Chapter six hundred and fifteen: Officials
There are so many changes outside, I have certain rules. Qin Feng is now a strategy. No matter how the inside and outside are changing, intrigue, I am now a rich country and a strong army. The Yue Kingdom was originally the weakest among the four countries. After being tossed by Wu Jian over the years, he was like a weak person suffering from a serious illness. He really couldn't withstand too much wind and rain. He could only take care of him carefully. Slowly heal those light injuries and dark sores bit by bit.
When a country is rich, only when a soldier is strong, only when a soldier is strong can people listen to their words. People with strong fists make sense. At any time, this is the truth. In the past, he only had a few places where Shayang was so elegant that he felt more than enough money. But now, Qin Feng suddenly realized that his family is big but his business is not big. It is really not easy to support people from such a big country and let them live a good life.
But it is not easy to make a rich country and strengthen the army? It is a mess, as if it is a mess that cannot be cut and still chaotic, flying around in front of Qin Feng, making him feel very upset.
Tens of millions of taels of silver allocated from the inner treasury to the government seem to be a lot, but it can't stand it. The only thing to be thankful is that although the war has been fought for more than half a year this year, the weather is good. Grain production areas such as Shayang and Zhengyang have all achieved great harvests, and grain production areas are stable if there is grain. At least the price of grain will fall a little this year. Those old grains can be sold to Qin and make a profit. Steel can make a lot of money, but Qin, which is so poor that it is hard to afford much money.
The reform of the administration is now full of difficulties. It is not bad to go across the capital. After all, at the foot of the emperor, Wang Hou, the powerful minister of the minister, and Wang Yueyao, who was promoted by the back. Although he was very resistant, it finally started in an orderly manner. Major yamen began to lay off the officials who were doing wages and not working. The atmosphere of major yamen was also completely renewed. Everyone had a sense of crisis. They naturally felt particularly energetic when doing things, for fear that the knife of the sacking would be swung on their heads.
But it was only limited to going across the capital. At the local level, there was no movement at all. The Ministry of Personnel issued a document to follow the matter, and the county magistrates in various places complained, and some even resigned from their posts to cooperate. Even Cheng Weigao, Yongping County, wrote memorials to Qin Feng, hidingly indicating that this time the reform of the administration was too fierce.
Is the knife strong? Qin Feng doesn't think so. The main thing about a country is to be an official. This is the same as the soul of a army. It is the same as the general. If a local official is to be a bear, it will cause hundreds of thousands or even millions of old surnames in a huge place.
The reform of the administration of officials must be carried out unswervingly.
The reform of the administration cannot continue, and those people are still in their positions. The central government's policies cannot be implemented at all. Only by seeing clearly the land and tax reforms, there is still no movement in those county governments. This can be seen. The following text follows, the local people can find a lot of reasons to make excuses, which makes more sense than you. Thinking of the anger, Qin Feng grabbed a stack of such documents in front of him, raised his hand and smashed them hard on the ground. He raised his head, leaned his neck on the back of the chair, and half-squinted his eyes and gasped.
On the other hand, Eunuch Le walked over gently, bent down to pick up the scattered official documents on the ground one by one, and gently placed them on the big case in front of Qin Feng.
Just as he was about to retreat aside, Qin Feng opened his eyes and said, "Eunuch Le."
"Sister is here!" Eunuch Le responded. The person in front of him has always been very polite to him and never treats him like a slave. But Eunuch Le himself knows that this person is more difficult to serve than the one before, because this person can't rub the sand in his eyes.
"When you were in front of Wu Jian, have you ever seen him get so annoyed?" Qin Feng asked.
Eunuch Le was stunned for a moment before he realized what Qin Feng asked, and said carefully: "Your Majesty, in fact, Emperor Yue lost his temper a lot before. When he was most angry, he even smashed all the decorations in the room into a scattered balan."
"Oh, that would cost a lot of money!" Qin Feng looked around the decorations in the house, and now he arranged them so simply. The things in the house were worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. The ordinary people could never afford the ordinary chair he sat on and the big case in front of him. "What is it for?"
"Official!" Eunuch Le didn't expect that Qin Feng would go around the money again. It seemed that this Majesty was really worried about money now. "The main thing is the official."
"Then how did he deal with it in the end?" Qin Feng asked with interest. There are different political governance in the army. The military governance requires decisive decisiveness. Where are the rules and regulations? If you go out of the line, you should fight and kill, but it is obviously much troublesome to govern the country. Sometimes, it must be difficult to get rid of.
"After getting angry, I have to smile and meet those people who he wished to cut off his head." Eunuch Le said carefully.
"It's true!" Qin Feng smiled: "I want to cut off a few heads now."
Eunuch Le smiled and stepped aside. He didn't dare to say much about these major affairs in the court.
