soldiers who are eyeing this good opportunity. The cavalrymen who were selected were reluctant to give up, and they all took money and entrusted their fellow villagers to bring it to their parents, wives and children. Resolutely decided to go to Yongping Mansion to work with the Patriarch.

Zheng Guochang not only used his thoughts but also spent his capital, he also put down his old face to entrust relations with the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War, and operated a low-level official for his son.

He knew that his second son, Zheng Xiaowen, was not a material for studying, and now he only got a job as a supervisor.

The superintendents studying in Guozijian, the highest institution in the Ming Dynasty, were divided into tribute students and yin students. The former were prefecture, prefecture, and county students, that is, those with excellent grades or qualifications among scholars. The latter was the result of fighting for father.

Even a scholar who couldn't pass the exam for a son who was admitted to prison by his ancestor's shadow, it is basically a dream to pass the exam by relying on his studies.

The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty are relatively fair. You may be able to put pressure on the county lords through your family background to get a different opinion when you are a scholar. Examinations for candidates are not generally difficult. It is basically useless to rely on connections to find a way. You can only rely on your own familiarity with the Four Books and Five Classics Strength.

A scholar is just a scholar, and a person who wins the examination is regarded as a carp jumping over the dragon gate and becoming a scholar-bureaucrat.The imperial examination system is also where the feudal dynasty gave the common people the hope of getting ahead, and the imperial court is also quite strict in investigating and punishing fraudulent scientific examinations.

What's more, there are so many scholars and supervising students who take part in the provincial examination to raise their fame and fame, and the admission rate sometimes reaches [-] out of [-]. Such an eye-catching public recruitment examination is stared at by many people, and it is not easy to cheat.

Zheng Guochang thought he didn't have the ability to make his second son take the imperial examination and become a scholar-bureaucrat. In order to have successors in the Zheng family, he decided to find another way and planned to let his son rise to the top by military merit.

Now the opportunity has come. After the Jin army invaded the bandits, the court is employing people. It is no longer a myth that a penniless low-level civil servant has been promoted to seven or eight ranks. There is also a precedent for changing from a commoner to a general.

The scheming Zheng Guochang decided to work for his son, and found Zheng Xiaowen a job as a trainee in the ninth rank of the army. The inaugural battalion was the general of Huangyi Prefecture. .

He wrote a letter to his son, expressing his expectations on paper, and asked Zheng Xiaowen to obey Huang Han's orders.

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　I look forward to supporting the new book, so I would like to ask the book friends, can I ask for some recommendation tickets?

　　


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