Just as everyone was thinking wildly, they saw a convoy of trains, which appeared from the end of the avenue, and gradually approached from far to near, only to see two warrior armored vehicles in front of them, followed by a large Iveco, and then horse-drawn carriages, cavalry, etc. The crowd also shouted, "It's coming, it's coming." ”

After a short time, the convoy stopped in front of the welcoming crowd, and the doors of the three cars in front of them opened almost at the same time, and people came out, but the first two warrior armored cars were all soldiers in camouflage uniforms, and only those who got down from Iveco were not people in military uniforms. Dozens of people immediately got down from the carriage behind and surrounded the Iveco.

Fang Zhongping, director of the Jinzhou Management Office, is a naturalized civilian cadre, and he knows that the new mayor cannot be a soldier, and the five or six people who came down from Iveco, there are men and women, but they have different clothes, and their spiritual temperament is very different from that of the naturalized cadres, and they are obviously all veterans, so they first came to Iveco and said: "I am Fang Zhongping, director of the Jinzhou Management Office, may I ask which chief is the newly arrived Mayor Gao?"

Gao Jin took a step forward and said, "I am Gao Jin, the mayor of Jinzhou City appointed by the Qingdao Executive Yuan and the Northeast Management Committee. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, shook hands with Fang Zhongping, and tilted his head slightly, only to see that her naturalized assistant Geng Jinyan was already standing beside her, and handed over a folder, and said, "Chief, your letter of appointment and documents are here." ”

Gao Jin took the folder and handed it to Fang Zhongping, who was also very satisfied with the assistant's performance. Geng Jinyan is also a naturalized citizen with old qualifications, originally a refugee from Tianjin, rescued by the People's Army, and then has been working with the People's Army, and later worked in East China. Although Geng Jinyan has never studied, she has a flexible mind, quick response, diligent hands and feet, and studied at night university, and obtained a second-class diploma certificate.

Fang Zhongping hurriedly took the folder and looked at the letter of appointment and Gao Jin's certificate, confirmed that it was correct, immediately closed the folder, and said, "Mayor Gao, welcome to you." ”

Their conversation did not deliberately lower their voices, and the others were not far away, so they could hear them more clearly, but they were all shocked, they had received a telegram in advance, knowing that the new mayor's name was Gao Jin, and the telegram did not mention Gao Jin's gender, and the name was also relatively neutral, and it was impossible to see the gender, but no one thought that the newly arrived mayor of Jinzhou, Jingran, would be a woman.

Fang Zhongping has been in Shandong for a long time, and he is used to seeing women as officials, and there are many women among the elders who can be in charge, so after seeing Gao Jin, he didn't feel any surprise, but the others are different, whether it is the garrison of Jinzhou, Zhang Zuolin, or the former Qing court officials who were retained, they almost can't believe this fact, Bi Jing's China in this era is still a society with extreme male superiority and female inferiority, although there are individual prominent women, but they are always dependent on men.

Among them, the former Qing court officials who were retained were the most impacted, because they all received traditional Chinese education, and among the women there may be talented people, and there may be those who are good at managing the family; and even chivalrous officials and bandits, but in the officialdom, there is absolutely no place for women, although everyone knows that the current head of the Qing court is the Empress Dowager Cixi, but this is only a common harem in Chinese history, not the second Wu Zetian. Decades ago, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were also female officials, but that was just a formality, and it was always men who were in power in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In fact, when the logistics headquarters was set up in Jinzhou, there were also many female naturalized citizens working in the logistics headquarters, and there were also several female veterans of the army, mainly engaged in the management, allocation, and accounting of materials, but in the eyes of these former Qing court officials, they did some miscellaneous things, and to put it bluntly, they were doing the work of servants. But now this woman is coming to Jinzhou to be the mayor, in Chunting, this is a dignified prefect, a member of the four grades, how many scholars have studied hard for ten years, and have worked hard all their lives, even if they are nominated for the gold list in the imperial examination, they don't know how much effort it takes to get to this position, and there are many people who can't get to this step in their lives, and East China ** actually sent a woman to serve like this, so several people looked at each other, speechless, and what came to mind were words like "Ji Si Chen, Hongyan and Troubled Water". Some people even thought that this woman was the inner favorite of the head of East China, so she had to be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, but if it was an internal favorite, it should naturally be hidden in a deep mansion and wealthy family.

Of course, Gao Jin didn't know that these retained former Qing court officials were thinking nonsense, and after she and Fang Zhongping confirmed their identities, she called Ouyang Longxing and introduced them to Fang Zhongping.

Fang Zhongping listened, first greeted Ouyang Longxing, and then turned around and summoned Zhang Zuolin and the two local garrison regiment leaders Huang Wei and Chen Qing'an to come over and meet Ouyang Longxing and Gao Jin.