The sound of rapid footsteps sounded outside the study room, and the horse and monkey pushed the door and entered, "Your Majesty, Secretary Wang is asking for a visit."
Qin Feng smiled bitterly, "Whatever you are afraid of, I must have been angry with the local officials again. I have no place to scatter, so I came to me and asked him to get into my business. Eunuch Le, go and make a cup of tea for Mr. Wang and prepare some snacks or something."
"Yes, your Majesty!"
When Wang Hou walked into the study door, Qin Feng looked at his face and was slightly stunned, because Wang Hou's mood was obviously wrong. He was always angry in the past, but today he had a dark face and looked a little ferocious.
"Your Majesty, you are lawless, you are lawless!" Wang Hou stood in front of Qin Feng, even forgot to salute, waved a letter in his hand and shouted angrily.
"What happened?" Qin Feng frowned. It would be impossible for Wang Hou to lose his composure so much.
"Your Majesty, a lord from the Ministry of Personnel sent to Shunping County to carry out the reform of the administration of the government was dead, dead!" Wang Hou shouted: "I was stabbed in front of the county magistrate and died on the spot. The county magistrate even wrote a letter saying that this lord was extremely hostile in Shunping County and could not ask for bribes, so he made it difficult. He laid off several officials who were highly qualified for the year, which made these officials and their family lose their source of income and could not survive, so he committed the crime in court."
With a bang, Qin Feng punched the big case in front of him and killed the officials sent by the Ministry of Personnel to supervise, the first few months after the rectification of the officialdom began.
"Do you confirm that this Yuanwai Lang will not accept bribes?" he asked in a deep voice.
Wang Hou blushed, "Your Majesty, the old minister has personally selected the personnel, of course I trust them. This Yuanwai Lang is the first young official in the Ministry of Personnel to be the best and eliminated. He is the future focal point of the Ming Empire. He died in such a slight silence."
Qin Feng took a deep breath: "It seems that if they don't cut off a few heads, they really think I'm easy to talk to? I have always treated old Vietnamese officials preferentially, probably making them feel good about themselves and feel that they dare not touch them anymore. Hehe, it's really good that people are bullied, and horses are ridden by others!"
"Your Majesty, the old minister is going to Shunping County in person." Wang Hou's eyes were red, "I will pull off their heads with my own hands."
Qin Feng shook his head: "Shangshu Wang, you are almost seventy years old, why are you running everywhere? Just be in charge of the Ministry of Personnel. Mahou, send someone to call Tian Zhen and Huo Guang to me."
"Let Tian Zhen handle this case?" Wang Hou asked.
Qin Feng sneered: "Shangshu Wang, didn't you say you wanted to pull a few heads down? That's what I thought. Tian Zhen would do this and keep it as you wish. Let it go first. When Tian Zhen comes over, tell me about the situation in other counties! There are still good, bad, and bad, right?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Hou finally calmed down, sat down, and began to talk to Qin Feng about the rectification of the officials' governance in various counties. These places in Taiping, Shayang, did not have these problems. These places were the first to start the reform of officials. The old official system of Changyang County was basically killed by Moluo, and Ma Xiangnan naturally did not have this problem. Zhongping fought for half a year, and many officials ran away. It was easy for these officials to run away, but it was difficult to come back, so it was not a big problem. These are the best places for the reform of officials. Zhengyang County and Yongping County.
, they have seen the Taiping Army's thunder methods, so although they are resistant, they are still pushing slowly. Although the movements are slow, they are always starting to do it. The most difficult ones are those who declare their loyalty after the Taiping Army entered Yuejing and established the Ming Empire, and these places have rebounded the most. They think that they have made contributions, and they have never seen the style of the new emperor Qin Feng, so they naturally think that this person is similar to the one before. Anyway, the emperor is far away, so they can give the court a little color, and these things will naturally fade slowly.
"Shangshu Wang, I found that among these reports, the biggest rebound is not the official, but the official. What is the reason?" Qin Feng asked strangely.
"Your Majesty, what's so strange about this?" Wang Hou took a sip of tea, "Did you forget what I did before?"
"You have worked as a famous master in the past, and you are also an official!" Qin Feng laughed and forgot about the origin of this Shangshu Wang.
"Generally speaking, officials are rich and there are people behind them. Even if they really don't become officials, they still have their own property. After leaving this place, they may be able to go to another place to become officials again. Anyway, some ways out are, but officials are different. Officials are hired from the local area. These positions are shortcuts for them to get rich. The salary paid by the court is pitifully small, making the family live a life of barely a good life, but they have no way to live a good life." Wang Hou said: "I'm not afraid of your Majesty's joke. My wealth is earned when I was a master of Zheng."
Qin Feng nodded, crossed his fingers, thinking about something. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!