Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 390
Since He Liu came to Miyun Camp, two groups of people often appeared near the camp.These two groups of people are all dressed in short clothes, with swords at their waists, and they are riding horses with bird beak guns hanging on the saddles.

Li Rubai thought it was Mongolian spies who sneaked across the Great Wall to inquire about the defenses of several garrison camps near the capital!

He sent [-] soldiers and horses to charge and surrounded the two groups of people.

Unexpectedly, these two groups took out the badges of Dongchang and the badges of Jinyiwei.It turned out that Jin Yiwei's group was ordered by Zhu Xixiao, and Dongchang's group was ordered by Feng Bao, and the two groups "protected" He Liu in Miyun together.

Li Rubai told He Liu about this.He Liuyi laughed it off: "Protection? I'm in my son-in-law's barracks, with my son-in-law's [-] robes beside me! Do I need their protection? Watching is watching, why is it so nice?"

He Liu is Xianyun Yehe now, so he will naturally do what Xianyun Yehe should do to show the people who watch him.

For half a month, during the day, he hunted on the meadow near Miyun.In the evening, I went back to Daying to roast game and drink with my son-in-law.

In the middle of the night, Bai Xiaoyan had already fallen asleep.He Liu carefully looked at a booklet by candlelight.

Bai Xiaoyan got up in a daze: "Sixth brother, what are you looking at?"

He Liu said perfunctorily, "It's nothing, just sleep with you."

Bai Xiaoyan snatched the booklet.I saw the names and official positions of nearly a hundred people densely written on the pamphlet.

Bai Xiaoyan returned the booklet to He Liu: "Sixth brother, why are you not telling me the truth now? You told me yesterday that you want to be a wild crane and live your life leisurely! In your booklet, It's the list of all the old brothers who were pushed out of Jinyiwei by Zhu Xixiao! The list goes down to a hundred households, and up to a few old eunuchs, all of them are yours! If you really want to retire to the countryside, what are you doing with this list?"

He Liu put his arms around his wife's shoulders: "Nothing can be hidden from your eyes. I am not retiring, but dormant! When the right time comes, I will call these people in the brochure back into the capital!"

After staying in Miyun Camp for more than ten days, He Liu was going to return to Beijing with Bai Xiaoyan and Xiangxiang.

He Liu was packing with Bai Xiaoyan when Li Rubai walked in.

Li Rubai said: "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, I will send a carriage and a hundred robes later to escort you back to the capital."

He Liu smiled and said, "You don't need to send someone to protect me. What are those two guys from Dongchang and Jinyiwei outside Daying doing here? If something happens to me on the road, they won't be able to afford it."

Li Rubai looked embarrassed: "Okay, then I won't send anyone. Master Yuezhang, I have something... I want to ask you to help me."

He Liu put down the luggage in his hand, turned to look at Li Rubai: "Just say what you want. My family, why bother?"

Li Rubai asked tentatively: "Master Yuezhang, are you familiar with the people in the household department?"

He Liudao: "Familiar. The three officials of the household department, Shang Shu Ma Sen, left servant Wang Guoguang, and right servant Yang Sizhong, are very familiar with me."

Li Rubai said: "Then are you familiar with the subordinate staff under these three adults?"

In the Ming Dynasty, on the surface, the pillars of the household department were the three hall officials.In fact, it is not the case. The real pillars of the household department are the large number of subordinate officials without official status.

Under the three officials of the Ministry of Households, there are [-] provinces to clean up officials.Each division has one doctor, one Yuanwailang and two principals.Plus Guangchu Division, Zhaomosuo, Tea Horse Division, and Military Storage Warehouse. . .There are no more than a hundred officials in the entire household department with a rank of seven or more.

It is obviously impossible to manage the huge amount of income and expenditure of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty with only these more than 100 people.

It is the thousands of unofficial and unranked subordinates in the Ministry of Households who actually handle the income and expenditure of money and food in various places.

It is said that the king of Hades is easy to see, but the little ghost is difficult to deal with.There is another proverb that says: The county magistrate is not as good as the current one.Although these subordinate officials are humble, they have great power.Often those local governors of the second and third ranks would pay three respects when they saw them.Because these people casually changed a few items in the money and food account books, the governors would encounter huge troubles.

One term in the household department, but three years.The household department of iron, the official of flowing water.But the subordinate officials often worked in the Ministry of Households for ten or twenty years.They are proficient in various affairs of the household department, and officials cannot do without them.

A hundred-year-old monkey can become a sperm.These subordinate officials are good at doing things, and even making money.Blackmailing and blackmailing local officials is their daily routine.

When Li Rubai mentioned the subordinate staff, He Liu immediately understood three points.He said: "Why, you have encountered trouble in the matter of writing off the military salary?"

Li Rubai nodded: "The bad rules of the household department. When the military salary is written off, one out of [-] benefits must be given to the subordinate staff who handle it. On the grain table of my father in Liaodong, there is a sum of money kept all year round, dedicated to the household department. Those little ghosts! My father always said that if you want to do great things, you can't offend villains. Not only my father, but also Qi Dashuai and Yu Dashuai."

What Li Rubai said was the truth.Even Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, and Li Chengliang, the border guards, will bow their heads when they encounter those unemployed subordinates.There is no way, the elite in their hands are all recruited by the recruitment system.The subordinate staff are holding hands tightly on the account books, and their brothers are afraid that they will starve.

He Liudao: "Well, you are now a guerrilla general in Miyun. Although your rank is not high and you don't lead many troops, you are also the commander-in-chief of a battalion. You also have to deal with subordinates. Why, the subordinates of the Ministry of Households make things difficult for you gone?"

Li Rubai nodded: "This is the first time my son-in-law is on his own, and he didn't think carefully about some things. All the salaries issued by the court, I let me distribute them to my brothers in full. There is no extra money on the food table. Although 2000 people are not many, but Food, drink, salaries, food and grass for the army are also a large amount of money in a year. It is a huge amount of 10 taels. The household department is in charge of the write-off of military salaries in Miyun Daying, and it is a subordinate of Xiao Gui. Xiao Gui asked me for 3000 I can't take out the benefits of two silver coins."

Bai Xiaoyan interjected from the side: "My good son-in-law, you don't have any money, but Xiangxiang has it. When Xiangxiang marries you, she brings a dowry of 40 taels. You just ask Xiangxiang to help you with the money? I would rather offend the King of Hades than the little ghost. When I had a fight with the third wife of Wang Shilang's family, I once heard her say that even the three officials of the Ministry of Accounting can't do anything with the subordinate staff! They Colluding with local officials and military generals for many years has done too many dirty things inside and outside. To investigate and deal with a subordinate official will involve a large number of officials and generals who command the army!"

Li Rubai said: "I know that Xiangxiang is rich. My father also wrote to me, saying that if I am short of money, I can ask him for it. But I am already a guerrilla battalion, and it is inevitable to use money from my wife and father." It’s so embarrassing. The military pay that was supposed to be written off last winter has been delayed until now. That Xiao Gui asked someone to bring me a message, saying that it was four months overdue, and if he wanted to write it off again, he needed to pay [-] silver! Write off the military salary It can be extended by half a year at most. That is to say, if I don't solve this matter within two months, I will be dismissed from office."

(End of this chapter)