Whether in ancient or modern times, officials in the bureaucratic system can be roughly divided into two types: "those who are officials" and "those who do things". The difference between the two types of people is that the "official person" does things in order to be a bigger official. "People who do things" are officials in order to do more.

Of course, at this time, such ideals and sentiments as serving the people did not exist. Therefore, even if the "people who do things" are officials and do things, they are more for the sake of success or fame or for the benefit of the family.

The current governor of Denglai, Sun Guozhen, should be regarded as a person who does things. This can be seen in his resume.

In the forty-first year of Wanli, Sun Guozhen, a native of Cixi, Zhejiang, was admitted to the Jinshi. In the early years of the Apocalypse, he served as a Taoist in Linqing, Shandong, and participated in the pacification of Xu Hongru's rebellion. He was transferred to Fujian to participate in the politics of the Patrol Sea Road, and together with the governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi, etc., he strongly advocated the recovery of the Penghu Islands occupied by the Dutch.

On the second day of the first month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty sailors swore an oath to attack the Dutch navy entrenched in Penghu. The Dutch army resisted desperately until May, when Sun Guozhen personally led dozens of warships to help, and transferred firearms troops to strengthen the offensive. By August, the Dutch naval commander Sun Ke led his army to surrender to Sun Guozhen, and the Penghu Islands were returned to China.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Sun Guozhen was promoted to the governor of Denglai for his meritorious service in recovering Penghu, and actively supported the military operations of Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, in Liaodong, and provided logistical support for the victory of the Dongjiang Ming Army in the "Dingmao Campaign".

is different from Yuan Chonghuan's kind of civil official who can only do kung fu on his lips. Sun Guozhen was one of the few civilian ministers in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty who personally commanded naval battles and practiced real swords and guns on the battlefield. For a whole year in 1627, Sun Guozhen, as the governor of Denglai, and Dongjiang Town cooperated relatively tacitly. Sun Guozhen, who was quite unimpressed with the party struggle, had a relatively happy life in 1627.

However, in 1628, Yuan Chonghuan, who had been despised by Sun Guozhen, relied on his own backstage to be hard, and someone behind him was appointed by Emperor Chongzhen as "the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, and the superintendent Ji Liao and the governor of Denglai Tianjin military affairs" became his top boss, and his happy days were completely over.

Because Sun Guozhen was promoted by virtue of his military merits and had no power in the imperial court, and because he appreciated Mao Wenlong in Dongjiang Town very much, he had a very bad relationship with Yuan Chonghuan, who regarded Mao Wenlong as a thorn in his eye.

Sun Guozhen is a little different from the ordinary civil officials of the Ming Dynasty. The general civil officials of the Ming Dynasty dared to scold the emperor for earning the court staff, but when facing their own bosses in the officialdom, they behaved like dogs, and their grandsons were sorry for Erwang. The strange thing about Sun Guozhen is that his view of the emperor is very objective. He took an indifferent attitude towards the emperor, but he dared to speak out against his own superiors.

Because of this reason, it can be imagined that Yuan Chonghuan was fooled, in order to ensure the concentration of his power, even the chief soldier of the important town officially appointed by the imperial court could directly cut off his head without any basis and central orders, so a thorn like Sun Guozhen would inevitably have to eat nails and wear small shoes from Yuan Chonghuan.

Therefore, since Yuan Chonghuan returned to office, the conflict between the two has become more and more serious. Although Sun Guozhen's subordinates on the ground of Denglai did not dare to deal with him, Yuan Chonghuan, a member of the Donglin Party who loved party struggle and was keen on rejecting dissidents, and Yuan Chonghuan's big backstage, his teacher Sun Chengzong, were all Donglin Party members, but they wantonly attacked and impeached Sun Guozhen when they gained power.

As a "person who does things", don't look at Sun Guozhen, who is also from the Jiangnan region, but he has a special dislike for the Donglin Party, which only knows what the party is fighting and does not do. For Sun Guozhen, he believes that the state affairs of the national dynasty from the late years of Wanli to the present day are getting worse and worse, and the main problem lies in the party struggle, and the Donglin party members should bear the main responsibility.

Although he hates party strife, Sun Guozhen also knows that in today's Ming Dynasty, if you want to be an official and do something practical, there is no one behind you, and it is completely impossible not to take refuge in any force. So in the face of the current situation, Sun Guozhen also knew that he would not be able to serve long as the governor of Denglai, and even his political career in the Ming court was not far from a complete end.

Sun Guozhen sometimes thinks that the position of the governor of Denglai is really an unlucky position. Starting from Tao Langxian, the first governor of Denglai, Yuan Ke Liwu looked at Li Song, and almost none of his predecessors ended well. Either he lost his life directly, or he was dismissed from office and went home in Nanjing. Even since the establishment of the position of governor of Denglai in the first year of the Apocalypse, counting his own five governors, none of them has served for more than two years.

Thinking about it this way, Sun Guozhen felt that it was acceptable for him to step down after less than two years.

What Sun Guozhen didn't know was that the fate and tenure of the nine governors of Denglai in the Ming Dynasty after him were not much better than him. Sun Yuanhua, who is from his own family, was captured by the rebels directly in the post of governor of Denglai, and was finally beheaded by the imperial court. Only Chen Yingyuan sat in the post of governor of Denglai for five years, and was finally dismissed.

Just like the local government in modern society will set up an office in Beijing, Sun Guozhen has his own eyes and ears in Beijing when he is an official and at the level of governor. He knew that Wang Yongguang, the current secretary of the ministry, had some contact with the eunuch party in the past, so he was being attacked by the Donglin party. And he also knows that in the current ministry, it is not Shangshu Wang Yongguang who speaks well, but the left and right servants of the Donglin Party who speak well.

What's more, Sun Guozhen understands that the emperor has already handed over the military affairs of Jiliao Denglai Tianjin to Yuan Chonghuan alone, and such things that go against common sense have appeared, so he will definitely not have a good impression with the emperor.

Even if he is a person who pays attention to "doing things", Sun Guozhen is also a member of the bureaucracy. With a clear knowledge that his career was coming to an end, Sun Guozhen's enthusiasm for work began to decline sharply.

Originally, Sun Guozhen was very close to local military affairs. For major and minor local affairs and personnel changes, he has to care about everything and ask about everything. But now Sun Guozhen, who has become disheartened and waiting to go home to gnaw old rice, is in a state of big saga.

Weihaiwei's command led to a personnel change; Some people in the Weihaiwei area have recruited displaced people; There were a lot of never-before-seen self-propelled steamers coming to trade in Dengzhou Port, and after Sun Guozhen heard the report of his henchmen, he also adopted a blind eye and a casual attitude.

Because it is a direct sea route, unlike the cotton cloth in the Songjiang area, it is a land route of nearly 2,000 miles from Jining to Dengzhou to Dengzhou, unlike the cotton cloth in the Songjiang area, which is about half cheaper than the Songjiang cloth, and the Baath Party cotton cloth began to sell well in the Denglai area.

After a businessman with a keen sense of business found that it was cheaper to buy cloth from the "Fuxing Trading Company" and sell it to various parts of Shandong than to sell Songjiang cloth on the Grand Canal, large customers began to buy a large amount of goods. Even the steward of the Hengwang Mansion, which is located in Qingzhou, who is in charge of commerce and trade, also came to Dengzhou to buy cloth