Without money, what is the point of being a traitor?

Chapter 561 This can also be bought
Pei Yuan was making a big fuss about his marriage. Not to mention the few people he was familiar with, even Yang Chi, the Right Minister of the Ministry of Communications, who he was not very familiar with, received a notice of his marriage.

Yang Chi was puzzled and went to Wei Ne to ask about it.

When Wei Ne received the news, he had already been told to spread the news of the emperor's marriage granting widely, so naturally he did not want to hide it.

When Yang Chi understood that Pei Yuan wanted to marry his superior, he was somewhat puzzled.

The marriage of these two thousand-household-level guys is not considered important information, so why should I be informed of it?

It took Yang Chi a while to react, and he subconsciously asked Wei Ne, "Could it be that Captain Pei wants a 'generous gift'?"

Yang Chi naturally misunderstood what he said as Pei Yuan asking for benefits for the previous intelligence.

Wei Ne didn't know the meaning of this and didn't dare to respond casually.

He just said, "I don't know about this either. Let me ask Qian Hu's opinion."

Wei Ne just wanted to congratulate Pei Yuan in person, so he took this opportunity to come to Zhihua Temple and ask Pei Yuan what he thought.

Pei Yuan understood Yang Chi's meaning immediately.

He hesitated.

Yang Chi: This is a good signal. Only with give and take can a healthy interaction be formed in the future.

However, at this moment, I haven't figured out the forces and factions behind Yang Chi, and I can't propose conditions that will maximize my interests.

After thinking for a while, Pei Yuan thought of his travel needs, so he asked Wei Ne, "Ask him if there is any way to help me get a civil servant position of the fifth rank or above, so that I can travel in the capital in a sedan chair without being afraid of being impeached."

After hearing this, Wei Ne was surprised that the lawless Pei Qianhu could be so law-abiding in such a small matter.

He did give some advice, "When there is a way to solve this problem, there is no need to ask for help. When there is no way, asking for help is useless."

Pei Yuan was a little surprised, "What do you mean?"

Wei Ne said, "The court once allowed common people to obtain the qualification of a student or a nominal civil servant position through donations. If there is an opportunity to donate, it is not a problem for a thousand households to get a fifth-rank Fengzheng doctor. If the court did not allow donations, such a nominal title would not be available even for figures like the Seven Ministers."

Pei Yuan was speechless for a moment. Can this be bought?

So he asked again, "Then is there any opportunity for me to serve the Ming Dynasty recently?"

Wei Ne said with some regret, "Normally, donations are usually for military officers and some student qualifications. If you want to sell civil officials with ranks, unless you encounter a time when the Ministry of Revenue is particularly tight on money and grain, there may be no way for the time being."

There is no need to talk about the qualifications of a student supervisor. Even if you have the qualifications, you still have to continue to take the exam.

Although in theory students are also eligible to participate in the selection of officials, there are currently 12,000 juren and students queuing up. Let's take a look.

In addition, there are more than 33,900 officials who have received imperial favors or donated money but have not yet taken office and are queuing up to find out.

Therefore, the imperial court still had a certain element of freeloading when it came to donating money to become a student.

As for donating military officers, it is more than just a free thing.

The Ming Dynasty's low-level military officers were originally hereditary, so even if there were some eccentrics, the court would just accept it most of the time in order to maintain the stability of the system.

Now, some people are actually willing to pay money to become military attachés.

Then come on!
Now is not a peaceful time, and the imperial court is eager to arrest a group of people and send them directly to the border town.

However, it is not easy to buy a honorary civil service position of a slightly higher rank, as this involves the dignity of the civil servant.

Pei Yuan thought about it and felt that the court would be in a difficult situation recently.

I heard that a small half of the horse price silver that was obtained through donations was lost, and many major events happened in the autumn and winter of this year.

Thinking of this, Pei Yuan was no longer in a hurry.

Pei Yuan didn't have any needs for Yang Chi for the time being, so he said to Wei Ne, "Tell Yang Chi that we just want to make friends, and help me spread the word."

Upon hearing this, Wei Ne immediately went to report to Yang Chi.

Yang Chi was speechless for a long time after hearing Wei Ne's reply. After a long while, he said to Wei Ne, "I understand what Captain Pei meant."

Diffusion? How?

It was obvious that he wanted to take this opportunity to convey his request of "making friends" to those behind him.

But he couldn't make the decision on this matter.

Compared with these messy channels, the fastest way for news to spread was naturally the Jinyiwei.

