How could the officials of the river yamen be relatives of the governor of the river?

In fact, this is also true.

This river yamen is a second-grade yamen, which sounds like there are many officials, but in fact, the court really appoints only the governor of the river. In the matter of the river, the prime minister of Shandong, Henan, and Nanzhi are subordinate to several provinces, and the officials under the river are officials, and the governor of the river must personally levy it.

Therefore, the officials who posted books in the river yamen were actually the entourage of the governor of the river. If there are relatives in Changsui, then it is not surprising at all.

At that moment, Lin Yanchao invited this person to meet in the second hall.

The person who came was in his thirties, with a mustache, and looked very shrewd, and when he saw Lin Yanchao, he smiled and said: "Lin Sima, Hetai is receiving important people in Shandong, so he sent Jia to Guide to inspect the river workers." ”

After a pause, Jia posted and said: "This peach blossom flood is coming in a blink of an eye, I don't know if the people have recruited all the soldiers?" ”

Lin Yanchao said: "A total of more than 8,000 people have been raised. ”

Jia Tieshu was a little surprised, but he thought of Lin Yan**'s cowhide for building a hundred miles of embankment, and said in his heart that he had just suffered a disaster in Guide Mansion, and he had levied so many civil servants, and the people must be angry and resentful.

Jia Tieshu didn't know that Lin Yanchao used the seedling method and waited for relief with work, not only did the people not complain, but the people also took advantage of it.

Jia Tieshu didn't say it directly, but he felt that Lin Yanchao was ruthless enough to pursue political voice, and he didn't care about the lives of the people, but thought highly of Lin Yanchao, but said in a weird way: "There are so many civil servants, and there is a lot of money." ”

Lin Yanchao said: "Of course. ”

Jia Tieshu said: "Before the humble post came, Hetai repeatedly raised the face order, this river work, civil service first, big material second. Today, the saint loves the people like a son, and we who are officials remember it at that time, and share our sorrows for the saint. You must not work for the people, if there is a matter of deducting the food of the people, it is a disappointment. ”

Qiu Mingshan said with a smile: "Please rest assured, Jia Tishu is also a good official in our mansion, and he will not do such a thing." ”

Jia Tishu took a sip of tea and said slowly: "There is no basis for empty words." ”

Lin Yanchao said: "In this case, let's go to the river embankment, seeing is believing." ”

Jia Tieshu waved his hand and said: "Then you must see it another day, by the way, are all the materials for Hegong ready?" ”

"It's being prepared, do you have any instructions?" Lin Yanchao asked.

Jia Tieshu said: "Lin Sima, who has been in the river yamen for several years, has seen many river officials cut corners on big things, and even piled up bad materials in the river embankment, thinking that they could cheat the acceptance, and then falsely reported the amount. They thought that they could not find out, but when it came to acceptance, the river yamen had to be river workers for many years, and they could see the real chapter when they dug it at will. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Tieshu glanced at Lin Yanchao's face, and said again when he saw that he was unmoved.

Of course, it's not all the fault of local officials. As far as I know, this is the collusion between the profiteers below and the river workers, and they have deceived the officials in order to make huge profits. If Lin Sima is not properly inspected, it is not a big deal for Hegongyin to be embezzled, I am afraid that they will use bad work and bad materials on the embankment, and as a result, the flood will collapse the embankment, and then Sima Wusha's hat will not be guaranteed. ”

Lin Yanchao and Qiu Mingshan glanced at each other and asked, "Then what is the way to teach the official of the sect?" ”

"Jiaolin Sima didn't dare to be, but he knew a few reputable businessmen, and he had a lot of dealings with the river yamen on weekdays, and he used them to build the embankment with timber, and he never went out to the pond when the river was accepted, Sima might as well consider one or two to ensure safety."

