The New Deal implemented by the imperial court in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian is progressing slowly, so the tax and financial situation is still very bad. It is obvious that local bureaucratic forces and local gentry are obstructing the reform. Because it is beyond the reach of the whip, the imperial court's reform is also slow. Zhu Yihai
There is no way.
Now we can only buy grain from Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places. But if we buy grain now, the price is high and we will spend a lot of money. Secondly, transportation is not easy and the cost is high.
Moreover, even if you have money, you may not be able to buy much food. Nowadays, there are wars and food shortages everywhere.
Zhu Yihai sighed, even so, he could only grit his teeth and find a way to raise money.
He picked up his notepad and wrote a line on it, which was to allocate money to buy grain to relieve hunger in various places.
But hunger is not limited to Sichuan and Hunan. Jiangxi, a land of plenty, has also suffered from wars before, and the situation is relatively good. However, in the former southern Zhili area, the situation is very serious.
Completely smashed.
The Xuhuai area in the north of the Yangtze River cannot be taken into consideration for the time being, but places like Ningtaisong and Suchang Town in Huichin must be taken into account. In the past, the Ming army was so happy when they demolished the city walls to grab food, but now they are very sad when facing the rotten south of the Yangtze River.
Fortunately, the situation in western Zhejiang and eastern Zhejiang has been improving in recent years.
We can only transfer grain from Zhejiang and Zhejiang to Anhui and Jiangsu.
He picked up the pen and added another note on the notepad, immediately abolishing the newly recruited and surrendered Qing troops, captured bandits, etc. After the war, Zhu Yihai could not be like the Qing army at the time, accepting and settling all the surrendered troops without hesitation.
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Only some of the elites were left to be dispersed and incorporated into the armies, and the others were demobilized as soon as possible.
There are two town camps in one province, and half of each town is first reorganized and strengthened to build up its strength.
The main task of defensive operations along the Yangtze River must still be handed over to the imperial camp. The local town camp is mainly responsible for city defense and security.
Some of the capable generals were selected to serve in imperial camps or provincial towns, while others who should be exempted were exempted from withdrawal, or transferred to local regiment training, and were awarded the military positions of regiment commander, deputy general, guerrilla, etc.
The local government retains some team training, but does not discontinue production. It provides appropriate subsidies and establishes some military camps to reduce expenses as much as possible.
People don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. Although Zhu Yihai only had a few prefectures in eastern Zhejiang before, leading an imperial camp to fight, the burden was much lighter, and he was even well-paid through seizures, etc., but now that his family's fortune has grown, it is weighing him down.
Can't help but feel angry.
Prepare the army for war.
Restore farming and activate industry and commerce.
Thousands of threads, a complete mess.
Unknowingly, half the morning passed, and a palace maid brought in a lacquer plate of snacks with a bowl of wontons on top.
What was served was an ordinary blue and white tureen and a wooden spoon.
Zhu Yihai put down the memorial, finished the bowl of wontons, stood up, walked around to eat, and then continued working.
He picked up the draft submitted by the cabinet. This was a list of official appointments submitted by the Ministry of Personnel. It was a list of prefects who were vacated in various places. For each vacancy in the prefecture, the Ministry of Personnel listed three alternatives.
Selection, secondary selection and alternative selection, with each person's resume etc. attached at the back.
The cabinet discussed and voted on the list from the Ministry of Personnel. They drew up a formal list and selected or adjusted it from those recommended by the Ministry of Personnel.
The list of vacant prefects is very long, including Yingtian Prefecture, Shaotian Prefecture (Shaoxing), Dongxing (Taizhou) Prefecture, Changzhen, Susong, Hangjiahu, Taiping, Huizhou, Chizhou, Jiujiang, Nanchang, Anqing and Yangzhou
Even in Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Sichuan, Hanzhong, Yunyang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guizhou and other provinces, there are a large number of prefects who need to be appointed.
Many local prefects have been vacant for a long time, some have been replaced by other officials for a long time, or some prefects are now being promoted to more important official positions.
Although the prefect is a fourth-grade official, he is in charge of a government after all. For the imperial court, he is a very important official.
In the current employment system of the imperial court, the appointment of officials below the fifth rank is basically directly responsible for the Ministry of Personnel. The list submitted by them will basically not be touched by the cabinet.
The fourth- and fifth-grade officials are basically recommended by the Ministry of Personnel, selected by the cabinet, and approved by the emperor.
When officials of the third rank and superior positions are appointed or dismissed, they all belong to the emperor.
The prefect is a fourth-grade magistrate, recommended by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and selected by the cabinet.
Facing the long list, Zhu Yihai also had a headache. There were so many governors to choose and appoint. Although the Ministry of Personnel and the Cabinet had already selected the officials, Zhu Yihai still had to check them one by one carefully. Not only
You have to look at the original candidates as well.
Most of the elected magistrates, Zhu Yihai, have never heard of them, or have little impression of them. Just looking at their short resumes, one cannot tell their abilities.
But basically all of them are Jinshi, and most of them have shown loyalty since the fall of the two capitals. Basically, no officials who have been demoted to the Qing Dynasty or Shun were elected. Even some prefects who originally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and the West were selected this time.
be adjusted.
Zhu Yihai hoped that these prefects could be more responsible and capable officials, but after looking at them for a long time, he really couldn't see anything.
In the end, I had no choice but to approve it, and the cabinet's draft list was approved.
However, after putting it down, I picked it up and read it again. Finally, I crossed out a few civil servants who were obviously the kind of talkative civil servants or those who did not understand common government based on their resumes, and asked the Ministry of Personnel and the Cabinet to re-
Substitute.
