The first thousand one hundred and forty-six chapters
Liu Bagou's status in the Tang Dynasty has always been quite special. He can secure his position in the imperial study without forming a clique, and Liu Bagou will still be there for many years to come.
Royal study room.
Such a person is different from Qian Zuili, Song Ruangao and others. Therefore, he does not have much interest in the courtiers. When he recommends people, he mostly maintains a neutral attitude and does not even need to
Use referrals as an opportunity to strengthen your authority.
And this is also the reason why Liu Bagou recommended Xiang Hanyi!
He did not recommend Xiang Hanyi because he was from his own faction, nor did he expect to gain his loyalty by recommending Xiang Hanyi, because in Liu Bagou's view, the loyalty of all ministers, including his own,
They should all be dedicated to the Holy Emperor. For a minister to offer his so-called loyalty to a certain minister is inherently treasonous.
Therefore, when he recommended the candidates for Songjiang Prefecture magistrate, he did not recommend anyone with any obvious factionalism, but recommended Xiang Hanyi, a person with no obvious factional leanings.
Xiang Hanyi has always been a relatively low-key person in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty. He used to serve in a local government and later served in the Enterprise Department of the Ministry of Commerce. His reputation is not very prominent. He is just an inconspicuous person among many senior officials.
people.
However, precisely because it is not very eye-catching, many people, including Chen Lifu, are unfamiliar with Xiang Hanyi. Naturally, they have heard of this name, but what are the details of Xiang Hanyi? But they know it.
Not much left.
The unknown represents risk!
So even someone like Chen Lifu who likes to make trouble, after hearing the name Xiang Hanyi, because there is no obvious information in his memory, he decided to keep a low profile for a while to see what Xiang Hanyi is like.
Let’s talk about what people think of themselves.
Chen Lifu stayed at the Shanghai Terminal Company for several consecutive days, arranged the affairs of the Shanghai Terminal Company, and with his intervention, the third phase of the terminal construction project of the Shanghai Terminal Company was resumed, and then left here.
He didn't make any other big moves, and just waited quietly for his immediate boss, Songjiang Prefecture Magistrate Xiang Hanyi to arrive in Shanghai.
Not only Chen Lifu, but the entire Songjiang Mansion is waiting for Xiang Hanyi's arrival.
While everyone was waiting, Xiang Hanyi did not arrive in Shanghai directly as soon as possible. Instead, he took a detour and ran to Suzhou. What was he going to do? He was going directly to meet his immediate boss, Jiangnan Daoist Taoist Huo Shouqi.
Although he, the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, is the only third-grade prefect in the entire empire, he is still a junior in front of Huo Shouqi.
Huo Shouqi joined the imperial family much earlier than many middle- and high-level officials in the empire, and his future was bright. No one knew when he would be transferred to the capital and become a cabinet minister.
Naturally, such people cannot be ignored.
Xiang Hanyi ran to Suzhou to meet Huo Shouqi. According to insiders, the meeting between him and Huo Shouqi lasted for more than three hours, during which they also had a simple lunch together. But what exactly was discussed in their meeting, naturally
No one knows, except those Hantong eagle dogs that appear and disappear everywhere.
Three days later, a routine Hantong report about this meeting was put into a sealed envelope and sent back to Gyeonggi. The person in charge of Hantong, who was responsible for monitoring the dynamics of Jiangnan Province officials, briefly read this
Naturally, he would not be interested in the ordinary things in the report. He was only concerned about the content of their conversation and there was nothing about conspiracy, forming cliques for personal gains, or anything like that.
After discovering that they were only discussing ordinary government affairs, even if they were talking about people's livelihood and economic matters related to the entire Songjiang Prefecture and even Jiangnan Province, and were also related to Chen Lifu, he was not moved at all.
He directly stamped his private seal and the official seal of his department on the report, and then resealed it. In the end, this report will be sent to Hantong and protected under heavy protection, just like the many Hantong secret reports collected from all over the empire every day.
sealed in the secret archives.
This report, like almost all the report documents of Hantong, will lie quietly in this archives, year after year, never to see the light of day!
Of course, the content of this report was still written into the daily briefing and presented to the Holy Emperor. However, a report of several thousand words had been condensed into one sentence: "On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month of the 10th year of Xuanping,
The prefect of Songjiang went to Hanyi to meet with Jiangnan Taoist Huo Shouqi and talked about people's livelihood affairs, nothing unusual!"
Everything else is not the focus, the focus is only on the last three words!
To put it bluntly, Hantong didn't care about the other affairs of these officials at all. As long as they didn't form cliques for personal gain, plot rebellion, or cause anger and resentment that would affect the rule of the empire, Hantong usually didn't bother to take care of them.
Even when Hantong discovered that Zhou Lide, the magistrate of Shanghai County, was corrupt, the focus of Hantong's report was not how much money this person had embezzled, but the corruption situation in Songjiang Prefecture, believing that this large-scale and widespread
Corruption in the officialdom will affect the economic development of Songjiang Prefecture, and then shake the empire's economy, and must be curbed.
