And the facts are indeed as people judged. Chen Lifu served as the chief envoy of Jiangnan Province for only two years, and before the standard three-year term was completed, he received an imperial edict asking him to return to Beijing to report on his duties.
This kind of sudden, unconventional return to Beijing to report on work generally only occurs in three situations in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, or there is some unexpected practice, such as a large-scale natural disaster.
Either the official made a major mistake during his term of office, or he got caught in an official struggle or something, and was impeached. In short, they are the kind of unlucky ones who are ordered to return to Beijing to report on their duties and face charges.
But there is another way, and that is to get promoted!
Chen Lifu's situation cannot be unlucky. His term of office has been smooth sailing and nothing went wrong. There is only one possibility, and that is Gao Sheng.
However, although there are rumors that Chen Lifu is very likely to succeed Zhou Yiran as the governor of Guangdong, Chen Lifu knows that he still has a competitor.
He is still very familiar with this competitor. He is actually an old acquaintance of his. He was once his boss. In his early years, he served as the first county magistrate of a special county in Shanghai, and later as the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture. Finally, he was transferred to Guangdong as an inspector.
He once returned to Gyeonggi Province to serve in the Ministry of Commerce, but soon he was sent abroad again. Jia Wenbai is now the governor of Shanxi.
The economic development of Shanghai and even Songjiang Prefecture in the past ten years has been so impressive, and it has also produced a large number of capable officials, among whom Chen Lifu and Jia Wenbo are the best.
They all served as county magistrates of special counties in Shanghai, and also served as prefects of Songjiang Prefecture, and in this position became high-ranking officials.
Moreover, the official careers of these two people are actually about the same. Although Jia Wenbo is already the governor of Shanxi, he was actually the governor of Shanxi only last year. He is a junior among the second-rank officials in the empire.
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As for Chen Lifu, although his current rank is only the third grade, and it did not take long to be promoted to the third grade, his third grade is full of gold, because according to the normal promotion of officials, Chen Lifu has long been able to become a second grade official.
Now that he is a high-ranking official, the reason why his rank has always been suppressed is simply because a group of big guys in the imperial study room, and even Li Xuan himself, are suppressing his promotion speed.
Because of this, Chen Lifu was able to work in Songjiang Prefecture for eleven years and accumulated rich administrative experience.
The big bosses at the top are planning to let Chen Lifu accumulate his wealth, and this situation is not only known to those big bosses, but also to Chen Lifu himself, and even to outsiders.
Therefore, even though Chen Lifu is now a third-level official, no one can underestimate him.
Otherwise, how could his name be listed as an important candidate for such an important position as governor of Guangdong, and was finally selected by Li Xuan as one of the last two candidates.
Although Chen Lifu returned to Beijing this time in the name of returning to Beijing to report on his duties, everyone knew that when he returned to Beijing this time, he mainly explained his political philosophy to the Emperor Sheng when he met the Emperor, and let Li Xuan know what to do if
What will he do as governor of Guangdong?
However, although most people are very concerned about the political significance of Chen Lifu's return to Beijing to report on his duties, Chen Lifu is not only a high-ranking imperial official, but also a famous contemporary talent. Whether it is poetry, articles, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, he is proficient in everything.
, especially the cold bamboo painting in one hand, it is enough to make people marvel.
When such people returned to Jinling City, it was natural that they would have a discussion together.
On the night when Chen Lifu returned to Jinling City, the courtesans who heard the news sent Chen Lifu invitations sprayed with perfume and written on fine paper one by one.
Everyone said they would invite Chen Lifu to admire the moon, play piano, and so on.
The stories of contemporary talents and beauties are still very attractive. Many courtesans want to repeat the romantic affair between Miss Wanjun and Chen Lifu, and overnight they become the talk of Jinling City. This fame has become great, no matter it is
If guests come to listen to music, drink, or spend time together, the cost can go up a lot.
However, although Chen Lifu is usually a romantic figure, returning to Jinling City this time is too important. He doesn't have much thought about these affairs, not to mention that the most famous oiran in Jinling City can kneel down that night.
Sitting in front of him, playing Xiao music.
So when he returned to Jinling City that day, he simply stayed behind closed doors and refused to have any guests come to visit him, let alone go out to visit friends.
He was waiting for the Holy Emperor's summons, and at the same time, he took advantage of the short period of waiting to reorganize his thoughts and strive to come up with the best plan that could impress the Holy Emperor when he met the Holy Emperor.
It is not an easy task to serve as the governor of Guangdong. Even though Chen Lifu's political capital is already quite strong, and even though he is only a third-rank official, ordinary second-rank officials do not have as bright a future as him.
But his competitor is not simple either, that is Jia Wenbo!
They had worked together in Shanghai for many years, and Chen Lifu knew that Jia Wenbo was not a simple character. He was also the kind of official who was in the heart of the emperor and had many big bosses who looked down upon him.
Why do you look at me differently?
Who is the daughter of Jia Wenbo’s eldest son? She is Qian Zuoli’s youngest daughter!
