In 194 and 5, the first to start from the east of the stage

The official document of the Military Aircraft Department was published on the fourth day of the second lunar month, and Chen Kuilong set out from the neighboring province of Guizhou, but arrived in Hankou until the end of the third lunar month. Device: No ads, full text, more

This was also the practice of Qing Dynasty officialdom. After all, the imperial court stipulates that you will arrive within three months, and you will arrive in three or five days in a hurry, looking like an official with a heart, are you in a hurry to make money? So that you will fall behind invisibly, at least it will not show your noble feelings of "joy and anger are not in the sè, and gains and losses are not in the heart". You have to wait until the last few days of the three months to take up your post slowly, so as to show your pampering and unfazed nature, and the apprehension of the officialdom.

Chen Zhengtai can arrive within two months regardless of personal honor, which is already considered high efficiency!

There are no secrets in officialdom. Chen Kuilong's ship had not yet entered Hubei, and Li Minchen, the political envoy of Hubei, had already sent someone to inform the officials of the provincial government of the date of his arrival in Hankou. On that day, I saw the colorful flags and crowds at the Hankou wharf, and the officials who were qualified to participate in the greeting came to the wharf early in the morning to wait. Leaders like Li Minchen and Sun Yuanqi came late, and as soon as they got off the sedan chair, a large group of people came up to say goodbye. Then I came to the lounge, drank tea, ate pastries, and was carefully accompanied by the prefect of Wuchang and Hankou County, and the general affairs of the dock telegraph office came from time to time to report:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the ship of Lord Tai is 50 miles from the dock!"

"My lord, the ship of the old man is 30 miles from the dock!" ……

As for those miscellaneous petty officials, they can only find a random place outside and gather together to chat. Not to mention tea and pastries, even the seats are not available.

It was nearly noon that the general affairs department came in and reported: "Ladies and gentlemen, the ship of the master of Taiwan is only five miles from the dock, and it is expected to arrive in a quarter of an hour." I don't know how to show it! ”

Li Minchen put down the teacup, stroked his beard and smiled: "Master Sun, let's wait on the dock now, right?" ”

Sun Yuanqi hurriedly got up, stretched out his hand and said, "Lord Li, please first!" ”

The Hankou County Commander bowed down and said, "Your Excellency respectfully invites you to move to the dock!" ”

Li Minchen is already in his early seventies, and he is a little stumbling between his steps: "The Hundred Family Names" said at the beginning of 'Zhao Qiansun Li', only the grandson first and then Li, and there is no statement that Li is the first and then the grandson, which shows that Master Sun should be in front of Li. Or Lord Sun, please first! ”

Sun Yuanqi sweated violently: What kind of truth is this? Immediately, he hurriedly said: "Lord Li has killed the lower officials!" No matter the preface, the preface, or the preface, you are all before me, how dare Sun make a mistake? Lee-sama, please! ”

Old man Li still didn't follow: "If it is a preface, we are all from the second grade, and there is no precedence." As the old saying goes, 'The one who comes after comes first.'" So you should be ahead of me!" If it is a preface tooth, the decay is a horse's tooth. 3∴35686688 However, everyone says, 'If you have ambition, you are not old, and if you have no ambition, you will be a hundred years old', so age is not accurate. If it is a preface, who doesn't know that Lord Sun is vigorously studying now, and Ze is Huxiang? The old decay is just a vegetarian meal for the corpse, and when he sees Lord Sun, he naturally wants to release a head. Therefore, it is Lord Sun who invites first! ”

Look at your logic and clear thinking, you don't look like an old fool! Don't you know that the imperial court clearly stipulates that the position of the envoy is after the political envoy? Sun Yuanqi suddenly remembered that when he first came, Li Minchen had pulled and pulled with Zhang Zhidòng's son. It is estimated that this old man sees himself as the nephew of the boss, so he does not forgive.

Seeing that Li Minchen and Sun Yuanqi were humble, the other officials in the room naturally couldn't go out first, and only laughed on the side, but they didn't dare to chat.

