Chapter 24 The Plan to Destroy Cao Xia

Mei Qizhao discussed with Hu Chuyuan again: "You have just separated from home, and the business is big. I'm afraid the turnover is not very flexible. As for this money, I will borrow it from you first, pay it off within three years, and the annual interest will be calculated at 12 percent. I also thought that if the canals of the four prefectures can be dredged, many dry fields can become paddy fields, and the Ding tax next year can be increased a little. It can be paid off within three years, and there is no need to add money to the people.

Hu Chuyuan said, "Well, as long as the court lends the loan in three or four years, the interest will be calculated as 10 percent, which is also a little contribution of our Hu family to the court and Zhejiang!"

Mei Qizhao smiled and said, "Well, let's make a conclusion."

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "There is no objection!"

At this time, Mei Qizhao and Cao Jingwen said, "Lord Cao, how am I doing?"

Cao Jingwen immediately praised, "Okay, okay! Your Excellency, you really deserve to be the first minister in Zhejiang. This matter benefits the people and the country, and does not hurt the national strength. What's more, it is the well-being of the people and the great blessing of the world!"

Mei Qizhao nodded with a smile and said, "Well, Captain Hu and I still have some personal things to talk about. You go back first!"

"Yes, yes!"

Cao Jingwen immediately took the order and politely said goodbye to Hu Chuyuan and Mei Qian before leaving the Hu family compound.

When he went far away, Mei Qizhao and Hu Chuyuan said, "I'm here this time, and there are two other things."

Hu Chuyuan said, "Your Excellency, please say it."

Mei Qizhao said, "The second thing is the matter of the magistrate of Hangzhou. You have also seen this magistrate of Cao. I am very dissatisfied, but he is a fellow descendant of Lord He, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. I have wanted to touch him for a long time, but I just don't want to offend Lord He!"

Mei Qian said hatefully, "This dog officer, I see him every time I'm annoyed. Dad, since Chu Yuanxian and Lord He are also in marriage, you might as well let him write a letter to Lord He!"

"Alas...!" Mei Qizhao coldly raised his hand to indicate that this method was inappropriate, and said to Hu Chuyuan, "I'm afraid I need your help, but I can't let you come forward, let alone talk to Lord He. Everyone protects his shortcomings. Cao Jingwen was promoted by himself, and he personally stuffed into the magistrate of Hangzhou. If we say it clearly, doesn't it prove that Lord He doesn't have the ability to know people and only knows how to appoint cronies?

Hu Chuyuan thought about it again and again and said, "There is no money in the world. This person who stays here is a pest. Since he can't be investigated, he can only be transferred!"

Mei Qizhao said, "I have been thinking about this matter for a long time. It is not difficult to recommend him to return to Beijing as a Beijing official. The difficult thing is that if this person makes a mistake in office, the court will still hold me accountable. Now he is sitting in the same position as the magistrate of Hangzhou, which is equivalent to half of the governor. He has been transferred to other provinces. There is no such fat difference anywhere. I have to do it. Lord He and he both know that I am playing with ghosts. I'm afraid they will wear small shoes for me!"

Officialdom...!

Hu Chuyuan was speechless. After thinking about it, he said, "I'd like to ask someone."

Mei Qizhao asked, "Do you want to ask Mr. Yan Shizhang?"

Hu Chuyuan asked curiously, "How do you know?"

Mei Qizhao smiled and said, "The third thing I came to you this time is to thank him. Wan Lao Shangshu is my fellow countryman. He has replied to me and told me about Mr. Yan Shizhang's unblocking for me in Beijing."

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Well, I'll invite him out."

He immediately got up and went to the East Study and invited Yan Shizhang out. Mei Qizhao stepped forward and thanked him, "Thank you for your help!"

Yan Shizhang said with shame, "Lord Mei is very polite. Alas, Kong is a few years older, but Xianfeng is only nine years old, seven years later than Lord Mei."

Mei Qizhao smiled and said, "What's the difference? I don't know how many brothers Yan are?"

Yan Shizhang was even more ashamed and said, "I'm not good at academics, and I'm thirty-nine in the top three. I'm a fellow scholar!"

Mei Qizhao said, "My little brother is a little good, the twenty-eighth place in the second grade, and he is a scholar!"

Yan Shizhang couldn't help sighing again and said, "Except for how old you are a few years old, how can you be qualified to be a brother?"

Listening to their comparison, Hu Chuyuan really felt very boring, but this kind of thing was easy to appear in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty.

Mei Qizhao and Yan Shizhang thanked him, and the two sat down again and continued to discuss the matter of Cao Jingwen, the magistrate of Hangzhou.

