Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 247
Inspections are generally performed by supervisory censors, and their main job is to inspect places on behalf of the emperor and inspect officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, the country was divided into thirteen administrative divisions, that is, thirteen provinces. The Metropolitan Procuratorate had a total of thirteen supervisory censors, each corresponding to a province.

When the emperor wanted to inspect the administration of officials in various provinces, he sent various censors down, and gave them the title of inspector.

In movies and TV dramas, Bafu Xunyan is often mentioned, and it is for this job. The name of Bafu Xunyan is very impressive, but in fact the grade is extremely low, because the supervisory censors are generally seventh grade.

Although the rank of these people is low, they have great power. They can compete with the chief executives and envoys of various provinces, and even the magistrates and below have to obey their orders.

This approach is mainly related to the national policy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning. Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the strategy of using the small to control the big, which is convenient for controlling the officials below.

Yuan Shu was in charge of the Shanxi Department of Cleaning Officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He was not qualified to be a patrol inspector without the title of censor.

But the main purpose of Zhu Youjian's sending people to Pingyang Mansion this time was not to investigate the administration of officials, but to learn from the scriptures.

Moreover, Zhu Youjian knew the work style of these censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate very well, and Zhu Youjian was disgusted with these people all day long.

Zhu Youjian didn't forget the origins of the officials in Pingyang Mansion. Except for three or two of these officials who were born in Juren, the rest were basically born as scholars, and some of them were not even scholars.

With the background of these officials, if the supervisory censors go down to the localities, wouldn't their nostrils be turned upside down?Where would these magistrates be taken seriously?What else do you learn from it?

And according to Li Jing's consistent lawless behavior, if these censors act like this, Zhu Youjian doubts whether these people will be beaten after they go down!Once something happened to the censor, it would be a slap in the face of the court.

It's just that Zhu Youjian never thought that Yuan Keli would be Li Jing's husband, and now that he was in Pingyang Mansion, all the affairs of Pingyang Mansion were basically decided by Yuan Keli and Li Jing.Sending Yuan Shu to Pingyang Mansion can see everything, hear everything, and learn everything, but whether he will tell him or not is unknown.

But when Yuan Shu arrived at Pingyang Mansion, he hurriedly sent someone to inform Li Jing. Li Jing had already learned that Yuan Shu was ordered to patrol Pingyang Mansion, so he had already made preparations.

After setting up his entourage and subordinates, Yuan Shu came to see Li Jing alone.

After Li Jing saw Yuan Shu, he laughed and said: "Hahaha! The emperor sent Brother Bo Ying here just as I wanted. Originally, I wanted to find a chance to transfer Brother Bo Ying here. This will save me trouble."

Yuan Shu smiled and said: "Brother Lao Jimin misses you, Brother Yu is here in Pingyang Mansion this time, everything is according to Brother Jimin's order."

Li Jing shook his head with a smile and said: "Brother Boying, you don't need to be polite. Mister is getting old. Brother Boying is here. There are many things in Mr.'s hands that I can hand over to Mr. Boying, so that Mister can rest more."

Yuan Shu was shocked when he heard that, he was very clear about his father's status in Pingyang Mansion, so if he was asked to take over his father's affairs, it would be very important to him.

Waving his hand, Yuan Shu hurriedly said: "Not right, not right, Brother Yu is here for the first time, and he is not familiar with all the affairs, how can we handle it?"

Li Jing said with a smile: "Brother Boying is by your side, what are you afraid of? A talented man like me can be trained well by him. Brother Boying's family has a long history, so he is naturally more than competent."

Yuan Shu smiled wryly and said: "Brother Jimin loves you, brother Yu is stupid, he is far behind Brother Jimin! How about this, how about after I ask my father?"

Li Jingwen nodded slightly after listening.

To Li Jing's surprise, Yuan Keli immediately called Li Jing over when he heard that Li Jing would let Yuan Shu take over.

"What do you want me, sir?" After meeting Yuan Keli, Li Jing asked hurriedly.

"Jimin, you and I have worked together for many years, do you understand the character of a teacher?" Yuan Keli asked.

Li Jing was taken aback, not knowing what Yuan Keli meant, and pondered for a while and said, "Students have always regarded Mr. as a model, so students don't need to talk about Mr.'s character."

Yuan Keli nodded and said, "Do you feel that the teacher is getting old, and you want to arrange a good job for the descendants of the teacher, so that the teacher can feel at ease."

Li Jingwen listened to Mo Ran, he really meant that by letting Yuan Shu take over from Yuan Keli's team.

Yuan Keli sighed and said, "Jimin, your filial piety has led you to be a teacher, but let Boying take over the position of teacher, and I firmly disagree. Jimin, my teacher knows Boying better than you, and Boying does things. Calm, he can be regarded as a person who can do things, but he has absolutely no ability to coordinate the overall situation. He is not boasting about being a teacher, and he is far from being a teacher in this regard! Boying is only suitable for specific affairs, not making decisions."

Shaking his head, Yuan Keli continued: "Jimin, as a teacher, I don't want you to be nepotism! Even if you are the son of a teacher, you can't do it. Although you don't have much savings in your life as a teacher, you can still protect your family from worrying about food and clothing. After being a teacher for a hundred years, your children and grandchildren They have their own good fortune, so you don't need to worry about the Yuan family."

