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Suppose you were a poor boy from a poor family in the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately, you had the opportunity to study. Even more fortunately, you picked up a few bottles of Life No. 1 or a Backgammon reading machine. In short, you passed all the tests and passed the county. Examination, township examination, general examination, from scholar to scholar to Jinshi, or if you are taller than five, you will successfully pass the "beauty contest" of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and you will be appointed as a county magistrate.
The problem is, your family is poor, you can't afford a master, and you have never been in officialdom, let alone have any experience in governing.
Now you are suddenly asked to govern a county. And you, the county magistrate, are also the director of the Public Security Bureau, the president of the court, the director of the taxation bureau, the director of the land bureau, the director of the agricultural bureau, the director of the education bureau, etc. You are even the director of the funeral parlor, and there are a large group of slippery people. The junior officials are waiting to fool you. Do you know how to carry out your work after you take office
Don't brag, the answer is definitely I don't know, there is no one in the world who is born knowing.
But you don't have to worry. As a "dressed beast" of my Ming Dynasty, you are very lucky.
Back then, when my great ancestor, Emperor Zhu, was still catching lice in the corner before he got rich, he developed a good ability to catch lice in every detail. I, my great ancestor, Emperor Zhu, have already thought of this problem for you.
For this reason, Taizu Emperor Zhu personally presided over the compilation of a book called "Instructions for Arrival", which is unique to this dynasty and has no secrets for serving as an official in other dynasties. It is comparable to the "Sunflower Book". You only need to follow this secret book. , being a county magistrate is nothing but "astringent water"!
The broken car kept making squeaking noises as they headed west. Because the journey was long and boring, Qin Mu put a soft pillow on the car and picked up a copy of "Instructions for Arrival" to see how Zhu Chongba taught people. Official.
Qin Mu originally thought that the first priority after taking office was to check the accounts, but according to Zhu Chongba's "Instructions for Taking the Appointment", the first thing the county magistrate should do after taking office is to find out where the pretense is.
Of course, pretending to be gods and ghosts is a common way of saying it. A more literary way of saying it is: How many gods should be worshiped
This means that after you take office, you must first find out how many community altars, earth temples, and city god temples there are in the county.
As the saying goes, the major affairs of the country are to be sacrificed to Rong, and the same is true for a county. The second sacrifice of spring to pray for the autumn report is a top priority. As a county magistrate, you must first understand these.
The second thing is: visit the nursing home to express condolences to the orphans.
This is easy to understand. Throughout the dynasties, filial piety was the foundation of a country. It is necessary to respect the old and love the young. So after you figure out where to pretend to be gods and ghosts, you have to go to condolences to the orphans and old people first. You can provide food and rice every month and cloth and cloth every year. To report, you must personally inspect and give the gift, so as not to lose your place, as a token of sympathy for the imperial court.
The third thing to do is to inspect the prisoners.
The life and death of those in prison is indeed an important matter, so it is necessary to report to the gods immediately. How far has this Yamen completed the discussion on banning prisoners? How many questions can I ask? If the discussion has been completed, even if it is a matter related to a former official, it should be carefully reviewed and released, and it is especially appropriate to examine the heart of those who ask questions when they take office. In the meantime, you should know that the time of the ban is relatively recent and the matter is light. What has been proven? Which method is questionable? Those who understand must come to the conclusion, and those who are involved in doubt should examine it carefully, hoping that the matter will be settled and no injustice will be caused.
The fourth thing is to find out the official land and civilian land, and the amount of official and civilian food.
This "Instructions for Arrival" has a total of thirty-one items (Haoyuan specially attaches the following 27 items at the end of the chapter. Book friends who want to know more can check it in detail at the end of the chapter), and each item is explained one by one. Qin Mu had read all the disposal methods in detail.
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's "Instructions for Taking Up the Appointment" is definitely a great initiative. Jinshis who have no official experience can generally figure out the affairs of a county as long as they follow this "Instructions for Taking Up the Appointment". Avoid the disadvantages of harming people due to ignorance.
Qin Mu planned to start from a small county. Things from later generations may not be applicable to this era, so it is necessary to learn from Zhu Yuanzhang's methods.
For example, the first article about pretending to be a ghost is worth learning from!
