Chapter 189 Official Affairs

In fact, in the two letters Jiang Feng gave to Lu Bing, in addition to asking Lu Bing to be a matchmaker for Liu Shunhua, there was another letter begging Lu Bing to make a matchmaker for himself, saying that he would marry Liu Fangrui, the daughter of Shandong governor Liu Shunhua. Some of the things Jiang Feng did can be hidden very well.

Some of them cannot hide from others, such as the so-called robbery. Among the more than 100 servants and servants who followed Liu Shunhua out of the capital, there must be spies from the Jinyiwei. However, even the "debtor" Liu Shunhua did not report the case for such a thing. Lu Bing also understood the tricks in his heart and was unwilling to do anything.

At this time, when he saw Jiang Feng asking for a matchmaking, he really felt so funny. Lu Bing didn't know why Jiang Feng sent his female family to Jinan Prefecture. Although the Jinyiwei was full of hands and eyes, it was all caused by Jiang Feng and his confidant Tieding. He still didn't know about the killing of Prince Heng, and he couldn't contact him.

Things like marriages between officials and marriage are nothing more than a person who has the status to suppress the situation and contact each other. As for the actual procedure, there is still a special matchmaker to handle it.

However, Lu Bing was extremely smart, but he saw something else in the first letter, a cheap son-in-law or a prospective son-in-law worried about his father-in-law. No matter who heard it, he would say ridiculous and laugh for a while. But if things were limited here, it would be too shallow.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, officials in the world naturally changed frequently. Some were quickly demoted and exiled from the cabinet chief, and some were quickly promoted from the Hanlin bachelor to the cabinet chief, with no difference in weight, such as Zhang Cong now. However, some people also looked at the direction and stood in the right direction in everything, and now they are also people who quietly climbed to a high position.

For example, the current Shandong governor Liu Shunhua and civil servants from the Hanlin Academy will all become high-ranking officials. There is no doubt about this, but Liu Shunhua, who is 42 years old this year, has become a second-rank provincial governor, which is enough to show his level.

At the age of 42, he is still young in the officialdom and is now a second-ranked person. He can almost foresee his bright future. However, after returning to Beijing, if he wants to move further towards the higher level, at least he must keep himself clean and have no loopholes to let others attack.

Liu Shunhua did a very good job in this regard. There was basically nothing that could make people catch the trap. However, everyone ignored one thing intentionally or unintentionally, that is, after Liu Shunhua lost his wife, he never reunited Liu Fangrui and raised Liu Fangrui independently. Although this matter was about not forgetting his deceased wife, he had only one daughter. At this time, he could be called "no descendants". Without reuniting, he was one of the great unfilial piety. Even if he did not reunite, he would be caught and attacked by those who were interested.

Moreover, Liu Shunhua was born in a poor family. Although he is now in a high position, his foundation in the court is not solid. If he finds a daughter of an official as his wife in the court, he will obviously be helped.

It is not unusual for a veteran of the officialdom to see these things, but they are seen by a fourth-rank military officer in a place. Moreover, this military officer is a person with great military achievements and is known for his bravery and recklessness. Isn’t such a person a great future, let alone a father-in-law with the same great future?

Although Lu Bing was authoritative in the court, he had no team in the local area, and it was sometimes quite inconvenient to act. Moreover, the Chinese officials in the court had their own system. Although he could influence, he was not able to intervene. Therefore, at this time, Lu Bing would not miss any opportunity to expand his power, let alone such subordinates who had the potential to appreciate and could win over.

Among them, Jiang Feng gave him the impression that it had changed a lot. At first, he was a reckless man who commanded money to make money, and later he was a powerful general who could go on battle to kill the enemy. Now it seems that he still knows how to make a move. If a mediocre person is, he will definitely be wary, but a powerful man like Lu Bing is naturally not afraid and can recruit him with confidence.

When the matchmaker proposed marriage was still busy in the capital, the Ministry of War Army Chief Wailang "meeted" somewhere someday with Lu Bing's confidant. The next day, the case file of Jiangfeng, a thousand-hukou, Shanxi, Shandong Province, was raised again, saying that there were many unclear aspects of this matter and we should check it in detail.

The people in the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office were both bored, thinking that this matter had caused many officials to fall, so why bother with me? As a result, the Minister of War and the Minister of War were strongly supported. Finally, there was an unexpected result that no one could have said that Jiang Feng's military achievements were still included.

When things got here, I realized even more. It turned out that it was not about asking Jiang Feng for trouble, but about giving him benefits. Everyone just discussed it. Shandong’s unlucky officials also had many relationships with Beijing, so naturally some people were unwilling to see what other benefits Jiang Feng would get.

At this time, Dengzhou Prefecture reported that Jiang Feng, the assistant commander of the Dengzhou Left Guard, killed more than 500 Japanese pirates, including heads, witnesses and ships, all gathered in evidence, and asked to issue military merit rewards.

