Reading guide: The provincial capital is newly restored, and what Qinglin did in the city made Zhang Liangji very angry.

After the wedding feast, the governor's yamen was busier than usual.

What is Qinglin busy with?

After the recovery of Wuchang, the first thing Qinglin did when he entered the city was neither to send people to repair the city walls destroyed by artillery fire, nor to clean up the moat blocked by corpses, but to build a large number of buildings and first repair the governor's yamen.

After Zhang Liangji and Jiang Zhongyuan entered the city, they saw Qinglin like this, although they were full of anger, they were helpless.

Committee member Zhang Liangji led the army to repair the city wall, while Jiang Zhongyuan's Chu Yong was responsible for clearing the moat. These two things were done, Zhang Liangji began to repair the governor's yamen, and Jiang Zhongyuan also officially repaired the yamen of the inspection envoy that was destroyed by the Taiping army.

But at this time, Qinglin had begun to hold a banquet in the newly restored Dafang Hall of the Governor's Yamen to marry his twenty-third room.

Zhang Liangji saw that Qinglin was getting worse and worse, so he wanted to invite him into the governor's yamen, persuade and reprimand him, and ask him to restrain himself. But after listening to Zuo Zongtang's words, Zhang Liangji not only dispelled the original idea, but also sent a famous chief to accompany him, prepared a generous gift, and sent it to the governor's yamen.

Zuo Zongtang said: "Think about the army, how big is it to rob the people's daughters? Especially when Wuchang was not recovered. Your old ginseng folded into the Beijing Division, what did the imperial court do? Not only did he not ask Qinglin for his guilt, but he also wore a yellow coat and gave him the position of Captain of the Riding Command! What does this mean? It shows that the imperial court has great trust in Qinglin! ”

Zhang Liangji interjected: "It stands to reason that what kind of person Qinglin is, the top should know!" Let him mess around, isn't Hubei finished? ”

Zuo Zongtang said: "The top is messing around with his temperament, why doesn't he mess around?" Don't forget, the imperial court has Qinglin to patrol Hubei, but it has deeper intentions! ,, Qinglin is full of people! ”

Zuo Zongtang woke up Zhang Liangji with a word, and Zhang Liangji had to change his mind based on it.

Hubei has newly recovered, and most of the prefectures, prefectures, and counties are in a state of having yamen and no officials. According to common sense, Qinglin should first select and assign officials from various prefectures, prefectures, and counties to take office, and free up his hands to do other things. Why didn't Qinglin even do this kind of thing, and was busy marrying Mrs. Ru first? Qinglin has his own ideas.

Outsiders may never have thought that Qinglin did this in order to find suitable candidates for the shortage of administrators in various prefectures, states, and counties.

The day after the banquet, Qinglin called all four bookkeepers to the hall and began to re-register the gift list.

Those who gave silver were grouped into one category for those who gave 20,000 taels, and those who were less than 10,000 taels were classified into another. This matter is in the hands of the two masters; The other master was responsible for sorting the amount of silver; The last master registers the gift and is responsible for valuing the gift.

The long table is filled with colorful silver tickets, and the floor is stacked with various gifts.

Qinglin sat in front of the desk drinking tea and watching, and the four masters were so busy that they were sweating on their faces.

Soon, a book came in from the outside. When I opened it, I saw that it was the vacancy of the government, prefecture, and county members that Qinglin had ordered the political envoy to make before breakfast.

According to the official system of the Qing Dynasty, the governor grasped the general, and the lack of administrators to the lower levels was a matter for the political envoys to handle. But the Hubei political envoy is a Han member, and Qinglin has already said what the political envoy should do: he is not allowed to make his own decisions. Therefore, during the period when Qinglin was the governor, the Hubei political envoy was the most casual political envoy among the provincial envoys of the Qing Dynasty.

