The first entrance hall of the county king's mansion is also commonly known as the Yin'an Palace, which is extremely wide, the sandalwood bursts, the yellow curtain and the golden pillar, the grandeur and solemnity, the light shines into from the gaps in the huge doors and windows, the palace is golden and dazzling, and it makes people suddenly rise up the heart of pilgrimage.

At this moment, Ma Deng, the secretary of the county king's mansion who was kneeling on one knee in front of the palace gate, was undoubtedly full of awe in his heart, and he didn't dare to look at the master who was sitting far away behind the yellow mantle bookcase, and under the dazzling light of Huang Chengcheng, it made people more and more unable to see the face.

Ye Zhao is reading several letters to be issued to the provincial provincial governments at the moment, one of which is "Nineteen Rules for Supervision and Patrol Arrest in Each Province", which is probably similar to the "Notice on Vigorously Cracking Down on the Police Force [***] Phenomenon", but the style of writing Zou Zou is just that, this article is Ye Zhao's intention, and the secretary's office clerk implemented it into words.

The secretary's room is located in the wings on the east and west sides in front of the Yin'an Palace, and Madden, the secretary's room, is the only official in the secretary's room.

It was the entire secretary's room, and only he wore an official uniform and a top.

In order to improve work efficiency, Ye Zhao ordered all the scribes in the secretary's room to see that they did not need to bow down, and if they saluted, they could bow on one knee, and if they were in urgent affairs, they could be exempted from bowing on one knee.

Ye Zhao flipped through the letters, and was also pondering the matter of the Xiguan Inventors Club, which has begun to become well-known in Europe, and has recently had three or four more feasible studies, among which two Frankenstein are the most noteworthy, one is a physicist, who studies alternating current, which Europe does not pay attention to, and this old gentleman is Faraday's protégé, but it is not accepted by mainstream physicists, and the idea of the alternator is clearly proposed. Although others are crazy, as if they still have amnesia, they forgot the last sentence, but Ye Zhao was overjoyed, and said that he had time to communicate more with this madman, and he couldn't do it himself, but the theory could completely inspire him.

It is not difficult to say that the alternator is not more difficult than DC power generation, but ten years later, DC power generation began to be used on a large scale, and the commercial profits were amazing.

Another thing that made Ye Zhao pay attention to was a young physicist, who also chattered, saying that he could prove the existence of electromagnetic waves, which was also the only part of his tirade that Ye Zhao could understand.

And the theoretical and practical applications of these two may still overlap a bit.

However, Mr. Hertz, who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves, is inevitably tragic, and the name of this frequency unit will be a new name in the future.

While he was pondering, Madden came in.

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "The tariff of Guangdong Customs last year was nearly five million taels, and it is expected to reach two million taels in the first quarter of this year. "Ma Deng was promoted from Guangdong Customs, and just now Ye Zhao looked at the financial budget in the first quarter, and he was very happy.

Last year, Guangdong Customs finally overtook Jiang Customs to regain its position as the first commercial port, and this year's momentum is far more than that of Jiang Customs.

In the financial revenue of the Guangzhou regime, the Guangdong customs now account for a considerable proportion, although there is some deformity, but there is no way, after all, industry and commerce have just started, can only gradually reverse this situation.

Hearing that the prince was in a good mood, Ma Deng's heart was relieved, and he kowtowed: "This is all the prince's foresight, and the people below will run errands and make a lot of effort." ”

Ye Zhao smiled and said: "How many times have you said that if you are a clerk, you can't just say nice things, you have to dare to tell the truth, if you are an official, you must also listen to the truth, if you can't listen to the truth, you can't be an official, and I, the prince, are no exception." If you don't change it, I'll go back and drive you out of the house. ”

"Wow! The humble duty must keep the words of the prince firmly in mind! Ma Deng hurriedly kowtowed again, but he didn't panic, the prince's strange tone sounded like he was taking himself as a person around him.

Ma Deng said again: "Lord Wang, the female scribe has been selected for the humble position, and the prince will take a look?" If she is not satisfied, she will be replaced. Seeing that the prince was in a good mood, he hurriedly moved out of this difficult matter.

Ye Zhao is still very hands-free about power, many things just put forward a general direction, and handed over to each room and each yamen to deal with by themselves, of course, major matters involving the Guangdong and Jiangxi levels naturally need to be decided by the general Wang, but often it is also the regulations of each room and each yamen, which are read and approved by the general Wang.

