Chapter 224: The Ancient City of Xi'an
Since the first year of Chongzhen, Shaanxi has fallen into chaos, countless rogues, Yan'an Mansion has become the place where the rogue breeds the most, successive years of famine, so that countless desperate people to join the rogue team, although the imperial court sent a large army to encircle and suppress, but the endless famine and the delay of government relief can not fundamentally solve the problem of rogues.
Despite many disasters and wars, the city of Xi'an is still prosperous.
The huge city, the thick city walls, the shops in the forest, the lively restaurants, the women in the green buildings who lean on the door and laugh, and the bustling flow of people on the streets, make Xi'an seem to be a paradise.
When entering the city of Xi'an, Zheng Xunrui couldn't help but think of a poem: Zhumen wine and meat stinky road has frozen bones.
In fact, such a situation occurs, it is not an accidental situation, Xi'an Mansion, Yan'an Mansion, Pingliang Mansion, Hanzhong Mansion, Fengxiang Mansion and other places, the Liukou wanton, the entire Shaanxi is almost chaotic, the scholars and the gentry and wealthy households, all who can think of a way, all have moved to Xi'an Fucheng, who does not want to live a stable life, as the location of the Shaanxi Governor Yamen and the three divisions, Xi'an Fucheng is naturally closely protected, there are many soldiers stationed outside the Fucheng, Liukou has rebelled for so many years, dare not attack Xi'an Fucheng lightly, It's the best proof of that.
When he first came to Xi'an, Zheng Xunrui was in a trance, if outsiders came to Xi'an, they would never believe that the whole of Shaanxi was in disorder and sorrow, Gongchang Mansion, Pingliang Mansion, Fengxiang Mansion, Hanzhong Mansion and Xi'an Mansion were full of displaced people, and the traces of the wanton raids of the Liukou were still clearly visible.
Zheng Xunrui's appointment as the governor of Shaanxi at this time is by no means a good thing, which is similar to the situation when he was the governor of Yan'an Prefecture.
March is the season of green and yellow, and the famine is the most severe, although the prosperous Xi'an Mansion City can make people forget about the outside world for a while, but if you really go deep into it, you can find some places where the people are concentrated, and the sad feelings are spreading, and the people are struggling on the death line.
The place under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi is too big, in terms of the area under its jurisdiction, it is second only to Sichuan, the country of abundance, more than Huguang and Nanzhili, but these places under its jurisdiction are all poor mountains and bad waters, the natural conditions are bad, only from the grain output, the yield per mu is only half of the south, so many years have passed, the ancient city of Xi'an, which was once incomparably brilliant and glorious, has long been gone.
When Zheng Xunrui became the governor of Shaanxi, the first thing he faced was how to deal with the displaced people.
There are still nearly two months before the harvest of winter wheat, and due to the wanton raids of the rogues, there are no people in many villages and towns for a long time, and a large amount of land is barren, and even those squires who are most reluctant to leave their hometowns have moved away one after another.
Such a situation indicates that even if the winter wheat is harvested, the displaced people are still saved, and if the imperial court is unable to find a way to relieve it, I am afraid that there will be a new leader of the Liukou in Shaanxi.
Zheng Xunrui is indeed experienced in solving such a dilemma, but it is a pity that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, he must have money and food, at least need to get through the current difficulties, and then find a way.
Zheng Jiajun has silver and food, but these silver and grain can never be moved, it is specially supplied to Zheng Jiajun, if the money and grain are taken out, not to mention whether it can really help the people, in case Zheng Jiajun can not be maintained and faces collapse, that Qiē thing is not to be discussed, and Zheng Xunrui cannot bear such a loss.
Zheng Xunrui will not have the kindness of a woman, and he still knows the priorities.
To solve the current predicament, there are two ways, the first is to write a recital to the imperial court, imploring the imperial court to allocate money and grain, to solve the problem of Shaanxi, but do not report too much hope in this regard, Shaanxi has written many recitals, asking the imperial court for relief, it can be said that the imperial court has been aesthetically tired of the famine in Shaanxi, even if the imperial court is relieved, it can't take out much silver, not to mention that the imperial court only gave relief to Shanxi not long ago, and the silver taken out is only a hundred thousand taels, which cannot solve the fundamental problem at all.
The second is to raise donations, the scholars and wealthy households in Xi'an Fucheng are concentrated, these people have money and food, if they are asked to take out some money and food, it can play a great role.
It's a pity that the matter of fundraising, in the Ming Dynasty seems to have no effect, the court is short of silver, when the emperor is helpless, he once raised donations from the ministers of civil and military affairs of the imperial court, and the silver raised is pitiful.
Zheng Xunrui is just the governor of Shaanxi, and it is very difficult to raise donations in Xi'an, and if such an initiative is issued, it is very likely that he will become a laughing stock because he can't raise money and food.
