When the doorman at the yamen saw Zhu Jinglun coming in, he came out and waited for a long time, and handed over a few small bags to Zhu Jinglun with a smile. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Jinglun did not shy away from suspicion and took it together.

Everyone knows what is in the bag, so Zhu Jinglun opened a small point of no bag, there were ten taels of silver in it, and he gave it to Menzi directly, but he had to take the cloth bag, because it was a gift list, and he had to know who gave him a gift.

That's right, these are gifts from others, and according to Menzi, this is called filial piety.

It is already an open secret to give gifts to the yamen, and even an industrial chain has been formed, and some brokers help to pull relations between officials and businessmen, which is called rent-seeking in later generations. However, people often do not meet directly, one side is through a wide range of brokers, and the other is mainly through a door or a personal follower.

For example, when Zeng Guofan was in Beijing as a Hanlin, he suddenly got the appreciation of Emperor Daoguang, and was promoted to three levels in just one year, but in order to be decent, he rented a house from the boarding house to live alone, and Mu Zhang'a introduced a relative of his own to Zeng Guofan to be a disciple, and what he did was this kind of acceptance and other things, but it was a pity that the disciple relied on himself to be a disciple of the Eight Banners, and he was too bold, and the money he received dared to spend privately before Zeng Guofan's consent, and he was expelled by Zeng Guofan. After that, although Zeng Guofan lived alone, he still bothered the door of the post house to greet him for a while.

Zhu Jinglun did not follow him, so some of the deeds were done by the protégés of the governor's yamen. This man has been doing this kind of thing for many years, and he knows the rules very well, and the people who come to the yamen to give gifts are also like carp crossing the river, and he is very careful to classify everyone's red envelopes very well, and he has never been on a business trip.

Zhu Jinglun is also generous, he never hesitates to reward, and he will reward Menzi some, so Menzi is extra careful.

And Menzi is also a person who knows how to observe words and feelings, he is quite respectful in front of Zhu Jinglun, not entirely because of Zhu Jinglun's generosity, but more importantly, he knows that Zhu Jinglun is not a simple person, not to mention anything else, there are more than a dozen interpreters in the yamen, why do they give Zhu Jinglun the most gifts?

Zhu Jinglun returned to the room, did not count, only took out the largest looking one from the large and small silver purses, took out the worship post and the famous thorn in it, and went straight out of the yamen again, and handed over the silver to Hou Jin immediately.

"Brother Hou, there are thirty taels of silver here."

Hou Jin also squirmed: "How good is this, I have money, I don't need it." ”

Zhu Jinglun smiled: "Brother Hou, you are still polite to me. Let's put it this way, this money is not given to you for nothing. You take the money, first go to get a set of clothes, and then go to the Yuexiang Building outside the Yongqing Gate. ”

Hou Jin is not a fuel-efficient lamp, before the war they brought it to Guangzhou City for a while, although he has not been to such a place as Yuexianglou, but he has heard of it and knows what kind of place it is.

I couldn't help but wonder: "What are you going to do in Yuexiang Building?" ”

Zhu Jinglun said: "Help me keep an eye on someone!" ”

Hou Jin accepted the money, asked Zhu Jinglun, and left.

Zhu Jinglun returned to the yamen again, with the relocation of the occupation committee to the general's mansion and the departure of Bai Gui, the official affairs of the governor's yamen became less and less, and Zhu Jinglun was relatively idle.

When people are idle, it does not mean that the power has become smaller, and as long as there is power in the hands, there will be no worries about money.

The power in Zhu Jinglun's hands is based on the fact that he is the translator of the governor's yamen, but more importantly, he plays well, the so-called power is also, you have to be able to get it, power is power, otherwise it is just a symbol.

When Zhu Jinglun was still in the past, an ordinary translator on the side of the governor's yamen was no different from other translators large and small, and even the British trusted those translators seconded from the Hong Kong church, but at that time, Zhu Jinglun could receive much more red envelopes than others.

And now, Zhu Jinglun is no longer an ordinary translator, since the last time he accompanied Hurd to exchange the Indian soldier Singh, the occupation committee gave him the title of assistant translator, and now the eighteen interpreters on the side of the Guangzhou Governor's Yamen are under his management.

In other words, Zhu Jinglun is now the leader of the translation team here, and after his status is improved, he will receive more gifts, most of which are not asking him to do things, but just to maintain the relationship, gifts in the name of celebrating his promotion. However, for some businessmen's dinners, Zhu Jinglun refused them all, and he never entertained others.

Zhu Jinglun didn't go to entertain those businessmen, but why did anyone come to give gifts as always, it was because he could really do things and knew how to do things.

Others give money and do things by themselves, this is obviously the deeds of a corrupt official, is Zhu Jinglun such a person?

He needed money now, and the extravagant expenses of this time were supported by the bribes of these merchants. But this is not a reason for him to take bribes, at least not the only reason, not the most important reason.

Unwrapping a gift package, there is a gift list and a greeting post, in Zhu Jinglun's view, it is a relationship, and when put together, it is a relationship network. It may not be used for a while, but sooner or later.

Zhu Jinglun kept opening a gift bag, most of them were brocade bags made of silk cloth, of different sizes, all of them seemed bulging, more than twenty or thirty taels of silver, less than five taels, some of broken silver, and some of the ocean, of course, not Yuan Datou Dayang, but Mexican Eagle Ocean. The Mexican silver coins minted during the Spanish colonial era were not only imported into China in large quantities, but also circulated in large quantities in the United States, which can be called the international currency of an era.

Suddenly, Zhu Jinglun opened a gift bag, wrapped in three packs of silver coins wrapped in red paper, and counted as many as 1,000 pieces, which is equivalent to more than 700 taels of silver, which is really a big deal.

Zhu Jinglun has received five taels or ten taels, as well as thirty taels or fifty taels, but there is no big gift of more than one hundred taels, not to mention the generous gift of a thousand eagles, and he can't help but have doubts about this. Although he is already able to do things and is willing to do things, such a large gift is still too rare, and the gift giver must ask for a lot of things.

With doubts, Zhu Jinglun opened the other party's name thorn, signed by Chen Qixin, Zhu Jinglun was even more puzzled, because this person he knew, the translator from Macao, who used to live in a room with him, and later after the occupation committee moved out, he also followed.

Unlike Zhu Jinglun, Chen Qixin is a French translator, and Zhu Jinglun is for the British, and there is little intersection between the two, why would this person give him such a big gift?

I looked through the gift bag again, and there were no other objects in it, no letter asking for help, and no invitation to treat guests, just a famous thorn, on which it was simply written congratulations to Zhu Jinglun on being promoted to assistant interpreter.

This made Zhu Jinglun even more puzzled, but if the other party didn't look for him, he would never find him.