15. Kowloon Water Control (4)
The next day, the three new ministers of military aircraft entered the palace to meet the emperor in the Yangxin Palace, and the emperor gave a few words of encouragement, and asked a few people to retreat, and Prince Gong took the three of them out of the Yangxin Gate together. The military aircraft department was originally a temporary institution, this duty room is only a few simple small row rooms outside the Longzong Gate, simple and narrow, the Minister of Military Aircraft plus Zhang Jing plus Sula, a total of dozens of people, snail living here, or the Queen Mother after the curtain, well aware of the suffering of the military aircraft department, and there is a loss of dignity, the original intention to move to the Wenhua Palace, but the Wenhua Hall is on the edge of the Taihe Gate, slightly remote, not conducive to the military aircraft in the prelude to the royal prelude, so the Queen Mother aims to be outside the Longzong Gate, relying on the Chonglou to demolish the original short value room, The three extremely spacious palaces were set up for the Minister of Military Aircraft to take care of political affairs, which relieved the suffering.
A few people arrived at the military aircraft department, the military aircraft minister welcomed out, Prince Gong introduced one by one, in fact, there is no need to introduce, everyone is familiar with each other, the will of Zeng Guofan ranked first, but he is very peaceful, and respects Cézanne, and tries to let Cézanne go ahead, although Cézanne is a little old and stubborn, it is only at home, and will never show it outside, although this dynasty does not have the Ming Dynasty cabinet in general, with the advanced military aircraft department as the reacher, in the future, the cabinet of the first assistant is also according to the number of years, but the ranking, can not mess with the rules, Therefore, the two of them were very pushing, and in the end, Cezanne walked in the front, Zeng Guofan followed, and Shen Guifen was behind.
The three of them arrived at the duty room, this is the hall of the people's deliberations, Prince Gong sat on the main hall, the rest of the people lined up with goose wings, one by one, sat down, Prince Gong said some words, and then began to assign various things, recently the political affairs have become more and more busy, the three new people have been assigned a lot of affairs, Cezanne is in charge of the Academy of Education and the Academy, Zeng Guo is in charge of the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Rites is in charge. Shen Guifen has only one responsibility: he is in charge of Caoyun and shipping, and the rest is gone, just explaining the "counselor military and government affairs".
Although Cézanne felt that he was inevitably in charge of less things, he was newly returned to the military aircraft, and it was not appropriate to be too powerful, so it was just that. The other two are human spirits. They didn't say anything, and everyone sat down a little and dispersed.
Bao Jun took Zeng Guofan to his duty room and said that he would negotiate the ceremony of the Queen Mother's Thousand Autumn Festival in November. Prince Gong smiled and said: "You guy, before Lord Zeng sat down to comfort, you let people be on an errand, and this matter is not busy, let the three of you settle down first, are you afraid that there will be no errand in the future?" ”
Bao Jun just gave up. The military machine Zhang Jing led the three of them to their own duty room, each of them did not lean together, although they did not have their own set of courtyards, they were also very spacious, and Sula stepped forward to promise them, and everyone saw what was missing, and asked the servants to add them one by one, so tossing for a long time. It's empty.
Zeng Guofan was boiling a pot of tea when he heard the sound of footsteps outside. Zeng Guofan stood up with a smile, and walked into Hu Linyi outside, Hu Linyi saw Zeng Guofan, smiled and arched his hand, "Brother Disheng is very happy!" The younger brother finally waited for Brother Disheng at the military plane. ”
"Runzhi," Zeng Guofan took Hu Linyi's hand. The two went to the kang together and sat down, and Zeng Guofan personally poured a cup of hot tea for Hu Linyi, "I didn't want to enter this place of right and wrong." ”
"Brother Disheng has prided himself on being an official and avoided his life, but now he has no choice but to retreat?" Hu Linyi said with a smile.
"I can also do errands in the local area, but why enter Beijing?" Zeng Guofan's face was very tired. He is now sixty-three years old, but in terms of spirit, he is far less than the seventy-year-old Cézanne's red face and full of energy, "There are many constraints in Beijing, and there are few things to do, so it is not easy to live." ”
"Brother Disheng is the first hero of Pinghong Yang, and he does foreign affairs in the local area, and he has won the heart of the emperor, if you don't join the military plane, who else can it be your turn?" Hu Linyi said, "Even if the emperor has other thoughts, there is no need to worry. ”
"The emperor's thoughtful brother can probably guess some, but, hey, Prince Gong had the grace of helping him in the past, and I really don't want to let him go."
"The emperor may not have this intention, it's just that he can't see a single family, and his younger brother is difficult to support in the military aircraft, which is very embarrassing, and a hundred flowers are blooming in spring."
Zeng Guofan nodded and said, "This is true, I am in the local area to watch the capital, there are all disputes, but the monarch and the minister can still work hard, the old man is on duty in the military aircraft, if he can do the right thing with an impartial heart, he will definitely not disappoint the emperor and your hard work." ”……
Zhang Jing just came to Cezanne's duty room, "The emperor's decree is to ask the boss to prepare, this year's vassal entry into Beijing to congratulate, must be added to the Turghut Khan King and the Great Lama of Chenghua Temple, the vassal Tuwang of the border of the western Xinjiang, please also consider the addition." ”
Cezanne nodded in response, and it happened that Qinghai arrived when he co-organized the university, so the two of them met and made love again, talking about the generations in the royal family, one is the ancestor of the queen, the other is the father of the concubine, and the two are the same generation, Cezanne is older, so he called Qinghai is the elder brother, "Brother, I have been away from the Military Aircraft Department for too long, there have been a lot of new policies over the years, most of the political affairs are not recognized, and the Institute of Science and Education is newly established, I don't know much about these tasks, and I will have to rely on my brother to mention some more when the time comes." ”
Qinghai hurriedly said he didn't dare, "You are the emperor's father-in-law, the old lady, your status is noble, and you do it casually, no one dares to say that you are not." I have been on errands for so many years, and I only remember one thing, what the boss told us to do, do it well, and we must not learn from others to prevaricate and procrastinate, or disobey the yang and the yin. ”
Cézanne laughed, "Then you have to share the worries of the master, and you can't just blindly eat the corpse." The two of them understood, and laughed again, Qinghai is the secretary of the Li Domain, and Cezanne asked: "What does the emperor mean to deliberately add the vassal of Xinjiang?" ”
"I think it must be for the sake of the Russians, not to mention Xinjiang, a few days ago, when my brother had not yet taken office, the emperor had already issued an order to let the leaders of the Mobei tribes also enter Beijing this year to meet him. In the past, all the Mongolian tribes were in the Rehe court, and this year, the Xinjiang tribes entered Beijing, and there was a Kokand lord, which must be a grand event, and the burden on the shoulders of the younger brother was very heavy. ”
"We are all on errands for the emperor, and we are talking about foreign words that we don't rely on," Cézanne laughed.
Qing Haifu sighed again, "The people in the Eight Banners, there are few capable people, and even fewer can be looked down upon by the queen mother, and even less by the emperor. ”
While the two were talking and laughing, the family members brought into the palace by Cezanne stumbled in, and Cezanne sank his face, "What a fuss, I don't understand the rules at all, the guests are here, making people laugh!" ”
"Master, grandfather, grandfather is overjoyed," the family member was full of joy, and he was not afraid at all when he heard the scolding, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and stammered, "Concubine Xun, Concubine Xun Niangniang is pregnant!" (To be continued.) )