Please ask me to be the emperor

"Reporting to His Highness the King of Qin, this is the roster of scholars from all over Shaanxi Province who came to participate in the imperial examination and the articles selected by Chief Zheng and I. Please take a look at it!" Zhang Bojing hurriedly walked in with a large stack of policy papers in his arms and said .

"Okay, put it there first and wait for me!" Zhang Shunzheng was drawing there with his head down, and said without raising his head when he heard the words.

When Gao Guiying saw this, he quickly poured tea for Zhang Bojing. He was so frightened that he almost dropped all the rosters and articles in his hands on the ground.

"Okay, okay, why are you so polite when you come to me!" Zhang Shun threw the pen in his hand helplessly and reached into the basin next to him to wash the ink on his hand.

"There is order at the top and bottom, and there is a distinction between superiority and inferiority." Zhang Bojing couldn't help but said quickly after hearing this.

"Okay, okay, just keep it in mind!" Zhang Shun casually wiped it on the dry towel handed over by Gao Guiying, and motioned to Zhang Boxing to sit down and talk.

Gao Guiying, who originally followed Zhang Shun, has now been made a royal concubine, which is Zhang Shun's explanation to the rebels who were born in Yansui.

It's just that since then, Zhang Shun has had fewer people around him who can take care of him and act as guards, which is very inconvenient.

Gao Guiying liked to stay with Zhang Shun, but he happened to have no maids at his disposal, so he secretly moved here to live with him.

It's just that since then, Zhang Bojing has been one of the victims who came to see Zhang Shun.

Zhang Shun shook his head helplessly, and there was nothing he could do.

He had no choice but to pick up the roster in front of him and look at it, only to find that no one looked familiar, so he had to give up.

Zhang Shun asked Zhang Bojing, who was drinking tea respectfully, "Who do you, Sir, Ding Changli and Zheng Changli think we have this time?"

When Zhang Bojing heard this, he couldn't help but said with a look of embarrassment on his face: "There are a few people among them whose articles are quite fluent!"

As he spoke, he picked out three or four articles and handed them to Zhang Shun for review.

Zhang Shun can now understand a lot of classical Chinese articles. He read it carefully and frowned: "Is this the best?"

"Look at these, even the sentences are not fluent, they are not as eye-catching as these!" Zhang Bojing smiled bitterly, and couldn't help but hurriedly picked out a few more and handed them over.

Zhang Shun took it and flipped through it briefly, and he immediately couldn't laugh or cry.

It turns out that in this era, reading books outside of work is something that is not something ordinary families can do.

However, it is even more difficult to go further on the basis of off-the-job study.

In fact, the ability to ask questions, analyze problems, solve problems and rigorous logical thinking, the most basic training in previous lives, has almost no other way for these people except reading other people's articles.

Therefore, the originally "excellent" articles seemed "rough" enough to Zhang Shun, but compared with these illogical and rambling articles, they were really "flowers and flowers".

"Are the scholars who participated in the imperial examination so poor?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but wonder.

"You can't say that without saying anything. The main reason is that this time it was worse!" Zhang Bojing said hesitantly after hearing the words.

It turned out that because the rebels had just occupied Shaanxi and the people were not attached to it, many "talented people" disdained to associate with "thieves", so they did not come to participate at all.

Although these "talented people" may not be very talented, at least their articles are better than these people's.

Zhang Shun now understood how rare it was to recruit the talents recruited by the big companies in Heluo through Lu Weiqi's connections last time.

Most of those people have received a little training, and regardless of their actual abilities, they at least understand official documents and basic official procedures, and are fully capable of serving as county magistrates.

But now these people may not be qualified to serve as civil servants.

"That's it!" Zhang Shun smiled bitterly and shook his head. "After recruiting them, first give them official document templates for them to imitate, then teach them addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and then send them to the counties to learn how to use them!"

"Can this be done?" Zhang Bojing couldn't help but hesitated after hearing this.

