Chapter 25 The 23rd round of development of northern Xinjiang to attract talents

The Great Qin Empire developed the northern frontier and established prefectures and counties, so there was a severe shortage of talents.The administration of officials is an ancient and modern instrument of the people, and they cannot understand the scriptures, so how can they be made known to the people.It is urgent to recruit talents, and Meng Tian sets his sights on those cultural people who have been relegated... In order to solve the problem of having no officials in the new Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian and his generals and school staff decided to select celebrities from among the relegated prisoners. Supplement the team of officials in the front court.

After getting rid of the group in black at Yanziwu, Meng Tian was in a very happy mood.Most of the rescued families do not want to go back to their hometowns, especially those women who have lingering fears. They would rather beg on the streets with disabilities than go back to their hometowns.After discussing with all the staff, Meng Tian plans to set up a logistics barracks, led by Yong Xia, who will be responsible for the clothing and sewing of the soldiers and horses in the army.Under the bank of Nao, five miles away from Hunhuai barrier, material supply warehouses, workshops and workshops were built.

At this time, reports from Northern Xinjiang continued to be sent out one after another, most likely because the immigration affairs were coming to an end, and all the counties asked for the opening of the Yamen and the governor's office to express their congratulations.The most troublesome thing is that most of the temporary officials are served by soldiers who have no official experience. These people can only read the delivered documents, and the documents drafted are few and ineffective, and some are simply unwritten. Or use a circle tick instead.It made the staff members who watched the memorial laugh endlessly, and after laughing, they muttered: "This is all a mess..."

In the nearly forty counties in the new Qin Dynasty, all the able-bodied and disabled old camps have been dispatched, and only less than half of the county government officials have been solved. How many counties need capable officials to show their grand plans? However, in the end, there are still too few real officials.The most worrying thing is that the soldiers have no experience in government administration, and they don't listen to advice. They only deal with government affairs based on assumptions.Some people simply look far away and leapfrog the higher level to sue Hunhuai Zang, or refuse to accept the judgment and sue Hun Huai Zang.

On this day, a herdsman from the Beihe River refused to accept the county government's judgment and walked hundreds of miles to sue his adopted daughter whom he had just recognized for a few months. To be a slave... This is the county where Liang Shijiu worked.In the camp of the Chinese army, Meng Tian frowned and pondered, and said to himself: "If you say that Liang Shijiu is not that kind of nonsense, why is he..." It turned out that Liang Nineteen had saved Meng Tian's life in a battle to suppress the rebellion after the unification of Qin Dynasty in that year, and after learning some culture in the barracks, Meng Tian let him go down to practice.The first few cases were solved by Liang Shijiu one by one, and the result of the case caused a sensation in Mobei for a while, but then it gradually failed.Meng Tian felt that there was something wrong with it, and because Pepsi was entangled in it, the matter was left alone.

At this moment, Meng Tian asked Jin Wei Chuan Jiang Ion to sit in court to hear the case.Jiang Ion took the indictment and thought to himself: Weird, how could this person have such a good writing style... The diction, the tone of voice are not what ordinary people do. From whom is this pleading written?After some trials, Jiang Ion learned that a passer-by who went to the plaintiff's house to beg for water had written this complaint for him, and asked him to come and submit it directly.Meng Tian couldn't help but look disappointed when he heard that.Jiang Ion said again: "But he must be a cultural person who was banished and punished, and he is definitely not a development immigrant in the new Qin Dynasty."

"On the side of relegation...in recent years, there have been more cultural people on the side of relegation..." Meng Tian said to himself. Jiang Ion looked at Meng Tian seriously, and said with a serious expression: "General Meng, I don't know if I should say something or not?" Meng Tian said casually, "But it's okay to say it." "Can you recruit those guilty banished literati?" One sentence froze the two of them at the same time.After pondering for a long time, Meng Tian said: "Accordingly, there are a lot of literati and officials in the deportation team, but how to use it? They are all guilty, and it is an earthquake if they are reused." He said boredly: "Ask the imperial court to ask for talents and officials, but they can't send them. Dozens of counties in the new Qin Dynasty built yamen and mansions. They couldn't plead for the people when they opened their cases, and they couldn't make decisions for the people when they opened courts. If this goes on for a long time, the people Disappointment and fluctuating public opinion will ultimately be detrimental to the development of the new Qin Dynasty.”