Although Pei Yuan was not so crazy as to go directly to Qian Ning of the Northern Pacification Office to show off, Xiao Yan's Central Army Commander-in-Chief's Office was a neighbor of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Xiao Yan is the son of a eunuch, and many high-ranking officials in the Jinyiwei are also sons of eunuchs, and many of them are quite familiar with Xiao Yan.

So Xiao Yan, who was conscientious and responsible, spread the news to the Jinyiwei easily.

The news of Pei Yuan and Qian Ning's breakup had spread among the Jinyiwei to a small extent, but most people who knew about it did not take it seriously.

It was because Qian Ning’s performance was so poor in the matter of the murder of Captain Zhou Qi.

In comparison, Pei Yuan, who beat Jiang Bin violently and made the Jinyiwei hold their heads high, was the strong man in their hearts.

These people are in the army, they admire the strong, and they come from good families, so they don't need to curry favor with anyone. When they talk to each other, they all look down on Qian Ning from the bottom of their hearts.

So even though they knew about the breakup between Commander-in-Chief Qian Ning and Pei Yuan, they did not shy away from the news about Pei Yuan.

However, this news was so subversive that many Jinyiwei even expressed that they could not accept it.

A real man like Pei Qianhu should be a man, why would he go and marry someone?

This is outrageous! It must be a rumor!

Fortunately, after they learned that Captain Pei was going to marry a Captain of the Jinyiwei and his female superior, the Jinyiwei said that this was the Pei Yuan they had imagined.

When a real man gets crazy, he will do it even to his own people.

Just when there was a lot of discussion outside.

Pei Yuan also hurriedly summoned all the military officers of all ranks in the Qianhu Suo, as well as the Taoist priests of larger temples, to Zhihua Temple, and launched a rectification campaign with an almost harsh attitude.

The person who was singled out for criticism was Chen Xinjian, who had returned from his job as a government official in high spirits.

At the meeting, Pei Yuan severely criticized Chen Xinjian's work style.

Point out Chen Xinjian's inappropriate behavior of snatching the wedding dress, and the harm such an action caused to an unmarried woman.

Chen Xinjian was confused. When he saw that Qianhu wanted to criticize him, what else could he say?

He could only reflect on himself in public and sincerely said that he married her to make up for the harm caused to the woman by this incident, and he would definitely treat her as an equal in the future and would never let her down. Captain Pei sternly warned everyone that life's major events should not be taken lightly.

In particular, Chen Xinjian's actions led to the breakdown of the marriage of the cloth merchant's daughter, which was extremely harmful to unmarried women. People who destroy marriages are simply outrageous and deserve to die!

Afterwards, Captain Pei expressed his satisfaction that, with his strong intervention, Chen Xinjian had learned his mistakes and was able to correct them, and finally escaped death. He would also let Chen Xinjian go out to gain experience at the appropriate time.

Everyone in Qianhu Suo knows too well what "going out to gain some experience" means.

Of the two general flags that left Captain Pei, one is now the commander of Tianjin Guard, and the other is now the deputy commander of Shandong Military Region.

So jealous.

At this time, a captain's personal soldier who knew the gossip took the opportunity to spread among the crowd the news that His Majesty had granted a marriage between Captain Pei and Captain Han.

Only then did everyone begin to understand.

They all knew that Chen Xinjian was Pei Yuan's confidant and had always been the most trusted.

This time when Chen Xinjian was dragged out for criticism, everyone thought that Chen Xinjian had fallen out of favor. It turned out that the two captains were about to get married, so Captain Pei, out of empathy, was so dissatisfied with Chen Xinjian, who was a bad guy but doing good things.

Wait, His Majesty has granted a marriage between Captain Pei and Captain Han?

The Jinyiweis reacted slowly and understood why Captain Pei was warning them, and they all responded enthusiastically.

When Pei Yuan saw that everyone was congratulating him, he immediately felt that he could trust their hearts.

It’s a pity that Sikong Sui is not here, so there is still one less insurance.

Wait until everyone dispersed after talking.

Pei Yuancai waved his hand, motioning Chen Xinjian to follow him into the back hall.

When they arrived at the small study in the back hall, Pei Yuancai acted as if nothing had happened and asked Chen Xinjian, "How is the matter of running for office going?"

Chen Xinjian did not mention what happened just now, and answered truthfully, "It went smoothly at the Imperial Household Department. I paid a little more and got the rank of a fifth-rank thousand-householder."

Pei Yuan asked curiously, "Hasn't the imperial court's horse donation been completed? How did they do it?"

Pei Yuan is still very interested in the scalpers of this era.

Chen Xinjian answered truthfully, "It's just a delay. We report to the Ministry of War in batches, and those who have paid will report in as soon as possible. The vacancies reserved in advance are delayed in the Imperial Household Department level by level. Generally speaking, a delay of three to five months is not a big deal."

