Li Hongzhang smiled slightly, "Zhonghua is always so modest, since we are neighbors, it is natural for us to help each other, this Lushun is under the rule of your Zhonghua, and my Beiyang Sailor still needs to rely on Zhonghua more." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Rong Lu shook his head and didn't say a word, Li Hongzhang took a sip of tea and glanced at Rong Lu, "Zhonghua has arrived in the north, but he can recuperate for a few years, but I am very strange, Zhonghua is already a big Sima, if I go next, I will not feel strange if I want to enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister, how can I still release it, speaking of which, although the north is clean, it is not a good place to be rich and prosperous." ”

This is indeed a very strange thing, in recent years, because of the war and the importance of armaments, the status of the military department has gradually improved, the previous Hu Linyi, Erle and Bu and other military departments have entered the military aircraft department, according to the reason, Rong Lu is a minister of military merit, Wen Tao Wuluo is very good, in the military department of Shangshu, not to mention anything else, the two oceans of the naval division is developing by leaps and bounds, the new army is also doing a good job, it can be said that the new army, almost Rong Lu is the main promoter, there have been rumors that Rong Lu is going to enter the cabinet, I don't know why it's been delayed for so long, and now I'm going to release the governor, this is a very strange thing, as the saying goes, Beijing officials are the most expensive, not to mention a book? This is a very unusual transfer, "Brother Shaoquan is the most well-informed person in the officialdom," Rong Lu smiled, "Don't you know the current situation?" ”

"The situation?"

"Jingzhong," Rong Lu shook his head, "The wind direction is not very good, why should Brother Shaoquan pretend to be stupid, Tianjin Weinan is going to pass through here, there is no news to escape Brother Shaoquan here, I went out of Beijing, one is to hide from the limelight, and the other is not willing to trap myself in the nest of right and wrong, so as not to be in a dilemma." ”

Li Hongzhang was silent, he didn't know that there were many changes in the Beijing Division, once the Son of Heaven and a courtier, this is the consistent principle of ancient and modern times, and now it is the Son of Heaven who is in power, although many things are Xiao Gui Cao Sui, but there are also many things to be adjusted calmly and slowly, this adjustment Li Hongzhang is prepared, he has been in Zhili for almost three years, and he is very clear about this, but what he didn't expect is that the first thing to be changed is Rong Lu, the secretary of the military department.

Among the banner people, Rong Lu should be the most handsome and strategic figure, which Li Hongzhang has never denied, but now that he has gone out...... Rong Lu looked at Li Hongzhang's somewhat contemplative look, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother Shaoquan, why should you think too much, take a step back and open the sky, in the post of the secretary of the military department, he has done a lot of things, and it took a lot of time, the practice of these years, the secretary of the ministry can't hold a position for more than ten years, I have been in office for more than nine years, it is impossible to continue to be on an errand in the military department, I have been fighting horses for so many years, it seems that there will be nothing else, in charge of military affairs in the local area, it is not bad to be able to go out, count it up, It's still the moisturizing you have been in the place, so I followed you to learn. ”

"What Zhonghua said is light," Li Hongzhang shook his head disapprovingly, since Rong Lu didn't want to say anything about the court, he didn't mention the affairs of the court and the middle of the court, and only talked about Rong Lu's next new errand, "When you get to the north, it's not the time to recuperate, I'm afraid that you, the governor of the three northeastern provinces, are not so easy to do." ”

Speaking of this, the two of them said Rong Lu's new place, in February of this year, the emperor issued an edict, explaining that the land of China, all over the place has a governor, but the northeast land, so broad, but still managed by the general, this is by no means the way to govern the people, ordered the household department and the military department of the three departments to negotiate, set Shengjing, Jilin, Heilongjiang three local officials and other affairs, this was originally also simple, as long as the same as the provinces in the Guannai, according to the county, government, province, so is, However, Li Linde, the household servant in charge of household registration, suggested, "In the provinces of Guannai, there are no officials from the towns and townships, and there are many people in the northeast and other places who open up the wasteland and break into the eastern part of the country. ”

Originally, this was true, but Yan Jingming, the secretary of the household department, was very dissatisfied, and he believed that the northeast is vast and sparsely populated, and the establishment of officials should be simple, not more and more complicated, because there are many displaced people in the northeast -- the so-called prohibition order has long existed in name only, and once the railway in Shanhaiguan is opened, no one can stop people from going to the northeast to find a living. It is indeed true that there are many displaced people in the Northeast, but we should not create too many new official positions because there are many displaced people, which will easily cause redundant officials in the Northeast, and will waste even more money.

The Ministry of War believes that in the northeast, the people are fierce, and the rest are easy to say, and the garrisons in various places, including the generals, the general army, and the preparation of the road, etc., should be complete, and it is also necessary to follow the example of Uriya, Sutai and other places in Xinjiang, and let the general army and the Taoist platform be concurrently served by the first-level commander, so that the local officials are also like the governor, who are in charge of the army and the people. However, the meaning of the Ministry of Officials is to separate the government and the military, and it is impossible to mix them together, because the approval of the sequence of promotions of military attachés is the errand of the Ministry of War, while the civilian officials are all in charge of promotion affairs by the Ministry of Officials. This is a matter of their respective powers, and it is impossible for anyone to make concessions.

So because of this incident, in February this year, the various ministries and institutes have been arguing, and when it was finally reported to the Military Aircraft Department, there was still no conclusion, Prince Li was the most amiable, pushed Taiji to adjust the mud several times, and finally decided to set up a new Shengjing, Jilin, Heilongjiang Province, in order to streamline manpower, material and financial resources, like Tianjin and Shanghai, set up a governor, not set up a political envoy level official. At the township and town levels, township chiefs and town chiefs are set up in key transportation areas and government locations, but these two types of people are given the rank of "general" in the sequence of military attachés, and then these people are under the management of the military department; There are a total of eight prefectures in Shengjing Province, while Heilongjiang Province has three provinces in the region, and only five prefectures are set up. Such a plan, can be regarded as all parties satisfied, the Ministry of Officials still has jurisdiction over the middle and high-level officials in this place, the Ministry of War has caught the lowest people, because the officials are not as many as the provinces in the Guannai, the Ministry of Household has saved a lot of silver, and the technology of this mud is really powerful, and everyone has to obey him, because the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Rites announced in the spring and autumn examinations of the new officials, there is a new one, and it is a vast place to go to the post.