Meng Tian said helplessly: "Hey! If there is such a day, no one can do anything about it." Jiang Ion seemed to have been prepared for a long time, so he paused every word: "It's better like this...you can play the Ming court alone to open a course in northern Xinjiang. Although this is a matter that has never been learned before, the winner will be sued to the Ming court again, and he will be charged with a moderate crime, and I, Xinqin, can use these people with confidence." After hearing this, Meng Tian couldn't help A burst of laughter: "You bastard, is this a red face or a bad face? However, some things in life are really helpless. I wrote a letter to ask Ji Fengyi who is far away in southern Xinjiang because of this matter..." Jiang Ion hurriedly Said: "Do you have a letter?" Meng Tian nodded and answered, while turning out Ji Fengyi's letter, he said: "It is roughly the same as your knowledge, support us to use these relegated literati, but leave the matter of relegation to the imperial court." , we only use people and don’t interfere. Wouldn’t it be better for the court to sing the black face?” Jiang Ion flipped through Ji Fengyi’s letter and said excitedly: “General, old Ji who knows me...why, General If so, why haven’t you said it?”

"Forget it, don't ask any more questions. Quickly draft documents, and come up with an opinion on selecting scholars and officials as soon as possible. You can sort out the unjust, false and wrong judgments of those counties who don't know how to govern officials and report them to the court. Then just send out the papers we need to pick up scholars in northern Xinjiang two days later." Jiang Ion said: "Wonderful!" and hastily unfolded the silk to play. In less than half a month, the imperial edict has arrived.But the shrewd Shihuang did not make a clear statement on this, but issued an ambiguous edict:

I think you can try the selection of scholars in the new Qin Dynasty.Due to disagreement, the court meeting can be avoided to prevent changes.Those elms are hard to understand, otherwise, two years ago, I would not have waited for you, Meng Tian, ​​and just appointed an official to make friends with the Huns... The more Jiang Ion watched, the more angry he became: "Here, Shihuang's ambiguous words..." Meng Tian hurriedly said: "Why do you dare to say anything?" Seeing that there was no one else in the room, he had to patiently say: "Allow us Playing by ear, this is already very good, let me first talk about how well you have connected people? Will they be willing?" Jiang Ion said with a smile: "They have long been looking forward to the stars and the moon! I will inform them to go. What about tomorrow? So?" Meng Tian said without hesitation: "Tomorrow is tomorrow, don't set a date. Those who wait and see later can record as they come." Jiang Ion was surprised: "This is too much face for them."

