A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 736 Disturbance
The chief officials of each ministry also have a five-year term, counting from the establishment of the shogunate in the 12th year of Chongzhen, and a maximum of two terms.

After the chief officer's term expires, if he has no other use, he will usually take a vacant post in the Department of Education, the Staff Department, and the Supervision Department to serve as a supervisor or staff officer, or he will take a post in a military or civil academy to play his remaining heat.

Wang Douxin established the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The future diplomatic affairs will increase. The establishment of this Ministry is very necessary. Xie Youcheng, the military comfort officer, was transferred to the minister. manage.

Now all publicity matters inside and outside the government are under the control of the Information Department. The former ambassador Liu Benshen was transferred to the Ministry of Supervision. .

He is gloomy and ambitious, and it is unclear whether he will start a fight with Chi Dacheng.

Of course, the positions of the personnel in the Central Military Department are only announced in the military newspaper, and the situation of the members of the Military and Political Department is also mentioned in the Times. It is not like the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Supervision, which introduces the resumes, job descriptions, etc. of each member.

In particular, the details of Li Zhifen and others are kept in a state of high secrecy.

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In addition, the Xuanfu Times also publicized on a large scale, the recruitment of officials in the Duhufu by the whole people, and the official assessment system, the establishment of banks, and the development of Monan and other detailed policies.

"...to apply for officials, Chinese nationality is preferred. However, no matter whether it is a scholar, a businessman or a businessman, it is not limited to Xuanfu Town. Anyone who has the heart of serving the country can apply for the exam... If you are admitted, you will enter the Civil Affairs College of Xuanfu Town for three months of training. For civil affairs, send them to the local government for half a year to practice, and then they can be converted to full-time staff."

Looking at the explanation in the newspaper, Ji Shiwei paced slowly in the room, and finally made up his mind to support his son-in-law vigorously and let all members of the Ji clan go to the assessment.

Seeing the newspaper, Zhu Zhifeng and Wei Jingyuan were relatively silent. Wang Dou did not violate the system, and there was no imperial examination, but it was even more terrifying than the imperial examination. I was afraid that all the scholars in Shanxi would be wiped out by Wang Dou at once. .

Wei Jingyuan sneered and said, "Eclectic use of talents, what a king!"

Zhu Zhifeng said bitterly: "The good and the bad are mixed together, the mob!"

Seeing the newspaper, Wu Zhi, the magistrate of Yanqing Prefecture, rushed to Guanshan Academy and yelled at the many students below who were about to apply for the exam: "If you are a son of man, you should think of loyalty and serve the imperial court first. How can you be used by local warlords? Think twice."

The people below are just silent. There are thousands of troops in the imperial examination, but there are very few candidates. In the whole academy, how many people will win the exam, or even become a Jinshi?

Even if you get a Jinshi, how difficult is it to find a real job?There are hundreds of thousands of students and scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and how many of them will eventually become officials. In the end, don’t they have to make a living by themselves?
There will be disasters and man-made disasters tomorrow, how can there be stability under the rule of the Marquis of Yongning?It is better to find a stable job.Moreover, it is much easier to apply for the official examination than to participate in the imperial examination. It is so easy to become an official. This is the first time in the country, even in thousands of years.

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In a teahouse in Zhencheng, Lai Mancheng of the Sanjin Chamber of Commerce and Zheng Jinglun were sitting opposite each other. Zheng Laosi, who had become the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, was even more affluent. He wore a luxurious fur fur over his silk shirt. He read the newspaper and murmured He murmured, "Our Zheng family should produce some officials."

Although his two nieces were married to Gao Shiyin and Han Chao respectively, Zheng Jinglun believed that it would be better for their Zheng family to send out a few officials and servants.

There is a good opportunity in front of you, how difficult it is to become an official through the imperial examination, even the officials, and most of the localities are controlled by the official family, so you don't want to squeeze in the door when you wait for idlers.

Being in the town, of course Lai Mancheng would not be carrying the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, still waving his golden fan like his signature, curling his lips and saying: "It's no fun to be an official, it's better to be in business, now under the rule of the general, we It's all legal to get rich, haha..."

He pointed to a few paragraphs in the newspaper: "For example, the commercial route of Monan and Mobei, I am very interested... Look at this, it says that on the North Sea, it is where Su Wu herds sheep, and the tribes beside Haizi have as many furs and furs as possible. A mere iron pot can be exchanged for a lot, but there are some red-haired ghosts entrenched there..."

He murmured to himself: "It's strange, didn't the red-haired barbarians come from the sea, why are there also in the northwest of the grassland?... But it doesn't matter, set up some bodyguards, and those who dare to stop them will be wiped out..."

After the last battle outside the Great Wall, Lai Mancheng was very interested in plundering trade outside the Great Wall, and he didn't pay attention to mere red-haired ghosts.Their business group armed forces are not vegetarian, not to mention that they can recruit a vote of Mongols as pioneers at that time.

There is a precedent for gold mines, and Lai Mancheng and others are also full of confidence in Wang Dou's credit. Like many businessmen, they are extremely enthusiastic about developing beyond the Great Wall.

Lai Mancheng is planning to form a merchant group adventure team, and he has already thought of the name: "Beihai Trading Company."

Confucius said: "The public means the wealth of several people, and the manager means the meaning of operation."

Zhuangzi said: "Aggregate disadvantages to become high, combine small to become large, and merge to become public. This is called a company."

The name of the business group is taken from the words of the sage, and it is also more grand. Lai Mancheng heard that many business houses in Guangdong are also called companies, which means to gather the wealth of many people and operate together. It seems that he is not the first to choose such a name. .

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In Shanxi Town, this newspaper also quickly spread among the Zhang family, Shen family, Yang family, and Li family members, causing fierce disputes within their families.

