Chapter 1139 Compared with promotion, death is a fart
When Chen Lifu saw Huo Shouqi, he realized that Huo Shouqi was different from what he expected. It was hard for Chen Lifu to imagine that this short and thin old man was actually the famous Huo Shouqi!
Chen Lifu had never met Huo Shouqi, because after Chen Lifu became an official, he had always worked in the tax department. In the early years, he patrolled the local areas all year round, and could not return to Jinling City several times throughout the year. By the time he became the deputy director of the inspection department,
After growing up, I spent more time in Jinling City. Later, when I served as the director of the Inspection Division and the right deputy director of the Financial Department, I basically stayed in Jinling City.
At the same time, the special nature of these two positions also makes him lack of communication with other officials. The former needs to keep a low profile and rashly makes friends with other officials, especially non-tax officials, and can easily be targeted by the Inspectorate. The Financial Department is even more
It is purely a Gyeonggi institution and has little contact with ordinary officials.
As for Huo Shouqi, in his early years in Huangzhushan and Zhaoqing, he worked in Gyeonggi Province, but later he has been working in local areas. Basically, only those who reported their work and were transferred would go to Jinling City to face the Holy Spirit.
Coupled with the political status and grade gap between the two people, the two people had no actual contact before. In other words, Chen Lifu had not met Huo Shouqi before and had only heard his name and some simple words.
material.
According to what he knew, Huo Shouqi was obviously only forty-six years old. This age was the golden age for an official. If he was young, he would be considered to have insufficient experience and qualifications, and if he was older, he would be considered to have insufficient experience and qualifications.
He is considered an old man and lacks motivation.
Forty-six years old, for an official, this is the golden age in his career!
But Chen Lifu never expected that Huo Shouqi, who was only forty-six years old, looked like an old man in his sixties. He had an old air all over his body, the wrinkles on his face were very obvious, and his hair was
He is also white. Just judging from his appearance, this person does not look like a middle-aged man aged 46 years old.
However, although he was surprised in his heart, Chen Lifu would not reveal the surprise at all. Instead, he bowed respectfully and said: "I pay my respects to you, sir!"
Huo Shouqi, who was sitting at the top, looked at him and then showed an old smile belonging to an elderly person: "No need to be too polite, just do it. I have heard of Chen Tongzhi many times in the past. When I saw him today, he was really energetic!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, Huo Shouqi suddenly became more cautious and said: "But in the past, Chen Tongzhi worked in Gyeonggi Province and has no experience in local government. I hope you can be more cautious in the future and study while working!"
These words were basically a direct warning to Chen Lifu not to mess around, especially not to mess around like when he was in the tax department. If there was any large-scale turmoil, that was not what Huo Shouqi wanted to see.
The Zhou Lide case had already caused Huo Shouqi a headache and even made him angry. Speaking of which, Huo Shouqi was also a bit unlucky. He had just taken over Jiangnan Province, and he only took office in July of the 10th year of Xuanping.
However, the Supervisory Office's investigation into corruption in Shanghai actually started in the first half of Xuanping's 10th year, but before that they were all investigated secretly. By the time he took office as a Taoist priest in Jiangnan Province, the Supervisory Office's investigation was basically
It has been determined that there is a large-scale corruption problem in Shanghai, and it has been communicated with him, a Jiangnan Dao Taoist.
By August, Zhou Lide had actually been targeted by the Inspectorate, and he had been secretly controlled in September, but the news was not announced to the public at that time. Until October, the entire
Corruption cases have entered the stage of large-scale closure, and then continued in-depth large-scale investigation.
By the time the case actually came to light, it would be late autumn.
In other words, when Huo Shouqi took office, this case was already under investigation, and Huo Shouqi also put a lot of effort into it.
Otherwise, Huo Shouqi would probably be implicated.
But even if he is not implicated, the occurrence of such a big problem in Songjiang Prefecture is enough to give him a headache. The corruption case is so huge that it has almost brought the two-level administrative agencies of Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai County into trouble. In order to maintain Songjiang
Huo Shouqi spent a lot of effort to maintain the normal operation of the government, especially to maintain the continued operation of Shanghai's economic system.
He had prepared a lot of personnel in advance. As soon as the incident happened, he personally led a large number of people to Shanghai and took over almost the entire government affairs of Songjiang Prefecture. Then he slowly transitioned to the Songjiang Prefecture Magistrate's Yamen after the reform.
Ad hoc county government offices in Shanghai.
During this process, he was a high-ranking official of the third rank and a Taoist priest of Jiangnan Dao. He could not do anything else at all. He looked after the Songjiang Mansion like a nanny every day. These things were not only numerous, but also extremely messy, which kept him busy.