It was almost noon, and a group of cultural people who were guilty of crimes from the side of the exile came here. Meng Tian stood on the top of the wall and observed the changes in the school grounds from a distance.On the school grounds, the pergola was built a few days ago, and it was divided into small compartments of equal size according to the rules, and bamboo mats, sitting tables, knives and pens, and cooked bamboo were placed inside.There are still some people on the school grounds who seem to be ordinary civilians, but upon closer inspection, they are not the same. They turned out to be some cultural people from the sidelines who came to observe the movement in different clothes.Jiang Ion smiled knowingly at Meng Tian on the tower, and then announced the recruitment announcement in Northern Xinjiang: According to the edict of the imperial court, I am allowed to recruit scholars in the new Qin Dynasty by myself.The prosperity of the ancients, the erudition of Wenchang, and the revival of literary movement.Today, in the counties in the new Qin Dynasty, government offices have been newly built for a long time, but there is a shortage of officials in Chinese and ink in the county, and we cannot promulgate the imperial edict of the Great Qin Law, nor can we restrain the people in the county.In order to solve this regional political issue, it was decided to select candidates in the form of Kaihongke and public selection.If there are talented people in the family, I hope that everyone will pass on the regulations interpreted by the New Qin Central Government to each other, and pick them up at any time at the school. There is no deadline, and only talents are sought.No jokes. The more than 50 banished border cultural people who came earlier and the surrounding people had already seen everything in front of the posted bulletin board, so they waited for the sergeant's order, and everyone got into the shed and started writing seriously.While feeling fresh, they were also a little worried. Scholars have always participated in the national selection with a fixed identity, and they have never heard of people who don’t ask the source of their identity and only look at the article.If someone writes quickly and submits the article quickly, a sergeant next to him will act as the leader and call out respectfully: "Sir, go slowly, General Meng invites you to gather at the Wangshan Tower, please show your respect." The first literati looked up. Looking at the mountain tower, I still gritted my teeth after all, and said to myself: It doesn't matter whether it is heaven or hell, we will talk about it after breaking through... So he went up first and walked into the Wangshanlou tea shop. Meng Tian, ​​who was looking at Beiyi Mountain through the window, got up enthusiastically and invited: "Please! Sir, you can appreciate your face. Meng Tian is really lucky. Pearl, let's watch tea." Transferred to the women's team, Pearl has been serving in front of Meng Tian's army tent. The current season is at the beginning of April and summer, and the river surrounds the mountain like a mirror, while the mountain top is still covered with white snow.The mountains on the left and the right are green and verdant, and Vientiane is renewed, in stark contrast with the white snow.Of course, in the new Qin Dynasty, this kind of out-of-season phenomenon is not uncommon, and for these original scholars, the fresh feeling has long passed. Only Meng Tian has a special feeling for the new Qinzhong, so he improvised Come up with a word: The breeze is blowing on the face, leaning on the railing to look out, sending wandering people, looking at each other in the rivers and lakes.Outside the window, there are green mountains and thousands of miles of rivers, and you can know the talents of the world in a leisurely way.In the past, the sages of ancient times cultivated innocence and cared for themselves.Elegant talents spread across Kyushu, but they are just exhausting and difficult to relax.It's like I am now in the new Qin Dynasty, recruiting talents and gathering scholars, discussing the state system and the people, and laughing about who is in charge of the ups and downs in the world!Looking at the present, the great unification, there is no husband, and there are talents from generation to generation, and they compete to see if there are any scholars in the country.There is a saying, Jingwei pays back the stalk, Yugong casts his fertile soil, stops to appraise and hire, they are all romantic figures! A few talented scholars had already stood behind them, and they all chanted together, and Meng Tian chanted well: "I heard about the general's literary and martial arts, and he really deserves his reputation!" A few more people came up right after, and Meng Tian warmly greeted them: "The place is big, everyone can sit down casually." After a while, more than fifty