Most of the time, the patrol of the imperial history is the second official of the top-notch jinshi, and the third official with outstanding achievements, that is to say, at least three or six years after the officer. This has to be appreciated and promoted by someone in the DPRK. The reason is very simple, the patrol is inferior and powerful according to the imperial history, compared to those who supervise the imperial history in the two Kyoto procuratorates, the status is transcendent, otherwise how can there be a sword in the play, and the corrupt officials are afraid of the eight palace patrols?

As for Wang Fulin at the moment, he pinched his fingers and calculated, he now has not only eight prefectures, but ten prefectures to patrol -- because the Guangdong Political Department has jurisdiction over Chaozhou Mansion, Nanxiong Mansion, Huizhou Mansion, Guangzhou Mansion, Shaozhou Mansion, Zhaoqing Mansion, Gaozhou Mansion, Leizhou Mansion, Qiongzhou Mansion, and Lianzhou Mansion.

Even if he is the governor of Liangguang, he is only nominally subordinate and can ask him to cooperate with the work in the name of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but he cannot be overly arrogant as a boss. Even the two divisions are subject to his supervision, not to mention the vast number of prefects, prefectures, and county orders. Because the so-called patrol press is to patrol the hunt on behalf of the Son of Heaven, to judge major matters, and to make decisions on small matters, from the name of the punishment, money and food, education, warehouse, school, ...... Anything can be managed, in short, a miniature version of the minister.

However, although the power of the imperial history patrol is very large, the duration of one term is mostly very short. Even if the magistrates now implement the long-term law, most of the time the inspectors still rotate back to the court every year, so as not to be powerful in the local area and become an old lady who has been above the head of the magistrate for a long time. But in general. Such a good job without a boss. It is in addition to the Hanlin Academy. Most Jinshi dreamed of it, and now, this job fell from the sky and smashed on the head of Wang Fulin, who had long expressed his intention not to enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

He really wanted to continue to resign, but his sister and brother-in-law who lived in Fucheng brought him very bad news, that is, Nanzhili had arrived at the procuratorate in Fucheng, and people already knew that he had no excuse to return to his hometown to recuperate after he arrived in Huizhou Mansion. It's about running around. In other words, if he dares to resign, this lie will be exposed in minutes. What's more, there is a time limit for taking office, and Huizhou Mansion is thousands of rivers and mountains away from Guangzhou, so if he doesn't miss the date of his departure, then wait to turn around and be attacked and punished by some people who are gearing up!

The situation is stronger than people, and after Wang Fulin weighed it again and again, he could only reluctantly accept this appointment. He just didn't want to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but Guangdong had long wanted to make a trip. After all, he was against Portugal. That is, the red-haired devils who are now called Francois have been interested in Macau for a long time. He urgently counted the manpower, and in addition to Li Erlong, who was in the dart game, he also brought Wang Siming. Even in the batch of Cangyong of the General Warehouse of the Huizhou Rice Industry Guild, which the veteran of the Qi family army trained for him, he also transferred four people.

In addition, he spoke to the heads of the third class and six rooms of the Yamen of She County, and asked them to choose literate from among their own children and nephews, but there was no vacancy for the clerks, so he hired four more relatives. This trip to Guangdong is far away, and it is always right to bring more people in both civil and military aspects.

As for Xiaobei, although Wang Daoyun and the Wu family both wanted him to take a piece with him, the couple hurried to work hard to have a son and a half daughter, but the patrol of the imperial history is no better than other officials, and in principle, they are not allowed to bring their families. However, the couple have never been separated, and Wang Fulin wants to do some private work secretly during his trip to Guangdong, so he still told Xiaobei to wait for a while to be in the limelight, first settle the second elder in the family and Jinbao Qiufeng, and then quietly go to Guangdong.

As for the people who followed Xiaobei, he instructed his wife to call Ye Qinglong and choose an agent to accompany him, so that it would be convenient to contact with the Franc machine at that time, and at the same time spread out some business over there. For this reason, he asked Ye Qinglong to withdraw the liquidity on the books, redeemed two hundred taels of gold in advance and brought it with him, and instructed Xiaobei to prepare more silver money with him. After all this preparation, he set off immediately.

For Wang Fulin, who is in She County, although it is a long way to go south to Guangdong, it is really counted as a Jiangxi political secretary. His group traveled west through Xiuning and Qimen into Raozhou Mansion in Jiangxi, and then went south from Jingdezhen, passing through Fuzhou Mansion, Jianchang Mansion and Ganzhou Mansion, and finally entered Guangdong from Nan'an Mansion. Because he brought a lot of entourage, and knew that Zhang Juzheng had already started to rectify the post station, he didn't lack that money anyway, so he didn't live in the post station at all, and only chose an inn with a clean environment to stay, even if he understood the customs.