After listening to them, Yan Shizhang smiled and said, "What's so difficult about this? There are many corrupt officials in the capital! Just find a reason to get in touch with Cao Jingwen, take Lord He Jinghe as the reason, and then pay for him to dredge the capital, ask others to recommend him, and send him to Sichuan as a political envoy. It's Ding Baozhen's territory, and I promise he can't eat it. Ding Baozhen is neither from Hunan nor from Zhejiang. He has older qualifications. He Jing has no temper at all. He deserves bad luck!"

After listening to this, Mei Qizhao couldn't help clapping his hands and saying, "It's really wonderful. It's wonderful. Poor Cao Jingwen. I don't know how he died."

Yan Shizhang smiled and said, "There is something more amazing. Since he likes to blackmail others, he must be very rich! We don't even have to pay for it. Let's just say that we have something to do with the capital. We can keep him a political envoy's job and let him pay for it himself.

"Haha!" Everyone laughed more happily.

Mei Qizhao couldn't help saying to Yan Shizhang, "Brother Yan, I've really been the governor for several years."

Yan Shizhang said, "No, it's not a false thing, but a surname. Lord Mei, intrigues and plotting that others are not what you are good at. If you want to sit firmly in the official position, you still have to try your best to do a good job in local political achievements and occupy the voice of the people and political achievements, so that your position is safe. The person who is similar to you happens to be Lord Ding Baozhen.

Mei Qizhao nodded silently and said, "What Brother Yan said is that it's just that Hu Qiwei has to help more about this political achievement and the voice of the people!"

Hu Chuyuan arched his hand and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely try my best to help you!"

Whether it is doing business or investing in politics, he has a principle - either not to invest or to the end. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, even if it is millions of taels of silver, as long as Mei Qizhao opens his mouth, he will find a way to borrow it.

For those people he decided to recommend, Huo Hongji and so on, since he has taken care of them, he must take care of them to the end, and all of them have to be raised to a new level.

This is a lesson he learned before. Since he decided to take care of it, he had to be careful. Give up halfway will only make him sad.

Yan Shizhang said, "When I get rid of this Cao Jingwen, I will have another powerful person to recommend to Lord Mei!"

Mei Qizhao asked with interest, "Who?"

Yan Shizhang said, "Huo Hongji, a native of Changsha Prefecture, Hunan Province, has been a scholar for ten years, and now he is a lecturer. He was recommended by Wan Laoshangshu. I have talked to him in detail. He is indeed a talent worth using. Wan Lao Shangshu originally intended to let me go back to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, talk with Lord Zuo Zongtang and let Zhongtang recruit and reuse it, but I think it's better to use it in Zhejiang first, and then transfer it to Jiangsu after looking at the achievements. For Lord Mei, appointing him can also ease the things between you and Zhongtang.

Mei Qizhao nodded silently and said, "Well, after the governor of Taizhou was dismissed from the salt case, the Ministry of Public Affairs recommended several people. I haven't played back yet, so I'd better transfer him to Zhejiang first. As soon as Cao Jingwen left, I would transfer him to the governor of Hangzhou. In terms of calculation, he was transferred from the position of lecturer of Hanlin Academy to the magistrate of Zhejiang. He was a little at a loss. I don't know if he would like it or not?

Yan Shizhang said, "I have talked to him. Now he is a lecturer in Hanlin Academy. This is a good start in Hanlin Academy, but if you really want to make it, you have to wait for another ten years. People are old and yellow, and the cauliflower is cold. It's better to do something practical in the place to serve as an official and benefit one party. He himself agrees. As long as there is a suitable position, he is willing to be transferred!"

Mei Qizhao said, "Well, let's do it!"

Generally speaking, the bachelor of Hanlin Academy is transferred to the place to serve as the academic administration of a province, and then he can be promoted to inspectors, political envoys, and finally governors and governors.

The key is that the step from studying politics to inspection is very difficult, and there are very few opportunities.

In addition, it is transferred from a lecturer to a cabinet lecturer, squeezing towards the road of a cabinet bachelor, which is even more difficult. It only belongs to the special channel for champions, Bangyan and Tanhua.

But Huo Hongji has a special advantage - he is from Hunan, which means that he is an official in the place where Hunan is in power, which is far better than the hardships in the capital, and he will soon be promoted.

Tan Zhonglin is such an example. No one has known for decades. After Zuo Zongtang's drag, he has been the governor of Shaanxi for several years, and now he has been transferred to the more fertile governor of Jiangsu.