Ping'er guarded the gate of the garden for a long time on the corner gate, and she didn't see Feng Ziying go out, so she went straight to the garden to look for someone.

It's just that she kept finding the Xiaoxiang Pavilion and quietly asked the snow geese playing outside the door, only to know that Feng Ziying didn't come to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, which made Ping'er very puzzled.

Feng Ziying doesn't go to Xiaoxiang Pavilion when she enters the garden, where else can she go? Could it be a brocade building? Thinking of the situation that day when he and Si Qi happened to see Feng Ziying kissing the second girl, Ping'er felt restless for no reason.

This Uncle Feng is really unscrupulous, he dares to be so bold and reckless in the Grand View Garden, and he is also an honest and honest second girl, which is simply beyond Ping'er's expectations.

However, if the second girl really enters the Feng Mansion, it is also a good thing, at least in Ping'er's mind, it is much better than marrying that Sun Shaozu.

All the way to the Jinlou, Ping'er and Si Qi didn't see outside, and went straight inside to ask, only to know that they didn't see Uncle Feng coming.

This made Ping'er very curious, except for the second girl and Miss Lin, there were only Miss Yun, the third girl, the fourth girl and Miss Bao.

It's impossible for Grandma Zhu, it's very unlikely for the fourth girl, and it's possible for Miss Yun, the third girl, and Miss Bao, but they can't find it one by one.

Just when Ping'er was puzzled, Feng Ziying had already come out of the east.

Back home, Wu Yaoqing was already waiting in the study in the house.

"Back to my lord, the basic situation of Yongping Mansion has been roughly outlined through this period of understanding." Wu Yaoqing had been ordered to go to Yongping more than a month ago, and combined with the exploration activities of Gu Dengfeng and a group of Jin businessmen in Yongping, he began to collect information from all parties.

Compared with the wealth of these prefectures in the south, Yongping is much worse in terms of population and economic development, Yongping Mansion has five counties, one state and three guards, and the Jizhen town is also in Yongping Prefecture.

Yongping Mansion is also regarded as a border land, in addition to the five counties and one state, Funing Wei, Shanhaiwei and Kaiping Zhongtun Wei three Wei belong to the Ji Town's health station, the geographical area is actually not small, but because of the close proximity to the border wall, it is often harassed by the Mongolian left-wing departments, and the economy is relatively withered.

Like the three Wei towns, Kaiping Zhongtunwei is a complete tunken guard, while Funing Wei and Shanhaiwei are mainly border troops, and there are also some guards.

The three Weitun divisions occupy the entire north and west, while the five counties and one state of Yong Binh Province are mainly in the east, south and center.

Because the relationship between the military and the local government has been bad, and the two sides have constant contradictions, and they often write their own complaints, so Yongping Mansion has always been a place where officials in the Beizhi region are reluctant to come, so Feng Ziying's coming here is also a big surprise to many people.

In the eyes of these people, even if Feng Ziying wants to "take the blame and release him", then he can go to Jiangnan Mansion, even if he wants to stay in the Beizhi area, isn't it good to Baoding and Hejian Mansions? How could you choose a Yongping Mansion that everyone doesn't want to go to?

Of course, there are some well-informed people who can roughly guess some of the reasons.

For example, Yongping Mansion is closest to the Beijing Division, and it is most convenient to return to the Beijing Division; Another example is Zhu Zhiren, the current governor of Yongping Mansion, who is old and frail, and often lies in bed with illness? The character is generous, too? It is easy for the main and deputy to get along; Another example is that Feng Ziying's father is the governor of Jiliao, and the north and west of Yongping Mansion are controlled by Jizhen Wei Town? It is the jurisdiction of the governor of Jiliao, and Feng Ziying's appointment as a co-governor is conducive to easing the relationship between the military and the locality.

As a result, Wu Yaoqing presented a thick stack of papers? Feng Ziying took a cursory look, he didn't look much at the environment, geography and population and economy, and did he have time in the future, and slowly understood, he was concerned about the current problems and causes of Yongping Mansion and the potential risks.

"Yaoqing, I won't look at the rest, can you tell me specifically? What is the current situation in Yongpyeong? Feng Ziying put down the scroll and asked directly.

"It's not good, the north and west are the land of Sanwei, the population is not large, most of them are military households and their families, roughly estimated to be about twenty or thirty thousand households, between seventy or eighty thousand people, five counties and one state? All in the eastern part of the central and southern regions, the population distribution of each county is uneven, Lulong is the most, it is the upper county, and the other counties and prefectures are all middle and lower counties, and the bandits are serious, especially in the mountainous areas of the border area of Sanwei and Wuxian Prefecture, all kinds of bandits are quite rampant, and the prefectures and counties are difficult to govern, but the Weizhen army does not ask at all, and there is even collusion,......"

"And collusion? Are you sure? Wu Yaoqing's words surprised Feng Ziying.

It is indeed reasonable to say that the relationship between the military and the localities is not harmonious, and that the army has left bandits alone, and in Yulin and Datong, such situations exist to a greater or lesser extent in these border areas.

