Lord of the House

Chapter 33

Sneaked back to Jiyunju from Baiyuan on the ridge of the wall, Lin Bing thought about the joke he told Liu Yueer just now, and without rushing down the wall, stepped on the ridge to a slightly sloped roof and lay down, looking at the darkness. Shen Tian thought about something, and many things poured into his mind with incomparable clarity. There were memories of the past time and space after a thousand years, and there were memories of Lin Bie in this world. They were chaotic and intertwined. Thinking too much gave me a headache.

Although he was hiding on the top of the leeward sunny slope, the night was frosty and cold, and it was still a little cold. Lin Bie wrapped his clothes tightly and was not busy going to bed.

Of course he was not reconciled to living a mediocre life again, but the road ahead was not as easy as he imagined.

The two prefectures of Dongyang and Jiangning are located in Jiangdong County, where the land is fertile, the market economy is developed, and the gentry and aristocrats are powerful. The life of ordinary people seems to be plain and peaceful. The city of Jiangning is drunk and prosperous every day. The twilight at this time was heavy and hopeless.

In fact, from the shallow historical knowledge of Lin Fu, we can know that after the Jiangdong County, which is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, has been fully developed, even in the chaotic times at the end of a dynasty, the economic structure is rarely completely destroyed. After all, Jiangdong The county's high land yields twice a year ensured that the people were much better off than the farmers in the north.

In the past, only refugees from the north were seen flocking to the south, and it was rare for refugees from the south to flee to the north.

The problem of the Dayue Dynasty just appeared in the north. No matter how powerful the extravagant family was, Li Zhuo was unable to suppress Dongmin. In the past few decades, the power of the Donghu people in the north expanded from Bohai to western Liaoning and then to Jibei. They can only rely on the steep terrain of Yanshan to keep the iron hooves of the Donghu people out of Yanshan.

After the battle of Chentangyi, the officers and soldiers retreated to the danger of Yanshan, and the Donghu people's offensive against Yanshan was slowed down. The sphere of influence of the Central Plains will become even more serious at that time.

In the past three or five years, there have been locust plagues and droughts in the large northern counties of Xiqin and Jinzhong, which have always been the center of gravity for the empire. Occasionally, there is abundant rain in one or two years. Also, due to the weak water conservancy facilities in the north, waterlogging has been caused. , In short, there is not a year to live in peace.

After the extravagant rebellion, almost all the taxes from the tax source in the southeast were thrown into the bottomless pit here. There is no specific data involved in the Tang report, and other losses are not counted. From the conversation with Gu Wuchen, Lin Bui can also estimate that the military expenditure in the southeast war in these years will not be less than thirty or forty million taels of silver. How much, it takes a lot of time to calculate, the Ministry of Household and Jiangning Ministry of Household even set up a special yamen for this purpose to account for the military expenses spent by Li Zhuo's department over the years.

Fortunately, the Jiangdong, Liangzhe, Jiangxi, Huguang and other prefectures near the East Fujian battlefield are rich places, and they did not feel particularly difficult to bear most of the military expenses, but the supply of supplies to the north has stopped in recent years.

In the past few years, the Dayue Dynasty could not rely on the southeast, the most important tax source of the empire, but also needed to maintain the basic operation of the empire and the large amount of materials and grains needed by the northern front. The repeated raids in other places, the heavy taxation, and the severe disasters in the north year after year, the peasants who have no way to survive naturally frequently resort to such incidents.

These things cannot be seen in Jiangning City, which is as comfortable as a gentle township, but it does not mean that the north has not happened. It is precisely because the north is in crisis. Although there are many people in the DPRK and China who hate the luxury family, there are also more people. Hope that the crisis will be reversed Pinned on the return of the luxury family.

The return of the She family can not only transfer the nearly 100,000 elite soldiers stranded in East Fujian to the northern front to fight against the Donghu and suppress the peasant rebellion in the north, but the most important thing is to expect that after the return of the She family, the southeastern counties will be able to supply energy from the north. The current less than 2 million shi has returned to the level of 6 million shi, which will ease the financial pressure in the north and the pressure of food inflation.

In the time of Emperor Taizong, in order to be sympathetic to the hardships of the boatmen, he allowed the boatmen and sailors to carry and sell local products in 12 ratios from north to south when they transported grain. The center also hopes that the Cao Road will be opened after the luxury family returns, and the tax rate of the Cao Road will be restored from the current 500,000 taels of silver to 1.5 million taels or even higher. The activities can be restrained... In short, there are many people in the court who have high hopes for the return of the luxury family.

As a human being, Lin Fu has understood one thing. The truth is simple, but it is extremely difficult to do. Even if the She family temporarily surrenders and loosens the tight neck and neck to give the court a chance to breathe, there must be someone who can stand up and seize this opportunity for the Dayue Dynasty.

The She family also saw through the details of the court, and bargained when they surrendered. Not only did they split the earth and seal the lords, but Jin'an Mansion became his luxury family's private land, and even the more than 12,000 private soldiers retained by the She family's subordinates still wanted to go to the east. Min County's finances came to support it; at this time, it was even more direct to dispatch a trooper to the Jiangning Prefecture in Beijing to spy on the situation in the southeast, which was also more convenient for the luxury family to penetrate into the southeastern prefectures.

A few days ago, I heard from Gu Wuchen that the counties in the southeast wanted to make up for the deficit from the previous war, and they were unwilling to resume the delivery of grain and money to the north. Over the years, the south has always made up for the north. There are also many disputes among officials. The Western Qin faction is the representative of officials in the north. Today, some of the sages use the Chu party. It is also between the north and the south, hoping to balance the conflict of interests between the north and the south.

Lin Bie stood on the ridge of the wall and listened to the wind blowing across the ridge. He remembered that he had lived in two lifetimes, and he was killed by a gun in his previous life. He sighed in his heart and squatted down from the wall.