Since the Zhengde period, the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office received war reports from Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which were often more than 10,000 Japanese pirates, and our troops fought bravely to defeat the enemy and defeated the enemy. The Ministry of War in the capital and the Ministry of War in Nanjing were not fools. There were often war reports from the spies from the Jinyiwei, which showed that there were actual combat situations such as dozens or hundreds of Japanese pirates invading at that time, and the local army fled in sight, or staying behind closed doors.

Therefore, the documents of Jiang Feng's killing of hundreds of Japanese pirates were particularly conspicuous here, and there were also verification documents from the Shandong Sansi Yamen and the Jinyiwei. Conventionally, local civil servants were originally unbearable to the war of the army, which led to local Japanese pirate disasters. The military reported the merits, but civil servants never recognized them.

This shows that Jiang Feng's achievements in killing Japanese pirates are real. Now we are debating whether it is a question of whether it is a matter of giving merit, but how to reward merit.

The agency of a small thousand household is actually just a hundred households. It is already too much to be promoted to the position of commander as the assistant commander. This time the credit was well-known in several coastal provinces. How to calculate it? Is it a mess to give the title of general of the garrison? But if it is not rewarded, the statements of the Minister of War and the Minister of the Minister of War were clearly placed there, and everyone knows it.

No one expected that on the third day after the meritorious documents were reported, there was another official document coming up in Dengzhou Prefecture, but the content on it surprised everyone. Jiang Feng stated on the official document that he was willing to guard Dengzhou. However, now he is the commander-in-chief of the Left Guard of Dengzhou, the military household and the court's tax responsibilities cannot be delayed, so he asked to be appointed as the capital.

The military household in the garrison has 5,000 yuan, and there is no military pay. It all depends on plowing fields and growing grain. These harvests have to be paid as taxes, so don’t expect any combat power.

As for the position of Dusi, you can have 2,000 people under your command, and these people do not have to farm and support themselves like military households. This is the main source of the so-called warriors. Of course, there are also many people who have added Dusi, guerrilla and garrison ranks just to receive this salary, but they do not have so many soldiers under their command, and they deduct the silver as their own money and investment.

The people of the Ministry of War did not expect that Jiang Feng was so easy to deal with, so they simply went to the forum and promoted the position of commander of the commander. Now they were promoted to the commander of the Dengzhou Left Guard and were appointed as the Dushi. The original Dushi was invaded by the Japanese pirates behind closed doors and did not dare to go to fight, so they simply removed their posts and were replaced by Jiang Feng.

Now outsiders call Jiang Feng, but he is called Jiang Dusi. He has more than 2,000 troops under his command, but he is very upright and upright. If the commander of the garrison does not have the title of Dusi, guerrilla, garrison, etc., and if the military households are not trained in peace and cultivate the military fields all day long, they will be impeached and have the intention of rebellion! In other words, if Jiang Feng has any military action now, it will not be the so-called urgent matters that were used to be in a hurry, but a normal action.

He improved his level, captured real power, and brought himself closer to the most stable powerful minister in the court, Lu Bing, and made Liu Shunhua's future career smoother. These skills and complex official responses are not rough people like Jiang Feng and Zhang Liang.

A scholar like Zhao Xiucai could come up with it. Liu Shier suddenly determined his position as a think tank under Jiang Feng through this incident. Jiang Feng once said a rather transcendent word to Liu Shier in private:

"You are simply Qingtian."

Qingtian in the Ming Dynasty usually refers to Liu Ji and Liu Bowen, who started his career and conquer the world with Zhu Yuanzhang. However, this evaluation of Liu Shier implies that he is Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. The two of them looked at each other and laughed, and no one mentioned this sentence next.

Jinan Prefecture, the residence of the governor who manages Shandong civil affairs, Liu Shunhua frowned in the study, and felt quite a headache. The girl's extroverted words have finally realized. Since childhood, he has not had much time to discipline her daughter except to teach Liu Fangrui to read and write.

As a result, Liu Fangrui's personality became increasingly wild. Although the governor Liu is now in Shandong, he does not have much authority in front of his daughter, and Liu Fangrui is not afraid at all.

Jiang Feng's people came to Liu's house to take it a few times, but Liu Shunhua stopped him. After his daughter found out, the inner hall was really uneasy, which made Liu Buzheng, who had always liked quietness, swelled his head and thought to himself how much did he do for the bastard Jiang Feng for his father? Have you not seen it? Why are you still so confused?

So when Liu Shunhua heard the rumors outside that it was Mr. Yu from the capital who came to visit, Liu Shunhua was really relieved. Mr. Yu retired directly as a Hanlin. Although his grade was not high, his family was a noble family, and many people became officials in the court. I think this person came forward, maybe it was a matchmaker that Jiang Feng invited through what relationship.

This is fine, and each other has a step to go, and Liu Shunhua also felt relieved.

The host and guest took a seat, and Old Hanlin said with a smile:

"Yunzhi (Liu Shunhua's name is) brother, Brother Yu is here to propose marriage to you for your niece..."
Chapter completed!