Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1533, Practical Officials
The decline of Jinling and the sharp drop in population have had a great impact. Jinling, which was originally thriving and developing rapidly, suddenly seems to be a pond that has been diverted from the source of living water and turned into dead, dead water, which is full of silence and chic.

Regarding this, Wang Shouren was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and began to visit various places with many officials from Nanzhili, trying to find a way to save Jinling, so that Jinling could not just fall like this.

But Liu Jin knows that if other factors can still be solved, but things like human hearts are really difficult, very difficult, and it can be said that there is no way at all.

Once people's hearts are scattered, they are really scattered.

These big businessmen, big families, and great gentry in Jinling have chilled the hearts of ordinary people. Given the choice, everyone will naturally not come to Jinling again.

Whether it is Songhu, or Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, etc., the development is very fast now. A large number of factories require a lot of labor, some of which are jobs, and the salary is no worse than that here in Jinling.

Moreover, overseas colonies and vassal states need manpower even more. As long as they are willing to immigrate there, one person can get hundreds of acres of land. If a family immigrates there, they will be given more land. Shangdu will also send you one or two female white slaves to warm your bed for free.

There are many choices for everyone, and there is no need to come to Jinling again to suffer, let alone suffering, and in the end it will be chilling.

The present is different from the later generations, which have just begun to develop rapidly in the first two decades or so.

At that time, the population was large and cheap labor was plentiful, but there were few factories and few job opportunities, so those factory owners were not afraid of no one, whether you wanted to do it or not, someone would come to do it.

With no choice, the vast number of migrant workers can only work hard with meager salaries. A whole generation of youth has been dedicated to the prosperity and prosperity of the motherland. It is precisely because of the sacrifice of their generation that this With the re-emergence, more choices are given to the younger generation.

After the 90s and 00s, young people are much more self-willed.

Not to mention the salary and treatment, but the office environment is not good, the leader's face is not good, or someone is upset, these people can resign directly and willfully, I just don't do it, what a drop.

Anyway, it's a big deal to go home to eat the old, and there is no pressure from the parents, so I don't have to bear so much pressure and responsibility.

"That's fine, technology and technical innovations are gradually bursting out in such an environment."

"It is always the nature of capital to seek lower costs. Since the labor force cannot be reduced, it will naturally choose to use machinery, and technology and technology will naturally be more favored."

Looking at Jinling City outside the window, Liu Jin was full of thoughts, thinking far away.

The reason why slaves are not allowed in the local area, and the existence of slaves is not only to maintain the purity of the local blood, but more importantly, to promote the development of technology and technology on the local side.

Because only by mastering advanced technology and technology is mastering the most powerful force, and can always stand on top of the world and maintain one's position as the world's big brother.

"Dong Dong~"

"My lord, Huguang and Jiangxi chief envoys are asking to see you~"

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and soon came to report.

"Huguang and Jiangxi chief envoys?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he frowned slightly. What did these two people come to him for?
"Please~"

With doubts, Liu Jin also walked towards the living room.

In the reception hall of Jinling Hotel, two groups of officials were looking at each other, full of gunpowder, blowing beards and staring at each other, as if looking at each other was very uncomfortable.

"Master Gao is so fast, I, who travels all day and night, can't keep up with you."

Wei Ying looked at Gao Jiang opposite, feeling extremely upset.

I rushed from Wuchang to Nanjing to meet Liu Jin, and unexpectedly met Gao Jiang, the governor of Jiangxi, and immediately understood the purpose of the other party's coming here.

"Master Wei's speed is really fast. I don't know if there is something wrong with coming to see Liu Gong in such a hurry?"

Gao Jiang looked at Wei Ying opposite, and asked with a smile on his face.

"Ha, it's nothing. I just came here to report to Mr. Liu about our Huguang situation. What's the matter with you here?"

"Haha, I have nothing to do, I just want to come and visit Liu Gong."

The two actually knew each other's purpose for coming, but neither of them revealed it.

Soon, Liu Jin in a crimson robe walked into the living room, and the officials from Huguang and Jiangxi who were sitting immediately got up one after another, and shouted to Liu Jin in unison: "I have seen Liu Gong~"

"Well, sit down."

Liu Jin glanced around, and his eyes naturally fell on Wei Ying and Gao Jiang.

For these two people, Liu Jin still has a good influence. At the debriefing meeting, these two people have made good achievements. Compared with the officials in the south of the Yangtze River, they can be regarded as officials of the practical group.

Of course, all these officials are naturally thinking of climbing up. The official assessment system formulated by Liu Jin has extremely high requirements for the assessment of officials in the borderlands, but Liu Jin is a person who follows the rules and sets his own rules. According to the rules, as long as the assessment is excellent, Liu Jin will promote it.