"Sir!" Li Jing was speechless while holding Yuan Keli's hand.

Gently patted Li Jing's hand, Yuan Keli said with a smile: "However, Bo Ying is capable of doing some practical work. After he has studied here for a period of time, give him a specific plan. Let's do business."

Li Jing nodded lightly, and after a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "Sir, we are a little wishful thinking. Brother Bo Ying was sent by the emperor, and the emperor will naturally transfer him back to Beijing for reuse after the matter is over."

Yuan Keli sighed, shook his head and said: "No, the emperor will not implement what we do here."

Li Jingjing nodded. Pingyang Mansion was able to promote Li Jing's decree because most of the officials appointed by the imperial court died at the hands of bandits. Now all the officials in office are selected by Li Jing. Therefore, it is natural for Li Jing to implement the new policy. It is the decree.

To put it bluntly, the current situation in Pingyang Mansion was actually implemented by Li Jing with his power.

Even if Zhu Youjian wanted to implement the Pingyang government's approach, he couldn't do it. It's not that Zhu Youjian's power is not strong enough, but that there are too many people who hinder him from implementing the New Deal.

With Li Jing's order, none of his subordinates dared to raise objections, and with Zhu Youjian's order, I am afraid that countless officials will boycott him.

Because Li Jing's decree is based on the premise of destroying the interests of the inherent forces. When Li Jing occupied Pingyang Mansion, the officials, gentry, landlords, wealthy businessmen, that is, the original vested interests were basically killed by the bandits. .The new batch of vested interests that appeared in Pingyang Mansion were all supported by Li Jing, and they naturally had to obey Li Jing's orders.

And what Zhu Youjian faced were all those with vested interests. How could these people allow their own interests to be deprived?Naturally, he resisted with all his strength. Even if he agreed to Zhu Youjian's decree on the surface, he would secretly obey it and violate it, eventually killing Zhu Youjian's new deal.

Why has it been so difficult for reformers to succeed in the past?It is because the reform is tantamount to working against the original vested interests, so the possibility of success is extremely low.

Throughout history, only two reforms were successful, one was Shang Yang's reform during the Warring States period, and the other was Zhang Juzheng's reform during the Wanli period.

However, the fate of these two people was extremely miserable. Shang Yang was divided into five horses, Zhang Juzheng was liquidated after his death, and his wife and children starved to death.

Although Zhu Youjian intends to reverse the decadent situation of Ming Dynasty, not to mention his own limited level, the ministers below are still singing against him everywhere, changing a group of people is like that, and another group is still the same, so later generations concluded according to Zhu Youjian's will There is a sentence: I am not the king of the subjugated country, but the ministers are the ministers of the subjugated country.

Yuan Keli was very clear about Zhu Youjian's character and ability as well as the situation of his courtiers, so he concluded that even if Yuan Shu told Zhu Youjian the policy of Pingyang Mansion, Zhu Youjian would not implement it, nor would he be able to implement it.

Yuan Keli felt very sorry for this diligent emperor.

If Zhu Youjian was the emperor in the Qingping period, then it would be no problem to be a conservative lord.

Although they don't have too many illusions about Zhu Youjian, Li Jing and Yuan Keli discussed it and agreed that some relatively peaceful government orders should be told to Zhu Youjian. Jing Shi issued other decrees to make some foreshadowing.

In the next few days, Yuan Keli explained the government orders implemented by Pingyang Mansion to Yuan Shu in detail, and then asked Yuan Shu to go to the following states and counties for a serious inspection.

After the investigation, Yuan Shu finally understood what his father and Li Jing did in Pingyang Mansion.

If it is said that the entire Ming Dynasty has become more and more decayed, then Pingyang Mansion is like a wonderful flower of the Ming Dynasty, a scene of prosperity.

The last time Yuan Shu came was during Chinese New Year, when Pingyang Mansion was just in its infancy, Yuan Shu saw mostly construction scenes, but now Yuan Shu saw production scenes.

Yuan Shu saw that dozens of various factories had been built and started working in Pingyang Prefecture, and each factory had at least a few hundred people working (the degree of mechanization is low and it can only rely on manpower).Almost everyone is busy, and almost everyone is full of energy.

In addition, Yuan Shu found that in Pingyang Mansion, people's ideas were much more open than in other places. Not only men were working, but women were also working.Many factories are almost full of women working, and Yuan Shu has never seen so many women in one place.

What surprised Yuan Shu most was that the biggest boss of these factories was not Li Jing, but Li Jing's wife Shen Ying.

Yuan Shu never thought that Li Jing would let his wife go out to do things in public, but seeing countless people coming in and out of Li's back house every day, Yuan Shu had to believe it.

With this question in mind, Yuan Shu had a serious discussion with Yuan Keli.

Yuan Keli smiled and told Yuan Shu that Li Jing's wife can come out to do things, so why can't women from other families come out?

However, Yuan Keli told Yuan Shu, don't underestimate Li Jing's wife, that is, his righteous sister Shen Ying, the Jingji firm's current scale is all managed by Shen Ying, and Li Jing is almost rare. Inquire about Jingji Company.

In addition, Yuan Keli also told Yuan Shu that Li Jing's second wife, Zhu Huiyu, was not simple. Even Li Jing would seek her advice on many complicated issues, and she helped Li Jing solve many problems that others could not solve.

Yuan Shu was stunned for a long time.

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