The steam ironclad ship docked at the Huai'an Prefecture Coal Yard belongs to the Fujian Metropolitan Command Mission, and now the former military governor Hu Liangpeng is using this ship to go north.

In the past few years, Hu Liangpeng has been in Fujian, supervising the fleet to Japan in the past, transporting Beijing transportation from the north to the south, and suppressing a rebellion and a mutiny in the southwest.

He knew Ye Xianggao's father Ye Chaorong a long time ago, and that was when Chen Mu was the commander of Nanyangwei to escort artillery to the north to send it to Qi Jiguang.

When he entered Beijing that year, Hu Liangpeng chatted with Ye Chaorong all the way, and regretted that the old man was happy that his daughter had left the cabinet and made a New Year's friend.

It was still the first year of Longqing, Ye Chaorong entered Taixue to study, and then he didn't pass the exam for two years, and he was disheartened and became a county official, and it was not until the fourth year of Wanli that he came to run...... It's not that he was finally admitted to the Jinshi, but that there was a vacancy in the imperial court, and he was transferred to Jiangzhou Mansion to do a different driver, that is, a general judgment, in charge of tax collection and other affairs.

This is a fat difference, but when the boss asked him for bribes, the old man took the imperial examination all his life, generally speaking, the sage book is not to read too much to learn and put it into practice, and there are many officials who have been corrupt for ten years in the cold window, but Ye Chaorong has been studying hard for thirty years.

Even if an ugly person brainwashes himself all day long and says that I am the most handsome, I feel that I am handsome after 30 years of washing.

Therefore, Ye Chaorong did not give bribes, did not give errands, was worn small shoes for a long time, did a lot of hard-working work, and kept improving, but when it came to the examination, his achievements were medium, neither let him be promoted nor demoted, so he was consumed in this position, and he was asked to watch his colleagues all be promoted, and he was consumed to death.

Until the year before last, the boss's corruption incident caused the Jiangxi Huanhai earthquake, and many people were implicated.

The people who should have gone have finished, and the court found out that there is still an old man who is evaluated every year, and he is not stained out of the mud - last year, there was a vacancy in Yangli Prefecture, Guangxi, and he was promoted to Ren Zhizhou in Yangli Prefecture.

Being an official has a ceiling of identity restrictions, and many times one has no ancestors to accumulate shade, and the other is not good at dancing, and this person can't go up when he doesn't have the ability to fight.

In any era, there is academic discrimination.

For example, they are all Jinshi, and the first-class Jinshi directly enter the Hanlin Academy, which is in the imperial cabinet and the painstaking reserve team of the six Shangshu.

In addition to the best among the people, the second-class Jinshi can pass the internal selection of Jinshi and pass the Shujishi, and also have the opportunity to enter the Hanlin Academy; The others are basically ranked down according to their grades from the heads of the six Beijing officials.

The most capable group of people in the top three can try their luck to stay in the not so powerful departments in Beijing, and the vast majority can only be picked out, and in the end, luck and ability are splashing, and they can be resigned as the governor and Nanjing's Shangshu to say goodbye to the old, and the outstanding people in the general people have stopped as early as the prefect.

For example, the most recent example is Hai Rui, who did not enter the stream and became a magistrate, wrote a letter to Emperor Daojun almost pointed to his nose and instructed 'Jiajing Jiajing's family is clean' and can still keep his life, and the governor Ying Tian exiled Xu Jie's two sons, and his eunuch journey broke through layers of barriers, almost more difficult than the top three jinshi as the first assistant.

As for ordinary lifters? It is already the dream of many people to be able to retire in the position of Zhixian County, especially for the old people who are older, with the same education and the same ability, it must be that the younger generations are more welcoming and easier to seize the opportunity.

Ye Chaorong became the governor of the state.

Ye Chaorong went to Jiangxi in his early years, Ye Xianggao studied in his hometown, Hu Liangpeng often took care of the foil, especially when he went to Ye Xiang's high school, he took his younger brother Ye Xiangliang who followed his father to Jiangzhou Mansion, and he was in charge of his own family, and even the marriage was Hu Daxiong to help Zhang Luo.

This is good karma.

I think that Hu Daxiong was a small boss under Chen Mu, Ye Chaorong was an old man who had not gone well in the field for 30 years, Da Xiong was an incumbent officer, Ye Chaorong was also a famous old elder, and his identity was not very different, so he was familiar at first sight.

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

"You came back quite early, I thought I would have to wait for you for two more days, let's leave early."

On the deck of the ship, Hu Liangpeng's posture has not changed much because of his perennial martial arts practice, although he has not personally fought in person for a long time, but he is larger than the burly body of the original bear, and he does not have a seat, so he sits cross-legged on the shiny deck wearing armor, and still holds a long-pole pipe in his hand.

The tobacco in his hand did not come from Asia, and Chen Muming ordered the prohibition of many Asian companies and merchant ships to operate east of Tierra del Fuego and west of the extreme edge under the jurisdiction of the Western Military Government.

This tobacco came from Luzon.

Lou Qimai, who was stationed in Haiphong, Guangdong, sent some of the best tobacco sold in Luzon from Haojing every two months to Huang Dexiang, the commander of the Fujian Navy Division, and Hu Liangpeng, who was training troops.

Over the years, Hu Liangpeng has almost watched Ye Xianggao grow from a child who once didn't know anything to a man today, and the relationship between the two is very close, for his age, he has a late child, he is a boy; Ye Xianggao gave birth to a child early and was a girl, so the children of the two families were of similar age.

They even agreed to the next baby family, and they have already become in-laws.

Hu Liangpeng patted his side, asked his entourage to bring the dwarf case and melons and fruits, and asked, "Is the worship finished?" ”

"Yes, the worship is over, but there is a wish."

Ye Xianggao said and walked over, he took the opportunity of the ship docking at the ship coal station in Huai'an Mansion to pay homage to Wu Chengen.

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

"Brother, when I returned to the ship, I met Professor Huai'an on the shore, and took more than ten boys and scholars to talk about the steamship, I listened to the old gentleman very seriously, so I talked a few words, and learned that he wanted to take the boys on board the ship to see, I wonder if my brother can agree?"

"Boarding the ship?"

Hu Liangpeng shook his head, followed Ye Xianggao's finger and looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, he saw an old man on the shore with more than a dozen boys leading his neck to look out, and heard Ye Xianggao say beside him: "The old gentleman is very serious, but he has never seen or understood these things, and he relies on the words of others......"

"You can't get on the ship, Your Majesty has ordered the generals of the steam ships everywhere that no idle people are allowed to board the ship, and if your family members need to take the boat, they can only be on the deck, so even if you want to, you can't go down the deck."

Hu Liangpeng rubbed his face as he spoke, and looked at the shore with some reluctance, and said: "But they are all students of His Majesty's Wanli Xinjian Primary School, Hu Mou won't let them get on the boat, it's not too much for me to get off the boat to teach them a lesson, right?" ”