golden scales

"The above means that all foreign students who have participated in the Siyi Hall Examination will only be given third-class examinations and all will be hired." Huang Ruixue sat on the main seat and held a meeting within the department.Now the Department of Culture, Education and Cleansing Officials has more and more jurisdiction, as long as it is related to exams and schools, it can be sent to her.

As the chief assistant, it was impossible for Wu Tong to come to the Ministry of Rites every day to sit in the hall, and the entire ministry affairs fell on Huang Ruixue's shoulders.

As the authority of the department increases, the manpower naturally needs to be expanded, so that a department has to borrow the lobby for meetings, and even so, it is still full.

"Boss Huang, we are easy to talk here, but if the official department gives us a comment of 'unusable' in the future, our test scores will also be pulled down." A civil official with a southern accent spoke with resentment. Too easy to talk, what the superiors say is what they say, and they don't know how to fight for their own rights.

This is indeed a common problem of female officials, who are more considerate of the overall situation and do not mind sacrificing themselves.

But this time, some people were too worried.

"There will be no marks this time." Huang Ruixue said: "Only divided into three categories: excellent, qualified, and still need to work hard. It is the request of the Ministry of Officials, and there are records. Foreign candidates who need to work hard will appear in the future. The problem is not our fault."

Only then did the complaints from below cease.

Of course there is a reason for the bureaucrats to do this.This is not only the case with the Siyi Hall of the capital, but the Siyi Halls in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places have also received the document transfer from the Ministry of Officials.The main reason is that it is really difficult to gather officials from Jeju, Taiwan, and Liaodong.The official selection list is almost empty, but it is still not enough.

Anyway, it's all about copying and writing. Let the Ryukyu people go to Taiwan and the Koreans go to Liaodong, and manage them in different places. It can cultivate manpower, but it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

Only Jeju Island has the heaviest proportion of Han officials.

In order to consolidate the rule.The Koreans on the island could not even act as clerks, and at most worked as foremen and translators.From officials to officials, all were dispatched from the Ming Dynasty.Because it is also a place outside of culture and located on an isolated island, in the face of Japanese pirates, Jeju officials have an additional "island allowance" in addition to their normal salaries.It may also be extended to islands such as Taiwan and Hainan in the future.

Jinpengtu got the exam certificate of "need to work hard".It is said that it is the last class, which is probably a polite way of saying.On the contrary, he was relieved, thinking that he could live in Beijing safely.Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Officials soon followed up with a letter of appointment, appointing him to serve as a clerk in Haizhou County, Liaodong.

It's better than going to Jeju Island!

Jin Pengtu really wanted to escape, but in the official-based society of Ming Dynasty, officials were not only a privileged class, but also a kind of service to the country.Anyone who ignores the recruitment of the Ministry of Officials will either have the ability to be an otaku at home for a lifetime, or if he is caught evading service.I still go to those places, but I am no longer an official.

As for the three civil affairs officials on Jeju Island, they were elected from one place.

Suzhou.

First of all, Jeju Island is facing Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so it is more convenient to directly select Nanguan.

Secondly, Wu Sunchang from Kunshan County, Suzhou, because of the granary case, showed excellent character of loyalty and integrity, and should be commended.However, the Ministry of Officials objected to being directly promoted before passing the exam. This is not the way to employ people.It just so happens that Jeju needs a Zhizhou.For Wu Sunchang, it was three consecutive promotions, but it was just overseas.

Jeju is not a scattered state.It is Zhili Prefecture, which is parallel to the government, and has two counties under its jurisdiction, Dajing and Jingyi.

Wu Sunchang was not very addicted to being an official, but after experiencing the Jiliucang case, he discovered that he was an official in Daming.Too low a rank is too dangerous.And it coincides with the Ming Lord, which is the time to show off your ambitions, so why not fight hard and see how far you can go.So he endured the pain of seasickness and accepted the appointment of Jeju Governor.

The two magistrates under him were not outsiders either.It was Lu Wei and Yang Xiang who were with him that day.These two people are not young enough to be weak crowns, and they have already become the main hall of a county from the seventh rank, which can be said to be proud of their spring breeze.

What made Wu Sunchang even more proud was that the seagoing ship to Jeju was a large lucky ship of the Zhejiang Navy sailing to Japan.The boat was naturally stable on the sea surface, which made Wu Sunchang's seasickness much less severe.Moreover, the voyage from Chongming to Jeju is shorter than that from Tianjin to Chongming, and the suffering is much less.

Accompanying them were [-] warships of the Zhejiang Navy and [-] teaching ships operated by students of the Naval University, which also looked mighty.There were also [-] recruits on the [-] warships, [-] cadets from the martial arts hall, and [-] new officers from the Armed Forces University.

They will belong to Du Chende and become the backbone of the Korean division.

The king of North Korea, Li Hao, received a letter of reprimand, blaming North Korea for not repairing its military equipment, which led to pirates occupying islands and causing havoc along the coast.Now that Ming mentioned the army, he cleared away the pirates who seized Jeju Island for North Korea, but in order to avoid such troubles happening again and again, the defense of Jeju Island and other outer islands in the Korean waters is still handed over to Daming. deal with.

