amaotonovel Chapter 1119 That damned brat, all he does is cause us trouble all day long!
Chapter 1119 That damned brat, all he does is cause us trouble all day long!
Emperor Zhu was in agony with a terrible headache, but Li Shanchang stroked his beard and smiled, saying, "Your Majesty need not worry, I have a plan that can deal with these two memorials."
As Li Shanchang finished speaking, Emperor Zhu and Liu Bowen's eyes lit up.
Li Shanchang stroked his beard and slowly said, "Does Your Excellency still remember that in the fourth year of Hongwu, there were sixteen Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations) from Ningyang County, fifteen of whom were sent to serve as magistrates in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and it has been three years since then."
Emperor Zhu frowned slightly and said, "Of course I remember, but didn't we agree that they would serve as county magistrates for six years before being transferred?"
The original plan was that these fifteen successful candidates would serve as county magistrates in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun for six years. Then, people would be selected from these fifteen candidates to serve as prefects in the Jiangnan region for six years. The best among them would then be selected to serve as vice ministers in various departments of the imperial court for six years, and then be sent out to serve as provincial governors for six years.
Zhou Jingxin, on the other hand, had such outstanding performance in Dengzhou Prefecture that he skipped the step of being appointed as a county magistrate and instead went down from the imperial court to the local level, and then back to the imperial court.
To put it more bluntly, these sixteen Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations) were targets for special training and observation. As long as they performed well enough, they would be qualified to compete for the opportunity to enter the ministry or even the cabinet.
As for Li Qi?
Li Shanchang said that whoever wants to be the Grand Secretary can do it, but my son will not do it. I just hope that he can inherit the title of Duke of Han. Even if he is demoted to a county marquis when he inherits the title, it is better than letting him be tormented by certain people in the officialdom.
Stroking his beard and smiling again, Li Shanchang continued, "Your Majesty, I don't mean to transfer them to the court to serve as officials. Rather, I want to use their sixteen counties, or rather, their dozens of counties, as an average line."
“Counties that are poorer than those counties are the poor counties mentioned in the memorial, and counties that are richer than those counties are naturally not poor counties.”
"As for the 'vegetable basket project'..."
Li Shanchang smiled and softly uttered three words: "Pilot county".
"The vegetable basket project concerns the lives of everyone under heaven, and Ningyang County is the only pilot county directly under the cabinet in our Great Ming Dynasty."
"Therefore, this vegetable basket project should naturally be piloted in Ningyang County."
"If feasible, we can expand the pilot program to certain counties in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, as well as the ten counties under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Prefecture, and then gradually extend it to all prefectures and counties in the entire Ming Dynasty."
"..."
Emperor Zhu's eyes lit up, and he slammed his hand on the table, exclaiming, "Brilliant!"
The "vegetable basket project" and the "standards for delineating poverty-stricken counties" were proposed by some scoundrel.
What a coincidence! The magistrate of Ningyang County is a scoundrel, and the current executive deputy magistrate, Xu Liang, was originally the assistant prefect of Dengzhou Prefecture. The current assistant prefect of Dengzhou Prefecture, who is also the so-called executive deputy prefect of Dengzhou Prefecture, is Zhou Jingxin.
With this single blow, Li Shanchang practically took down all the disgusting scoundrels.
Emperor Zhu was pleased with himself, but Liu Bowen also bowed and said, "Your Majesty, regarding the vegetable basket project and the division of impoverished counties, we can actually involve the Ministry of Railways."
"For example, the transportation of vegetables from the south to the north after the onset of winter."
"For example, the meat, egg, and fish plan includes transporting fish from the east to the west and meat from the north to the south."
"The grasslands have no shortage of cattle and sheep, so let the Ministry of Railways bring the beef and mutton from the grasslands to the south."
"There is no shortage of fish along the coast. The Ministry of Railways can transport fish and salt from the coast to those inland prefectures and counties."
"In this way, it is closer to what the Prince Consort said: each provincial administration has its own advantageous industries, and none of them can do without the others."
"..."
Emperor Zhu's eyes immediately brightened.
When it comes to helping us solve our problems, we have to ask Mr. Shanchang and Mr. Qingtian!
Unlike that scoundrel and all the scoundrels he brought along, who only know how to cause us trouble all day long!
……
"So, the ball is back in our hands?"
Holding the memorial that Emperor Zhu had approved, Yang Shaofeng looked at Zhu Biao with a puzzled expression and said, "The Duke of Han and the Marquis of Chengyi are acting strangely."
Zhu Biao chuckled dryly twice, then tried to shrink back and whispered, "Don't be like that, the ball clearly went back to my brother-in-law's hands, it has nothing to do with me."
Yang Shaofeng glanced at Zhu Biao and asked sarcastically, "Does Your Highness think I can directly order a dozen or so county magistrates in the Yan-Yun area to collect data from their jurisdictions, and then use their data as the standard to determine whether a prefecture or county is poor?"
Zhu Biao chuckled twice and said, "Brother-in-law, you don't need to worry about government orders. No matter how unreliable my father is, he'll still have the Duke of Han issue an official document to those county magistrates."
"What my brother-in-law has to do is wait for the data from those dozen or so counties to come out, and then take Wu Ju and Qi Ge'er to determine the standards for poverty."
"As for the food basket project, it's just that kind of thing anyway."
"It has nothing to do with my little brother."
"..."
Seeing Zhu Biao's shameless attitude of "I don't know, it's none of my business," Yang Shaofeng almost laughed out of anger.
I just want to ask, what's the point of having a brother-in-law like this?
Is this person specifically there to annoy me?
Yang Shaofeng grew angrier the more he thought about it, and couldn't help but roll his eyes. He then snorted coldly and said, "Fine, these things have nothing to do with Your Highness, but surely this mess in Fujian has something to do with Your Highness?"
Zhu Biao nodded, then shook his head and said, "Yes, but it doesn't matter much."
"Brother-in-law, don't forget that you still have the post of Inspector of Eight Provinces. I'm just following you out to broaden my horizons."
"Oh, right, I'm busy taking care of the second, third, and fourth brothers, so I really don't have time to deal with the mess in Fujian."
Yang Shaofeng laughed in anger and looked at Zhu Biao, saying, "What about the remnants of the Pu family?"
Zhu Biao was stunned for a moment, then said, "Remnants of the Pu clan? Weren't those who should have been arrested arrested and those who should have been killed? Even those who should have been exiled were loaded onto ships and sent to Liaodong. What else is there for me to handle?"
Yang Shaofeng picked up the small dragon ball, took a sip, then leaned back in his recliner and said slowly, "Since the remnants of the Pu family are called remnants, it means that their ancestors still have roots."
"It's probably not that easy to dig it all out in one go."
"At the very least, the Hong family of Quanzhou and the Chen family of Haining are inextricably linked to the remnants of the Pu family."
"As luck would have it, these two families have been deeply rooted in Quanzhou and Haining for many years, and they own quite a lot of land and servants."