Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 154 Your Majesty, If We Don't Rebel, We Just Want to Buy Some Officials! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
In the autumn of the tenth year of Kangxi, it was the beginning of a nightmare for the old man, aunt, sisters and children of the Eight Banners in Beijing.

The battle in the southwest of Sichuan not only wiped out the phantom of the invincible soldiers of the Eight Banners, but also let the old men, aunts, sisters and children of the Eight Banners in the city of Forty-Nine truly taste the truth. What it's like to lose a son, husband, brother and father. For some of them, the sky is falling, the earth is falling, the pillars of the family are falling and the hope of the future is gone!
Beginning on the seventh day of the seventh month, the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers led by Prince An were defeated by a rebel army of [-] led by Wu Sangui, a rebel in the southwestern part of Sichuan. One after another, like a bolt from the blue, they smashed into Sijiu City.

At the beginning, people were still unbelievable at the defeat of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers, but soon they realized that the Qing Dynasty was likely to face national crisis, and on July 22, more than ten days later, with the four The yamen of the Eight Banners in the Nine Cities began to post funeral notices, and began to distribute letters saying "so and so is not in the king's business" and bags of pension money. The names and the people who received the letter and pension money realized that it was not the Qing Dynasty that was in danger, but themselves!

They have lost their most important family members forever!
And since July 23, the color of Sijiu City has changed—almost every house is plain, and every household is hung with white silk. During the day and night, there is a lot of crying, and you can see people burning paper money everywhere you go.

In the early morning of this day, Wang Zhongxiao and Wang Jizhen also changed into plain clothes, and carrying two large boxes of gifts, they left the house in Tofu Lane with a serious face, and walked south along Chongwenmen Inner Street. , and walked towards Zhenglan Qi's residence, hey, he looked like he was going to "eat a banquet".

The two of them, especially Wang Zhongxiao, can be regarded as moderate "stars" in Forty-Nine City. Butcher Batulu is still a small living Lu Bu, so he has a lot of acquaintances.Along the way, many people greeted him, but there was nothing good to say. They said "sorry for the change", "who is missing from your family" and so on.

Wang Zhongxiao is okay, he sighed when he heard this, and replied: "My uncle is gone (Wu Shilin)"

When Wang Jizhen heard these mourning words, she looked as if her father had died. Those who didn't know thought that Wang Fuchen was gone!
However, his unlucky appearance is not unreasonable, because today he is not going to have a feast, but to accept Zheng.Nazheng is also called Nabi, which means that the man's family goes to give the bride's family a dowry gift.

What a joy!
The man's family is the eldest son of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the woman's family is the youngest daughter of the governor of Shaanxi, which is no longer the previous governor of Shaanxi!
After accepting the nomination certificate, Jia Hanfu has already come back from the mountain, and was once again appointed by the governor of Shaanxi. He even paid his own money to run schools and academies. The revival of "Guan Xue" in the Qing Dynasty can be said to have started with his old man.Therefore, his popularity in Shaanxi Province is very high.When Wu Sangui was about to attack Shaanxi, it was obviously beneficial to the Qing Dynasty to let him serve as the governor of Shaanxi.

On the one hand, men and women are married, and on the other hand, high-ranking officials have to do it. This is a great thing for double happiness. It stands to reason that a drum team should be invited to give the betrothal gift all the way.

But isn't this a "good day" when the city is full of greenery?How can blow and blow?Is this celebrating the heavy casualties of the Eight Banners disciples?

Of course, postponing the wedding is also inappropriate. Now the three ceremonies of Nacai, Name Asking, and Najib out of the six wedding ceremonies have been completed. After finishing the Najib today, the next step is to ask for a date and greet you in person.According to the original arrangement, it can all be completed before Wang Zhongxiao, Jia Hanfu and Wang Jizhen take office.

In addition, Emperor Kangxi issued a special decree not long ago, emphasizing once again that "everyone under the flag, the mourning time cannot exceed 27 days, and marriages and marriages are not allowed to be postponed for too long because of funerals"-there are not enough children from the Eight Banners, so production must be accelerated!

