Chapter 189: Officialdom

In fact, in Jiang Feng's two letters to Lu Bing, in addition to asking Lu Bing to be a matchmaker for Liu Shunhua, there was also a letter begging Lu Bing to tell him a matchmaker, saying that he would marry Liu Fangrui, the daughter of Liu Shunhua, the political envoy of Shandong. Some of the things Jiang Feng did could be well hidden.

Some can't hide it from others, such as the so-called snatching relatives. Among the more than 100 domestic servants who followed Liu Shunhua out of Beijing, there must be Jinyiwei's secret agents inside. However, even the 'bitter master' Liu Shunhua did not report such a thing, and Lu Bing also understood the trickiness in his heart, and he was unwilling to do much.

At this time, looking at Jiang Feng's proposal to be a matchmaker, he really felt unbearable, and Lu Bing didn't know why Jiang Feng sent the female dependents of the family to Jinan Mansion. Although Jinyiwei's hands and eyes are all up to the sky, all of them are caused by Jiang Feng and his cronies Tie Ding to make a big fuss in Qingzhou, he still doesn't know about the killing of King Heng's son, and he can't contact him.

Things like the marriage between officials are nothing more than the need for a person with a status enough to suppress the scene to come out and contact, which can be regarded as a match, as for the real procedure, there is still a special matchmaker to handle it.

However, Lu Bing has always been shrewd, but he saw something else in the first letter, a cheap son-in-law or a prospective son-in-law to worry about his father-in-law. No matter who hears it, they have to say something ridiculous and giggle for a while. But if you look at things only here, it is too shallow.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, the officials in the world naturally changed frequently, some were quickly demoted and exiled from the first assistant of the cabinet, and some quickly became the first assistant of the cabinet from the bachelor of Hanlin, with the same weight, such as the current Zhang Xuan. However, there are also some people who have seen the right direction, are on the right side in everything, and now they are also people who have quietly climbed to a high position.

For example, Liu Shunhua, the current political envoy of Shandong, and the civil officials from the Hanlin Academy are all high-ranking officials, which is beyond doubt, but Liu Shunhua, who is 42 years old this year, has achieved the political envoy of a province from the second grade, which is enough to illustrate the level.

Forty-two years old is still young in the officialdom, and now he is from the second grade, and he can almost foresee a great future in the future, but after returning to Beijing, if he wants to go further to the top, at least he must clean himself and have no loopholes for others to attack.

At this point, Liu Shunhua did a very good job, basically there is nothing for people to grasp the handle, but everyone ignores one thing intentionally or unintentionally, that is, Liu Shunhua never continued the string after losing his wife, and raised Liu Fangrui independently.

And Liu Shunhua was born poor, although he is now in a high position, but the foundation of the court is not solid, if he finds the daughter of an official eunuch as a wife in the court, it is obviously to get Austrian aid.

It is not uncommon for these things to be seen by veterans of officialdom for many years, but they are seen by a local fourth-grade military attaché, and this military attache is still a person with outstanding military achievements and a reputation for being brave and reckless. Wouldn't such a person have a great future, not to mention a father-in-law who also has a great future.

Although Lu Bing is an authoritative person in the imperial court, he does not have any team in the local area, and it is sometimes quite inconvenient to act, and the Chinese official of the court has his own system, although he can influence, he is not able to intervene, so at this time Lu Bing will not let go of any opportunity to expand his power, not to mention that he has such appreciation potential and can win over his subordinates.

Among them, Jiang Feng gave him the impression that he had changed too much, at first he was a reckless man who commanded and made money, and later he was a fierce general who could go into battle to kill the enemy, and now it seems that he still knows how to scheming and change. If it is a mediocre person, he will definitely be wary, but Lu Bing is naturally not afraid of such a great power, and he can be assured of bold solicitation.

When the person who said that the matchmaker was still busy in Beijing, Wailang, a member of the military department, had a "chance encounter" with Lu Bing's cronies somewhere, and the next day, the case file of Jiang Feng's extermination of the Dong family's bandit nest in the Thousand Households Institute of Yantai Mountain, Shandong Province was brought up again, saying that there were many unclear points in this matter, and it was necessary to investigate in detail.

The people in the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion were all bored in their hearts, thinking that this matter had already caused the fall of many officials, so why did you have to mix it, but as a result, the Shangshu and the squire of the Ministry of War were all strongly supported. In the end, a result came out that no one expected, saying that Jiang Feng's military exploits were not counted in this matter.

When the matter got here, it became more clear, it turned out that it was not to find trouble with Jiang Feng, but to give him benefits, everyone just discussed, and the unlucky officials in Shandong had a lot of connections in Beijing, so naturally some people did not want Jiang Feng to get any benefits.

At this time, the Dengzhou government reported that the Dengzhou Left Guard commanded the servant Jiang Feng to kill more than 500 Japanese robbers, and the heads, witnesses, and ships were all gathered in evidence, and they asked for a reward for military merit.

