Chapter 131 The scholar-officials are mad! Uncle Zhang Guo is too deceitful!

After Zhang Gui personally read the decree to the meritorious personnel, he handed them the official uniforms, sabers, and silver gifts. Medals were taped to their respective chests.

  West Factory has a well-established incentive system, and the gold, silver, and bronze medals represent three different levels of contribution.

  According to Zhang Gui's request, those who have more than a gold medal can come to see him directly at the mansion without notification, and will have priority in getting promotion opportunities and other privileges.

  So, at this time, the other official schools in Xichang in Beijing gathered here, after seeing Xu Du and other members of the anti-rape team receiving this honor, they couldn't help being jealous.

  Of course, this is what Xu Du and others deserve.

   After all, once the operation fails, what they face is not only death, but also all kinds of torture.

   It is worth mentioning that the reform of the official system in Ming Dynasty is a very prudent matter.

  So, the same is true for the West Factory and the East Factory. The internal backbones are all official positions of the Jinyiwei, and the rewards are also various official positions of the Jinyiwei, but they are not actually responsible for the affairs of the Jinyiwei.

"Your heroic deeds of capturing Nurhachi and Li Yongfang this time will be quickly spread throughout the world through the "Daming Daily". No one with ulterior motives can obliterate your deeds, and you will not just because you are from Xichang , is the eagle dog of the imperial court, and will be labeled as rampant and full of crimes like Dongchang."

"Not only the "Da Ming Daily" will publicize your deeds, but the major literary societies and theater troupes specially funded by Xichang will also publicize you by writing story books and scripts. Some civil officials in the court want to discredit you. impossible."

"So you don't have to worry. If you work for the imperial court in Xichang, you will be no longer a person inside and outside, and you will not be able to return to your hometown. This will not be the case! There will be flagpoles in the imperial examination, and there will be people who have made meritorious service for the imperial court in Xichang! Xichang will organize the people to instigate the people to do this."

   Zhang Gui then said some words of encouragement.

The Xichang government schools, especially the Xichang government schools like Xu Du, who were born as scholars, greatly dissipated their worries that they might no longer be respected by the world, and they all replied: "We will wait for you later. It is an honor to work in Xichang! We must remember the kindness of Xichang cultivation!"

  Zhang Gui nodded, then looked at Xiao'e, who was rewarded for his meritorious service for playing a key role in capturing Nurhachi and Li Yongfang alive, and asked, "Miss Xiao'e, what are you going to do next?"

  At this time, Liu Zongmin also looked serious.

And Xiao'e, who is already an official, replied in a little confusion: "Returning to the governor, the family of the little servant girl was killed by Jiannu, and was captured by Jiannu and made a dressing slave for traitors. Now I have the opportunity to stop being a wrapping slave." Clothes slaves, it’s all up to you in Xichang, the maid wants to continue working for Xichang, because I don’t know what else to do as a maid, as long as I’m in Xichang, I can do anything, and I don’t have a home either. After Xichang, it will be my home.”

   Zhang Gui said after hearing this: "You don't need to be called little maidservant, you are now an official of the imperial court's Jinyiwei Hundred Households."

"yes!"

  Ming women can serve as military officers, such as Qin Liangyu and Zhang Fengyi.

  Xiao'e never thought that she would be an official, but no matter what, she undoubtedly had some drastic effects on the Han people who were still enslaved in the Liao region.

  Zhang Gui agreed to Xiao'e's request to let her continue to work for Xichang, and said: "Then you stay in Xichang and make Xichang your home!"

   "Thank you, Commander!"

  Xiao'e agreed.

   At this time, Liu Zongmin showed a hint of joy that was not easy to be noticed.

  In Xichang, there are many people like Xiao’e who were born at the bottom and are orphans. For example, refugees like Liu Zongmin also became orphans because of the bankruptcy of a large number of self-cultivating farmers in the late Ming Dynasty. Now they have to make Xichang their home.

  These people will have high loyalty to Xichang and are willing to do things for Xichang.

What Zhang Gui has to do now is to prevent them from being stigmatized by civil officials and scholar-bureaucrats, and through internal education, let them get rid of inferiority complex cognitively, so that they don't feel that because they are born at the bottom and are factory guards, they are really in the workplace. Morally, they are not as good as scholars like civil officials and scholar-officials, and they are not as popular as these civil officials and scholar-bureaucrats.

