Song Guanqian happened to see this scene, and couldn't help but smile and shake his head, among those girls, he knew the person who was the leader of them, who was the youngest daughter of Qi Xuanyun, the current head of the business district.

Qi Xuanyun is the cousin of Qi Xuanbian, the governor of Taicang Prefecture, but these two people do not have any direct connection in their careers, because Qi Xuanbian is a real lack of fame in raising people, and then mixed up in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty step by step, anyway, before that, he was already the magistrate of Jiading County.

And his cousin Qi Xuanyun was an official at the beginning, but he was engaged in business in Shanghai, engaged in import and export business, but the scale was not large, and in Shanghai, a territory full of foreign and Chinese businessmen, he could only be said to be a small businessman who could not be on the table.

However, fortunately, the scale of his business was not large, so he made up his mind to give up business in 1855, and then relied on his knowledge of Chinese and foreign affairs to be recommended to enter the Lin Zhe shogunate, which was completely devoted to the system of Yu Shengjun, and then he has been serving in the business zone, and the organization department's examination of him is "open-minded and good at foreign affairs".

Two months earlier, he had been promoted to the second head of the Zone, the most important city in the Empire's control zone.

Song Guanqian spent a lot of time in the Shanghai Business Zone, and often brought officials from the business zone with him when dealing with foreigners, so he became more familiar with the officials of the trade zone after a long time.

There are more people who come and go, and they know a little bit about each other's families, and they also know more about some of the more prominent backs.

This girl's name is Qi Lin, and she has lived in Shanghai with her father Qi Xuanyun for many years, and I heard that her father has been sent to Maria Girls' School a few years ago.

At first, Maria Girls' School was just a few foreigners, consuls, and wives who had nothing to do. to meet the psychological emptiness, but with the opening of the business zone. Many people who have more contact with foreigners and have a more open-minded vision also send their daughters to study. Now the scale is not small, and there are dozens of Chinese and foreign female students combined.

It can be regarded as the largest girls' school in the business district and even in the whole of China.

Song Guanqian looked at the few girls outside and seemed to have a dispute with those books, and he didn't mean to get out of the car and interfere.

This place is the Bund Avenue, and it is needless to say that the management of public security is naturally needless to say, Song Guanqian just closed his eyes slightly, and saw two policemen in black uniforms trotting over not far away.

The scholars saw two men in black uniforms running over with swords pinned to their waists and a foreign gun on their backs. Immediately, they didn't dare to move, these scholars came from Hubei to study, of course, it sounds like a study tour, but in fact, they went to Shanghai to escape the war.

These people were all in Shanghai for the first time, and one of their companions was in the county town of Shanghai outside the business district, because they were relying on the identity of scholars to scold these men in black uniforms, and as a result, they were directly imprisoned in the patrol police station in the name of "attacking the police". Well, they don't call them lawyers, they call lawyers.

Then it took a full 20 yuan to bail the person out, and I had to go to the Shanghai County Court to pass the court three days later!

Of course. It's okay not to go, but you will be treated as a fugitive immediately, and if you are caught, you will be severely punished. Even if you can't catch it for a while, you can't expect to live an upright life in Shanghai from now on.

I've seen how well these patrolmen are tolerant. Although these scholars said that they would not bend their waists, they cast a conciliatory color on the cheap servants in their eyes. But one by one they didn't speak.

However, the two patrol officers came over and only glanced at it slightly, and immediately threw the scholars aside, and the patrol officer led by him walked to the girls with a smile on his face, and said in a low voice: "But these people have disturbed a few young ladies, if so, we will definitely punish them severely!" ”

The patrolman said, with a flattering look on his face, this patrolman patrols this Bund Avenue all day long, and knows all the dignitaries and nobles here, just looking at the clothes of these girls, he knows that it must be the daughter of the powerful of the family.

Although this year is said to be retro, there are many people wearing Hanfu, but the same Hanfu You are only wearing a linen cotton clothes, no matter what you wear, you don't want this patrol officer to take a look, but the Hanfu worn by the girls in front of you is all over the silk satin, and the material is at least worth a year's salary at a glance.

As the saying goes, the dog's eyes look at people low, and it is the instinct of these people who stay on the street all year round.

Qi Lin looked at the flattering patrolman, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, this patrolman is the same as those scholars, they are all annoying when they see it!

The mood of going out to hang out was completely ruined by them, and she didn't speak immediately, she snorted coldly and raised her feet and left, and several of her girlfriends also hurriedly followed.