From the beginning of the Zhengde period, the war reports received by the military department and the Governor's Office in Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang were often more than 10,000 Japanese invaders, and our troops bravely resisted the enemy and broke the enemy's army. The military headquarters of the Beijing Division and the military headquarters of Nanjing were not fools, and there were often battle reports from the Jinyi Guard spies that showed that there were dozens or hundreds of Japanese invaders at that time, and the local army fled in despair, or closed doors without fighting.

Therefore, Jiang Feng's document of killing hundreds of Japanese pirates is particularly conspicuous in this, and there are also verification documents of the Yamen of the Third Division of Shandong and Jinyiwei.

This shows that Jiang Feng's exploits in killing the Japanese are real, and now there is a debate on whether to give merit or not, but how to reward meritorious deeds.

A small thousand households on behalf of thousands of households, in fact, is only a hundred households, was promoted to the command of the officer, acting as the commander, it is already too much, this time the credit in the coastal provinces are well-known, how to calculate, is it to give a town guard the rank of chief soldier, then it is a mess, but if it is not rewarded, the statement of the military department and the squire is clearly put there, and everyone's hearts are also somewhat numerous.

No one thought that on the third day when the merit report document came, there was an official document from Dengzhou Mansion again, but what was written on it surprised everyone. But now that he is the commander of the left guard of Dengzhou, the military household and the duty of the imperial court to pay taxes cannot be delayed, so please add the capital to the position.

There are 5,000 military households in the guard, and there is no military salary, so they all rely on cultivating the fields to grow grain, and these harvests have to pay a few percent as taxes, so don't expect any combat power.

As for having the position of the capital division, you can have a quota of 2,000 people under your command, and these people do not have to farm their own land to support themselves like military households, which is the main source of the so-called war soldiers, of course, there are also many people who have added the titles of capital division, guerrilla, and garrison just to receive this salary, but there are not so many soldiers under them, and they deduct the silver taels as their own money.

The people in the military department didn't expect Jiang Feng to be so easy to dismiss, so they simply got off the donkey down the slope and straightened out the position of commanding the servants, and now they have been promoted to the commander of the Dengzhou Left Guard, and they have been given the post of capital secretary. The original Du Si did not dare to fight behind closed doors this time, so he was simply removed from his post and replaced by Jiang Feng.

Now outsiders call Jiang Feng about Jiang Dusi, there are more than 2,000 soldiers and horses under his command, but the training is open-minded, if the commander of the guard post does not have the titles of capital division, guerrilla, garrison, etc., and let the military households train all day long in the guard post and do not feel at ease to cultivate the military fields, they will be impeached for plotting against him! In other words, if Jiang Feng has any military action now, it is no longer the so-called urgent obedience to power in the past, but a normal action.

raised the rank, grabbed the real power, and brought himself closer to Lu Bing, the most stable minister in the court, and also made Liu Shunhua's future eunuch journey smoother. These skills and complicated officialdom coping are not rough people from military officers like Jiang Feng and Zhang Liang.

Zhao Xiucai can come up with such a show, Liu Twelve suddenly determined his status as a think tank under Jiang Feng through this matter, Jiang Feng once said a rather transcendent sentence to Liu Twelve in private:

"You are simply the world's Qingtian."

Qingtian in the Ming Dynasty generally refers to Liu Ji and Liu Bowen, the think tank who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to start the world, but commenting on Liu Twelve like this, doesn't it imply that he is Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the two of them looked at each other and laughed, and then no one mentioned this sentence,

Jinan Mansion, the residence of the political envoy who manages the civil affairs of Shandong, in the study, Liu Shunhua frowned, quite a headache. The phrase "outgoing girls" is now finally realized. Since she was a child, in addition to teaching Liu Fangrui to read and write, this daughter really doesn't have much time to discipline.

As a result, Liu Fangrui's temperament is becoming more and more wild, and although Lord Liu is now majestic in Shandong, he does not have much authority in front of his daughter, and Liu Fangrui is not afraid at all.

Jiang Feng's people came to Liu Mansion to pick up a few times, Liu Shunhua stopped them all back, and after being known by his daughter, the inner hall was really unpeaceful, which made Liu Buzheng, who had always liked quiet, swelling his head, thinking about how many things his father had done for Jiang Feng's bastard boy, didn't you see it, why are you still so confused.

So when I heard the rumors outside, saying that it was when Yu Lao Hanlin came to visit from Beijing, Liu Shunhua was really relieved, Yu Lao Hanlin was directly appointed to Hanlin, although the grade was not high, but the family was a family, and many people were officials in the court. Thinking that this person came forward, maybe it was the matchmaker Jiang Feng didn't know through what relationship.

It's okay like this, each other has a step to go down, and Liu Shunhua is also relaxed in his heart.

The guest and the host sat down, and Yu Lao Hanlin smiled and said a sentence:

"Yunzhi (Liu Shunhua's words) brother, the foolish brother is proposing marriage to you for his niece......"

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