If the relationship between the magistrate and the army is close, then the army can naturally help suppress it, but if the relationship is not good, then I am sorry, even if the bandits are under their noses, these border troops will also ignore and sit idly by, but to talk about collusion with bandits, it is a bit exaggerated.

"It should be so, there is this situation on the side of Kaiping Zhongtunwei and Funingwei, and this is also what some of our people here in Yongping Mansion have fed back, the previous Funing County Cheng was attacked and killed by bandits, which led to the removal of the county commander,......"

Wu Yaoqing's words surprised Feng Ziying again, even a county and county were killed by bandits, and the county order was removed, which is enough to show how far the law and order on Yongping's side has become.

"Then you currently understand that the security situation in Yongping Mansion is not good, so where is the worst?" Feng Ziying asked again.

"Funing, Leting, and Qian'an are not good, but Luanzhou and Changli are slightly better." Wu Yaoqing replied truthfully: "In a word, the situation in the border area with the Weisu is not very good. ”

Feng Ziying immediately understood, which meant that the rampant bandits in these three counties were more or less related to the Wei Zhen army.

"Well, I see, what about the tax collection of these five counties and one state?" Feng Ziying is also particularly concerned about this.

In a word, if the public security of this place is good, and the land and miscellaneous taxes and labor can be collected and supervised on time, then basically the official assessment of this place can be regarded as an excellent one, of course, litigation is also very important, if you have many lawsuits here, it means that the people's education is not good, and it will also be affected to a certain extent.

According to the practice of the previous Ming Dynasty, each prefecture and county would determine the difficulty and time of appointing officials in this place according to the four types of situations: rushing, annoying, tired, and difficult, and later added a side word.

Chong, complicated, tired, difficult, and side, Chong refers to the location of the traffic rush; Complicated refers to a large number of official affairs, which can generally refer to a large population and a large amount of tax revenue; Fatigue means that it is difficult to collect taxes and have many arrears; difficult, that is, the people are tough, easy to produce displaced people, and social security is poor; Bianzhi refers to the location in the border area, where the risk of rebellion and war is high.

If five of them occupy four or more of them, they are called "the most important shortage", while three of them are called "essential shortages", two of them are called "medium vacancies", and one is called "simple vacancies", and the importance of this status also directly determines the number of years and priority of officials' promotions.

Officials in places such as "medium vacancies" and "simple vacancies" generally require that they must serve three examinations before they can have the opportunity to be promoted, and each examination is three years, which means that the latter two types of officials normally need to work in one post for nine years before they can be promoted, and if they are "to be vacant", if they are excellent in both examinations, they will have the opportunity to be promoted.

The "most lacking" position only needs to do more than one test for excellent to have the opportunity to be promoted, but this kind of situation of promotion is also very rare, can only be said to have this possibility, more still have to do two exams to be promoted, of course, there are also full of one exam, but the second exam has not arrived but was promoted.

The assessment of the prefecture and county is carried out in this way, and the situation of Yongping Mansion is without exception the "most important".

Chong, Yongping is known as the first capital of Jingdong, which is the throat of Jingshi and the mainland to Liaodong, and it is also the only way for the western Liaoning corridor to go inland, which naturally conforms to the characteristics of "Chong".

Complicated this, Yongping Mansion is not counted, the population is not large, the tax is not heavy, but the labor is not light, so it can not occupy the "Complex" point, but in fact, because the north and west sides of Yongping Mansion are Wei Town, once there is a war, the amount of labor is very large.

Tired, Yongping Mansion deserves to pay taxes because of social security and flood and drought disasters, it is difficult to collect, and the arrears over the years are large.

Difficult, this is also defined for Yongping Mansion, here and Liaodong border, the people are fierce, the people are brave and ruthless, and because of the lack of water conservancy facilities, frequent floods and droughts, it is very easy to produce displaced people, there are many bandits, and social security is very poor.

Needless to say, the Chahar Department is directly facing the threat of the left wing of the Mongols in the northwest, and although it has slowed down in the past two years, it is still facing the threat of these Mongols who can't tell when they will come in.

Because of this, Yongping Mansion can also be regarded as the "most lacking" place, although the conditions are difficult and dangerous to come here, but if you can open up the situation and get praise from your superiors, the possibility of promotion is also very high.

"Back to the adult, the tax situation does not seem to be very good, the water conservancy facilities of Yongping Mansion have been in disrepair for many years, like the gourd river and the Dingliu River in Leting are often flooded, and the Luanhe River on the upper side has been flooded for three years, flooding the county seat of Qian'an, and even the city wall of Lulong has been washed away, so at least in the past three years, the counties have been in arrears repeatedly, and the prefect is not in good health, so the household department has repeatedly applied for punishment, and the prefect has perfunctory past, but if the adult goes, I am afraid that this matter will fall on the adult."

Feng Ziying's scalp tingled when she heard this, and she chose Yongping before, that is, she felt that Zhu Zhiren was old and frail, and his health was not good, so it might be difficult to restrain him from doing things, but he didn't expect the situation here to be so bad, and the first mansion in Jingdong, this is simply a quagmire.