This article is not very useful in later generations, but in this era, it is of extremely important significance: whoever wins the power to communicate with the gods (the right to sacrifice) can become the agent (ruler) of the human world.
This article reminded Qin Mu, didn't he happen to be able to communicate with the gods and predict the future? There is much to be done in this!
When you reach Taiping Mansion, you can feel a scene that is completely different from the glitz of Nanjing. This is a scene of the end of the world. The rich are extremely vicious and full of fat. The poor have no clothes to cover their bodies and have no food to eat.
Along the way, you can see the families of refugees with old and young children everywhere. They are all emaciated and shabby. The children are crying feebly. The old people have dried up their tears and look numb, just like a walking corpse.
There are no new tombstones everywhere on the roadside. It is not difficult to guess that these are people who died of starvation and have been hastily buried by their relatives. Some corpses are not even buried at all, only covered with broken straw mats or leaves in the wild.
This was the first time Qin Mu saw such a tragic scene, and his heart couldn't help but twitch. In later generations, Qin Mu would often complain that the country was so bad, but compared with such troubled times, people in later generations did It’s time to live in paradise.
In these troubled times where tens of thousands of families are crying and homeless, corpses are exposed in the wild and no one buries them, they survive on bark and roots, and are even forced to exchange children for food. Life here is as cheap as grass. Although Qin Mu is mentally prepared , but when I saw this tragic scene, I was still deeply shocked.
Under an old elm tree on the roadside, an old woman with messy white hair was using a wooden walking stick to drive a barefoot man who was approaching. There was a woman in her twenties beside the old woman, who was nursing a child. Several people were wearing clothes. Without covering her body, the woman thought she had been hungry for a long time and had no fluids at all. The child could not absorb the fluids and was crying on the verge of death. The woman also cried loudly.
Qin Mu couldn't bear to watch anymore and closed his eyes tightly to prevent his tears from flowing down. Qiaoer tugged on his sleeves. He shook his head and tugged again...
He had no choice but to stop the car, take off a dozen pancakes from the car and stuff them all at the woman, plus a tael of silver. Then he returned to the car without saying a word, regardless of the woman and the old woman's numerous thanks.
From then on, every time something like this happened, the little girl came to pull his sleeves. Qin Mu gritted his teeth every time and refused to look at the tragic scene on the roadside, nor did he give any charity.
After many times, the little girl stopped tugging at his sleeves and curled up in the corner of the car, crying silently.
Qin Mu had to say: "Qiao'er, we have thousands of taels of silver with us, but we can't save them, let alone all of them. I have to keep this money, I must! I want to use this money to do more important things." Only if we can accomplish this can we truly save them.”
"But Young Master... ... ... ... ..."
"I know, and I can't bear it, but our power is too weak now and we can't save a few people."
"What do you want to do, Master?"
"You will know in the future, yes, you will know."
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In February last year, Zhang Xianzhong's troops captured the Chaohu area across the river from Taiping Prefecture. Cities including Luzhou (Hefei City), Shucheng, Liu'an, Wuwei, and Lujiang were all destroyed by the rebels. After capturing these places, Zhang Xianzhong trained his navy in Chaohu Lake, intending to go east to attack Nanjing, and Defeated the officers and soldiers of Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo.
Gao Douguang, the governor of Fengyang, and Zheng Eryang, the governor of Anqing, were imprisoned by the court and replaced them with Ma Shiying. In October, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Liu Liangzuo's army and headed west to Danshui.
The tug-of-war between the rebels and the government troops on the north bank of Taiping Prefecture lasted for nearly a year. The rebels came to rob, and the government troops came to rob. Countless people on the north bank had their homes destroyed. What Qin Mu saw Most of these refugees fled from the north bank of the Yangtze River.
If he hadn't been wearing a "tiger skin", the journey might not have been so smooth. Qin Mu only wanted to rush to Huichang quickly and didn't stay too long when he passed Taiping Mansion.
After leaving Taiping Mansion and walking west for about ten miles, the sound of rapid horse hooves suddenly came from behind. Qin Mu opened the curtain and took a look. Behind him was filled with yellow dust, and there was a man riding two horses;
The big man on horseback wore a bamboo hat to cover his face, and with a bow on his back and a sword on his shoulder, he rushed straight towards his carriage with the force of thunder!
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