The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 326

The current governor of Shanxi, Hou Xun, is a native of Baishui, Shaanxi. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Chenghua. He is 58 years old this year and belongs to the same age group as Xu Guan, Xie Shen's father-in-law.

The age of around sixty is very important for civil servants.Whether you can go one step further and cross that hurdle to become an official of the Ministry of Zhengyin and even enter the cabinet mainly depends on this stage.

This governor-in-waiting is quite a bit of a child prodigy. He was gifted and intelligent since he was a child, and he was also very young when he passed the Jinshi exam, only 27 years old.Of course, compared with Xie Shen at this age, there is no advantage.

Hou Xun is not only a child prodigy, but also quite talented in politics. After he was selected as an official, he successively served as the head of the household department, the inspector of Shandong, the supervisor of the Gyeonggi Army Reserve, the deputy envoy of Huguang, and the envoy of Shandong.

Afterwards, Hou Xun seized the opportunity to be promoted to Youqian Capital Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was sent by Emperor Hongzhi to inspect military and civil affairs in Datong, Shanxi.

If it is said that the official position is the most easily confused among the yamen of the imperial court, it must be the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

All the official positions in the Metropolitan Procuratorate are called Yushi, but the prefixes are different.

A layman would think that this person is a censor when he saw that he was a censor, but in fact the difference is quite big.The official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the imperial envoy of the left and right capitals, the second rank, and the adjutant is the imperial envoy of the left and right deputy capitals, the third rank.The more important ones are the censors of the left and right capitals, whose grade is the fourth grade.

All of the above are court officials, also known as Beijing officials.

As for the thirteen supervisory censors, there are a total of 110 people. In addition, there are patrol censors, which are commonly known as eight government patrol censors.

Therefore, there are so many censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is not impossible to have the same name, and it is commonplace to have the same surname.

This Hou Xun went to Datong, Shanxi for inspection, rectified the army and officials, and won a good reputation.Later, he was transferred to be the deputy imperial envoy, and in October of the ninth year of Hongzhi, Gengzi was temporarily assigned to Shanxi as the governor.

It can be said that this governor-in-waiting has a good way of governing, and Shanxi has a momentum of prosperity under his supervision and governance.

However, this person's luck is really not very good. First, he caught up with natural disasters, and there were successive earthquakes in Shanxi.Immediately afterwards, the little prince led the Tatars to harass the border repeatedly.As an important town, Datong Mansion, the pressure it is facing can be imagined.

Fortunately, both the chief secretary's yamen and the governor's yamen are located in Taiyuan Prefecture. There is no need to be on guard against Tatar raids like Datong Prefecture, leaving sufficient time for the governor to deploy defenses and reserve logistics.

The seat of Taiyuan Prefecture is located in Yangqu County.It is sad enough to think that the county magistrate of Yangqu is here, not only the magistrate of Taiyuan, but also the chief envoy, governor and other senior officials are on his head.

None of them were offended by his seventh grade sesame organ.

However, in the governor's yamen, Shanxi governor Hou Xun was dealing with official duties by himself, when he saw the housekeeper Hou Ren standing beside him hesitant to speak, he frowned and said, "What's the matter?"

"Master, here is a letter from Lu'an Mansion, do you always read it or not?"

Serving around Hou Xun all the year round, the old butler Hou Ren knows his master's character very well.The master is a person who distinguishes between public and private affairs, and he is most taboo to deal with private affairs when he is in office.

But this letter came from Lu'an Han House, he really didn't dare to suppress it, so he had to let the master decide whether to read it or not.

Hou Xun was obviously in a good mood today, and immediately waved: "Bring it."

Hou Ren immediately enshrined the family letter with both hands.

Governor Hou took out the letter paper and unfolded it to read it. After reading it, his face was ashen.

"My nephew was sentenced to be beheaded"

Hou Xun closed his eyes, shook his head again and again and said: "My nephew is used to being domineering on weekdays, and the old man always advises him to restrain himself, but he doesn't listen. Now it's all right, there's been a catastrophe, and the Han family thinks of the old man. "

Hou Ren didn't know what to say, so he smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult for Madam."

Hou Xun suddenly opened his eyes and said angrily: "What's the problem? She can't turn the black into white even if she says to break the sky!"

After a short pause, after calming down, Hou Xun continued: "Researching ink, the old man wants to write memorials."

The old butler didn't dare to say any more, so he had to study the ink for Hou Xun, and waited respectfully aside.

Hou Xun thought for a moment, then picked up a pen and dipped in ink and began to write the memorial.

Hou Xun wrote a memorandum in one go, he read it through again, confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the wording, and then told the old housekeeper: "Seal this memo and send it to the capital as soon as possible."

The old butler didn't dare to say anything, and respectfully took his orders and left.

But said that more than a month passed in the blink of an eye, on May [-]th, Xie Shen's memorial was approved.

This still surprised Xie Shen.

We must know that although the capital is not far from Shanxi, it is still a bit complicated to submit a memorial to the Secretary of General Administration for classification, then to the cabinet for drafting, the supervisor of ceremonies for approval, and finally to the emperor to make a decision.

Of course, the cabinet and supervisors usually dare not intervene in matters such as the reporting of death row prisoners. Most of them are directly given by the Ministry of Punishment, and then directly decided by the emperor. The process has been simplified a lot.

Xie Shen's prediction was right, the Ministry of Criminal Justice had no doubts about a case of such a bad nature, and immediately attached the opinion of agreeing to execution to the memorial and sent it to the palace.

Emperor Hongzhi also made a decision directly, which is considered to have completed the process.

What made Xie Shen even more puzzled was that Han Yang's uncle, the current governor of Shanxi, Hou Xun, had never made a sound, as if his nephew's life and death had nothing to do with him.

Is this really an unselfish Lord?
Xie Shen actually thought of visiting the governor.

But right now there is really no reason, if Xie Shen goes to Taiyuan Fucheng forcefully, it will be too hypocritical.

Even if Han Yuan's case is closed, he only needs to be imprisoned in the government prison and wait for Qiu Hou to be executed.

The following days were very peaceful, Xie Shen sat in court to hear cases and deal with official duties as usual.

Until May 27, a major event that shook Shanxi occurred.

The little prince invaded Datong and pretended to be defeated after World War I.At that time, Datong's avant-garde commander Wang Yu led his army to pursue and was ambushed. Countless soldiers died tragically, and only the commander Wang Yu survived.The next day, the little prince led an army to invade Datong again, with a camp of twenty li.

Governor Hou Xun wrote memorials to the imperial court for reinforcements as usual.At the same time, the Governor-General also ordered the prefects of various prefectures to enter Taiyuan Prefecture to discuss defense matters.

What Xie Shen least expected to happen still happened. The Tatars still launched a fierce attack on Datong Mansion in the tenth year of Hongzhi.The defense line of Xuanfu in Datong seems to be solid, but it is a static defense, and it is very difficult to face the Tatars who come and go like the wind.

Although according to the established trajectory of history, the Tatars did not cause a devastating blow to Datong Mansion.But since some historical details have changed because of Xie Shen's arrival, Xie Shen can't guarantee that Datong Mansion will still be impenetrable in this time and space.

　ps: Hou Xun is really interesting, and his historical evaluation is also good.Because when writing about the Hongzhi Dynasty, it is inevitable to write about the little prince and the Tatars.That's why I thought of letting Xie Shen go to Shanxi, and mentioned a money for the governor.

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