In the same way, as long as you fail the assessment, Liu Jin will unceremoniously punish you as an official with a vegetarian diet, ranging from demotion or demotion to a lower rank, or even letting you go home to retire in the worst case.

Naturally, a group of practical officials were also trained.

Regardless of whether these officials want to be promoted, or they are really based on the idea of ​​serving as an official and benefiting one party, if officials of the practical group want to be promoted and promoted, they must make some achievements.

Wei Ying, governor of Huguang, and Gao Jiang, governor of Jiangxi, are similar in every aspect and have done a good job, but when they reach the position of governor, they are already high-level officials in Xinjiang, and they are senior officials of the third rank or second rank. .

You must know that Liu Jin, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, is only a second-rank official, and he is only a little higher than them. Even Liu Jin does not have the power to directly appoint or dismiss them.

If they want to go up a level, if they are transferred back to the capital to become officials in the capital, they will basically take the positions of six ministers or ministers.

The six ministers and the ministers add up to just a few positions. There are so many political envoys and inspectors in the Ming Dynasty. That is to say, there are too many monks and too few porridge. step.

Among them, the most important thing is the recommendation of Liu Jin, Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Whenever there are six ministers in the court, officials at the rank of ministers retire or resign, and the position is vacated, usually the minister of the Ministry of officials draws up a list of recommendations, and then discusses with several ministers in the cabinet to eliminate them. If unsuitable candidates are dropped, the emperor will usually choose one of the final few in the end.

Of course, sometimes, when the emperor has a candidate he likes, he will directly go over the official department and the cabinet to appoint, but generally the officials appointed in this way will not be recognized by other officials in the DPRK and China, will be despised by others, and they will often do things very well. Not going well.

Some things are the default rules of everyone. For example, non-jinshi cannot enter the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin cannot enter the cabinet.

Therefore, if they want to be promoted one step further, it can be said that it is as difficult as reaching the sky. It is already a ceiling to reach the level of chief minister, but if Liu Jin, the minister of the Ministry of officials, is willing to recommend them, they may have hope to be promoted again step.

The chief minister is the chief minister, but compared with the six ministers, it is still a lot worse. Even if you return to your hometown in the future, there is a big difference between retiring as a minister and retiring as a chief minister. big.

It was not easy for Liu Jin to come to the south once. Huguang and Jiangxi are also close to Nanjing. If you take a boat, you can go down the south of the river and you will arrive soon. The support of the imperial court for their respective places.

"Grand Liu, I haven't seen you for more than a year since we left the capital the year before last, but you still have the same demeanor."

Wei Ying looked at Liu Jin and changed the subject with a smile.

"Haha, Duke Wei was joking."

When Liu Jin heard it, he laughed immediately, and then asked after thinking for a while, "Is the situation in Huguang not bad?"

"Thanks to the great blessing of the emperor, and I would also like to thank the princes in the court for their support to Huguang. Huguang has developed well in the past few years."

"In the past few years, the weather has been smooth, and the grain production has increased every year. This is also thanks to Liu Gong's insistence that the court set up a grain and agriculture department to promote good seeds and good farming methods throughout the country. That's why Huguang can harvest every year. .”

"Last year, the grain output in Huguang area increased by [-]% compared with the previous year. With the promotion of high-yield rice and mechanization, as well as the method of raising ducks in rice fields, not only the grain harvest has been bumper, but the duck output in Huguang has also ranked first in the country. Every year Tens of millions of ducks can be transported to Beijing, Tianjin, Songhu, and Nanjing.”

When Wei Ying reported the situation in Huguang to Liu Jin, he also did not forget to flatter Liu Jin.

"That's fine, that's fine~"

"This is the result of Huguang people's hard work and hard work, the result of hard work and wisdom."

"I think His Majesty will be even happier if he hears the news."

Liu Jin nodded in satisfaction. Huguang Governor Wei Ying had indeed spent a lot of effort in this regard.

Vigorously promote high-yield rice, promote steam tillage machines, harvesters and rice milling machines, and improve mechanized farming. At the same time, I learned the method of raising ducks in rice fields from Jiangnan, that is, raising ducks while planting rice in rice fields. Eliminate pests and weeds in the rice fields, and can also add fertilizer to the rice fields.

While increasing production, the ducks raised are also sold to other provinces on a large scale, increasing income.

For this matter, Huguang even specially funded the Royal Institute of Technology of Ming Dynasty to study how to breed and reproduce ducks on a large scale, and made a major breakthrough, being able to breed ducks on a large scale. Duck's plan can be implemented and promoted on a large scale in Huguang.

Liu Jin knew about this, and had a good impression of Wei Ying.

Since ancient times, as long as the direction is given, there will naturally be no shortage of talents in various fields. Liu Jin was dumbfounded and had to express his admiration for the many things that many officials in the frontier did to improve their political performance.

(End of this chapter)