Autumn is the harvest season, not only for the households, but also for many officials, especially young students who have just graduated from the school of politics and law and have passed the examination to become an officer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After the examination in June, these young and energetic officers will go to work in the civil affairs departments at all levels, and during the next four months of probation, these young officers who have spent several months of internship will have to prove themselves enough to take on the responsibilities of the affairs officers.

Although in 1893 in Northeast China, after a year of hard work, a set of effective administrative institutions had been basically built, but at that time, there were still countless affairs, and almost every young student could mature in just a few months.

In the autumn, with a letter of appointment issued by the Personnel Section of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Governor's Office, these young students who graduated from the School of Political Science and Law became officials of the Northeast Authorities and began to serve the people, but not everyone could pass the probationary period.

There is no iron rice bowl, and there is no golden rice bowl. This is as true in the corporate workplace as it is in government agencies. Autumn determines the livelihood of farmers for a year, as well as the fate of some young officials.

Sometimes as fate would have it, in the autumn, when some of the young officials were ecstatic to accept the letters of appointment, they swore in French that they would "uphold the laws of the authorities and be faithful to their duties." Serve the people faithfully and conscientiously. "Times. There are also officials who receive a notice of dismissal for a variety of reasons. And for some officials, they may even lose their lucrative superannuation fund, which has been confiscated by the authorities for disciplinary violations.

When the thin piece of paper notice was sent to Tang Xiaohu, he simply couldn't believe his eyes, how could this be? How can I get fired?

I was a student of the first class of the Tongwen College, and I was ranked seventh in the whole department, and when I was in Korea, I became the chief of civil affairs...... But now. The thin notice in front of him told him the fact that he had been fired.

"According to the original contract, your superannuation fund will also be forfeited and you will need to move out of the apartment within fifteen days......"

Cold, without a trace of emotion, words came out of other people's mouths and entered Tang Xiaohu's ears, how could this be accepted by him, who had been thinking that he would one day be a vice minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and his eyes were red as he looked at the dismissal notice in his hand. The signature of the Minister of Civil Affairs can be seen on the notice.

The superannuation fund was confiscated, which meant that he lost the security of retirement. The reason why many officials in the prefectures are afraid of discipline is precisely because compared with their counterparts in the mainland, they have such a lifelong guarantee, for fear that they will be dismissed from their posts and lose this security.

Fifteen days to move out of the civil servant's apartment, which means that he has lost his place in the northeast, he can not move, but if it is overdue, the court will naturally come forward, and after the quick trial, there will be police to "help" him move.

"You have fifteen days to file a complaint with the Appeals Board......

This is the only channel for civil servants who have been dismissed to complain, the Grievance Board is directly under the Governor's Office, independent of the provinces, they can be said to be extremely fair, civil servants who have been unfair, will file a complaint with the Grievance Board, once verified, the person directly responsible will be immediately held accountable, and its disposal is not just as simple as dismissal, but will also be handed over to the prosecutor, who will be prosecuted by the prosecutor for "abuse of power", and because of this, there are few officials in the Northeast who dare to arbitrarily dismiss lower-level officials for "communiqué personal vendetta", but, This does not mean that they will condone the misconduct of their subordinates.

"I will appeal, I will definitely reprimand, surnamed Xu, let's ride a donkey and read the record book, and we'll see!"

The loud yelling and scolding seemed to show his attitude, Tang Xiaohu knew that he would not give up, and he would definitely appeal until he was treated fairly, at least to get the fairness of his mind.

In 1894, the twentieth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, the first day of the year.

In the twilight of spring, the land of North China slowly reveals a little late spring, mountain apricots, peaches, cloves, begonias, elm leaves and plums bloom one after another. However, the north wind from outside Juyong Pass was also wrapped in yellow sand in the sky, whistling endlessly, burying the good spring. The remnants of the calyx are defeated, the falling flowers are colorful, and the strong spring is disturbed, and so the wind and sand gradually stop, and I don't feel that after the Qingming and valley rain, the short spring has passed in a hurry, and the beginning of summer is in front of me, and the weather is suddenly hot.

