Nanyuan from Langzhong to the head of Jiupin Zhuangtou, there are more than 100 official vacancies. Among them, Guang Yuan Cheng has four members, and Yuan Deputy has seven members, but Han Xiufeng did not promote Lin Qingyuan and other six translators, because the imperial court has other appointments for them.

To negotiate with Xiyi, you can't do without a translator, and you can't trust the beasts who forgot their ancestors brought by Xiyi from Guangdong, so their six "Tongyi talents" have become particularly sought-after, the military aircraft department wants it, the Ministry of Rites wants it, and the Li Fan Yuan wants it!

And Lin Qingyuan and Wang Agui became the secretary of the cabinet, and used the cabinet book as the translator of the military aircraft prescription museum, still living in the bookstore in Dazhiqiao Hutong, and going to work in the military aircraft office of the Old Summer Palace every day like a "small military machine".

Zhang Deyu is not only proficient in foreign languages, but also writes well, and was exceptionally promoted to a member of the Ministry of Rites. Li Weichang moved to the head of the Domain, and the two also lived in the bookstore, and they also went to the Old Summer Palace on duty every day, but they did not go to the military aircraft department, but the duty room of the Ministry of Rites, and everything was sent by Wenxiang, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

George Chen had already changed his name to Chen Bangzhi, because he spoke the best foreign language and was the most clever, and he rebelled with Xu Erjia, who had sold big cigarettes and rebelled with Liu Lichuan and other rebellious parties, and later even went to Japan with the Miyi warship, and was promoted to the head of the Li Fan Yuan, and was sent to Tianjin to serve Lang Guorui and Tan Tingxiang, the governor of Zhili.

They had been in the bookstore for so many years, and had lived in such seclusion that no one in the ministries knew them, or even heard of them, that many felt as if they had suddenly popped out of a crack in the stone.

Because of this, Chen Bangzhi did not get along very well with his colleagues, and after two days of being on duty in the Ministry of Rites, he regretted being a foreigner, and like Li Weichang, he missed the days of being an errand in the "Houyi Hall" very much.

Wen Xiang was very busy, but he couldn't care about whether the life of these two old subordinates in the Ministry of Rites was going well, and as soon as he finished the errand assigned by the emperor, he rushed to the duty room and asked: "Bangzhi, when Yingyi passed through Shanghai, did the original text of the note sent to He Guiqing, the governor of Liangjiang, be translated?" ”

Chen Bangzhi didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly found out the translated note, and said respectfully: "Your Excellency, the translation has been completed earlier, and I wanted to send it to you, but I don't know where you are." ”

"You're busy with you, I'll take a look."

"The subordinate obeys."

All the semicolons are under the control of the governors of Liangguang, Fujian and Zhejiang, Liangjiang and Zhili, and those people who were sent out before have all become local officials who are also investigating the situation, and the mail route is not as smooth as before, and the foreigners' mansion newspapers sent from all over the country have been confiscated for more than a month, so there are not many things to translate, Chen Bangzhi and Li Weichang really have nothing to do, so they simply bowed down and quit the duty room.

Wen Xiang sat down and read the notes they had translated, and found that the foreigners had put forward the same conditions as before, the only difference was that the indemnity was added, requiring the court to pay two million taels of silver!

Thinking that they provoked for no reason, sent troops to occupy Guangzhou, killed so many soldiers and civilians, and in turn asked the court to compensate them for their silver, Wen Xiang panicked in his heart, and sat for a while before raising his head and saying, "Bangzhi, Wei Chang, come in." ”

Chen Bangzhi knew that he was in a bad mood, so he walked in and said cautiously while making tea: "My lord, you drink saliva to dissipate your anger." ”

"I'll drink the tea later, I'll ask you something."

"My lord, even if you ask, as long as the lower officials know, they will never dare to say half a lie."

"I remember that the Military Aircraft Department also has the original copy of Yingyi's note, do you know if Cao Yuying asked Lin Qingyuan to translate it, and whether Peng Zhongtang and Bai Zhongtang reported it according to the truth?"

"I really don't know, my lord, if Lin Qingyuan and them get off work, I'll help you ask them."

"You can't ask about the affairs of the military aircraft department, that is going to lose your head." Wen Xiang groaned.

Chen Bangzhi couldn't hear the meaning of his words, and hurriedly said: "I just said it casually, not to mention that Qingyuan and they are not outsiders. ”

"It's pretty much the same, let me remember clearly, this is the Ministry of Rites, not the bookstore. And you are now working as an errand in the Ministry of Rites, and you are no longer a translator in a bookstore, so you must be cautious in everything you say and do in the future. ”

"Xia Guan understands, Lord Xie mentions."

Wen Xiang nodded slightly, thought about it and asked, "Is there any news about Lord Han, do you know what he has been busy with these days?" ”

Without waiting for Chen Bangzhi to speak, Li Weichang subconsciously glanced outside, and when he saw that there was no one outside, he said worriedly: "A few days ago, Lao Yutou and Xiaoshan went back to pack up all the things that should be packed up, and before leaving, he said that he would take over the family of Master Heren. ”

Wen Xiang had been to the Chongqing Hall before, and he had a little impression of Ren He, so he thought about it and asked, "Where to go?" ”

"Pick up Nanyuan! The adults don't know that Lord Han not only promoted Master Ren to be the director of the Nanyuan Commission, but also raised the pillars and iron locks for the Nanyuan Yuancheng, which is the official position of the sixth grade! The old man is naturally happy, but if he is targeted by people with ill intentions, it will be troublesome. Li Wei paused for a long time, and then said: "I heard that Lord Han not only kept the iron lock of the pillar, but also gave Master Ronglu and Master Yongxiang errands in Nanyuan, and even transferred Wang Hedong and other old departments of the river camp to Nanyuan. ”

