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In the fifteenth year of Guangxu, on the morning of the eighth day of the lunar month, at the foot of Luojia Mountain in the northeast outside Wuchang City, the large courtyard surrounded by a wooden fence was once the military camp left by the Hunan army when it was garrisoned, the military camp that had been idle for several years, after half a month of renovation, it has been completely renewed, on the wooden archway, there is a signboard inscribed by Zhang Zhidong himself, "Hubei Anti-Smoking Administration" signboard, this signboard was hung up on the archway, and suddenly this matter attracted the special attention of the citizens of the three towns of Wuhan.

What kind of smoking is this ban?

The ban is naturally **, what's the matter, this Lord Zhang is going to ban smoking? In people's doubts, the smokers in the three towns of Wuhan have bought more cigarettes and put them at home as a backup, and correspondingly, as soon as the news of the smoking ban came out, it immediately made the local scholars in Hubei shout good, for decades, who does not know the scourge of this smoke, now it is okay, the new governor Zhang is going to ban smoking, but how to ban this smoke? Could it be that the achievement is banned by this anti-smoking authority?

The young scholars were very curious, pointing at the signboard of the Anti-Smoking Bureau, discussing its rank and authority. Many people think that the grade of this "bureau" full of foreign flavor must be very high, but some people think that this grade must not be high, otherwise they will not stay in the city, but will be driven out of the city?

Of course, some people say that it would be nice to get a job here. Someone next to him immediately ridiculed: Come here to find an errand, how fat this non-smoking errand is! Can it be your turn, can you have elders in your family who are officials in the court, and can you have a grade? The man stopped squeaking suddenly, and his face showed a little frustration.

And the older people look at the appearance of this anti-smoking bureau, and they are frightened by this strange phenomenon. Among them, those who read and read and had some dealings with officialdom shook their heads and sighed: A temporary "bureau" signboard is hung in this broken place, isn't this a name, isn't this smoking ban just a formality? Of course, there are fierce and even scolded: This Zhang Xiangtao is simply using the name of smoking ban to collect money! It is easy to handle his foreign affairs, and as for this anti-smoking bureau, it is just a deaf man's ear ornament.

Scolding and scolding, hating and hating, but in the end, no one dares to pretend to be Taihuwei and take off the sign of the anti-smoking bureau and smash it. The signboard of the Hubei Anti-Smoking Bureau is hung there every day, but in the big courtyard, except for the craftsmen who are renovating the old barracks, no one else comes.

The more this is the case, the more some people feel that there is an opportunity in this yamen. What's more, from the very beginning, some people have been eyeing this piece of fat, together with Zhao Fengchang, who is the chief copywriter of the Governor's Yamen, also saw that the Smoking Ban Bureau would be a strange place to live, but it was precisely because he was the chief copywriter of the Governor's Yamen that he knew that Zhang Zhidong and Tang Haoran had three chapters of the law, and the first of the three chapters of the law was that Xiang Shuai was not allowed to interfere in the personnel of the Smoking Ban Bureau, so he blocked this idea at the first time.

Although some people can stop this idea, there are still people who have the idea of a non-smoking bureau, such as someone who asks Zhang Zhidong to send him to the anti-smoking bureau under the pretext of "The tobacco bureau is busy creating things, and I think Ziran also needs someone to help and help in the future". And Zhang Zhidong replied directly.

"Since you intend to go to the Anti-Smoking Bureau, then go to Ziran, the official has handed over everything to Ziran, you can go to him!"

Who can pull down their face and go to a junior to find an errand for themselves?

After hearing this, Zhao Fengchang dispelled the idea of going to the anti-smoking bureau. He thought that it would be better to be Zhang Zhidong's personal representative in the future, not only not to be practically responsible, but also to sit on a big seat, but when he thought about it, some things could not be pushed away. There are many people with Zhao Fengchang's vision in Hubei officialdom, especially in the group of alternate officials. There are nearly 800 people in Hubei, including alternate provinces, prefectures, counties and zoza, and their tops are all bought with money, and the reason why they bought this top is that they want to make more money. But this business is not easy to do, although there are people who make a lot of money, and it is also common to steal chickens and rice.

Now Wuchang has come to a Zhang platform, this Zhang system platform up, this side of the government has not begun to rectify, the prestige of the platform has not shaken up, the people below are still hanging their hearts, there is a piece of paper, to ban smoking, not to say, this thing as long as a ban, as the head of the yamen, the silver will not continue to send up in the future, the silver will flow into the pockets of individuals like sea water, and the silver that bought the official flowers will not come back.

As for this anti-smoking bureau, it is an unprecedented yamen, adding hundreds of positions to this officialdom that have never been seen since ancient times. The grade of this position is secondary, but in the 66 states and counties of Hubei, just do an errand, that is, deal with silver all day long, and when dealing with those tobacco merchants, by the way, the other party does not stuff hundreds of taels or thousands of taels of silver into his pocket, even if a county is too ordered, it may not be able to withstand this son!

