"Wang Datou, you must help Uncle Fu! Otherwise, you will be ungrateful!"
"Wang Datou, your master is right. This busy man must help. This is not only Uncle Fu's business, but also Yang Sanye's. Both Uncle Fu and Yang Sanye have helped you a lot!"
On this day, in the Shengqi Tower of Mochou Lake Palace, Li Zhongshan was discussing with Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Zhou Chang, and Yao Qisheng how to set up the new Ming Dynasty local official system, when he suddenly heard two familiar voices. The person was stunned for a moment, then turned to look out the window, but the yard was empty.
Huang Zongxi, who was introducing the "New System of Local Civil Service Officials" drafted by himself, Gu Yanwu, Zhou Chang, and Yao Qisheng to Li Zhongshan, did not hear anyone outside looking for Wang Datou at all, and was still shaking his head and talking.
"This local official system is more reasonable than the Han Dynasty. Local chief officials such as governors, governors, prime ministers, and county magistrates are not allowed to be held by locals, and must be directly appointed by the court.
The important officials such as Biejia, Zhizhong, Zhubu, Gongcao, and Postal Supervisor were held by local scholars, who could be recommended by the local government and take charge of recruitment.
Local officials are also officials, and they can be promoted to prefectures, counties or even prime ministers. This method of appointing chief officials from the imperial court and appointing assistant officials to local governments is actually a way for the people of the country to discuss politics.
Now, this dynasty has not only restored the ancient practice of people's deliberation on government, but has also gone a step further and formulated the "original law" and various implementation details for people's deliberation on government. Therefore, this dynasty can completely improve the local official system based on the Han system. For example, local civil officials can have three levels: governor, prefect, and county magistrate. Below these three levels of chief officials, there are two deputies for each. The deputies below the governor can be called chief envoys and inspectors, and the deputies below the prefect are the same. Zhi, and below the county magistrate are the left and right county magistrates.
One of the two deputies under this third-level chief official is nominated by the chief official and appointed by the court. This deputy also needs to avoid his place of origin. The other person is recommended by the local National People's Congress, and then the chief official submits it to the court for appointment. The deputy position recommended by this countryman does not need to avoid the place of origin and can be filled by local scholars.
As for the subordinate officials at all levels below the local deputies, they can be appointed by the National People's Assembly and the recruitment of principal and deputy officials. It is best to eliminate the strange phenomenon of civilian masters participating in local governance.
In addition, starting from the second or third year of the Republic of China, we should also gradually improve the local clerk examination system and the system for the promotion of junior clerks to chief officials. It would be best to gradually form a system in which assistant officials must take the exam and chief officials must be promoted from assistant officials. This will avoid the disadvantages of subordinates who do not know grammar and officials who do not understand government affairs."
Not to mention, Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu, who wrote "Records of Visits to Mingyi" and "Book of Benefits and Diseases of Counties and Countries in the World", together with Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng, who are probably the first and second masters in the world today, proposed it together The new local official system is much better than the system that has been implemented for hundreds of years in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Or rather, the system of the strong Han Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty certainly has its merits! Compared with the later system that only sought to weaken local wealthy families and ignored administrative efficiency, it was certainly much stronger.
What Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu experienced was another era in which local governance was almost ineffective. Of course, they would pay more attention to improving efficiency. Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng were both born as masters. They knew very well how corrupt and incompetent those officials at the top were, and how the masters and the officials below colluded to fool things around.
Looking through the history books, although the local officials in the Han Dynasty were not good people, at least they were quite capable compared to the local officials in the Ming and Qing Dynasties!
Even the assistants under various military governors in the late Tang Dynasty are not comparable to the masters and local officials of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
And now that the world is in troubled times, the new Ming Dynasty puts people first and implements a local governance model similar to that of the Han and Tang Dynasties in order to improve efficiency. That is natural.
"Hmm!"
When Huang Zongxi was talking enthusiastically, Li Zhongshan suddenly coughed. He looked up and found that Li Zhongshan was waving to him.
