These people known as Xiao Laoda, Lu Laoer, and Duan Laosan are not pirates, but just businessmen who have a relationship with pirates. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Among them, Duan Laosan's name is Duan He, and there is also the fame of Xiucai; Boss Xiao and Lu Lao Er's family also have people who are Xiucai.

Because they were not pirates, and they were well-known local gentry, as long as they were not caught trading with pirates on the spot, and they were not in arrears of taxes, the local government would not do anything to them. And it is not difficult for them to open a road guide through the officials of the government, and Jiaxing Mansion is next to Songjiang Mansion, so they made an appointment to go to Shanghu County to explore the situation.

Shanghu County is really going to open the sea. Before and after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, five or six out of ten pirates along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were wiped out, and the remaining four or five of them went ashore and pretended to be good citizens, or ran to the big and small Ryukyu and even the eleventh district.

Zhang Yanfang naturally didn't know the way of it, and after seeing a large number of pirates with severed heads and shrunken pirates, and after determining through interrogation that these people were not ordinary people who farmed the land, he thought that all the pirates in this area had been cleared.

In addition, everything along the west bank of the Huangpu River has been built, and the gentry of Shanghu County always secretly remind him to open the sea quickly, so Zhang Yanfang officially wrote an excerpt to request the opening of the sea.

Yun Xi is an excerpt received on the seventh day of the seventh month. In addition to requesting the date of the official opening of the sea, Zhang Yanfang also requested that the personnel be allocated and that he be allowed to recruit errand soldiers. As for the specific charter and everything, it has already been decided, and Zhang Yanfang can arrange it when he has enough manpower.

Yun Xi saw that it was an excerpt about opening the sea, so he didn't issue it, and gave it to himself. After the approval was completed, let the officials call Lian Zining, the secretary of the ministry.

After a while, Lian Zining came. Yun Xi said to him: "Lian Qing, you and Mr. Jiu Xu, the priest of the country, discuss and select some people to be the officials of the city's promotion department, and report the list of people to me." ”

And inform Zitai about it. And let Qi Tai see if there is still a place to build a yamen of the city ship lifting division around the household. Although most of the officials of the Municipal Shipping Promotion Division will be in the treaty ports in the future, there are also people in the capital. ”

"Oh, I can't give you the excerpt yet, you find a Chinese scholar to copy it, and then send the excerpt back."

Lian Zining said, "Yes, Your Majesty." Then he took the fold and opened it for a look.

Before he could finish reading it, Lian Zining said, "Your Majesty, why are there so many officials set up in the City Lift Division?" Although most of them are Jiupin or uninhabited officials, there are too many. ”

"Zhao Song's city department, there are only four or five officials, and the others are all officials."

Yun Xi said: "Xu officials are harmful to the place, and everyone can see it. Emperor Taizu knew that Xu officials were harmful, so he repeatedly investigated them during his reign. However, the officials are often natives of their hometowns, and it is difficult for foreign county officials to control them, so the harm to the people is still endless. ”

"Today, I intend to replace some officials with officials who are not in the stream, but there are too many prefectures and counties in the world, and it is difficult to implement them for a while; Now that the new department of the city has been established, it is the time for the new constitution to be established, so I have more officials and fewer officials. However, the errand still only used locals. ”

Everyone knows that Lian Zining's father is an official, so there are fewer cases of being violated by Xu officials in the family; But his father is just such a petty official, and he has seen a lot of Xu officials harm the people, so he has no objection to Yun Xi's idea.

However, Lian Zining was keenly aware that replacing officials with officials who had not yet entered the stream was tantamount to quietly abolishing the official diversion system that had come since Zhao and Song.

Since Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin has come, officials have been diverted, and junior officials cannot be promoted to officials, and they cannot even participate in the imperial examination, and children cannot participate in the imperial examination. In the Tang Dynasty, there were people like Di Renjie who were promoted from small officials to Zaifu, and no matter how good Di Renjie was in Zhao Song, it was useless.

Lian Zining himself did not object to such a thing, so he did not say it, and took the order to retreat. Yun Xi continued to take care of the excerpts.

After taking care of the excerpts, Yun Xi ordered the excerpts to be sent to the General Administration, and then thought about it for a while before saying to Wang Xi: "You go in person and call the concubine Mei Yin." ”

Wang Xi immediately took the order to retreat.

Mei Yin, whose wife is the only daughter of Empress Xiaoci Gao (Empress Ma), Princess Ningguo. Mei Yin is both civil and military, once studied politics for Shandong, and served as a military general, and his performance is very good, so Zhu Yuanzhang values him very much, and the first person who asked Yun Xi to reuse it before he died was Mei Yin.

However, when Yunxi was in later generations, he understood the history of 'Jingnan'. At the time of the 'Jing Disaster', Mei Yin supported hundreds of thousands of troops to guard Huai'an when Zhu Di hit the Huai River Valley, but it didn't play a role at all. When Zhu Di crossed the Huai River and fought towards Yangzhou, Mei Yin actually held his troops and did not move, feeling a bit similar to Li Tianxia who 'friendly troops were difficult to move like a mountain' during the Battle of Menglianggu.

Yun Xi didn't know whether Mei Yin was standing still because he secretly supported Zhu Di, or if he didn't have confidence in himself, or if he was slow to react and hesitated, anyway, Yun Xi didn't feel that he should reuse Mei Yin. Which of the above three Mei Yin is involved in is a fatal problem for the commander of the army.

But Yun Xi can't do without Mei Yin. Although everyone doesn't know Zhu Yuanzhang's will before his death, Zhu Yuanzhang's favor for Mei Yin can be seen by blind people during his lifetime, and Yun Xi's delay in not using Mei Yin has already been criticized; And Princess Ningguo relied on the fact that she was an elder and the only daughter of Empress Xiaoci Gao, and she had already entered the palace to find Xiyao, and she had half-concealed it.

Yun Xi thought about it repeatedly, and it was suitable for Mei Yin's official position. I made up my mind today and asked people to call him into the palace.

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At this time, in Princess Ningguo's mansion, Mei Yin and his wife were also talking about this matter.

Princess Ningguo said: "Mei Lang, you said, Your Majesty has been dealing with political affairs in the court for many days, and those who should be rewarded and promoted have all been completed, why don't you have a letter on your errand?" The last time I went to the queen to mention it, there is no word coming out now. ”

Mei Yin said: "Your Majesty's holy will, how can we speculate? And I'm afraid you can't find the queen. Looking at the emperor's meaning, it is a strict harem to interfere in politics. ”

Princess Ning Guo said: "I am the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty, you are my husband, how can it be regarded as a matter of the court?" It's obviously a matter between relatives. ”

"Besides, I don't believe that my father didn't mention you before he died, even if I didn't look for it, I should have arranged an official position for you a long time ago, why hasn't it been arranged now?"

Princess Ning Guo said indignantly: "Being so stingy with your own family is very good to outsiders. Look at Lan Siqi, who is the lord of the county in the palace, and is more favored than us serious princesses. I couldn't stand it anymore when that day, I cried to the temple! ”