At the passenger terminal in Dongcheng District of Jinling City, a ship flying a large flag with the word "Chen" slowly approached the terminal.
This ship is different from the medium and large passenger ships operated by the shipping companies at the nearby docks, and it is not an official ship, because this ship does not fly the flag of the shipping company, or the official flag, only a solitary 'Chen'
Character.
At the same time, you can tell at a glance that this is the latest type of sail-powered ship. Although it is not small, with a visual estimate of nearly a hundred tons, its superstructure is not too tall. Obviously, it cannot carry too much.
Passenger's.
Immediately afterwards, several people appeared on the deck of the ship. They walked out of the cabin and stood on the deck. However, they were all dressed in casual clothes, and their identities could not be identified from their clothes.
However, others didn't know it, but a young woman holding an oil-paper umbrella on the pier knew it. This was Chen Lifu who she had missed for a long time.
Speaking of this woman, her name is Wanjun. Listening to this name, you can tell that it is not a formal name, but a stage name.
And when it comes to this name, the young and old men inside and outside Jinling City are all familiar with it.
This woman is not an ordinary woman. She is the most famous oiran in Jinling City in the past two or three years. It is said that this woman was boating and playing the harp on the Qinhuai River two years ago, attracting countless rich men and talented people to listen, and finally causing the Qinhuai River to be blocked.
Immediately afterwards, the Chengtianfu Patrol Bureau issued a fine of thousands of dollars to Miss Wanjun, saying that she had performed in public places without approval and caused traffic jams, causing the troublemakers to scold her.
This Chengtianfu Patrol Station lasted half a month.
You court hawks and dogs know how to fine and fine you, this is called Fengyue Dongwu!
Of course, Miss Wanjun didn't pay a cent of the fine in the end, because she didn't even see the fine.
As soon as the person from the patrol station issued the ticket, the young man who admired her snatched it away. Then the young man wrote a check for a thousand yuan on the spot and told the patrolman to take it and get out!
The young master said to others: If you can make Wanjun smile with just a thousand dollars, it's worth it!
It's a pity that Wanjun didn't smile!
It wasn't until a year later that she met Chen Lifu who had returned to Beijing to report on his work and was visiting Qinhuai in his free time that she smiled!
Although Chen Lifu is already in his forties, he still looks younger, and more importantly, he is a serious talent.
His poems are excellent, and the poems that occasionally come out are widely sung in brothels, not to mention his cold bamboo paintings, which are unique.
His skill in painting bamboo was already in the top ranks more than ten years ago. Now, more than ten years later, it is basically among the top.
Of course, Chen Lifu is not only handsome, good at poetry and painting, he is also a high-ranking official, but more importantly, his family is rich, a lot of money!
When Chen Lifu returned to Beijing last year to report on his work, he went to listen to Miss Wanjun's piano music. He was not like some young talent who presented a poem in the hope of free tasting red lips and a jade arm.
Chen Lifu is self-conscious and would not do such a thing!
He usually books the venue directly!
Clean!
After listening to the piano music in the middle of the night, I also let Miss Wanjun play the flute, which made her famous!
Later, Chen Lifu returned to Suzhou to take office. However, this girl Wanjun fell in love with Chen Lifu and closed down her business. During this period, she also went to Suzhou to visit Chen Lifu.
Who is Chen Lifu?
Good official, good husband, good father!
How could I be fascinated by Fengyue!
Therefore, she has been there several times, and although she can still see them, they don't last long.
Today, Chen Lifu, then the Chief Envoy of Jiangnan Province, once again saw this woman on the dock and felt a little headache!
He has been in the flower field for almost thirty years and has met countless oirans, but to be honest, he has never seen an oiran like Miss Wanjun. Why is he so stubborn?
It’s normal to spend a lot of money to listen to music and then spend a lot of money to listen to music, right? He’s done it countless times!
And you, Miss Wanjun, did not confiscate the money. You, Miss Wanjun, did. But why are you pestering me at dawn?
If you don’t see it, it’s derogatory to elegance!
But when he stepped forward to say a few words, he was afraid that he would end up unable to hold back his lower body like the previous times. There was nothing wrong with him, but it was really not Chen Lifu's style to be entangled like this!
In the end, Chen Lifu, who was born as a traditional scholar, still had some sense. After he took the people off the pier, he asked his entourage to wait for him, and he went up to see Miss Wanjun.
Others don't know what they said, but it doesn't matter anymore. In fact, except for a few people and the parties involved, few people care about the emotional entanglement between Chen Lifu and Miss Wanjun. They are more concerned about Chen Lifu's trip.
The real purpose of returning to Jinling City.
Chen Lifu's return to Jinling City this time was not a routine return to the capital to report on his duties. According to the official rules of the Tang Empire, basically governors, Taoist priests, and a very small number of local officials in important state capitals came to visit every once in a while.
You need to return to Jinling City to report on your work.
As for ordinary mid-level and senior officials, after their three-year term expires, they need to return to Beijing to report on their duties before being assigned a new job.
