I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 32: Lian Gong Shen Lian

Gao Xiaoqi took a while to recover from his shock. "Are you kidding me? The elephant training institute hasn't had any transfer quotas for seven years."

Sun Yue interrupted: "Xiao Qi, the note my master is holding is from the young manager."

Gao Xiaoqi's eyes widened: "Young Shopkeeper?!"

Lin Shisan said with a smile: "Xiaoqi, didn't you tell me before that there were more than a dozen transfer quotas in the Weili this year? Why did you ask me to do it well?"

He was secretly mocking Gao Xiaoqi for his empty promises.

Gao Xiaoqi, this old fellow, was thicker-skinned than the walls of Deshengmen: "Ah! Right, right, right! I have said many good things about you in front of the general flag. I think..."

Lin Shisan asked: "What are you thinking about?"

Gao Xiaoqi's old face was so red from smiling that it looked like an orange peel. "I think the general flag must have spoken well of you in front of the captain again; the captain spoke well of you in front of the deputy captain; the deputy captain spoke well of you in front of the captain; the captain spoke well of you in front of the young treasurer."

"In the final analysis, it was my good words that were passed on to the higher-ups. That's why you got this big promotion."

Lin Shisan suppressed his laughter and pretended to be grateful: "Yes, yes, yes. I was able to be included in the list, all thanks to your support."

Gao Xiaoqi clapped his hands and said, "Okay! Go and prepare the documents. Wait for the treat. You can't escape the high-quality banquet at Zuixianlou."

After saying that, Gao Xiaoqi walked out of the duty room, shaking his head as he walked, muttering, "I didn't expect it. I really didn't expect it."

Sun Yue looked at Gao Xiaoqi's receding back and spit out a mouthful of saliva: "Ah, bah! This old money-grubber. You do the work on weekdays, but he takes the bulk of the money, and that's not enough. He even wants to blackmail you for a banquet."

Lin Shisan said, "We must invite you to the banquet. Fatty disciple, remember what I said."

Sun Yue asked: "What did you say? Master, please enlighten me."

Lin Shisan said meaningfully: "It's good to practice in the government."

Half an hour later, at the Rear Army Governor's Mansion.

When Emperor Hongwu founded the country, he set up the Five Military Commanderies to take charge of the military forces throughout the country.

By the time of this dynasty, the Five Military Commanderies had long been hollowed out by the Imperial Stables and the Ministry of War and had become a mere decorative office.

The five armies, ten commanders-in-chief, ten associate governors, and ten assistant governors were just reward titles but had no real power.

Even relatives who had not made any contributions could sometimes be given the title of military governor. For example, Zhang Luan, the father-in-law of the emperor during the Hongzhi period, was once granted the title of deputy governor of the Central Army.

Now, the actual authority of the Governor's Office seems to be only to manage the military records of the soldiers.

Although the Jinyiwei was the leader of the twenty-six imperial guards, it was still nominally under the command of the rear army governor's office. That was why Lin Shisan had to come here.

Lu Bing's mother was the Jiajing Emperor's wet nurse and grew up with him. She also saved the Emperor's life during the fire in the Weihui Palace. She was of extraordinary status.

Therefore, Lu Bing's official title was not "Jinyiwei Commander", but "Left Commander of the Rear Army Commandery in charge of Jinyiwei Affairs". This was a special case of a commander holding real power.

The commander-in-chief of the rear army also had the surname Lu.

After Lin Shisan entered the governor's office, he gave the guide flag one or two taels of silver.

The guide flag brought him to the Experience Department of the Houdu Mansion.

The Lieutenant General of the Imperial Guards was in charge of the documents and archives. The Lieutenant General of the Imperial Guards had to write and seal the documents himself.

The flag guide was very enthusiastic after receiving the silver. He said to Lin Shisan, "Our Houdufu's Zhang Jingli is on sick leave. Governor Lu asked Shen Lian, the Jingli from your Jinyiwei, to come over to take care of the files."

"Shen Jingli is a man who likes to drink, but his tolerance is shallow."

"Remember, if he's drunk, you must carefully read the paper he writes on. Don't write your name wrong."

"I wonder how much money it will cost to have the Jinyiwei's name on the file transferred to the register. If the name on the file is wrong, the money will be wasted."

Lin Shisan said: "Thank you for the reminder, brother."