   In this way, it is also avoided that people in Xichang will choose to move closer to civil officials and scholar-bureaucrats in order to gain moral approval in the future.

   Zhang Guide made their sense of honor not come from the approval of scholar-bureaucrats.

When Zhang Gui saw the meritorious personnel in Xichang this time, Yang Jingchen, a scholar in charge of the Hanlin Academy, was also talking about this matter to Gong Dinghe, Zuo Tongzheng, Secretary of the General Administration, and said: "The new "Dibao" does not need to publish this article anymore. It’s about Nurhachi and Li Yongfang being captured alive in Xichang.”

  Gong Dinghe nodded and said, "That's exactly what I mean! How can the factory guard win the praise of the world!"

Yang Jingchen smiled contemptuously: "Especially this time the main meritorious person is the Xu Capital who betrayed our scholarly society. To publicize this person's achievements is undoubtedly telling the scholars all over the world that if they want to serve the country and make meritorious service, they should abandon their pens and join the army and join Xichang! As long as " The Di Bao does not include this matter, and the humble scholars below Juren have no way to know about this matter, so it is beneficial to calm down the hearts of scholars."

   "Mr. Yang is absolutely right."

  Gong Dinghe agreed.

   "Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers!"

   "The new "Daming Daily""

   "The slave chief Nurhachi and the traitor Li Yongfang were captured alive by Xu Du, Xu Qianhu and others from the Xichang anti-rape team!"

   "The emperor personally interrogated the content of Nurhachi and Li Yongfang. Let's see how the slave chieftain answered my questions from the Ming emperor. See why the traitor Li Yongfang knelt down and cried to beg His Majesty the emperor!"

   "Chen Zizhuang, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, wrote an article praising the achievements of Xichang's eradication of rape, and there is a poem written by Yuanfu Han Gong on this matter."

  …

   At this time, under the teahouse where the two were talking, the voice of the newsboy suddenly came.

After hearing this, Yang Jingchen's face darkened immediately, and he squinted his eyes outside, and saw a boy in Xishan cotton clothes holding a large stack of "Daming Daily" written in four vertical characters, which looked like a Jietie, but more than a Jietie A lot of paper is sold on the street.

   What's more, outside the general store of the Xichang directly-operated store, which everyone knows, there are poor scholars who are also wearing Xishan cotton clothes, reading the contents of the newspaper to a group of people.

  And these people are listening carefully, the key is that more and more people are gathering, because outside the store it is written "After listening to the newspaper, you can get three feet of cotton cloth."

  The textile industry in Xishan of Daming was well developed, especially after the spinning machine could use 16 spindles to spin at the same time, serious overcapacity appeared.

  After all, most people in Ming Dynasty had no money and were self-sufficient, so the domestic consumption market was not large, and the main consumer groups were still dignitaries, officials and gentry, but these people mainly used silk and satin, which caused excess production capacity in Xishan, and many cotton cloths were unsalable.

  For this reason, Zhang Gui simply asked Xichang to purchase these cotton cloths in large quantities and continue to use them as wages to mobilize the people at the bottom to do things for him.

  Beggars and children from ordinary families in the city who make a living by begging can get a cotton coat if they sell newspapers for Da Ming Daily in Xichang.

  If a scholar from a poor family reads newspapers for the common people for ten days, he will also get a piece of cotton cloth.

  Even those who come to listen to the report can get three feet of cotton cloth.

   These cotton cloths are unsalable surplus products for Xishan, but for the people at the bottom who lack clothes, they are still very much needed hard currency.

   Therefore, after Zhang Gui increased the productivity of the textile industry, he still made it a helper in transforming Ming society.

   "It's unreasonable! It's unreasonable! Why is Uncle Zhang Guo so vicious, and he uses his cotton clothes from Xishan to bribe the common people. Even if his cotton cloth from Xishan is as much as sand, why not burn it directly, it is better than harming the world like now!"

  Zuo Tongzheng, Gong Dinghe had already knocked on the table first, blowing his beard and staring: "How can we hide this?!"

   "We can't let them continue their propaganda like this. If it goes on like this, it will be useless for the "Di Bao" to hide it or not!"

  Yang Jingchen also gritted his teeth and spoke.

"so what should I do now?"

  Gong Dinghe asked.

  (end of this chapter)