Wanli Youming

Chapter 420 Punishment of Scholars

Chapter 420 Punishment of Scholars

Zhang Wenxi soon understood why Ye Agui was so terrified, and said, "I didn't expect the people in Huai'an to be so afraid of officials!"

After speaking, Zhang Wenxi said to Ye Agui again: "You don't have to be afraid, the Holy Emperor loves the people, so he has made a clear decree to strictly prohibit the Qing army from colluding with the army, and has executed Zhou Qi, Du Jian and other corrupt officials who were the chief culprits who looted Huai'an in the past. Official, this official was able to serve as the new governor of Fengyang."

After hearing Zhang Wenxi say that Du Jian and others had been killed by the emperor's decree, Ye Agui burst into tears uncontrollably.

Although he didn't know what the Emperor of Ming Dynasty looked like after hearing his stories but never seeing him, but at this moment, he was still moved by Zhu Yijun.

You must know that he himself would not dare to repay this kind of enmity other than swallowing his anger.

Seeing this, Zhang Wenxi didn't say any more, just turned around and left.

It is now the early summer of the 13th year of Wanli. The Qingjiangpu area is green, the birds are singing constantly on both sides of the bank, the fishermen are lazy, and there are no official errands.

The people also began to continue farming safely, and people in twos and threes also began to emerge from the water.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Wenxi, the imperial censor of Fengyang, also felt happy, and when he stayed in a small outdoor shop that night, he said to Zhu Yijun impatiently:

"The censor Zhang Wenxi, the censor of Fengyang City, would like to report to His Majesty. Since the time I landed on the Qingjiang River in Mangzhong, I have seen that there is no official disturbance in the area of ​​Huai'an, and the farmers and workers in the villages and towns are all safe. Thanks to Your Majesty, I love the people so much that there is nothing in the sky. Floods and droughts made business routes more complicated. It’s just that the common people suffered so much from the Qing army’s envoys that the officials and the people suffered from it. Many of them dare not go to the towns to buy and sell, and they dare not be diligent in production. If they want to restore the former prosperity, they still It will take time."

After Zhang Wenxi finished writing the memorial, he began to think about how to make a few outstanding political achievements in his tenure during the 13th year of the Wanli period when the reformists were in power.

After all, today's Wanli Dynasty is based on actual political achievements, not reputation, and his report on the Qing army's harassment of the people is just a matter of duty, and it is not a political achievement. What really needs to be regarded as political achievements is right. local changes.

You know, the previous governor of Fengyang, Lu Kun, was promoted to Beijing as the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment because he dared to organize craftsmen among the refugees to start practical work.

Including Shen Li, governor of Yingtian, and Jin Xuezeng, governor of Fujian Province, who were also concerned by the higher-ups because of their establishment of practical affairs, they were also promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of officials and the right servant of the Ministry of war respectively.

How could Zhang Wenxi not want to make one or two actual political achievements?

It's just that the previous Fengyang governor Wang Jian and Fengyang inspector Cen Yu were exiled and executed because of the Qing army's hooking up the army. This made him have to admit that the emperor and the rulers of the Ming Dynasty wanted more than just to look good. In order to achieve political achievements, the local bureaucrats must really take the new rituals to heart, and must really treat the common people as human beings.

Therefore, Zhang Wenxi would choose Weifu to take office in Huai'an, and he chose to take the initiative to inquire about the people's conditions, and this inquiry also allowed him to really inquire about some content that he could not see.

But Zhang Wenxi has not yet found a way to let the higher-ups see his ability.

until this day.

When Zhang Wenxi braved the rain and continued to search for the small road in Nomura to Huai'an, two battalions of soldiers belonging to the Huai'an Mansion were suddenly beaten by a group of slaves, and the master of these slaves was a scholar wearing a square scarf.

The scholar was sitting on a chair beside him, eating loquat, and shouted: "Beat me hard! Isn't it even if you let him lift a slippery pole, you have to shirk it, do you take the truth seriously?! "

"stop!"

