When Zhu Lunkui told the court meeting that he was preparing to appoint Qi Biaojia as the governor of Jiangnan, Ma Shiying was shocked. He knew too much about what the emperor was doing, and he was nothing more than sending a confidant to go to the front line to restrain Ma Cheng.

The Ming Dynasty governor first appeared during the Yongle period, which was also considered to be Zhu Di's Ming creation. In fact, the governor at that time and the governor afterwards were not the same.

After Zhu Yuanzhang occupied the whole country, he abolished the Ming Dynasty Secretariat and set up the local government's magistrate. The highest official was the magistrate, in charge of the affairs of the whole province, and his status was equivalent to that of our current governor.

Originally, it was normal for the governor to take charge of affairs, but Zhu Yuanzhang had a hobby of decentralization of power. He was never at ease to hand over all the power of a province to one person, so he also set up two other departments, in charge of judicial and military affairs. These two departments were the Censorate and Commander Division, and the Supreme Chief was the Censor and Commander Division.

Lao Zhu did this just to facilitate control of affairs of various provinces and prevent local governments from becoming overwhelmed. His original intention was not bad, but the subsequent events were beyond his expectations. This was because his move was in line with a Chinese saying: Three monks had no water to drink.

Although the powers of these three chiefs are different, the governors are in charge of civil affairs, finance, the supervisors are in charge of justice, and the commanders are in charge of military affairs, but everyone works in the provincial capital and looks up and sees them. It is also very troublesome to deal with the relationship poorly. On weekdays, no one of the three families is convinced, and it is easy to deal with in peacetime. If there is a natural disaster such as floods and droughts, it will be very troublesome if there is no unified allocation. In particular, there are often mass activities such as peasant uprisings at that time. No commander-in-chief is in charge of affairs. Perhaps when the peasant army entered the government office, these three adults were still arguing about who would be the boss.

In order to deal with the problems of these three monks, the central government thought of a solution, which was to send people to manage the affairs of the province. This person similar to the central commissioner was called the governor. It should be noted that the central government did not send individuals to be governors casually. In the Chinese officialdom where seniority was very serious, those who could be sent to manage affairs were not ordinary people. Generally speaking, these governors were ministers of various departments (vice-ministerial level).

Unlike what many people think, during the Yongle period, there was actually no name for governor in the sequence of central officials. The so-called governor was just a temporary official position. From this name, it can be seen that the governor and governor, patrol and polite the people. Therefore, the central government's original intention was to send someone to take charge of the matter. After the matter was completed, you would come back and continue to work at your deputy ministerial level.

But the heavens do not follow others' wishes. When the central officials go to the local area, small matters are easy to handle. If they encounter major issues such as ethnic disputes and peasants' rebellion, they will not be able to come back in a year or a half. If they encounter such a thing, the governor will be in trouble. They will run around and have been busy for more than half a year. If they solve the problem here and there, they will be troubled. During the holidays, migrant workers can go home for the New Year, but the somewhat anxious governor cannot go home for several years.

It was just a temporary errand, but it was often gone forever. The governor had wives and children, and couples separated. The problems of children entering school were really troubled by these adults. The central government was also in trouble. Often, the incident happened just after he was on a tour and reported that something was wrong. The local government could not handle it and needed to be sent again. It continued over and over again, which also affected the allocation of central personnel. Therefore, in the later historical exhibitions, the governor gradually changed from a temporary commissioner to a fixed commissioner. Therefore, in the later historical exhibitions, the governor gradually changed from a temporary commissioner to a fixed commissioner.

The staff are still from the central government, but the specific offices are all in the local area, so there is no need to go a few trips a year.

Since we talk about the governor, we have to talk about the two official positions related to it, the Governor and the Governor. Although the governor is a high-ranking official, he is not the largest local official. In fact, there are two levels higher than the governor. Only these two levels of officials can truly be regarded as important figures.

After the Ming Dynasty government determined the governor system, new problems arose, because the peasant uprising troops at that time often changed their locations, which was the so-called shooting and changing places, which was also a type of guerrilla warfare. Shandong ran to Hebei and Hubei ran to Hunan. In this case, the governors were in trouble.

For example, the governor of Zhejiang led his troops to chase the rebels, and was about to catch up. As a result, these people ran to Fujian. The governor of Zhejiang was not familiar with the terrain and was not convenient to run to other people's territory. He would ask the governor of Fujian or the commander-in-chief to cooperate. If the relationship is good, it would be fine, so he would be a favor. If the relationship is bad, it would be troublesome. People can raise their eyes: "Who are you? Your surname is? Why should you obey your command?"

In order to deal with this situation, the central government had to send higher-level officials (usually at the Minister's level) to the local government to handle affairs and specifically manage the governors. These people are the so-called governors. The governors generally manage two provinces or one major province (such as the governor of Sichuan only takes care of Sichuan), and can order the governors.

In theory, the matter was resolved even after it was resolved, but the policy really couldn't keep up with the situation. In the late Ming Dynasty, after fierce men like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong came out, the guerrillas became regular soldiers, and the pomp was quite large. There were hundreds of thousands of people under them, and they didn't take your little governor seriously. The governor seriously. The regular army made a small fuss. If they wanted to fight, they would hit provincial capitals. There were several provinces in a row, and the governor could not control it.