Sun Yuanqi knew that he was by no means the opponent of this old fritter in the officialdom, but he also had an advantage, and when he came to Li Minchen's side, relying on his youth and strength, he half-hugged and half-pushed Li Minchen to let him out, and said politely: "Lord Li, please!" ”

Seeing that Sun Yuanqi was strong, Li Minchen couldn't, so he had to hold Sun Yuanqi's arm and said with a smile: "Lord Sun, please too!" ”

Li Minchen and Sun Yuanqi walked out of the house a few steps, and the officials around them followed them with interest, and they could find a suitable position without roll call. Everyone gathered around the pier, chatting in whispers with the people around them, while looking at the vast river.

Li Minchen asked quietly: "Master Sun, I heard that you are from Jiangsu?" ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "Yes, I am from Huai'an Mansion, Jiangsu." ”

Li Minchen said with a smile: "Before the master of Taiwan, it was Futai, Jiangsu. In this way, you can still call him 'old ancestor' when you meet? ”

"Old man?" Sun Yuanqi didn't know that this "old ancestor" was the honorific title of the local governor in the officialdom of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but he always felt very awkward when he read it in his mouth.

Li Minchen said again: "It is said that the master of Taiwan was the governor of Sichuan before he came to Huguang, although he did not reach the official, but the old man from Sichuan saw him and called him 'old ancestor', I don't think it is abrupt, right?" ”

"......" Sun Yuan said in his heart: You are a seventy or eighty-year-old man who shouts "old ancestor", and you are not afraid of people's coldness?

Li Minchen still didn't realize it: "Although Lord Zhentai Yang is from Yunnan, he grew up in Fengxian, Jiangsu, and he is half a fellow villager with Lord Sun!" ”

The huge network of officialdom is probably woven in this way.

Sun Yuanqi had no choice but to say: "Lord Fantai, I heard that Lord Yang and Master Chen came over together?" ”

Li Minchen said: "Hmm! The master of Taiwan is a native of Guizhou, and when he was promoted from Futai, Jiangsu to Sichuan, he returned to his hometown and province. At the beginning of last month, the imperial court changed the order of Lord Chen to make the platform in Huguang, and changed the Lord Yang of Guizhou to the director of Hubei, and they happened to be in Guiyang together, so they came over together. ”

Sun Yuanqi thought in his heart: I'm afraid this is not good news. The governor and the inspector went to work at the same time, and there was always some incense on the way to communicate jiāo. From another point of view, the two of them are latecomers, and in the face of Li Minchen and Sun Yuanqi, who have been in the Hubei officialdom for several years, they must be vigilant, and it is easier to hold together. Once there is a disagreement, there will undoubtedly be much less room for maneuver.

As he spoke, a passenger ship appeared in the sky, first as a small black dot, then gradually growing larger, heading straight for the dock. Li Minchen straightened his clothes and stood solemnly. Sun Yuanqi also took a half step back with interest.

A moment later, the ship came to a halt, and two officials in court robes stepped down from the board. At this time, firecrackers and gongs and drums were loud on the wharf, and the scene was much more lively than when Sun Yuanqi took office. Li Minchen, who was still faltering just now, immediately became much more flexible, and quickly stepped forward to pay homage: "Hubei political envoy Li Minchen sees the master of Taiwan!" ”

The officials all around him also knelt on the ground and kowtowed as Li Minchen bowed. Sun Yuanqi didn't want to stand out from the crowd, so he had to follow the crowd helplessly. Sheep will not be beaten with the crowd, and people will not be punished with the crowd!

Yang Wending, who was following behind Chen Kuilong, naturally couldn't stand Li Minchen and Sun Yuanqi's big gifts, and had already avoided them. Chen Kuilong glanced around, as if he was enjoying the infinite scenery brought by his power, and then stepped forward to help Li Minchen: "Everyone, please get up, don't be polite!" ”

After coming to the Qing Dynasty for so many years, I am still not used to kneeling for others. Hearing this, Sun Yuanqi got up from the ground cleanly. The other officials saw that the lord of the clan and the lord of the school had risen, and they also hurriedly got up.

Sun Yuanqi had to take a closer look at this "dry forehead": he was not tall, but his skin was very fair, his face was very elegant, his eyebrows were thin, and he thought that he would definitely be a handsome offspring when he was young. Otherwise, you won't be able to marry that smart and beautiful Gan Gege! It's just that I didn't see the cloud-shaking Gan Gege, thinking that he should hide in the boat at this moment, pretending to be the good wife and mother who stays at home and rarely sees outsiders, right?