Under such circumstances, how can the Wang and Jia families, who have no dead in their families, postpone the wedding?Isn't this destroying the production work of the Eight Banners?Watch out for the censor's book to join them!
So Wang Jizhen had no choice but to withdraw from the drum team, and just himself and his brother Wang Zhongxiao went out with two big boxes of gold ingots (the box was quite big, and the gold ingots were only a few catties)
When the two brothers Wang Jizhen and Wang Zhongxiao arrived at the Jia family's mansion in Xiliu Hutong, Chongwenmen, the whole alley was full of wind and rain, and almost every house was hung with white silk, only the front of Jia's house was clean.

Jia Hanfu's official is not small, but his house is not big, it's just an ordinary four-entry courtyard house, it looks quite old, and it hasn't been renovated for many years, it doesn't look like a governor's house.

Moreover, the gate of this Jia's house is also a little cold.
"Is it here?" Wang Zhongxiao felt a little wrong, "Brother, did you get the wrong way?"

"Could it be wrong?" Wang Jizhen glared at his brother, "This is my wife's house!"

"No, isn't Jia Taibao (Jia Hanfu joined the Prince Taibao in the 16th year of Shunzhi) going to be Shaanxi Futai? When our father was governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the threshold was almost broken!"

Wang Jizhen smiled wryly and shook her head: "Is this comparable? Who is our father? A corrupt official, he dare not do anything corrupt and perverted? What kind of official is my father-in-law? He is an upright official who will go down in history!"

"Hey, what's the matter? I won't be able to get in in the future." Wang Zhongxiao didn't continue, and it would spoil the scenery if he continued.

No matter how much Jia Hanfu did for the country and the people, he would be included in the "Records of Second Officials" in the Qianlong Dynasty. If he didn't want to be included in "Records of Second Officials", then he could only be a third official!
After Wang Zhongxiao stopped talking, he walked quickly to the door of Jia Taibao's house and knocked on the door. After two slaps, the door opened, and then he saw an old man with a gray beard, looking sad. Look, then heard the noisy voice.

"Ama, I didn't say you. You have been the governor for so many years, why don't you make more money? Now the court is going to sell officials and nobles. If you have money, my second and third brothers and I can donate a real money right now." the official!"

"That's right, if we have the officials we really need, we don't need to be soldiers to fight Wu Sangui!"

"There are no real vacancies, and alternates are fine! We will buy four vacancies from Guangdong and Guangxi. After going to your old in-law's princely army site, are you afraid that there are no vacancies that can be filled?"

"That's right, the Dutong yamen is preparing for conscription. Except for the boss, all four of our brothers have not run away. You just wait for the white-haired man to send the black-haired man!"

This should be the four filial sons of Jia Hanfu's family, Jia Guobin, Jia Guodong, Jia Guolui, and Jia Guokai, who are scolding their father.

Although the Wang family brothers often educated their unreliable father in the past, after all, educating father is a family matter that is inconvenient for outsiders to know, so the two of them are quite embarrassed now, and they are embarrassed to enter the Hanging Flower Gate. They just wait in the outer courtyard. Wait for the old servant of the Wang family to go in and report.

But the old servant's movements were a bit slow, and before he got to his place, Jia Hanfu had already started to retort, "I've asked you guys to read more books a long time ago, and if you take the exam, you'll have everything? Are you Banner man, how easy is it to pass the exam? Little six, your second, third, and fourth brothers are hopeless, and your fifth brother died early, and you are still young, and you can still study hard!"

"What are you reading? Buy it. Juren can buy it too!"

"You, you, are you going to piss off your father? If you don't study hard, you, Ama, I will." Old Jia seemed really angry this time.

"What are you doing?"

"I'll really take that little beauty from the Wu family as my concubine, and I'll make her a second child!" Jia Hanfu, Mr. Jia really has a brilliant idea!

Now the brothers of the Jia family are in a hurry, Jia Hanfu is an upright official, he doesn't have much family property in the first place, if there is another little brother to share, the brothers can get even less.But before they got mad, the old servant had already reported the news of the visit of the two brothers from the Wang family to the father and the others.

As soon as he heard a visitor, the "infighting" in the old Jia family ended immediately. When the door of the hanging flowers opened, the five fathers and sons of the Jia family were called a kind father and a filial son!

