Mei Qizhao re-discussed with Hu Chuyuan: "You have just broken up, and your business is big, so I'm afraid it's not very flexible in terms of turnover." As for this money, I will borrow it from you first, and pay it off within three years, with an annual interest rate of 12%. I have also thought about it, if the canals in the four prefectures can be dredged, many dry fields can be turned into paddy fields, and next year's tax will be able to rise, and it can be paid off within three years, and there is no need to add taxes to the people. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "That's good, the imperial court loan, as long as it is repaid within three or four years, the interest is counted as 10 percent, and it can be regarded as a little contribution of our Hu family to the imperial court and Zhejiang!" ”

Mei Qizhao smiled: "Okay, let's settle it." ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "No objection!" ”

At this time, Mei Qizhao and Cao Jingwen said: "Lord Cao, how am I doing this?" ”

Cao Jingwen immediately praised: "Okay, good! My lord, you really deserve to be the first minister in Zhejiang, this matter is beneficial to the people and the country, and does not hurt the national strength, but also with the people, it is really the well-being of the people, the great luck of the world! ”

Mei Qizhao nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, I still have some personal matters to discuss with Captain Hu, you go back first!" ”

"Yes, yes!"

Cao Jingwen immediately received the order, politely said goodbye to Hu Chuyuan and Mei Qian, and then left the Hu family compound.

When he walked away, Mei Qizhao and Hu Chuyuan said: "I came this time, and there are two other things. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "My lord, please speak." ”

Mei Qizhao said: "The second thing is the matter of the Hangzhou Prefect, what about this Cao Prefect, you have also seen it, I am very dissatisfied, but he is the junior of the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Lord He, I have long wanted to move him, but I don't want to offend Lord He!" ”

Mei Qian hated: "This dog official, I see him annoying once and again." Dad, since Brother Chu Yuanxian and Lord He are also married, you might as well ask him to write a letter to Lord He! ”

"Alas......!" Mei Qizhao coldly raised his hand to indicate that this method was inappropriate, and said to Hu Chuyuan: "I'm afraid I want you to help, but I can't come forward by you, let alone talk to Lord He." Everyone is short-sighted, this Cao Jingwen was personally promoted by him, and he personally stuffed the fat difference of the Hangzhou prefect, if we say it clearly, wouldn't it prove that Lord He has no ability to know people, and only knows how to appoint cronies? ”

Hu Chuyuan thought about it again and again, and said: "There is no money in this world, this person is a pest if he stays here, since he can't be investigated, then he can only be transferred!" ”

Mei Qizhao said: "I have been thinking about this matter for a long time, and it is not difficult to recommend him to go to Beijing to return to Beijing as an official, but the difficult thing is that if this person is wrong in office, the court will hold me responsible." The position he is sitting in now is already the prefect of Hangzhou, which is equivalent to half of the governor, and he has been transferred to other provinces, and there is no such fat difference anywhere, I have to do it, Lord He and he both know that I am playing ghosts, and I am afraid that I will wear small shoes in the future! ”

Officialdom......!

Hu Chuyuan was speechless when he heard this, thought for a while, and said, "I'll ask someone." ”

Mei Qizhao asked, "Do you want to ask Mr. Yan Shizhang?" ”

Hu Chuyuan asked curiously, "How do you know?" ”

Mei Qizhao smiled and said: "The third thing I came to you this time is to thank him, Wan Lao Shangshu is my fellow villager, and he has already replied to me and told me about the matter that Mr. Yan Shizhang dredged for me in Beijing." ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled: "Okay, I'll go and ask him out." ”

He immediately got up and went to the east study and invited Yan Shizhang out, Mei Qizhao stepped forward and thanked him: "Thank you Brother Yan for saving me!" ”

Yan Shizhang said shamefully: "Lord Mei is polite, alas, the emptiness is a few years older, but it is only in the ninth year of Xianfeng, seven years later than Lord Mei." ”

Mei Qizhao smiled: "What's the difference, I don't know how many people Brother Yan is?" ”

Yan Shizhang was even more embarrassed, and said: "The academics are not refined, and the top three and twenty-nine are given the same Jinshi background!" ”

Mei Qizhao sighed and said: "The younger brother is a little good, the twenty-eighth in the second grade, and he was born as a jinshi!" ”

Yan Shizhang couldn't help but sigh again, and said, "Except for a few years old, where is he qualified to be called a brother." ”

Listening to them compare and compare, Hu Chuyuan really felt very bored, but this kind of thing is easy to appear in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty.

Mei Qizhao and Yan Shizhang thanked each other, and the two sat down again and continued to negotiate the matter of Cao Jingwen, the prefect of Hangzhou.