Li Hao lost all the islands inexplicably, so he was naturally very upset.He remembered the resistance to Daming in the time of Mr. Gwanghae, and the contempt his elder brother, Prince Sohyun, had for Daming, thinking that North Korea could become a third-party force independent of Ming and Qing...

Although the ideal is good, it is simply impossible in practice.

According to the news from the Liaodong Koreans, the Ming Dynasty only used tens of thousands of people to destroy the Qing Dynasty.

If he wanted to fight against Daming, wouldn't he be seeking his own death?

Li Hao thought of Jianghua Island, which was close in front of him. Now it seems that it is not a good idea to let Daming garrison.In particular, there is also his own nephew on the island, the son of Prince Zhao Xian, not to mention whether he can fight against Daming in terms of military strength, even in terms of legal system, he is also weaker.

Because of Kim's activities in the DPRK, the North Korean bureaucrats all agreed that Ming's actions were beneficial to North Korea. Moreover, Daming did not say that prisoners could not be exiled to Jeju Island.As for the key issue of horses, no one mentioned it. Anyway, there is no shortage of horses in my family.

Li Hao, who was slapped in vain, had no choice but to drink away his worries, and simply handed over the government affairs to his trusted ministers, and lived a life of drunken king, in order to anesthetize the hidden pain caused by the loss of power and humiliation of the country.He seems to have returned to Shenyang, but this time the whole of North Korea is like a cage.

……

On the first day of August in the 22nd year of Chongzhen, Wu Sunchang arrived in Jeju and was speechless for a long time looking at the walls of Jeju City which were more than one foot high.

"Is this the city wall?" Yang Xiang, who was traveling with him, asked in surprise.

"This doesn't even count as a fence." Lu Wei couldn't help shaking his head.

If Jeju City is like this, then the subordinate counties of Dajing and Jingyi are even more conceivable.

"The wall is not high," Wu Sunchang assumed the attitude of a big brother, "The key is that we must trust the thousand tigers living on the island!"

Thinking of the army with strict military discipline, both Yang Xiang and Lu Wei have a little bit of confidence.

Wu Sunchang himself was out of breath, because he was the only one among the three who knew the truth about the "thousand tigers".

They were the first batch of conscripts drafted by Ming Dynasty, they only received three months of military training, and they had never seen the blood of the enemy.

In any case, from this day on, Daming officially resumed its rule over Jeju, and it was under the Shandong Chief Envoy.

……

The Ming Dynasty established the country with culture and education, and it was not a dynasty that favored martial arts.

In fact, this point can also be seen from the accessories and consumption of literati.

From the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, scholars must wear swords.In the Tang and Song dynasties, literati also had the habit of wearing swords and knives. In the Northern Song Dynasty, a good Japanese sword was worth thousands of gold.After the mid-Ming Dynasty, the price of folding fans went up all the way, and the streets were full of little white faces holding fans to tease young ladies, and the sabers disappeared without knowing it.

The people lost their martial spirit, and saw that military households were no better than beggars, so they naturally didn't want to set foot in the army.Nowadays, the number of soldiers that can be recruited through the recruitment system has become more and more dry, especially when the country is occupied, you can use righteousness to recruit warriors, but now more people don't think it is necessary to join the army.

Since the 20th year of Chongzhen, the cabinet has actually been discussing this issue, and it was worried that the premature implementation of the compulsory military service system would lead to people's rejection of the household registration system, and there would be "fugitives" again, so it was delayed again and again.It was not until the beginning of 22 that it was finally decided to try it out in Shandong Dongsanfu, which has the best ruling foundation.

Even with such caution, the phenomenon of self-injury and escape from military recruitment still appeared in the villagers, which undoubtedly made the cabinet very troubled.

But on the other hand, due to the improvement of education level, most of the soldiers who voluntarily perform military service have received basic education, and have a stronger cultural foundation than the earliest guards of the East Palace, so they don't have to be dragged by the trainer to make up lessons after training.A small number of soldiers who graduated from rural schools were also sent to the Armed Forces University, and they embarked on another way out.

Although the common people are unwilling to serve as soldiers, they do not reject being officers. Who knows that the treatment of officers has surpassed that of civilian officials. It is true that one person is an officer, and his family is full of honor.

"The staff department hopes to conduct a national inspection, mainly to promote and verify the conscription work in each state and county." The training officer wearing the rank of captain holds a thick stack of documents, which are the personnel selected and dispatched by each state capital, the budget and other details Details matter.

Qin Liangyu has not slept well since he took over the conscription work, and he also knows that it is very difficult to promote the compulsory military service system in the local area.However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince convened a special imperial meeting for this purpose. The six cabinet elders and the four headquarters governors of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion gathered together in the Wuying Hall to discuss and make a decision in front of Chongzhen.After the restoration of the country, this is the first time that such a high-level conference has appeared, which shows that its importance cannot be underestimated. (to be continued..)

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