Ye Zhao is convinced of a principle, nothing is too small to do anything, his own team of officials needs to be exercised more, although he may be more knowledgeable than all of them, but he takes care of everything, he expresses his opinions and takes ideas, first, there is no time, and second, in the long run, in addition to being their own echo worms, what progress can the officials of the yamen have?

Similarly, Ye Zhao was also given full responsibility for the recruitment of new clerks in the secretary's room, and Ye Zhao was quite satisfied with the seven scribes who had been admitted, and he was quite satisfied with the fact that Ye Zhao only looked through their personnel information afterwards.

It was Ye Zhao who listened to Ma Deng's request and said with a smile: "Just follow the old rules, if you think it's okay, just stay." ”

Ma Deng hesitated and said: "This, I don't dare to assert my position, the prince, the prince is still good to see." As he spoke, he picked up a document in both hands and said, "Lord Wang, this is her resume." ”

"Oh?" Ye Zhao glanced at Ma Deng and nodded.

Ma Deng hurriedly stood up, bowed his head, and walked quickly to the steps of the palace with the letter in both hands, and did not dare to raise his head, and the palace guard took the document and presented it to Ye Zhao.

And Ye Zhao recruited clerks, and he also had to gradually replace the guards in this place of discussion, and the guards were originally security personnel, but now they also had to do errands such as passing books and sending letters.

Ye Zhao took the paperwork, but he didn't look at it, put it on the table, and said, "Pass her on." "If you don't look at the background information, you don't have to preconceive and look at this person first.

"Wow!" Madden sighed in his heart, the most embarrassing thing about this woman was her complicated background, if it weren't for the fact that there was really no suitable candidate, she would definitely not be selected into the secretary's room.

Ye Zhao saw that Ma Deng's face was embarrassed, and said with a smile: "What? Is it that she refuses to wear a clerk's uniform? The uniforms worn by the secretary's room clerks were also designed by famous tailors according to Ye Zhao's analogy, the male secretaries were all double-breasted dark blue tunics, and the female secretaries were dark red uniform trousers and red and brown high-heeled leather shoes.

Ye Zhao wanted to design skirt stockings, but after thinking about it, he gave up too far ahead, speaking of which, now Guangzhou has begun to have stockings, but it is said that stockings, its realization of nylon has not been invented, let alone the crystal stockings of later generations, just a kind of hand-knitted socks thinner than cotton socks, woven with fiber silk, etc., it may be more appropriate to call it thin cotton socks. The Guangzhou Machine Socks Factory has just started production, but it has some sales, and it is highly sought after by celebrities who like to wear new-style cheongsams and do not want to show their beautiful legs. Ye Zhao still remembers that in later generations, he saw the grand occasion of auctioning the long black stockings worn by Queen Victoria in the sixties of the nineteenth century, but the auction price was sky-high.

Ye Zhao pondered, the changes in clothing in this world are only afraid that the east wind will affect the west wind, after all, women's sports in Western countries are just emerging, although the long skirts are getting shorter and shorter, but the corresponding clothes are difficult to keep up with the pace of women's pursuits, but the far east, from time to time there are refreshing changes.

And the female surname who can come out to work will not resist the uniform style, the problem should not be here, thought about it Ye Zhao said: "Is it because you don't want to deal with ghost women?" "In the recruitment interview, it was specifically pointed out that this errand may deal with foreigners, and it is necessary to dare to shake hands as a courtesy.

"Not really." Ma Deng hesitated a little and said, "Lord Wang, it's really not her background is very good. ”

Madden also smiled bitterly in his heart, it was precisely because she shook hands with foreigners that she became a rare lucky person, and there were a few people who were more qualified for this job than her, two of whom were members of the Guangdong Women's Association, and they would not resist the handshake ceremony, but Madden had no good impression of women, and it didn't matter if he was enough to study or something, and he was against taking concubines? This has to run to the prince and shout a few slogans, so what's the point? Madden brushed the two without thinking about it, and the remaining two women, one of whom was not in a big grade, saw the foreigner stretch out his hand and his face turned white during the interview, and finally behaved extremely abnormally.

"Go pass it!" Ye Zhao waved his hand, and said in his heart that the background would be talked about, and he would meet people by himself.

Ma Deng looked at the guards beside the prince, calmed down, and thought that there would be no accidents with the presence of the guards, so he didn't dare to say more, and bowed out.