"I paid the money and got a vacant ticket. The procedures went smoothly."

Pei Yuan had a general understanding and asked, "What about the Ministry of War?"

Chen Xinjian said, "The Ministry of War is easier to handle. When the court started donating horses to the Imperial Household Department, it was when He Jian was in office. At that time, the person who handled this matter was Li Hao, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War. I went to the Ministry of War to ask for help. The people in the Ministry of War got the deed from the Imperial Household Department and directly helped me to get a certificate."

At this point, Chen Xinjian paused and smiled, "The words on it were signed by Li Hao himself, who was brought to me by the Ministry of War. It only cost a small amount of money."

Chen Xinjian said with emotion, "Who would have thought that it would only cost this much to make a new document and have the former assistant minister of the Ministry of War sign it."

Pei Yuan understood the details and said casually, "Everyone has withdrawn, just to make a good relationship. In order to prevent someone from doing bad things and finding something out of him."

Li Hao is also miserable.

First, he served as the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, but the Bazhou bandits rebelled. Then, while he was training as the Tongzhengshi, he entered the special job transfer system and became the assistant minister of the Ministry of War. As a result, the Bazhou bandits became stronger and stronger under his efforts.

Later, when Gu Dayong was arguing with the civil officials, he first cursed Shuntian Prefecture and then the Ministry of War.

Previously, everyone was still discussing whether it was a problem with the system, but with just a few strokes of the pen, Gu Da directly pinpointed it to the individual.

This caused Li Hao's reputation to collapse in the court and the country, and his official career was cut short.

So Li Hao decided to go for broke and cooperate with Xiao Jing. When the officials went to see off He Jian who was leaving office, Li Hao helped the emperor to urgently transfer the troops from Xuanfu to the capital.

Later, Li Hao, who suffered retaliation from civil officials, simply retired.

But no one expected that this retired veteran cadre would still have the opportunity to make use of his remaining energy.

Pei Yuan looked at the official documents that Chen Xinjian placed in front of him and could hardly believe that the Ming Dynasty could be so efficient.

"Is that all settled?"

Chen Xinjian thought this was normal. "The most difficult thing, Xuanfu, has already agreed. The rest is just a matter of spending some money. If this can't be done, there will be nothing that can be accomplished in the Ming Dynasty."

Pei Yuan said with satisfaction, "Very good."

Chen Xinjian still remembered that Pei Yuan reminded him last time that he would come back to see him, so he took the initiative to ask, "The captain said before that he would instruct me on recruiting soldiers and raising funds after I come back, and I haven't asked for your advice yet..."

Pei Yuan had already thought about this, so he said to him, "Although you are the commander of the Xuanfu Town, you don't have to go to Xuanfu to recruit soldiers."

"Those border troops are very slippery. I'm afraid they can no longer be used to fight tough battles."

Since several failed battles against the Hu Lu, the northern border troops have basically maintained the same combat strategy.

As soon as the Hulu entered the border, they began to gather in the strong cities and started to form a group. The Tatars did not have the time to attack the cities, but just robbed everywhere. When the Hulu retreated after robbing, they ran out to recover the lost territory.

This battle was so comfortable.

Under such circumstances, it is basically impossible to recruit a strong army locally in Xuanfu.

Besides, even if there were good soldiers, they would basically be taken away by the military officers of Wanquandusi to serve as servants.

Chen Xinjian asked tentatively, "Then Qian Hu means to go find Xuzhou Wei again?"

Pei Yuan was speechless, "That's not necessary."

Even if we want to take advantage of the situation, we can't just focus on Guo Da or Brother Guo from Xuzhou Wei.

Besides, Pei Yuan didn’t want the Xuzhou nobles to appear in his future military system.

However, Pei Yuan partially affirmed Chen Xinjian's idea, "Remember the battle in Yanggu? Think about those Xuzhou guards who were trapped in a desperate situation, why were they so good at fighting?"

Chen Xinjian reacted quickly and gave an answer immediately, "Because they have basically never fought a war."

Pei Yuan agreed, "Not bad!"

The main business of Xuzhou Guard and Xuzhou Left Guard is shipbuilding! So although they are tall and strong, they have hardly been on the battlefield!

Under the circumstances at that time, experienced veterans like those from Huai'an Guard and Dahe Guard would have left Pei Yuan, Gu Dayong and the others behind and ran away.

Only the people of Xuzhou Wei were still nervously recalling the battle moves passed down from their ancestors.

It was precisely because they had no idea what to do that those people believed Pei Yuan’s lies and fought to the death in Yanggu.

(End of this chapter)