Of course, his aging appearance was naturally not due to the high-intensity work in just a few months, but because he had been like this a few years earlier. He had seen many doctors, and even the Holy Emperor sent an imperial doctor to see him.
The doctors looked at him, but they couldn't find any reason.
At the beginning of the year, he even went to the Royal Institute of Technology and asked the perverts from the Department of Medicine there to check him out. As a result, those perverts diagnosed him for several days and finally came to the conclusion that with the current technical means,
The cause cannot be found through external inspection. Unless one cuts it open and examines it piece by piece, there may be some hope of finding out what the problem is...
Then Huo Shouqi, like most patients who went to the Department of Medicine at Royal Institute of Technology to seek accommodation, ran away!
These people are so terrifying, they want to disembowel them at every turn!
In the end, he could only ask the doctors to prescribe some medicine for his recovery. At the same time, the doctors all gave him the same advice, which was to get more rest!
They believe that Huo Shouqi's premature aging is most likely caused by years of high-intensity work.
There is no problem in taking tonics, no matter how bitter Huo Shouqi takes them!
But rest!
As a high-ranking official of the empire, and an important minister of the empire who is in the heart of the emperor and is expected to take over the imperial study in the future, how can he have any time to rest?
Even if he had time to rest, he would not allow himself to rest!
A mere life and death is nothing compared to being in charge of the royal study!
Huo Shouqi knew very well that he was Jane in the Emperor's Heart, and he didn't just know it. He knew it a few years ago, because from that time on, almost all of his employment history was confirmed by His Majesty himself.
When he was acting as the Governor of Guangdong as Chief Envoy of Guangdong, others didn't know, or at most they just guessed, but Huo Shouqi heard with his own ears that the Holy Emperor said: I will give you half a year, work hard!
He, Huo Shouqi, was also a veteran of the Tang Empire. He had already served in the Imperial Academy when the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had just left Huangzhushan and started trouble in Xingquan Mansion, and he had served in the Hanlin Academy since he first entered.
The Hanlin Academy at that time was not very large and not very formal, so his starting point was relatively high. When he first became an official, he was a fifth-grade official. Why, because the Tang Dynasty treated those who were thieves, no,
Scholars from Conglong are treated well, and all officials awarded are starting from the fifth rank!
When the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty first conquered Guangzhou, he was sent to serve in a local area and directly served as the magistrate of Guangzhou. In this position, he served for four full years!
Later, he was transferred back to the Hanlin Academy to serve, but just one year later he was sent abroad again. At that time, he became the chief envoy of Guangdong.
He does not have much experience in serving as secretary of the Hanlin Academy, prefect of Guangzhou, chief envoy of Guangdong, acting governor, and Taoist of Jiangnan Province!
But just by looking at his place of office, we can know that this person's political capital is quite strong. He went from the Hanlin Academy to Guangzhou and back to the Hanlin Academy, and then became the chief envoy of Guangdong, acting governor, and Taoist of Jiangnan Province.
All of them are positions of great weight, and going to the Hanlin Academy to be the top leader in the local area, then returning to the Hanlin Academy, and then returning to the local area to be the top leader, this is also the fastest way to be promoted in the Tang Dynasty, because in this case, basically every step is made.
It's a promotion, and it's a direct leapfrog promotion. You don't have to go to all kinds of messy positions like the promotion of ordinary officials, and you don't have to go through any qualifications and so on.
Originally, according to his qualifications, he was actually qualified to become a second-rank or even second-rank minister this year or even last year, but His Majesty personally suppressed his rank and asked him to be a Taoist priest of Jiangnan Road. What a fool.
Everyone knows that His Majesty is deliberately cultivating him.
And if he still needs to be trained at his level, there is almost no other possibility except to train him as the future minister on duty in the Royal Study Room.
For other ordinary officials, even those today's second-rank ministers, it is unattainable to enter the imperial study room, but for Huo Shouqi, entering the imperial study room is a matter of high probability, as long as
If he himself is not stupid, he will definitely have a place in the imperial study room in the future.
Under such circumstances, how could Huo Shouqi give up his job and the opportunity to enter the royal study just because he was sick?
Therefore, it is impossible to rest!
Despite the hard work, he still worked hard for more than a month and settled the entire Songjiang Prefecture. Now, his work in Songjiang Prefecture is almost over. The transition plan is in perfect progress. When Chen Lifu, a fellow magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture, officially takes office,
, he will leave Songjiang. He does not have so much time to stay in Shanghai. He still has a lot of things to be busy with, and the most important thing is that in half a month, he still has a meeting report to do. This
Not enough time!
Under such circumstances, he did not want Chen Lifu to act recklessly and turn the Songjiang Mansion that he had finally stabilized upside down!