Chapter 34: Traitorous Profiteers
When there was a mutiny in Tianjin, there was also a small earthquake in Jiexiu County, Shaanxi Province. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThis earthquake is certainly not an earthquake caused by a landslide, but a personnel earthquake in Jiexiu County. Here, it is rare that there are personnel changes from the county order, the county officer, the main book, the canonical history, the three classes and six rooms, etc., and even the leaders of the officials.
According to common sense, the personnel system of the empire is that the county orders are basically from jinshi. In a place like Jiexiu, it is generally a Jinshi who was born in the same class as a jinshi and is assigned here to serve as the county magistrate. In addition to hiring a few staff masters, bringing a few caring old family members, and buying a few maids to serve in the local area or elsewhere, the county magistrate who comes to take office will not bring more people.
However, this time is different.
Meng Tengfang, the governor of Fenzhou Prefecture, personally entered Jiexiu County with the new county magistrate and almost a full set of civil and military teams, and escorted the new Jiexiu County magistrate to take office.
And this has almost created a precedent. Every time a new official takes office, he is basically accompanied by a higher-level official to announce the appointment of personnel. Generally speaking, it is the same knowledge, and the most important thing is that the prefect will take office in person.
The former county magistrate, who had just served for a year and a half, left uneasily, accompanied by the head of the third class and the six-room clerk who had countless feelings, as well as the county chief bookkeeper and other subordinate officials.
Under Meng Tengfang's introduction, the secretaries of various offices in Jiexiu County, who were still there, finally met Zhu Tingxu, the new magistrate of Jiexiu County.
This is a middle-aged man with a fair face and bright eyes.
He is around 30 years old, a 43-year native of Wanli, and he is no stranger to Jiexiu. As a native of Yangcheng, Zezhou, he knows a lot about this ancient city. Meng Tengfang, who accompanied him, read out the appointment and left the home field to Zhu Tingxu.
He knows more about this person. Because, Zhu Tingxu also has a rather interesting identity: the clan.
The Ming clan is quite tragic, and the polarization is particularly serious. Of course, this does not mean that the imperial court has not done anything before Zhu Cihong. For example, during the Chongzhen period, many clans participated in the imperial examination.
It was after the current Emperor Taishang quietly left Taiyuan that this Zhu Tingxu took advantage of the east wind of the reform of the clan to be able to decentralize the center.
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty in the past, this is probably a degradement. But as far as the current emperor Zhu Cihong is concerned, he has openly threatened that he will never promote officials with no practical experience at the grassroots level to senior positions.
Under multiple backgrounds, Zhu Tingxu, the magistrate of the clan, came.
He looked at the countless incomprehensible and puzzled officials in the county government of Jiexiu County with full energy, and said in a deep voice: "The emperor's grace has given the official to perform his duties, and today, the prefect of Mengfu is present, and the official has the permission of the imperial court to wash the dirt of Jiexiu cleanly!" ā
Zhu Tingxu said a word, and the audience was shocked.
After a dead silence, there was a sudden outcry.
Everyone looked at Zhu Tingxu in astonishment, as if they saw a madman who was clinging to the scythe of death.
Meng Tengfang looked at Zhu Tingxu's resolute expression, and her heart was both surprised and envious. What surprised me was that this Zhu Tingxu really didn't have any way back. You must know that the first time the county order takes office every year is to be familiar with the local big households and pay attention to low-key. Even though the chief official is an official of the imperial court and has his own majesty, there are too many examples of the old driver overturning the car if he is not careful.
What's more, Zhu Tingxu has no local experience, so he can only be said to be a novice on the road.
For a while, the audience was buzzing, and it was all the sound of discussion.
"Jiexiu is dirty? What's the dirt! ā
"As soon as the county commander took office, he transferred the previous officials, this is going to do a big job......
"If this is the case, I am afraid that a great disaster will come......"
Zhu Tingxu is so resolute and resolute, which is really surprising. But obviously, Zhu Tingxu is not a stupid person, he has something to rely on. And this, that is, Meng Tengfang's envy.
For example, Meng Tengfang personally went on the field to calm the field.
But it doesn't stop there.
Seeing that the officials wanted to make a noise, a strong man like an iron tower strode out, stared around, and said, "Quiet! ā
The man was eight feet tall, standing upright, like an iron tower. Especially this big man was covered in tendons and flesh, covered in strong armor, stepping out, and the dull footsteps seemed to be beating in everyone's hearts, making everyone tremble.
Especially behind him, there are hundreds of strong men, all wearing uniform black uniforms, without saying a word, and the queue is like that, it doesn't look like it's easy to mess with.