Han Tong's report was not aimed at Zhou Lide, but at the shaking of the rule caused by large-scale corruption.
This time Xiang Hanyi met with Huo Shouqi. Although the content they discussed was very important, it was not Han Tong's focus, so they were too lazy to pay attention to it.
But just because Hantong is too lazy to pay attention, it doesn't mean that others don't pay attention!
Xiang Hanyi went to Suzhou to meet Huo Shouqi. Naturally, Chen Lifu and other people in Songjiang Prefecture were extremely concerned.
Even Jia Wenbo, who had gone east with Xiang Hanyi before but was left behind by Xiang Hanyi on the way, was also very concerned about what Xiang Hanyi had talked about with Huo Shouqi.
It's a pity that they don't know!
As a Jiangnan Taoist priest, Huo Shouqi would naturally not pay attention to the speculations of his middle and low-level officials, while Xiang Hanyi, as a person involved, would not say anything.
After Xiang Hanyi met with Huo Shouqi, he headed to Shanghai. This time, there were no other unexpected situations on the way. Xiang Hanyi's boat arrived in Shanghai smoothly.
Xiang Hanyi's ship had not yet docked at the pier, but he saw a large group of people waiting on the pier. Without looking in detail, he knew that most of these people were Songjiang Prefecture officials, who would be his future subordinates, and there were a few
Some of them are people from the upper class of Songjiang Prefecture, including highly respected gentry, senior officials of large companies, etc.
After the ship docked at the pier, Xiang Hanyi did not set up any shop, but said to his entourage and the director of the Jiangnan Road Official Affairs Department who accompanied him: "Get off the ship!"
After all, he took a group of people off the boat!
As soon as Xiang Hanyi got off the boat, a group of people waiting at the dock, led by Chen Lifu and Jia Wenbo, stepped forward to greet him!
After the salute, Chen Lifu took two steps forward to Xiang Hanyi and said: "Chen Lifu from the Ministry of Finance pays homage to the Lord!"
Xiang Hanyi glanced at Chen Lifu. He had heard this man's name many times, but this was the first time he saw him. This man was younger than he thought.
There are many rumors about Chen Lifu in the official circles, and there are all kinds of them. Well, they are generally not good things. This also gives many people a negative impression. They think that Chen Lifu's appearance should also be relatively vulgar. At first glance,
He looks like a traitor when he goes up there.
But when I really saw Chen Lifu, I realized that this man had a good skin. If he hadn't been wearing Confucian official robes and the badge of a fourth-rank official, I might have thought of this man as a elegant and elegant man.
What a talented man.
Not to mention, in his early years, Chen Lifu was really a romantic and talented man, who made a big name on the Qinhuai River. However, everyone on the Qinhuai River rushed to provide free bed-warming services for this talented man. He could warm the bed for a night, and the oiran's worth could be
It rose a lot out of thin air.
But what kind of person is Chen Lifu? He has seen many beautiful women and has dozens of charming and beautiful concubines in his family. How can he be easily deceived by these courtesans? There were a few times when he really couldn't escape, so he reluctantly stayed overnight.
This Chen Lifu, judging from ordinary people's eyes, is indeed a good person. As a traditional scholar, he is proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, etc.
Being able to pass the Jinshi examination in the pre-Ming Dynasty, his poetry skills are naturally not bad. Even if he is not top-notch, he is at least first-class. The poem "Huanxi Sha·Night Tour Qinhuai" written on the Qinhuai River many years ago is still in Qinhuai today.
The women on the river played and sang extensively.
In addition, his bamboo paintings are also unique and have been praised by many great contemporary painters, saying that his bamboo paintings have a persevering spirituality.
Such a person, if he is not an official, even if he does not have a penny, he can still live happily on the Qinhuai River, not to mention that Chen Lifu still has money, a lot of money, which makes him even more popular with Qinhuai women.
Favored.
It is a pity that since he became an official, he has rarely done such things as staying overnight in Qinhuai. At most, he occasionally invites three or five confidante friends to go sightseeing.
Traveling with talented people and beautiful ladies is naturally completely different from the vulgar thing like staying overnight in Qinhuai. This is a romantic affair!
Seeing Chen Lifu like this, Xiang Hanyi secretly thought to himself that it would be a pity for such a person to be an official. What kind of official should he be? It would be great to travel around the mountains and rivers. Maybe he would be able to leave a person for them in the Tang Dynasty in the future.
The story of the romantic genius is the same as that of Liu Yong.
But if Chen Lifu knew Xiang Hanyi's thoughts, he would definitely be angry with him!
He, Chen Lifu, wants to be an official... he wants to be a high official!
Because he wants to help the Holy King and create a peaceful and prosperous age!
How can a man like him be compared to those incompetent people who linger in vulgar powder, are confused by pink skulls, and finally die in a dream.
It's a pity that no one knows what Xiang Hanyi thinks, and no one knows what Chen Lifu thinks either!