Huang Zongxi thought he was dissatisfied with the new official system he had worked so hard to formulate, so he suddenly became unhappy. His face darkened and he frowned at Li Zhongshan.
"Mr. Lizhou, the method you and Mr. Tinglin, Pei Gong, and Xizhi have formulated is in my favor!" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "But now that distinguished guests are coming, we can only discuss it later. Let's meet the guests now." Bar!"
"Dignified guest? Who is it?" Huang Zongxi asked.
Li Zhongshan smiled, then opened his throat and shouted: "Wang Quan, please invite my master, Dr. He Le, to come in!"
"yes!"
Then the door of Shengqi Tower's courtyard creaked open, and Wang Quan, the commander-in-chief of Shanzi Camp, opened the door and led two monks, one thin and one fat, in.
Among them, the thin monk was Li Zhongshan’s mentor Duo Long!
Duolong used to be a fat man, but now he is so thin that he is out of shape, but he is in good spirits and does not look like he has an incurable disease.
And the fat monk is the Leshen doctor who married Yang Xiaohuan and her mother Jin Yuhuan. Old man Le had a good life when he was young, and he became fat!
Li Zhongshan didn't dare to neglect - he was now the principal himself, and he was a role model for others, so of course he had to pay special attention to respecting teachers. So he stopped the discussion and led Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Zhou Chang, and Yao Qisheng out to greet them. He also cheerfully gave Duolong a salute: "Da Tou greets Master. Master, have you lost weight? It would be better if you lost some weight. You look energetic."
Duolong glared at Li Zhongshan with a look of grievance on his face: "How can you not lose weight? He was dismissed from his post and his house was ransacked, his subordinates talked about his death, and he was put in a prison waiting to be beheaded. Anyone else would have to lose weight!"
It turns out that Duolong has suffered a lot these days!
As the governor of Liangjiang, he is the local guardian and has the responsibility to defend the territory!
As a result, he lost Jiangning City, was defeated by Geng Jingzhong in Taiping Mansion, and fled to Zhenjiang in embarrassment. After arriving in Zhenjiang, he was dismissed from his post, but he was not arrested immediately. Instead, he and Echu were asked to serve the crime together.
But when Yue Le ran from Huguang to Zhenjiang, Duolong and Echu were immediately arrested and imprisoned, and were escorted back to Beijing. Since most of Duolong's extravagant wealth was in Jiangning, all of it was divided up by Prince Zhu San and Lu Sanhao, so after he was caught in Beijing, he couldn't even afford the money to sell his life, so he had to squat in the prison of Shangfangyuan to die.
At the end of the fight, he and Echu decided on an "Autumn Jue", which was the Autumn Queen Wen Zhan!
After last autumn, Echu went to Caishikou for a business trip, and when he arrived, he hugged Duolong and cried!
After beheading Echu, I was about to behead Duolong. But for some reason, I never beheaded him, but I didn't let him go, and I didn't tell him that he wasn't going to be beheaded anymore. He was just "to be beheaded". The time to be beheaded was in early December last year. Eight, he was released to live on the streets - his home in Beijing had been confiscated a long time ago, and his family members were all exiled to Ning Guta. He was the only one in Beijing. Not to mention being unaccompanied, he was the subject of everyone's suspicion. .
Although he still had hundreds of thousands of taels of silver deposited in Ruixin Tang, he did not dare to withdraw it, so he had to endure hunger and beg for food in the outer city of Beijing for several days. In the end, he was searched for for several days. Doctor Le Shen found it from Caishikou!
He is begging for food at the market entrance!
Look at the place where he begged. This city entrance is really not suitable for begging!
After being found by the blessed Doctor Le, he found out that it was Yang Qilong's sister Yang Xiaomi, the same Nala Lan'er who had been blowing wind in Fu Quan's ears to keep him "to be beheaded". The reason why he was released was because Yang Qilong found him a good job as envoy Nanming to contact Datou.
Originally, Yang Qilong had arranged for Dr. Le, who was on the mission with him, to wait for someone outside Shangfang Courtyard. However, Dr. Le was so dim that he didn't recognize Duolong, who had lost about a hundred kilograms.
