Chapter 402 401 Hanlin Academy gossip

The 39th year of Jiajing

Due to the heavy taxes and labor exploitation in Fujian, the Japanese pirates robbed various prefectures and counties, and the people were in trouble. People from all over the country rose up one after another. Among them, there were the uprisings of the slaughtered by the slaughtered people from Dapu, the boat people from Nanwan, the mountain people from Youxi, the miners from Longyan, the refugees from Nanjing, Yongding and other places, and the most popular slaughtered people from Zhang Lian and others. The officers and soldiers were defeated every battle. Governor Liu Tao was overwhelmed, but he slaughtered cattle and gave them to the people who rebel, and supported the people to defend themselves. The court blamed him for being punished and suppressed the arrests.

With the official memorials of Fujian Governor Liu Tao, Fujian Censor, and Censor of the Censorate, being sent to the capital, the situation in Fujian once again entered the eyes of Beijing officials.

In the Hanlin Courtyard, Wei Guangde and other officials staying in the courtyard gathered in the courtyard and were also discussing memorials from Fujian.

"Liu Tao avoided the important things and said that Tang Xiang, the magistrate of Longyan, led the troops to defeat the Feilong Army and killed the chief general of the unit, Xiao Xuefeng, but he was vague about the previous peace and perfunctory matters.

I see the rumor that in order not to allow the rebel Zhang Lian to attack the surrounding prefectures and counties, Liu Tao was probably really aware of pigs and sheep. "

Hanlin editor Lin Shizhang stood in the flower pavilion and said loudly.

He was the Tanhua from the palace examination last year and now he has fewer contacts with various forces in the court, so he says whatever he thinks, without any fear of being hated by others.

In his opinion, Governor Liu Tao's behavior of sending cattle and sheep to Zhang Lian's rebels was no less than a scam with a tiger. He even said that these people gathered to prevent Japanese pirates.

Now, people have ascended the throne and become emperor, and raised the flag of anti-blade, but at this time they say that they have been deceived by the thief and gained sympathy. They are really shameless.

"Shi Zhang's words are justified. It is because these local officials are doing something wrong, which leads to the rebellion of Fujian. You should have heard that the people of Jiangnan are not only responsible for Hu Zongxian's additional sects, but also for the additional chores of local governments. It is not only Fujian, but the people of Jiangnan are full of grievances."

The reason why officials in the Hanlin Academy are clear water is that they have no experience in governing locally, so many things are more ideal.

The government cannot control Hu Zongxian's sect. That is the court and the emperor allowed it. As the imperial court, local officials should be polite to the people under their rule, and do everything possible to reduce local expenditures and reduce miscellaneous taxes.

But I don’t know that when I really go to the local area, only by appointing officials will you know the difficulties of being in charge of the party.

Local forces are intricate and may not be able to implement the government orders if they are not careful. This is not that local gentry dares to resist openly, but that people in the government will also have objections.

If they do not touch their interests, they may also make peace, but once they touch their interests, they will also use a non-cooperational attitude to confront them.

People are not all noble people mentioned in the book, they all have their own selfish intentions.

The Hanlin officials were discussing each other at this time, talking about their own opinions.

Wei Guangde was also happy to sit next to listen. Most of the editors and editors of the Hanlin Academy here were compiled and edited by the Hanlin Academy, and there was no such person as a bachelor's participation, so he spoke freely and felt no pressure, even if there were two Jinyiwei lieutenants beside the yard.

At this moment, Wei Guangde felt a gust of wind blowing beside him. Wei Guangde turned his head and looked over, and there was already a person sitting beside him.

"Uncle Brother."

Wei Guangde hurriedly bowed and whispered.

The person who came was Zhang Juzheng. Although I don’t know how he returned to Hanlin Academy from the Imperial College, would all the students in the Imperial College have been on the winter vacation?

"Shandai, are they discussing local ills again?"

Zhang Juzheng had just arrived, and the focus of the conversation had shifted to the local government, criticizing the heavy taxes imposed by local governments, and criticizing local officials for their corruption and abuse of power. So Zhang Juzheng came here and thought they were talking about this after listening to a few words.

Wei Guangde shook his head gently, "The matter in Fujian has now turned to criticizing local bad politics."

Zhang Juzheng nodded slightly, expressing his understanding.

After listening for a while, Wei Guangde suddenly remembered that he had received a letter from Jiujiang a few days ago. One of them was written by his old acquaintance, Zhu Shilong, and said that he was studying his homework at home. He felt that there was nothing to learn in Jiujiang. He mainly had no answers to some difficult questions, so he planned to go to Beijing to study at the Imperial College next year and wait for the examination in two years.

After failing the two consecutive exams, Zhu Shilong let himself go. Now he finally plans to pick up the books and pursue fame again, which is naturally a good thing. According to his letter, Duan Mengxian is also accompanied by Duan Mengxian.

