On November 12, Li Weijun set off for Beijing, and Cao Hao and his family members were stationed in the official office of the governor of Zhili. Now, with his stationing, this side has also been promoted to the governor's yamen.

This is the second time that Cao Hao has been in the office for more than ten years.

Compared with the Daotai Yamen in Yizhou, the Governor's Yamen here can be described as magnificent.

The east and west are about 30 zhang wide, and the north and south are 60 zhang deep, covering an area of 45 acres.

You must know that among the palaces of the kings in the capital, the palace of the prince of Shuzhuang covers the widest area, only 42 acres. This is directly under the governor's office, which is three acres more than Prince Zhuang's mansion.

The whole government office is divided into three roads: east, middle and west, and the middle is separated by a change road.

The middle road is from south to north, which is the gate, the instrument gate, the lobby, the second hall, the flower wall, the official residence, and the upper room.

Behind the gate is the instrument gate, and after the instrument door is the twenty zhang Yongdao, which is connected to the lobby. The lobby is five rooms wide and solemn, but it is a decoration, which is only used for receiving orders and important celebrations.

On both sides of the road, there are eighteen side rooms each, and every six rooms open the door, which is the six department rooms against the six departments, and is the place where the scribe works.

Behind the lobby, there is the second hall, which is the place where the chief officer receives the subordinate officials and the staff has been promoted to decide the case.

On both sides of the second hall, the five rooms in the east wing are the meeting halls, which are the places where the chief officials rest or discuss with the staff; The five rooms in the west wing are the notice halls, which contain various case files of the official office for the staff to sort out and view.

Behind the second hall, there is a flower wall, and behind the flower wall is the third hall, also called the official residence.

The official residence is the place where Cao Hao often works and approves official papers, and it is already an inner house, and he is not allowed to enter unless he is summoned. Behind the official residence, there is another hanging flower door to the backyard upper room, which is the sitting and lying place of Cao Hao and Chu Yu.

In addition to the official residence and upper room, there are several small courtyards in the back house to house family slaves.

From south to north, the East Road is the Yin Hotel, the Shogunate Garden, the East Flower Hall, and the Garden. As the name suggests, the Yin Hotel is used to house VIPs, the shogunate is the residence of the shogunate, and the East Flower Hall and the garden are both banquet places.

The west road runs from south to north, and is followed by the official house, the shogunate courtyard, the small teaching field, and the stable.

As Cao Hao's family moved in, the staff, scribes, and servants who came with him were also properly settled.

Li Cheng stayed in the shogunate, which was what Cao Hao meant.

Li Cheng came here for his errand experience, and it was inconvenient to stay in the inner house.

Originally, Cao Hao also wanted Tianyou to live in the shogunate courtyard, but was persuaded by Jiang Jian. In addition, in addition to the people brought by Cao Hao from the capital, Li Weijian also left eighteen people, and the official house and the shogunate courtyard were not spacious.

It is precisely because of Li Weijun who left these eighteen people that Cao Hao's career as governor is much calmer.

Under the arrangement of Jiang Jian and Song Hou, these people from the capital, according to their different directors, were placed in the six departments and the announcement hall. In the form of the old man leading the newcomer, the official government said that the regular government affairs were smoothly transitioned and carried out in an orderly manner.

November 15 was Cao Hao's first promotion after he became governor.

There are more than 100 prefectures and counties directly under the two provinces and ten prefectures, plus large and small health posts, and there are more than 200 full-time civil and military officials with palm prints.

In order to meet the new governor, half of the officials rushed to Baoding to arrange their shifts; The remaining half of the officials will come to the meeting on the first day of the next month.

Then, unless summoned by the governor's official document or official correspondence, the parents of these places no longer need to come to the governor's yamen to arrange shifts.

The civil and military officials directly under the Governor Yamen are scheduled to be announced every Monday and Friday; If there are facts that can be decided, the trial will be held on the 3rd, 6th, and 9th.