I saw Mr. Jia standing in the middle cheerfully, with two sons on the left and right sides, arching Mr. Jia like stars arching the moon, and then he entered the Chuihua Gate.The two brothers of the Wang family also pretended not to have heard about the four young masters being godfathers. They first saluted Mr. Jia with a thousand salutes, and then bowed to each other with the four young masters, which is considered polite.

After beating for a long time, Wang Zhongxiao and Wang Jizhen were invited into the middle hall of the courtyard by Mr. Jia and the four Mrs. Jia, and then the guests and hosts were seated, and the servants of the family served green tea.

Several people drank tea for a while, and chatted nonsense for a while, Wang Zhongxiao finally couldn't help inquiring about the imperial court selling officials to the Jia brothers, "I heard that the imperial court is going to open a large donation class?"

"Yes, there is such a thing," the young man named Jia Guokai, who was six years old at home, immediately picked up the topic, "It has spread all over the place. Brother Shikai, you are so well-informed, don't you know?"

I really don't know. Wang Zhongxiao didn't stay in the city these days, but took his family to the Zhuangzi in Yuyuantan for vacation - he was exhausted a while ago and couldn't take a good rest?And now that Wu Shifan is still hiding in Yuyuantan, Kangxi issued a secret decree to the stick, asking them to secretly trace Wu Shifan's whereabouts.Wang Zhongxiao was very worried, so he guarded the Zhuangzi in Yuyuantan himself.

In addition, Wang Zhongxiao stayed in Zhuangzi in Yuyuantan to cultivate feelings and understanding with that Wu Xiaojiao.Xiaojiao is still young. Wang Zhongxiao intends to let her grow up before entering the family, so he "trains" her first.

And Wang Jizhen didn't know that he had asked for leave from the yamen these few days to focus on his own marriage.To him, this matter was not just about marrying a wife and taking concubines (he got Wu Yingxiong's second daughter, so he was ready to make a couple and do it together), it was a matter of life!

Because Wang Fuchen is now in Guangdong and Guangxi, it is impossible to come back to attend his son's wedding, so after marrying Jia's daughter, he has to take her to Guangdong to pay respects to the old man Wang Fuchen.

As soon as he leaves, he will never come back, so he has to make good preparations.

As for selling and buying officials, he felt that the old Wang family was about to turn against him, so why would he buy officials from the Qing Dynasty?Isn't this a waste of money?So he doesn't care about it.

"Brother Jia Liu, tell me quickly." Wang Zhongxiao is interested in buying an official, "How do you buy this official?"

"Brother Shikai," Jia Guokai looked at Wang Zhongxiao curiously, "Didn't you let go of the Guangdong Customs Road? Do you want to buy an official for the Taoist of Wen Sipin?"

Wang Zhongxiao was originally the commander-in-chief, but because of the defeat in Southwest Sichuan, he was returned to the first-class bodyguard of the third rank.If the first-class bodyguards are sent out to serve as military officers, they can have a lieutenant general, but if they want to be released as a civilian, it's not that big of a deal.

Civil officials in the Qing Dynasty were much more expensive than military officials, and the civil officials of the third rank were the local inspectors!
It is impossible for Wang Zhongxiao to release a Guangdong inspector!

Therefore, when a guard is sent out to be a civil servant, he has to be downgraded by one or two ranks, and the first-class guard of the third rank and the customs road of the fourth rank are already very popular.

"I have an official myself," Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "but I also want to buy Shangguan for some of my dearest relatives and friends. I don't know if I can buy the county magistrate, county magistrate, master book, and canon history?"

The county magistrates, county magistrates, masters, and dianshi are all officials at the lowest level. They control the grassroots political power of the Qing Dynasty and directly rule the people under them.

Although Wang Fuchen's governor of Guangdong and Guangxi seems to be very powerful, but his governor has no territory or people directly under his control
Without the territory and people directly under his jurisdiction, Wang Fuchen would have no way to build base areas. There is no base area. Once his governor is separated from the Qing Dynasty, the only thing he can rely on is the army in his hand.