people had all been seated.Jiang Ion and all the sergeants also came up to accompany him, arranged the test papers and put them on Meng Tian's table.Meng Tian flipped through the articles with great interest, and when he saw a wonderful sentence, he couldn't help applauding it with one hand, so he faced the gentleman who came upstairs first and said, "Your Excellency must be Li Hao, right?" Ting stared at Meng Tian in surprise, looked at Meng Tian again as if not believing, and said, "How did the general know that I am Li Hao?" It proves everything." Several young talents, not as stubborn as Li Hao, came forward to bow to Meng Tian humbly: "Student Wu Ling pays homage to the general." "Student Ziyu pays homage to the general." "Student Gaoyuan pays homage to the general." Immediately afterwards, almost everyone stepped forward to pay homage to Meng Tian.Only Li Hao was still there in a daze, not knowing what to do. Seeing that so many students were willing to come to Xinqin Middle School, Meng Tian happily walked up and down a few steps on the ground and said, "I'm very happy to see you. Xinqin Middle School is no different than other places. The sand here is very windy and cold. You have to do it." Good mental preparation. Today's emperor respects the virtuous and corporal, and it is also the fundamental magic weapon for the Western Qin Dynasty to win the world in the past. This is the so-called talent who wins the world." Ziyu asked boldly: "The construction of northern Xinjiang has achieved initial results. Reclamation, immigration, Everything is available, I don't know why the general recruited us?" "Everything is available, I only owe the east wind!" Immediately afterwards, Meng Tian talked eloquently: "As you all know, the construction of the new Qin Dynasty took a long time, and there were no less than 600,000 people from all ethnic groups and veterans. Nearly 40 counties. The country has always governed the country with laws in the name of punishment. If there is no rule, the country will not be established. However, the people are only obedient. What is lacking now are you scholars who understand the law and can enforce the law. After being selected, You will be sent to various counties to handle civil affairs, handle lawsuits, enforce the law impartially, and handle cases according to the law. I think you will live up to my emperor's great trust and be a good official in the construction of the Yamen." "Ah, so we were asked to become officials..." All the students were surprised and seemed unable to believe it.Meng Tian treated him sincerely, and said happily: "Thinking that my new Qinzhong recruits so many talents at once, it is really a place where dragons and tigers are hidden!" One morning three days later, the twenty or so newly appointed officials were about to leave for their posts.Each of them holds a handful of administrative golden orders in their hands, and they are going to replace the ordinary feather orders in the hands of the soldiers in power. Meng Tian and Jiang Ion knew in their hearts that the 20 counties to be replaced in the early stage had the most problems. It could be said that there were many complaints from the people, and some even caused civil uprisings, so they had to be suppressed by force.After examination and screening, Wu Ling and Ziyu stayed in the army, Li Hao, Gao Yuan and other twenty were appointed as primary officials, and another thirty were sent to assist the local county government, that is, to serve those soldiers first. Staff. Meng Tian was very worried that a few soldiers were appointed as officials not only with a bad official reputation, but also full of domineering arrogance. He had sent officials in advance to inform them to return to Hunhuai to report on their duties and directly dismissed all their civil positions in the county.Only that Liang Shijiu didn't listen to orders, didn't hang up his seal, didn't report on his duties, and didn't even send a letter.Jiang Ion said worriedly: "Can this Li Hao handle it?" Meng Tian also thought about it, and called Li Hao to the camp and asked: "Li Hao, the county government you are going to take up may be very difficult. Make it difficult for you..." Li Hao asked nonchalantly: "What's the difficulty? Is it because the people are changing and the replacement doesn't recognize me as a new official?" "There are several aspects..." Meng Tian was very worried when he saw that he was not smooth enough.But Li Hao said with a smile: "Don't worry, general, you are not afraid of civil upheavals, as long as you show kindness and strength, everything will pass. But the Liang Shijiu you mentioned, isn't he still a soldier?" Meng Tian nodded: "Ah, of course it is. ..." Li Hao said lightly, "That's easy. The general will prepare one of your flag orders for me. He doesn't have to listen to government orders, but military orders are like