Having said this, Huang Qiong paused for a moment and looked at Commander Yu Du, who was a little dumbfounded by his plan: "Don't think too much about it. It's not that I deliberately want to undercut the Xiaoqi Camp, but the place." The Guards are really in disgrace right now. No matter how many officials are recruited from other places on Henan Road as replacements, I'm afraid they will just be a pile of mud."
"There is really no room for trouble here in Zhengzhou. If there is a change in Zhengzhou, it must be suppressed as soon as possible. There are many elite soldiers and generals in the Xiaoqi battalion. If we don't want the reorganized guards to rot, they can only be transferred from you. . I also hope that when you recommend it, you will not hide it or tuck it in. Although elite soldiers are not necessarily good, strong generals are definitely needed."
After saying that, Huang Qiong turned to Su Changshi and said: "Master Su, I recommended you as the magistrate of Zhengzhou this time, and I used my life and property to guarantee it. After you arrive in Zhengzhou, you must uphold the principles when handling government affairs. For the sake of the people. I have a message for you: The people do not fear my severity, but fear my integrity. Officials do not fear my severity, but fear my justice. The public is wise, and honesty is majestic."
"However, you should also remember the truth that there are no fish in the water. Remember to handle your relationships well with your colleagues and superiors, and don't be too demanding in everything. If you want to serve the people sincerely, you must first take your seat. It’s stable. If you can’t serve as an official for only a few days, and you will be squeezed out by your colleagues and can’t continue, how can you still serve as an official and benefit the country?”
"You are a second-ranked Jinshi. You should understand some truths without me having to explain them. Books must be read, but I believe that books are worse than no books at all. Reading is to understand things and to know all things, not to understand everything. My mind is screwed. To be honest, I’m not too worried about your moral integrity. What I’m worried about is your temperament, which makes it difficult to integrate into Henan’s officialdom.”
"These are the only things I can tell you. No matter how much more, you need to understand it yourself. But there is one thing I should say. After you arrive in Zhengzhou, go ahead and do it boldly. Everything has its own foundation. The king will take care of it for you. I still have some things to discuss with Mr. Yu. You should go back and think about it carefully. What to do after arriving in Zhengzhou, you must also come up with a charter."
After Huang Qiong finished speaking, Su Changshi, who was deep in thought, glanced at Commander Yu Du over there, bowed deeply to Huang Qiong and turned around to leave. Looking at his back, Commander Yu Du shook his head and sighed: "His Royal Highness is a kind-hearted man. He just recommended this man to be the magistrate of Zhengzhou. I don't know whether it will help him or harm him."
"This Su Changshi in your house, I heard about him when I was in the frontier army. He has good character and is not bad, but his temper and character are really troublesome. In fact, being an official, Especially for a local leader like him now, in addition to learning to control the people around him and below, there is also a very important point, which is to learn to deal with colleagues."
"If you don't learn how to get along with your colleagues, to be honest, you really can't be an official. In fact, when I was just starting out as a junior official, I was just like him. Because I got the imperial examination at a young age, I was full of pride. . As a result, after the six ministries watched the administration, others either stayed in the six ministries, or were assigned to serve in various administrative envoys, inspection envoys, and transfer envoys."
"Among my group of the same year, I was the only one who was assigned to Xichuan Road. It was not because of anything else, but because I had a bad temper and offended people who shouldn't be offended. It was said that I was being sent to a county magistrate who was in real vacancy, but it seemed like It’s like they’re looking up to me, but in the county I’m in charge of, the total number of men and women is less than 10,000, and most of them are nomadic tribes.”
"There are less than a thousand people in a county seat. Looking around the city, there is not even a slightly larger courtyard. The county seat is located in a ravine. It is so desolate that when you open the window every morning, you can see the high-rise buildings on the edge of the city. The snow-capped mountains in the clouds. Except for one county captain, the whole county couldn't even get together the officials and government servants. If you don't grow vegetables yourself, you can't even eat any vegetable leaves.
"As the county magistrate, the most important thing I do every day is to deal with the vendettas between herdsmen over the competition for pasture. Before my term was full, my wife couldn't stand the hard life and followed a tea horse merchant who traveled between the mainland and Tibet. Oh, leaving a pair of children waiting for food without anyone to take care of them."
"She came from a rich family. She liked me as a progressive person, so she chose to marry me. Several other sisters from her natal family were married to at least a civil servant, or a big businessman. I was the one who looked at it at the time. I was completely destitute. I originally thought that I had finally passed the imperial examination, and that I could finally get rid of the days of being looked down upon by my mother-in-law's family, and that it would be the end of all my hardships.
"But I didn't expect that I would be squeezed into such a place where even a rabbit wouldn't poop. In the past, although life was a little harder in the mainland, it was not as hard as in Xichuan. I am a dignified seventh-rank magistrate, and my wife They were all abducted and it became a big joke in the official circles. Those days were really not that difficult."
"If I didn't have a couple of children to take care of, I might not even have the courage to live at that time. But I am unconvinced, so aren't you all ostracizing me? I have to make achievements in this remote country, let you see . But I have a bad temper and can’t handle the relationship well with my boss.”
"Although I have spent several years of hard work, I have not picked up the road of governance in that small border county. The official evaluation every year is A-level. However, after serving two full terms, I was only given the position of general judge. That general judge , it is still a position that the original candidate vacated because he was afraid of going to the border areas and dying there."
"Actually, when the Tibetans invaded that year, I had already taken office for half a year. At that time, because I had a bad temper and was even less popular, I didn't know how to turn around when things happened. When I saw injustice, I directly intervened. With my colleagues We got along very stiffly, and the governor and the tongzhi teamed up to exclude me. When the Tibetans came, they ran away and no one told me."
