To be honest, Xiao Ruxun did not like those who were good at surrendering. Although when they were enemies, Xiao Ruxun hoped that the enemy camp was full of surrendering experts, after changing sides, he hoped that his subordinates were all unyielding men.
This was really contradictory.
However, there was no other way. He had not fought many decent battles along the way. The people he faced were all "heroes" who "knew how to adapt to the situation." They either took the initiative to surrender, or forcibly raised their value in order to surrender. At the end, they still had to carry out an extremely vile hunger marketing campaign. Then, they would pretend to be extremely arrogant and unwillingly join his camp. Then, they would turn around and start to stab their original camp in the back, accurately and ruthlessly.
Who asked them to surrender and even give up their local warehouses and power?
Xiao Ruxun had no choice but to accept them and continue to use them. She even promised more to some of them who already had high positions in the first place in exchange for some necessary support. After all, the world was not something she could govern alone with 300,000 troops.
Of course, most of these people were civil officials, so they could not stir up a big storm. However, their words more or less had some deterrent power. After all, the pen was in their hands, and there were only a few literate people in the world. As for the generals who surrendered, especially those who killed civil officials and surrendered, Xiao Ruxun did not dare to trust them. That was where the Thought Instructor mainly went.
Of course, surveillance was inevitable. If he did not carefully monitor them now, Xiao Ruxun would really not be able to eat in peace.
However, these guys were obviously not just that troublesome. There were even more troublesome places. For example, they were close to overthrowing Shen Yicheng's government. This group of people often came to visit him in twos and threes. On the surface, they said that they wanted to deepen their understanding, but in fact, they wanted to ask for an official position.
They seemed to be very certain that in the future, he would become an important figure in the Great Ming Dynasty, so they had a lot of hope for him. When they talked about their achievements in governing the local areas, when they talked about his own abilities, they were full of extravagant praise.
In short, the central idea was that they wanted a better official.
This was also the reason why they betrayed Shen Yi and sought refuge with Xiao Ruxun. The current imperial court could be said to be filled with traitors, and all of them had to be punished. At that time, there would definitely be a lot of vacancies in the imperial court, and the power vacuum would be unprecedentedly large. Such a rare opportunity to reshuffle the cards, if they did not grasp it, then they would really be officials in vain.
Everyone knew that local officials were not as good as central officials. The most powerful officials in the Great Ming Dynasty were the ones who had taken root in the central government and worked their way up to the Imperial Cabinet. In the Great Ming Dynasty, the only people who could really call the shots were the Ministers of the Six Ministries and the Inner Cabinet Elders.
The people who followed Xiao Ruxun were either local officials or Nanjing officials. They were originally second or third rank officials, and some were even High Scholars. There was not a single Hanlin official. From their words, Xiao Ruxun could fully understand how envious and jealous these people were of Hanlin background.
It seemed that among the scholars, the scholars were envious and jealous of the Xiucai, the Xiucai were envious and jealous of the High Scholars, and the High Scholars were envious and jealous of the Xiucai. In the Xiucai group, the third rank hated the second rank, the second rank hated the first rank, and those who were not Hanlin hated the Hanlin. In short, each rank hated the other, and there would always be contradictions.
Therefore, it was not surprising that such a group of people would start a fight.
It was also because of this that Xiao Ruxun had enough opportunities to take advantage of the loopholes. He promised that the central government in Nanjing would go to the central government in Beijing. He promised that the county magistrate would go to the prefectural magistrate, the prefectural magistrate would go to the inspector-general, and the inspector-general would go to the six ministries of the central government. In any case, everyone was given something to look forward to, and they would work hard for him.
It was very obvious that these people also knew where they could go, but each of them wanted to climb higher. So when there were still five days left before they reached the capital, these people began the second wave of attacks. Everyone took out some banknotes as gifts and gave them to Xiao Ruxun, saying that it was to help the army and that it was just a small token of respect.
From ten to twenty thousand to one hundred to two hundred thousand, they clearly regarded this place as a place to buy and sell positions. This surprised Xiao Ruxun a little, but after the surprise, he calmed down. They gave him money, so of course he would accept it.
Although he had made a lot of money from the land reform in the southeast, money was like Han Xin's army, the more the better. No matter how much money you gave him, he would never think it was too much.
After all, there were many things to do in the future when the world was peaceful. Every one of them required money, and they could only be settled with money. Moreover, the silver standard of the Daming had not been completely determined. For the first time, Zhang Juzheng confirmed the status of silver in taxation, but if he wanted to regulate the use of silver, it was obvious that he had not done it well.
Of course, he could not do it well either. A large amount of silver since the Long Qing Revolution had been switched was not in the central government, and the national treasury was empty. The national treasury of the Ministry of Revenue was empty. Without enough silver savings, how could there be a silver standard?
With the ability of a silver black hole like the Daming to absorb silver and the huge amount of silver that Xiao Ruxun had brought back from Japan for the Daming, he still failed to settle the normative monetary market. It could be imagined how much the local obstacles would affect the central government's decision-making. A small government could not do anything big.
The financial power must be unified and returned to the central government. Xiao Ruxun would take as much money as these people gave him. No one could not write empty checks, especially those who had been confirmed to be dead on the list of Black Water. The more money they gave, the happier Xiao Ruxun would be.
Their lair had been raided, and now there should not be much money left with them. If it were not for Yuan Huang and Ye Mengxiong who stopped them, Xiao Ruxun would have wanted to open a price list and sell his official position.
This thing could really make money, and the effect was immediate. No wonder in previous dynasties, when they were in financial difficulties, rich people were allowed to buy an official position. Although there was no real power, there was status and dignity. For some local tycoons who cared about face, this was really attractive.
"You can't do this! What's more, we are not short of military expenses. What will others think of you if you do this now? You are the pillar of the country. You should pay attention to your identity and image! "
Ye Mengxiong really could not stand it anymore. He found Xiao Ruxun in private and talked to him about this matter, asking him to more or less restrain himself —
Don't think of yourself as Cao Cao. You want to be Guo Ziyi, and Guo Ziyi did not buy or sell an official position! Selling an official position is the power of the emperor. No, it is something that only a tyrant and a muddle-headed emperor would do. You are the pillar of the country, how can you do this kind of thing?
Yuan Huang also expressed his dissatisfaction with this, saying that Xiao Ruxun did things thoughtlessly.
Xiao Ruxun waved his hand and smiled.
"They gave me money, and it is clear that they want to be closer to me, so that they can get an official position in the future. How can I refuse? According to these people's thinking, if I don't take money, they will be unhappy. Instead, they will think that I will not give them a good result. They will worry that there will be internal chaos before Shen Yicheng is eliminated. What should I do then?
And now there are a lot of troops, and there are many disasters along the way. It is time to use money. If I take this money, I can also give it to my subordinates to help the victims and build the place. Wool comes from the sheep's back, and it can be regarded as doing something for the people. "
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