golden scales

While the urban population in western Shandong was still being sorted out, the three prefectures in eastern Shandong had already trained the first batch of 500 administrative commissioners. .

Most of these people were students who had no chance to get ahead, or they made a living from litigation, or they lived on food.According to the tradition of giving preferential treatment to scholars in the Ming Dynasty, students also have a tax-free quota of two shi grains, but in a social environment where a large number of farmers rely on Juren and Jinshi families, this quota may not be able to sell for money.

After being directly under the jurisdiction of the three prefectures in eastern Shandong, the land was redistributed, and the imperial court firmly controlled the land tax in its own hands. All the officials and gentry either paid the food obediently, or they were put on various hats and went bankrupt. Naturally, the tax exemption for scholars is even more Can't use it anymore.

Fortunately, you can still take the exam, and after the exam, you can be directly accepted as an official, or even an official, which can be said to be a great thing.

In the era of lack of clear administrative regulations, these officials who read the Four Books and Five Classics played an irreplaceable role.Because there are only a few books to read, so the ideological level is similar, and the values ​​​​are the same—or the same in terms of public values.This ensures that they can make near-unanimous value judgments.

Through strict legal constraints, this unanimous judgment will soon become a practice, thereby maintaining social order and ensuring the smooth operation of social functions.

Only this part of the students is not enough to undertake the general affairs of the second-level area, so as assistants, there are still a large number of original scribes in the East Palace.These people are the key targets of the purge of officials.Occasionally, a few upright officials in Dongsanfu were directly appointed or even promoted after being purged.However, the official system of the three prefectures was almost uprooted. Not only did a large number of officials serve as hard labor, teach, and even had to kill chickens to make an example of monkeys.

After half a year of education, the surviving officials were finally tamed and accepted the new rules. Depending on their performance, they could go to the village to teach or do some clerical work in the yamen.The dispatch of officials to the purge area this time also gave these people places where they could perform crimes and make meritorious deeds. Judging from the intensity of the competition, they have been reformed fairly thoroughly.

Daming regards "officials" as the first class, and "officials" are the so-called "little officials" among the people, and they are also very remarkable figures, so they are naturally good at seizing opportunities.

On November 17, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong held a high-level military and political meeting in Jinan.

As for civil servants, Wu Tong and Sun Chuanting will naturally be present.At the same time, there are also 11 officials in total, including the chief officials of Henan's chief minister and the second envoy of punishment, and the appointed officials of eight prefectures and one prefecture in Henan.Zhou Yingqi was finally transferred to the post of Governor of Henan Province and Chief Political Envoy in a legitimate way, and he no longer had to use the title of Governor of Tianjin to participate in politics in Shandong.

As for generals, the governors of the Fourth Headquarters of the Metropolitan Government were originally in Jinan.Naturally, all the military generals who are in charge of the local area are also included.After accepting recruits from two battalions, the First Guards Battalion formed the First Guards Division of three battalions, with a full staff of 3000, becoming the most powerful armed force in the Eastern Palace system.

Therefore, Xiao Mo deservedly stood at the head of the military generals, maintaining a humble and low-key virtue on his face, but in his heart he felt quite satisfied with his success and fame.

The one next to Xiao Mo was not Xiao Donglou, but Luo Yukun.

Luo Yukun has always had the consciousness of being a "guest soldier".He knew that the three major guard battalions were all old men from Donggong, and even a former bandit like Xiao Donglou had the Tianxiong army as a note, and Niu Jinxing was captured in the Battle of Ruyang.The Duli Guerrilla Battalion, to put it bluntly, is a group of Sichuan soldiers who sacrifice their lives for money.

And in name, he is still the rest of the bandits.

At this moment, Luo Yukun was standing beside Xiao Mo, wearing the same military uniform and a gold star badge, attracting everyone's attention, and suddenly thought of a sentence that Chen Chong had been talking about all the time: A soldier dies for his confidant.

"This winter offensive is not so much a military action as an administrative action." Zhu Cihong sat in the high seat and set the tone for this meeting.

Zhu Cilang looked around and said: "The reason why this military and political meeting is held is mainly to prevent civil and military disputes in the recovery area. First of all, I still want to emphasize that civil and military officials have different affiliations. Civil servants should not interfere in the military, so as not to embarrass each other. "

Since Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, civil servants have overwhelmed generals, and after Wanli it was almost sick.Liaodong local emperors like Li Chengliang also bowed their heads to civil servants.Not to mention that Mao Wenlong, the first-rank governor Mao Wenlong who held the Shangfang sword and commanded a town, was directly beheaded by Yuan Chonghuan.

