Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 201 Capital
From the time when Zhuzi went to Suizhou to pick up the Yuan family's family, Yu Leting discovered that those people brought by Zhuzi were so respectful to Yuan's family that it was outrageous.

After arriving in Lingchuan, Yu Leting was even more stunned by what happened. In Lingchuan County, officials from the top to the bottom went on errands, and they treated Yuan Keli's family as if they were living ancestors, and gave them whatever they wanted. Even Yu Leting, an outsider, passed by. An old man's addiction.

How could a dedicated second-rank official be treated like this?

But this was not over yet. When he came out of Lingchuan, Yu Leting found that there was another escort team. Yu Leting made a rough estimate. Including the troops brought by the pillars, there must be at least [-] escorts.That posture was afraid that something would happen to the members of the Yuan family, and the ostentation was even more serious than the imperial envoy's tour.

When they arrived at Pingyang Mansion, especially after they arrived at Jiang County, those escorts even arranged Yuan Keli's family members to the main house of the county government office, and all the rooms were renovated. The family members are even more respectful, just like Yuan Keli is the magistrate of Pingyang Prefecture.

After seeing Yuan Keli, Yu Leting once raised the question in his heart, but Yuan Keli didn't answer him directly, but just patted Yu Leting on the shoulder, telling him to talk less and watch more.

Today, when Yu Leting saw Li Jing, and then saw Li Jing bringing a group of people to pay New Year greetings to Yuan Keli, he vaguely felt that the Yuan family's respect from everyone was probably due to Li Jing's relationship.

Especially when sitting, there were originally two chairs placed in the center in the front hall, and Yuan Keli and his wife sat upright for everyone to bow down.But after Mrs. Yuan left with her family members and children, Yuan Keli and Li Jing sat in the center, and Yu Leting clearly saw Yuan Keli move his seat a little.

After this movement, Yuan Keli's seat was not in the middle, but facing Li Jing's side.

what does this mean?
This shows that Li Jingcai is the leader of these people, including Yuan Keli, all these people may be Li Jing's subordinates.

Yu Leting could tell that none of these people present were ordinary people.

Not to mention Zhou Hengchen, who was born as a Jinshi and was a real magistrate of Lingchuan County. When he paid New Year greetings to Yuan Keli, it was his turn to be far behind. There were also Yang Liufeng and Fang Fang, who traveled from Yicheng County to Jiang County. The two of them seem to be in charge of everything, and everything seems to have to be dealt with with their consent. Even the two of them follow Li Jing's ass all the way.

On the contrary, Gao Qi and the others were standing behind Li Jing when he brought someone to escort the Yuan family's family, especially one of them named Ma Wu, who looked like a businessman at first glance, and was actually ranked behind Li Jing the second place.

What makes Yu Leting even more strange is that their address to each other can be described in a mess. When these people address Li Jing, they don't mention any position at all. Most of them call Li Jing Big Brother, and many of them are obviously older than Li Jing is much older.

When it was time to eat at noon, everyone's seat allocation became clearer.

Due to too many people, under Yuan Keli's instruction, two dining tables were placed in the hall, but there were only four people sitting at Yuan Keli's table, namely Yuan Keli, Li Jing, Ma Wu and Gao Qi.

As for Yuan Shu, Yu Leting, Yang Liufeng, Fang Fang, Zhou Hengchen, Zhu Zi, Sun Hutou, Li Dingguo and others were arranged at the next table.

Yu Leting didn't understand. From his point of view, not including him and Yuan Shu, the role of the people at this table is obviously greater, but the people at this table are not qualified to sit with Li Jing. What's the reason?
But everyone here obviously didn't have any ideas, Yang Liufeng, Fang Fang and Zhou Hengchen kept making friends with Zhuzi, Sun Hutou and Li Dingguo.

Yu Leting's mind was not on his own table, he kept looking at Yuan Keli's table, and saw Ma Wu saying something in Li Jing's ear, and then he noticed that Li Jing's expression suddenly changed .

Then Li Jing said a few words in a low voice, and Yuan Keli also showed a look of surprise on his face.

Afterwards, Li Jing and Yuan Keli discussed a few words, then Li Jing stood up and said, "Pillar, Hutou, bring that table together."

Everyone hurriedly got up when they heard this, and they all started together, and put the two tables together with three strokes.

After everyone sat down again, Li Jing smiled at Ma Wu and said, "Fifth brother, tell me."

Ma Wu nodded and said: "The list of officials from Pingyang Prefecture and the following counties and counties submitted by my elder brother years ago has been approved by the imperial court. Magistrate Zhou was promoted to be the magistrate of Pingyang Prefecture, and Uncle Shen was the co-prefect of Pingyang Prefecture. Mr. Yang and Mr. Fang proposed For Zhizhou, as well as those below who are on errands, they will also be promoted accordingly."

"Ah?" Hearing this news, everyone present was very surprised.

In particular, Yuan Shu was even more surprised. Because of his father Yuan Keli's meritorious service in serving as the governor of Denglai, he was secretly appointed as the head of the Shanxi Cleaning Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs. When you are an official, if you say you will be promoted, you will be promoted.

