Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 389
The new policies implemented by the imperial court in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian are progressing slowly, so the tax and financial situation is still very bad. Here, it is obvious that the local bureaucratic forces and local gentry tycoons are obstructing the reform. There is no way.

Now we can only buy grain from Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places, but firstly, the price of grain is high now, and it costs a lot of money, and secondly, transportation is not easy and the cost is high.

Moreover, you may not be able to buy much food if you have money. Now there are wars and food shortages everywhere.

Zhu Yihai sighed, even so, he could only grit his teeth and find a way to raise money.

He picked up his notepad and wrote a line on it, which was to transfer money to buy grain to relieve the hunger in various places.

But the hunger situation is not limited to Sichuan and Hunan. Jiangxi, a land of fish and rice, also suffered from wars before, and the situation is relatively good, but the situation in the former Southern Zhili area is very serious.

Completely smashed.

The Xuhuai area in the north of the Yangtze River is temporarily ignored, but places like Taisong and Suchang Town in Ningtai, Huichi must be taken care of. Before the Ming army demolished the city walls to grab food, it was so melancholy now facing the corrupt Jiangnan.

Fortunately, the situation in western Zhejiang and eastern Zhejiang has improved over the past few years.

We can only transfer grain from Liangzhe to Anhui and Jiangsu.

He picked up a pen and added another item in the notepad, immediately abolishing the newly recruited and captured Qing troops, bandits, etc. After the war, it is impossible for Zhu Yihai to be like the Qing army at the time, accepting and resettling all the surrendered troops without rejection. .

Only some elites are left to disperse into the various armies, and the others should be dismissed as soon as possible.

There are two towns and battalions in one province, and each town is first reorganized and enriched by half, and the shelves are pulled up.

The main task of defensive operations along the Yangtze River still has to be handed over to the imperial camp, and the local town camps are mainly responsible for urban security.

Some capable generals were elected to the imperial camp or provincial towns, and others who should be exempted or transferred to local regiment training were awarded the ranks of regiment commander, lieutenant general, guerrilla, etc. in the township regiment.

Some regiments will be kept in the local area, but they will not be out of production, and appropriate subsidies will be given, and some military settlements will be set up to reduce expenses as much as possible.

If you are not in charge of a family, you don’t know that Chai Migui is expensive. Although Zhu Yihai used to have only a few prefectures in eastern Zhejiang, he led an imperial battalion to fight, and the burden was much smaller. I can't breathe.

The whole army prepares for war.

Restore farming and activate business.

A thousand threads, a mess.

Before I knew it, half the morning passed, and a maid brought in a lacquer plate of dim sum with a bowl of wontons on it.

What is in full bloom is an ordinary blue and white tureen and a wooden spoon.

Zhu Yihai put down the memorial, finished the bowl of wontons, got up and turned around to eat, and then continued to work.

He picked up the proposal submitted by the cabinet. This is about the appointment list of officials submitted by the Ministry of Officials. It is about the list of prefects with vacancies in various places. For each prefect's vacancy, the Ministry of Officials has listed three alternatives. Selection, sub-selection and alternative, and each person's resume is attached at the back.

The cabinet discussed and drafted the list of the Ministry of Officials, and they drew up an official list to select or adjust from the list of candidates recommended by the Ministry of Officials.

The list of vacant prefects is very long, Yingtianfu, Shaotianfu (Shaoxing), Dongxing (Taizhou)fu, Changzhen Susong Hangjiahu, Taiping Huizhou Chizhou Jiujiang Nanchang Anqing Yangzhou...

Even Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Sichuan Hanzhong Yunyang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guizhou and other provinces have a large number of magistrates who need to be appointed.

Many local prefects have been vacant for a long time, and some have been replaced by other officials for a long time, or some prefects are now promoted to more important official positions.

Although the magistrate is a fourth-rank official, he is in charge of a government after all. For the imperial court, this is a very important official.

In the current imperial court employment system, the appointment of officials below the fifth rank is basically directly in charge of the Ministry of Officials, and the cabinet will basically not move the list they report.

The fourth and fifth rank officials are basically recommended by the Ministry of Officials, selected by the cabinet, and approved by the emperor.

The appointment and dismissal of the third rank and the upper officials belong to the emperor.

The magistrate is a fourth grade, recommended by the Ministry of officials and selected by the cabinet.

Facing the long list, Zhu Yihai also felt a headache from reading it. There are so many governors to be selected. Although the Ministry of Officials and the Cabinet have already selected the officials, Zhu Yihai still has to check them carefully one by one. It depends on the selected award, but also on the original candidate.

Most of Zhu Yihai, who was selected as the magistrate, had never heard of them, or had no impression of them. Just looking at the short resume, they couldn't see their abilities.

But basically they are all from Jinshi background, and most of them have shown loyalty since the fall of the two capitals. be adjusted down.

Zhu Yihai hoped that these magistrates would be more responsible and capable officials, but after looking at them for a long time, they really couldn't see anything.

In the end, I had no choice but to approve a good word, which was considered to have passed the cabinet's proposed list.