There was no reaction from the civil servants present.Not every civil servant has a heart of "general leader", just because they shoulder the responsibility of guarding the soil, it is inevitable that they will rush to the doctor and intervene in the military at a critical moment.Now Zhu Cihong puts the responsibility of guarding the land on the army, declaring that civil servants can abandon the city when the situation is in crisis, and they will not be held accountable.Naturally, there is no need for them to intervene in the military.

"Secondly, restore a place and rule a place. In the first three days, the army was in charge of the government. The officials of the Chief Political Commissioner counted the lists of local gentry's thieves and bandits, and the army carried out arrests. To restore local law and order, civilian officials can request protection, and the army can also suppress rebels by themselves. Three days later, the inspection department and police station will be established, and the main combat troops of each battalion will return to the organizational system, and the local peace and stability will be handed over to the administrator.”

"Again, the establishment of labor camps." Zhu Ciwang looked at Chen De, who was in the military system, and then at Zhou Yingqi, and said, "The chief envoy should set up labor camps in the thoroughfare as soon as possible, recruit and purchase labor tools, and Chen De , Zhao Yingyuan, and Xie Qian assigned commanders, built fortifications, and repaired city defenses."

The three people who were named agreed one after another.

Chen De used to be a guerrilla general at any rate, looking at the two people around him, he was a little bit aggrieved.Zhao Yingyuan was originally the champion of rebellion. After Li Zicheng retreated in defeat, he led a team to rob houses in eastern Henan, and finally expanded to more than [-] people.

After news of the Battle of Gaocheng spread, he led his troops to surrender to Xiao Mo.After screening, most of them were given land and farm tools, and became farmers again.Another part of the craftsmen was allocated to the handicraft workshop attached to the technical school and became craftsmen.In the end, there were more than 1 people left, and 1000 people were selected to be trained as engineers, and the others were turned into laborers.

As a result, Zhao Yingyuan became the battalion officer of the Second Engineer Battalion.

As for Xie Qian, he was an original bandit who gathered more than [-] people in Qingzhou.Really unable to resist the pressure of the Eastern Palace to suppress the bandits, he had to take refuge in the Eastern Palace with his men.He originally had a little bit of luck in his heart, thinking about finding an opportunity to take over the mountain and become king again.Who knew that the Donggong system had a digestion capacity beyond his imagination, which made his [-] mob crumble and disperse in a single day.

Now Xie Qian is the battalion officer of the third engineering battalion. Except for one training officer, he has known each other, and all the others are newcomers who have been replaced.

Being side by side with such two people naturally makes the proud Chen De feel unwilling.However, the tempering of these days played a role to some extent, and Chen De did not show the slightest on his face.Of course, this also had a lot to do with his father's surrender and apostasy.Although the crown prince comforted him several times, and even Chen Yongfu himself was awarded the rank of colonel and presided over the training of Xiangyong in the three prefectures of Ludong, Chen De was still under tremendous psychological pressure.

——I am a man who knows how to fight!

Chen De couldn't help shouting in his heart.

But what disappointed him was that the first division of the guards had been integrated, and the three battalion officers were all old men from the first battalion, and they all came from the Eastern Palace Guards battalion back then, so it was impossible for outsiders to get in.It is already rumored that the next division will be expanded into divisions. It will be the second battalion of guards in Xiaodonglou. It is conceivable that in the future battle on the northern front, the first division will attack Baoding, the second division will attack Tianjin, and the third battalion of Danning will attack. The battalion is likely to attack Taiyuan to contain the enemy to the west.

Luo Yukun's ranking this time is only lower than Xiao Mo's, and it's because the goal of the winter offensive is to reach Tongguan in the west and Jingmen and Suizhou in the south, which already completely includes Henan province and cuts into Huguang.

Considering that Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang was likely to respond, rumors of the expansion of the Duli Camp into a division were also very tight, and it was even heard that it would be expanded into a division before the Second Guards Battalion.

Seeing that other people always have battles to fight, and when they win, they will be expanded and promoted, Chen De is even more anxious, so that he doesn't even pay attention to what the crown prince said later.

Of course, this is not important, anyway, the minutes of the meeting will be distributed to the participants.

"Finally," Zhu Cihong stood up, "there is a new personnel appointment: from today onwards, the commander-in-chief of the Chief Discipline Department of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion will be appointed by the Admiral Han native officers and soldiers, General Yin of Guzhendong, and Qin Liangyu, the left governor of the Chinese Army's Governor's Mansion." (To be continued.)