So Duolong had no choice but to beg for food, and almost starved to death at the entrance of the vegetable market with deposit certificates worth hundreds of thousands of taels in his pocket.
After being found by Dr. Le Shen, Duolong shaved his head and dressed up as a monk. He went all the way south to find Wang Datou in Nanjing. But when he arrived in Xuzhou, he heard that there was a fight in Nanjing! This king cuts down that king, and that king beats up this king, as if they are going to kill each other.
So Doctor Le and Duolong waited for a while. It was not until the news that Prince Zhu San ascended the throne and Wang Datou took office as general and recorded affairs reached Xuzhou that they believed that the Ming Dynasty could not be completed for a while. Then we set off south again. We just arrived in Nanjing yesterday and felt so sad again!
I was so sad that I even recited a poem, and I immediately said the sentence "The carved railings and jade bricks are still there, I don't know where the little wife has gone?" It was really sad to hear it, and the listeners shed tears!
Then Duolong spent another night in the hotel feeling sad, and found the Prince's Mansion in Mochou Lake early this morning.
Wang Quan, the commander-in-chief of the Shanzi Battalion responsible for guarding the Prince of England's Palace (still a battalion, but the chief officer was given the rank of general) knew him and Doctor Le, so he led them into the palace and let them stay outside the Shengqi Building. Wait a moment - General Li is now in a high position and has a lot of things to do every day, which is not something you can just see.
Unexpectedly, after waiting for a while, Duolong suddenly exploded again and started shouting loudly outside Shengqi Building. It seems that this guy's mental endurance is not very good! After experiencing setbacks such as losing one's family and losing one's family, losing one's official position, and awaiting execution on death row, this mood is quite unstable.
However, Li Zhongshan was a man of great talent, and he could not get angry with his master Duolong no matter what!
So he still greeted him with a smile, and he didn't get angry even if he was complained about. He even held Duolong's hand and introduced his people to him.
"Master, let me introduce to you. This is Mr. Lizhou. Huang Lizhou is the original author of the number one anti-book in the world, "The World is Public Theory". He is a great Confucian!"
Duolong had already calmed down and quickly offered his hand to the great rebel Huang Zongxi: "I have long admired Mr. Duolong for his reputation as a traitor. It is a pity that we have never been able to meet him. What a pity!"
Huang Zongxi smiled and said: "If we had met Duo Zhijun earlier, Huang would have been afraid that his life would end!"
"Master, this is Gu Tinglin, Mr. Tinglin. "Rizhilu" and "Book of Benefits and Diseases of the Counties and Countries of the World" are his masterpieces. At the time of the Qing Dynasty, these two books were enough to be regarded as anti-books! However, Mr. Tinglin is a great Confucian, so his knowledge is rather profound and ordinary people cannot understand it."
"I have admired you for a long time, I have admired you for a long time." Duolong has indeed never read those two books, but he has still heard of Gu Tinglin's name.
"Master, this is Zhou Peigong, whom you know as Tuhai's master."
"Pei Gong, Tuhai has been rehabilitated now," Duolong said to Zhou Chang, "Obai has also been rehabilitated. It's a pity that they are both gone!"
"It is indeed a pity," Zhou Chang nodded repeatedly, "If Tu Zhongtang was still there, Zhou would have wanted to compete with him on the battlefield!"
"Master, this is Yao Xizhi. He is an extraordinary talent! None of the Han civil servants appointed by the Qing Dynasty can compare with him in running the country with military force!"
"Oh, oh, it's such a pity that such a great talent as Mr. Yao was almost buried." Duolong looked at the elderly Yao Qisheng and felt that this talent had gone to work for Li Datou?
The Qing Dynasty is about to end!
After some pleasantries, Li Zhongshan and others returned to Shengqi Tower, where the guests and hosts took their seats in the living room below, and then got down to business.
"General, the reason why I came south with many armies this time is actually to serve as a lobbyist for Uncle Fu. Uncle Fu has been very kind to you! He is your sponsor, and now you have rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty. If you can help me, I still have to help."
