Pearl Spring, with dancing beads and splashing snow, is the third most famous spring in Jinan.

The new governor's office was located here. After the Qing troops occupied Jinan, Prince De's Mansion occupying Pearl Spring was also destroyed by the war. Anyway, Yang Jie massacred Mancheng and looted the outer city, which further damaged Mancheng built to occupy Prince De's Mansion.

Prince De's Mansion was originally built in this enclosure by Zhang Rong, Duke of Jinan during the Yuan Dynasty.

However, the rain and wind always blew it away, and the original Fuyuan in the southwest corner was burned down. The emperor ordered that the remaining useful masonry and wood from Prince De's Mansion be removed to repair the city, and a new Fuyuan was built at Pearl Spring.

hospital.

After some simple repairs, it was officially put into operation.

The Shandong Governor sent people to Fuyuan very early in the morning, and today they are coming to discuss important matters with Futai and other officials.

Governor Huang Zongxi did not dare to neglect this emperor's imperial envoy. Early in the morning, he asked the Department of Experience to notify the various government officials to come to discuss matters.

When Qilisun rode to the governor's Yamen in Pearl Spring, officials from the Experience Department were waiting for him.

"Huang Fuyuan and several feudal lords, lords, lords, and lords have all arrived."

"Has Magistrate Yao come?"

"He came early too."

Qi Lisun handed the horse to his entourage, shook his official robe and entered the Yamen.

At this time, the Fuyuan was still very simple. It was a piece of land set aside in Prince Yuande's palace, and a few courtyards were simply repaired. It was not as neat as the Chief Envoy and Inspector's Office.

However, there are quite a few officials and so on.

The official from the Experience Department even talked with me all the way.

In the Ming Dynasty, the governors and governors were established. At first, they were only imperial officials sent to the capital, so they had no subordinate officials or even subordinate officials.

Later, it gradually became a permanent place, and there were yamen, which were officials, but there were still no officials. The entire governor yamen only had one governor.

However, the Shao Tian Dynasty reorganized the official system and officially designated the governor and governor as local officials. The governor was officially established as a high-ranking official, and the chief envoy and the inspector-general officially became his subordinate officials.

In addition, the governor's yamen also established additional officials. For example, just like the chief secretary's yamen, three additional institutions were established: the Experience Department, the Zhaomo Office, and the Counseling Office.

The governor is now actually equivalent to a provincial secretary and senior official.

The Experience Department is responsible for the exchange of official documents and administrative affairs. It is actually equivalent to the office of a senior official, and Experience is the director. The Zhaomo Office is responsible for administrative efficiency and supervision of local officials, and is equivalent to the Supervision Bureau, Personnel Bureau, and Audit Bureau.

The Legal Affairs Office is responsible for reviewing judicial and prison cases, which is equivalent to the Department of Justice, prison management, etc.

It turns out that the governor did not have these subordinate officials, but he was given the power to recruit subordinate officials, and even handled affairs mainly by masters.

But now the emperor has improved the governor's yamen. He not only has the Experience Department, the Zhaomo Office, the Counseling Office, but also several general case section chiefs such as Xing Ming and Qian Gu.

In addition, six special departments were added under the governor's yamen, including the Education Department, the Punishment Department, the Food Department, the Water Conservancy Department, the Post Office Department, and the Taxation Department, which were restructured from the previous full-time departments.

They are all directly subordinate to the governor's office, and each is responsible for a specific area.

For example, the Office of Academic Affairs is responsible for education, schools, imperial examinations, and students in the province. They even have the power to supervise, review, and assist in cases involving prestigious candidates.

Ti Xing is responsible for the administration of justice, prisons, food, water conservancy, postal services, and taxation. Not to mention, each is responsible for a piece of it.

Several department directors are all in the fourth grade of official positions, and the chief minister is in the sixth grade.

It turns out that the chief envoy was originally a senior official of a province, but now he is actually only a standing senior official in charge of money, taxation and civil affairs. However, he has his own chief envoy Si Yamen, and below him there are three subordinate agencies: the Experience Si Zhaomo Institute and the Counseling Institute.

, there are also the Cang Ambassador and the Tax Ambassador. The Cang Ambassador is responsible for managing finances and cashiers, while the Tax Ambassador is responsible for collecting taxes.

