Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 882
In March of the 25th year of Chongzhen, at the highest point of a gentle slope in the southeast of Huagou Village, Runhe Township, Shuangliu County, Chengdu Prefecture, Sun Kedi, the county magistrate, pointed to the distance and surroundings with one hand on his hip, and was explaining something to several people around him. .

March is the season of continuous spring rain in the south. The sky is drizzling. Looking around, the fields are shrouded in rain and mist. Among the green mountains and plains, clusters of blooming flowers are mixed among them. The fields There are farmers wearing straw hats driving their cattle to work. The whole scene is like an elegant picture scroll, which makes people deeply intoxicated.

"Yu Ming, I'm afraid you will have to work hard for the next few days! If there is not much business in the county government, I will find time to come here to help you!
This season is the critical period for seedling cultivation and transplantation. In order to prevent the villagers from slacking off, there must be a county magistrate stationed here. First, it is convenient to control and monitor, and second, it can also do a good job in organizing inspections!
After you stay here for [-] days, I will arrange for Yang Xiancheng to come and replace you!
This matter is related to the development plan of our Shuangliu County in the next hundred years, and it is also related to the income of the people under the rule. As the imperial court officials, we must treat it as a top priority and must not be ignored! "

Sun Kedi turned his head to look at an official younger than him, and said solemnly.

For the convenience of walking, he tucked a corner of the blue official uniform into his belt, his pair of soap-colored thin-soled fast boots were covered with mud, and his white underpants were also splashed with mud.

In the 20th year of Chongzhen, the 26-year-old Sun Kedi was assigned by the official department to Shuangliu County, Chengdu Prefecture as the magistrate from the high rank of the sixth grade. It has been exactly four years now.

Sun Kedi had been in the Ministry of Household Affairs for less than a year after the pilot test, and was catching up with the critical period of the large-scale immigration plan initiated by the imperial court. There was a large shortage of officials and literati. Sun Kedi resolutely devoted himself to this grand plan.

I didn't expect to do this for five years.

During these five years, Sun Kedi, together with several friends he met in the former Guozijian, lowered his body and lowered his figure, went deep among the most grassroots people, conscientiously did every government affairs at hand, and strived to make every The people in contact were able to arrive in other places safely, and contributed to the follow-up cumbersome resettlement. They have accumulated deep popularity among the people and the officialdom, and won the praise of most people.

It stands to reason that five years of hard work and outstanding political achievements should be awarded a higher official position and a better place when the immigration plan is roughly completed, but no one expected that the first stop of Sun Kedi's official appointment was placed in Chengdu. Government, and only served as magistrate.

This made all his friends feel deeply wronged by him, and it is generally believed that the emperor was dissatisfied with the chief assistant and deliberately suppressed his son to warn Sun Chuanting. High rank, but now the first assistant son only conferred a county magistrate?

Sun Kedi, who knew the inside story, ignored it calmly. After receiving the appointment, he immediately packed up and went to Shuangliu with his friend Zheng Yuandao who was also awarded the post of Shuangliu Chief Bookkeeper.

The reason why Sun Kedi didn't complain about the appointment was because he had received a letter from his father.

In the letter, Sun Chuanting expressed his satisfaction with his actions in the past five years, but at the same time he clearly told Sun Kedi that when the Ministry of Officials conferred an official, he planned to give him a higher position, and the place where he was appointed was also a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, but in the end he was rejected. Sun Chuanting blocked it.

Sun Chuanting said frankly in the letter that as the son of a cabinet minister, his every move is under the spotlight. If he is promoted too rashly just because he has made some political achievements in immigration affairs, it will not be a good thing for his future career.

Although Wen Kan had to be awarded a fourth-rank senior official, it was because he was older, he was awarded an official earlier, and his qualifications were deeper, and his political achievements were solid, which Sun Kedi could not compare with.
And as long as Sun Kedi is released as a landlord official of a certain land, and he has achieved impressive political achievements in office, then he will be promoted in the future, and other people will have nothing to say no matter how they have opinions.

All in all, Sun Chuanting hoped that his son would devote himself wholeheartedly to government affairs so as to lay a solid foundation for a brighter future.

As the grandson's eldest son, Sun Kedi's burden of maintaining the family's glory is not light.

Over the years, Sun Chuanting's two concubines gave birth to three sons and two daughters for him, and Sun Kedi's wife also gave birth to a son and a daughter for him. If this momentum continues, in a few decades, Sun Chuanting's branch will become a big family.

A prosperous population is of course a great thing for a family, because it is not only a matter of passing on the family line, but also means that more talents may emerge among them. Only when there are more talents, the family's prosperity and wealth will continue to the greatest extent. .

After Sun Chuanting became an official, the rise and fall of his branch of honor and disgrace for decades rested on Sun Kedi, which is why Sun Chuanting deliberately suppressed his eldest son.

He hoped that this promising eldest son would be more stable in his official career, not to take too big a step, but to accumulate more political achievements and fame, so that he would naturally be promoted and reused in the future.

Sun Chuanting is only 58 years old this year, and there are still 12 years before he becomes an official. When he retires, Sun Kedi will have just reached the age of 50. As long as there are no major accidents, Sun Kedi will have no problem joining the cabinet before the age of [-]. It is extremely rare in history to have two generations of cabinet counselors, and it is enough to become a good story that will last forever.

As for who promoted Sun Kedi to the cabinet in the future, Sun Chuanting would never mention it, it was a big taboo.

Although Jinshang's disposition is tolerant and kind, but when that seat is involved, he touches against the scales of the Tian family.

Back then, if Yue Fei hadn't written a letter begging Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou to establish a prince early, he would not have been framed to death.

However, Sun Chuanting and other important ministers know that today they are not very keen on power.

At the end of the latest convening of the cabinet ministers, Imam even expressed half-truth and half-false emotion. When these veteran ministers returned home, he also planned to hand over the throne to the crown prince, and then take advantage of his health to bring Zhou Hou and others Travel around the beautiful scenery of the world, leisurely under the forest, live up to the world.

Regarding the emperor's topic, all the important ministers chose to remain silent, even Lu Xiangsheng, who was always loyal and upright, did not dare to answer.

Sun Ke's opposition to the meaning expressed in his father's letter is naturally well understood. What he lacks now is his achievements in political affairs, and his qualifications are indeed too shallow. The achievements he has made before are not worth anything in the eyes of the boss. carry.

If you rely on your father's power to ascend to a high position now, if you make a mistake in the future, you will be the target of being attacked by others. It is better to settle down and do things down-to-earth in office, and use the incomparable achievements of others to lay the foundation for promotion.

(End of this chapter)