"He's gone to Nanyuan, it's like sitting on a cold bench, who can't get along with him?" Wen Xiang took a sip of tea, and muttered: "Besides, it is the emperor's will to transfer the river camp to Nanyuan to expel the people who have privately cultivated and to rectify and repair the river and Haizi." ”

"It would be nice if it was just like this, but if so many people are transferred at once, where will those original civil and military officials in Nanyuan go?" Li Weichang asked rhetorically, and continued: "It is said that in order to drive the original people away, Lord Han is asking Master Wang Qianli, Wan Shixuan, and Temulun to work with the Criminal Division to investigate and deal with the original civil and military officials in Nanyuan, and even the officials who have been out of office for a few years will not let go, and they will come to us this morning to take people." ”

"Arrest everyone and catch the summer palace!" Wen Xiang was taken aback.

"Not only did I come to the Summer Palace to catch it, but I also caught it in Xiyuan, Jingshan and the Forbidden City, and I only knew that I had caught more than a dozen of them in the past few days. There are wrappers, and there are also principals in Langzhong, who are all locked up in Nanyuan, and let their families take the silver to ransom, saying that if they don't take the silver, they will be handed over to the criminal department. ”

"All of them worked as errands in Nanyuan?"

"All of them." Li Weichang thought for a while, and said with a bitter face: "Others don't know, but you know best, my lord, that the officials of the Internal Affairs Office are all done in rotation, and some official positions can only be done for one year, so they hurriedly find a way to change their errands when they are about to leave office." In other words, nine of the ten officials of the Internal Affairs Office have worked in Nanyuan, and you say that Lord Han will be able to investigate and deal with it like this! ”

Wen Xiang realized that Han Xiufeng was raising money for military training, and was silent for a moment before asking, "It's such a big thing, why haven't I heard any rumors at all." ”

"I heard that at the beginning, there was a Lang Zhong who ran to Lord Wencai to complain about grievances, and he also went to the fold to participate in Lord Han's fabrication of charges and wantonly set up prisons. As a result, in the afternoon of the next day, Lang Zhong, who shouted grievances, was given a copy of the supervising imperial history Meng Chuanjin, was dismissed from his post and interrogated, and handed over to the Criminal Department. ”

Meng Chuanjin is a person from Su Shun, and that Lang Zhong will never have good fruits to eat if he falls into the hands of Su Shun. Wen Xiang reacted suddenly, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's not that they don't dare to provoke Lord Han, but they don't dare to jump in front of Su Shun." ”

"So now the yamen of the Internal Affairs Office are panicked, and they hate Lord Han to the core, and they are afraid of being targeted by Lord Sushun and dare not make trouble, so they can only eat coptis dumbly and swallow it in their stomachs, and they can only dare to be angry but dare not speak."

……

Wen Xiang didn't expect things to turn out like this, he pondered for a long time, raised his head and said, "Go and see if Lord Chongshi is not there, if he is there, please come over." ”

"Okay, I'll go."

Coincidentally, Chongshi happened to be on duty in the Old Summer Palace today, and the two duty rooms were not far away, so he walked over after a while.

Wen Xiang beckoned him to sit down, and said helplessly about Han Xiufeng's anger and resentment of the Internal Affairs Office: "Brother Dishan, you said that Zhixing will continue to do this, he is going to offend half of the civil officials in Beijing!" ”

The Internal Affairs Office is definitely the largest yamen of the imperial court, and the setting is similar to the six departments, and the whole child is a "small outer court"!

For example, the Guangchu Division, which is in charge of the treasurer and treasury, and the Accounting Department, which is in charge of the Huangzhuang, are like a small household department; The Master of Ceremonies, the Central Hall, and the Shengping Department are somewhat like the Ministry of Rites; The affairs of the Yamen such as the Du Yu Division and the Armed Forces Institute are similar to those of the Ministry of War;

The Department of Prudent Criminal Punishment and the Department of Management are similar to those of the Criminal Department; The construction department, the construction office, the prime minister's engineering office and other yamen are equivalent to a small ministry. In addition, there are Qingfeng Division, Shangxi Yuan, which is in charge of cattle and sheep, and there are nearly 100 yamen of all sizes, such as the bird gun office, the internal gunpowder office, and the eagle harrier place.

There were more than 20,000 civil officials in the Qing Dynasty, and about 7,000 civil officials in various yamen in Beijing, of which the Internal Affairs Office accounted for more than 3,000, so Wenxiang was not alarmist.

Chonghou had only heard some rumors before, but he didn't expect Han Xiufeng to make such a big fuss, and asked with a frown: "Did he discuss it with Su Shun in advance, or did Su Shun accidentally find out that this was an opportunity to meddle in the internal affairs office, so he instructed Meng Chuanjin to help him clean up the Qingfeng Shilang who shouted grievances?" ”

"At this point, it doesn't matter."

"It's the same, he's all done like this, and it's useless to explain it."

"Brother Dishan, in fact, what I'm worried about is not that he will be retaliated against by those people in the Internal Affairs Office in the future, but that he is such a cautious person, and he goes against the norm to poke such a big hornet's nest, leaving no way back for himself, it can be seen that ...... Visible ......"

Without waiting for Wen Xiang to finish speaking, Chongshi said solemnly: "It can be seen how worried he is about Tianjin, it can be seen that he is planning for the worst!" ”

Wen Xiang didn't want to go around in circles, so he asked bluntly: "Brother Dishan, if we really come to that point, where should you and I go?" ”

Chongshi was asked, and was silent for a while before he said solemnly: "Everything should be based on the country, he is him, we are us, if we really come to that point, we can only say different things and not conspire with each other!" ”