Chen Kuilong helped Li Minchen and asked casually: "Listening to Master Li's accent, it should also be from Yunnan, Guichuan, right?" ”

I don't know if the old man has Parkinson's disease or is nervous, Li Minchen's white beard trembled: "Huiyu Tai Daren, Xia Guan is from Anxian County, Sichuan." Your Excellency was once the governor of Sichuan, and the lower officials have to call you 'old ancestor'! ”

Chen Kuilong laughed: "I, the governor of Sichuan, have not arrived, but I am not accurate!" After speaking, he shouted Yang Wending behind him: "Lord Yang, come on!" I am a native of Guizhu, Guizhou, Lord Li of Fantai is a native of Anxian County, Sichuan, and Lord Yang, you are a native of Yunnan. ”

Chen Kuilong is the governor of the second grade, so he can naturally laugh casually, but Yang Wending, the envoy of the third grade, cannot, so he hurriedly salutes: "Yang Wending has seen Lord Chen!" ”

Sun Yuanqi saw that they had finished gossiping, so he stepped forward and arched his hand to the two: "Hubei has made Sun Yuanqi meet the master of the Taiwan and the master of the platform!" ”

Chen Kuilong smiled: "I think this is Mr. Baixi, who is famous all over the country and famous inside and outside the country, right?" Look up for a long time, look up for a long time! It's just that I didn't expect Mr. Baixi to be so young, what a person is really unseemly! ”

Yang Wending also said: "Lord Sun's reputation is like thunder, and I am fortunate to see it today!" ”

Sun Yuanqi thanked again and again: "My lord praised it falsely." ”

Chen Kuilong asked, "Lord Sun, who are you Guigeng?" ”

"I don't dare to call 'expensive', Xiaguan was born in the second year of Guangxu (1876), and he is already thirty and three this year!"

Chen Kuilong sighed: "I was born in the seventh year of Xianfeng (1857), and I was just raised in the second year of Guangxu. As for when I was thirty-three years old, I was just the head of the military department of the sixth grade, but Master Sun was already a master of the second grade. Alas! It's really incomparable. ”

Li Minchen said on the side: "Coincidentally, Xia Guan was born in the eighteenth year of Daoguang (1838). The people who make Taiwan are 19 years older than the people who study Taiwan, and the lower officials are also 19 years older than the people who make Taiwan. However, Xia Guan is thirty-three years old and has not yet become a jinshi! As for the second year of Guangxu, I was already thirty-nine years old, but I was only the editor of the Hanlin Academy of Zhengqipin. He shook his head as he spoke, thinking that he felt that he was the strongest in the "who can be worse than me" competition.

Yang Wending continued: "Xiaguan was born in the second year of Xianfeng (1852), and I just raised the deputy tribute in the second year of Guangxu. When I was thirty-three years old, I tried and failed twice, and I have been helping Li Wenzhong in public, and I have not been able to become a jinshi since then. Therefore, the lord of the system and the lord of the domain do not have to be presumptuous! ”

Ding dong! In this round of the miserable competition, Yang Wending won the championship honorably!

This is the first big gathering of the leading figures of Hubei officialdom after the arrival of the new governor, and some nonsense can only be regarded as letting everyone know each other, as for the relationship in the future, it depends on how you operate.

But Sun Yuanqi didn't have the heart to build this relationship network at all, so he didn't communicate with Yang Wending in the name of half a fellow countryman; did not use the name of visiting the "old husband ancestor" to send filial piety to Chen Kuilong. Except for the "meeting gift" of hundreds of taels of silver after the two took office in accordance with the rules of officialdom, there was no longer any entanglement.

Chen Kuilong had just arrived, and he seemed to want to calm down, observe carefully, and not be in a hurry to burn the three fires.

But this calm apparently did not last long. More than ten days later, Sun Yuanqi was inspecting the progress of the project on the construction site outside the city, and the governor's palace sent someone to ask the government to talk about it.

As the saying goes: when a night owl enters the house, good things don't come. It seems that it has to come. Sun Yuanqi returned to his house and changed his official uniform, and discussed with Yang Du again, but he didn't realize that the arrogance in Xiōng was abrupt: the east wind is blowing, the war drums are beating, who is afraid of whom in this world!

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