Wang Zhongxiao decided early in the morning to send as many officials as possible to Guangdong and Guangxi as county magistrates by taking the route of selecting officials from the Ministry of Officials. He directly became the county magistrate, because most of his confidantes were not eligible to participate in the election.

Now that Kang Mazi directly sells his officials in order to raise military expenses, it will be easy to handle!
Jia Hanfu heard Wang Zhongxiao's question, smiled and shook his head and said, "Nephew, you still don't know much about the local government system in the Qing Dynasty. Every county in the Qing Dynasty has a county magistrate, but the county magistrate, the chief secretary, and the history of the county There are very few assistant officials, and most counties do not have a county magistrate, master book, or canon history, and there is only one county magistrate in the whole county."

There are actually very few officials in the Qing Dynasty where they are needed!

Not only are there no second assistant officials in the county, but even at the prefectural level, even in the governor's yamen and the governor's yamen, there are no second assistant officials. The governor or governor is "edited"!

In the Qing Dynasty, if you want to "examination and compilation", it is really difficult, unless you are a bannerman.

Wang Zhongxiao said thoughtfully: "Then I'll buy more county magistrates from Guangdong and Guangxi! Whether it's a real shortage or a candidate, one counts as one, and it's best to buy them all!"

Jia Hanfu stroked his white beard, squinted his eyes at Wang Zhongxiao, pondered for a while, and then said: "Nephew, if you have money, you can buy the alternate magistrate and alternate way! At that time, your father can let you Alternate magistrates and alternate roads go to act as county magistrates."

"Acting?" Wang Zhongxiao's eyes lit up, "Yes, the magistrate of Zhengyin County has been approved by the Ministry of Officials, and the acting magistrate only needs to be appointed by the governor. However, the acting magistrate must be a high-ranking official and low-ranking. If you can buy more alternate prefects, you can let them act as an agent. County government."

Jia Hanfu smiled and said, "Nephew, I will teach you another trick. Although each province has a lot of candidates for county magistrates, as a governor, they will definitely retain some county magistrate vacancies for their own people to act on their behalf. It is beneficial to do so Two advantages, one is that you can actually control some territory; the other is that it can make the official vacancies more tight; and the third is that you can have more alternate officials who run errands in the governor's office! These alternate officials do not need to be paid, and can be used for nothing , using them can also save the money to invite the master."

This Jia Daqing official is not a good boss. If he doesn't work hard in office, he will naturally not be able to hire a sufficient number of masters-the governor's office is equivalent to the provincial government of later generations. ?How does this work work?Therefore, the governors of the Qing Dynasty had to ask a large number of masters to help them out of their own pockets.The officials who are candidates for the province are the "official white laborers" of the governors (governors), that is, they work for nothing in the "provincial government" and do not pay wages.

So in the Qing Dynasty, if those big officials in the borderlands were not more greedy, they would have no way to carry out their work
Fortunately, the father and son Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao are corrupt officials who serve the country and the people!
Not only do they have money to hire a master, but they also have money to buy officials for their loved ones!
Thinking of this, Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said to Jia Hanfu: "Jia Shibo, I have something to discuss with you!"

"what's up?"

Wang Zhongxiao said: "The younger generation wants to buy more magistrates and county magistrates. But I can't do it alone. I want to ask your four elder sons to help me become this official!"

"Ama, we have to help with this!"

"Yes! They are all our own people."

"Our brothers are also idle, and it would be great to go to Guangdong to be a county magistrate!"

"It's much better than going to die as an Eight Banners soldier!"

Jia Hanfu's four sons were really warm-hearted, and they all wanted to help Wang Zhongxiao.

Jia Hanfu nodded with a smile, "Since these four dogs of this old man want to go to Guangdong to become officials, then I won't stop me. But I want to remind you, my nephew Shikai, that this official will not be too cheap. You have to Only when you have enough silver can you go to sweep the goods!"

Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have plenty of money!"

Jia Hanfu said to Wang Jizhen again: "Go and buy an official, don't buy another one from Guangdong. It's not right for father and son to be officials in the same province. It's better to buy a magistrate in Shaanxi, and go to Shaanxi with the old man to take office!"

(End of this chapter)