At this time, the Ministry of Rites in the capital asked the emperor for approval as usual, and the court officials changed into warm hats and mink furs, and began to wear cool hats and summer clothes, but, even in the past, this is a passing scene, only in the capital, as for the locality, what you want to wear, it is all up to the officials. And now...... The local government has long stopped buying the imperial court's account, and it doesn't matter what to wear.

The officials dress casually, and the people wear even more casually, especially in Tianjin, long shirts, dresses and even Hanfu, all kinds of clothing intersect with this, all of which show the changes in the city, yes, the city of Tianjin is constantly changing, but the biggest change is probably the city, not the people who live in the city.

The sky was empty, and the sun was shining a round of white from behind the thin clouds, lazily shining on the city of Tianjin, on the newly built Western-style factory outside Tianjin, through the smoke spewed out of the chimney, the fog shadow was reflected on the earth, reflecting the 100,000 families inside and outside Tianjin.

In order to meet the needs of the new policy, not only did the Governor's Yamen move from the old city to the "Haiphong Office" on the north bank of the Haihe River, but also the area between the new station and the Governor's Yamen was re-planned - from the new station a road to the Yamen was built directly to the Yamen, named Dajing Road. The area around Dajing Road has formed the "Hebei New Area" between the foreign concession and the old city, and dozens of roads form a well-defined and uniform road network, which should be the earliest urban planning block in the mainland.

Subsequently, the Governor's Office rebuilt the original "kiln wand wooden pontoon bridge" on the Haihe River into a steel frame bridge, named Jingang Bridge. From the North Railway Station to Jingang Bridge and then to the old city of Tianjin, a traffic artery connecting the north and south banks of the Haihe River is communicated. Since the construction of the Jingang Bridge. The crowd on the iron bridge that connects the two sides of the strait is flowing all day long.

The spring sun is warmly reflected on the earth. Among the crowds of people coming and going to Jingang Bridge. A young man hurried towards Hebei. The man was tall and tall, wearing a silver-gray five-button Western-style suit that imitated a military uniform, which was typical of the Spring and Autumn Uniform of Northeast Affairs officials, and a pair of spotless leather shoes under his feet. He was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, his complexion was slightly dark, and at the moment, his brow was slightly frowned, and his lips were tightly closed. Two symmetrical crescent-shaped lines appear on the cheeks, faintly gloomy. Without squinting, he strode straight forward, the look on his face revealing that he had an urgent matter to do.

Obviously, this is a habit, and those who know the Northeast know that this is the habit of officials in the Northeast, and they will not walk slowly and leisurely like the officials in the mainland, and they will always look like they are in a hurry.

In the distance, he saw the Western-style gate on the side of the road. There were several green tweed official sedan chairs parked in front of the door, and there were some sedan chair drivers wearing uniforms next to them. And, of course, Western-style carriages. It used to be the Haiphong Office, a place for the Beiyang Navy Division to rest, but now it has become the Zhili Governor's Palace. So he slowed down and walked forward slowly, and when he got closer, he could hear the Anhui dialect spoken by the palanquin bearers there, which is the characteristic of Beiyang, and the regional view will always be inseparable from the accent.

In contrast, there is no doubt that the northeast is more "scientific", whether you are from Guangdong or Shandong, as a affairs official, you must learn the "Chinese", that is, Nanjing official dialect, and even hold exams, those who fail will be fined, and if you fail three times in a row, you will have to return to school for re-study.

For people in places such as Guangdong, language is naturally a test, but for Tang Xiaohu, a Cantonese man, there seems to be no difficulty, and now he can speak fluent "Chinese"

Approaching the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, Tang Xiaohu was about to ask questions, but the guards standing with guns next to the door had already issued a warning:

"Stop!"

Immediately, the bearded guard in the khaki Nova Nova uniform walked briskly and looked at him warily.

"Say to you,"

After that, he raised his right thumb and pointed to the back of his head and asked.

