Chapter 84: Gifts
Emperor Apocalypse was very happy.
He was tired of talking and felt that Zhang Jingyi's words were very pleasing to his taste and were in line with his feelings.
So he stood up excitedly, then sat down again, and said seriously: "In the current court, money and food are problems, and slackness of each guard is also problems, and repeated civil changes are problems. But what really hurts me is noise."
He wanted to shake out all the things he thought in his heart like beans. I think he had been frustrated for too long.
"What is the root of the noise? It's just a fight for power and profit." Emperor Tianqi continued gritted his teeth and said, "So all officials talked about it every day. Isn't this talking about benevolence and righteousness and morality for authority after all? I sent people to defend Liaodong, but they still made noises. Everyone is expressing their opinions. The border generals are like this, the governor is like this, and they are still fighting. It seems that the people under governance are not important, and the Jiannu is not important. What is important is that everyone thinks that their methods are the smartest and they are eager to take all the power to conquer them!"
"I have issued an order repeatedly, don't quarrel, don't quarrel, do your own things. If you are the governor, you will do your own things. If you are the general, you will do your own things. It's not true. This is to build a city and consolidate the Guangning defense line. That is to attack, if the opponent suffers a defeat, they will not be embarrassed. I would not expect that the thief has become a little more powerful, but I am secretly happy in my heart and hurriedly write a letter, hoping to prove my correctness by using the mistakes of my colleagues."
"Oh... If the artifact is easier in the future, I'm afraid it will be ruined by Zhuge Liang in the court." Emperor Tianqi seemed very depressed.
He was a little overwhelmed, which was the truth. Some people, when they quarrel, you ordered him not to quarrel, and he would be so annoyed.
But they still quarrel, so you pay your salary and they quarrel even more violently.
You were annoyed and directly used the killer to attack. The factory guards took action, but they died to the point of death, as usual.
"If you have such an idea, you really know the difficulty of doing things. It is this principle." Emperor Tianqi encouraged Zhang Jing and said, "So don't listen to any great principles outside in the future, and you will feel enlightened and it is important to get things done. You, a hundred households, are doing very well, far beyond my expectations... Wei Fan... What do you think of this exercise?"
Wei Zhongxian kept smiling, and his heart was bleeding.
What do we think, let’s see the fuck.
But at this time, Wei Zhongxian could only say against his will: "Zhang Baihu is really a rare talent. Such a talent can be used by Your Majesty, and I am very pleased."
Emperor Aoki seemed very satisfied and smiled and said, "How about I have another exercise next time?"
"No...no need." Wei Zhongxian shook his head quickly: "The exercises cannot be frequent. If they are frequent, it will be too much. Everything should not be too much."
Emperor Tianqi smiled again and said, "You are very good at having such a mind. I hope the factory guards are harmonious, and I hope you can be harmonious. They are all your own people and don't hurt your loyalty."
Both Zhang Jingyi and Wei Zhongxian said: "We are friends."
A trace of something flashed through Emperor Tianqi's eyes, but he said sincerely: "It's so good, Zhang Jingyi, I'm here, you won't say hello..."
Zhang Jingyi said: "I am the only place where I am simple and simple."
As he said that, he stood up. He didn't dare to let Zhang Suhua greet him, so he summoned the little girl and asked her to cook a pot of tea again.
Wait for this little girl to send tea.
Emperor Tianqi looked up at the thin girl. The girl still had yellow hair on her head, withered yellow and yellow, and her face was sunken, making her look not very beautiful.
However, Zhang Jing remembered that the first time I saw this girl was much more terrifying than now.
Emperor Tianqi then served the tea, took a sip, and sighed: "It's still the fragrance of tea that Eunuch Wei poured."
The girl was at a loss.
Emperor Aoki asked her with a smile: "Where are you from?"
The girl shook her head in confusion.
"How did you come to the Zhang family?"
"My mother sold me."
Emperor Tianqi said, "How much does it cost?"
"Five dou of rice." The girl thought about it and replied.
Emperor Tianqi sighed: "This is cheaper for the Zhang family, five dou of rice... will your parents sell you?"
"My father is starved to death, and my brother is starved to death. My mother took me to join relatives in the capital... Later, the relatives ignored me. My mother said she wanted to sell herself... to sell her to somewhere, and she couldn't bear to leave me. She wanted me to be a slave at a good person's house... so she sold me first."
When Emperor Tianqi heard this, his face turned gloomy and terrifying: "Zhang Qing, where is she from?"
"This..." Zhang Jing opened her mouth, but she couldn't answer for a while.
The things at Sulai’s house were all cooked by his father and Zhang Suhua. How did he know these things?
Wei Zhongxian smiled and said, "Your Majesty, listen to her accent, it looks like it is from Guanzhong."
"Guanzhong?" Emperor Tianqi said, "Have you suffered any disasters in Guanzhong these days?"
