Liu Bagou's status in the Tang Dynasty has always been relatively special, he can sit firmly in the position of the imperial study without forming a gang, and it can be expected that Liu Bagou will still be in the imperial study for many years in the future.

Such a person is different from Qian Qili, Song Ruan and others, therefore, he does not have much interest in the courtiers, and when he recommends people, most of them also maintain a neutral attitude, and they don't even need to use the opportunity of recommendation to strengthen their authority.

And this is also the reason why Liu Bagou recommended Xiang Hanyi!

He didn't recommend him to Xiang Hanyi because he was a member of his own faction, nor did he expect to gain his loyalty by recommending Xiang Hanyi, because in Liu Bagou's view, the loyalty of all courtiers, including his own, should be dedicated to the Son of Heaven, and a courtier's so-called loyalty to a certain minister is originally a great rebellion.

Therefore, in his recommendation for the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, he did not recommend anyone with any obvious faction, but recommended Xiang Hanyi, a person with no obvious factional tendencies.

Xiang Hanyi has always been a relatively low-key person in the Tang Dynasty officialdom, he used to serve in the local government, and later served in the Enterprise Department of the Ministry of Commerce, his reputation is not very prominent, but he is not a very conspicuous person among many senior officials.

However, it is precisely because it is not very eye-catching, so many people, including Chen Lifu, are unfamiliar with Xiang Hanyi, and they have naturally heard of this name, but what is the details of Xiang Hanyi? But I don't know much.

And the unknown represents the risk!

So even if it is a person like Chen Lifu who likes to make trouble, after hearing the name Xiang Hanyi, because there is no too obvious information in his memory, he also thinks that he will keep a low profile for a while to see what kind of person Xiang Hanyi is and what kind of opinion he has about himself.

Chen Lifu lived in the Shanghai Dock Company for several days, arranged the affairs of the Shanghai Dock Company properly, and after the third phase of the Shanghai Dock Company's wharf construction project was resumed under his intervention, he left here, and then did not make other big moves, just quietly waiting for his top boss, Xiang Hanyi, the governor of Songjiang Prefecture, to arrive in Shanghai.

Not only Chen Lifu, but the entire Songjiang Mansion is waiting for Xiang Hanyi's arrival.

In the waiting of everyone, Xiang Hanyi did not arrive in Shanghai directly at the first time, but took a detour to Suzhou halfway, what did he do, he went directly to see his top boss, Huo Shouqi, a Taoist of Jiangnan Province.

Although he, the prefect of Songjiang Mansion, is the only prefect of the third rank in the entire empire, but in front of Huo Shouqi, he is still a junior.

Huo Shouqi was much earlier than many middle and high-ranking officials in the empire, and his future was shining, and no one knew when he would be transferred to Gyeonggi to become a minister.

Such a person naturally cannot be ignored.

Xiang Hanyi went to Suzhou to see Huo Shouqi, according to insiders, the meeting between him and Huo Shouqi lasted for more than three hours, during which they also had a simple lunch together, but what they talked about at the meeting, naturally no one knows, except for those Hantong eagle dogs who have nowhere to go.

Three days later, a routine report on the meeting was packed into a sealed envelope and sent back to Gyeonggi, where the person in charge of monitoring the movements of officials in Gangnam Province was in charge of monitoring the dynamics of the Jiangnan Provincial officials.

After discovering that they were just discussing ordinary government affairs, even if it was about the people's livelihood and economic affairs of the entire Songjiang Mansion and even Jiangnan Province, and it was also related to Chen Lifu, he was not moved in the slightest.

The report was stamped directly with his own private seal and the official seal of his department, and then resealed, and finally the report would be sent to the heavily protected secret archives of the Hantong, like many secret reports collected from all over the empire every day.

This report will lie quietly in this archive, year after year, like almost all of Hantong's report documents, and will never see the light of day!

Of course, the content of this report is still written into the daily bulletin and presented to the Son of Heaven, but a report of thousands of words has been condensed into one sentence: "On the seventh day of December in the tenth year of Xuanping, the prefect of Songjiang visited Huo Shouqi, a Taoist of Jiangnan Province, to Hanyi and talked about people's livelihood affairs, which is no different!" ”

The rest is not the point, the point is just the last three words!

To put it bluntly, Han Tong didn't care about the other affairs of these officials at all, as long as they didn't engage in party and personal gain, rebellion, and anger and resentment affecting the rule of the empire, Han Tong was usually too lazy to deal with it.

Even when Han Tong discovered that Zhou Lide, the county commander of Shanghai County, was corrupt, the focus of Han Tong's report was not how much money this person was corrupt, but focused on the corruption in Songjiang Prefecture, believing that this large-scale and widespread corruption in officialdom would affect the economic development of Songjiang Prefecture, and then shake the economy of the empire, and must be curbed.

