Chapter 118: Ma Wensheng in Tianjin

The administrative power at the most basic level in the Ming Dynasty has always been in the hands of the officials.

Even these officials have been inherited from father to son, from the Song Dynasty to the present, dozens of generations have been in business, and they have long become their own land. This creates a situation of mutual checks and balances.

Although many officials deeply hated the various evil deeds of the officials, he could only attack a certain person or a certain thing, and he could never come against the officials collectively.

Otherwise, these officials will be able to give the high-ranking county lord a taste of the situation where no one is available. What's more, these officials dare to dig a pit between official documents or money exchanges, so that the officials have already violated the national law without knowing it, or offended the big people without knowing it.

And so it goes.

Therefore, although the imperial court has given Xu officials such and such a way out, how can this kind of transfer of power be safe and stable.

Therefore, every magistrate in the pilot promotion wants experienced officials who can fight and tear up. And not those newbies who have just been trained. You even have to bring someone with you.

Can't help, or even help.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen also knows this, after all, many officials have been imprisoned.

Power abhors a vacuum.

Whether it is above the court or in the county government below, it is the same, some may be wronged, but the evidence is ironclad, and it cannot be refuted at all. Maybe some people, although they are misled or something, are indeed violating the law of the land.

Therefore, there is a great increase in demand for officials who have been trained in Beijing in various places.

As a result, some old officials in the six ministries, or Xu officials who were willing to obey the orders of the imperial court, became state officials, but they had to be transferred to other places.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen understands the transfer of officials from Beijing, but he does not understand why he is transferred from Tianjin.

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty, Tianjin is newly built, the foundation is shallow, there are no old officials, plus Ma Wensheng, the governor of Hebei, is an orthodox sixteen-year jinshi background, successive localities, young and strong, experienced, so the reform of the officials in Tianjin is the best among several prefectures and counties." ”

"Therefore there are wealthy officials who can be transferred."

Zhu Qizhen said: "Oh. I'd love to see it. ”

This is also what Zhu Qizhen has always thought in his heart.

Over the years, Zhu Qizhen has been out of Beijing only a handful, and every time he goes out, he has a political mission. First, he came to think quietly, and secondly, he wanted to see what kind of changes the fishing gulls would make under his rule.

The latter, in particular, was what he had always thought.

"Your Majesty, bearing the weight of the world, this matter must not be, if Your Majesty wants to see Ma Wensheng, you can summon Ma Wensheng, why bother to condescend."

Zhu Qizhen also knew that the cabinet was absolutely unwilling to let him do such a thing, and this matter was not the time to do this, in the court, it seemed to rely on, but in fact, everyone had everyone's ideas, and Zhu Qizhen was in the middle to control, so that the entire big government was not out of Zhu Qizhen's expectations.

Leaving Beijing at this time will also have problems with control of Beijing.

Zhu Qizhen smiled lightly and said, "It's just a joke." ”

Although Zhu Qizhen said this, this idea has been buried deep in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

The order to dispatch officials was issued from Peking, and it had not yet reached Tianjin. Ma Wensheng is still doing his own thing.

Now there is a good show staged in Tianjin.

First there was Tianjin Wei, then there was Tianjin City, or first there was a granary and then there was Tianjin City.

This Tianjin city itself was built after the construction of the Tianjin Acropolis and warehouses in various places. And when Zhu Qizhen was determined, Tianjin warehouse was used as the national granary.

Together with the Beijing warehousing system, the Ming National Reserve, the grain stored in the Tianjin warehouse is nearly 10 million stones, and as the governor of Tianjin, Ma Wensheng is also responsible for these warehouses.

Of course, this responsibility is twofold.

After all, the direct person in charge of Tianjin Cang is the local Hubu Langzhong. He is a subordinate of Yang Ding, the head of the household department, and is a member of the Jingcang system.

It's just that Tianjin Cang is in Tianjin after all, so it has a lot of crossover and cooperation with Tianjin.

And this one thing is the theft of a granary.

