Sunshine’s fast horse, with a whip all the way, arrived in front of the yamen of the Tidings and Investigation Department within Yingtian City in more than an hour.
“Sir you are back.”
The few servants on duty in front of the Yamen saw Zhu Pingan and his party from afar, and jogged forward to greet them, leading the horses and stirrups, saddling up to serve, and Liu Dazhou and the others were also treated with special favours.
Now Zhu Pingan has been the zhejiang mention criminal investigation department deputy ambassador, remove the word “generation” is only a matter of time, the status is different from the past, in the status of the Yamen is second only to the ambassador, belongs to the Yamen’s highest level of leadership, the Yamen servants naturally warmly greeted.
This is human nature.
Zhu Pingan was not used to it, but he understood it.
As on previous occasions, Zhu Pingan first visited Zhang Tiantai, and then went to the two deputy ambassadors to have a look.
Then, Chu Xiong, Zhang Chufeng and others came to pay their respects. Feudal society was highly hierarchical, and it was a rule of officialdom for subordinate officials to pay their respects to their superiors.
Chu Xiong was as cordial as usual, but with a little more respect, while Zhang Chufeng was a little weak.
Seeing that Zhu Pingan treats himself as usual, there is no obvious hostility, Zhang Chufeng’s heart is relieved.
Previously, he had defected to the Yan Party, and he regarded Zhu Pingan as a thorn in his side and a thorn in his flesh, and he had many acts of oppression and targeting. At the time when Zhu Pingan warned of the Japanese invasion in Yingtian, he had taunted and mocked Zhu Pingan many times, and he had also secretly colluded with the head of the Ministry of Military Affairs of Yingtian, Zhang Han, and the governor of Yingtian Censorship Academy, Liu Qing, and he had impeached Zhu Pingan for his ignorance of military affairs, for his rumour mongering and his claptrap, and for his disturbing of the military’s morale, and destroying the stability of Yingtian, and he demanded that Zhu Pingan should be questioned and dismissed from the army.Zhu Pingan, never thought that Zhu Pingan prophecy, the Japanese really attacked Yingtian, Zhu Pingan also made a great success of the Japanese, the result of the Yingtian Ministry of War Zhang Han, Yingtian Censorate Governor Liu Qing because of slander, framed Zhu Pingan, were relegated to the Guangxi deserted miasma as a magistrate.
Good thing, when he colluded with Zhang Han, Liu Qing impeachment of Zhu Pingan, taking into account and Zhu Pingan with the Zhejiang Criminal Investigation Department, joint impeachment, then, will be people think that the inside of the scroll, villainous behaviour, damaging the image, so there is no name, joint impeachment, which has escaped, and spent a large amount of silver to seal the Zhang Han, Liu Qing’s mouth, which has not been blown out of the water.
Otherwise, Zhu Pingan was promoted to Vice-Envoy and would definitely liquidate himself.
God knows how he came over these days, fearful of being liquidated by Zhu Pingan.
However, in a few more days, it would be fine, and one would not have to be fearful.
Because Zhao Wenhua, Lord Zhao will be here soon, one’s backer has come, as long as one holds on to Lord Zhao’s thigh, what is Zhu Pingan.
It’s not worth mentioning!
Deputy Envoy, huh, if Zhu Pingan can do it, I, Zhang Chufeng, can do it as well.
In addition, Zhu Pingan has offended Minister Yan so badly that he even instructed Yang Jisheng to impeach Minister Yan, if not for Yang Jisheng’s stubbornness in not listening to his advice, or else Minister Yan would have been in big trouble, this is the original words of the young Minister Yan. This is the words of Minister Yan. But Minister Yan wants to get rid of him, and he has already let out his words many times.
Lord Zhao is Minister Yan’s godson, a high ranking member of Yan’s party.
I believe that Lord Zhao will not sit idly by and watch Zhu Pingan rise in Jiangnan, Zhu Pingan, the acting deputy ambassador is also going to be the head, then the one who is afraid is not himself, but he Zhu Pingan.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chufeng heart have more confidence.
