When he saw Su Jin say this, his breath still hadn't stabilized. Huang Qiong could only shake her head and smile bitterly: "You, you still have to learn from Jian Yong in this regard." Isn't he also a civil official? You are now the official of the seal of this house, how can you go down if you can't ride a horse? In Jian Yong's words, sitting in a sedan chair inherently separates you, your parents, from the people. ”

Hearing Huang Qiong mention Jian Yong, Su Jin was a little convinced: "Lord Wang, don't say it, it turns out that I always thought he was too slippery, and I somewhat looked down on him." But now that he is an official in Zhengzhou, he has more contact and finds that there are too many things worth learning from him. Compared with him, the minister is at most a direct minister, and he is the real capable minister. ”

"The minister goes to the yamen every day either by car or in a sedan chair, and he almost walks to the yamen every day. Along the way, even a vendor selling tofu brains can laugh and joke. After chatting all the way, what the people thought and what opinions they had on the government, they all felt the same. Not to mention anything else, on this point alone, it is far inferior to the minister. ”

"The minister has always been a Beijing official before, and he hasn't learned anything else in Beijing over the years, but he has learned a lot about this arrangement. As you are saying, sitting in a sedan chair separates you from the people. This people don't know anything in their hearts, how can they really be a shepherd for the Son of Heaven? And how to govern the local government, and not close the door at night? ”

After Su Jin said this, Huang Qiong nodded thoughtfully and said, "Indeed, there are some things you have to learn from him." He is different from you, you have always been a Beijing official in Jinshi and the first and second. Those officials in Beijing who are three feet tall don't need to learn deliberately, and they will slowly become contaminated. He was promoted from the county level. ”

"What the common man thinks in his heart and what he wants to do, he knows more than you. He has more experience in governing the place than you do. Therefore, there are some things that you have to calm down and learn from him. The sage said: If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher. As you said, if you don't know what the people are thinking in their hearts, how can this prefect do a good job? ”

"But don't be too discouraged. You can't learn from his experiences. And you also have your own advantages, such as your understanding of the members of the imperial court and your grasp of the direction of the imperial court's governance, which are difficult for him to compare with his long-term tenure abroad. I only hope that you will learn something from him during this time. ”

"Combine your own strengths with his experience in governing the place, and you will become truly mature as soon as possible. Otherwise, you will be able to do what you say as soon as the prefect is in office. This king can protect you for a while, but he can't protect you for a lifetime. This time, you are out, waiting to see you, and there are people who watch the king's jokes, but there are many people. ”

"Also, your temper and temperament must be taken away. Remember, someone appreciates you, but no one will tolerate you all the time. This king also knows that you may not be used to Jian Yong's behavior. To be honest, he has some things, and this king is also unaccustomed to it. But to a certain extent, at least until the bottom line of this king is crossed, this king will tolerate him. ”

Because this king knows that it was when he was an official in the local area, and he had been facing some stereotypes and bad habits in the officialdom for a long time, and he had developed habits and styles. And these things were all things he had to do before. Therefore, for his small abacus, as long as he does not cross the bottom line of this king, this king will not pursue it. You must also learn to be tolerant and not to impeach anyone at every turn. ”

Hearing Huang Qiong's words, Su Jin said: "Lord Wang, what you said is right, there are some things that really don't blame him." He also has no way, this is the practice of officialdom now. After the minister became the prefect of Zhengzhou, he realized that even if you know that some things are wrong, there are times when there is really no way. ”

"It's like this year's river workers' money, if he hadn't scraped together 3,000 yuan of charcoal burning money, he would have sent it to the Ministry of Industry Shangshu and the two waiters. I am afraid that until now, the money for the repair of the Yellow River has not been allocated. And this is for the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, it is customary to burn charcoal money in winter and ice money in summer. This money is really not much, and the big man in the DPRK is not bad at all. ”

"But whether you send it or not, what does that mean what is your attitude towards Shangguan. Just like the river wages this time, there are so many prefectures and counties along the Yellow River, and the money is allocated to that prefecture. If you don't send it, you'll never wait. Withhold you, and be above board. Lord, even if you have a letter from you, if you don't send this money, the Ministry of Industry can delay you for a few months. ”

"Although I didn't dare not give it, I was dragged out by them for a few months. They didn't have anything to do, but it was a great danger to the people along the river. Now it looks like it's about to freeze, and the river workers can't do it if they drag it out. Even if the people are looking forward to the good work of the river, what is the use of not going down the river? If we don't do a good job of river work this winter, it will be a big deal if the spring flood will come next year. ”

Su Jin's explanation for Jian Yong made Huang Qiong a little surprised. I heard that these two people have a big quarrel in the Zhengzhou Mansion for almost three days, and small quarrels can be said to be every day. In addition to the deliberate fit between the two of them in front of themselves, they have always been on the tip of the needle in the palace. Why is Su Jin defending Jian Yong today, which is a bit strange.