Among them, Lin Yanchao and Qiu Mingshan knew as soon as they heard it, and Lin Yanchao would not refuse in person and said: "If the price is right, then for the sake of Jia Tie's writing, this official will not refuse." ”

Jia Tieshu laughed and said: "Lin Sima is really fast-talking, you and I are both fatal, brothers, I might as well say a heart-wrenching word, so that the teacher Shen Ge Lao will be directly promoted to the first assistant, if the matter of the river work can be done, Hetai is happy, it is indispensable to protect Lin Sima after the fact, and when the time comes, the son of heaven will be happy, and it will be a matter of time before the class returns to Beijing." ”

Seeing that Lin Yanchao had no words, Jia Tieshu was afraid that his words would not be enough, so he continued: "Being an official by the side of the Son of Heaven is serious, Lin Sima has the ambition of the world, where can he be an official in the local government." These 110,000 people are not as good as that one person in their eyes. ”

Lin Yanchao asked Qiu Mingshan to entertain Jia Tieshu and left by himself.

A few days later, Qiu Mingshan and Huang Yue reported together, and Yan Jia posted a book to Lin Yanchao to recommend several material merchants, and Li Zihua, the governor of the river, had dry shares in them, and their quotations were as much as seventy percent more expensive than those of the local material merchants in Germany.

The good news is that the local material dealers in Guide are willing to give Lin Yanchao credit under the guarantee of Huang Yue.

Lin Yanchao knew when he heard this, it seems that this year's Dao Yamen sponsorship is more difficult than himself. Even though he wants to be promoted based on his political achievements, he will not trade such things, but with Shen Shixing, Li Zihua does not dare to embarrass himself.

Lin Yanchao thought about it and told Qiu Mingshan and Huang Yue about his decision.

Huang Yue sighed with regret.

Qiu Mingshan's eyes were shining, and after Huang Yue left, Qiu Mingshan said to Lin Yanchao: "Dong Weng had three children from the Yuan family from the public security come to visit yesterday, and I asked them to stay at the Yin Hotel in the county." The subordinates inquired, and they were the grandsons of Gong Daqi, the political envoy of Zuobu. ”

Lin Yanchao admired Qiu Mingshan's awesomeness in his heart, and his ability to speak in a few words made the background of the three brothers of the Yuan family clear.

Lin Yanchao remembered that when he was demoted out of Beijing by Zhang Juzheng in the past, he got acquainted with Yuan Hongdao when he returned to Hangzhou upstream on his way home.

Qiu Mingshan's meaning was that he wanted to borrow the three of them to make friends with Gong Daqi, the political envoy of Henan Zuobu. Gong Daqi is the second-in-command of a province, from a second-in-command officer, in charge of a province of money and grain, if he is good friends with Gong Daqi, Lin Yanchao's officialdom in Henan will go much smoother.

But these people are all their juniors, especially Yuan Hongdao admires and admires himself, just like a teacher.

No matter how thick-skinned Lin Yanchao is, it is not easy to open this mouth. For example, Lin Yanchao could have asked Shen Shixing for an official at the beginning, but it was difficult to pull down his son and ask the three brothers of the Yuan family for help.

Qiu Mingshan knew Lin Yanchao's thoughts, and immediately said as he wished: "Although Dong Weng is not as outstanding as the river yamen this time, but the river platform will not embarrass Dong Weng for the sake of Shen Ge Lao's face." On the contrary, if Dong Weng deliberately befriended the three brothers of the Yuan family, he would be said by the officialdom to deliberately befriend Gong Fangbo. ”

For many people, the difficulty in the world is that they can't let go of one face.

In fact, as far as Lin Yanchao is concerned, there is nothing to worry about, Shen Shixing has been promoted to the first assistant, and now he has to give him face in Henan officialdom.

Lin Yanchao groaned: "In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang asked Guan Yu, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan to raise troops to attack Jingzhou, what can they do?" , Guan Yu replied, dividing the troops and refusing. In the end, Jingzhou died at the hands of Guan Yu. ”

"My teacher is far away in Beijing, and I can't act under his sign in everything. I've offended the river now, and I can't afford to lose anything on the side of the clan. Brother Yuan, you are so good to receive you, I will have a meal with them when I am free. ”

Qiu Mingshan saw that Lin Yanchao was as good as a stream, and laughed and said: "Dong Weng, if you are willing to use Hedu's material merchants, a Zhuo Wei is indispensable, why bother to take Gong Fangbo's way." ”

Lin Yanchao smiled but did not speak.

