Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 215 Yellow Card Warning
But Zhang Li thought about it again, this Li Jing is not a good person, and so much money will definitely not fall into his hands.

Li Jing was determined to win Anyi County, and his biggest goal was to occupy the Salt Lake. After spending so much energy, how could he hand over the benefits he gained to the court?
Shaking his head, Zhang Li cleared his head and threw away those unrealistic thoughts.

Seeing that Zhang Li was thinking, Li Jing smiled and said: "Master Zhang, Master Zhou, I rely on you two in many places in Xiezhou, I hope you will not let me down, and I will also give you two guarantees, never Sorry to both of you."

Zhang Li and Zhou Kang nodded hastily. Now Li Jing's influence is unstoppable from entering Jiezhou. The magistrate of Pingyang Mansion is his subordinate, and he acts according to his orders. In Pingyang Mansion, Li Jing can do whatever he wants.

In the boundary of Pingyang Mansion, no one is as powerful as Zhou Hengchen in terms of power, and no one is as tough as Li Jing in terms of strength. Those who are disobedient and even want to resist are enough to live.

Looking at Li Jing's method of driving the rogues to attack the city, Li Jing will never be relentless in killing those court officials.

Zhang Li and Zhou Kang are not afraid of death, but they still have wives and children, what will happen to their family members when they die?It's not as good as making a fortune in silence like now.

While talking, the guards reported that the supplies sent had been counted, five thousand shi of grain, and 50 taels of silver was a lot.

Li Jingjing nodded, and said to Zhang Li and Zhou Kang: "You two adults, please go back now. I will immediately notify the bandits to retreat."

Zhang Li nodded, and was about to say goodbye to Li Jing, when he suddenly remembered something, and immediately said: "Boss Li, Mr. Zhou, what should I do with the 20 taels of silver that the lower officials overcharged?"

If only Li Jing was here, Zhang Li would definitely not have asked, but Zhou Hengchen was also here, so if you don’t ask, Li Jing asked Zhou Hengchen to ask about the 20 taels of silver later, then he would not be able to explain it, so why not ask for instructions now.

Li Jingjing nodded, applauding Zhang Li's act of loyalty, smiled and said: "These silver coins do two things. The first thing is that the rogues attack the city, how can there be no casualties among the officers and soldiers guarding the city? We need to take good care of the pension. The second thing is to expand the scale of the salt factory and build the factory. The rest of the money will be used in these places. In addition, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhou have saved Xiezhou this time, which can be regarded as a success Great merit, how can you not be rewarded for meritorious service? Each of you will get 1000 taels of silver."

Zhang Li and Zhou Kang were overjoyed, especially Zhou Kang, whose subordinates also suffered heavy losses during the attack by the bandits, and was about to ask Zhang Li for some silver coins to distribute pensions, but Li Jing actually spoke out for him.

With a smile, Li Jing continued: "Master Zhang, Master Zhou, I don't like corrupt officials. For corrupt officials, my punishment is very heavy, but officials also need to support their families and socialize. Therefore, in order not to Let the officials be corrupted. The salaries of the officials under my rule are very high. They do a good job and have a lot of rewards. I hope you two remember, don’t do those things that are corrupt, if the expenses are not enough, or there is money place, just tell me, as long as it is not wasted, I can give you money personally."

Shaking his head, Li Jing sighed and said: "There are a lot of troubles in Xiezhou. If I follow my approach, I will kill those officials once and for all, and then re-appoint the officials, but now I have to worry about how to deal with those officials. gone."

Looking at Zhou Kang, Li Jing said: "In the past few days, you bring some reliable subordinates to monitor those officials, and don't want them to start making trouble as soon as the rogues here retreat. Well, Heng Chen can issue subpoenas to these officials, Let them go to the government office to report on their duties, and by the way, let Mr. Zhang take care of the place."

"Thank you, leader!" Zhang Li said with a long bow.

With a long sigh, Li Jing continued: "A lot of things are obviously urgent, but I can't rush them. I'm a little tired. Go back and do things with your heart."

Zhang Li and Zhou Kang hurriedly saluted and left.

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After Zhang Li and Zhou Kang left, Li Jing ordered someone to bring 5 taels of silver to Wang Ziyong and others.

In fact, Li Jing knew that Wang Ziyong and others were not short of money, so they fought so many cities along the way and robbed so many officials and wealthy businessmen, so naturally they would not be short of money.

But Wang Ziyong and others are about to leave the boundary of Pingyang Mansion. He took the bandits all the way to attack the city and plunder the land. There is no credit but hard work. Giving some money can be regarded as a favor. As for Wang Ziyong who took 5 taels of silver Li Jing didn't care about the distribution.

A convoy came out of the city, Wang Ziyong and others saw it clearly, to be honest, Wang Ziyong really wanted to lead his troops to rob the convoy, but seeing Li Jing's troops waiting in full force, Wang Ziyong gave up this idea.

It was not once or twice to fight against Li Jing's troops, and each time he suffered a lot, otherwise he would not have been forced by Li Jing to attack the city everywhere.

Seeing that the convoy was going in the direction of Li Jing's camp, snatching this convoy was tantamount to snatching food from Li Jing's mouth, and Wang Ziyong was naturally clear about the consequences after snatching it up.

From being beaten by Li Jing to being forced by Li Jing, how could Wang Ziyong not have a long memory?
What Wang Ziyong didn't expect was that Li Jing sent someone to send him 5 taels of silver, which is naturally not much compared to what was sent to Li Jing in the city, but this shows that Li Jing has not forgotten them and did not eat alone.