When did the officials of the Ming Dynasty become so worthless?
What surprised him even more was that Li Jing had such a great ability to let so many of his subordinates become officials.

Then Ma Wu laughed again and said, "My elder brother was promoted to Shanxi General, and was awarded the rank of a township general. The emperor ordered him to guard the area around Pingyang Mansion. From now on, my elder brother will have a living with you gentlemen."

Zhou Hengchen, Yang Liufeng and Fang Fang were all a little embarrassed when they heard that Li Jing became a Shanxi general and was also awarded the rank of second rank general.

In the Ming Dynasty, the culture was noble and the military was cheap, and the rank of the generals sounded not low, but they were not as valuable as the Zhizhou of the fifth rank.If it were any other general, they would bow their heads and bow their heads to say hello when they saw Zhizhou, and even the county magistrate of Qipin would not dare to offend him.

But Li Jing was different. These people were all promoted by Li Jing, and they were Li Jing's subordinates in private. Who would dare to be tough with Li Jing and become impatient?

Seeing the embarrassment of Zhou Hengchen and the three of them, Li Jing smiled and waved his hands and said, "Everyone, don't worry too much. You will do things in the future as you did in the past. Promotion is a good thing, and it will be easier for everyone to do things in the future, right? Today is Chinese New Year, I respect you Everyone has a glass of wine, you brothers have worked hard."

Seeing Li Jing holding up the wine glass, everyone hurriedly got up, picked up the wine glass, and drank with Li Jing in one gulp.

Turning around and seeing Yuan Keli also had a drink, Li Jing said with a smile: "Sir, you should drink a little. Brother Bo Ying is here, so you can just take a moment if you want to, and let Brother Bo Ying drink the rest for you."

Yuan Keli stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm happy today, it's okay to drink a little."

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Yuan Shu and said with a smile: "Boying, you have to establish a good relationship with Jimin and the others in the future. You are the head of the Shanxi Cleaning Department. Whether Shanxi's taxes can be collected in the future depends on them. .”

Hearing his father teasing himself, Yuan Shu could only smile wryly.

Li Jing said with a smile: "Brother Boying, you don't need to worry, you will not be short of a penny of the taxes that should be paid by the Pingyang Mansion. Hmm...you work in the household department for a while, and I will make some political achievements for you here. After a year or so, I will find someone to transfer you to Pingyang Mansion as a magistrate."

Yuan Shu nodded, knowing that Li Jing transferred him to Pingyang Mansion because he wanted him to take care of his father nearby.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing turned to everyone and said, "It's Chinese New Year today. Originally, I didn't want to talk about business with you, but I will go to Anyi after the next year. I may not have time to meet you before I leave. Let me tell you what to do next.”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly sat upright.

Li Jing glanced at Yuan Keli, Yuan Keli nodded, and Li Jing continued: "Everyone knows that Shaanxi has experienced a severe drought in recent years, and Shanxi has also suffered from drought and little rain. Every drought will be followed by locusts, followed by plague. Cheer up and take precautions."

Then, Li Jing talked about all the measures he was planning.

Hearing that Li Jing was going to build a big factory again, Fang Fang and Yang Liufeng couldn't help but look at each other with wry smiles, good guy, the factories in front haven't been built yet, this guy is going to build a factory again, and this time the scale is obviously bigger than last time much.

The officials under Li Jing all felt very busy and tired when they were working.

But including Zhou Hengchen, these people feel that they can live a fulfilling life like this now.

To say that once these scholars of the Ming Dynasty became pragmatic, their work was absolutely steadfast. Li Jing was deeply impressed by this.

It's a pity that there are too few such scholars. Li Jing in Lingchuan recruited a large number of scholars to work, but not many stayed in the end.Many nerds were sent to teach by Li Jing within a few days of doing it.

But all those who remained were promoted this time. Those scholars may never have imagined that one day they would become county magistrates, county magistrates, and some were even promoted to prefects and co-prefects.

Li Jing believes that these people will go crazy when the real appointment is made.

Similarly, another group of people have also been promoted this time, that is, those with special skills.

For example, when building roads in Lingchuan, I found a few people who were good at civil engineering, and when building a reservoir in Jiangxian County, I found a few people who knew water conservancy.

Although these people were illiterate, Li Jing still promoted these people to be officials and take charge of the work they were good at.

With these people as models, Li Jing believes that the newly occupied county will soon be able to recruit a group of talents to work, and the rule will soon be on the right track.

Zhou Hengchen and the others also understand this truth, and when the subordinates are ready, they can relax.

And don't look at them being tired now, but being tired is capital, and they believe that Li Jing will see the sweat they put in.So don't look at the heavy workload at the moment, but these people are full of enthusiasm.

After arranging the work for the next year, Li Jing looked at Yu Leting and said with a smile, "I don't know if brother Junyang intends to work here?"

Yu Leting smiled and said, "The teacher is here, how can the students back down?"

Li Jingjing nodded, turned to Yuan Keli and said, "Sir, we have more and more officials, and some of them will inevitably commit crimes. I think our Metropolitan Procuratorate can be established, and Jun Yang will be in charge, so you It’s much easier to be old.”

(End of this chapter)