Now the emperor has also assigned him an additional chief executive position to abolish the private staff position and replace it with a public position.

The chief inspector is equivalent to a deputy secretary and a senior official in politics and law. He is mainly responsible for judicial, criminal and prison affairs. Major cases are handled by the chief inspector at meetings and reported to the governor. They are reviewed every autumn and serve as the chief drafting officer.

He is also responsible for managing the province's e-mail affairs.

In the year of great planning, when evaluating foreign officials, one should also act as the examiner; in the year of the provincial examination, one should also serve as the supervisor and examiner.

Therefore, in addition to judicial work, the Inspector-General is mainly responsible for supervision, and even has the position of Director of the Department of Transportation.

Nowadays, just like the chief envoy, they are all deputy positions of the governor. Of course, not all of them are deputy positions, because Zhu Yihai also stipulated that the governor, governor, chief minister, and secretary have the right to supervise each other. If any violation of laws and disciplines is discovered, there will be

Obligatory reporting.

In addition, major affairs in a province, whether it is military affairs, civil affairs, judicial finance, etc., must be discussed by the governor together with the governor and the patrol governor.

Similar to the Provincial Standing Committee meeting, although the governor is the squad leader, he does not have the final say in everything. Of course, he makes the final decision, but he must also fully consider the opinions of others.

In provinces where there is a governor-general, the governor is usually also the governor of the province.

This time, Inspector Qi Lisun sent a message to Governor Huang Zongxi, saying that an important problem with farmland had been discovered in Shandong, and all the officials in the province needed to discuss and reach an agreement. Huang Zongxi did not dare to neglect at all, and immediately summoned the Inspector and the heads of various departments.

Even branch patrols, prefects, etc.

They also called Yao Qisheng, the magistrate of Licheng County named by Qili Sun.

The inspector was not a local official, but an imperial envoy of the emperor. He discovered important problems, and the governor did not dare to be careless. Moreover, Huang Zongxi was actually busy with this matter recently. There were many land problems in Shandong, and the more he investigated, the more problems there were.

When Qi Lisun stepped into the governor's conference hall, Huang Zongxi, who had just been awarded the title of governor, stood up quickly, arranged for cloth, press, and patrol, and the director of the department also stood up to greet him.

"Huang Butang is too polite."

Nowadays, the governor is a formal local official and no longer holds the title of minister. However, people are still accustomed to calling him the governor's department and the governor's department. In the past, the governor would have the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and the right deputy of the capital censor, and the governor would have the title of Minister of the Ministry of War and the title of right deputy.

The censor of Qiandu and others.

Of course, sometimes people are also used to calling the governor Zitai or Zongzhi. It is said that the name Zongzhi comes from Emperor Zhengde, who claimed to be the governor's military affairs, the mighty general, the chief military officer, Taishi Town Duke Zhu Shou, and felt that the name governor was not domineering.

It was renamed Zongzhi. Later, Jiajing restored the title of Governor and was not called Zongzhi. However, privately, people also like to call it Zongzhi or Zitai.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Nowadays, the governor-general of the Ming Dynasty no longer needs to add a concurrent title, and his duties and responsibilities such as the governor-general's military and horse inspection of the local area and the management of food and wages are directly stated in his duties.

"Yesterday, I came back from a patrol in Tai'an. I found many prisoners in Dongchang's shackles at the city gate. They were all criminals who destroyed silver coins. They were very rampant. I was negligent and derelict in my duty. I will have to take control of this area in the future.

stand up."

Huang Zongxi invited everyone to sit down and then said, "Dongchang has also informed us of this matter. It is true that we have not done enough. We have ordered the formation of a special task force to handle this matter."

Qi Lisun and Huang Zongxi are actually about the same age. They were good friends in the society in the past. They are both young talents from Shaoxing with promising ideals. Now they work together in the same province. One is the local governor, governor and governor, and the other is the emperor's imperial envoy.

"I came back yesterday and met a man named Luo Ji from Licheng County Zengguangsheng at the city gate. He filed a complaint and complained directly to Yao County Magistrate of Licheng. I took him to the patrol office and investigated carefully.

It’s very amazing.”