"Hey, do you know what this place is?"

The young man did not answer, he was not used to such a question without a title. In other words, he was not accustomed to such casual questioning without a hint of normative questioning, and this person was still a soldier of the governor's yamen.

The guard, apparently not knowing what he was thinking, snorted in his nose and answered his own question:

"This is the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, that is, the Yamen of the Minister of Beiyang, who now ignores civil lawsuits and is a place dedicated to military affairs! If you have any grievances, go two blocks ahead, there is the Zhili High Court and the Prosecutor's Office......"

The higher court in the mouth of the guards is one of the new policies of Zhili, which is not only to revitalize commerce, open new schools, and train the new army, but also to create new laws and implement judicial reform.

Although judicial reform is still in progress, Zhili has begun to set up a high court and a prosecutor's office, and at least nominally has begun to realize judicial independence, and even one of the most popular among the people in the new policy. However, this was not only the credit of the Governor's Office, but also the use of a large number of Japanese-American judges and prosecutors, who were the first to lose their jobs after the Russian occupation of Japan, and who were replaced by judges and prosecutors from Russia, and at the invitation of Japanese high-ranking officials in exile, hundreds of Japanese-American judges, prosecutors, and lawyers came to Naoli to begin "creating a modern and fair justice" in Naoli.

These judges and prosecutors, who have no connection with Chinese officialdom, have achieved at least to a certain extent iron-faced and selfless, so that many people's grievances have been redressed, and under word of mouth, they have the name of "Qingtian", so that almost every day people come to Tianjin to try to avenge their grievances, but often they will go straight to the governor's yamen, this guard naturally regards the young man in front of him as a "redresser", although he is dressed in a Western-style dress, but now there are few people dressed in Western-style clothes? In this Tianjin City, it is not strange to see people wearing Hanfu and bunching up their hair, and they can also cut off people's heads? That's what the Manchurian Dog Emperor did, and everyone here is their own people?

唐小虎正色 says:

"Well, I know."

"Know?"

The guard was stunned for a moment, and his face sank.

"Why don't you stay away?"

"I'm ...... something"

As he spoke, Tang Xiaohu took out a name sticker from the briefcase in his hand.

"Excuse me, just say that the old students asked to see Master Li!"

The guard couldn't help but be stunned when he took the name sticker, the name sticker was actually the name of the second young master, so he looked at this young man with a straight face, and only then did he realize the difference between this young man, just this spirit and spirit could not be seen in the ordinary young man, and then he listened to his Nanjing official dialect, so he asked tentatively.

"This gentleman is from the Northeast?"

This will be the guard to find that his eyes are white, not to mention anything else, just his dress is not telling others that he is from the northeast, plus the demeanor and accent of walking, in addition to the northeast, it can still be there.

After receiving an affirmative answer, the guard asked again.

"What is your surname, sir?" When the second young master asks, I will also reply to the young master's words. ”

"Don't be surnamed Tang, I'm tired of my brother!"

If it was replaced by someone else, maybe this would have stuffed the silver into the hands of the guards, but Tang Xiaohu didn't stuff it, not that he didn't understand the rules, but because as we all know, the officials who came out of the Northeast will never pay the money from the Northeast, even if it is a big delay, and they will not abide by this bad habit of officialdom. In this case, of course Tang Xiaohu will not hand it over. Sometimes, people will always develop some habits, such as the habit of not compromising on unspoken rules.

"Okay, Mr. Tang, you go to the mansion for a while! The little one is going to pass it on to you, it's a coincidence today, the second young master is in the house. ”

Because the visitor was holding the name of the second young master, the guards directly introduced Tang Xiaohu into the waiting place in the mansion, which was already full of Chinese and foreign people wearing official uniforms, military uniforms or suits, all of whom wanted to see Lord Zhongtang or a certain adult. As for Tang Xiaohu was just one of them, as soon as he sat down and looked at the people in the room, he couldn't help beating the drum secretly in his heart.

"I wonder if Mr. Li can still remember himself?" (To be continued.) )