During the day, the door of the front office of the governor's office is wide open, and is guarded by official officers. The back door is closed most of the time, but there are people guarding the door. Since it belongs to the inner court affairs, most of them are guarded by Chang Sui Ning.
The personal guards are responsible for taking turns.
At this moment, when a knock on the door was heard, a guard from Wuhu Mountain opened the door and scanned the visitor: "...who are you?"
Meng Lie, who was accompanied by a domestic servant, raised his hand: "My surname is Meng, and I am here to see the Governor Chang."
The guard asked vigilantly: "Where are you from? Why do you come to see our governor?"
"I have to come here as invited by the governor's letter." Meng Lie was always cautious and did not want to reveal too much about his identity to a guard: "This trip is secret and should not be publicized. All you need to do is go and tell me that your surname is Meng Zhi."
If someone asks to see you, Chang Jishi will definitely know about it."
The guard frowned. If he was really an acquaintance of the governor, why didn't he know that the governor was not in the governor's mansion at the moment?
He also knew how to be cautious, and did not say much about his master's affairs. For a moment, he only looked at Meng Lie, who was speaking vaguely, with a wary look.
It's not that he is deliberately making things difficult, but that there are too many people who want to see the governor of his family, and he has seen many excuses in various ways. There were even people who thought they were handsome before, chanting poems and showing off where the governor passed by, making excuses.
A chance encounter or something——
There is no way. Although their governor's office now has a very complete policy on recruiting talents, there are always people who want to take shortcuts.
Seeing how strict the guard was, the anxious Meng Lie had no choice but to say: "...I came from the capital, and I often serve as half of the governor. I will go and spread the news as soon as I can, but there is no need to make any announcement."
Although he has seemingly had no contact with Chang Kuo and others over the years, he also hugged the baby girl when His Highness picked it up. In terms of seniority, this expedient half-father's statement is not the same.
That's too much.
Meng Lie knew how to manipulate people's hearts. When the guard heard this statement, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise, and his expression was indeed much more polite - he had heard many excuses, but he was the first one who dared to call himself "half-father".
I don’t think anyone would have the guts to make such a thing false, right?
"Then please wait a moment, I'll go and pass the message!" After the guard finished speaking, he closed the door with a bang.
"..." The servants beside Meng Lie were stunned. Even though he was half-father of the governor, why couldn't he get the treatment of being invited in to drink tea and wait for the announcement?
Although Meng Lie was impatient, he could also understand the actions of the guard. There were countless eyes watching the Jiangdu Governor's Mansion, so it was a good thing to be more heavily guarded.
It can also be seen from this that the Chang family girl manages things well.
While Meng Lie waited anxiously, the guard found the outer study room where Wang Changshi and others were and explained the matter.
"...Half father?" Wang Changshi was startled, what is this?
As far as he knew, the governor had four fathers in total. One of them had just passed away not long ago, and now there were still three alive, but who were these half-fathers?
Luo Guanlin showed a look of disdain under his mask.
"You claim your surname is Meng, are you from the capital?" Yao Ran put down his pen and asked seriously.
The guard nodded hurriedly.
Yao Ran thought for a moment, stood up, and said to Wang Changshi: "Changshi, I just need to go see this person. The governor had an explanation before he left -"
Yao Ran didn't say much about the specific explanation, but Wang Changshi knew that she had the trust of the governor, so he didn't ask much at this moment.
Yao Ran left the study and said to the guard: "Please go to the side hall."
The guard was supposed to be there and left soon.
Yao Ran went to the side hall, thinking deeply. The governor had told her alone before leaving. In addition to the urgent and important matters in the governor's mansion, there were two other things that needed to be paid attention to in time. One was that Chang Ren and others brought back
The second was the reply from Meng Dong’s family in Dengtai Tower, the capital.
So, now I didn’t wait for a reply, but the person came to the door in person?
Yao Ran soon met Meng Lie.
When she was in Beijing, although she didn't have many opportunities to go out because of her birth mother's strict control, she still went to Dengtai Tower and met Meng Dong's family by chance.
But the person she saw now was far different from what she remembered.
He is dressed simply and is dusty from all the work. He is thin and has frosty white temples.
Meng Lie didn't recognize Yao Ran. Firstly, he couldn't remember every guest who had been to Dengtai Tower, and they were girls from his boudoir, rather than those powerful officials who deserved his special attention. Secondly, Yao Ran was at this moment.
Wearing a scholar's robe and dressing up as a female historian, she looks completely different from her previous image.
Yao Ran raised his hand to return the salute and said, "You should be Meng Dong's family from Dengtai Tower. The governor had an explanation with me before he left."
"Exactly." Meng Lie revealed his identity at this moment and asked hurriedly: "What the female historian means is that Chang Jishi is not in the house?"