mountains. He is a soldier, so he should understand his primary duty as a soldier." "It makes sense." Meng Tian didn't say a word, handed him a banner order, and said: "I can rest assured." When Meng Tian and Jiang Ion came to the Hunhuai Zong school grounds, more than 20 new officials were already waiting in line. Each of them was wearing new official uniforms, official hats, boots, holding a golden order in his right hand, and stood facing the wind. , the breeze ruffled the robe and jacket, making a rattling sound.Meng Tian came up to him, saw them all looking invincible, and suddenly laughed: "You are not going to go to the post, it seems to be going to the execution ground, relax..." Meng Tian sorted them out one by one. The leader in clothes said: "After you take office, you must send official rank documents to Hunhuai Zong every half a month, and report the inauguration situation in time. Be careful, don't forget to collect local customs and customs, and record your labor diaries. Well, at the end of the year, I will evaluate you based on these things! Do you understand?" "Understood—" Several guards held the wine urns and filled a bowl of wine for each of the twenty officials. Meng Tian and Jiang Ion each held a bowl and said, "Come on, drink this bowl of Zhuangxing wine." .We are all subjects of the emperor, pillars of the country, and we are good brothers who treat each other with sincerity. Come on, do it!" "Do it!" Everyone said in unison. Meng Tian said loudly: "Let's go!" The new recruits got on their horses one after another, clasped their fists and bid farewell to Meng Tian and the soldiers who came to see him off.Immediately afterwards, a series of galloping horseshoes sounded, causing a cloud of dust on the official road. Liang Shijiu didn't come out from the back hall until it was three poles in the sun. His clothes were disheveled and he didn't wear a hat.Originally, he also assumed this official position temporarily, so he did not make official uniforms.If you look closely, there is powder flakes on his eyebrows, and the smell of makeup, bad breath, and sweat all over his body is mixed together, especially not smelly.He forgot to tie his belt, turned around and went back to the bedroom in the back hall. On the big kang, the woman given to him by the red wood was still half naked and sleeping soundly as usual.He fastened his belt, leaned down and kissed the woman whose eyes were closed tightly, and then walked out complacently. When he boarded the hall, there was a person kneeling in the middle of the ground. He looked carefully and said mockingly: "Qi Qimu, why is it you again? Didn't you sue me to the blind? Why did you come back again..." He Not leaving his official position, he leaned on the table and kept mocking Qi Qimu.Qi Qimu, who was kneeling in the middle of the ground, said nothing, but put the tool in his hand on top of his head.He waited until Liang Shijiu was almost humiliated, before he said: "Since you are our great master, you should take a look at what I have in my hand..." "Why should I watch it? My officer has already finalized the case. Now that the case is finalized, I don't want to read anything anymore. You should go back and be your shepherd honestly. Don't think about Qi Xiu, she is not you at all." Daughter, she is now Akagi's concubine." "Chimu dares, he doesn't want to die!" Qi Qimu said very toughly, Liang Shijiu slowly walked up to him, still hesitant, picked up the seal in his hand and unfolded it for a long time, and he also recognized it. Without a few words, he said: "Hey, what are you writing here?" Then he threw it away.He suddenly thought, if the master is still there, can't he read it to him?It seems that this master really can't drive away.But if you don't drive him away, he's always in the way, talking too much, and he even cares about me playing with women.Oh, by the way, why didn't I understand the instructions sent by Huanhuaizhuang last time?You can't violate military regulations, Meng Tian's sword is not vegetarian.Thinking of this, he began to look for the instruction. At this time, a person came quietly from the door, it was Chimu's messenger, and said: "My lord, my master wants you to go have a drink with him today, and he said he has something good to show you." "Really..." Liang Shijiu immediately smiled happily: "It's really hard for your master to always miss me, I'll be there soon." Hearing that Chimu was going to entertain him again, Liang Shijiu smiled happily and rewarded the messenger With a few dollars, we started to prepare for departure.Now, Qi Qimu didn't do it anymore, he didn't kneel anymore, he pushed Liang Shijiu's buttocks and said, "My lord, you'd better finish my work before going..." Liang Shijiuyi glared: "What, you Restrict the master's movement?" Before he finished speaking, he raised his foot and kicked Qi Qimu, and the old man