After the vacancies in various prefectures, prefectures, and counties were obtained, Qinglin arranged them one by one according to the size and weight of the official positions, and marked them with a pen from top to bottom. The first place is marked with a cross at the back, which means 100,000 taels, which is the capital; The second place is marked with eight, which means 80,000 taels. And so on, from 100,000 taels to 3,000 taels, there are four large pages. When Qinglin does these things, he never allows others to interfere, nor does he allow others to look at it, and even his own family members are always on guard, for fear that others will do things behind his back.

Qinglin was very serious about doing this, almost meticulously.

After Qinglin was busy with this, the masters also just cleaned up the amount of silver and gifts they received, and presented them to Qinglin very respectfully.

When Qinglin browsed the list of gifts, the master in charge of the gifts, with two short beards and a golden Buddha statue in both hands, came to the case with square steps, and said to Qinglin very carefully: "Lord Futai, the person who gave this Buddha statue is called Li Tangya, and he is an alternate prefect. The little one couldn't tell how much silver his golden Buddha could be worth, so he didn't register. ”

After saying this, the master carefully placed the Buddha statue in front of Qinglin's eyes, took a step back and said, "This, I'm afraid I have to estimate it myself." ”

Qinglin picked up the Buddha statue with his hand and looked at it carefully, squinted his eyes and checked it up and down with his hand, pondered for a while, then put down the Buddha statue, and said to the master: "You go to the account room and call Lao Sun, he is an expert in this area." ”

The master bowed his waist and walked out of the hall with square steps.

The old grandson in Qinglin's mouth is Qinglin's third housekeeper, and at the same time he is also responsible for Qinglin's appraisal of antiques, and he is very valued by Qinglin, and the masters in the yamen are also desperately trying to tie him down.

But this old grandson is a very greedy person. When Qinglin was first acting governor of Hubei, an alternate official wanted to get a red spot on his head, knowing that Qingfutai not only liked silver tickets, but also loved antiques, so he spent money to ask someone to buy one or two utensils from antique shops and antique shops and send them to the mansion. At first, the person who sent the thing didn't know the rules of Qingfu, thinking that everything would be fine if the thing was sent in. This is not the case. But all the antiques sent into the house must be looked at twice by the grandson and estimated before they can be stored in the warehouse. Qinglin, on the other hand, decided the size and length of the missing points of the person who sent things according to the price code quoted by Lao Sun.

It is rumored that Qinglin is very righteous in this regard. Unlike some big players, things and silver are still collected, but it is still difficult to get hands on missing points. No matter how much silver you have, no matter how big or small things are, as long as you give it away, Qinglin will definitely be able to give you a missing point, but the length of the tenure is different.

It is said that that year, there was a Taoist platform who had been waiting in Hubei for many years, because he had not been able to get an errand, he was already so poor that his family was surrounded by walls, and he was destitute, and even his wife and a few decent clothes of himself were sent to the pawnshop for food.

It's this poor platform, I won a few gambling dollars a day, and I thought that for more than ten years, because I couldn't afford to give gifts, I hadn't even fished half a red dot on my head. Nominally, he is a four-grade Dao, but in fact he is not as good as some unentered nourishing people.

Thinking of this, Poor Daotai gritted his teeth, walked out into the street, and was ruthless three times in a row, bought five catties of dried fruits and sent them to the governor's yamen. Because he often comes to the yamen to ask for peace in Futai, he has become familiar with the master of the door. I heard that he wanted to honor Lord Futai, but he was taken aback, one suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, and the other suspected that he had heard it wrong.

Later, when I saw that he really took out a large bag of things from behind as if he was juggling, I knew that it was true, and I couldn't help laughing and joking: "The officialdom is really changing, and ordinary people are unpredictable, and it is said that you have observed that adults have been so honest for more than ten years, only sweat, how do you know that it will be sent in a blink of an eye!" ”

Poor Daotai was blushed for a while by what he said, and said again and again while laughing: "Your brother is enough to make fun of me, send things in for me." ”

Men Zheng carried it with his hand and asked, "Observe the adult, is it ginseng that you always send to Lord Futai?" ”

Poor Daotai said: "If I can send ginseng, I won't be poor like this." It's a few pounds of dried fruit. ”

As soon as he heard that it was dried fruit, Men Zhengden turned his face, not only did not send it for him, but also asked him to leave quickly, and said viciously: "You can only give such a thing to a cat and a dog, but you carry it to the governor's yamen, isn't it boring?" ”

Poor people are inevitably short-sighted, and they let the door government scold him, he just accompanies the smiling face. Nodding his head again, he bowed again, and begged to send things in anyway. The door just refused.