Before this promotion, almost all of these officials came to visit Cao Hao.

Their resumes have long been placed on Cao Hao's desk.

Most of them start from their age, and there are traces of officialdom promotions all the way. There are also some materials that were sorted out by Guo Shengyuan, a staff member left by Li Weijun, and presented to Cao Hao.

It's not a lot of words, but it's a lot of weight.

For example, Jiang Guoxiang, the prefect of Zhengding, was 56 years old, born in Baoyi, Kangxi donated and sentenced as a prisoner in 19 years, Kangxi passed the internal affairs examination in 25 years, and Kangxi donated Tongzhi in 31 years, and it was not until Kangxi 42 years that he was able to get the same knowledge. After serving four consecutive terms in the position of Tongzhi, Kangxi was promoted to the prefect of Zhengding in 54 years, and has now served as the prefect for ten years.

Judging from his resume, he is about to be sixty years old, and he has been out of office for forty years before he has survived to the prefect's office, and he has almost stopped like this.

But Guo Shengyuan's markings have two more, Henan Governor Tian Wenjing's brother-in-law, and the robbery cases in Zhengding Mansion are decreasing.

The former is Jiang Guoxiang's officialdom, and the latter is from the people who govern the land to show that Jiang Guoxiang is not as mediocre as written on his resume.

Although before coming to Zhili, Cao Hao had already made preparations in Beijing. But after all, the time is short, and what he has mastered is only the relationship network of subordinate officials above the third grade, in case there are constraints.

Like the chief officials of the prefecture and county below, Cao Hao understands all official articles.

With Guo Shengyuan's annotation, Cao Hao has a lot of peace of mind.

This is also his luck, if he doesn't keep these people, if he wants to sort out such personnel information, he can't sort it out without one or two years of hard work.

In this way, when Cao Hao met with his subordinates, he did not go through the motions, and the conversation was also targeted.

When Jiang Guoxiang was summoned, Cao Hao talked to him about the stability under his rule, and asked him to compile the income from anti-theft and anti-theft into a book, and hand it in later, so that the useful places could be promoted in the province.

Jiang Guoxiang is the kind of person who looks very ordinary, with a respectful attitude, not flattering or high-minded.

Hearing Cao Hao mention the matter of stealing, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he responded calmly, not modestly lacking, nor agreeing with his merits in a roundabout way.

This is a man with a restrained surname and a wooden speech.

Such a person is not suitable for officialdom, perhaps this is why it is difficult for him to be promoted.

Cao Hao had a good impression of him, and he did not "write all his letters", and whether the people under the rule of Zhengding Mansion were stable or not had to be heard and seen before they could be determined.

There is also a twenty-four-year-old magistrate, named Yang Tingyi, the son of a banner official eunuch, born as a donor, with a handsome appearance, and he looks like a weak scholar. My father had passed away, and I had an uncle who was an official in the Sixth Ministry. is from Prince Jian's mansion, and there is an aunt who is married to a member of the side branch of Prince Jian's mansion, and she can barely be regarded as an in-law of Prince Jian's mansion.

When Cao Hao saw him, he didn't say anything about Yaerjiang, but just asked two questions about Yang Tingyi's study in Guozijian. From the perspective of time, the time when Yang Tingyi entered the Guozijian coincided with the time when Cao Xiang was studying in the Guozijian.

Unexpectedly, Yang Tingyi really knew Cao Xiang. He was not only a classmate with Cao Xiang, but also participated in the examination of Kangxi in the 57th year of Kangxi, just like Cao Xiang. It's just a high school tanhua, and a famous grandson.

Mentioning the past, Yang Tingyi looked embarrassed.

It is not difficult to obtain the status of a student of Guozijian, but it is not easy to pass the Guozijian examination and obtain the qualification to directly participate in the examination. Such people are all familiar with the scriptures. Even if you don't get a subject, you will find more or less another subject.

Especially this Yang Tingyi, who was only eighteen years old six years ago, and waited for another subject, he was only twenty-one, but he donated to the official position in the second year of his fall, and was elected to Longping Zhi County in April this year.

