open sea

Chapter 1251 Excessive
The steam iron-clad ship docked at the Huai'an Prefecture Shipping and Coal Station belongs to the commander of the Fujian capital, and now it is the former governor of the military governor's mansion, Hu Liangpeng, who is using this ship to go north.

In the past few years, Hu Liangpeng has been in Fujian, supervised the fleet to Japan, transported the North-South Beijing Transport, and suppressed a rebellion and a mutiny in the southwest. He made a lot of military exploits. It's also very beautiful, and now in Fujian, the commander of the envoys drills the sea fleets of various places.

He knew Ye Xianggao's father, Ye Chaorong, a long time ago. That was when Chen Mu served as the commander of the Nanyang Guard to escort the artillery to the north to send it to Qi Jiguang. It was their Nanyang Guard's gun carriage that Mr. Ye went to Beijing to take the exam.

When he went to Beijing that year, Hu Liangpeng chatted with Ye Chaorong all the way, and the old man was so happy that he regretted that his daughter had left the cabinet, and they formed a year-end friendship.

It was the first year of Longqing, Ye Chaorong entered the Taixue to study, and then failed in the exam for two years, and became a county magistrate in despair. It was not until the fourth year of Wanli that the timing changed... Either he was finally admitted to Jinshi, or the court was vacant. He was transferred to the Jiangzhou government office as a separate driver, that is, a general judge, in charge of tax collection and other affairs.

This is a fat job, but back then his boss asked him to ask for bribes, and he used to take the imperial examination for the rest of his life. Ye Chaorong has been studying hard for 30 years.

Even if an ugly person brainwashes himself all day to say that I am the most handsome, he will still think he is handsome after 30 years of washing.

So Ye Chaorong didn't give bribes, and he didn't do errands. He was put on small shoes for a long time, and he did a lot of hard work. , Don't let him be demoted, just spend time in this position, let him watch all his colleagues get promoted, and waste himself to death.

Until the year before last, the boss's corruption incident triggered an earthquake in Jiangxi's officialdom.

After all the people who should leave have left, the imperial court found out that there is an old man who is rated as average every year.

Being an official has a ceiling of status restrictions. In many cases, one does not have the shade of one's ancestors, one does not have long sleeves and is good at dancing, and one cannot get on when one does not have the ability to fight.

All ages have academic discrimination.

For example, they are all Jinshi, and the first-class Jinshi directly enters the Imperial Academy, which is the hard work reserve team of the imperial cabinet and six ministers.

In addition to the top-notch Jinshi who can pass the internal selection and examination of Jinshi, they also have the opportunity to enter the Imperial Academy; the rest are basically ranked down from the head of the six Beijing officials according to their grades.

The most capable people in the top three can try their luck and stay in the less powerful departments of the Beijing government. Most of them can only be selected from the outside. Retiring from office and retiring, the outstanding people among ordinary people stopped as early as the prefect.

As for people, the most recent example is Hai Rui, who was a county magistrate who was not in the class. He wrote a letter to the Emperor Daojun and almost pointed his nose and told him to keep his life in Jiajing and Jiajing's family. The governor Yingtian exiled Xu Jie Son, breaking through barriers in his official career is almost more difficult than being a top-ranked Jinshi as the chief assistant.

As for ordinary Juren?It is already a dream of many people to be able to retire in the position of county magistrate, especially for old Juren, with the same education and ability, it must be more welcome for younger generations, and it is easier to seize opportunities.

But Ye Chaorong became the magistrate.

Ye Chaorong went to Jiangxi to serve as an official in his early years, and Ye Xianggao was studying in his hometown. Hu Liangpeng often took care of him, especially when Ye Xiang was in high school. It was Hu Daxiong who helped Zhang Luo.

This is a good relationship.

Back then, Hu Daxiong was a small general under Chen Mu's command, Ye Chaorong was an old man who had been unsuccessful in the examination for 30 years, Daxiong was a serving officer, and Ye Chaorong was also an elder with a reputation. Only hit it off.

This time, Hu Liangpeng knew that Ye Xianggao was going to Beijing for the exam, and he happened to be escorting supplies to Beijing, so he let Ye Xianggao be a passenger on the steam ship by the way.

"You came back quite early, and you thought you would make the fleet wait for you for two more days. We set off early."

On the deck of the ship, Hu Liangpeng's figure has not changed much due to years of martial arts practice, although he has not fought in person for a long time, but it is bigger than the original bear-like body, and he does not have a seat, so he just dresses like that The armor sat cross-legged on the bright deck, holding a long pipe in his hand.

The tobacco in his hands does not come from Asia. Chen Mu clearly prohibits many companies in Asia from operating merchant ships in the east of Tierra del Fuego, and in the west of the extreme edge under the jurisdiction of the Western Military Government. All ships without a ship license cannot sail to the west coast of Asia, especially not Bring back the tobacco.

This tobacco comes from Luzon.

Lou Qimai, who was stationed in Guangdong's coastal defense, sent someone from Haojing to Huang Dexiang, the admiral of the Fujian Navy, Hu Liangpeng, who was training the army, and others with the best tobacco from Luzon every two or three months.

Over the years, Hu Liangpeng almost watched Ye Xianggao grow from a child who didn't know anything to the current master Juren. The relationship between the two is very close. For his age, he gave birth to a boy late; Ye Xianggao gave birth to a girl early, so the children of the two families are about the same age.

They even made an agreement to be a baby relative, and they have already become in-laws.

Hu Liangpeng patted his side, asked his attendants to bring melons and fruits, and asked, "Is the worship done?"

"Yes, the worship is over, and a wish has been fulfilled."

Ye Xianggao said and walked over. He took advantage of the opportunity that the ship was docked at Huai'an Mansion Shipping Coal Station to pay homage to Wu Chengen.

But there is a very interesting thing. In today's world, many people know "Journey to the West", but fewer people have read it, and there are very few people who know that this book was written by Wu Chengen.

"Brother, when I was returning to the ship, I met Professor Huai'an on the shore, and he took more than a dozen boys and scholars on an outing to talk about the steamship. I heard the old man's talk very seriously, so I chatted a few words and learned that he wanted to take the boys on board. Let's see, I wonder if my brother will agree?"

"Board?"

Hu Liangpeng shook his head, followed Ye Xianggao to look in the direction of Gao Zhi, and he saw an old man on the bank with a dozen boys looking up, and heard Ye Xianggao beside him saying: "The old man is very serious, but these things He has never seen it and doesn't understand it, and it's all based on other people's words..."

"You can't board the ship. His Majesty has issued an order to the generals of steamships everywhere that no one else is allowed to board the ship. If family members need to board the ship, they can only stay on the deck. So even if you want to go down the deck, you can't."

Hu Liangpeng rubbed his face as he spoke, then looked at the shore with some unbearable heart, and said: "But they are all students of His Majesty Wanli Xinxin Primary School, Hu won't let them board, I will get off the boat to give them The last lesson is not too much, right?"

　I'm really good... I opened "Kaihai" halfway through writing last night, and read it for half a night.

　　Skull pain.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)