Every time he recalls this incident that happened on the seventh day of the fifth month of Jinghe 9 years, Li You will feel that he has been inexplicably "righteous and unpleasant". As the saying goes, whoever marries his wife and daughter in front of others will be betrayed by others in front of his wife and daughter.

Time passed day by day in Master Li's research on the theory of retribution, and as the hustle and bustle of the Son of Heaven visiting Yangzhou gradually dissipated, Yangzhou City returned to a leisurely and leisurely atmosphere. It's just that there are more talking points in various tea shops, restaurants, bathhouses, and people in the streets and alleys.

Other people in the local yamen can be lazy with the crowd, and they have worked hard from last year to this year to meet the car, and they should always take a breath after being nervous. Even people who have always been diligent can't help but relax for a few days at this time.

But Master Li's official affairs are still so busy, and one person shoulders the three government offices of the government, county, and salt, and he really can't be idle for a moment.

Moreover, it is also a well-known big county with many affairs such as Jiangdu County and Yangzhou Mansion, and the salt transportation department is here again, and it is the season when new salt has begun to be shipped one after another this year... The drama faced by Master Li can be imagined, if he didn't rely on his youth and strength, he wouldn't be able to withstand this superhuman load at all.

What's even worse is that these two officials of the yamen do not dare to make decisions on their own no matter what official affairs, and they have to bother Lord Li in big and small matters, and asking for instructions and reporting is like a carp crossing the river, lest Lord Li have a bad opinion of himself.

This annoyed Li You, and it was also self-inflicted. Ancient book cloud, Zhou Gong one bath three hair, one meal and three spit feed, Li You didn't believe this, only exaggerated rhetoric, or Zhou Gong and his old man deliberately brushed up his fame. No matter how busy you are, how busy can you be like this?

When these allusions became a living reality and happened to his own family, Master Li, who had personally experienced the taste, could only cry without tears and scolded himself for deserving it.

This is a gain and a loss, Li You looked at the happiness of others from 9 to 5, and sighed in his heart.

In fact, everything was brought on by him, and he took too much power, although he was in the limelight during the southern tour of the Son of Heaven, and showed his face in front of the people of the world like a governor and a capable minister. But there will be pros and cons. This sequelae is manifested.

What Lord Li desires the most now. That is, the imperial court is a little more efficient, and quickly send people to Yangzhou to take office, fill the vacant official positions of the Yun Division and the prefect, and divide the power from him! He will never put up any obstacles, and he will never fight for power again.

What's more, Lord Li was eating in the bowl and looking at the pot, and his mind was on the Admiral of the Five Cities and the like. He felt that his achievements, fame, and prestige in Yangzhou had reached the extreme, and there was nothing to rise to, and there was nothing to ask for. It is useless to make new achievements, so my mind begins to be impetuous again.

Even if he sits in the position of the prefect of the fourth grade, can he be more domineering than the current situation of one person in charge of the three ya? Unless you can change him to a Fengyang governor, but that is absolutely impossible, and it is impossible to dream.

The eldest princess of Guide lived in Yangzhou for about a month before leaving, and at this time the emperor was still in the south of the Yangtze River, and I heard that she was about to arrive in Hangzhou. However, the eldest princess did not plan to go south to follow the southern tour of the Son of Heaven, but planned to go north directly to return to Beijing.

For this choice. Of course, Li You was extremely happy in his heart. But when he saw him off, he said duplicitously: "Why be in such a hurry, you can wait in Yangzhou for the royal car to return, and then return to Beijing with the car." ”

Guide Chitose Jade was stunned, and sighed: "Jiangzuo's gentle and rich hometown is really a place to spend my will, and if I live again, I am afraid that I will completely sink here, and I dare not stay for a long time if I think about it." ”

Li You praised: "Your Highness is good at heart. ”

This is the more normal eldest princess Chitose. Resolute enough and self-controlled, you can't affect the family and country for the sake of a short-term private relationship between men and women, especially in the period of changes in the imperial situation! Of course, there are also national events such as the new establishment of the Imperial Envoy of the Five Rank Cities! ...,"And I miss Xiaoliuer a little. Do you know why I promise to help you even though I know you're not a good thing? ”

Li You looked at no one on the left and right, and whispered a little smugly: "Because I am Xiao Liu'er's father?" ”

"There is no you. My son is the same as nothing, the same is the same as the nobility and wealth, but it just happens to borrow your seeds! Guide Chitose couldn't help but taunt and hit the lover.

After a while, he said: "It's just that when you first met in the palace, you hurriedly looked for your son after entering the house, and it can be seen from this that you are not a person who has no conscience to evade responsibility." ”

Li You was speechless, he thought that his mind was broken enough, but compared with women, it was still much worse. This little detail was all seen and carefully analyzed by her. Finally, he said very sincerely: "I hope for good news." ”

After sending off the eldest princess of Guide, Li You began to look forward to it, and there was new hope in his life, and he continued to work hard in the mountains of cases.