Because of the importance of the location of Xi'an, and because this is the political center of Shaanxi, it is impossible for the displaced people to enter the city, and the surroundings are also strictly guarded, even the places that are too poor in the city will often encounter the inspection of the yamen of the county and the county, to see if these places will harbor the Liukou, after the battle of the Chezhou Gorge in Chongzhen for seven years, the Liukou looted in Fengyang Mansion and Xi'an Mansion, during that time, the Xi'an Mansion was highly tense, and the people in the city lived in the place, the government cleaned up many times, and some poor people, was suspected of colluding with the gangsters, and even directly cleared out, or put in prison.
Xi'an is actually prosperous on the surface, and there are many internal problems.
Zheng Xunrui has been to the governor's yamen for ten days, and there has been no action for the time being, during this period, the prefect and the prefect of the county yamen have come to visit, and the political envoys, the probationary envoys, and the commanders have also come to visit.
The relationship between the governor's yamen and the three divisions is the relationship between the leader and the led, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the political envoy department, the criminal envoy department, and the command envoy department are responsible for the civil affairs, justice and military affairs of a province, and they are not unified with each other, and they are directly responsible for the imperial court, each performing its own duties, which is called the three divisions, but this pattern, which lasted for a long time, many problems were exposed, such as the government decree was difficult to be unified, etc., and later the emperor sent Beijing officials to patrol the provinces, which was called the governor.
The governor is above the three divisions and can directly control the three divisions.
The governor was originally a temporary setting, but when it came to Dezong, it was clearly customized.
That is, the governor is the de facto supreme leader of a province.
Therefore, the imperial court generally refers to the governor as the feudal official.
As for the posts of the governor of the three sides, the governor of the five provinces, and the governor of Jiliao, they were only set up during wartime, and they temporarily managed the military affairs of many provinces, and sometimes they could also manage the affairs of the people's livelihood.
From this Cheng dù, it is said that the twenty-one-year-old Zheng Xunrui has become the supreme leader of Shaanxi.
This arrangement, no matter from which point of view, is not very suitable, Zheng Xunrui is too young, in the eyes of everyone, is a lack of experience in acting government affairs, the governance of Yan'an and Yansui is not long, it is impossible to have sufficient experience, but Shaanxi is more complicated than other places.
Zheng Xunrui, who was responsible for the extermination of the Liukou with the left squire of the military department, was about to achieve the final victory, and was suddenly adjusted to the position of the governor of Shaanxi, which would have aroused everyone's curiosity, you must know that if you can really exterminate the Liukou, it will not be an ordinary merit, the young Zheng Xunrui, may rely on such merits, directly become the six Shangshu, enter the high-level of the imperial court, this will be a sensation in the imperial court and even the Ming Dynasty, but as the governor of Shaanxi, it is a thankless thing.
Under such circumstances, Zheng Xunrui was very cautious when he came to Xi'an.
In fact, on the first day of arriving in Xi'an, Zheng Xunrui sent Zheng Jiajun's scouts to go deep into all parts of the city and the places around Xi'an to conduct secret investigations, mainly to understand what difficulties and problems currently exist in Xi'an Fucheng, and what problems are the most important to solve immediately, followed by whether the government has a problem and whether the officials have the problem of oppressing the people.
Zheng Xunrui's thinking is very clear, thinking about solving the problem of all Fuzhou counties in Shaanxi in one breath, which is unrealistic, we must grasp the key points, first solve the problem of Xi'an Fucheng storage zài, and govern the governor's yamen and three divisions well, and then it is possible to consider solving problems in other places.
While sending scouts to investigate, Zheng Xunrui and Xu Wanghua would discuss almost every day, and in the face of the many information detected by the scouts, they repeatedly discussed to see what method could be used to solve the problem.
The identity of Xu Wanghua's staff has been clarified, Zheng Xunrui wanted to ask for credit for Xu Wanghua, but Xu Wanghua refused, saying that being a staff member by Zheng Xunrui's side was the best arrangement.
Xu Wanghua's staff is different from ordinary staff, Zheng Jinhong, Yang He, Hong Xintao, Hong Xingui, Hong Xinyu and other senior officers of Zheng Jiajun all know that Xu Wanghua is not ordinary, and he is very respectful on weekdays, even Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Zeqing and others also know that Xu Wanghua's identity is not ordinary, and they all clasp their fists and salute after seeing them.
has been with Zheng Xunrui for a long time, Xu Wanghua also knows that Zheng Xunrui really respects himself, this respect is not a showmanship, the two will also have arguments because of a certain issue, and even anger each other, but in the end both of them obey one point, that is, whoever says it is right, according to whose implementation, Xu Wanghua and Xu Guangqi have been together for a long time, and they admire Xu Guangqi very much, but in less than two years by Zheng Xunrui's side, they have more feelings, and they feel more and more that Xu Guangqi's ability to recognize people is extraordinary