Of course, this also made Wang Ziyong and others very ashamed. They fought so many cities, but they didn't send anything to Li Jing.

After pondering for a while, Wang Ziyong took out a piece of jade that his subordinates honored him. This piece of jade was said to be good by others, but Wang Ziyong didn't see how it was good, so he just gave it to Li Jing.

With Wang Ziyong taking the lead to set an example, Ying Shanhong and the others felt embarrassed not to escape their pockets, and took out from their own collections what they thought could be handed over to Li Jing's personal soldiers, and asked the personal soldiers to pass them on to Li Jing.

Afterwards, Wang Ziyong and others began to pull out the camp and headed for Xia County.

A small place like Xia County is naturally nothing to Wang Ziyong and others, and they captured it with ease.

After the rogues occupied Xia County, Li Jing ordered Zhou Daqing, Wang Ermao and others to give up a passage, allowing Wang and others to enter Zezhou for their own use.

At the same time, open the road to Shaanxi, and let Yingshanhong, Yang Liuer and other bandit leaders return to Shaanxi with their subordinates.

After Wang Ziyong arrived in Zezhou with his subordinates, he quickly got in touch with Gao Yingxiang. The two hit it off, gathered together, and fought together, turning Zezhou upside down.

At this time, the states and counties in Pingyang Prefecture were all in ruins after being looted by bandits. Li Jing's energy was all on how to build and develop, and he was busy all day long.

Fortunately, Zhou Hengchen, Yang Liufeng, Fang Fang and others all had reconstruction experience, and there was no need for Li Jing to arrange specific matters, which greatly reduced Li Jing's burden.

Moreover, the talents recruited at the beginning also played a great role in this large-scale reconstruction. With these people's precepts and deeds, a large number of educated people came to the government offices of prefectures and counties, wanting to ask for official positions.

In this regard, Li Jing never refused anyone who came, and accepted them all.

Of course, Li Jing is not unconditional, he can be given a position, but he must produce results, and if there is no result when the deadline is due, he will pack up and leave.

Due to the increasing number of officials, Li Jing no longer has so much energy to personally inspect and review the officials. Therefore, Li Jing adopted Yuan Keli's suggestion and began to implement the test method.

The test method is actually Zhang Juzheng's pioneering work during the Wanli period. As the name suggests, it is to test the results.

But how to check the results?It's very simple, set goals for the officials below, complete them within a time limit, and send people to inspect and accept them when the time limit expires.

However, Zhang Juzheng’s examination method is a bit too strict. Take taxation as an example. For example, if a tax amount of 1000 taels is stipulated, if the tax amount is 90 taels, it’s a pity that the assessment is unqualified.

This is obviously a little unreasonable. You must know that sometimes many unexpected things will happen in places, such as natural disasters, food failures and a series of problems.

When Zhang Juzheng passed the exam, he often ignored these factors.

But one thing must be admitted, there is such a law that examines the performance of officials, officials are like a knife hanging over their heads, and when doing things, they must be cautious and conscientious.

Such a ready-made and easy-to-use law, Li Jing naturally didn't use it for nothing.

However, Li Jing will not be as harsh as Zhang Juzheng. He ordered the officials in charge of the examination to take into account the actual situation in the local area, and not to beat them to death just because they failed the grades.

For example, a road needs to be built for a period of three months. However, due to rain within three months, the road cannot be completed on schedule. When passing the exam, the reason for the rain must be taken into consideration.

In addition, Li Jing also implemented a warning system, similar to a yellow card warning in a football match.

If the following officials fail to meet the prescribed standards within the time limit, a warning will be given and the deadline will be completed. If the official is not completed within the time limit, the official will be sent off.

The implementation of the examination method is also a kind of supervision for the officials. In order not to be punished, they naturally do their best to do things.

The supervision of officials has become stricter, while that of ordinary people has been much looser.Li Jing abolished the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty, and all restrictions on military households and artisan households were cancelled. Under Li Jing's rule, everyone was treated equally and could choose their favorite occupation.

This has greatly improved people's enthusiasm. Every factory recruits, and countless people will come to apply for it.

At the same time, Li Jing distributed those unowned lands to the soldiers who had done meritorious service, which also greatly stimulated the common people, especially when they learned about the various treatment under Li Jing's soldiers, the enthusiasm of the common people was extremely high.

With the implementation of a series of policies, coupled with Li Jing's policy of benefiting the people, Pingyang Prefecture has entered a period of rapid development. Although it is still the first month, everyone is full of enthusiasm.

The fly in the ointment is that although the framework of the Academy of Sciences has been set up long ago, there are not many real talents, so many of Li Jing's ideas cannot be implemented.

After all, Li Jing is a modern person. He knows very well that relying on water conservancy to drive machinery is too restrictive. The best way is to use a steam engine.

But Li Jing only knew the principle of the steam engine, so it would not work for him to make it himself, and he didn't have so much time to study it.

Now Li Jing is very eagerly looking forward to Xu Guangqi coming over as soon as possible.

If this great scientist can come, then his foreign friends will also follow, and then many disciplines can be developed.

Through the news from the capital, Li Jing knew that after Xu Guangqi became an official, he did not return to his hometown in Shanghai, but stayed in the capital for the New Year, and sent a letter to Fang Fang saying that he would come over after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

(End of this chapter)