Crossing the Ming Dynasty to be the magistrate

Wen Yu thought for a while, and said cautiously: "Although Mr. Wan Xiwan has power in the government, I personally think that he is not someone who can be relied on for a long time."

Wang Yixi was stunned for a moment: "I don't know what brother-in-law means..."

Wen Yu whispered: "Prince..."

Wang Yixi was shocked: "Where do you start with this? I don't want to say something bad. Now that His Majesty is in the prime of life, it's not just that one son. It's not certain whether the position of the crown prince will be secure. Although Commander Wan is greedy , but after all, we can still take care of our royal family."

Wen Yu thought, that's because you don't know that Emperor Chenghua doesn't have many years to live.

Yes, just before Wen Yu remembered that it has been 20 years since Chenghua, and there are still three years before Concubine Wan Gui will pass away.Then there was a period of relatively clearest politics in the Ming Dynasty, and Hongzhi was revived.

Wen Yu persuaded: "Second brother's words are different. Now the crown prince is generous and benevolent, and his reputation in the court is well-known among the people. The emperor also thinks highly of him. Besides...Although the emperor is in the prime of life, Concubine Wan Gui is over half a year old. Bai, if Concubine Wan Gui goes away, even with the great kindness in his life, Master Wan Xiwan, who is the younger brother, will inevitably be liquidated. What I mean by the younger brother is not to change the family immediately, but it is just a cunning rabbit, it is always good to have more hands."

"This..." Wang Yixi hesitated. Although his Wang family has a lot of money, but after all, they are outside the Ming Dynasty Hall, and their sensitivity in this area is still a bit weak. After Wen Yu gave him such an analysis, he also felt that it made sense, so he went He replied: "Okay, I'll listen to you and go back to persuade father and eldest brother, but it is too difficult to find someone with the prince, I'm afraid there is no way to start."

Wen Yu smiled and said: "It doesn't have to be someone close to the prince. If it is impossible, you can secretly seek refuge with the officials who protect the prince. With so many people in the court, there will always be a way."

Wang Yixi suddenly realized, and immediately fell in love with Wen Yu's admiration. Scholars are indeed quick-witted and quick-thinking, and even better than others in drilling camps. If Wen Yu knew what he was thinking, he wouldn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Sending Wang Yixi away, Wen Yu has other things to deal with.When he was chatting with Wang Yixi, he learned that when Wang Yixi first entered the city, he saw the gate of Mengyang City in a mess, and the gatekeepers were still corrupt and accepting bribes. This is not acceptable, Wen Yu thought.

The Peony Festival will be held in Peng County soon. Judging from the effect of this publicity, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people will flock to Peng County. Peng County will definitely not be able to accommodate so many people. The two counties are so close to each other. Some of them stopped by to visit Mengyang, and Wen Yu planned to let Mengyang take the opportunity to develop tourism as well.This kind of chaotic management, tourists will be discouraged when they come.

And as early as when the Nongfu kidnapping case got mixed up with the government officials, Wen Yu wanted to manage the officials properly.

The county government of the Ming Dynasty The internal personnel of the county government in the Ming Dynasty were mainly divided into three categories: officials, officials, and servants.The division of labor is mainly the decision-making of the official and the master, the handling of documents by the officials, and the dispatch of servants.

Among them, Wen Yu, Mei Hongzhi, and Zhou Wan are officials, all of whom belong to the imperial court.

As for the people in charge of the grain department and Ma Ke in Liufangzhong, their identities are officials, and public officials registered with the Ministry of Officials are, in general, civil servants in modern society.

What is left is the largest part of the county government—service, which is also the focus of Wen Yu's reform this time.

The servants are collectively referred to as the three classes of yamen servants. The first class is the Zao class, which is mainly used as a guard of honor for Wen Yu or standing on both sides of the trial to frighten and punish criminals; the second class is the fast class, which is what people often call the fast class , All they do is catch criminals, solve crimes, collect rent and taxes, and the like.The third is the strong squad, migrant workers called temporarily, who can assist in defending the city in case of emergency and so on.

The three classes of yamen servants have no official status, which is equivalent to serving the yamen, and the salary is very low.Among them, except for the strong class, the remaining two classes of yamen servants are untouchables.Even though the official status of government servants is so demeaned, this may not be the case in real life. After all, the job of arresting the police is to "manage the common people", and not everyone has to go to study and take the imperial examination.

Although the catchers have salaries, their salaries are very low. The current regulation in Mengyang is six taels of silver per person per year, which is not even as much as that of the farmers. They can’t even get enough to eat with their salaries, so the catchers don’t rely on their salaries to make a living. .

Normally, the guards in the county yamen get some kickbacks to earn extra money. As long as it is not too much, Wen Yu will turn a blind eye. After all, that little salary is not enough to support his family.