Because Doctor Le was married to Yang Xiaohuan's mother, he was considered a relative of Li Zhongshan, and he and Li Zhongshan had known each other for many years, and their relationship was quite good - they had done bad things together in Suzhou, killing people and bullying the emperor. So now I can really speak.
He went on to say: "And now Brother Yang and Uncle Fu are one. If you help Uncle Fu, you are helping Brother Yang. By the way, the son born by Xiao Mi and Uncle Fu can also be considered your nephew. He will be your nephew in the future." It belongs to the prince! Can you not help me with this?"
"Help, help, we must help!" Li Zhongshan had no problem with helping Fuquan and Yang Qilong.
After all, he now has no spare time to make the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains to govern a country. It is much more difficult to rectify the internal affairs than to destroy everything on the battlefield!
Historically, a powerful man like Zhu Yuanzhang spent a lot of time governing the territory of Huaixi and Jiangdong, and he also had to neutralize various anti-Yuan forces in the south, and only then sent his troops to the Northern Expedition after roughly unifying the south.
Although Liu Yu, who had conquered thousands of miles like a tiger, had impeccable military capabilities and was invincible during the Northern Expedition, due to the instability of his rear, he had to withdraw his troops and return after the death of Liu Mu, who was stationed in the southeast, so that his achievements fell short.
Therefore, Li Zhongshan would rather seek stability now. He would first settle the local governance of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and then open up transportation with Guangdong. Then he would capture Geng Jingzhong and Jieshu and unify the southeast, and then it would be Huguang's turn to launch the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. That will have to wait until we win Huguang.
As for the present moment, it is better to maintain a "Fuqing" court that you can get along with than to maintain a "Kangqing" court that will definitely cause trouble for you, right?
However, Li Zhongshan is indeed a bit unable to spare his time now.
After capturing Anqing, Ming's next target was naturally Wannan and Jiangxi.
After all, both Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen had to open up land transportation lines with Guangdong!
Otherwise, Guangdong and Guangxi will always be isolated, and Li Jizhen and Wu Xiaotuo will still be "governed together". God knows what will happen as time goes by?
But Fuquan had to help...it was really embarrassing!
"Butou, how are you going to help?" Duolong also knew Li Zhongshan's situation, so he asked, "How many troops can you send north now?"
"We can't send him out." Li Zhongshan didn't hide anything from Duolong, "Unless Jieshu can evacuate from Jiangxi."
"That's impossible!" Duolong said simply, "Jieshu won't listen to the regent now!"
Prince Kang Jieshu must not listen to Duolong, because he is surrounded by Wu Guogui, Li Zicheng, Li Zhongshan, and Li Fuchen!
If these guys beat him together, then he won't even have the slightest chance of survival!
Therefore, he could only maintain peace with one of them, and Li Zicheng, Li Zhongshan, and Li Fuchen would not let him go. The only person he can contact is Wu Guogui's adoptive father Wu Sangui!
And Wu Sangui and Kangxi became friends again, so Jieshu could only continue to be king and minister with Kangxi.
And it is impossible for him to hand over Jiangxi. Without Jiangxi, where can he go?
"Master, don't worry, students can do what I say." Li Zhongshan smiled and said to Duolong, "How can students watch Uncle Fu suffer misfortune? In fact, if you don't come to Nanjing, students have to help Uncle Fu. …And the students have already helped!”
"Already helped?" Duolong was stunned again and again, "How did you help?"
Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "Who doesn't have a father who is kind and a son who is filial, and brothers and sisters who are respectful to each other? Uncle Fu and Kangxi were such good brothers back then, but now they have turned against each other? The two brothers in Wu Sangui's family have nothing like that. It's much worse, they don't see each other very often!
Moreover, Wu Sangui has always raised Wu Yingqi as his legitimate son... Most of the Shaanxi people in the Wu family army support Wu Yingqi. And the student happens to have a son-in-law relationship with Wu Yingxiong... How do you think I can help? "
(End of chapter)