The two entered the hall of the Experience Department. They saw a middle-aged man in his forties wearing a seventh-rank official uniform sitting in the hall. This man was the Jinyiwei Experience, Shen Lian.

Shen Lian was unruly. He was drinking in the lobby in broad daylight. His official uniform was not properly on, with his chest half open, and he was not wearing his official hat.

He held the wine glass in his hand, and after drinking it all, he recited Li Bai's poem intermittently: "Five-five fine horses, fur coats worth thousands of gold, hiccup! Call out the good wine. Hiccup! Let's share the eternal sorrow! Sorrow! Sorrow!"

This made Lin Shisan very confused: the drunkard in front of him was actually an experienced officer of the Embroidered Uniform Guard?

Before, with Lin Shisan's status, he had no chance to witness what Ben Wei had experienced.

Although Jinyiwei was only a seventh-rank civil servant, he was in charge of all the secret files of Jinyiwei.

In Lin Shisan's imagination, the senior official should be solemn and sit at the desk. With a flick of his pen, he could ruin the career of a high-ranking official or make him rise to prominence.

But the experience of Shen Lianshen in front of him was indeed a bit dissolute.

Shen Lian drank too much and had sex with someone he was not interested in. He lifted up the hem of his official uniform in the lobby, took off his official pants, found an empty wine jug and used it to relieve himself.

The guide Xiaoqi was a little anxious: "Ouch! My experienced master, why did you pee in the wine pot again? The mouth of the wine pot is so narrow, and the whole hall is full of urine, and it smells bad. I'll find you a chamber pot."

It was too late to raise the flag. Shen Lian urinated half in the wine jug and the other half in the hall. After he finished urinating, he actually picked up the wine jug to continue drinking.

Drink and pee, pee and drink. Drinking your own urine is a kind of.

The flag guide shouted, "Shen Jingli! My living ancestor! That's urine! Can you drink that stuff?"

Shen Lianjing was reminded by the small flag, so he put down the wine jug, lay down on the desk and began to snore.

Lin Shisan was puzzled. Who didn't know that Governor Lu was a serious and solemn man? How could he tolerate a drunkard like Shen Lian to serve as an officer in the Weizhong, in charge of the secrets of officials that so many comrades had earned with their sweat, blood, and even their heads?
The guide sighed, "Hey, brother, wait here. I can only prepare for you when he sobers up."

Lin Shisan asked: "When will Shen Jingli wake up?"

The guide sighed, "Maybe. Sometimes he sleeps for two or three hours. Sometimes he sleeps for a whole day. This is the character of our living ancestor, the Experience Officer."

Lin Shisan said: "It's okay, I'll just wait patiently."

Being transferred to the register was a great thing, and he was willing to wait for three days and three nights. Anyway, he had the note approved by the young shopkeeper, so he couldn't escape the quota.

The guide Xiaoqi walked to Shen Lian, pinched his nose and picked up the wine pot filled with urine. When he returned to Lin Shisan, he said, "Look, if you drink like this every day, your urine will foam!"

Lin Shisan couldn't say anything bad about Shangguan. He just smiled and kept silent.

The flag-leader added, "If it were someone else, Commander Lu would have sent him to the border to eat sand long ago."

"Only Shen Jing was like this. Governor Lu not only did not punish him, but also praised him. What did he say about that literary work?"

Xiaoqi, the guide, thought for a while and finally remembered the words that Lu Bing used to praise Shen Lian: "Ah, the style of Wei and Jin dynasties."

Lin Shisan came from a well-off family and had studied for a few years, so he naturally knew what the Wei and Jin style was.

He laughed in his heart: He drank up the wine in the jug and then urinated in it. This is indeed what the crazy writers of the Wei and Jin dynasties did.

How could he know that Shen Lian couldn't stand the darkness in the court and was powerless to do anything about it, so he got drunk all day to drown his sorrows.

Lin Shisan stood in the lobby of the Experience Department, waiting from the morning until the afternoon.

Shen Lian finally woke up. He had a splitting headache and rubbed his temples.

Lin Shisan bowed and said, "I have met Shen Jingli."

Shen Lian closed his eyes and asked: "What time is it?"

Lin Shisan replied: "It's the afternoon."

Shen Lian said "Oh" and stopped talking. After a moment, he came to his senses a little: "What are you doing here?"

(End of this chapter)