However, with the development of Mengyang's economy recently, this phenomenon has intensified. After Wen Yu's secret investigation, most of the arresters can now collect dozens of taels a month.

This is not a small amount, and the law enforcement is brutal, and there are also phenomena of favoritism and fraud.

Since Wen Yu decided to change the administration of officials, he definitely couldn't change it directly. He first asked someone to investigate the current situation in Mengyang.The conclusion is that among the three classes, the soap class and the fast class are okay, after all, the power is not very great.However, Kuaiban, who is on the front line of law enforcement, is now extremely corrupt.

Wen Yu thought about it, and first promulgated ten decrees within the county government, which clearly stipulated the behavior of all personnel, including subordinate officials, such as how to enforce the law, work content, etc.

Then it issued a notice to the outside world that if the yamen servants are corrupt or violate the rules during the law enforcement process, the people are welcome to report them. Once the report is verified, those who are exposed will be dismissed and punished.

Of course, at the same time, Wen Yu also increased the salary of the yamen servants, from [-] taels a year to [-] taels a month. If you need to work overtime during special periods, there will be overtime pay. In addition, work-related injury subsidies, medical subsidies, holiday benefits, etc. have been set up. A series of rewards.

In this way, although those regulations made the guards' scalps tingle, they did not complain too much. After all, with this kind of salary and benefits, they are already middle-income people in Mengyang.

Arriving here, some timid people have restrained a lot.But it doesn't rule out the kind of people who are used to being domineering and domineering, and dismiss Wen Yu's orders, thinking that Wen Yu is just doing it for others to see, how can they have so much energy to control them, and still go their own way.

Wen Yu saw it and remained silent.

Although the decree was promulgated among the people, perhaps due to years of accumulation of power, everyone's fear of the guards has been engraved in their bones, and no one has stood up to report those illegal arresters.

Wen Yu felt that this could not be the case, so he secretly asked Xu Jing for help, borrowed a person from the inspection department, asked him to pretend to be a farmer, and stood up to resist at the time of blackmail. Go directly to the Yamen to file a complaint with Wen Yu.

Wen Yu pretended to be angry, spared those people, and even rewarded the person who reported it with a large sum of money.

With this precedent, everyone began to react, as if the county magistrate was really making decisions for them, and then some people jumped out to report, and Wen Yu dealt with them one by one after investigation.

At this time, half of the people in the fast class have been cleared out, and the administration of officials in Mengyang is much clearer here.

If someone leaves, someone will naturally come. With so many people fired, it's time to recruit people.Wen Yu had already drafted the paperwork, and when he was ready to release it, he ordered someone to post it the next day.The document stipulates a series of requirements such as the age, physical fitness, and criminal history of the applicants.

Although it is relatively strict, there are still many applicants.After all, yamen servants belong to the untouchable industry. In this era, there are too few jobs that untouchables can do, and many people apply for the job excitedly.Wen Yu, Mei Hongzhi and others personally supervised and finally filled the gap in the county government.

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In today's Mengyang, the people are rich and live comfortably.The low-level civilians went to work in factories, and their monthly income was several times what they used to be, while the wealthy businessmen saw the timing and made a lot of money.As the saying goes, when you are full and warm, you think about sex.Desire, everyone has spare money in their hands, and Mengyang's brothel business has flourished.

It was night, in Mengyang Chunxiang Building, Qiujiao glanced at the sleeping man next to her in disgust, and she went to sleep as soon as she fell asleep, and even beat her.

The maid Haitang helped her up, seeing her scars all over her body, she couldn't help but feel distressed and said: "Miss is suffering, this Master He is too dishonest, tell Mother Tu next time, if he comes again, he will say that you are not here, so as not to bother you."

At this time, Mr. Gui, who brought hot water, came in, his small eyes sneaked around, and when he saw Qiujiao showing her big shoulders, his saliva almost flowed out.

Qiu Jiao is not a docile temper either: "Look at your mother! You son of a bitch, be careful that your grandma will catch your eyeballs!" Mr. Gui bowed his head peacefully.

Qiujiao still didn't calm down, she just felt that there is nothing good about men in this world, she stared into the screen, and cursed: "Sleeping like a dead pig, if I beat my mother in the future, I might as well poison him to death!" Followed on the side and should.

After taking a bath, Qiu Jiao saw that the curfew was about to pass, so she stood by the bed and angrily pushed the man on the bed: "Master He, it's going to be dawn, how long do you plan to sleep with me? "

The man didn't respond, Qiujiao patted him hard twice, and Begonia next to him smiled and said, "It's true that he sleeps like a pig, he really can't be a pig, he won't wake up like this!"

Qiu Jiao felt something was wrong, the person on the bed was cold and very heavy, she stretched out her hand to put his nose under the person's nose.

"Begonia" Qiujiao's face was pale, "Quickly tell Mother Tu to report to the police, Mr. He is gone."