Almost as soon as they arrived in Baochang County, Nanxiong Prefecture, Guangdong, everyone immediately experienced the baptism of completely different dialects. Wang Fulin thought of Huang Jingqi, the commander of Qiannanhai County, who he had seen when he was in charge of receiving guests at Wang Daokun's house, and at that time he secretly slandered the other party for not learning Cantonese dialect for three years in Guangdong, and now it is his turn to come to Guangdong. The only advantage is that he listened to a lot of Cantonese songs in later life, lived in Guangdong for another year, learned Cantonese, and had absolutely no problem daily conversation, but now he has to pretend that he doesn't understand in front of his entourage.

Otherwise, how could he explain that he had never been to Guangdong, but could speak Cantonese?

Fortunately, after Wang Daoyun received the appointment of the ministry, he quickly inquired about various families and found Wang Fulin a guide Chen Atian, who was familiar with Guangdong and could speak fluent Cantonese. As soon as he entered Guangdong, Chen Atian, who seemed to have no sense of existence before, gave full play to his ability, whether it was lodging, tipping or asking for directions, all relied on this person, and everyone else became mute. With Wang Fulin's encouragement, everyone from him down to him is learning Cantonese, that is, Cantonese dialect, from Chen Ah Tian, so as to save himself from the difficulty of moving an inch in the future.

On this day, I arrived in Qujiang County, Shaozhou Prefecture, and most of the inns and hostels were full, and Chen Atian asked only to learn that tomorrow would coincide with the scientific examination of Lingbei Road, which was also the last scientific examination, and then it was the relict test in Guangzhou City. Qujiang County is quite prosperous, and there are many inns and hostels, but the candidates in each prefecture and county are gathered together with their family members, and there is not enough place to live.

At this moment, Wang Fulin and the others, who had settled in an inn that was easy to find, were sitting in the empty lobby, in stark contrast to the fact that there was no empty room left in the inn. But sit at the table casually. It's obviously dinner time. There are not many guests here. It is clear that they are all candidates for the exam before preparing for the final sprint in the room. Wang Fulin was drinking tea thoughtfully, and Li Erlong on the side couldn't help but ask: "Chen Atian, this Qujiang County is not small, and when you entered the city before, didn't you say that Qujiang is the intersection of the two official roads from Guangdong to Jiangxi and Huguang, why did you say before that Shaozhou Mansion ranked very low among the ten prefectures in Guangdong?" ”

Chen Atian used to follow a Hui businessman from She County to Guangdong to run a business, and now he has been recommended by someone to follow a patrol like Wang Fulin. He naturally cherished the opportunity very much, even if the person who asked was Li Erlong and not Wang Fulin, he still said 1510, "Of the ten mansions in Guangdong, the richest is naturally Guangzhou Mansion, followed by Chaozhou Mansion, Gaozhou Mansion, Zhaoqing Mansion, Huizhou Mansion, and Qiongzhou Mansion and Shaozhou Mansion, then they have to be classified as third-rate." The poorest are Lianzhou, Leizhou, and Nanxiong. Do you think this Qujiang City is prosperous, and you have arrived in Guangzhou. Let's compare the Nanxiong Mansion and Shaozhou Mansion we passed. Then you know that you are high. ”

"In the largest prefecture cities in our southeast, such as Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Suzhou, the prefectures are divided into two counties, and so is the Guangzhou Prefecture, bounded by Guide Gate, Nanhai County to the west, and Panyu County to the east. Half a mile outside the city is the Pearl River, and the number of boats coming and going is by no means less than that of Hangzhou, and it is said that there are one or two thousand when there are more. Of course, there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, and today's Guangzhou is still a little worse than Suzhou and Hangzhou, but it is a little, but the Francophone people that often appear here are rarely seen in the southeast......"

Of course, Wang Fulin knew that the reason why Guangzhou could become the pearl of the South China Sea in later generations was also due to its special advantages as a treaty port. At this time, the whole world is the Yuegang of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province has opened a small opening, but Guangzhou is close to Macao, hundreds of merchants gather, so it is only slightly inferior to Suzhou and Hangzhou, which is already rare, you must know that Shanghai is only a small county town at this time, and Shenzhen is still a fishing village! Therefore, at this moment, Li Erlong, Zhao Sanmazi and others were interested in asking Chen Atian, and he sat there with a smile and listened while drinking tea, until a few errand servants entered the inn.

As soon as he saw the outfit of Wang Fulin's group, the leader came over to interrogate, and Chen Atian, the "only" person who could speak Cantonese, naturally stepped forward to deal with it. On the surface, it was as if nothing had happened, but in fact, Wang Fulin, who had pricked up his ears to listen, listened and generally understood the content of their conversation, so he raised his eyebrows thoughtfully.