About half a cup of tea, footsteps sounded, and Madden led a woman in, a beautiful young woman, with long legs and beautiful buttocks in a crimson suit uniform, and a graceful figure with a charming surname. After entering the hall, he knelt down on one knee and said respectfully: "The folk girl Zhu Jiutang has seen the prince, the prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old!" ”

Ye Zhao was surprised, he actually knew each other, and he had a relationship with himself.

smiled and said: "This etiquette, it's watching the drama again, get up!" ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Zhu Jiutang got up slowly, surprised in his heart, listening to the voice, the prince is not very old, he glanced at it secretly, the hall was yellow and clear, which made people panic, but he couldn't see anything clearly. Hearing the sound of footsteps, it seemed that the prince had descended the steps of the palace, Zhu Jiutang's heart jumped, and he didn't dare to peek.

"Miss Zhu, come and sit here." The voice was very kind, Zhu Jiutang didn't know whether to look up, let alone where to go.

"Didn't Madden tell you? This scribe, all the rules are simple, if there are a thousand things, I will deal with you all day long, what can be done in this hour, it will be delayed for a day, come, sit down and talk. ”

Zhu Jiutang glanced at Ma Deng, and saw that Ma Deng was nodding to himself, so he turned his head to look, but saw a very beautiful young man standing next to the golden pillar on the east side, wearing a golden dragon crown, decorated with pearls and golden flowers, dazzling, wearing a golden five-clawed dragon brocade robe, the emperor's dragon breath seemed to be rushing to his face, and Zhu Jiutang, who saw this intimidating costume for the first time, panicked, and hurriedly lowered his head.

Ye Zhao had already turned to the yellow mantle on the east side, and said with a smile: "Come and sit, don't be restrained." "According to the regulations, the county king's python robe is supplemented with stone blue, but those who give golden yellow can also use it.

Zhu Jiutang settled down, and only then did he come to the yellow mantle, but he saw a world of its own, brocade sofas, crystal coffee tables, luxurious and dazzling.

Ye Zhao sat on the sofa with the main seat slightly higher, there was no way, if it was not higher than the sofa on both sides, these officials would not dare to sit.

It can be seen that beckoning the secretary to sit down and talk to him, it took a long time, I am afraid that more than ten minutes have passed, this conversation has not started yet, Ye Zhao is helpless, improve efficiency, where to start?

"Sit!" Ye Zhao stretched out his hand to signal, and Zhu Jiutang caught a glimpse of the prince sitting down shorter than himself, so he hurriedly sat on the side seat carefully against the edge of the sofa, and he didn't dare to look over.

"When you come to the secretary's room, you have to throw away a lot of red tape, and you have to get along with this king naturally and generously, it seems that you have to set up a rule, and you have to kowtow to this king at every turn, and you have to send out the house!"

Ye Zhao picked up the teacup and said while shaking his head.

Zhu Jiutang didn't dare to answer.

Ye Zhao looked at her again and said, "Miss Zhu is a heroic child, and I hope to bring a new atmosphere to this king's library. I don't want bugs, I want people who can do errands. ”

Zhu Jiutang naturally thought that the prince knew her background, so he said what kind of heroic children, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "The people don't dare to be a girl." ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "You deserve it, yes, how could you think of applying for a clerk?" I said goodbye before, but I don't want to say goodbye today, but it can be regarded as fate. ”

Zhu Jiutang was stunned, and finally looked up, but he couldn't remember when he met the prince, looked at it twice, and hurriedly lowered his head, faintly, feeling that the prince's clear eyes seemed to have seen it, where had he seen it?

Ye Zhao already smiled and said, "Is the little full moon okay?" Rong'er also said that she would be invited to eat steak another day. ”

Zhu Jiutang sighed, and looked at it again, yes, yes, this, this is Rong'er's father-in-law, it's just that he has no beard. I said, when did such an earth-shattering figure come to Guangzhou City, but since then, there has been no sound, it turned out to be the palace guards hidden in the palace, no wonder they can't be found on the road.

"Please keep this matter confidential from Miss Jiutang!" Ye Zhao said with a smile, although Zhu Jiutang's daughters are seven or eight years old, they should be about the same age as him, and it is natural for Ye Zhao, the girl from Jiutang, to scream.