Duan Mengxian did not let himself go like Zhu Shilong. He failed the exam three times in a row. This time he also planned to live in Beijing to prepare for the exam. The reason for writing a letter to Wei Guangde was naturally to ask him to find a place near the Imperial College.

It was just a small task, so Wei Guangde naturally would not refuse. He had already ordered Zhang Ji to see the house. Although the rent for the houses around the Imperial College was not cheap, Zhu Shilong was also a family member and would not care about the rent.

Now that the Imperial College is in his side, Wei Guangde naturally planned to talk about this with Zhang Juzheng first.

It is naturally allowed for Juren to be admitted to Imperial College, and they meet the basic conditions for students to be admitted to prison.

In the Ming Dynasty, students from Imperial College were mainly divided into two categories, namely official career and people's livelihood.

Officials were appointed by the emperor, including not only the children of officials at all levels, but also the children of chieftains and overseas students sent by overseas vassal states.

People's livelihood is a folk handsome man and a person who failed the exam by local officials.

Students who enter the Imperial College for study are commonly called supervisors, among which the children of officials are called Yinjian, and Yinjian can be divided into official students and eternal students.

In the previous system, he was granted official positions due to the merits of his father and brother, which was called the system of sen.

In the early Ming Dynasty, this system was followed, and it was stipulated that civil officials of the first rank to seventh rank could allow a son to inherit his salary. However, now, the threshold for requesting Yin is raised, and only those of the third rank or above can request Yin.

As for the love life, it was the emperor who sometimes ordered the emperor to give grace, allowing some officials' children to study in the Imperial College, without limiting the official rank.

Therefore, sometimes the rewards of some officials by imperial edicts actually belong to the category of "Yin Yizi". After all, after graduation, you can be granted non-class official positions, but you are still an official.

Unlike children from families of officials, people's livelihood comes from ordinary people's families, and can also be divided into tribute prisons and tutors.

Juguan is actually a juren who failed the imperial examination and failed. There are two ways out of this.

First, they are simply studying and preparing for the exam in the Imperial College, preparing to take the next exam, and entering the officialdom as a Jinshi. Once these people succeed, their future will naturally be limitless, while the other part of them join the Imperial College to select officials.

When a scholar passes the provincial examination and becomes a juren, he will be qualified to participate in the examination and select officials for permanent examinations. Sometimes, due to special needs, he will be directly awarded the juren administrative position. Generally, this situation is mainly concentrated in the Hongwu period when the supply of talents is insufficient and the selection of officials is unconventional.

Afterwards, with the increase of scholars, it became extremely difficult to become an official as a juren, so the only way for these people was the Imperial College. After entering the Imperial College, they went to the Ministry of Personnel to be selected for their official positions after being admitted to the Imperial College.

Tribute supervision refers to the entry of tribute students into prison. Tribute supervision is divided into four categories: annual tribute, selection of tribute, grace of tribute, and tribute.

These people are similar to the recommended students in later generations. They are the top students from various prefectures, prefectures and county schools entering the Imperial College in the capital, and the students with lower grades are sent to the Imperial College in Zhongdu.

However, the examinations for these students are also very strict, that is, the annual tribute student will conduct an assessment before entering the Imperial College. For unqualified students, instructors, the transfer officers will be punished together with the students.

Therefore, if the juren of this period wants to give up the imperial examination and serve as an official, he needs to go to the Imperial College for a trip.

Most of the direct appointments of juren to officials existed in the early Ming Dynasty, but it became an isolated case in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which was very rare.

In principle, as long as the conditions for entering the prison are met, they should be included. However, in fact, in addition to rejecting students from Yinjian, the Imperial College also needs to take some exams for the juren to enter the prison, especially the southern juren who is in charge of the Imperial College in Beijing.

In order to facilitate the exam, many students are willing to stay in Beijing to prepare for the exam, which has led to a decrease in the number of students in Nanjing Imperial College and a huge crowd in Beijing Imperial College.

Although there is no need to go to the back door for Zhu Shilong and Duan Mengxian, it is still okay to ask the Imperial College Supervisor for a little care.

Wei Guangde whispered the situation of Zhu and Duan to Zhang Juzheng. He heard that it was just for the preparation for the next year's meeting, so Zhang Juzheng nodded and agreed, "They will come next year, and I will arrange it directly."

"By the way, why are uncle and brother who has time to go back to the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial College?"

After Wei Guangde handled Zhu Shilong and the others' affairs, he asked casually.

Zhang Juzheng is now in a real way. Logically speaking, the Hanlin Academy is not used anymore. Even if the hospital has something to do, he will only send someone to him.

"In the first two years, Suqing and I were rectifying the academic style of the Imperial College. Now the academic style in the supervision has improved a lot, so naturally I have nothing to do, haha."

Zhang Juzheng said in a low voice. After laughing, Zhang Juzheng asked Wei Guangde in a low voice: "I heard that the court might have to replace the Fujian censor. It is said that he might have asked you to come over. Do you know?"

When Wei Guangde heard Zhang Juzheng say this, he moved his heart and pretended to be careless and said, "It's good to be a censor. I heard that when I go to the local area, the censor is still very powerful."

"You still want to go to Fujian to be a hero? Haha, the Japanese pirates over there have been more serious troubles than Zhejiang recently, and there are also a group of rebels such as Zhang Lian."

As he said that, Zhang Juzheng pointed to a few people in the circle who were talking loudly and said, "If you go to Fujian, you can't put down the thief in the short term, and you will become their talk."

"It will definitely be difficult to combat the thieves in a short period of time. Fujian is also surrounded by high mountains and dense forests. I don't think much of it when discussing the purpose of suppressing the thieves within a specified period of time."

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde pointed at himself again and said, "As for whether he would send me there, it is hard to say before the decree is delivered."

Although Fujian is coastal, it is not a plain, but mainly mountainous and hilly terrain. There is a saying that "eight mountains, one water and one branch of fields" is common. The small area of ​​the plain is not conducive to the development of the planting industry, which was very fatal in ancient times.

"The Zhangzhou and Quanzhou prefectures are surrounded by mountains and seas, with few fields and more people, and rice is not enough for people to feed them." This is the view of the ancients on Fujian.

Therefore, Fujian people naturally looked at the vast sea, using the sea as their fields, and engaged in marine fishing and marine transportation.

Especially after the Song Dynasty lost control of the northwest and blocked the land Silk Road, long-distance ocean navigation was forced to become a feasible alternative, and Fuzhou and Quanzhou gradually became the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road.

Wei Guangde, who came from later generations, naturally knew the importance of international trade. It can be said that the rise of countries in later generations has made great contributions to international trade, but what about modern times?

Wei Guangde felt that this was still the case, not to mention that when he first entered the officialdom, he thought of expanding the production of the Ming Dynasty's advantageous industries, especially exporting a large amount of silk to exchange for gold, silver and food to deal with the natural disasters and man-made disasters that the Ming Dynasty would face in the future.

So Wei Guangde was not very resistant to Gao Gong's plan to send him to Fujian, so it would be nice to go and take a look.

He has never been to Fujian in his past and later years.

As later generations said, "There is no right to speak without investigation" and the principle of "practice leads to true knowledge" has actually penetrated into Wei Guangde's bones.

"The time to suppress the thieves is not enough. I heard people discuss the two days ago that if the thieves are suppressed, they must be completed before February of the next year, otherwise they will have to fail and the army will move into coastal prefectures to defend against Japanese pirates."

Zhang Juzheng obviously knew a lot, and when he heard Wei Guangde say that it was difficult to suppress the thieves in the short term, he couldn't help but speak.

"Yes, northeastern winds blow on the sea in March, April, and May, which is suitable for Japanese pirates to land on the beach. The same is true in September and October. Although Japanese pirates occasionally attack, most of them are small thieves, unlike at this time, several Japanese pirates may attack at the same time."

Wei Guangde nodded and agreed, "It's a lot of time in the Hanlin Academy, so Wei Guangde naturally reads the memorials handed over by many officials to understand the actual situation of Japanese infections in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places."

"If Shandaizhen was sent to Fujian, how should he order to suppress the thieves?"

Zhang Juzheng suddenly asked.

During the last battle with Altan's army, Zhang Juzheng watched coldly throughout the whole process. He could get a lot of the latest news from his teachers Xu Jie and Gao Gong.

He was shocked at the beginning of Wei Guangde's analysis and countermeasures. Although it was not fully realized in the end, the ending was still fine. The Ming Dynasty won a game back in the battle with the Northern Tartars.

That time, Wei Guangde proposed a strategic concept in the Hanlin Academy. Now he was trying to inquire whether Wei Guangde had a plan to quickly eliminate the rebels in Fujian.

But obviously, Zhang Juzheng overestimated Wei Guangde. He didn't know the history of Zhang Lian's group, so he was naturally helpless in how to wipe them out.

Although he had no idea, since Zhang Juzheng asked, Wei Guangde was not good at spreading his hands, and he thought for a while before saying: "As the saying goes, soldiers are inconsistent, and I don't know much about Zhang Lian's rebels, and I can't figure out the way for a while.

However, with the terrain of Fujian, to eliminate the rebels, you must plan carefully to start. Either you don’t fight, or you must make a complete solution if you want to fight.’

In fact, Wei Guangde had a long mind. If he really wanted him to go to Fujian to suppress the thieves, he would definitely submit a petition to transfer Yu Dayou to become the general officer and command the army.

If you have a super thug like Yu Dayou, you are a fool who is not good at using it.

"Well, that's what it should be."

Zhang Juzheng stroked his beard and nodded, then looked up at the sky, "Shandai has social engagements today, so why not have a drink together after the scattered yamen."
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