But after putting it down, I picked it up and read it again, and finally crossed out a few civilian officials who were obviously the kind of talkative civil servants or civil servants who didn't know how to govern. Substitution.

The resumes of the dozen or so people he crossed out were all in their 50s and [-]s when they were Jinshi in the imperial examination, and then took some deputy positions such as principals. county.

Zhu Yihai believes that to be a magistrate, one must first be a county magistrate, or a deputy magistrate such as Tongzhi, and an official with good local experience. Waiting, it is the time when people are needed to lead the work. It is okay for such a person to go and entrust the master for everything. If he does not understand and pretends to understand, he will slap his head and mess around, which will be troublesome.

put down the pen.

Zhu Yihai sighed, in the past, he always felt that the emperor was supreme, and he kept his promises, but now he realized that the world is so big, if he is an emperor, if he has to do everything himself, even working 23 hours a day is not enough.

While thinking about it, the eunuch Liu Chao, the supervisor of ceremonies, came in, and first greeted him respectfully.

"What's the matter?"

Liu Chao presented a brochure, "Dongchang urgent report, Guanzhong collapsed!"

Hearing this, Zhu Yihai resisted the urge to overthrow the case. What he had been worrying about all along finally happened, and he didn't even want to hear how he lost.

He ordered over and over again, awarding gold medals one after another.

It was useless after all.

Success also He Zhen, failure also He Zhen.

The surrender of He Zhen allowed the Ming army to take Hanzhong without bloodshed, and even entered Guanzhong, but it was still a castle in the air and a castle on the sand after all.

Zhu Yihai, who had experienced the vast collapse of the lake, never imagined that he would have to endure it again.

Liu Chao was breathless and didn't dare to take a breath, and stood aside respectfully.

Zhu Yihai leaned back in the chair a little dejectedly.

It took him a long time to let himself out of this emotion.

"Call the ministers on duty at the Prime Minister's Office to discuss the matter."

Zhu Yihai went to wash his face first, then stood in the bathroom in his study suite, poured cold water on his face, and looked at himself in the mirror on the wall.

Not only did the anger not extinguish, but it actually rose.

The angry Zhu Yihai finally couldn't hold back, and punched the mirror.

The polished copper mirror was fine, but his fist was bleeding.

The huge pain made him feel better.

He understands Emperor Chongzhen somewhat now, no wonder he said that all civil servants could be killed when he died.

The Chongzhen Dynasty lasted more than ten years. Ren Chongzhen killed the [-]-year-old Wei Zhongxian today, dealt with the eunuch party tomorrow, and killed the governor, the governor, and the general officer the day after tomorrow, but what is the use?
From the beginning to the end, Chongzhen was just an emperor who was erected by the court and officials. He was anxious, restless, fearful, and powerless all day long, but he couldn't solve any problems at all.

How can one person be right with the whole world?
Today's He Zhen is just another Liu Zeqing and Zuo Liangyu.

This kind of person should not have hope, and there will be no disappointment.

When you first recruited him, you should remind yourself that recruiting this kind of person is only a temporary measure. If you think this way, you won't be so disappointed and angry.

Even if Guanzhong collapsed, Zhu Yihai didn't suffer too much loss. On the contrary, when He Zhen entered Guanzhong and provoked the coalition forces to attack Xi'an, it still caused quite a blow and damage to the Qing army.

If you think so, it will be better.

But Zhu Yihai couldn't really be so free and easy. He Zhen's defeat in Guanzhong was not only a failure for him as the leader of the army, but also a loss of the court's prestige and Zhu Yihai's prestige.

When Zhu Yihai walked into the meeting hall of the Prime Minister's Office, the prime ministers who came over were horrified when they saw the emperor's hands dripping with blood.

"It's just a small injury, just take a bandage and wrap it up." Zhu Yihai said lightly.

"Let's talk about the military situation in Xiaguan first. I heard that there was a big collapse. How did it fail?"

There was still uncontrollable anger in the emperor's tone.

University scholar Zhang Guowei began to introduce the collapse of the Guanzhong army. Anyway, as Zhu Yihai expected, although He Zhen and the others are known as one hundred thousand, they are a mob after all. Wang ordered the flag card and monk Fang Baojian, but it was useless.

At the beginning, he led thousands of soldiers in Yunyang, defended the isolated city of Yunyang for several years, and defeated the attacks of the Chuang army again and again.

This sounds amazing, but it's actually not new.

Back then, Jin Guofeng was stationed at Songshan with Jinzhou deputy general, but his troops were no more than 12.In the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty personally led the Eight Banners to Songshan in an attempt to capture the city and destroy the Jinzhou barrier.Huang Taiji stormed for seven days and repeatedly attacked, but was bravely resisted by Jin Guofeng, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties.

Huang Taiji sent people back to Shenyang to dispatch troops, brought in 27 cannons, more than 1 shells, and more than 500 hu of gunpowder, and fired around the city. The battlements on the towers were destroyed, and the people in the city could only carry the door panels Marching, Jin Guofeng sent troops to attack several times and failed, but he still guarded day and night, and he did not retreat in bloody battles.

(End of this chapter)