Seeing this, Zhang Wenxi snarled, walked up to the scholar, and asked in a deep voice, "Where did you study, what was your name, and why did you serve as a battalion?"

Seeing Zhang Wenxi dressed as a literati, the scholar hurriedly got up and cupped his hands: "I am Wang Xiangdong, a Zengsheng from Huai'an Prefecture. I don't know who you are?"

"Don't ask me who I am!"

Zhang Wenxi waved back with a stern tone, and then asked the scholar: "You just need to tell me, who asked you to serve as a battalion soldier? What qualifications do you have as a student to serve as a battalion soldier? , and have no right to call the battalion without authorization!"

When Wang Xiangdong saw Zhang Wenxi's attitude, he knew that Zhang Wenxi must be an official, and his aura lost eight points in an instant, so he replied truthfully:

"It was not enlisted by anyone, it was a card ticket sold by Shou Dao. I bought a few, and I could serve these battalions along the way. If they refused, Lu Bingxian, Shou Dao, would not be able to do this business. So Lu Bingxian is also willing to serve the students, but who is the gentleman and why do you meddle in these nosy things?"

The so-called selling cards means that officials sell their own warrants, so that soldiers can also serve the powerful officials and gentry who cannot dispatch and command soldiers.

Of course, there have been cases in history where officials gave their warrants to their relatives and friends, so that relatives and friends could also serve the soldiers under their command.

This kind of thing seems to be just a sale and gift of power, but if it is more serious, it can be regarded as someone who is illegally transferring and usurping military power, and can be convicted of treason.

"I'm monitoring according to the order! Is this a nosy matter?!"

After Zhang Wenxi said this, he said to his staff: "Master Xingwen, get rid of this person's fame, and lock him up and put him in prison to be sentenced!"

"Another book impeaches the Huaiyang Dao Bingxian Lu Liangui for privately selling official votes, using power for profit, making the battalion soldiers serve as gentry and tyrants like house slaves, and even making the battalion soldiers worse than the slaves of the big families, and they were beaten by their house slaves. How can the soldiers supported by the salary be used for exploitation by officials and gentry!"

"In addition, please approve the decree to investigate the fact that officials, gentry, tyrants and powerful soldiers were used in the camps in Fengyang, and the bureaucrats privately sold cards to encourage officials, gentry, tyrants and powerful soldiers to use the camps!"

"The battalion is the brave soldiers recruited by the country. It is the responsibility of defending the land and opening up the frontier. How can they be cattle and horses that can be used casually to make them work?"

"This phenomenon is against the new etiquette, and there is no harm in treating the people of the country with courtesy!"

Zhang Wenxi obviously found a way to cater to the superiors who want to rectify military affairs and cater to the superiors who do not want to burden the people because of this, that is, instead of clearing up the army, they should investigate the enslavement of battalions and other soldiers.

After all, the Qing Army’s Goujun seems to be rectifying military affairs, verifying the number of local troops, and seeing if there is any shortage of pay, but in fact, it is letting the local bureaucrats do not want to be found out that they have no pay and can’t stop the soldiers from fleeing And took the opportunity to harass and plunder the people wantonly.

However, the investigation of the enslavement of the battalion soldiers is only aimed at the situation of the officials and gentry enslaving soldiers in violation of regulations, and does not involve the common people, because ordinary people do not have the financial resources and power to serve the battalion soldiers.

Wang Xiangdong didn't expect that he would be dismissed because of this, so he hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Feng Xian calm down! Please forgive the student for the sake of the student's first offense. Besides, the student doesn't know that this matter will be so serious. The student himself I thought it was just a common thing to buy a ticket to serve the battalion."

"Stop quibbling!"

"People who study, don't know the nature of the use of troops by people without positions and powers without authorization?!"

Zhang Wenxi stopped Wang Xiangdong from continuing, and even questioned him.

Wang Xiangdong had no choice but to kneel down, with a depressed expression: "But it is not easy for students to get fame! Please Feng Xian forgive the students for the sake of fellow scholars!"

(End of this chapter)