Zhang Zuolin was also very surprised when he first learned that Gao Jin was the mayor of Jinzhou, but he was not a scholar, of course, he did not have so many concepts of etiquette, and in listening to books and watching plays, Zhang Zuolin also watched a lot of dramas in which women were officials, such as [Yangmen Female General], [Mulan], [Female Concubine] and the like, so there was not much resistance to women as officials, anyway, he was a soldier, and it had little to do with administration. The other two officers had no objections, like Fang Zhongping, they were both from Shandong, and they had long been used to it. So he saluted Ouyang Longxing first, and then Gao Jin. And Ouyang Longxing also said a few words of encouragement to them.

Then the former Qing court officials from Jinzhou came to meet Gao Jin, although they were very tired, but at this time, they had to deal with the scene, so these former Qing court officials could only come over, but they stopped at a distance of more than two meters from Gao Jin, bowed down, and said, "I've seen the chief." ”

Originally, Gao Jin was going to shake hands with him, but before he raised his hand, he stopped and made a gesture, which was also a little embarrassing, but fortunately, his hand was not raised, but he didn't care that the other party was not used to modern handshakes, but he didn't kneel, so he bowed slightly. Fang Zhongping introduced to Gao Jin that the leader was Lu Bohuan, the general judge of Jinzhou, who was also the highest-ranking official in Jinzhou at present, and the prefect and the same knowledge above him had already run away. Other people also have Lu Wanyun, Governor Xie Dongyang, Zhaoma Meng Xiangqing, Prison Zhao Kun, team leader Chen Jibai, Zhou Zun and others.

In fact, Lu Bohuan has long been accustomed to shaking hands, but now he is facing a woman, there are men and women who do not kiss, although Lu Bohuan's official is not big, but he is from a high background, he is a person who has read the book of sages, how can he not know this truth, Gao Jin and Fang Zhongping shook hands just now, Lu Bohuan was not stop slandering in his heart, this woman just showed up, Jingran also talked with men, completely ignorant of etiquette, it is simply shameless, he can't do such a shameless thing, so he stopped bowing far away and avoided physical contact with Gao Jin。

However, more than 2 meters is also very close, after Lu Bohuan gave a salute, he carefully looked at this woman's appearance and clothes, and saw that this woman was wearing a dark blue long skirt with a shawl on her shoulders, so she did not wear only trousers like other women in East China, so it was not out of line, but the skirt was too short, only above the knee, but it showed a pair of big feet wearing jet-black leather shoes, and it looked a little nondescript. She wore a pink round hat with a ball of pom-poms on the top of her hat, but she was wearing it crookedly, and no one reminded her. Looking at her five appearances, she was quite clear, but she was extremely tall, and she was more than half a head taller than herself, which made Lu Bohuan very surprised in his heart, but he guarded the teachings of the saints, and he didn't dare to look at it more, so he lowered his head again.

In fact, Gao Jin's height is 1.66 meters, which can only be regarded as above average in the old time and space, but she is wearing a pair of high-heeled leather boots today, with a heel sole as high as 9 centimeters, plus a berex with an oblique belt, so in Lu Bohuan's eyes, she has a vision of 1.8 meters. In fact, Gao Jin is not wearing a long skirt, it is the latest European-style long windbreaker of Shanghai Five-person Company, with wool inside, which is very warm. Although it is the end of March, it is still very cold in the Northeast, so you don't need to wear a cloak anymore.

Gao Jin said: "You have also worked in Jinzhou for more than 1 year, in the past 1 year, your performance of the Executive Yuan and the Northeast Committee have seen, although there are such and such problems, but on the whole it is still qualified, I came to Jinzhou this time to take office, but also brought the Executive Yuan to your arrangements, the Executive Yuan decided, will all of you become regular, the specific appointment arrangements, will be officially announced tomorrow." I hope that you can continue to work hard in the future, and constantly improve your ability to make better performances. ”

Lu Bohuan and others listened, they were all happy and worried, happy that they had finally been recognized by East China, from observation and probation to formal officials, but the worry was that now they have wavered in the prospects of East China, because they sent such a woman to be the mayor, no matter how you look at it, this is a sign of the country's demise, if it is in the Qing court, I am afraid that the admonitions of the words have flown into snowflakes, but there is no official in East China, and some people have already considered it in their hearts, whether to continue to follow East China Dry, or withdraw as soon as possible, but now that it has turned positive, it is really a question whether to go or not.

At this time, Fang Zhongping said: "Chiefs, let's go to the city, the residence is ready for you." ”

Gao Jin nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk about it in the city." ”