At noon in the criminal investigation division of the Yamen with lunch, after the meal Zhu Pingan flipped through the Yamen correspondence, familiar with the understanding of the Yamen business and political affairs, anyway, Zhao Wenhua has not yet come, this period of time idle is also idle.
As the acting deputy ambassador, Zhu Pingan was qualified to read the official documents of the government office. The content of the official documents is mostly judicial, big cases, important cases, difficult cases, etc., there are also a few officials in the discipline.
Zhu Pingan flipped through the official documents in the area of governance and discipline and found that two of them were about Songjiang Prefecture. Some people impeached Songjiang Prefecture for its inability to defend itself from Japanese invaders, resulting in the occupation of Huating, Zhelin, and Chuanshawa by Japanese invaders, and in recent days, more and more Japanese invaders have gathered here, amounting to more than 40,000 people, forming a nest of Japanese invaders. Moreover, more and more Japanese pirates are gathering here, forming a huge Japanese pirate force.
These Japanese invaders would not stay honestly in the nest, they often went out to harass the neighbouring local people, and the evil acts of burning, killing, looting and plundering were endless, and the people of Songjiang Province suffered a lot, and even the top and bottom officials of Songjiang Province were full of grievances.
“Huating, forty thousand ……”
Zhu Pingan put down the official document, shook his head helplessly and sighed.
The Japanese trouble in Jiangnan is really getting more and more serious, when he went to Yiwu to recruit troops, Xu Hai, Chen Dong and other Japanese invaders were still only occupying places such as Zhelin and Chuansha Puddle, their numbers were around 30,000, how long has it been, Xu Hai and other Japanese invaders even occupied Huating again, and their troop strength went up by 10,000 again to more than 40,000 people.
This is still only the Songjiang Prefecture a place of the Japanese, the severity of the Japanese in Jiangnan, it can be seen.
Huating ……
Hua Ting is still the old home of Xu Jie Xu Shi, it is estimated that Xu Shi in the capital received the news that Hua Ting was occupied by Japanese invaders, it should be on the head.
It was only in the second half of the afternoon that news came that Zhao Wenhua’s fleet was about to arrive in Yingtian.
Then came the order from the governor of Jiangnan, Zhang Jing, ordering all the major government offices and officials to go out to the five-mile pier at the north gate to greet the imperial envoy Zhao Wenhua.
Zhang Jing led Zhu Pingan and his party out of the north gate to the pier to greet the imperial envoy Zhao Wenhua. On the way, they met many officials who went to greet Zhao Wenhua, and they all travelled together as a unit of the Yamen.
They greeted each other and then converged together, heading to the pier to greet Zhao Wenhua.
As they walked, it was a vast procession.
This line of road everywhere is clean, the Ministry of Ceremony as early as yesterday to organise servants, people clean, this morning and deliberately sprinkled water, is a wind blowing, there is no dust flying.
The pier is also decorated, the road on both sides of the tree also tied the red silk, Zhu Pingan looked carefully and found that these red silk are the last time to meet the eunuch of the imperial decree used once, well, good, reuse, point a praise.
Soon after Zhu Pingan and his party arrived, Yingtian’s major government offices as well as officials above the fifth rank from all over the world gathered in front of the pier.
After a while, Zhang Jing, the man of Jiangnan, arrived late, surrounded by generals such as Duke Wei, Marquis Linhuai, and Yu Dayou.
Among the generals, Zhu Pingan only knew Duke Wei, Marquis Linhuai, and Yu Dayou, but not the others.
“Greetings to Governor Zhang.”A group of officials waiting for Zhao Wenhua came forward to greet Jiangnan Governor Zhang Jing.
“There is no need for you all to be polite, this official is inspecting the drills of the capital battalion and came a step late, you all are forgiven.”
Zhang Jing gave the crowd a false hand and nodded slightly.
“Not too late, not too late, Lord Zhao hasn’t arrived yet, Governor Zhang has wasted his sleep and food for the sake of eradicating the Japanese invaders, he is indeed a model for us, so what sin is there.”
The crowd of officials spoke up, consciously standing behind Zhang Jing, giving full respect to Zhang Jing as the Jiangnan Governor.