Wang Dou sent troops to search the properties of Shanxi merchants in various places in Xuanda. These famous officials in Shanxi had inextricable relationships with those merchants. Although they were forced by the situation, they finally gave up on those people. It is absolutely impossible for Dou to have a good impression, and it is only normal to hate him to the bone.

It’s just that the news of Wang Dou’s large-scale recruitment of officials from the Anbei Metropolitan Guard’s Mansion has aroused controversy among these families. The general trend of fighting has been achieved, and it is not necessarily impossible to send some family members to participate.

They also quoted what they didn't understand, but Wang Dou said: "There are no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests!"

It is believed that water flows to low places, people go to high places, and the king's power is high, so it is possible to push the boat along the water, which is to maintain the good state of the family's interests, and the struggle between emotions is just the way to bring disaster.

Under the fierce quarrel, each family had to get together to discuss.

"Mr. Zhang, you still need to bring out a charter."

In a luxurious hall, they gathered together in secret, discussing in secret.

The old voice that had appeared in the town once said: "Hmph, the king's thief is a wolf with ambition, and his schemer is great... But for the sake of the family's wealth and future, it is not a bad idea to let some children apply for the official examination? Don't put eggs The same basket, in this regard, the ancestors of Liaodong have done a good job."

Everyone below looked at this old man with admiration. When they were in town, they knew the old man's hatred for Wang Dou, and they were even willing to wait for the opportunity, waiting for five or ten years, until the day when the opportunity came .

But now without hesitation, let the children of the family participate, as expected, they are people with plans and decisions. The family needs such a person.

But one person hesitated and said: "It's just to apply for the official examination, what kind of politics do you need to pass in the end... Yes, after the political review, I'm afraid that the family's children will be brushed off in the end."

The old voice said: "It's okay, spread the net cafes widely, there will always be fish caught..."

The last few families finally agreed to let some of the family's children apply for the exam. Not to mention the different purposes of each family, that is, each family has spread its branches and leaves. Over the years, there are many poor children in the clan. It's a way of making a living.

After all, although the imperial court often cut off food and salary, it has never been heard that the officials under Wang Dou's rule had cut off monthly food, and it is even more exciting to add any meritorious rewards.

However, how to apply for the exam will have to be carefully considered.

Because of their analysis, once they are selected to enter the various departments of Wang Dou, they can only go down this road in the end. For example, Civil Affairs College, engineering, agriculture, business, etc., have become more and more subdivided.

Interlacing is like a mountain, which department and subject to apply for must be carefully decided.

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After the tenth day of the lunar new year, as the news spread more and more widely, it seemed that the whole of Shanxi was in commotion.

The special newspaper spread everywhere, not only in Shanxi, but even the scholars and common people in other provinces were very enthusiastic. Of course, Wang Dou ruled Xiatunbao, the most active, and people packed their bags one after another, preparing to participate in the official assessment.

In addition, the news about immigration and reclamation in the newspaper is also very attractive.

According to the above, the reclamation in Monan will be divided into several forms.

One is Shangtun, just like the court did in the mid-Ming Dynasty, encouraging and guaranteeing Shangtun.

When China and France were opened, Jiubian also had a great prosperity in commercial settlements. According to historical records, many wealthy businessmen in Shanxi "provided their own financial resources, recruited homeless people, reclaimed frontier land, cultivated millet by themselves, built Duntai by themselves, and maintained their own gatherings", forming a Villages and villages, when the commercial settlements flourished, the frontier lands were completely reclaimed, and the corn and corn were filled with dew accumulations and left in the middle soil.

When there was a lot of grain and rice in the frontier, it even reached the point where a bucket of millet was worth three cents of silver. In Yansui, Liaodong, Ningxia, and northern Shanxi, it was generally possible to buy five shi of rice for every tael of silver, and generally four or five shi for one tael of silver. Rice, the frontier grain market is quite prosperous.

But because of Ye Qi’s reform, he believed that in the past rice was expensive and silver was cheap, so rice was expropriated. Now that silver is expensive and rice is cheap, silver should be levied. , but it also completely destroys the foundation of the business village, and it is really a dishonorable move by the government to create a big trouble in the future for the small profit in front of it.

Shangtun is indeed a great help to the country, Wang Dou will naturally not give up, for him, the more food the better, not to mention the lack of food everywhere in Ming Dynasty, even the Chinese people can't finish the food, isn't there a foreign country?If you control the food, you control the lifeline.

Then there is Mintun, which is divided into several types, one is those who have the financial resources to buy land.

For example, there are many Han nationality in Xuanfu Town, or wealthy gentry businessmen in various places in Shanxi. If a family of five members pays the land purchase fee, they can own a total of no more than 150 mu or less of pasture fields, and some of them are allowed to be abandoned, and they can live in and cultivate them. After five years, the land ownership can be acquired forever.

In terms of price, Chinese registration is generally the most favorable, perhaps a few mu of land is only one tael of silver, and if you live and cultivate it for three years, you can get the ownership of this land forever.

Of course, if the financial resources are insufficient, several companies can buy together. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has set up a special department to manage the property rights disputes.

For the poorer migrants, the Duhu Mansion is specially used to collect them, build large-scale farm-like forts, provide rations, and work collectively. The outstanding ones can be allocated land after they become Chinese, just like Wang Dou's current fort system. In the Wangdou plan, it is also the main force of reclamation.

However, these plans are still in a hurry. If there is a big harvest of food, I don’t know when it will be. In order to speed up food production and obtain the needed food capital as soon as possible, Wang Douhui will temporarily set up a military station to plant the food with the soldiers of the Jingbian army.

After the announcement of the land reclamation plan announced in the newspaper, it aroused the interest of countless people, and there was an uproar in the folk workshops, just discussing this matter.

(End of this chapter)