Wei Zhongxian looked at Emperor Tianqi carefully before pondering: "It's just spring this year, but this woman... can come all the way to the capital, which happened last year..."
Emperor Aoki sighed, as if he understood something.
I have not suffered a disaster, but I have been affected by a disaster this year, but I don’t know what it looks like.
Emperor Tianqi immediately said: "This is true when the grains are harvested, and this is true when the disaster is caused..."
Zhang Jingyi couldn't help but say: "Have your Majesty ever thought about hoarding a batch of food for emergencies? I'm humbled to think that after the beginning of spring this year, a huge disaster is likely to occur."
In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, a disaster that swept half of the world would occur. Zhang Jingyi knew very well that it was precisely because of this disaster that the Ming Dynasty fell into an endless rebellion.
There will be no harvest in the entire Guanzhong and Henan, including the region, first drought and then locust plague...
In fact, Zhang Jingyi has not had a deep understanding of people's shortage of food.
But now after hearing this girl's words, my mind couldn't help but move.
Wei Zhongxian heard Zhang Jing say that a huge disaster would occur this year, so he couldn't help but feel nervous and immediately said, "Zhang Baihu, don't talk nonsense, I am the Ming Dynasty... I will have a heaven..."
Emperor Tianqi waved his hand and said, "Prepare more food in the treasury. Even if there is no disaster, I want to hoard more. However, in recent years, the imperial court has collected less and less food, and disasters in various places are constantly happening. The imperial court wants to transport grain to Liaodong and provide relief, so where can I have spare energy?"
He is telling the truth.
Who doesn’t want to stock up on more food and save more money?
Not to mention the emperor, even ordinary people think so.
But is this something that is easy to do?
Speaking of this, Emperor Tianqi stood up and smiled and said to Zhang Jing: "As for whether there will be a major disaster, God will have his own fixed number, but... I will still be more alert. Being prepared or not is a bad thing. This time you have made great contributions. If you want to scan the house well, then just scan it well. Qingpingfang... I will leave it to you. Not only are you the Jinyiwei households here, but I... also want to set up a town here..."
town?
Of course, this town does not mean a town in later generations.
Townships are civil affairs institutions.
In the Ming Dynasty, the meaning of town is mostly the meaning of military town.
However... there are many types of military towns, one is the traditional military town on the border town. This military town is very high in specifications, and the commander is often the general.
But where is Qingpingfang? This is just a palm-sized place!
The radius is only a few miles, which is equivalent to a street office in later generations. There is a town here, which is obviously...it is the so-called small town.
But the problem has emerged again. The town is a supplement made by the Daming Wei Dynasty, that is, a town is set up in some major transportation routes, and then a patrol department is arranged.
The responsibility of the inspection department is actually equivalent to the military version of the local government. The inspector is the chief, and is responsible for checking past events; inspecting people who have no way out, arresting spies, intercepting escaped soldiers and prisoners, cracking down on smuggling, and maintaining normal business and travel exchanges.
Because this kind of inspection department is often located in places where thieves are crowded or traffic is at a critical point, it is a place beyond the reach of local prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Taizu Gao was quite stingy. Although he had set up such a thing at the beginning, he did not pay anyone a salary.
Since you are not paid a salary, you still have to eat food. The inspectors and subordinates, so of course they have to solve the problem by themselves.
Therefore, the system of the sanitary center is to cultivate your own farms and support yourself.
In this way, inspections in various places have become a relatively embarrassing existence to some extent!
You have to farm and support yourself, you have to catch thieves like local prefectures, you have to supervise merchants, you have to train people and strengthen people!
You are self-reliant, both as the military commander and as the civil affairs commander. You have to take care of everything except for criminal and prison lawsuits.
Wei Zhongxian, who was standing beside him, was confused about Emperor Tianqi's plan. There are also inspection departments in places like the capital?
This is a barren mountain and ridge that is beyond the reach of local officials.
This is the capital... At the foot of the emperor, where did the inspection department find land to go to farm?
Besides, this obviously doesn't fit...
Just as Wei Zhongxian was thinking about it, Emperor Tianqi had already looked at him: "As for how the inspection department is set up, I don't care. Wei Fan will deal with it. How much trouble do you have to do with Wei Fan. Don't you have many children and grandchildren? Let them submit the memorial. When the memorial arrives at the cabinet, you will try every means to make the cabinet ministers agree in the vote. Didn't Master Huang always hope that his son can get the favor? I secretly told him that I will find a way. When the vote is to be sent to me, I will come to personally approve the bonus."
Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but be stunned for a while. Just for such a small inspection department, His Majesty spent such great effort?
You know, even if Wei Zhongxian is now nine thousand years old, it is natural to make such a non-compliant thing, and it is not known how much effort it takes to buy, how many people it may even be scolded.
Chapter completed!