At this moment, Lin Yanchao, who was in Beijing, had an accident.

The incident started with the Gao Qiyu case.

It turned out that Gao Qiyu was Zhang Juzheng's confidant, and when he presided over the Nanzhili Township Examination, he came up with a township examination question named 'Shun Yiyi Life'.

This sentence comes from the Analects of Yao. When Emperor Yao passed the throne to Emperor Shun, he once said that 'the number of the calendar of the heavens is in you, and you are allowed to stick to it'. Shun also used this sentence to warn him when he passed on the throne to Dayu.

Gao Qiyu used sensitive words like 'Shun also lives Yu' to make the question, wasn't it for Zhang Juzheng, who was in power at the time, to advocate Zen and let him say?

So Gao Qiyu's sinister intentions were discovered by the sharp-eyed Yu Shi Ding Jilu, who wrote to the sky to impeach Gao Qiyu, saying that this was intended to persuade Zhang Juzheng to advance.

The Son of Heaven took Ding Jilu's recital to Shen Shixing and asked what to do?

Shen Shixing said that at the beginning, the hundred officials in front of the emperor's gate advised that the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng had come to an end, and Your Majesty, you have issued an order and said that you will not pursue this matter anymore. Ding Jilu is now provoking this matter again, it is a big conspiracy, and the ministers are afraid that such slander will follow one after another in the future, and the country will not be a country in the long run.

When the Son of Heaven heard this, he thought that Shen Shixing was right, so he asked Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry, to demote Ding Qilu to the official of Lu'an Mansion.

But Shen Shixing's move stabbed the hornet's nest.

In order to get rid of Feng Bao, Zhang Siwei instructed his protégé Li Zhi and others to impeach Zhang Juzheng and his party. As a result, countless party officials were dismissed, and the speech officials became powerful from then on, and the cabinet lost control of the speech. And Shen Shixing is Zhang Juzheng's confidant, so the official is very dissatisfied with him replacing Zhang Siwei as the first assistant.

Li Zhi and the speech officials led by them were intended to allow Wang Xijue to replace Zhang Siwei.

Therefore, the official has let Shen Shixing step down, and Wang Xijue took over as the first assistant, and now after Shen Shixing demoted Ding Jilu to the official, it is like declaring war on the official, like a spark, thrown into the powder magazine.

So the officials didn't do anything, Li Zhi, Wang Shixing and others handed over the impeachment of Shen Shixing, and the group attacked him.

Less than a month after Shen Shixing succeeded as the first assistant, more than half of the officials in the six departments of Yushitai and the six departments were impeached in the name of Bao Ding Zhilu, and Yang Wei intended to use this move to block the way of speech.

Shen Shixing, Yang Wei was forced to resign to the Son of Heaven, and suddenly the government and the opposition shook up and down.

And at this time, Jining, Shandong, the governor of the river yamen.

A green tweed sedan chair landed in front of the river yamen office.

Zeng Qianheng, the governor of Henan Province, walked out of the sedan chair, and an official in front of the office stepped forward to greet him: "Zeng Patrol, the river governor has been waiting in the yamen for a long time." ”

Zeng Qianheng nodded and walked up the stairs.

At present, the imperial history is powerful, even if it is the governor of the river, he does not dare to slack off, let alone patrol the imperial history.

You must know that the Thirteen Imperial Historians are officials in Beijing, and they are Qincha outside.

The imperial history of the heterogeneity is also divided into three, six, nine and so on.

The imperial history of the heterogeneous difference is divided into small differences, medium differences, and large differences.

Desertion is a trial position, and most of the first appointments in the imperial history are desertions, and they go to the place to experience, and don't take on important things.