The two of them were in a quarrel, and it happened that a copywriter came out of the upper room, and after asking the reason, he said to the door official: "His brother is also an official, and he has said so many good things." He can't afford to send ginseng now, so he can only send a few catties of fruit, but the size is also a thought. You send something in for him. ”

Men Zheng said: "Your eldest master is the best at saying cool things!" I sent something like this in and lost my errand, can your lord compensate me? ”

It was also the master's heart that was soft-hearted for a while, and after listening to the words of the door government, he didn't say a word, picked up the things and said: "Observe later, I'll carry it in for you." ”

I don't know what this kind master said to Qinglin, Qinglin not only accepted the dried fruits of the poor Daotai, but also invited the poor Daotai into the signing room, and said a few words patiently.

Qinglin said this: "Your brother has been boiled like this, and he still thinks about the constitution in his heart, and this affection has been received by the ministry." But if you want to get an errand with just a few catties of fruit, not only does there have no precedent in the hands of the ministry, but I am afraid that the provinces will not have it. But since the ministry accepted the elder brother's things and didn't give the elder brother a return, the elder brother really couldn't bear it in his heart. The headquarters and the institute checked it out and found that the time limit for the history office of Hanyang County had arrived, and it would take two days for the new official to take office. In this way, the headquarters will send someone to inform the clan in a while, and the history of the two days will be handled by the elder brother. You have to rush to Hanyang today, otherwise, there will be no appointment for these two days. ”

Before Qinglin's last sentence could be finished, Poor Daotai was already moved to his knees.

This incident has won Qinglin a bit of popularity.

But Qinglin has his own set of theories.

After Qinglin drank one day, he once said to one of his own ladies: "No matter how many things there are, if he is willing to give them to me, they will be mine." But missing points is different. Big or small, no matter how you calculate it, it belongs to the Qing Dynasty. I am Efu today, and I naturally have the final say on the lack of points in a province. If I leave, someone else will have the final say. No matter how he puts the shortage or sells the shortage, it has nothing to do with me. He gave me big things, and I gave him better and longer missing points; Give me a small thing, and I'll let him have a smaller, shorter missing point. No matter how you calculate it, it's always me who gets the cheapest, and the one who delivers it doesn't suffer. I'll be a governor for a long time. ”

After Lao Sun entered the Qingfu, he was relatively fair at first, and the estimated price was also very reliable. Later, when he saw that there were more and more people giving away antiques, he began to make his own calculations. After the antiques entered the house, he did not report the price first, but tried to find the person who sent the antiques, and after reporting his home, he openly claimed: "The antiques that your lord gave to Futai are worth what price, all in my mouth." A hundred taels of goods, a roll on the tip of my tongue, may be a thousand taels, ten thousand taels; Or maybe it's not worth a tael. ”

At first, few people believed him, but after a long time, he realized that it was true.

Lao Sun's pocket began to bulge, not only secretly donated a six-grade top for himself, but also bought a national prisoner for his stupid son who was a little demented.

The above mentioned things are naturally all things that Qinglin did when he was doing Efu before.

After a while, the master led the old grandson into the official hall.

Lao Sun wore a new official uniform, pedaled on the newly changed court boots, first saluted Qinglin, and then picked up the little golden Buddha, just glanced at it, and said "oops" in his mouth.

Lao Sun's "oops" not only stunned Qinglin, but also several masters who were sitting next to him drinking tea and resting also raised their heads. (End of chapter)