The patrol officer was bored with himself, and immediately didn't follow and chased after him, don't look at the only a few girls, but there are several strong men behind him, and at a glance he knows that it is a hospital bodyguard or something, and one of them is holding a big yellow dog in his hand.

At this time, the middle-aged patrol officer turned around, looked at these scholars, first glanced at their appearance and clothing, and thought that these people were also some ordinary scholars, not the children of the powerful, and his face immediately waved: "Hmph, what a bold man, dare to flirt with women in broad daylight, come back to the sub-bureau with me, let your family hire a lawyer to lead people!" ”

When those scholars heard this, they almost fainted on the spot without being frightened, they just went to the patrol police station before, not to mention dozens of oceans, they have to go to the hall this time.

Now there is another time, and they still have money to bail out and hire lawyers, and immediately their originally straight waists are bent down.

A scholar who was about thirty years old immediately stepped forward, held a folding fan and arched his hand: "The student is Chen Dongbo, a student of Hanyang Mansion in Hubei, and I just said a few words to the young ladies in front of me, but how can someone like me who is familiar with the books of sages and sages do something to molest women and children!" ”

The patrolman did not argue with him, and insisted on escorting them back to the patrol police station for detailed interrogation, and then the scholar who was the leader sighed deeply, and then took out two silver dollars from his arms, and then stuffed them into the patrolman's hand without a trace.

Yinyuan handed, the patrol officer still snorted coldly, and then said: "Give me attention, next time let me wait for a catch, I will definitely be detained by your branch bureau for a detailed trial!" ”

Immediately, he waved his hand and left with a patrol officer next to him!

At this time, there were not many pedestrians on the Bund Avenue, and this small controversy did not cause too many pedestrians to watch, and even the sedan chair in front of Song Guan never stopped.

And when he looked at the two patrolmen who left with silver dollars, and then looked at the few dejected readers, Song Guanqian's thick eyebrows never stretched.

"The people in the procuratorate have been staring at officials at all levels before, but they still ignore this lowest-level civil servant!" Song Guanqian, who was muttering, was already thinking about it, and when he turned around, he gave the Son of Heaven a fold, and wanted to talk about the problem of grassroots officials.

But how do you write this excerpt?

Song Guanqian pondered, as the co-minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a high-ranking official in the ministry, he was naturally very aware of some of the troubles faced by the nascent Chinese Empire.

In order to solve the problem of the shortage of middle and senior officials and grassroots civil servants, the Chinese Empire took a very important measure, that is, to accept the surrendered officials and officials of the former Qing Dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on a large scale, and it can be said that they took over the original local government ruling institutions from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on a large scale.

One of the most important reasons why the Chinese Empire was able to quickly and effectively dominate the occupied areas was that it accepted the local governing institutions in situ.

The advantage of such a measure is that the shortage of officials can be solved in a short period of time and that the occupied areas can be effectively ruled in a short period of time.

But the disadvantage is also very obvious, that is, the quality of the recruited Toucheng personnel is uneven, among which there are talented people, there are mediocre people, and there are lack of ability, and it also brings a huge problem, that is, corruption.

The problem of corruption is still nothing for middle- and upper-class officials, because the salaries of officials in the Chinese Empire are maintained at a relatively high level in the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing court's incorruptible silver is directly paid as salary, and the normal income of officials has not decreased.

In addition, they all know that the empire is now in the process of expansion, and how many satraps will be needed to unify China? How many governors are needed? How many envoys are needed?

And who will fill these positions? Most of them will be mid- and high-ranking officials within the existing system of the empire, especially former Qing officials who defected to the empire earlier.

There are at least dozens of governors waiting for them in front of them, and people with a little sense know that the last two years are a critical period, even if they want to be greedy, they will have to be greedy for a few years after becoming the governor and governor, and now they are greedy because of small losses.

Because the middle and high-level officials themselves have high salaries and considerable prospects, the middle and high-level civil officials of the Chinese Empire are still in a relatively clean and efficient range.

On the one hand, the Chinese Empire has collected financial power and vested it in the central government, depriving local governments of the opportunity to levy harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which means that the local grassroots officials, that is, the current civil servant group, have lost the opportunity to make extra money, although the empire has increased the salary income of the civil servant group compared to the pre-Qing era, for example, the lowest civil servants in the departments under the central ministries, according to the different positions and departments, His monthly salary is about 15 to 20 yuan. (To be continued......)