Yao Ran nodded: "Your Excellency went to the army more than ten days ago."
Meng Lie couldn't help but frown: "Then when will she come back?"
"It's possible." Yao Ran didn't reveal much about the war situation. He only said: "If Shopkeeper Meng is anxious, he can write a letter first and send it to the army for your Majesty's review."
Meng Lie said, "I wonder if I can go to the army and meet the governor in person?"
What he wants to prove cannot be explained clearly in a letter.
Yao Ran hesitated for a moment, looked at Meng Lie with eager eyes, and nodded after a moment.
Ordinarily, she should have informed the Lord first, and then allowed others to go after obtaining the permission of the Lord. But since the Lord made a special trip to explain the matter to her before leaving and gave her the right to act expediently, she should respond flexibly according to the priorities.
All kinds of events save adults time and unnecessary trouble. If she just sticks to the old rules and only knows how to do things rigidly, she will not be worthy of your special attention.
"Meng Dong's family can rest in the mansion for one night. We will leave before dawn tomorrow and arrive at the army in the evening."
The army was camped on the bank of the Yellow Sea, three hundred miles away from the governor's office in Jiangdu, and the army's fast horses could reach it in one day.
"There is no need to rest, you can start now." Meng Lie raised his hand: "Historical daughter Shi arranged this for Meng."
When Yao Ran heard this, he didn't say much to dissuade him. After nodding, he called someone to come to him.
"Qinghua, you take a group of people and escort this distinguished guest to meet the Lord in the army." Yao Ran glanced at Meng Lie and told Qinghua: "Be careful and don't make any mistakes."
Qinghua understands that Ran Nu Shi's words of "be careful" not only ask them to ensure the safety of this distinguished guest, but also to be more vigilant. They also need to do a good job in handover when they arrive in the army, so that this distinguished guest is safe and controllable.
Within the scope——
Qinghua clasped her fists: "Don't worry, female historian!"
Yao Ran nodded and watched Meng Lie leave quickly.
At this moment, in the outer study room, Wang Changshi heard that Hucao officials were coming and hurriedly went to see him.
After Jiangdu's decree to attract talents and encourage them to settle down was implemented, the results were quite good, and Hu Cao suddenly became the busiest among the seven Cao Cao.
Hu Cao not only has a large number of tedious paperwork to handle, but also has to take care of on-site visits, door-to-door collection of household information, and resettlement matters for new arrivals, etc.
Therefore, more than half of the talents who have passed the assessment of the governor's office have been temporarily assigned to work in Hu Cao, and every response to the government order is being carried out busily and intensively in the practice of everyone.
In the process of implementing many government orders, many new problems that cannot be predicted in advance will inevitably arise. When problems arise, they will be passed to the governor's office step by step, and the governor's office will make decisions and instructions.
Although there are a lot of small problems, fortunately there are not many big problems, and most of them can be solved by Wang Changshi, Luo Guanlin and officials from various places.
In addition, Yao Ran will make a written summary of various issues and progress every three days and send them to the army to submit to Chang Suining.
This is one of the reasons why Chang Suining chose to take Lu Xiucai to work in the army as a clerk, while leaving Yao Ran in the Governor's Mansion.
As far as Chang Suining is concerned, no matter how much she trusts Wang Changshi's position and how much she relies on Luo Guanlin's ability, she still needs a true "one of her own" to balance the situation and indirectly supervise all affairs of the governor's office.
Moreover, as a woman, Yao Ran is bound to be able to make more keen judgments and responses when faced with problems that may arise during the implementation of special decrees targeting Jiangdu women.
Luo Guanlin was naturally aware of Chang Suining's many motives for keeping Yao Ran, and Chang Suining also gave Shen Sanmao the right to be the housekeeper of the inner courtyard.
Luo Guanlin sneered at this, criticizing Chang Suining for always saying "employment", but in fact, she was always wary. But at the same time, she had to admit that she was rigorous in her actions and seemed to have a natural keen sense for the control of power, and she had no sense of strategizing.
Feeling strenuous, there are already signs of official checks and balances in the small outer study room of the Governor's Mansion.
Even a study room like this, not to mention the various officials under Jiangdu's rule, it is impossible for her not to be concerned about it - therefore, although everything is busy nowadays, and even many new faces are unfamiliar, they can still
Achieve order in chaos and maintain just the right balance and mutual restraint.
From Luo Guanlin's perspective, all this depends on the perfect mechanism that Chang Sui Ning has set up early. In the process of allocating the newly recruited talents, she made reductions and additions to the original position framework. According to Jiangdu's existing
If necessary, the posts in various locations have been adjusted.