The middle difference is a special affairs, there are Qing army, India and horses, Tuntian, salt patrol, etc., everything is bad. The last time he was killed in Guide Mansion, he was ordered to inspect the river workers.

As for the big difference, it is a provincial patrol.

How much power does the Imperial Governor have?

For officials below the sixth grade, the imperial court is allowed to ask directly, and will not wait for impeachment. Its power is so great that even the governor of a province is afraid of three points.

You must know that the governor is only seven grades, and the governor is the third grade, and the two of them belong to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so logically speaking, they should be superiors and subordinates.

In the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, the governor was at odds with the governor, and examples of impeachment of the governor abounded. In the dispute between the governor and the governor, the imperial court often favors the small governor of the official, and will not help the governor who is a feudal official, which is the Ming Dynasty's consistent policy of 'using the small to control the big' and 'respecting the lowly'.

Therefore, some people jokingly said that in the past, the three divisions of one province were the political divisions, and according to the judges, they all commanded the divisions. In the Wanli year, one province and three divisions have become governors, governors, and political departments, and this ranking has been divided into orders.

After Zeng Qianheng entered, he met Li Zihua and said that he was a teacher, and it turned out that Li Zihua was the master of Zeng Qianheng's Mansion.

This Zeng Qianheng was also a Jinshi in the fifth year of Wanli, and Li Zhi in the court, Jiang Dongzhi was not only the same year, but also a person with the same breath and a voice in his nostrils.

When the court was overthrown, he once impeached Zhang Juzheng on "The Treacherous Minister Defied the Public Opinion and Begged for Rejection to Correct the People's Hearts", and made great military exploits, which can be regarded as a fierce man in the imperial history platform.

Zeng Qianheng kowtowed to Li Zihua, and Li Zihua personally helped him up and said: "You and I have been teachers and students for many years, so there is no need to be polite." Last year, the Liao ginseng that sent Lingzun can be served. ”

Zeng Qianheng said gratefully: "If you return to your teacher, my father's health is much better, and he can get out of bed this year." ”

Li Zihua nodded and said, "That's good, that's good." ”

The two sat down separately.

Li Zihua and Zeng Qianheng anticipated the recent situation in the imperial court. When he heard that Kedao had impeached Shen Shixing, Li Zihua thought a little.

Zeng Qianheng said: "Students patrol hunting on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and when they come to the place, they can't fulfill their responsibilities. Otherwise, when you and your colleagues generally write to the Son of Heaven, the word impeachment of the traitorous ******* was used to refer to Zhang Juzheng a year ago, and today Shen Shixing has replaced him with his body.

Li Zihua said: "Shenwu County has been in power for more than ten years, but he is only willing to make promises and act according to orders. I thought he was a cautious person, but I didn't expect the first palm phase to be so careless. ”

Zeng Qianheng said: "Shen Shi Xinggong is a person with a skin in Yangqiu, one thing on the surface, one thing in the stomach, this time Ding Youwu's matter, through the hand of the Son of Heaven, to suppress the Tao, you can know how despicable his actions are, how can such a treacherous minister live above the court." ”

"This time, we will wait for Kedao to be impeached together, if he has the slightest shame, he should resign, otherwise he will be the prime minister, and the impeachment chapter will not stop."

Li Zihua sighed: "When Zhang Jiangling was impeached, he first cut down his branches and leaves, and then cut down his stems, and finally succeeded in one move. Shenwu County has been in the dynasty for more than ten years, and there are many protégés and former officials, if you impeach Shenwu County alone, I am afraid you will not be able to participate in him. ”

Zeng Qianheng was surprised: "What does the teacher mean is to let the students start from other protégés? ”

Li Zihua smiled and said, "Eh, the teacher didn't say that. You also know that I didn't have a holiday with Shenwu County, where would I harm him. ”

Zeng Qianheng automatically added to his mind: "I heard that when Shenwu County was in the cabinet in the past, he was very protective of his shortcomings, and his protégés inevitably had a few who acted recklessly and acted perversely. That being the case, take this opportunity to do a few more. ”