A batch of grain delivered to Tianjin Cang by Han Tiechengfu, an official of Tianjin Prefecture, disappeared.

This batch of grain is not much, but only a few hundred stones. But this matter was related to two departments, and it had to be reported layer by layer, and finally let Hebei Governor Ma Wensheng personally intervene.

But seeing that in the yamen of the Tianjin prefect, the poor Tianjin prefect could only give up the main position and sit on both sides with the head of the household Beihe Langzhong, one left and one right. His throne was occupied by Ma Wensheng.

This Beihe Langzhong is in charge of Cao Yun.

Ma Wensheng is inquiring about the situation at the moment.

There were several officials kneeling below.

One of the gray-haired old officials, with his head down, seemed to be very honest, and told the situation one by one. Without him, a batch of grain was transported to Tianjin. Temporarily let Tianjin send people to help transport it to the warehouse, which is just a few miles from the dock to the warehouse.

But there are more people loading warehouses in the warehouse today, so their group is stuck in the road. I stayed overnight in a folk courtyard, and the next morning, when the grain was put into storage, the people in the warehouse checked and found that it was not grain at all, and there was only one layer of grain, and there were some heavy objects such as soil and stones underneath.

Ma Wensheng asked: "Han Tiecheng, when you accept it, have you ever tested it?"

Pass? ”

Han Tiecheng's face turned pale and said, "I have tested it." ”

Han Tiecheng naturally knew, what was he facing when he said this?

But after he graduated from the academy, he first worked as a small official in Daxing County, then transferred to the military department, and was transferred to Tianjin, and now he has a nine-rank official body.

Promotions are expected in the future.

I dare not think that a position that is too high, and it may be possible to boil up a prefect in a lifetime.

So Han Tiecheng couldn't be more diligent. I never dared to be careless. This kind of handover matter, even more dare not have a loophole, but he has checked it from above and below.

Food, indeed.

But it was just one night's work, and it was gone.

Han Tiecheng asked himself, that is, when he was resting in the inn, Han Tiecheng felt that he was in Tianjin City, and it was the Qingming World, what kind of chaos could happen, so he explained the following sentences, and he rested early.

He didn't rest at the inn that night, but went home.

After all, this Tianjin warehouse is also in Tianjin City. and Han Tiecheng's home, just a few steps away.

Listening to Han Tiecheng's words, Lord Hubu Langzhong Wang breathed a sigh of relief slightly, as long as it was determined that it was not a problem with the Cao Yun system, the rest would not matter.

Ma Wensheng said: "In this way, you insist on stealing. ”

Han Tiecheng clasped his head and said: "The lower officials are not in a good position, and there are such omissions. How to deal with the court, the lower officials did not dare to complain, but the lower officials never dared to guard and steal. ”

Ma Wensheng's expression was unhurried, as if he hadn't heard it, and said, "It has been determined that this batch of grain was lost in your hands." ”

"Come on, go and search their homes."

"Yes." Immediately one of the people went out.

Ma Wensheng was on top of the main seat, looking carefully at a book on the desk. It's not a book, it's an archive of these. Ma Wensheng looked at the past one by one, pondered carefully, and occasionally glanced down.

I am thinking about it in my heart.

One ran over and whispered something in Ma Wensheng's ear.

Ma Wensheng said sharply: "Hu Cong, you still haven't recruited it." ”

Han Tiecheng's eyes immediately looked at the little old man next to him, that is, the old man who had just spoken.

Hu Cong's body trembled, he seemed to be extremely frightened, and he seemed to be full of grievances, he fell to the ground and said, "Adult, the villain is wronged, the villain is wronged." ”

From the self-proclaimed names of these two people, it can be seen that the origins of the two are different.

Han Tiecheng came out of the academy, although he was an official, but he claimed to be a subordinate official to Ma Wensheng. But Hu Cong calls himself a villain.

And villains generally call themselves lowly.

Therefore, this Hu Cong is the person who stayed in the government office of the local officials in Tianjin. There are quite a few such people, after all, it is impossible for a government to operate entirely by outsiders.