"Aren't you here to take the exam? The great master of Tixue said, this time to participate in the scientific examination of Xiucai, there are six or seven hundred people in the entire Lingbei Province, the inn must be guaranteed to live in Xiucai first, you live there, if there are children who do not have a place to stay, you have to squeeze a place for them. ”

"Yes, we'll stay for a few nights and leave tomorrow. But tomorrow is the time for the scientific expedition, how can there be a show that hasn't come so late? ”

"In such a big place as Lingbei Road, those Xiucai who live in the village only rely on two legs, and they may be late. In short, you can listen to the instructions of the great master. ”

It was about the matter that Shangfeng urgently confessed, and the messenger hurriedly went to give another order to the innkeeper, and then hurried away. When he left, Wang Fulin couldn't help but be a little curious about the Guangdong student he hadn't met yet, at least, it was rare to think about Xiucai's residence before the Taoist exam. It's just that because he was still in Ningbo when the official document was sent before, he had a lot of delay, so he didn't have time to stay in Qujiang to visit and investigate the character or knowledge of this great master. After dinner, he went to bed early.

It wasn't until he got up early the next morning that he learned that there was really a young man who stayed overnight last night, and Li Erlong and others gave him a bed with sleepy eyes, but he hurried to the Shaozhou Mansion School Palace before dawn for the exam.

Since he was in a hurry, and after Shaozhou Mansion, four hundred miles to the south was Guangzhou, Wang Fulin didn't have time to ask about the results of this scientific expedition, so he set off immediately with his people, and finally arrived at Guangzhou City on the penultimate day before the limited date, and entered the city from the north gate and went straight to the procuratorate. Because the imperial history of the governor is not like the two divisions of the cloth press or the prefect and the county order, there are subordinate officials, but like the governor and the governor, all of them are bare-pole commanders, so there is no set of subordinate officials. Wang Fulin showed the official document of the appointment of the official department to the former governor of the imperial history, and the two handed over a pair of documents and seals, and the procuratorate was regarded as a new owner.

As the two men of the procuratorate quietly sent letters everywhere, the news of the appointment of the new Guangdong governor Wang Fulin spread to the major yamen at the speed of light.

Because the duty of patrolling the imperial history was originally to patrol the hunt on behalf of the sky, so the ten major prefectures in Guangdong are all equipped with procuratorates, and this procuratorate in Guangzhou is just a little more grand in regulation, compared with the political secretary, according to the judges, Lingnan Road, Guangzhou Mansion, Nanhai and Panyu two county offices, it is very inconspicuous, but this does not affect the influence of the owner of this yamen on the entire Guangdong officialdom. In the past, when the governor of Guangdong was appointed, the governor's yamen was also set up in Guangdong, but since this position was cut during the Longqing period, because the governor's palace of Liangguang was in Zhaoqing, the governor of the imperial history in Guangzhou was even more uncontrollable.

The news of the pioneer Beijing division was sent, and the top and bottom inquired about the new inspector, and learned that Wang Fulin's first official was the inspector of the imperial history, and his uncle was Wang Daokun, a squire of the military department. It wasn't until well-informed people dug up Wang Fulin's glorious achievements in causing the purge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate that those discussions came to an abrupt end. However, seeing that Wang Fulin's term of office has entered the countdown, but people have not come for a long time, thinking that Wang Fulin did not resign from the Metropolitan Procuratorate before, and even returned to his hometown for this reason, many people still think that Wang Fulin will not be able to resign this time.

But just as the deadline was approaching, people came! But among the large and small yamen in Guangzhou, no one understands the temper of this new inspector, and Wang Fulin is too young at that age, and no one is sure what kind of specifications and attitude should be used to treat this new inspector. In the end, it was the Guangdong political secretary who whispered that he would not entertain, not meet, and not invite, and would not turn a blind eye to the new governor, and if he did not hear it, he should not know. After all, the other party is new to the city, and the language is not understood, so he will not find fault immediately.

I don't know how much shock this kind of rumors caused. In the Nanhai County Yazhong, Zhao Haitao, the county magistrate, scolded angrily: "The political secretary is standing and talking without backache, and the two feudal lords are political envoys, even if they are patrols, it will take a lot of weight to impeach them, but how can I have so much courage in a small county order!" In the past, when patrolling the counties according to the imperial history, which time did not make the chickens fly and the dogs jumped, and which county order did not fart and treat people as bodhisattvas, for fear of being impeached by someone for incompetence? I ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and just because it's a fledgling hairy boy, I don't take people seriously? ”

After scolding for a while, Zhao Haitao asked the thoughtful master on the side: "What about the judge's side, there is no word?" ”

"According to the judge's side, Dong Weng also knows that Lord Zhentai's temper is not a little Gengjie...... He said he was waiting for the new patrol to find him. ”

Zhao Haitao was dumbfounded. After a long time, he hit his forehead with his hand, and sighed and said, "What about Fuzun? ”

"Fuzun went to Lianxi Academy in Yuexiu Mountain, didn't you say that Mr. Longxi came to Lianxi Academy to give a lecture before?"

Zhao Haitao remembered that Wang Ji had come to Guangzhou Lianxi Academy to give a lecture, and he couldn't help but groan. The first assistant of the DPRK and the Central Committee have already rectified the study and politics and are about to ban the world's academies and lectures, why do so many officials still have no sense of crisis at all? Could it be that only he, the county magistrate, is worried about the sky?

PS: On the penultimate day at the end of the month, ask for a monthly pass (to be continued.) )