Chapter 2694 The accident of the Kui character scroll, the elbow and armpit

  Conversations with Geng Ruqi and Pan Ruzhen are much easier.

  The affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry are much more specific. Feng Ziying and the two talked about some of their own ideas.

  For example, the study of soil and soil quality, the adaptability of new crops and the cultivation of fine varieties, such as the construction planning of post roads and railway tracks, and the promotion and use of building materials such as cement, etc., can be regarded as opening a window for the two of them.

   This instruction also made them understand the key practices that they should focus on when entering the center, instead of becoming bureaucrats in the paperwork.

  No way, the officials in this era are still the most typical officials in the feudal era, which is far from the officials under the modern administrative system in Feng Ziying's mind. They are more about being officials than doing things.

  Geng Ruqi and Pan Ruzhen are quite good, at least in the local area they belong to a group of people who do things pragmatically, but they still have a lot of inherent old thinking about how to do things, how to do them well, and how to be efficient.

  Feng Ziying had to teach them in person, breaking the shackles of the old thinking, instilling more new things in them, and at the same time combining the new evaluation concept of the test method to make them adapt quickly.

   It should be said that the effect was good. Both Geng Ruqi and Pan Ruzhen showed strong interest.

  Especially combined with the examination method, this also means that the future cabinet and officials' evaluation of them will also be based on these matters mentioned by Feng Ziying, which is equivalent to Feng Ziying giving them missed questions in advance.

  Of course, missing a question does not mean that they can do it well, there is still a lot of work to do.

  As the end of the year approached, in addition to taking the initiative to summon Pan Ruzhen and Geng Ruqi, who had been transferred to Beijing, to have a conversation, there were naturally also people who took the initiative to come to the door, and there were quite a few, such as Wei Guangwei, Cui Chengxiu and Fu Shi.

Needless to say, Wei Guangwei handed over Feng Ziying and Feng Ziying in Yongping Mansion. Of course, their positions were different. When the Beizhi Bailian Rebellion was quelled, Wei Guangwei was also sent a letter to remind him.

  Cui Chengxiu is a bit interesting.

  Feng Ziying was governor of Shaanxi via Datong, and at the same time Cui Chengxiu was the prefect of Datong. More than five years and almost six years have passed. Cui Chengxiu was transferred to the prefect of Jinling two years ago, but his grade has not changed.

  Feng Ziying has seen the evaluation of Cui Chengxiu by the Ministry of Officials, and it is not bad.

  However, Feng Ziying was not satisfied with this person who was too flattering to the local gentry.

But he also knows that in a border town like Datong, the local rich and famous families are very powerful. Without the support of these people, it will be difficult to do things. The Feng family, the Duan family, the Ma family, and the Ma family are all wealthy families in Datong. It can be considered excusable.

  Cui Chengxiu is good at managing bandits, with vicious attacks and strict suppression. Datong horse bandits have always been tough, but under his rule, they have to flee far to the west, or go out of the fortress.

  After being transferred to the prefect of Jinling, scholars in the south of the Yangtze River had a bad impression of him, so they put it aside.

  Therefore, Cui Chengxiu is still somewhat capable.

  But what makes Feng Ziying a little depressed is that Wei Guangwei and Cui Chengxiu were both well-known eunuchs in the history of their previous lives, but they didn't expect that they are all here for themselves now.

  Wei Guangwei is nothing more than that, at least he has some kind of friendship, and he is also from a famous family, but this Cui Chengxiu has no friendship. He has given away several Datong mothers-in-law and aunts at the same time, but he seems to have confiscated them too.

  However, as Lian Guoshi said, as long as you can do things and are willing to get closer, you can’t reject people thousands of miles away. You can guide and instill them, so that they can gradually accept your own ideas and viewpoints, and gradually use them for me.

  At any rate, both of them were also Jinshi, and now they are both third-rank and fourth-rank officials. If they can take the initiative to take refuge in themselves, how can they reject them?

   Of course you have to use it.

   There is also Fu Shi.

  Fu Shi is now in Shuntian Prefecture, taking over Mei Zhiye's previous position.

  Feng Ziying appreciates Fu Shi even more now.

  Fu Shi is down-to-earth and steady, sophisticated and thoughtful, and has a good reputation in Baoan Prefecture for several years.

From Feng Ziying's point of view, Fu Shi is actually not very suitable for entering the court, and is more suitable for doing things in the local area. Now Shuntian Fu Zhizhong is also an official of the fifth rank, but Fu Shi is not young anymore, in his early forties. If If it is delayed any longer, the future development prospects will be limited.

  So Feng Ziying intentionally put it in a farther location, so that he can directly rise to the fourth rank, and choosing a remote place to be a magistrate is also a bit of experience.

   As for the future, as long as I am in the court, I don't worry about not being able to return to Beijing.

  On the eighth day of December in the sixth year of Wantong, Qi Yongtai, who had been lingering on the sickbed for more than a year, died of illness.

  Without Qi Yongtai's support, Gu Bingqian's position in the cabinet is even more precarious.

   "What did you say?" Feng Ziying was surprised and couldn't help standing up: "Why didn't He Zhisheng report to me? Where's Feng Ziyi?"

  The person who came was Li Guitang, commander of Lieutenant Long Jinwei, Feng Ziying's former guard leader.

"Master He may be a little careless, or he may think that Lord Shoufu is too close to you, so he has not paid attention to it, and Lord Feng has been in Jinling for more than two months, and the Japanese pirates are showing signs of resurgence in Jiangnan. , Mr. Feng attaches great importance to it, and personally took people there."

  Li Guitang's answer reminded Feng Ziying that Feng Ziyi had been to Jiangnan for a long time.

  He knew about it.

  The Tokugawa shogunate is a little restless again.

   This made Feng Ziying a little uncertain.

  In my previous life, at the beginning of the 17th century, Japan under the rule of the Tokugawa family was fairly safe. How did you travel to this time and space? The general situation in other surrounding areas has not changed much, but Japan is a little different?

   Of course, it would be inaccurate to say that there has been no change. The biggest enemy, Jianzhou Jurchen, has been wiped out by himself. Isn’t such a big change considered a big change?

   Could it be that Tokugawa Hidetada was stimulated by the destruction of the Jianzhou Jurchen?

Feng Ziying has never relaxed his surveillance on Japan. The Osaka Winter Battle and the Osaka Summer Battle still happened. The Toyotomi family has been destroyed. Tokugawa Ieyasu also passed away last year. Tokugawa Hidetada officially took charge of the shogunate, but one country and one city The order did not announce that the strength of the daimyos in various places has not been reduced much. This is the biggest change.

This also means that there are still a considerable number of troops in Japan, even if these daimyo troops pose a threat to Tokugawa Hidetada's position as a general, but Tokugawa Hidetada still did not use the "One Country, One City" order to reduce it. Who is this change aimed at? ?

  Because of this, Japanese pirates from Jiangnan frequently harassed the sea, making Feng Ziying a little worried whether this was the beginning of Japan's possible threat to China at sea.

  So on the one hand, he asked the navy to strengthen its defenses, and on the other hand, he asked Feng Ziyi to go to the south of the Yangtze River to investigate those local rich merchants who had been in contact with the Japanese pirates, so as to prevent the Japanese from breaking through from the inside.

  Gu Bingqian and Feng Ziying were indeed very close, but Qi Yongtai's passing made Gu Bingqian feel the crisis. Maybe he thought it was difficult for him to give him strong enough support like Master Qi?

  That's why he took this stupid move?

  (end of this chapter)