Chapter 59: The Inside Story of Officialdom
This quiet pretending to make Xiao Yue anxious, as if she was deliberately teasing Xiao Yue.
Seeing her like this, Wen Youyou comforted: "I didn't lie to you, it's really a long story." ”
Xiao Yue said angrily: "Then do you mean it or not?"
Wen Youyou saw that Xiaoyue was angry, and she was also happy: "Xiaoyue is really angry, okay, I'll talk about it." ”
Xiao Yue stomped her feet angrily, looked out the window, and ignored the silence.
It hadn't rained for many days, and some small birds had come out of the yard looking for food on the ground, and when it was quiet all around, only the chirping of birds could be heard.
Wen Youyou sorted out his thoughts for a while, and said in a low tone: "Actually, there were some things I didn't want you to know before, because I was very annoying about these things, but it's good that you know some things now." ”
Satsuki disliked him for being verbose, and didn't pay attention to him, just looking at the birds in the yard looking for food.
"This flood is due to the fact that several places have been affected, and it is supposed that the governor of the state should be in charge of local disaster relief affairs, but when we came, we did not see the governor of Jangluo State. Wen Youyou sighed, "I guess you don't know why. ”
Xiao Yue turned her head and looked at him, "Why didn't I know that there was another Zhizhou? There was a flood in his jurisdiction, didn't he care?"
Wen Youyou smiled bitterly: "I didn't know that the governor of Changluo Prefecture was not here before I came here, and it was not easy to ask in front of everyone, this officialdom is complicated, I'm afraid you can't imagine it." ”
Xiao Yue nodded, "Yes, but since you know, just tell me one by one?"
Wen Youyou smiled and said, "It's all a bad thing, I thought you didn't want to know." ”
Xiao Yue flattened her mouth and said with contempt: "I know that you don't want to say it, and you blame me." ”
"Yes, I don't want to talk about these things, but if someone wants to hear it, I have to avoid it. ”
Satsuki pointed to her nose and said, "Do I want to hear it?"
Wen Youyou didn't speak anymore, found a chair and asked Xiao Yue to sit down, and then pulled a chair to sit opposite Xiao Yue, and slowly told Xiao Yue some inside stories about the British officialdom.
"You should know that Britain is actually a merger of two countries now, so the officials in the British officialdom are also composed of the original officials of the two countries, nominally one country, but there are still factions in private, the original officials of the British are called the British faction, and the original officials of the Yue country are called the Yue faction. ”
When Xiao Yue heard him say this, she was a little dazed, it turned out that there was such a turbulent current under the calm lake.
Wen Youyou continued: "You should think about who the most famous official of the Yue faction is. ”
Xiao Yue blurted out without thinking: "It must be Prime Minister Wen." ”
Wen Youyou nodded with a wry smile.
"What about Yingpai?" asked Satsuki curiously.
"There were many British officials, Wen was headed by Prime Minister Liu Yuanhui, and Wu was headed by Generalissimo Wu Zheng. ”
"Oh. . . Xiao Yue was thoughtful, she thought for a while and asked, "Wen Youyou, what about you?"
Wen Youyou listened, laughed, and then suddenly fell silent.
Xiao Yue lowered her head and touched her nose, feeling that Wen Youyou was very strange.
Wen Youyou kept looking at the courtyard outside, and after a long time, he finally spit out a sentence: "Didn't you ask why so many people came to the courtyard today?"
Satsuki looked up at him and nodded.
"There are more people here, more than we saw last time we came to Downtown. ”
"Who are they?" asked Satsuki.
"You don't know only three people, one is Hu Zhizhou from Changluo Prefecture, one is Dr. Chen sent by the imperial court, and the other is General Zhou stationed in Dongshan County, you have seen everyone else. ”
"Do they all have retinues with them?"
"Yes. ”
Xiao Yue sorted out her clothes with satisfaction, and then said, "No wonder a group of people in the dark pressure have crowded the yard." ”
Wen Youyu looked at her with a smile.
"I'm satisfied. ”
Xiao Yue's eyes rolled, and she asked again: "No, you didn't tell me why they came to see you?"
Wen Youyou lowered her head and smiled quietly, "Xiaoyue is still really careful. He raised his head, looked at Xiao Yue and said, "Hu Zhizhou should have appeared here, but he went to comfort the army before, so he didn't come here to help the disaster." That Dr. Chen... ”
Before Wen Youyou could finish speaking, Xiao Yue suddenly interrupted him, "Wait a while, you said that Hu Zhizhou went to comfort the army? Didn't you hear that there was a big victory? Then what did he go to condole?"
Wen Youyou tilted his head, looked at Xiaoyue with a wry smile and said, "You also see that something is wrong, right?"
Xiao Yue thought about it, and said a little angrily: "He just wants to shoot the prince's ass!"
Wen Youyou sighed and said, "Who doesn't want to get closer to the prince, it's okay for him to do so." ”
Xiao Yue slapped the table hard, didn't pay attention to it too hard, but slapped her hands red, raised her hand and kept blowing with her mouth.
Wen Youyou was a little worried, and originally wanted to take Xiao Yue's hand to check it, but Xiao Yue blew twice, then rubbed each other with her other hand, looked up at him and said, "Let's not say that the prince's side has already confirmed the victory, but here is a matter of human life, so many people are waiting for their parents! ”
Wen Youyou put away his concerned gaze, lowered his head and said: "Actually, before I came, my boss, Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, mentioned to me that this governor of Changluo Prefecture is an official of the British faction. ”
Xiao Yue thought for a while and said, "Is he deliberately embarrassing you?"
"I'm not sure, but he came to see me today, and his tone was very polite. ”
Xiao Yue pursed her lips and said, "Hmph, I'm afraid I'm not polite to you, you will go back to the imperial city to resume your life after you are busy with this disaster relief business, he is just afraid that you will join him." ”
Wen Youyou was not angry, he said in a steady tone: "Actually, I can understand what he did, but from the side of the people, this practice is really dereliction of duty, and I will not add fuel to it, but just report it truthfully." ”
Xiao Yue listened to it and said happily: "Originally, he didn't act, you just wrote it truthfully, and you didn't make it up when he went to visit the army, and the prince also knew about it." ”
Wen Youyou nodded and continued: "Generally, there will be an epidemic after the flood, and that Dr. Chen is doing epidemic prevention. There is also a general Zhou, who is here to help with disaster relief and epidemic prevention. ”
Xiao Yue listened and asked curiously, "Is the war on the front line over?"
Wen Youyou looked at Xiao Yue strangely: "Have you been in the mountains for so many days?
Xiao Yue smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's not all in the mountains, and I went to Luoshan Village with Lord Wang for a while." ”
"I know you went to Luoshan Village, and Lord Wang told me, but haven't you seen Zhang Zhixian?"
Satsuki shook her head.
"He didn't come to you?"
Xiao Yue thought for a while and said, "It seems that I have been here, I didn't have time to pay attention to him at the time." ”
Wen Youyou was very helpless, he looked at Xiaoyue and said with a smile: "This war has long been over, the official document of the imperial court was issued more than half a month ago, and I estimate that Zhang Zhixian received it ten days ago." ”
Xiao Yue was shocked that she had neglected such an important matter.