"When I came to the Yamen together in the morning, I found that among my colleagues, only me and a Qianliang master who had been left behind were left. I was also frightened at the time, but the Tubo people had already reached the outside of the city. It was too late to run away. In desperation, we hurriedly organized the scattered troops and horses in front, as well as the young men and women recruited to wait for reinforcements."
"Fortunately, the Tubo tribes in western Sichuan are different from those in Qinghai. The Tubo tribes there are very bad at attacking cities. In addition, God has taken care of it. It rained heavily for several days in a row, and the Tubo cavalry was unable to use it. Only then did they defend the city. Reinforcements arrived. After I changed my military position, my mentor, the military governor of western Sichuan who promoted me to military attaché, talked with me all night."
"He told me that although the relationship between colleagues in the military is simpler than that among civilian officials, it is more important to maintain. Military attachés are not necessarily straight-minded, and there are also conflicts with each other. When you are a civilian official, you offend others, and the most likely to be marginalized will not be an official. Go down. But if you, as a military attache, don’t understand how to get along with your colleagues, then it will delay important matters of the imperial court and the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people."
"And once the military attachés get into trouble, they will do whatever it takes to kill you. There are many ways to kill you on the battlefield. Needless to say, just refusing to save someone on a battlefield is enough to kill you. It was the words of my mentor that finally It made me truly understand what officialdom is. But even with constant reminders from my mentor, I haven’t changed much in my shortcomings.”
"If I'm not afraid of the King of England's jokes, after all, it's been decades since I talked in my sleep. How can it be so easy to change? If it weren't for the support of my mentor in these years, who has been wiping my butt behind me. In In addition, I spend most of my time in the border army and have little time to deal with local officials. I am afraid that I have been squeezed out of the officialdom a long time ago."
"Although this Su Changshi is not of the same age as me, we are both in the officialdom. I have heard of his name even in the border army. I heard that the Hanlin Academy is a group of poor and crazy Hanlins. If they want to find a place The official wanted to rip off some filial piety, so he sent a message to a certain road, saying that Mr. Su would be sent to a certain road to serve as a tutor in a certain house."
"If someone is caught in this way, if there is something displeasing to him, he will have to go to the prison to join the person's master. Will the officials on the road welcome him if they are full? So it happened, and the local officials gave gifts to the Hanlin Academy, only Please don’t let this great man go out. This man is so feared by his colleagues, how can the officials on Henan Road not work together to find a way to squeeze him out?"
"Those dirty officials have so many tricks up their sleeves that they are hard to guard against. Although he has been in the officialdom for nearly twenty years, he is still so bookish. If officials of all sizes in Henan Road work together to squeeze him out, his brother's character , it’s really hard to say whether he can withstand it. Maybe if someone sets a trap for him, he will take the initiative to get in. "
"What's more, the country is easy to change, and the nature is hard to change. This guy may not really appreciate your sincere words. That's why the official said that. However, as you said, this person still has character. Zhengzhou is currently dealing with the aftermath. , but we really need a strong command like his. If we replace those officials who only know how to cater to their superiors, something big will happen."
At this point, seeing Huang Qiong looking at him a little strangely, and knowing that he had talked a lot today, he also smiled bitterly and explained: "Your Majesty, although the official has been changed to a military position, after all, he is also a second-ranked Jinshi. Moreover, Xiaguan passed the Jinshi exam that year. Although he failed to win the third place in high school, he still ranked second and third."
"If it weren't for this reason of character, logically speaking, after observing the government, he should stay in the Sixth Ministry. Although the county where Xianguan served is a third-class small county, Xianguan Haolai also served as a local magistrate twice. Official. It is also a place where the Tubo tribes west of the Snowy Mountains invade their borders almost every year, so I have to deal with the aftermath almost every year."
"Although the current situation in Zhengzhou is not as good as that of that small county in western Sichuan back then, internal problems can only be more complicated. Compared with foreign aggression, internal worries are the key. Nowadays, all the clans in the world are trying to occupy the land. King Jing is now After his death, the land under his name has become almost ownerless. Do you think the surrounding clans won’t be greedy for such a large piece of sacred land? "
"Just watch. When you arrive in Zhengzhou, greetings from the clans on Shandong Road, Hebei Road, and even Shanxi Road and Lianghuai North Road around Zhengzhou should also arrive. As for the aftermath of Zhengzhou, the biggest problem is the scenery The issue of land under the king’s name. Once this matter is handled, Zhengzhou’s aftermath will be more than half successful.”
"At least the land occupied by King Jing will be returned to its original owner, and some money and food will be exempted. As long as God takes care of Zhengzhou's blessed land, it will be able to recover in just a few years. But among the officials in the court, except for this Su Besides people like Chang Shi, who else is willing to offend the surrounding clans who are eyeing him with eager eyes?"
"If the land is given to those clans, they will not offend anyone, and they will receive a large amount of money, and also get benefits and benefits. But for Zhengzhou, it is basically a change of soup without changing the medicine, and it will even add fuel to the fire. Add fuel to the fire. So Zhengzhou really needs a strong order like Su Changshi who can really withstand the pressure and return the land to the people."
"It's just that he has too much trouble with his personality. For him, the biggest problem is not the surrounding clans, but the relationship with his superiors and colleagues. If those clans can't put pressure on him, they will definitely It will put pressure on other officials on Henan Road. With such a huge benefit, it will be difficult for his superiors not to be tempted. What if everyone works together to squeeze him out?"