It is said that this platform is not completely banned, what is the gradual ban, as for what kind of ban is this gradual ban, just like turning cigarettes into salt, like salt, when the time comes, there will be a ban on smoking bureau to sell, in other words, as long as someone smokes, the gold and silver of this ban on smoking will be piled up as high as a mountain in the future.

Zhang Zhengtai is really a Bodhisattva of the God of Wealth!

Except for a very small number of people whose brains have not yet been enlightened, all of these alternate officials, who regard making fortune as their only pursuit and have no actual duties, want to sharpen their heads and drill into the newly established Hubei Anti-Smoking Administration.

As for the current provincial prefect and the alternate officer, almost no one wants to enter the anti-smoking bureau because the official luck is just right, he has both money and a future. Zhang Zhengtai wants to ban smoking, it seems to be lively, but the success or failure is unpredictable, and it is absolutely impossible to exchange the black yarn hat given by the imperial court for a meeting office, co-organizer, general office and other wild officials, not to mention, this cigarette is so easy to ban, they are originally in cahoots with the local tobacco merchants, and they will naturally consider how to make those tobacco merchants feel that the filial piety of the past is not in vain, of course, they have been in the officialdom for so many years, they will not go up at this time, let Zhang Zhengtai take his own prestige, wait and talk about it first.

However, these adults have many aunts, nephews, and nephews. They don't hold official positions, and they want to get rich more than ordinary people because they have a power to rely on. Many of these people also have this wisdom, knowing that entering the anti-smoking bureau is to get involved with the government, and they can not only make a fortune, but also climb the high branches. So they asked their relatives who were officials to contact them.

As a result, the alternate officialdom and the crony officialdom converged, and for a while, the threshold of the Yamen of the Governor of Huguang and the preparatory office of the Hubei Anti-Smoking Administration Bureau was almost broken. Those who came in person, those who entrusted someone to take care of them, and the lords of various yamen sent people to deliver the notes, and there was an endless stream. Cigarettes have not yet been banned, and those who come here to seek a fortune from tobacco and eat mixed food are swarming like flies chasing the smell.

When someone walked the door of the Governor's Yamen, the Governor's Yamen sent back with a word: "The Anti-Smoking Bureau should do everything in the bureau itself, and the Governor's Yamen will not ask", okay! As soon as this news came out, everyone was shocked, and they all asked where Tang Haoran, the general manager of the Anti-Smoking Bureau, was.

Within a few days, he didn't even inquire about the three generations of his ancestors, Tang Haoran is the Tang Ziran who wrote "Tai Xice", yes, he is a learned person, that is, he entered the curtain of Zhang Zhitai with his knowledge, his ancestral home is Wuchang, yo, he is a village elder, this matter is easy to do, and he is looking for a relationship, but then, I heard that his father's generation was plundered by long hair, and later fled to the West, and all of a sudden, the root was broken from here.

Some people are broken, but some people are not broken, as a supplementary official, from 16 years ago to the ancestral field donated a seven-grade candidate county, Song Yuxin abandoned his wife and children to come to Wuchang as a candidate, but waited for 16 years, but did not get any commission, the supplement official did not have a salary, forced to make a living, he even gave the official robe to the quality, several times almost did not starve to death, can only make a living by copying letters in the city.

"The surname is Tang, and he was plundered 37 years ago when Wuchang was a bandit......"

Every day back to the sojourn where he lived, Song Yuxin studied the various relationships of Hubei officialdom for future use, and now Tang Haoran, who was recommended by Zhang Zhitai who was proficient in Western learning and had just been in charge of the anti-smoking bureau from the top of the three products, naturally became the object of his research.

"My father used to study, and his family had a lot of assets...... Tang family, Tang family ......"

Saying these two words, Song Yuxin remembered what the landlord said when he rented this dilapidated house sixteen years ago.

"Back then, the Tang family was also prosperous, there were twelve pawnshops in the three towns alone, but in the end it was just an empty one, and the long hair not only robbed the silver, but also burned the Tang family's house, and the single seedling did not know its whereabouts, so it burned down with the house......"

Wasn't this burrow built on the Tang family's old mansion?

"Could it be that this Tang Haoran is the descendant of the Tang family?"

Song Yuxin chattered, and then picked up the pen and wrote the three words "Yu Hengdian" on the paper, this Yu Hengdian is also the old number of Wuchang, and the same as the rich businessmen in Wuchang, it is also from Huizhou, the reason why the three words "Yu Hengdian" are written, not because Song Yuxin is a frequent visitor, but because of the in-laws of the Liu family and the Tang family in "Yu Hengdian", according to the old man, the grandmother of the Liu family is from the Tang family, if she is really related to Tang Haoran, according to the generation, Tang Haoran should call her aunt and grandmother.

Thinking of this, Song Yuxin's eyes rolled.

"If this Liu family really has an old relationship with the Tang family......"

With this thought, Song Yuxin only felt that his heartbeat was accelerating, if he had done this matter well, wouldn't he have fulfilled Tang Haoran's wish to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors? When the time comes, the errand of the anti-smoking bureau will not be left to your choice? (The novel "The Rising Sun of the Empire" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "ddxiaoshuo" and follow, hurry up! )