The establishment of the mechanism is complete. Even if problems cannot be avoided in the process of moving forward, the big framework will not be scattered. Then, all problems will be controllable——
And if you follow the controllable lines and stroke them upward layer by layer, you will find that these lines slowly converge into one, and the end of this line is only wrapped around the fingertips of the girl sitting high.
above, even if she is in the military at the moment.
After Wang Changshi left the study, Luo Guanlin handed a pile of documents to Luo Ze and a clerk to distribute. Luo Ze left, and Wang Yue came over.
After the guards guarding the door informed Luo Guanlin, Wang Yue was able to enter.
"Wangshan, you came just in time." Luo Guanlin, who was writing, said without raising his head: "You can help me sort these official documents."
Wang Yue: "..."
Here we go again!
Every time he came to Luo Guanlin to discuss whether to stay or leave, the other party would always give him a lot of official duties!
After half a month, the problem he cared about has not been solved, but there is still a lot of work to do!
What does the official affairs of the Governor's Office have to do with Wang Wangshan?
"I won't do it." Wang Yue sat down next to Luo Guanlin and said angrily.
Luo Guanlin said quietly: "Then you just wait until I finish handling the matters at hand before talking about anything else."
Wang Yue looked at the large piles of official documents and letters in front of him. For a moment, his eyesight went dark. He stood up and walked back and forth in front of Luo Guanlin's desk: "...Yesterday, the Qiantang clan sent someone to deliver a letter. The King of Yue
Asking people to come to the door again, as the saying goes, there are only three things that can be done, but you..."
Luo Guanlin raised his hand to interrupt him, frowned and said: "Wangshan, I am busy with official duties, so we will talk about this later."
Wang Yue gritted his teeth slightly and pointed his hand at him. After a moment, he dropped his hand heavily, sighed angrily, picked up a pile of official business, and sat down behind a small table beside him.
Just when he was finally finishing sorting the official documents, Luo Ze came back from outside and brought back a bunch of new official documents. When he stepped forward to salute Wang Yue, he naturally and respectfully placed the official documents in front of Wang Yue.
On the small table.
Wang Yue: "..."
Who taught this kid to be so "sensible"?
But then again, he has seen everything he should and should not see these days...can he really still leave?
Looking at his friend who was deep in thought, Luo Guanlin looked calm.
You can't blame him for being unscrupulous. He has said everything that should be said and advised before, but his friend is still hesitant. In this case, it is better to use it first and then talk about it.
Wang Yue was in a state of confusion, feeling as if he had become a rat in an oil tank and could not get out.
By the time he and Luo Guanlin left the study together, it was already after dark.
"You can't delay your family affairs in Qiantang. We will make arrangements tomorrow to bring them to Jiangdu as soon as possible." Luo Guanlin said to Wang Yue on the way back to his residence.
"You..." Wang Yue opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. In the end, he just sighed and asked: "Is it really feasible to stay here?"
Luo Guanlin: "Through the official business you have handled these days, Jiangdu should have some understanding of it now."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wang Yue did not speak, and walked for a while, suddenly stopped, held down one of Luo Guanlin's arms, and asked in a low voice in the night: "... Guanlin
Lin, in your opinion, does the Chang Governor also have a disobedient heart?"
Luo Guanlin looked at him and did not answer directly: "She also has a father and brother -"
After a moment, his voice became even lower: "I have some understanding of General Chang's character. He is loyal to His Majesty the former Crown Prince. He will never change his surname unless forced to do so... Therefore, if the Li family reappears as the Ming Dynasty master in the future,
, you and I still have the possibility to persuade General Chang to surrender."
He added: "Now that the Japanese pirates are approaching, she can't think of doing anything else for the time being...Wangshan, you should know that you have no safer choice now."
Having said this, thinking of the situation at home in Qiantang, the last struggle in Wang Yue's heart was on the verge of collapse.
After a long while, he asked the last question: "Then I have helped you with your official duties every day for the past half month, do you want to calculate my wages?"
Otherwise, wouldn’t his work have been in vain?
…
Meng Lie, escorted by Qinghua and his party, traveled all night and arrived at the military camp at first light.
Chang Kuo, who had taken medicine to sleep last night and slept very deeply, just woke up and saw Meng Lie being brought to the tent. He was in a daze for a moment - had he woke up too violently? Why did he seem to see twenty
Lao Meng in his later years?
After another closer look, Chang Kuo was surprised. He raised his hand to retreat to the soldiers in the tent, and then said: "...Old Meng, what happened to you? Why did you suddenly come to Jiangdu in person? And how come you have such hair?
Much whiter than me?"
Meng Lie did not answer, but went straight to Chang Kuo, showed the two halves of the token in his hand, lowered his voice and asked seriously: "Before going to Beidi, His Highness split this token into two, and left half of it to me.
Half of it is in the hands of His Highness... But how could this thing suddenly appear in Suining's hand after more than ten years?"