Seeing that Huang Qiong looked at him and didn't speak, Su Jin blushed and said: "Jian Yong, this person, and Chen are not only fellow villagers, classmates, and the same year, but in fact, the two of us still have a little bit of kinship. Although the minister cannot be said to be from a family of eunuchs, he can be regarded as a famous family in his hometown. The family used to be a hairpin family, and my great-grandfather once made the second grade of the Ministry of Rites. ”

"It's the ancestor, and he has also made the right deputy envoy of the Imperial Historical Tower. It's just that my father is upright by nature, and he thinks that the officialdom is too dark, so he has not taken the imperial examination, and he has only been the deputy priest of Enmeng Guozi for one term, and then resigned and returned to his hometown. Relying on the 2,000 hectares of land left by his ancestors, he became a rich man. After resigning and returning to his hometown, his father put more energy on ethnology. ”

"The family school, under the painstaking management of the father, because there are several jinshi, one of whom is also in high school to explore flowers, so it is very famous in the local area. In addition, my father hired several well-educated Confucians to teach, which made the study of ethnology unusually prosperous. Many families in the surrounding area send their children to study. ”

Jian Yong lost his father when he was a child, and his grandmother saw that his family was so poor, and still refused to give up hard study, so she gave birth to a love of talent and enrolled him in the family study. In addition, they are provided with food and rice every month, so that they can live a worry-free life and study with peace of mind. This person has been extremely intelligent since he was a child, and in the second year after entering the clan school, he repeatedly bet on Mr. Zhong's exam questions. ”

"Do you know, how many of those children of the family are willing to study hard? But I can't recite it, and I'm afraid that I will be punished by my husband. I don't know how this guy got it, every time before Mr. takes the test, he can guess nine times out of ten the exam questions from Mr. Over time, every time before Mr. took the exam, those children of the family always bought articles from him, in order to be able to pass the test. ”

"Speaking of which, this guy is also a capable person, and he has relied on this for a few years, but he didn't rely on a penny of funding, not only saved enough money to go to Beijing to catch the exam, but also left a lot of money for his widowed mother. It is because of this that the minister has always had a bad impression of him in the early years. In Chen's view, buying and selling articles is a loss of the dignity of a scholar, and it is even more insulting to a saint. ”

It was also for this reason that after he was promoted, the minister always thought that he would be a corrupt official. Until we were transferred to Zhengzhou, the two of us had no contact. But this time he became a colleague, and the minister found that whether he was an official or a person, the minister was far worse than him. The minister has always thought that the way of the courtiers is to admonish the dead and fight to the death. ”

"Now I realize that sometimes you want to do something for the people, and there are things that you have to do even if you don't want to. Because you don't go along with the dirt, you won't be able to stand in the officialdom at all, and sooner or later you will have to be squeezed out by others. If the officials can't do it, how can they talk about benefiting the people? ”

"It's hard to be a magistrate, anyone can pinch your neck and find fault with you. If you don't give gifts, I'm afraid that from the seventh grade will be done. Now there are only two kinds of officials in the officialdom of Daqi, one is the official who only makes money by unscrupulous means and does not do things. One is an official who has a bottom line to make money, and at the same time can do some practical things for the people. ”

"The places where Jian Yong is an official, although they are not too wealthy, at least they are considered to be above average all the way in Fujian. He has been able to do this all these years, which is actually very good. In some places, the hands of officials are much darker than his. Just one levy of grain will increase the rat consumption to three points. According to his position, it is normal for his family to have a lot of money. ”

Regarding Su Jin's comment, Huang Qiong smiled slightly and said: "The prefect has sat down during this period of time, and you have made a lot of progress." This king didn't think about it at the beginning, this king just found an excuse to go out to visit someone, and if it didn't like it, he would go to impeachment. was transferred to the post of Governor of the British Prince's Mansion, and Su Changshi, who would rather dismiss than go to office, has such a change in his personality one day. ”

"It is said that people can be arrogant, but not arrogant. Your brother is arrogant, and his arrogance is not small. Since you were promoted to the prefect of Zhengzhou, this king has been worried that your strong point will not be an official for a long time, and he will be squeezed out, and now these worries are a little redundant. In this way, the king can also return to Beijing with confidence. ”

Huang Qiong's words were half ridicule and half sincerity, but it made Su Jin, who remembered the past, blush: "Actually, that time, I thought that the prince was so ridiculous that he accompanied the concubine to visit the son born to her ex-husband. I really don't know the prince, I went to find out the situation of the homeless. If he had known that the prince was dedicated to the people, how could he have done such a bastard thing. ”

"Actually, there are some things, you can't blame the minister, prince. The prince, the minister was really frightened by the fate of those colleagues who had been subordinate officials in the prince's mansion. The emperor's discipline of the princes is actually quite strict. It's a pity that there are few kings who are sensible, and most of them are absurd. The prince is ridiculous, but the unlucky ones are always the officials of the palace. ”

"Among the princes who have left the palace, only the history of the Shu Wangfu and the Ji Wangfu have always been good from the beginning to the end. The governor of Zhao Wangfu, because King Zhao has been seriously ill, has also done Zhao Wangxu safely. As for the other palaces, it can only be said in two lines. The two Changshi of Yongwangfu and one Sima were removed from their posts because they were unable to restrain Yongwang. ”

"The current Changshi, since he took office last year, knew that he couldn't control the Yongwang under the premise that he simply came to report everything to the emperor truthfully, and only then did he stop doing it now. The long history of King Teng's Mansion, a dignified and four-grade official, was whipped by King Teng with a horsewhip and bruised all over his body. Just because he persuaded this King Teng not to ride his horse in Beijing. ”

"King Song is even more excessive, and the three Changshi have not done it. One was cried by King Song in front of Concubine De because of his stricter supervision of King Song's reading, and was demoted to Qianzhong Road to be a fellow acquaintance. One broke his leg while riding a horse because the king of Song did not listen to dissuasion. was hated by Concubine De, and was relegated from the four-grade long history all the way to West Sichuan Road, and became an eight-grade county cheng. ”