Here are two comrades who are enlightened and reformers, "Brother Feng 98", "Yi Meng" who actively raise funds for the imperial reform and serve their father-in-law's great cause, never considering personal gains and losses. They can be called Renjie. This country will be commended.

My father-in-law also warned his compatriots across the country that those who actively donate will be awarded official titles after the great cause of restoration, saying: "Dogs are rich and noble, don't forget each other."

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The most stigmatized father-in-law who hates corrupt father-in-law is the most stigmatizing that someone buys and sells officials. This behavior not only corrupts the court's atmosphere, but also fundamentally digs out the corners of the court!

Therefore, in order to strictly observe the official atmosphere, safeguard the interests of the country and the people, and improve the style of imperial civil servants, my father-in-law thought carefully and decided that he would exclusively manage the market behavior of official positions and sales.

As the saying goes, since it cannot be eradicated, it is better to be distracted than to block it.

As long as everything exists, exists for a long time, or even tacitly understood, the people take it for granted and can be accepted by everyone, it must have a meaning of existence.

My father-in-law believed that under the guidance of his great spirit and far-sighted vision, the imperial officialdom was chaotic, disorderly, and filled with a lot of insider information and dark trading atmospheres would inevitably be cleansed by my father-in-law's clear flow, so that it could develop sustainably and inject new impetus into the reform of the empire and the great development of the empire.

The most important thing is that the great cause of reform requires money!

Compared with the official positions in the capital, the father-in-law's charges are relatively reasonable, and the actual economic affordability of the buyer is more considered.

For example, the Shandong deputy general who sold to Song Zhong just now only collected 1,000 taels of cash in cash, plus less than 300 taels of Liaodong specialties. Is this expensive?

Not expensive!

It costs 3,000 taels to buy a lord for Yang Sichang!

What does this mean?

This shows that the darkest part of the empire is the heart of the empire!

To sweep this darkness from the sky above the heart of the empire, reform is inevitable.

No one can question his father-in-law's character. He has been an imperial civil servant for ten years and has never collected money and done nothing?

A glimpse of the leopard in the tube!

Just from the fact that the son-in-law, Ran Xingrang, can get a donation of no less than 10,000 taels of silver every year, it can be seen that the father-in-law's character is at least 800 points and the amount starts at 100,000.

Of course, my father-in-law's words counted. Song Zhong and 18 first batch of "customers" who ate crabs were then notified.

The notice clearly states when they will set off to take office? Which unit of the Imperial Army is escorting them to take up their new posts.

On the back of the notice is a line of text - "No matter where you are? Admiral Wei Gong and the Ming Imperial Army are your strong backing."

According to rough statistics from the staff officers of the attendants, if all the military positions in the Ming Dynasty were sold for sale, the minimum income could be increased by 5 million taels to the treasury. If the civil servants were also sold for public sale, it would be at least 8 million taels.

"Selling official positions is a science. We must not only maintain the pure atmosphere of serving the people in the imperial civil servants? We must also ensure the good operation of the imperial administrative system and protect the interests of the people. Therefore, selling official positions is not about the operational routine that others use to get money, but we only give officials."

Of course, my father-in-law will not be blinded by gold and silver. In the plan, he will also make corresponding changes to the imperial law to conform to the actual situation of the current development of the empire.

The business of official positions can only exist in the short term? This short term is based on when will the great cause of father-in-law be completely completed?

Therefore? This is a transitional policy, and it is also a policy that does not make you feel sorry for selling your land.

From the fact that all the eighteen customers bought were official positions in the inner city, you can see the profound meaning hidden behind it.

As long as these eighteen clients can take office smoothly, then the news of getting better official positions from Eunuch Wei will surely touch people's hearts very well? It will enable more comrades to closely unite around the Huangming new leadership collective centered on Eunuch Wei.

On the surface, it is selling official positions.

In fact? It's a big game of chess.

When the people in the world were surprised to find that all the officials around them were "elections"? Why worry about major issues?

After a short rest, my father-in-law met with the two again.

These two people are not officials? They are citizens? They are completely citizens.

But? These two people are not ordinary people, but rich people.

One is Ma Xingui, the son of a wealthy businessman from Nanhai, Guangdong, and the other is Wan Xiaobao, the son of a Fujian maritime businessman.

Ma Xingui was very knowledgeable in literature and was also a child in his early years. Unfortunately, he was not interested in the imperial examinations, but did business. There were many businessmen in Guangdong who had business dealings with Southeast Asia, so when Ma Xingui was a teenager, he often traded with his father in the area where the former Ming Dynasty Old Port Xuanwei Office was located, and learned the language of the locals for this purpose. Later, he also learned the words of the Netherlands and Flangjiren.

These days, those who are proficient in many languages ​​are of great talent, especially for the maritime merchants in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of person is even more precious. Therefore, Ma's upstart has been doing well in Guangdong and is respected as the upstart prince by the maritime merchants in Guangdong.

The Wan Xiaobao family is also a local tyrant in southern Fujian. His cousin was Yan Siqi, who was in the eyes of Eunuch Wei in Japan because of the fall of the curtain. He is now the commander of the second brigade of the Japanese Imperial Army of the Ming Emperor.

Ma Xingui and Wan Xiaobao ran to Liaodong thousands of miles away to pay homage to the great Imperial Army Commander Eunuch Wei, with the same purpose.

The two of them wanted to ask Eunuch Wei to enthrone the title!

Ma Xingui wanted to ask Eunuch Wei to sign him "Kabidan" in Malacca, that is, the Han leader living in the local area.

He proposed that as long as Eunuch Wei can convince the court to give him a formal imperial edict and send the imperial army to support Guangdong maritime merchant forces headed by his Ma family to fight against the Dutch in Malacca and the local Johor Kingdom, he will donate 300,000 taels of silver to the great commander of the imperial army, Eunuch Wei, to help his father-in-law's great cause of reform!

Wan Xiaobao wanted to persuade Eunuch Wei to send a large army to attack the Flangji army on Cebu Island, and presented the map of Cebu Island drawn by Fujian maritime merchants and the local Flangji army garrison.

Of course, Wan Xiaobao also wants the Fujian maritime merchants behind it to occupy Cebu Island and its neighboring areas (author's note: Philippines).

If Eunuch Wei agrees, Fujian maritime merchants are willing to donate 500,000 taels, but the premise is that the court must recognize the Cebu Island area as the eternal power of Fujian maritime merchants.

In short, the maritime trade interests in this area will be divided by Fujian maritime merchants in the future.

These two people have to ask that Eunuch Wei increase his interest, because he had just read the Navy's plan for the southward advancement not long ago.

In that plan, Cebu Island and Malacca are areas that the joint fleet must compete for.

Unexpectedly, before the Imperial Army took action, the maritime merchants in Guangdong and Fujian took action in advance.

“That’s it,”

Eunuch Wei picked up the teacup, thought for a while, and said to Ma Xingui and Wan Xiaobao: "If the court appointed you as prefects and prefects in Southeast Asia, or even governors, can you give us more money? For example, one prefect is 100,000 taels, one governor is 500,000 taels, and one governor is 1 million taels?"
Chapter completed!