"Yes, Jiutang understands." It turned out to be Rong'er's father-in-law, although Zhu Jiutang was still apprehensive in his heart, but it was much more natural, and the general Wang was surprisingly approachable.

"Tell me, why did you come to be a scribe?" Ye Zhao asked casually and took a sip of tea.

Zhu Jiutang felt a pang in his heart, sure enough, he was the general king, and he knew that he couldn't hide it, not to mention that he had come to plead for the life and death of the dart game, and even had the heart of death when he came, after all, he didn't know that the general Wang was happy and angry, and pretended to be a recruiting clerk to enter the palace.

And now, supposedly, can a life be saved?

Zhu Jiutang bowed down and said: "The prince really knows everything, the people's girls are really here for the dart game, and the people's girls will die!" As he spoke, he knelt down on his knees and bowed his head and said, "Please ask the prince to cure the sins of the people's daughters!" ”

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Let's talk about it, what's wrong with the dart game?" I haven't heard that Guangzhou Mansion is going to be difficult for your Qinggang. ”

Zhu Jiutang's heart trembled, she was smart and astute, and she could hear that the general Wang had a bad impression of the Green Gang.

This time, I'm afraid it's really over, is my father a hero, but he is so miserable when he is old? Zhu Jiutang felt uncomfortable, kowtowed, and said: "Lord Wang, although our Qinggang is uneven, but my father has been doing a decent business all these years, and he has long ignored the affairs of the gang." Dart game, that is also the knife edge licking blood to break into the eighteenth road of life, this silver, we take the peace of mind! Sleep soundly, too! ”

Ye Zhao didn't squeak, took a sip of tea, and said, "Go on." ”

Zhu Jiutang also let it go, his father didn't know whether he was alive or dead, so what if he threw his life in the General's Mansion? "Lord Wang, last month, the people's girl's dart bureau took a dart, the silver of the Fusheng, 15,000 taels, from Guangzhou to Wuchang through three provinces, no one dared to take this dart, to go to the Hunan army's outpost, the juncture of the bandits; But there is no such chaotic realm in the world, when you encounter stragglers and starving people, how many people can give you raw food! ”

"My father couldn't stand the favor of the old shopkeeper of Fusheng, so he took the dart, but he never imagined that before my father and his old man went to that dangerous place, in Luxi, even people with darts were arrested by the patrol camp, saying that my father was a bandit, and this silver was the military salary of the bandits.

Ye Zhao was also slightly stunned, he hadn't heard of this, and asked, "Luxi?" Jiangxi Jianchang Mansion, right? ”

"Yes, Lord Mingjian." Zhu Jiutang hesitated and asked, "It seems that the prince doesn't know about this?" ”

Ye Zhao said: "I'll send a telegram to ask clearly." Then he asked, "Do you know which patrol battalion it is?" How did you find out about this? "In fact, I thought about it in my heart, maybe it was the local military attache who wanted to make money, but since the news leaked out, it would be fine, otherwise, I was afraid that I would kill people and destroy every penny.

Whether it is an infantry regiment or a patrol battalion, it is not a clear water. Especially in Jiangxi, there have been constant wars in recent years, and it is common for the green battalion to kill people and set fires, and the main force of the patrol battalion is the green battalion regimental courage in the past. Although you have your own strict orders now, if you want a cart of white flowers and silver to shine so brightly, how can the bold and stubborn people not be tempted?

I'm afraid that if I kill someone and divide the money, it's not impossible for everyone to slip away.

However, Ye Zhaozi will not talk to Zhu Jiutang about these speculations.

"Thank you, thank you!" Hearing the prince say that he sent a telegram, Zhu Jiutang was overjoyed, kowtowed a few times, and said: "I really don't know which way to patrol the people's daughter, but I heard the brother who secretly ran back to deliver the letter said that there are patrolmen with a local accent in Luxi, and the people's daughter has been to Luxi and beat the drum in the county government, but I can't find any clues." ”

Ye Zhao's heart sank again when he heard this, it sounds like this has been a long time, but I'm afraid it's not good.

There is such a big thing happening in the territory, but I don't know about it, and there are too many links that need to be changed, such as reporting, communication, the military, and the locality.

The patrol battalions of the three provinces themselves must be cleared of their inferior surnames, and at the very least, such bold and reckless things must not occur again. In troubled times, don't be afraid of being wide, do you want to engage in a rectification movement?

(To be continued)