Under such circumstances, the largest local official in China's history appeared. The Ming government, who was exhausted from dealing with it, had to create a new official titled Supervisor. This official was specialized in the Governor, and he would take care of wherever the peasant army went. Of course, such high-level local officials were generally held by the highest civil servants in the central government.

The most awesome supervisor in the Ming Dynasty was Lu Xiangsheng, appointed in the sixth year of Chongzhen. His position was the military affairs of seven provinces including Prime Ministers, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Huguang. Half of China was under his management. He was really a shiny figure.

However, there is another big figure in this time and space who is much more awesome than Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou, that is, our protagonist, Ma Cheng, who is in the nine provinces of Nanzhili, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Yunnan and Guizhou. Basically, except for Sichuan, which is in chaos, the entire south of the Yangtze River is managed by Ma Cheng.

However, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, and Yang He all held the title of Grand Secretary, while Ma Cheng did not have the title of civil servant. In the eyes of civil officials in the court, his name was still a bit different from that of Lu Xiangsheng and others.

Qi Biaojia was the governor of Jiangnan in the early stage of Hongguang, but was impeached by Zhang Sunzhen in the later stage. This governor was taken as Yang Wencong, the brother-in-law of Ma Shiying. However, Yang Wencong was of sufficient level, but in war, he was not as good as his painting level. After Duoduo led the Qing army across the Yangtze River, Yang Wencong led tens of thousands of troops to lose battles and lose Zhenjiang, an important town on the south bank of the Yangtze River, allowing Duoduo to easily gain a foothold on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Yang Wenzhe escaped

After returning to Nanjing, he should be held accountable according to the rules and regulations of the court, but at that time the court was all concerned about fighting against the Qing army. In addition, Ma Shiying was in the middle of mediation, Yang Wencong was not responsible at all. Instead, he turned into Shang Baosi Zhengqing, one of the little nine ministers, who was responsible for managing the delivery of documents in the cabinet.

Although Ma Cheng could also take charge of administration, Ma Cheng led the troops to fight and naturally could not focus on local administration. Therefore, Ma Shiying had long planned to send a confidant to serve as the governor of Jiangnan so that his son would not have any worries. Now, hearing that the emperor wanted to send Qi Biaojia from the Donglin Party, Ma Shiying naturally refused to submit and immediately signaled his party members to start attacking Qi Biaojia.

Although Ma Shiying's party members were not good at fighting, they were all experts in fighting. The method of spilling feces was second only to those Donglin Party who claimed to be a gentleman. After Ma Shiying's order, his royal thug Zhang Sunzhen immediately stood up to impeach Qi Biaojia.

Zhang Sunzhen is an expert in this job. He is a must-have on the spot. From Qi Biaojia's character to personality, he demoted Qi Biaojia to nothing.

Although Zhang Sunzhen is powerful, don’t forget that the Donglin Party is not bad either. Zhang Jinyan, the Yuanma Temple minister, was soon re-activated, stood up and spoke for Qi Biaojia, completely ignoring that he was just a horse-raising Bima Wen.

The Ma Party and the Donglin Party are fighting each other here, but Ruan Dacheng leads a group of genuine eunuchs to watch the fun. After a long time, Ruan Dacheng stood up and started talking to the Donglin Party. This change made Ruan Dacheng's iron-core, Yang Weiyuan, Secretary of the Ministry of Works, very puzzled. It is logical that Ruan Dacheng and the Donglin Party are in the same situation. It would be nice not to kick them at this time. How could he still say good things to them?

However, as the leader of the eunuch party, Ruan Dacheng naturally had to obey his subordinates when the boss spoke. In history, Yang Weiyuan, who committed suicide by destroying the whole family in Nanjing, ignored Ma Cheng's kindness to save the whole family and stood up to attack Ma Cheng.

Now that things have reached this point, two of the three cabinet masters in the court supported Qi Biaojia. Qian Qianyi felt that the time was almost right, so he stood up and said, "Your Majesty, since your colleagues have any objections, then let me forward!"

Tingtui was a democratic system in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, that is, voting. When major matters in the court were not decided, this kind of voting method was often used to solve it. However, there are restrictions on the rank of voting officials, and only officials above the fourth rank in Beijing have the right to vote.

When Ma Shiying saw that the matter was about to be met, he quickly stood up to oppose it. Ma Shiying's gangs accounted for half of the top leaders, and half of the Big Jiuqing and Xiao Jiuqing were Ma Shiying's confidants. In this way, Ma Shiying was not afraid of any force when talking in the court. Even Ruan Dacheng and Qian Qianyi's alliance was just as good as Ma Shiying.

But Tingtui was different. Ma Shiying went to Nanjing for too short time, and many of the fourth-rank intermediate officials were not the same party as Ma Shiying. The Donglin Party has been operating in Nanzhili for hundreds of years, and most of these fourth-rank intermediate officials sympathized with the Donglin Party, so Tingtui must be unfavorable to Ma Shiying.

However, at this time, Zhu Lunkui wanted to use Qi Biaojia to pull Ma Cheng's back, so naturally he could not let Ma Shiying be happy, so Zhu Lunkui quickly issued a memorial to officials above the fourth rank in Beijing to submit a letter to the court.
Chapter completed!