Yao Qisheng stood up wearing the silver scarf given by the emperor.

"Master Yintai, this matter is not handled well enough by the lower officials. Please allow me to report the situation in detail to Huang Yuntai, Huang Zhitai, as well as all the feudal lords, dai tai, daotai, department directors, etc."

"Then there will be County Magistrate Lao Yao." Qili Sun nodded.

Yao Qisheng also came well prepared and did a lot of homework. As soon as he arrived, he explained the cause and effect of the matter in detail, and used Luo Ji's case to talk about the current related matters of clearing the land.

"Luo Ji is not an isolated case. In fact, during the rectification process of Qingtian, it was found that most of the official property of the previous vassal fields was in the past few years when the Tatars occupied Shandong. Yamen officials and local gentry colluded with each other to sell off the property at low prices and claim the property.

, reported famine, or used fake land purchase contracts to occupy all the vassal land and official land.

Now that we have to clean up, many people have started to file lawsuits, and they have come up with various price-change purchase deeds, desertion reporting documents, and fake land purchase deeds. There are even a few people fighting for property, and it’s a mess. Although some have found out

The facts are clear, but they are still entangled.”

Wait until he finishes introducing.

Huang Zongxi sat there and spoke slowly, "This is indeed a serious problem. In the past, when we recovered Jiangsu and Zhejiang, or Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan and other places, we did not encounter such serious land problems. The main reason was that although some of those places were occupied by Tatars,

But the occupation did not last long and was recovered quickly, so the land was not affected much."

"Now, here in Shandong, the Tatars have been occupying it for several years. They even sent many Eight Banners to garrison them. They encircled the land and sold it at a discounted price for a long time. In addition, many gentry here in Shandong had joined the Tatars before, which resulted in the complexity of the current land issue.

seriousness."

"However, no matter how complicated the details are, we are destined to be officials in Shandong, so we cannot be ignorant officials. There are several red lines that we should emphasize first. This is fundamental.

First, all the original royal land, including official land, must be recovered. Even if someone bought it from the Tatars at a changed price, it will not work. The land must be recovered first, and then the specific process can be carefully investigated. If it can be verified that it is indeed

If you change the price and pay for the subscription, and it is found that the silver has been handed over to the government treasury, and the amount of silver in the field is correct, you can return the changed price silver. One acre of good land is treated as normal three acres, but it is only sold at a different price for two or three taels of silver, or one tael of silver.

Is it normal to buy more than ten acres of good land?

One acre of such good land can produce an annual harvest of seven to eight hundred catties. At the current price of grain, it can be sold for sixty-seven taels of silver.

The land is only worth two or three taels? The grain harvested in a year is worth six or seven taels? Isn’t the problem here serious enough? They all think that the court is easy to bully, so they join forces to deceive the superiors and deceive the subordinates. In the past, the Tatars were allowed to be bullied by them. Let’s

Shao Tianchao can't do it.

In the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is no low-priced farmland, and the land of Jin gentry officials is only a few thousand acres at most. In Chongzhenzhong, Susong's fertile farmland is worth more than ten acres per acre. Shanghai has a lot of saline-alkali land near the sea, and the land is barren, with only six or seven bushels of land.

, also worth three to five liang per acre.

Even if Shandong is affected by war and famine, the best farmland cannot be worth just a few cents of silver or even one or two cents. According to the investigation of this department, the price of most of the changed-price fields is less than one-tenth of the normal price."

Some of the best irrigated land, especially the kind that will not be affected by floods and droughts, is often worth more than 10 taels per acre, but now they have lowered the land price to 12 taels per acre. This is tantamount to selling it at a low price.

A hundred times. They find various excuses, such as tenants fleeing and fields deserted and uncultivated.

Another example is a field being turned into wasteland due to disasters.

The people had no money to subscribe and so on, and even sold the big acres as small acres.

This kind of crazy behavior has been carried out everywhere in Shandong in the past two years. Almost all the gentry, powerful officials and officials have participated in it. As a result, many prominent families have increased their family real estate tenfold or hundreds of times in a few years.

For example, the Wang family in Xincheng was only a small landowner three generations ago, but now they have 3,000 hectares of land, which is 300,000 acres.
To be continued...