Early the next morning, Ren Chao got up early, after a simple breakfast. Ren Chao took a few guards to the public hall of the governor's yamen, today is the first time Ren Chao sat in the court, and from now on Ren Chao is officially in office.

During the Qing Dynasty, the governor's yamen had two divisions, namely the Chengxuan Political Envoy Department and the Inspectorate Envoy Division. The chief of the second division, the political envoy and the envoy, are commonly known as the feudal platform and the platform. Among them, the functions and powers of the political envoy are to undertake and announce government decrees: the political envoy undertakes the government affairs assigned by the superiors, and the decrees are promulgated to all governments, departments, prefectures, and counties. Supervise its implementation. Management subordinate officials: The political envoys manage officials at all levels such as the government and the prefecture, and pay their salaries on schedule, evaluate their political performance, and receive reports to the governor. Control of finances: The political envoy is responsible for collecting taxes from all parts of the province and is responsible for fiscal revenue and expenditure. Statistics of the province's household registration, tax service, number of people, number of fields and other civil content. Three years of Binxing, promoted to the exam. The procurator is in charge of the criminal and litigation affairs of a province. At the same time, it is also the local branch of the Central Supervision Organ, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which exercises supervisory power over local officials.

The first thing Ren Chao did when he took office was to listen to Li Chengen, Shandong's political envoy, and Xu Wenyuan, the envoy to Shandong, report to him on the current situation in Shandong. (Note: Both are fictional characters)

The so-called three fires for the new officials to take office, the two people in front of them didn't want the newly appointed Futai adults to burn the fire on their heads, so they honestly and meticulously reported to Ren Chao about the current situation in Shandong. This process will inevitably be a little long, and it will make Ren Chao drowsy.

Finally, the report of the two was completed, and Ren Chao stood up from his seat and stretched. "In the future, everyone will be colleagues, I hope that Lord Fantai and Lord Zhentai will help Ren more, let us work together to govern Shandong well, so that we can live up to the emperor's grace and live up to my Shandong people."

"Obey the teachings of Lord Futai!" The two responded respectfully.

"Okay, the two adults are also tired, take a rest first, and talk about something later!" Ren Chao waved his hand and said casually.

"Lord Futai. Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu sent someone to inquire. When will the negotiations be formally launched. At this time, Li Chengen suddenly asked.

"I forgot about it!" Ren Chao patted his head, with a suddenly realized expression, as if he had just remembered that he was still on a mission to negotiate with the Japanese, "That's it." You send someone to inform that guy named Mutsu Somitsu. He has just taken office. There are many government affairs to deal with, and I don't have time to see him for the time being, and when the official is free. Naturally, he will be informed. ”

"Lord Futai, isn't this too good! The matter of negotiation is serious, and if it drags on like this, in case the imperial court blames it......" Li Chengen said hesitantly. Li Chengen was completely submissive to the new Futai lord, and he dared to drag out such a major event as the negotiation between the two countries.

"Master Li doesn't have to worry, the official has his own measure, even if the court really blames it, the official will bear it." After Ren Chao finished speaking, he got up and went directly to the back hall to drink tea.

Li Chengen looked at Ren Chao's back and couldn't help but shake his head, turned to Xu Wenyuan next to him and said, "Brother Xu, what do you mean by this Futai lord?" ”

"Brother Li! You're so smart and foolish! Can't you see that? The current shape is that the Qing Dynasty has the upper hand, and the Japanese will definitely lose. When it comes to peace, he is in a hurry with the Japanese, but I am not in a hurry with the Qing Dynasty. Lord Futai, who deliberately hung out the Japanese and killed their spirit, would make it easier at the negotiating table in the future. Xu Wenyuan shook his head with a smile and said.

Li Chengen is naturally not an ordinary person to be a political envoy, but he has not turned a corner before, and at this time, after Xu Wenyuan said this, he immediately understood. He nodded and said, "It seems that although our Futai Lord is young, he is not easy to match!" Some people say that Lord Futai is a young, ignorant, reckless and vulgar reckless man, but now it seems that he is simply blind to their dog's eye. ”

Xu Wenyuan just smiled slightly, "Brother Li, the junior brother still has some official business to deal with, so I won't accompany him much!" As he spoke, he arched his hand and strode out.

Li Chengen shook his head and went back to his yamen, both Li Chengen and Xu Wenyuan were born as Jinshi. Originally, I heard that Ren Chao, the newly appointed governor of Shandong by the emperor, was not only young, but also did not have a reputation for meritorious service in the imperial examination, and he was completely based on military merits to hold a high position. Although these two people have heard a lot about Ren Chao's outstanding military exploits, they look down on Ren Chao in their hearts. In this era when everything is inferior and only high in reading, these so-called scholars have always been pretentious, and it is not surprising that they look down on Jin Zhao, who was born in the army.

Not to mention that Ren Chao, the governor of Shandong, does have some special features, first of all, this age is definitely the youngest among the previous governors of Shandong. In addition, since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, more than 100 governors of Shandong have changed in the past few hundred years, and more than half of these more than 100 people are not Jinshi, but also from a rising background. Most of those who did not achieve the fame of the imperial examination but were able to serve as governors were Manchurian relatives and nobles. It is absolutely rare for someone like Ren Chao to be promoted to the governor of Shandong by virtue of military merits.

"Your Excellency Foreign Minister, Li Chengen just sent someone to bring news, Ren Chao said that he has been busy with government affairs recently, and he has no time to negotiate with adults for a while, as for the date of negotiation, when he has arranged it, he will naturally send someone to inform Your Excellency!" Mutsu Munemitsu's entourage reported in frustration.

"Baga Ya Road!" Even if Mitsu Ao Zongguang had a good temper, he couldn't help but get angry at this time, "What does he Ren Chao want to do?" What could be more important than negotiations between the two countries? Bagaya Road! I would like to protest and immediately lodge a strong protest with the Qing Prime Minister's Yamen, and ask the Qing government to send new negotiators to negotiate. ”

"Your Excellency the Foreign Minister, we are now at war with the Qing Dynasty, and the Imperial Minister in Beijing has returned to China, how can we protest to the Qing government's Prime Minister Yamen?" Seeing that Mutsu Munemitsu was angry, the entourage couldn't help but be a little scared and said timidly.

"Smack!" With a bang, the furious Mutsu Munemitsu directly slapped a big mouth, and five blood-red handprints immediately appeared on the face of the entourage, and half of his face was swollen. Mutsu Somitsu pointed at his nose and scolded loudly, "You stupid drip!" The envoy to the Qing Dynasty is not in Beijing, so can't we directly send a telegram to the premier's yamen to protest? ”

"Hay! His Excellency the Foreign Secretary has taught him a lesson in the ill-conceived nature of his duties. Not only did the beaten entourage not dare to express the slightest dissatisfaction, but instead bowed his head and respectfully admitted his mistake to Mutsu Munemitsu, with a sincere look, as if he had really made some unforgivable mistake.

"What are you doing in a daze? Don't go yet! Mutsu Munemitsu roared loudly.

"Hay!" (To be continued......)

PS: Fifth Update!