On this day, when he took the time to look through the official appointment and dismissal column in the Di newspaper, a piece of news surprised him - Chen Yingzhen, the inspector of Susong Road in Zhejiang, was promoted to the prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture!

Again, Lord Lee felt what is called Allah's horn... This teacher of his, being an official is too protagonist.

He rose fast because he jumped up and down, tossed desperately, speculated and drilled the camp, both hard work and life, plus a little luck. swept thousands of troops and made countless enemies, but fortunately, the backers were strong enough to be like a fish in water.

This Teacher Chen (theoretically Li You should call Master Chen a teacher) always floated in front of him silently, without a trace of fireworks, as if it was effortless.

According to the different officials of the dynasty, there are many almost fixed promotion routines, all of which are conventional. Outside the routine, like Li You, is more different.

The most envious, jealous and hateful routine is naturally that Hanlin started, stayed up to a bachelor's degree or moved to the Fang Bureau, then served as a waiter, and finally a scholar or a university scholar. This is the fastest and most noble way, the number of first-rate Jinshi.

The more common third-rate Jinshi routine is that the county magistrate starts, takes the imperial history, accumulates seniority in the imperial history, and releases the five products according to the inspection affairs, and can be promoted to the fourth grade senator, can be promoted to the fourth grade prefect, can be promoted to participate in politics from the third grade, can be promoted to the third grade according to the inspection envoy, and can be promoted to the second grade cloth political envoy. In the end, it is nothing more than the ultimate goals of governors, squires, and scholars.

From the above two routines, it can be seen that there is a difference between a first-class jinshi and a third-rate jinshi. The life of a first-class jinshi is only a few steps, and the goal is directly aimed at Shangshu and university scholars.

And the future of the third-rate jinshi, there are countless thresholds, which need to be stepped over one by one, and one careless is stuck for a lifetime, and there are not a few people who have been the county governor for more than ten years in a row.

Even if the official luck is good, he will not stand still, but there are so many thresholds. Each one is a few years of hard work. How many people have the longevity to fight to the end?

If you analyze Mr. Chen's promotion based on this, you will find that there are many connotations, which are not something that people in the Ming officialdom can't taste.

Mr. Chen should have been a first-class jinshi to enter Hanlin back then, but he started as a seven-rank county like a third-rate jinshi. However, he jumped over the five grades and inspected the matter, which made Li You stunned, and he was very worried about the unstable foundation of Teacher Chen, so he was afraid that he would destroy people.

Later, when he learned the inside story, it suddenly dawned on him, it turned out that Mr. Chen was too low-key, or deliberately concealed the backstage. So when I was selected in the museum, I was brushed out by the black-box operation, and I didn't get into Hanlin. Under the instruction of Xu Cifu, who was the secretary of the ministry at the time, he was very aggrieved and pretended to be negative, and was released to serve as the magistrate.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Jinghe, Mr. Chen was directly promoted from the magistrate to the magistrate, which seemed abrupt, but it was actually reasonable, and it did not go beyond the promotion routine mentioned above. ..., but omitted this step of the imperial history as a transition. It can be regarded as the compensation given by the imperial court to Mr. Chen for not entering Hanlin. The students of the Heavenly Officials of the Imperial Department were hacked out of a Hanlin. Now compensate for a matter of inspection, who can say anything.

For two and a half years, this time Mr. Chen skipped from the fourth-grade senatorial and was directly promoted from the fifth-grade to the fourth-grade Yangzhou prefect, which is very meaningful, but it is also reasonable.

There is a substantive Fengxian qualification, and there is a high-end diploma of the fifth jinshi, and then give an outstanding evaluation. There is no need to cross the gap between the Beijing officials and the local officials, the promotion of five grades to four grades is really nothing, blameless, and anyone can only hehehe.

Looking at the teacher's development trajectory, Li You can only sigh that he is really much more stable than himself. Seven products become five products, and five products become four products. It's all steady, so that people have nothing to say. There is a backstage and a teacher, quietly coming out in a silent place, and suddenly looking back at the place where the lights are dim, this is the normal officialdom winner's career.

However, everyone has their own life, and everyone has their own fate, and he Li You may not be worse than the teacher in the future!

Within two days, Mr. Chen's appointment red message was sent to Li You. It turned out that Mr. Chen did not return to Beijing to turn around, and went directly from Suzhou to Yangzhou to take office, the distance was only more than 200 miles, so he naturally came quickly.

After receiving the red message, Li You hurriedly prepared, and when his teacher came to take office, he naturally had to be extremely thorough, and he must not let others pick on the gifts.

On the tenth day of the first month of June, the sun was scorching, and Lord Li could only wait on the dock with sweat.

In the noise of drums, songs, trumpets and suona, the new prefect's boat slowly docked, and Lord Chen, dressed in a brand-new official robe so red that it was dazzling, appeared on the deck.

Li You enthusiastically shouted "teacher" and pretended to come forward to greet him.