fell on his back on the ground.Liang Shijiu was still trying to use his feet, when a skinny man suddenly came in from outside the door, and said with a smile: "Okay, my lord, who made you so angry..." Liang Shijiu looked up and down the visitor in surprise, and saw He was wearing a new official uniform, and in his hand he was leaning on a thing that was too long like a crutch, but too short like a knot, wrapped in a cloth curtain to form a stick. "Who are you?" Liang Shijiu was extremely vigilant, scrutinizing the coming person like an enemy.The person who came did not answer him directly, but kindly reminded him: "Master, don't care who I am, it's too unlucky to get angry and hit someone this early in the morning." A salute: "Excuse me for taking the liberty. Please sit down, sir..." Although I am no longer ashamed to ask the latter, the other party must have to say something, right?As expected, the visitor answered: "He is the one who reported the sorrow, but I am the one who brings the good news..." "Hey..." Liang Shijiu was really happy: "Please enlighten me, sir, why am I so happy?" Li Gao clamored to unfold the flag and sang loudly: "Promote Liang Nineteen and Thirty Thousand Households, and kneel down to accept the military order!" As soon as Liang Jiujiu was overjoyed, Natou prostrated himself in front of the flag board: "Little Liang Shijiu, thank you General!" He hadn't raised his arrogant head yet, and two brash men came up from nowhere, one on each side, and arrested him. The arm has already been bound and captured.Liang Shijiu knew that he had been fooled, struggling and shouting: "Where is the traitor, dare to pretend to be a military axe, and capture the imperial court official..." Looking up at the hall, the visitor has already sat on it. Liang Shijiu shouted loudly: "Where are all the yamen servants? Hurry up and arrest the imperial convicts... Yamen servants..." Then it suddenly occurred to him that the county government with few people in the first place, coupled with his lax administration and corrupt atmosphere, everyone Seeing that there is nothing to do in the hall, they don't come to the government office. Those with low salaries have to do some small business to support their families.Moreover, Liang Shijiu never handled a fair case later, no one trusted him anymore, so naturally he did not come to litigate, and he was happy to be a justice of the peace.Liang Shijiu thought he was cheating, but in fact, many of the people under his rule had leapfrogged to the point of failure... Thinking of this, Liang Shijiu was discouraged, knowing in his heart that this person had a lot of background.Liang Shijiu stopped shouting, but asked: "I, Liang Shijiu, is the savior of Meng Tian, ​​the general of the camp in northern Xinjiang. If you dare to take me, don't ask how many heads you have grown enough to chop off?" Li Hao was sitting firmly in the high hall. At this moment, there were many people around the door, and Qi Qimu was also ignorantly judging all this. "Shengtang—" Jin Ling slammed the table heavily, and the eight yamen servants pounded water and fire sticks, and the shouting continued for a long time. Li Hao walked around the table, and said to the people outside the door: "Everyone can enter the hall to watch the case." When everyone heard this, first a few people came in cautiously, and then they all entered the hall.Everyone looked at this invincible titan, who was their parents' officer just now, and now suddenly became a prisoner, and they all felt puzzled. Li Hao looked at Liang Shijiu with a majestic expression: "You saved the general's life, the general will never forget this kindness, but do you know that General Meng Tian trusted you so much and sent you to be an official in Beihe County, what did you do?" To repay him? You were also raised by a poor family, how did you degenerate into this state all of a sudden? Chimu’s crimes have already been sued by no less than ten people, yet you actually cover up and indulge him, feeding your conscience to the dogs? Wouldn’t it be enough for him to do it alone? Is that my concubine? Bring that woman..." The woman walked up to the lobby with sleepy eyes and disheveled clothes, and suddenly saw Liang Shijiu being imprisoned in the lobby, staring with fearful eyes: "This... this... ..." He couldn't say a word for a long time, and he knelt and kowtowed obediently. After what Li Hao said, Liang Shijiu lowered his head in shame.Li Hao said: "Liang Shijiu, what else do you have to say?" Liang Shijiu shook his head and said dejectedly: "I have nothing to say..." Li Hao said loudly: "Don't you love this woman? Go to her, and go back to Hunhuaizhang to meet General Meng, and the general will deal with it. Guards, take this scum, and take strict control along the way, and no one will be let go." "I understand!" Liang Shijiu was escorted on the road on the spot.