This strong man is Shi Dangdang.
"Ben Jiang Shi dares to be! Today, he is the commander of the 359th Battalion of the 17th Regiment of the Huben Independent Division of the First Army, and from today onwards, he will take over the defense of Jiexiu! Shi Dangdang, a warrior who boarded a hot air balloon above the heads of hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, has grown into a young officer, and at this moment, a pair of tiger eyes looked around the audience, and immediately stopped the whole audience.
"This time, the governor of Shanxi Province, Yamen, has noticed the situation in Jiexiu County. This time, Jiexiu County was authorized as a pilot for reform, and the original three classes of officials were reorganized and the Jiexiu County Police Station was established. The police chief is the new Jiexiu County Cheng Cai Heyu. Meng Tengfang continued to introduce a man with a somewhat bookish atmosphere.
This bookish description is obviously in contrast to Shi Dangdang.
Compared with Shi Dangdang, who is full of muscles and eight feet tall, Cai Heyu is much more gentle. This Shi Dangdang is no stranger, because he came back professionally from the army.
After the war, a small number of people in the army chose to retire from the army or change jobs.
Especially after Zhu Cihong built a new police station in Beijing, the call for merging the three classes of officers into a police station in various places also increased. It's just that due to the shortage of manpower, it has not been carried out.
But today, there is an officer who is obviously not low-level and transferred to Jiexiu County to serve as the chief of the police station, and he directly came up to the rank of Bapin County Cheng.
"From now on, it's a county colleague. In the future, the third class of officials will also break away from the status of untouchable officials and become honorable public officials. Of course, I am also talking about the ugly things in the past, and whoever dares to disobey the discipline of the police station will definitely let him understand where the dignity of the law of the land lies. Cai Heyu's words were very peaceful, and they fell on the field, but they weighed the weight in the hearts of countless people.
"Today, when the official performs his duties, he does not do nonsense. From now on, the prefecture is under a state of emergency. The four cities are closed, and they are only allowed to enter the city and not leave the city. All public officials in the county are not allowed to leave their posts. Anyone who takes leave and leaves the post must be personally agreed by the officer! Zhu Tingxu entered the state, but the first order made everyone's hearts jump in shock.
"Also, please ask the brothers of the 359th Battalion to immediately guard the cities at this moment! After the county's officers are assembled, they will handle the case with their own officials! Zhu Tingxu looked around sharply.
The remaining officials were stunned, they never expected that this Zhu Tingxu would be so desperate.
Everyone smelled the danger and held their breath nervously. There are also people who don't think so, and without their officials, this Jiexiu County doesn't want to operate at all.
But soon, they found themselves a little overconfident.
Because, Meng Tengfang actually brought three classes and six rooms from the government and directly transferred them to Zhu Tingxu.
Seeing this, no one doubts that Zhu Tingxu, a new official, can turn this Jiexiu County upside down!
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There is a famous place in Jiexiu City, and that is the Fan Trading House.
This trading house is located in the north of the city, but it occupies a very large area. There are hundreds of houses inside, almost half of the north of the city, and one street is either the property of Fan's Commercial Bank or the shops related to Fan's Commercial Bank.
Immediately next to the merchant house is a large mansion.
This mansion has a high gate and a deep courtyard, high walls and thick walls, and looks like a small city in the city. In particular, there are more than 10 caravans that depart from Beicheng to travel every day, and each caravan has less than 100 people and more than 1,000 people.
Such a huge team existed in Jiexiu City, so that no one could ignore it.
And this is the Fan family's industry.
Of course, if you want to say that you are in Beijing, ask what is the origin of Fan's firm, then it is estimated that few people really know. But if you ask what Fan's firm is in Jiexiu, it is estimated that it will attract countless people's attention. And then there are the people who say it like a plague.
Everyone believes that those who provoke the Fan family will never end well.
So much so that some people behind them say that this Fan family is the county magistrate of this Jiexiu, as for the one sitting in the county office, it is a clay sculpture county magistrate, except for stamping a seal, who cares about you?
In these years, some people have knives and guns, and if they have knives and guns, they are power. If it is coupled with money and strong enough backstage, it seems that it is really a land emperor, as if it is a country of its own.
This Fan family mansion has such a trend.
And the owner of this Fan family is naturally the famous Fan Yongdou.
Today, Fan Yongdou, who was sitting in his inner study, had some eyelids jumping. Jumping left and right, he couldn't tell whether it was good news or bad news.
"Maybe it's all caused by Wang Dengkun......" Fan Yongdou thought impatiently.