Jia Wenbo and Qian Zuili are related to each other, and when the two families got married, Jia Wenbo was actually just the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture. Why did Qian Zuili marry his daughter to Jia Wenbo's eldest son? Was it because he valued Jia Wenbo's future?
, it is very cost-effective to win over an important minister in the court in advance.
Of course, Jia Wenbo was married to an important official of the imperial court, and Chen Lifu was actually married to an important official of the imperial court.
However, he did not marry any of the important civil servants. He was directly related to the important military ministers.
The wife of the eldest son of Li Chunjing, one of the contemporary army bosses, is the daughter of Chen Lifu.
But then again, Chen Lifu was actually opposed to this marriage, and even strongly opposed it at one point.
His Chen family has been a scholarly family for hundreds of years, with numerous courtiers. The heritage of this family is not comparable to that of any ordinary family. He, Li Chunjing, wants to marry him, and it will take hundreds of years before he can marry him.
And the most important thing is that he really looks down on those rude warriors, so Li Chunjing is just a warrior who knows how to fight, and he can't even write articles well.
Moreover, Li Chunjing's son, like his father Li Chunjing, only knew how to dance with a gun and stick, and went to military school at a young age and then joined the army.
How could he, the legitimate daughter of the Chen family in the east of Jinling and a lady from a prestigious family, marry into a family of such vulgar warriors?
But he couldn't resist this marriage!
His daughter accidentally met Li Chunjing's eldest son Shizi, who was still studying in the martial arts school, and it was love at first sight.
The ladies of the Chen family greatly admired the majestic appearance of the young warrant officer of the Li family.
The young warrant officer of the Li family is also an infatuated person, and he also has bright eyes for the ladies of the Chen family!
As a result, the two young men started writing letters. Soon, Li Chunjing was forced by his son and couldn't bear it, so he finally proposed marriage.
Chen Lifu naturally refused to agree to this, and even killed a thousand enemies with one move and suffered eight hundred losses to himself. In order to prevent the marriage, he banned his daughter and tried to cut off the contact between the two young people.
So what about the Duke, and what about the Crown Prince? In Chen Lifu's eyes, they were just a group of rude warriors. When he entered the Imperial Study Room that day and became His Majesty's right-hand man, the first thing he had to do was to disarm and
The arrogance of these warriors was suppressed and the world was restored to peace.
But I don't know if Li Chunjing is thick-skinned or because she really dotes on her son.
Seeing that they could not propose marriage on their own, they went directly to the harem route and actually asked Empress Dowager Bai to grant a marriage. Even His Majesty heard about the matter from Empress Dowager Bai and said something about freedom of marriage.
Now that this is done, Chen Lifu cannot oppose it even if he wants to.
He may not take Li Chunjing seriously, but he has to listen to the words of the Holy Emperor, since his daughter will marry Li Chunjing's brat whether life or death.
Chen Lifu could only endure his nausea and suffered the loss of being dumb. However, in the next few years, even though he and Li Chunjing were in-laws, they had no in-law relationship at all. They met by chance on the road.
Chen Lifu always kept a straight face.
For Chen Lifu, this was already a very good attitude. If he had followed his temper in his early years, he would have scolded him directly.
Of course, although Chen Lifu did not have a good relationship with Li Chunjing of the military, he still had a very good relationship with several other important officials in the imperial court. For example, Liu Bagou was an iconic figure in the Tang Dynasty who admired Chen Lifu.
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Chen Lifu also had a very good impression of Liu Bagou, and felt that this man was a breath of fresh air among the central officials of the Tang Dynasty.
There is naturally a reason why these two people can look at each other, admire each other, or have the same chemistry.
The most important thing is that both of them regard themselves as scholars, and they are extremely proud of this status.
Even though Liu Bagou had kept his Taoist robes for decades and even had many concubines, he still regarded himself as a scholar, and Chen Lifu was almost the same.
Of course, the more important point is that Liu Bagou knows that Chen Lifu is very capable, and he knows even better that the Holy Emperor has been training Chen Lifu, and looking at the training of Chen Lifu in the past ten years,
This is not to train ordinary ministers at all, but to train the ministers on duty in the imperial study room.
The Holy Emperor valued Chen Lifu's ability and had been training him for so many years. However, the Holy Emperor obviously would not do these things himself. Who specifically did these things?
Of course it was Liu Bagou.
Perhaps Liu Bagou's ability in many aspects is far inferior to that of the important ministers of the Tang Dynasty. In the early days of the founding of the country, the poems and articles he was proud of are now simply not on the stage among the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty.
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But the reason why he has been able to sit firmly in the imperial study room is because, in addition to his prestige and qualifications, there is another very important factor.
That is, he has always been an absolute supporter of imperial power in the Tang Empire, supporting Li Xuan almost without reservation.
Basically, whatever Li Xuan wants to do, he supports.
For Liu Bagou, it was no longer important whether what Li Xuan wanted to do was right or not, the important thing was to support Li Xuan.
Of course, in fact, to a certain extent, he was not supporting Li Xuan, he was only supporting the emperor of the Tang Empire!
By coincidence, Li Xuan was the emperor of the Tang Empire!