The time intervals at which officials return to Beijing to report on their duties are also different. Depending on transportation convenience, distance and other factors, basically senior officials with convenient transportation will return to Beijing specifically to report on their duties in about a year or even half a year.
For some local officials who have inconvenient transportation and require a relatively long round trip, they basically return to Beijing to report on their duties about once a year and a half.
As the chief envoy of Jiangnan Province, Chen Lifu served as the second-in-command in Jiangnan Province, the most important provincial road in the Tang Empire. Naturally, he also belonged to the ranks of important local officials. As the chief envoy of Jiangnan Province, his rank was a third grade.
In terms of rank, he is the same as the chief envoy of an ordinary province, but considering the importance of Jiangnan Province, he, a third-grade chief envoy of Jiangnan Province, is much more important than the chief envoy of an ordinary province.
You have to know that in recent years, officials who have served as second-rank Jiangnan Taoist officials have either been transferred from officials at the central minister's level or senior governors from other provinces. They have not been directly promoted from third-rank officials.
This is an example of a second-grade Jiangnan Taoist priest.
Jiangnan Province is really too important. Its economic aggregate ranks first among many provincial highways in the country, and its grain output also ranks first among many provincial highways in the country. Many firsts make Jiangnan Province unique.
The special economic and political status is unmatched by other provinces. Even Zhejiang, South Anhui Province and Guangdong Province have been struggling to catch up in recent years, especially Guangdong. The economic growth in the past three years has
Fu ranked first among all provincial roads in the Tang Empire, but even so, its total economic volume was still less than two-thirds of Jiangnan Road!
Yes, among the many provinces in the Tang Empire, Guangdong, which ranks second in terms of economic aggregate, does not even have two-thirds of the economic aggregate of Jiangnan Province.
There is no way around this. The Jiangnan region has been a traditionally economically developed area for hundreds of years. In the past two decades, because the Tang Empire encouraged industry and commerce and developed people's livelihood, its economic growth has been even faster.
With the foundation and policies in place, coupled with the unique geographical climate and transportation conditions, the rise of Jiangnan Road is being cleared up.
Relatively speaking, although Guangdong has great stamina and relies on overseas trade and the convenience of the Pearl River Basin to vigorously develop industry and commerce, coupled with the large-scale agricultural development in the Pearl River Delta in the past decade, its economic growth rate has ranked first in the country all year round.
, but its foundation is too weak. Even after years of rapid growth, it is still less than two-thirds of the total economic output of Gangnam Province.
In the contemporary Tang Empire, the most important provincial road is undoubtedly Jiangnan Road!
Chen Lifu, who serves as the chief envoy of Jiangnan Province, is naturally no ordinary official!
In fact, his reputation has always been very great. He was already a very well-known mid-level official at the Reunification Department. His early career as a tax official made his reputation huge.
Later, he was transferred to the post-reformed Songjiang Prefecture. He served successively as the magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture, the fourth rank, and the ad hoc county magistrate of Shanghai, both of the fourth rank. Then he was promoted to the magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture, and this position was already from the third rank.
He served in the Songjiang Prefecture area for eleven years!
When he served in Songjiang Prefecture, he made great contributions to the economic development of Shanghai and even Songjiang Prefecture as a whole.
He presided over Jiangbei Development Zone, which has now matured and become an important part of Shanghai's economy.
While serving as the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, he promoted other counties in Songjiang Prefecture and took advantage of the special counties close to Shanghai to develop various supporting industries, such as Huating, which is specifically designed to support Shanghai's industries and focuses on various parts and components industries.
development zone.
Jiading, on the other hand, has vigorously developed its shipbuilding industry and has become the most important shipbuilding industry base in the country. Its shipbuilding industry output value exceeds that of Shanghai itself and also exceeds that of Guangzhou, which is also an important shipbuilding town.
Even Qingpu, although the geographical conditions are a bit worse, relies on Shanghai to vigorously develop high value-added agricultural industries. The most famous and large-scale vegetable planting bases and pig breeding plants in the country are all in Qingpu.
A grain processing industry has developed, and Qingpu canned food is very famous. It is not only exported to various domestic markets, but is also the main canned food supplier to the military.
When Chen Lifu was the governor of Songjiang Prefecture, he did not deliberately develop Shanghai to suppress other counties. On the contrary, he used Shanghai's advantages to promote the development of several surrounding counties and at the same time let the supporting industries of these counties
, to further promote Shanghai’s development and economic competitiveness.
In the end, Songjiang Prefecture was created as an economic giant!
According to the statistics of the 22nd year of Xuanping, the economic aggregate of Jiangnan Province accounted for more than 30% of the national total, and the economic aggregate of Songjiang Prefecture accounted for more than 70% of Jiangnan Province.
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With such achievements, Chen Lifu is no longer a mid-level official. It is natural for him to be promoted to the chief envoy of Jiangnan Province. Many people even know that his appointment as the chief envoy of Jiangnan Province is just a transition.
His future will definitely be more than just a provincial second-in-command!