The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 699 "Promotion"

Song Yingxing saw that Shang Sheng hadn't spoken for a long time, and hesitated: "Your Majesty, could it be that these people learned from the Ministry of Officials that those who voluntarily paid their taxes have let go of the real shortage in Huguang, so they followed the trend?"

Zhu Linmei laughed, "It doesn't matter, as long as they support paying taxes according to the law, I will reward them. It's absolutely necessary."

Song Yingxing said worriedly: "Your Majesty, if all the seats in Huguang are all allocated, the momentum of voluntary payment of food may be unsustainable..."

"Have the Ministry of Song Ge also seen their plot?" Zhu Linmi threw the 30-odd memorials aside, "But now is the time to set an example, since these 30 people take the lead in paying taxes, they naturally want to give some sweetness.

"You don't need to worry about this matter. There is a shortage, but there is a lot."

After Song Yingxing left, Zhu Linmei asked Ma Wensheng to fetch a pen and paper—the carrots had already been scattered, and the big stick had to be swung.

He leaned over his desk and wrote down a long list of names on the note, and then ordered Shi Lin to send it to Yang Tinglin.

There was no court meeting the next day, so Yang Tinglin rushed to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to seek an audience early in the morning.

"It's so early, does Mr. Yang Ge have something important to do?" Zhu Linmi asked, yawning.

"Your Majesty, there may be some inappropriateness in this matter..." Yang Tinglin held the letter he received yesterday, and said carefully, "Hou Maoyi, An Yucai, and Sun Ping are considered diligent in their current appointments, and there is nothing serious about it. This sudden transfer... ..."

"Ah, yes. I think they have done a good job, and they have all been promoted." Zhu Linmi took the tea from Ma Wensheng and sat down on the chair. Grade. Now he has been promoted to Jingzhou Tongzhi, but he is the sixth grade."

Yang Tinglin was stunned for a moment, thinking that this matter would definitely make the officials blame him, so he said with a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty, this Jingzhou is surrounded by the chieftains of Chunan, and there are many cases of court officials being besieged by the natives. And An Yucai, Sun Ping, Xue Rongtian and others were all transferred to Linkou, Zhenyuan and other places, so how should I explain this to the courtiers?"

Ordinary people release magistrates from the capital, it's like a dragon entering the sea, and they are very excited-in the capital, even if you are a third-rank official, there are still many people who are on your head, especially an emperor.But when it came to the place, even if it was just a seventh-rank county magistrate, he was still the "Emperor of Earth" in charge of one side, comfortable and at ease.

But Jingzhou, Linkou, and Zhenyuan are all the poorest places in the south of Huguang, and they are all adjacent to the chieftain. Not only can they not be the emperor of the earth, but they will often be bullied by the "emperor of the earth".

You know, those local people are the masters who gather people to kill people with knives when they disagree with each other. Therefore, no magistrates in these ghost places are willing to do it, and even some county government offices don't even see a person on duty.

The most terrible thing is that Wang Jincai's rebellious army is now tossing around in this area. Maybe they were cut off before they even got there.

Yang Tinglin was afraid that the "tax resistance faction" would bear a grudge against him if the Ministry of Officials issued a decree for these people to take office.

"How to explain to the courtiers?" Zhu Linmei squinted at Yang Tinglin, "So apart from me, Elder Yang also needs to explain to other people?"

Yang Tinglin was startled, and immediately knelt down on the ground, "I, I didn't mean that. It's just that Your Majesty's order was too sudden and unreasonable. I have the responsibility to speak out and speak out."

"So, Yang Ge always doesn't intend to approve the transfer orders of these people?"

"This, this, I just..."

Zhu Linmei's eyes suddenly turned cold, "Master Yang, you follow me from Jiangxi to fight for prisoners all the way to Nanjing, you can be said to have a deep understanding of righteousness, and this is why you have to be the chief assistant of the court."

He put down the tea bowl and took a few memorials from the desk, "It's just that if you want to be confused, I used to let you lead the cabinet, but now I can change someone."

As he spoke, he dumped those memorials to Yang Tinglin, "These are secret memorials to sue your grandson, see for yourself."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, how could there be absolutely clean people in the entire bureaucratic system?I really want to trouble you, Jin Yiwei can pull out a lot of things in three days.

Zhu Linming knew that the tax reform was extremely critical to the Ministry of Officials, so she asked Zheng Guangying to do her "homework" in advance.

In fact, Yang Tinglin still took bribes several times-this was common at this time-although the amount was not large, only more than 2000 taels, what he did was to help the sons and nephews of several friends change "jobs" little things.

But if it is taken out and investigated carefully, it is enough to send him to prison.So Zhu Linmi finally chose his grandson to have an affair with a widow surnamed Zhao and violated the regulations to buy slaves and other crimes, so Zeng Jian singled out several censors and pretended to impeach him.

Yang Tinglin only took a few glances, and was so frightened that he lay on the ground without breathing out, and his clothes were instantly soaked in cold sweat.

At this time, he suddenly remembered that the usually kind emperor in front of him had beheaded hundreds of captive officials in Tianxing Mansion, and he hadn't even had a trial.There was also the incident in Huangzhuang last time. I don’t know how many people were dispatched to desert islands thousands of miles away. It is said that those people were either suffering from epidemic diseases or were killed by natives. The luckiest people lived day and night Do coolies.

He immediately trembled again, if he sent his beloved grandson to that ghostly place, it would really kill him!

He kowtowed desperately and said: "Minister, minister, discipline is not strict, I hope the Holy Lord will spare him for the sake of this minister's sake, and I will punish this little beast severely after I return!"

Zhu Linming got up and helped him up, "Mr. Yang Ge is busy with government affairs, so it is inevitable that we will not investigate the family affairs. I showed you these secret melodies, but I didn't intend to pursue them. You just need to be more disciplined when you go back."

He changed the subject, "It's just that Mr. Yang Ge must take care of these major national affairs for me."

Yang Tinglin didn't dare to show his anger, he just responded with all his strength: "Your Majesty is the only one who will follow the lead of the horse, and will do his best, dare not have it!"

"Okay, the cabinet and the Ministry of Officials still have a lot of important affairs waiting for Mr. Yang Ge to take care of, so don't delay with me." Zhu Linmi patted him, "As long as you are dedicated to the country, everything will be calm. "

"Yes, yes, I remember the hadith!"

Yang Tinglin returned to the office of officials anxiously in his heart. The first thing he did was to issue the transfer orders for Hou Maoyi, An Yucai and others.In the afternoon of the same day, the more than 20 "tax-resistant" radicals all received the official document.

(End of this chapter)