After listening to them, Yan Shizhang smiled and said: "What's so difficult about this, there are many corrupt officials in the capital!" Just find a reason to get acquainted with Cao Jingwen, just use He Jing and Master He as the reason, and then pay for him to dredge the Jingshi, ask others to sponsor him, and send him to Sichuan as a political envoy. It's Ding Baozhen's territory, and I promise he won't be able to eat and walk around. Ding Baozhen, neither Hunan nor Zhejiang, is older, He Jing has no temper at all, and he deserves to be unlucky! ”

Just hearing this, Mei Qizhao couldn't help but applaud and said, "It's really wonderful, wonderful, poor Cao Jingwen, I don't know how to die." ”

Yan Shizhang smiled: "There is even more, since he likes to blackmail others, he must be very rich!" We don't even have to pay for it, so we just say that we have a relationship in Beijing, and we can guarantee him an errand as a political envoy and let him pay for it himself. ”

"Haha!" Everyone laughed even more.

Mei Qizhao couldn't help but say to Yan Shizhang: "Brother Yan, I have really been a governor for a few years. ”

Yan Shizhang said: "No, it's not a hypocrisy, but a surname." Master Mei, intrigue, plotting against others is not what you are good at, if you want to sit in an official position, you still have to try your best to do a good job in local political performance, occupy the voice of the people and political achievements, and your position is secure. The person who is similar to you happens to be Lord Ding Baozhen Ding. ”

Mei Qizhao bowed his head silently and said: "What Brother Yan said is yes, it's just that this matter of political achievements and people's voice still has to bother Captain Hu to help a lot!" ”

Hu Chuyuan arched his hand and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely try my best to help!" ”

Whether it is business or investing in politics, he has a principle - either he does not invest, or he invests in the end. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, even if it is millions of taels of silver, as long as Mei Qizhao speaks, he will find a way to lend it out.

For those people he decided to recommend, Huo Hongji and so on, since he took care of them, he must take care of them to the end, and they all have to be raised to a new level.

This is a lesson he has learned before, since he has decided to take care of it, he has to be attentive, and giving up halfway will only make himself sad.

Yan Shizhang said: "When this Cao Jingwen is gone, I have another very powerful talent to recommend to Master Mei!" ”

Mei Qizhao asked with great interest, "Who?" ”

Yan Shizhang said: "Huo Hongji, a native of Changsha Mansion, Hunan, has been a scholar in Tongzhi for ten years, and now he is a bachelor. He was recommended by Wan Lao Shangshu, and I talked to him in detail, and he is indeed a talent worth reusing. Wan Lao Shangshu's original intention was to let me go back to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, talk to Zuo Zongtang Zuo, and let Zhongtang recruit and reuse, but I think it is better to use it in Zhejiang first, and then transfer to Jiangsu based on merit. For Lady Mei, appointing him will also ease the affairs between you and Zhongtang. ”

Mei Qizhao nodded silently and said: "That's okay, after the Taizhou prefect was removed from his post and investigated the salt affairs case, the ministry recommended a few people, and I haven't played back yet, so it's better to transfer him to Zhejiang first." As soon as Cao Jingwen left, I transferred him to the prefect of Hangzhou. Counting it, he was transferred from the position of a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy to the prefect of Zhejiang, and he suffered a little loss, I don't know if he is willing? ”

Yan Shizhang said: "I talked to him, and now he is a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy, which is considered to be the beginning of the Hanlin Academy, but if you really want to get out, even if you have to wait for another ten years, the people are old and yellow, and the daylilies are cold, so it is better to go to the place to do something practical, serve as an official, and benefit one party." He himself agreed, as long as there is a suitable position, he is willing to transfer! ”

Mei Qizhao said: "That's okay, just do it!" ”

Generally speaking, the scholars of the Hanlin Academy were transferred to the local area to serve as the academic administrator of a province, and then they could be promoted to the rank of inspector, political envoy, and finally governor and governor.

The key point is that the step from studying politics to being a probationary envoy is very difficult, and there are very few opportunities.

In addition, it is transferred from the bachelor to the cabinet bachelor, and the road to the cabinet bachelor is squeezed, which is even more difficult, and it only belongs to the special channel for champions, top eyes and tanhua.

But Huo Hongji has a special advantage - he is from Hunan, which means that he can be promoted soon as an official in a place where the Hunan family is in power.

Tan Zhonglin is such an example, no one knows for decades, after Zuo Zongtang's drag, he became the governor of Shaanxi in a few years, and now he has been transferred to the more fat governor of Jiangsu.