The dozen or so people he crossed out from their resumes were all in their 40s or 50s when they passed the imperial examination and then held some deputy positions such as principals. Many of them even had no experience as local officials, let alone being in charge of politics.
One county.
Zhu Yihai believes that to be a prefect, one must first have served as a county magistrate, or held an official position as a deputy to the prefect such as Tongzhi, and has good local experience. Otherwise, if you don't know anything and become a prefect, the local area will be in ruins now.
When you are ready, you need someone to lead you. It's okay for such a person to leave everything to the master. It would be troublesome if he doesn't understand and still pretends to understand.
Put down the pen.
Zhu Yihai sighed. He used to think that the emperor was the most powerful person and always kept his word, but now he realized that the world is so big. If he, the emperor, had to do everything by himself, even working twenty-three hours a day would not be enough.
While he was thinking about it, the eunuch Liu Chao, the eunuch Liu Chao, the eunuch Bingbi, the supervisor of etiquette, came in and greeted him respectfully.
"What's the matter?"
Liu Chao presented a statement, "Urgent report from Dongchang, Guanzhong is in a huge collapse!"
When Zhu Yihai heard this, he resisted the urge to overthrow Yu Shen. What he had been worried about finally happened. He didn't even want to hear how he lost.
He issued decrees over and over again and awarded gold medals one after another.
In the end it was of no use.
Congratulations on success and congratulations on failure.
Although the recruitment of He Zhen allowed the Ming army to take Hanzhong without bloodshed and even enter Guanzhong, it was still a castle in the air and a castle in the sand.
Zhu Yihai, who had experienced the collapse of the Huguang River, never imagined that he would have to endure it again.
Liu Chao was not angry and did not dare to take a breath, so he stood aside respectfully.
Zhu Yihai leaned back in his chair a little dejectedly.
After a long time, he allowed himself to come out of this emotion.
"Call the ministers on duty at the Prime Minister's Office to discuss the matter."
Zhu Yihai went to wash his face first, then stood in the bathroom of his study suite, poured cold water on his face, and looked at himself in the mirror on the wall.
Not only was the anger not extinguished, but it was on the rise.
The angry Zhu Yihai finally couldn't hold it back and punched the mirror.
The polished copper mirror was fine, but his fist was bleeding.
The huge pain actually made him feel better.
He now somewhat understands Emperor Chongzhen. No wonder he said when he died that all civil servants could be killed.
The Chongzhen dynasty lasted for more than ten years. One day, Ren Chongzhen killed the 9,000-year-old Wei Zhongxian, tomorrow he dealt with the eunuchs, and the day after tomorrow he killed the governor, the governor, and the general officer. But what was the use?
From the beginning to the end, Chongzhen was just an emperor who was framed by the court and officials. He was anxious, restless, fearful, and powerless all day long, but he could not solve any problems at all.
How can one person go against the whole world?
Today's He Zhen is just another Liu Zeqing and Zuo Liangyu.
Such people should not have hope and will not be disappointed.
When you first appease him, you should remind yourself that appeasing such a person is just a temporary expedient. If you think like this, you won't be so disappointed or angry.
Even if Guanzhong was defeated, Zhu Yihai did not suffer much loss. On the contrary, He Zhen entered Guanzhong and provoked the coalition forces to attack Xi'an, which in the end caused a lot of blow and damage to the Qing army.
If you think so, it will always be easier.
But Zhu Yihai couldn't be so free and easy. He Zhen's army was defeated in Guanzhong. It was not only a failure for him as a military leader, but also a loss of the court's prestige and Zhu Yihai's prestige.
When Zhu Yihai walked into the meeting hall of the Prime Minister's Office, the prime ministers who came over were horrified to see the emperor's hands dripping with blood.
"It's just a small injury, just take some bandage and put it on." Zhu Yihai said lightly.
"Let's talk about the military situation in Guanzhong first. I heard that there was a great defeat. How was it done?"
There was still uncontrollable anger in the emperor's tone.
Zhang Guowei, a bachelor, began to introduce the defeat of the troops in Guanzhong. Anyway, it was not what Zhu Yihai expected. Although He Zhen and the others were said to be one hundred thousand, they were a mob after all. The military leaders, big and small, had their own selfish motives. The governor Gao Doushu was also difficult to give orders. Although there were
The king ordered the flag and the monk Fang Baojian, but it was of no use.
He originally led thousands of troops in Yunyang and defended the isolated city of Yunyang for several years, defeating the attacks of the Chuang army. However, when he arrived in Guanzhong, his command was said to be more than 100,000 troops, but he was severely defeated.
This thing sounds magical, but it is actually nothing new.
I remember that Jin Guofeng was stationed in Songshan as the deputy general of Jinzhou, with only 3,000 soldiers. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji personally led the Eight Banners force to Songshan in an attempt to capture the city and destroy the Jinzhou barrier. Huang Taiji attacked fiercely for seven days, many times.
They attacked by force, but were resisted heroically by Jin Guofeng, causing the Qing army to suffer heavy casualties.
Huang Taiji sent people back to Shenyang to mobilize troops, and brought 27 cannons, more than 10,000 shells, and more than 500 hu of gunpowder. They fired cannons around the city, destroying the battlements on the city towers, and the people in the city could only
Marching with the door panel on his back, Jin Guofeng sent troops to attack several times but failed. However, he still defended tightly day and night and refused to retreat in a bloody battle.