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The nature of the questioning of Jiangning's personnel department is similar to that of the civil service examination after a thousand years. If you put yourself in the slip and pass the questioning and correctness of the personnel department, you will be eligible to be a candidate for vacancies, but you will have to wait until there are actual vacancies before you can fill them up one by one.

Lin Fu's role as the prison officer of Jiangdao prison is like a direct order from the inspector. The Jiangning personnel department's questioning and correcting is just a formality. In the afternoon of the next day, Lin Fu rushed to the Jiangning personnel department's yamen after preparing the money.

The city of Jiangning is very big, and there is no more huge and prosperous city in the Dayue Dynasty than Jiangning. Even Yanjing has 20,000 fewer people than Jiangning, but the news of the long feet spread quickly. Some time ago, Lin Fu was in the fan building to teach the young master of the fan family. It was in the city early in the morning, and he rushed to the Jiangning government office in the afternoon. The leisure officials here have gathered to talk about the assassination of the young master of the luxury family on Donghuamen Street yesterday. , Lin Fu ran to Jiangning's government office three times. Many officials recognized him, and when they saw him coming in, they gathered around and asked about the appearance and figure of the aunt of the She family.

The Jiangning Department of Officials was slightly better than the other five, but it was also the Qingshui Yamen with few real powers. According to the custom, all officials were staffed. Since they had no real power, apart from their regular salary, these officials had no extra money to make. If there were many adults, life in Jiangning City would be quite cold. Lin Fu even saw that some small officials had patches on their official uniforms, but these people would never give up when they saw the opportunity to make money.

The yamen of the Jiangning Ministry of Personnel can't handle several personnel cases every month, and the performance evaluation of officials is completely out of their control. , I saw him coming over today, and before he finished the question, they all came to congratulate him for money.

Lin Fu prepared dozens of gift kits. According to the different grades, he put in the small silver coins ranging from three to five taels or three to five coins, and it was the dignified third-grade Jiangning staff left servant who received Lin Fu's replacement. In the past, the gift bag that contained three taels of silver also smiled.

"I thought the third-rank waiter was such a big official..." Zhao Hu said disdainfully when Jiangning's official minister took the money and left.

Lin Fu smiled slightly. Compared with the officials in the city of Yanjing, this Jiangning official was like an out-of-place official who offended the leader and took a back seat. Once they wiped their faces away, not to mention three or five taels of silver, even three or five dollars of silver would not shrink their hands.

Asking the right thing was easier than expected. Even with the participation of Zhao Shuhan, the head of the Jiangning Penalty's Prison Office, it was only a passing scene.

Zhao Shuhan, the head of the prison office, was even afraid to ask Lin Fu, so he only talked to him in a negotiated tone throughout the whole process. All questions about laws and regulations were avoided, and the question was over. Zhao Shuhan also enthusiastically asked Lin Fu to go to a drunken room near the official department. Xianlou eats wine.

Zhao Shuhan was a 3-year-old Enke Jinshi of Chongguan, ranked seventh in the palace test, and ranked fourth in the second class. Once he entered the Hanlin Academy, he took up the post of the seventh-grade reviewer. At that time, it could be said that there was a great future. In the more than two hundred years of the Dayue Dynasty, almost three-quarters of the ministers who served as supporting ministers were initially appointed to serve as reviewers from the Seventh Grade Hanlin Academy. However, Zhao Shuhan pointed out a small mistake in the memorial drafted by the current minister of power Chen Xinbo, and then talked about it in front of his colleagues, and it was passed on to Chen Xinbo's ears. Within two days, uukanshu.com kicked Chen Xinbo to the Jiangning Criminal Bureau to serve as the head of the prison-lifting department. Nominally, the director of the Jiangning Criminal Department's Prison Lifting Office is half-rank higher than the Hanlin Academy's review, but when it's cold and hot, the world is different. Zhao Shuhan's family of five, with a maid and an old servant in Jiangning City, rely on him for 60 stone a year. It is very difficult to live on a salary, and the inner jacket in the public uniform shows the frayed sleeves.

Lin Bie also understands Zhao Shuhan's intention to invite him to drink. Anyone who sits on the bench for four years will lose some arrogance. Zhao Shuhan offended Chen Xinbo, the minister of support of the dynasty, and banished him from the capital. After all, he was also a little shrimp with little prestige. Even if Chen Xinbo was knocked down by the Chu Party and kicked out of Beijing, no one in the center would remember him as a small fish. But once he catches up with Gu Wuchen, the situation may change completely.

Seeing that Zhao Shuhan was down and out, Lin Fu naturally couldn't let him spend money on a drink, so he excused himself to ask Zhao Shuhan for help in the prison.

The Prison Office of the Ministry of Punishment is the yamen in charge of prisons in the two capitals, but the Jiangning Ministry of Justice has no real power at all. Lin Fu thought that Zhao Shuhan spent four years in the Jiangning Ministry of Justice, and maybe he still has some business ability.

Lin Fu's invitation to Zhao Shuhan was an unintentional move, thinking that even if he couldn't help him get through in front of Gu Wuchen, he didn't want to chill his heart. I was quite casual when drinking in Zuixianlou. I heard Zhao Shuhan said that he had done nothing in Jiangning for the past four years, and he had recorded a lot of documents about the prison sentence. Lin Fu had nothing else to do in the afternoon, so he prepared a gift to visit Zhao's house.

In Zhao's house, he saw Zhao Shuhan handwritten hundreds of pages of manuscripts over the past four years, from the prison food, regulations, regulations, and miscellaneous matters. The narrow-eyed and thin-faced scribe who tried to curry favor with Gu Wuchen by himself was truly full of knowledge and talent. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter