Chapter 410 Why Don’t You Quickly Summon the Imperial Physician?

"Brother Jiang, we haven't seen you for two months. How are you?" Luo Fangbai stood on the pier, waving to his old friend and saying with a smile. In just three or two months, their lives have changed dramatically. Luo Fangbai, who "worked hard with his tongue and worked hard with inkstones for a living", has now become a sixth-rank official of the Jiaying government. Although his rank is not high, Jiang Wubo has also gone from a dozen Jiaying hooligans to a bad guy at the Chaozhou wharf. Tsai became a sergeant and civilian officer in the recruitment department under the Lingnan Garrison.

Opportunities in life are unpredictable.

"Brother, I see you are in high spirits and magnanimous. You have gained a lot from being an official in the garrison for the past two months." Luo Fangbai was wearing a popular Mingshi Hanfu and a Tang scarf on his head. '], it's not cold at all in Guangdong at the end of January. The clothes look thin and the smooth fabrics are not ordinary at first glance. In fact, not only him, but also the long attendant behind him was wearing a very good cotton Hanyi. Jiang Wubo knew that Luo Fangbai was not the only one. In addition to working in the prefect's Yamen, his two younger brothers, Luo Kuibai and Luo Taibai, had each opened an oil-pressing workshop. Jiaying's Camellia oleifera was very good. famous; the other started a restaurant business that made money faster. In just two months, family life has been turned upside down, and some expenses on clothing are not in Luo Fangbai's eyes.

"You are not as comfortable here as Brother Luo. Brother is just a small official as big as a sesame seed in the recruitment department. There are too many mothers-in-law in charge, life is difficult, and I don't know how angry I am. If I had known this, there would have been When the job was vacant, I should have made a decision earlier." After seeing Luo Fangbai, Jiang Wubo sighed repeatedly, feeling quite regretful.

Both of them are peripheral personnel gathered by the Guangdong secret camp. Jiang Wubo has been in the gang longer than Luo Fangbai, but now he is far less successful than Luo Fangbai. At least in Jiang Wubo's own opinion, he is now inferior to Luo Fangbai.

"Stop pretending in front of big brother." Luo Fangbai smiled and took Jiang Wubo's arm and said: "Your old boss is a person who is listed in front of Mr. Xiao [Xiao Jian]. What you really did in the recruitment office I'm sorry, please, that old boss of yours, didn't you just jump out in a blink of an eye?" Only after entering the officialdom did Luo Fangbai realize that although some positions were uncomfortable to sit in and the level was not high, they had a bright future, or they would definitely have them in the future. Bentou. Jiang Wubo's current location is such a 'good place'.

He was working in the Recruiting Department, and he never knew when people would be transferred to the recruit camp. There would be no difficulty at all from the recruit camp to the garrison, or to the police station in the future, and the level would not be lowered at all. Besides, whenever you are sent by the Recruitment Office to go around the place, your pockets will definitely be filled with oil and water. Being a soldier is a great 'prospect' right now!

The Fuhan Army's troops are well treated, and Chen Han's general trend has been achieved. The military members no longer have to worry about fighting for their military merits. They are rushing to the fields of military merit and military pay. Recruitment points in various places are already full of people. Especially Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong, which have a lot of people but little land.

After the Fuhan Army took over the Southern Kingdom, in less than half a year, the recruitment of troops in various places went from "drying" to "turbulent". People in some places want to become soldiers, and even have to rely on connections to get money.

——Everyone wants to enter the recruit camp as soon as possible.

"You have followed the right person, are you afraid that there will be no benefits in the future?" Unlike Luo Fangbai's boss, Jiaying does not have a high proportion in the overall situation of Guangdong, and he himself is not outstanding. In the end, he will reward according to his merits. , Datoutou didn't even get the position of chief of the Jiaying Prefecture Police Station. It can be imagined that Luo Fangbai's backing was weak.

"Let's take a walk. Let's go home to rest first." Luo Fangbai knew that Jiang Wubo's return to Jiaying was to prepare for the work inspection in the near future. Even if he came to pick up people today, the prefect above knew that he and Jiang Wubo Uncle Wu was a close friend from the same hometown, so he was specially ordered to find out some news.

When they arrived at Luo Fangbai's residence, Uncle Jiang Wu didn't hide anything from Luo Fangbai and said directly: "Brother, this trip is not for fun, but for a heavy responsibility. In five days at most, the inspection team will arrive in Jiaying. The recruitment situation here in Jiaying, the resettlement [military village], preferential treatment, pensions, and land distribution of new and old military dependents, the resettlement and preferential treatment of disabled soldiers, as well as the children's camp and the deaf-mute, all need to be passed. over and over again.

I am here now to give you a warning. Before the inspection team arrives, take care of the unfinished business as soon as possible. In addition, people from the Grain Bureau were also sent out by the garrison government to inspect local people's sentiments and the county's money, grain and material reserves, and register them. Important materials are transported to the government treasury and stored uniformly for future coordination and dispatch by the garrison government. By the way, check the local money and food data. "

"This is a joint inspection team, first from east to west. Jiaying, Chaozhou, Huizhou and Guangzhou are all in the first batch."

Jiang Wubo wears the uniform of a sergeant. His military rank is civilian. If he directly enters the combat unit, he will have to downgrade one level to use it. The color of the military uniform is not bright red, but navy blue.

The new military uniform is clean and tidy. The contrast between him and Luo Fangbai, who is wearing Ming-style Hanfu across from him, is like people coming from two different eras.

"So that's it." Luo Fangbai thought thoughtfully, and then sighed: "It seems that after the battle of Guangxi, we will attack Yunnan and Guizhou immediately. No wonder we need to stabilize the morale of the army and check the money and food." Guangxi is easy to fight, but Yunnan and Guizhou are difficult. The terrain is more complex and rugged than that of Guangxi. No matter how powerful the Fuhan Army's combat effectiveness is, it will be difficult to end it in the short term. Under such circumstances, it is necessary to stabilize the morale of the military. It is also necessary to prepare money, food and military supplies.

Compared with Guangdong as a whole, Jiaying is a poor place, otherwise there would not be so many Jiaying people living in Nanyang.

Therefore, the poorer the place, the more people and less land, the more local people have the desire and passion to join the army when the general trend of restoring the Han army has been established.

Huizhou, Chaozhou and Guangzhou are all prosperous places. Jiaying can be ranked in the first batch with these three places, that is because Jiaying has a large number of people joining the army and a large number of military dependents.

The first batch of new recruits will soon be added to the army. At this time, policies such as the treatment of military dependents and military merit fields must be handled well.

At the same time, the terrain of Jiaying Mansion was correspondingly closed, and the place was surrounded by mountains. The dividing line between it and Chaozhou and Huizhou is a stretch of mountains. To the northwest is southern Jiangxi, and to the north is Shanghang in Fujian, which is just a not-so-wide dirt road. Therefore, "Jiaying Daily" is developing very rapidly here. The more isolated the place, the more interested it is in 'news'.

In the next two days, Luo Fangbai accompanied Jiang Wubo to visit several military-affiliated villages, all of which had undergone housing renovation. This housing renovation is a new welfare policy for military dependents launched by the military department, which is standard housing. Regardless of whether it is in the north or the south, all houses have three main rooms on the left, middle and right, with kitchens and utility rooms at two corners, plus yards and walls.

Jiang Wubo followed Luo Fangbai to eat and drink, and didn't care whether the Jiaying government was busy patching things up elsewhere. Anyway, the inspection team will arrive in a few days. If Jiaying can pass the inspection, that will be a headache for the prefect of Jiaying.

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At the end of the first lunar month, there was a commotion in the Lushan court, and an issue was brought to everyone's attention by Chen Ming'er - moving the capital.

Chen Ming has already communicated with his father about this matter - there is no doubt that it must be Nanjing. At this time, there is no place more suitable to be the capital of Chen and Han than Nanjing.

This place has too much symbolic and political significance for Chen Han at the moment. Chen Han could not let go of his overwhelming political wealth.

But moving the capital cannot be completed in a short time.

First of all, the repair of Nanjing Minghuang City must be put on the agenda, and then the office locations of various government agencies after they are moved to Nanjing, as well as the residential addresses of officials of all sizes.

Now is not a time of peace and prosperity. The Manchu Qing Dynasty's sticky sticks are rampant in various places in southern China. You can figure it out with your toes in Nanjing - it must be a key layout of the Qing Dynasty.

The two sides had fought many times before.

Therefore, the addresses of Chen Han officials must be centralized for safety reasons. And then the controversy becomes much bigger.

On the other hand, no one opposed the issue of moving the capital to Nanjing. The situation in Nanjing is a little dangerous, but no matter how dangerous it is, can it be as dangerous as Lushan?

Compared with the small danger, what Chen Han gained by moving the capital to Nanjing would be a huge political fortune.

What's more, setting the capital in Nanjing itself also reveals the determination of "Northern Expedition", "Enterprise in the Central Plains" and "Great Unification". Otherwise, we should learn from the Southern Song Dynasty and make Hangzhou the capital.

Although the dynasties that had their capital in Nanjing in history were short-lived. Isn’t there a tall example like Zhu Yuanzhang? Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang also "driving out the Tartars and restoring China." The implications and political wealth are too huge.

Then there will be the second scientific examination that will be held in April. As early as around the New Year's Eve, candidates for the scholarship began to gather in Lushan County one after another. After the New Year, the prices of goods and accommodation in Lushan not only did not decrease, but continued to rise. This was because a large number of scholars gathered here. According to statistics, more than a thousand scholars have arrived inside and outside Lushan City, and the final number of reporters will reach 4,000!

Gongyuan has moved out of the small county town and built a brand new examination room on the edge of Zhaoping Lake. It is a large examination room that can accommodate 6,000 people for exams.

Did Chen Hancai found the country? Scientific examinations are held more frequently. In addition to this year, they will be held next year. And by this time next year, the Chen and Han court may not be able to complete the capital move.

Regarding the issue of the official rank of the new imperial examination scholar, Chen Ming did not firmly argue with the imperial examination supporters to the end, but he also expressed his attitude. They are opposed to giving excessively high official positions to new Jinshi, and believe that these Jinshi should start from the eighth or seventh rank minor officials [Chen Han's official position - the county magistrate is the fifth rank]. He also provided conclusive evidence - it has been more than a year since he was admitted as a Jinshi in the previous subject. According to statistics, fifty of the first batch of upstarts in Chen Han were sentenced to dismissal for corruption and bribery. Of the seven people, 64 were demoted or removed from their posts due to low ability and incompetence, 29 resigned voluntarily, and 16 resigned due to illness, etc. …

Calculate how many there are?

How many people have passed that subject in total?

Among the remaining more than 100 people, only 35 people received average ratings, 14 people received average or above average ratings, five people received average ratings, and only two people received above or above ratings. This success rate is too low, right?

In Hangzhou, Peng Zhongrui sighed and put down the "Zhongyuan Daily" in his hand. There was a manuscript written by Liu Wen, which used the "successful" ratio of the first-class Jinshi to promote the theory that "Jinshi" high-ranking officials are incompetent, and demanded that the ranks of new Jinshi be lowered, and that Jinshi be allowed to start as assistant officials and small officials according to the old practice in the Tang Dynasty. Step by step, only in this way can "Prime Ministers start from the state department".

Focus on the tempering and practical training of the grassroots. Shouting loudly that "Talents are cultivated from the grassroots". The example he cited was the very disgraceful data of the first-class Jinshi. Of course, there was also a rebuttal article published in the "Zhongyuan Daily", signed by Peng Zhongrui's good friend Chen Gang. In the article, Chen Gang bluntly stated that the "composition and quality" of the first-class Jinshi were problematic and could never represent the vast number of scholars.

Peng Zhongrui sighed, because he had dealt with Liu Wen more than once, and knew who Liu Wen was and how deep his ink was. With his ability, he simply couldn't write such a grand article. Someone was behind him. The person who supported Liu Wen in doing so was undoubtedly the famous prince Chen Ming in the Chen Han Dynasty.

If Chen Gang has always been the representative of the "orthodox Confucianism" in the Chen family, Chen Ming is the representative of the "Chen Han New Deal". He is truly powerful and prestigious. But the real power in Chen Gang's hands is not as good as Liu Wen.

The deeper you understand Chen Han, the more you can understand Chen Ming's solid and unshakable position. In the future, there will be such a person who is not interested in Confucianism in the world. Can Confucianism still please?

As far as Peng Zhongrui knows, Qin Dacheng, Yuan Mei and others are working on a so-called "new Confucianism" under the matchmaking of Shen Guozhen. But the content and thoughts are extremely confusing, such as universal education, three people must have my teacher, knowing things, unity of knowledge and action, six arts, six virtues, six actions, etc.

In Peng Zhongrui's opinion, they are heretics, disrespecting their teachers and ancestors, and are not worthy of being sons of the people.

Is it so easy for a Confucian school to be born? It must be passed down by countless predecessors, constantly consolidated, accumulated, sorted, sorted, connected, and integrated. How could it be a few people "making cars behind closed doors" and completely relying on the will of the superiors?

Peng Zhongrui sneered at "new Confucianism".

But on the other hand, he had to worry about the future of Confucianism.

In the past Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties, all dynasties, regardless of whether they were internal law and external Confucianism, all the world studied Confucianism. Shen Kuo. Guo Shoujing is awesome, right? Law, astronomy, water conservancy, agriculture, etc., are all Confucian scholars who draw inferences from one instance to another, instead of having separate law, astronomy, and agriculture.

But now in Chen Han, the judiciary is independent, and law will flourish in the future; with independent counting, mathematics will also be involved in foreign trade and economy, and the great development is unstoppable; there are also water conservancy engineering, astronomy, and the emerging agronomy. Isn't Lushan planning to build an agricultural college? There is also the Imperial Astronomical Observatory.

It is hard to imagine that judicial officials will regard themselves as Confucian students in the future, and those officials in counting, water conservancy, astronomy, agriculture and sericulture will certainly not regard themselves as Confucian students. But the weight of these people in the Chen Han system is increasing, and coupled with the army, the term "Confucian general" is also fading rapidly.

Peng Zhongrui is worried about the future of Confucianism here, while Chen Ming in Lushan is a little worried about the various data collected by the Food Agency [upgraded] and the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Logistics.

As for Chen Han's current assets - compared with this year's fiscal forecast, it really can't support a few years.

"It seems that part of the inland transportation planning should be suspended."

Except for half of Fujian, the Fu Han Army now almost rules the entire southwest, and there is still a part of Guangxi that has not been taken. The long coastline requires the construction of many ports in various places. A large number of prisoners of war are used in this area, so the transportation lines in the interior must be suspended.

Moreover, the Ministry of Transportation recently proposed a railway plan. It is a horse-drawn train. Chen Ming had instructed them to do this project a long time ago. Now all the technologies have a relatively complete reserve. After testing, whether it is the cost or the corresponding horses, personnel, and station facilities, there are relatively accurate estimates, and the Ministry of Transportation has officially proposed this plan.

Chen Ming's plan is to directly combine this horse-drawn train track with the future train track, but now seeing the cost of building a horse-drawn train track and the corresponding supporting facilities, it really makes him grin. This plan can only be shelved. The current financial and material resources of the Fu Han Army, as well as the domestic security environment, are not suitable for the construction of such a transportation line.

"This thing can only be used in docks and mining areas." Chen Ming said to the people of the Ministry of Transportation, while he couldn't stop regretting it.

"This railway is fast and convenient, and its transportation volume far exceeds that of a horse-drawn carriage. But the cost is indeed huge." The person in charge of the Ministry of Transportation is none other than Chen Ming's uncle Gao Pengqi.

His authority is not only over land transportation, but also inland shipping, offshore transportation, various docks, and even coastal defense works. Although the Ministry of Transportation feels very similar to the original Ministry of Works to outsiders.

It was almost noon, and Chen Ming certainly would not let his uncle leave the house. He asked the kitchen to add a few more dishes and kept Gao Pengqi for lunch.

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In the backyard, Li Xiaomei had just sent her aunt away. She said she was her aunt, but in fact she was her cousin. But now that the Li family is not here, this cousin is about to become her real aunt.

She also kept her cousin for lunch at noon today, but the meal was not very tasty. Not only did her cousin look unhappy, but Li Xiaomei also had no appetite at all. So after the meal, her cousin immediately said goodbye.

Li Xiaomei looked at the backs of her cousin and her group, and couldn't help sighing in her heart. "It seems that I really raised their hearts..." Today, her cousin came to the house, and she actually wanted to send women to the mansion through Li Xiaomei.

Because Li Xiaomei has not been pregnant for a long time, according to her cousin's idea, she should arrange for someone to get her maids or other people pregnant, so as to win favor and consolidate her favor. Her cousin knew that her girl was not that pretty, but she was the niece of a business friend of her cousin's father-in-law. She was born with a beautiful face, a slender figure, and graceful.

Li Xiaomei was so angry that she almost laughed. If her cousin hadn't spoken, she really didn't know that her cousin and uncle dared to be so bold?

She was angry and bitter in her heart. If her parents were still alive, her parents would not think so. She sighed again, "Let's go and change clothes." It wasn't that her clothes were stained when she was eating, or that they were stained with the smell of rice, but that she didn't want to wear the clothes she was wearing now. Who knew that as soon as she got up, Li Xiaomei felt dizzy, her body swayed twice, and she quickly reached out to hold the table.

Nanny Wang and the maidservant beside her were startled, and hurried over to help her sit down. Nanny Wang asked repeatedly, "What's wrong with the queen?" Nanny Wang's heart was about to jump out of her throat.

The maid said anxiously, "I'm afraid she's angry." Li Xiaomei had no appetite for several days. She only ate a little at noon today.

Li Xiaomei was also depressed, but the man was her relative after all, "Maybe the weather has been a little hot these two days. I have always been afraid of heat, and the room is too tight. It's nothing serious." The "occasional cold" during the New Year's Day made Li Xiaomei take bitter medicine for ten days, and then she went too far.

Nanny Wang advised, "Let's call a doctor to take a look." It's best if nothing's wrong. If it's caused by the heat, just ventilate and let in some light.

"Why don't you call the imperial physician?" Chen Ming's voice came in. He sent Gao Pengqi away and asked about the backyard. When he heard that Li Xiaomei's cousin and her group had left, he knew something might be wrong. When he hurried to the door, he just happened to hear Nanny Wang's words.

Li Xiaomei held her forehead with her hand. Now she had no choice but to call a doctor.