Han Tong's report was not aimed at Zhou Lide, but at the shaking of the rule caused by large-scale corruption.

This time Xiang Hanyi met Huo Shouqi, although the content they talked about was very important, it was not the focus of Hantong's attention, so they were too lazy to deal with it.

But Han Tong is too lazy to take care of it, it doesn't mean that others don't pay attention!

Xiang Hanyi went to Suzhou to meet Huo Shouqi, and Chen Lifu and the other people in Songjiang Mansion were naturally extremely concerned.

Even Jia Wenbai, who went east with Xiang Hanyi before, but was left behind by Xiang Hanyi halfway, paid considerable attention to what Xiang Hanyi talked about with Huo Shouqi.

It's a pity that none of them know!

Huo Shouqi, as a Jiangnan Daoist, naturally would not ignore the speculation of the middle and low-level officials under his command, and Xiang Hanyi, as a party concerned, would not say anything.

After Xiang Hanyi met Huo Shouqi, this was the way to Shanghai, this time there were no other accidents on the way, and Xiang Hanyi's ship arrived in Shanghai smoothly.

Xiang Hanyi's ship hadn't docked at the dock yet, but he saw a large group of people waiting on the dock, and he didn't need to look in detail to know that most of these people were officials of Songjiang Prefecture, that is, his subordinates in the future, and a small number of them were people from the upper class of Songjiang Prefecture, including respected gentry, high-ranking officials of large companies, and so on.

After the ship docked on the dock, Xiang Hanyi did not set up any shops, but said to his entourage and the director of the Jiangnan Provincial Affairs Department who accompanied him: "Get off the boat!" ”

After all, he just got off the boat with a group of people!

As soon as Xiang Hanyi got off the boat, a group of people waiting at the shore dock came forward to greet him under the leadership of Chen Lifu and Jia Wenbai!

After saluting, Chen Lifu took two steps forward to Xiang Hanyi and said, "Chen Lifu of the Ministry of Duties meets Lord Fuzun!" ”

Xiang Hanyi glanced at Chen Lifu, he had heard the name of this person many times, but it was the first time he had seen it, this person was younger than he imagined.

There are a lot of rumors about Chen Lifu in the officialdom, all kinds of them, well, they are generally not good words, which also gives many people a negative impression, thinking that Chen Lifu's appearance should also be more obscene, and he looks like a traitor at a glance.

But when I really saw Chen Lifu, I found that this person had a good skin, if it weren't for the fact that he was wearing a Confucian official and pinned the badge of a four-grade official, I am afraid that he would regard this person as a merry and talented man.

Not to mention, in the early years, Chen Lifu was really a merry and talented man, and he made a great reputation on the Qinhuai River, but everyone on the Qinhuai River competed to provide free bed warming services.

But what kind of person Chen Lifu is, he has seen a lot of stunning women, and there are several dozen stunning concubines in the family, how can he be easily confused by these oirans, that is, there are a few times when he really can't shirk it, so he reluctantly stays overnight.

This Chen Lifu, from the eyes of ordinary people, his skin is indeed good, and as a traditional reader, he is proficient in all kinds of books, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, etc.

He was able to be admitted to the Jinshi in the pre-Ming Dynasty, and his poetry and kung fu were naturally not bad, even if they were not top-notch, but at least they were first-class level.

In addition, this person's bamboo drawings are also a must, and have been praised by many contemporary painters, saying that his bamboo drawings have a tenacious spirituality.

Such a person, if he is not an official, even if he doesn't have a penny, but he can mix very chic on the Qinhuai River, not to mention that Chen Lifu still has money, a lot of money, which makes him more favored by Qinhuai women.

It's a pity that since he joined the company, it is rare to stay in Qinhuai at night, at most, he occasionally asks three or five confidants and friends to go on a tour of the mountains and rivers.

Talented and beautiful people traveling together are naturally completely different from the vulgar things like staying in Qinhuai at night, this is a romantic affair!

Seeing such Chen Lifu, Xiang Hanyi secretly said in his heart, it is a pity to be an official like this, what kind of official is it, how good it is to travel the mountains and rivers, maybe they will be able to leave them a story of a merry and talented man in the Tang Dynasty in the future, just like Liu Yong.

However, if Chen Lifu knew Xiang Hanyi's thoughts, he would definitely be angry with him!

He Chen Lifu is going to be an official...... You all have to be a big official!

Because he wants to support the Holy Monarch and create a prosperous era of Xuanping!

A man like him can not be compared to those incompetent people who linger on vulgar fans, are bewitched by pink skeletons, and finally get drunk and dream to death.

It's a pity that no one knows Xiang Hanyi's thoughts, and no one knows Chen Lifu's thoughts!

As for what they plan to do, naturally no outsiders know.