The Fan family has not stopped recently, and Wang Dengku has recently led Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, and Tian Lansheng to come over and make trouble a few times. They didn't come to make trouble, but to huddle together to keep warm.
Because, outside the Guan, they were required by these imperial merchants to transport grain to Liaodong, and even the requirements for military secrets of the imperial court were increasing. Although the numbers Wang Dengku said every time were heart-warming, Fan Yongdou refused every time.
It's not that Fan Yongdou suddenly changed his ways, but that he keenly noticed that something was wrong with the climate.
The most direct is that Fan Sanba has not returned for a long time.
As the second generation of the Fan family, Fan Sanba can be said to be the core of the core of the Fan family, and is actually the leader who leads this generation of the Fan family to continue to struggle.
Like what...... He set out from Shanxi and entered Beijing for thousands of miles, cooperating with the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Beijing to steal military secrets and supply the Qing army rations in the Kou Pass.
Of course, these are also old calendars.
Zunhua died in the first battle, and Fan Sanba had no point in continuing to buy grain for transshipment.
For Fan Yongdou, this Zunhua victory is nonsense, maybe it is a tragic victory that makes the Qing army plunder and get out of the customs. He didn't believe that the Qing Dynasty would lose so quickly.
"Perhaps, my son just wants to avoid the limelight......" Fan Yongdou comforted himself.
Although Fan Yongdou has disappeared for half a year, it takes two months for Shanxi to come to Gyeonggi, and it takes half a month for Kuaima to deliver the news. It's nothing if you don't come back for a while.
What's more, Fan Yongdou has received letters from Fan Sanba in the past few months. It's still a familiar handwriting, but it's just that the Jinyi guard in Beijing is powerful, and he no longer contacts frequently, so it's hastily settled, and many major events have been delayed.
Fan San couldn't pull it back, Fan Yongdou felt that something was wrong in his heart, so he was so reluctant to agree to Wang Dengku's idea of asking for a few more votes.
Fortunately, there is no bad news either. After the defeat of the Qing army, no one seemed to find out what these Jin merchants had done. Everything was peaceful, and even because of the looting of the army in Shanxi, many of the Fan family's competitors were also greatly damaged. Now that the market has returned to calm, the Fan family's industry has even expanded as a result.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Fan family bought land and acquired shops on a large scale, which was very lively, so that the interest in continuing to sell grain to Liaodong proposed by Wang Dengku and several people was not very great.
After finishing everything as usual, Fan Yongdou got up early in the morning and picked up a small green book in his study. Today, there are few things, and no one is disturbing him, so he has the heart to pick up an idle book and read it.
This little green-skinned idle book is well-made and the picture is exquisite, just looking at it for a while, the smile on Fan Yongdou's face is revealed one after another. After a while, Fan Yongdou exhaled a deep breath and said, "Come on, go and let Aunt Nineteen come over!" ā
Aunt Nineteen is a concubine recently accepted by Fan Yongdou, and it is said that she is still an official lady. After the invasion of the army, many prefectures and counties in Shanxi were breached, especially in the city of Taiyuan, many officials and relatives suffered. Fan Yongdou has an ambiguous relationship with Chuang Jun, and he has also suffered a lot of benefits. This nineteen aunts are such a way.
Soon, Fan Fu, the old housekeeper outside, came down.
Fan Yongdou put down the little green book and began to recall the bewitching figure of the nineteenth aunt.
Nineteen aunts are too famous Wu Qiaoer, the women from the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River have smooth skin, fair skin and delicate and delicate, wrapped in a white fox fur, which sets off a few different kinds of charm, even if it is tightly wrapped in the depths of winter, it can also be seen that graceful curve.
As soon as Wu Qiao'er stepped out of the door, she saw a small hand suddenly stretched out behind her. This little hand is also white and tender, but it is a boy's hand. It is Wu Qiaoer's younger brother Wu Wanying.
"Fan Fu came to you just now...... It's that old immortal pervert again...... Again...... Sister, in this world, I am just your relative. It's better not to go, I'm really afraid that old immortal pervert will hurt you, that old pervert...... It even hit my mind...... This heaven, has no eyes to see the way of this world? Wu Wanying is also a handsome young man, and when he said it at this moment, he trembled lightly with excitement.
Hearing this, Wu Qiao'er just held back the tears flashing in her eyes and said in a low voice: "Good brother, don't think about it anymore." My sister is fine, I just hope that God will open his eyes and let you escape from this purgatory. Don't ask for anything else......"
At this point, the ground trembled slightly. That's the scene of at least a thousand people in action. (To be continued.) )