Governor Chen supported Li You, to be honest, he was really embarrassed to accept Li You's gift now. is only eight years older than Li You, and the grade is about the same, Li You still has a medal in his body, and he is too frivolous to meet each other as a master and apprentice.

Teacher Chen looked at Li You for a moment and sighed, "You are really a lucky star!" ”

Li You almost burst into tears, he only heard that he was a broom star, and today is the first time he has been praised as a lucky star, or the teacher has insight, but he can always say a word.

walked to greet the scene, and the mighty team sent the new prefect to the government.

That night, the Yangzhou Mansion did not hold a banquet, but only set up a table of wine and food in the back pavilion. Only Governor Chen, Li You, and Master Chen's staff member Huang Shiye were on the table.

The three of them drank slowly, mainly chatting, and with the close relationship between them, there was no need to express anything in a warm atmosphere.

Chen Zhifu talked about the Suzhou Mansion to welcome the car, "It was really unprecedented, from Hushu Pass to Changmen, it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians along the coast to meet the car, and I heard that the government said that it was learned from Yangzhou, you can really be pleasant." ”

Li You shook his head and said: "We still have a large population in Suzhou, and the population of Yangzhou is only half of that of Suzhou, and in the end, in order to avoid disturbing the people too much, only tens of thousands of people were gathered." ”

Master Huang sighed: "When something comes into the hands of Master Li, it always has to be renovated, which is admirable." ”

Governor Chen asked again: "What happened to Li Denggao?" He saw me like an enemy. ”

"Don't worry about rottenness! It's just that he can't argue with me and wants to commit suicide by diving, so I sarcastically ridiculed him for being a high-ranking jinshi, but he is far worse than the teacher, like a cloud and mud! ”

Governor Chen and Master Huang were speechless, and with their familiarity with Li You's nature, one can imagine how humiliated Li Denggao was at that time.

For this reason, Teacher Chen smiled bitterly, "You enemy tree... If you want to leave a name in front of the Son of Heaven, you will also bring me with you. No wonder the Son of Heaven saw me, and he could tell the origin of his name, and he actually knew that I was a Jinshi of Jinghe for five years. ..., Master Huang began to talk about business, "Today, I checked the treasury at the government office, and I was so miserable that I had a lot of money. The usual money you owe in Jiangdu County should be made up, I heard that it is almost a full year in arrears, which is too unusual. ”

Li You's face was slightly bitter, "Because of the incident, the Jiangdu County Treasury and the summer tax have been squandered, and they are only waiting for the autumn grain to be rescued, where to make up for it." ”

"Don't complain, I don't know you yet? No matter what the method, make up for it within three days, and now the government is sealed by the proprietor, and it is not the prefect of Luo's mansion, you are embarrassed to leave a mess. Master Huang scolded with a smile.

He said enviously: "By the way, anyway, you won't be in Yangzhou for long!" Don't forget to leave it to the proprietor if there are any benefits, such as introducing us with a million dollars. ”

Li You was shocked, how did he know the secret he wanted to leave? Besides, the eldest princess said that he was not completely sure, so he could be sure?

Master Huang laughed, "Don't pretend to be confused! The magistrate has achieved the point where you are autocratic, and the court will not let you serve for a long time, so as not to lose the tail! Even if you don't get promoted, you have to move to other official positions. Besides, there is no reason for teachers and students to be officials in the same place, when the proprietor comes, you should go! ”

Yes, whether you really have to leave, Li You thought to himself.

Master Huang thought of something again, and said happily while talking: "Why can the proprietor make up for the prefect of Yangzhou?" Recently, there was a joke in officialdom that Li Taishou had the intention to seek the position of the prefect of Yangzhou, but others did not dare to come to Yangzhou after seeing what happened to the prefect of Luo, so the Son of Heaven had no choice but to send the proprietor to suppress the field. ”

And the next day, Li You saw a news from the newspaper that the imperial court appointed Xie Yan, the former imperial envoy of the right capital of Nanjing, and the imperial envoy of the right capital to patrol Fengyang and other places. In other words, the new governor of Fengyang is this old man Xie.

A few days later, Xie Yan arrived, and Governor Chen and Li You led officials to meet them at the wharf outside the East Gate. Xie Futai got off the boat, and when he saw Li You, he couldn't help but sigh: "You are really a lucky star!" ”

Li You almost burst into tears again, and within a month, someone praised him twice as a lucky star, which has never happened to him as an official so far.

For Xie Futai, Li You is indeed a lucky star.

More than three years ago, Lord Li overthrew the officialdom of Suzhou, and Xie Zhongcheng went to investigate and deal with it as a messenger, and was promoted from the right deputy capital of Nanjing to the right imperial envoy of Nanjing.

This year, Li You overturned the officialdom of Yangzhou again, or Xie Dazhongcheng went to investigate, and the opportunity was good, and he took over as the governor of Fengyang by the way. Although they are both second-class, their status and real power are not the same, which is another big step forward.

Isn't this a lucky star?

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