"You have to do it even if you don't, it's better than nothing!" Zhang Shun shook his head and said, "I'll tell you the truth, Mr. Zhang!"

"Now that the rebels have come out, they appear to be occupying areas outside the state capital. In fact, they are seriously short of manpower in the counties."

"First, it cannot collect taxes in a timely manner, second, it cannot maintain local order, and third, it cannot provide relevant intelligence."

"Many strong men occupy the mountains and become kings, causing trouble for one side and the rebel army cannot control them."

"If things continue like this, not only will the people suffer, but the rebels will also be like rootless ducks!"

"So, no matter what happens, the first priority is to restore order in various places!"

Zhang Bojing was stunned when he heard this, and immediately understood what was going on.

It turned out that the rebels were just pretending to be in Henan Prefecture. As for Nanyang and Ruzhou that they later occupied, they were basically under military control.

If normal procedures are followed, it is estimated that in a year and a half, after the rebels have stabilized the situation in these two places, they will be able to select and dispatch officials to manage them normally.

As a result, no one expected that Zhang Shun would suddenly "snake an elephant" and eat three sides and four towns of Shaanxi in one go.

In addition to border towns mainly for military purposes, the Shaanxi Chief Envoy Office has eight prefectures and two states.

The manpower brought by Zhang Shun alone is not to mention distributed at the county level, but he can govern these eight prefectures and two states, which is considered a good thing.

In fact, just as Zhang Boxing expected, only Lv Weiqi under Zhang Shun managed to control Shanxi Prefecture with the help of Zhang Luxuan, Dong Duxing, Li Jiqi, Shizuo, Wen Tingzhu and Zhang Shifan.

As for the other mansions, they can only be temporarily guarded by the rebel generals and their troops.

While the two were talking, Gao Guiying happened to come to report: "Mr. Lu is here!"

"Oh?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but responded quickly after hearing this, "Invite him in quickly!"

As soon as Zhang Shun finished speaking, Lu Weiqi hurried in not long after.

"King Shun." Lu Weiqi shouted hurriedly, but when he saw Zhang Bojing standing next to him, he couldn't help but kept silent.

"It's okay, Mr. Zhang is not an outsider, Mr. Lu" has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it! "

"Reporting to King Shun, we in Xi'an Mansion have worked hard this time and have just collected more than 200,000 shi of grain, which is far from enough for the rebel army!" Lu Weiqi hesitated after hearing this, and finally decided to tell the truth.

"More than two hundred thousand stones?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but asked, "How come there are so few?"

"Firstly, due to natural and man-made disasters, Shaanxi has been suffering for a long time; secondly, due to lack of manpower, grain collection is far lower than before."

"Thirdly, the taxes in Shaanxi are not high, and the summer grain is only 700,000 shi. Among them, Xi'an Prefecture is the main one, and other prefectures are supplementary."

Lu Weiqi's voice became quieter as he spoke, but fortunately Zhang Shun already understood what was going on.

The feeling is that the tax revenue of a province in Shaanxi is about one million dan, about 700,000 dan for summer grain and more than 300,000 dan for autumn grain.

As the core of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Prefecture has a tax revenue of more than 300,000 dan.

As a result, because the rebels are short of manpower, it would be good to collect 200,000 dan now.

But with this little food and grass, how can it be enough?

In terms of minimum security, there are almost 200,000 to 300,000 people receiving pay in the three towns and four towns of the Ming Dynasty, and there are tens of thousands of rebel troops stationed in Shaanxi.

Calculated based on a total of 300,000 people, the rations alone cost nearly one million dan a year, and 70,000 to 80,000 dan were needed every month.

These two hundred thousand stones are only enough for three months, how can they be enough?

Nowadays, Yansui, Gansu, Ningxia, Guyuan, Lintao and other towns have newly arrived, and each of them is waiting for food, ready to eat their own rice.

What can we do?