Cao Hao saw that when he mentioned the past, he only had regret and remembrance, and there was no embarrassment of falling behind, so he called him and asked: "Did Jiguang stop the imperial examination because of his weak health?" ”

Yang Tingyi listened, but he was shocked, nodded, and said with a wry smile: "That's right." Xia Guan wanted to find another subject, but was blocked by the elders in the family. Even if he came out to be an official this time, he begged again and again, and the elders in the family were willing to release him. ”

The scholars who studied hard and hurt their bodies and couldn't get off the field, Cao Hao had seen several, but he didn't feel unusual.

Just remembered that Longping was considered a county, and official business would not be easy, so Cao Hao secretly paid attention to it in his heart.

After Yang Tingyi retreated, Cao Hao sent people to find the personnel file of the Longping County government and check the information of the county. The county is a man in his forties, who has been promoted from the main position, and has been in Longping for three years, and the evaluation over the years has been in the middle and upper class.

Cao Hao breathed a sigh of relief, with capable subordinates, even if Yang Tingyi, a sick man, couldn't handle government affairs, the place couldn't be chaotic.

Directly under the ground, there are no longer a few children of officials and eunuchs like Yang Tingyi, who come down to mix qualifications.

Even if no one is in front of Cao Hao, swaggering "who is my father" and "who is my grandfather", Cao Hao can't take them lightly. It's not about appeasing them, it's about preventing them from harming the place.

Those who have the ability can pay it back, and those who are not capable should think about transferring capable auxiliary officers to the past.

Through such an interview, not only did Cao Hao have an intuitive and indirect understanding of these magistrates, but these civil and military officials also saw the methods of the new governor.

There was no deliberate cordiality, nor was he arrogant to the official authority of his subordinates, but just talked to everyone about the situation of the officials' governance.

It's not like a newly appointed governor, it's like a few years in Zhili, and he knows them well.

Some people are just happy when they meet Bole; Some people's hearts are weak and frightened, and they are uneasy.

happily thinking about how to behave, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree; With a weak heart, he struggled to figure out how to make the new governor open and close his eyes and let himself go.

By the time the fifteenth was promoted, these civil and military officials who were on duty in the hall had a bit of sincere awe for the new governor who was sitting behind the big case.

The opening was successful, and Cao Hao gave himself a middle and high in his heart.

When the government was dispersed, these civil and military officials who came to arrange shifts did not disperse immediately.

In officialdom communication, the most important "three festivals and two birthdays" will be the birthday of the governor's wife in a few days.

Where is there a ** in the officialdom, before Cao Hao arrived in Zhili, the birthdays of the new governor, the governor's wife, and the governor's wife have been spread all over the Zhili officialdom.

Mrs. Tai's is gone, and the person is not in Zhili, and it has passed.

The Governor's wife's birthday is just around the corner.

Not only these Futai county stations that came to meet in shifts have prepared birthday gifts; The local officials who did not take the turn to be on this shift and came to see them next month also sent their sons and cronies to Baoding to supervise the yamen to give birthday gifts.

Antique calligraphy and paintings, jewelry and jade, dazzling.

By November 23, Chu Yu's birthday was coming to an end, and the birthday gifts he received had filled the three warehouses.

Although these things are not as detailed as the exchanges between relatives in the capital, the price is very expensive.

Among the staff who went out of Beijing with Cao Hao this time, there was a perennial antique dealer. According to his estimates, the value of these birthday gifts is more than 70,000 or 80,000 taels of silver.

Cao Hao listened and spoke straightly.

He is not a newcomer to officialdom, and he also knows everything about "three festivals and two longevity". Among the five gifts, the official life expectancy is the heaviest, the wife's birthday and New Year's gift are second-class, and the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are first-class again.

In this way, as a governor, at the end of the year, there will be 300,000 or 400,000 taels of gifts for the officials.

(To be continued)