Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1082 The Splendid Future
That is, when Cao Yong and Na Ersu were talking in the study, Sai Shitu, Cao Song and Cao Fu were having tea in the living room and talking about their career prospects.

Cao Song is already thirty, and has worked as a guard for more than ten years. He has been promoted from a third-class guard to a first-class guard, and there is no room for further advancement.Next, he will either continue to survive, or he will choose to go out.

Cao Fu's temperament is indifferent, and he has no desire for official career, but he feels that he is like a fish in water as an official of the Ministry of Rites.In Qinggui Yamen, there is less right and wrong, and there is a cousin to take care of him, which is very sympathetic to him.

"Even if you don't make plans in the past two years, you have to be prepared. There is no reason to be a guard for a lifetime. Whether it is to seek officials in the capital or to be released, the second brother has to make up his mind early." Seshitu is no longer the dull man he was before. Young man, as a clan, although he is a dignitary, he has seen too much, and he has seen it for a long time.

Although there is Tanhualang in Cao's East Mansion, he has to get up step by step. It is far inferior to Cao Song, a first-class guard who is famous in front of the imperial court, and has a way to reach the sky.

"It also depends on what the emperor wants. If the emperor wants to let people go, he can say anything. If the emperor doesn't want to let people go, it's useless to say it." Cao Song said casually after working in the imperial court for a year and a half.

After hearing this, Seshtu couldn't help being dumbfounded.

Cao Fu interjected: "If the second brother comes out from the bodyguard, it is better to find a way out of Beijing. Only the Northwest Army has the opportunity to go to the battlefield. The second brother came back from the northwest, so there is no reason to release the Northwest. What's the point of going to other places? Civil servants are still good at governing a place and doing their best for the livelihood of the people; I, maybe I will bury the family in trouble at any time."

Although he is the youngest among the Cao family brothers, he has read the most books, learned a lot, and he was brought up by his uncle in his early years, which made him see things more clearly.

After hearing this, Cao Song and Sai Shitu took it very seriously.

Saishitu sighed, and said: "Although there are disadvantages, it's better to let him go outside. It's easier to get promoted after two posts in the local area and then transferred back to the capital."

Indeed, in the six ministries, there are hall officials who were born in the bodyguard office, that is, military attaches who have been sent out, and they have been transferred to the military department for several terms, and then they are either in the military department or transferred to other yamen as errands.

After all, the Cao family is now the Zhengbai Banner of Manchuria, and Cao Song fills in the gaps.The six Manchu books and Manshilang are mostly decorations.As long as you support a few experienced masters and scribes, this job is not difficult.

The three were talking, Cao Yong and Na Ersu came out from the study.

Regarding Cao Song's future arrangement, Na Ersu's views, like Seishtu's, felt that Cao Song did not have to continue to live on the first-class bodyguard.

Cao Song was a little moved by the words, looked at Cao Yong and said, "Brother, what do you think?"

Cao Yong thought for a while, and said: "It's better not to be impatient, just wait and see the changes. If it is not bad, there may be some changes in the local civil and military officials at the end of the year."

Everyone is in the officialdom, so it's easy to see through.

Once the emperor and the courtiers, the emperor has been on the throne for nearly two years. His wings have grown and his foothold has been stabilized. Sort out the place.

Na Ersu smiled and said: "Yes, I don't know how many vacancies will be vacated at that time. There are many people waiting for vacancies at the civil servants side, and everyone is afraid that they will squeeze their heads; as for military officers, the emperor can trust, except for the guards around him. Who else? At that time, not to mention the deputy general, maybe he will be directly transferred to the commander-in-chief and the deputy governor. After one or two terms, he will be promoted to the admiral or the governor, and then he will return to Beijing either as a minister or as a minister."

If the capital is released outside the capital, most of them need to be promoted to one or two levels.

Cao Song, the first-class bodyguard, is currently the third rank, and the military attache is either a deputy general of the second rank, or a chief soldier or deputy capital commander of the second rank.

Cao Song listened, waved his hands and said: "Where is the prince who said so wickedly, wouldn't he be promoted faster than the elder brother? The deputy general, the commander-in-chief and so on are fine, but they are lacking in the next level, and they will die without military merit. There are a lot of people at this step. I don’t ask for others, first I am a deputy general, and then I am promoted to the general, and I am satisfied."

When the military rank reaches the level of the general soldier, he can lead the army and guard a place, and it is easy to live a comfortable life.

He remembered clearly that the father of his elder brother's friend Yongqing was the chief soldier back then, and he was considered powerful in Jiangning.Although it does not interfere with the local area, it is self-contained.

Sai Shitu said: "Second brother is young, and he is also named in front of the imperial court. It's really hard to say how far he can survive."

Cao Song felt a little embarrassed after hearing this.

Cao Fu stretched out his hand, waved his fingers, and sighed: "I can't complain that there is a shortage of guards now, and they are fired for sixty or seventy thousand taels of silver. If you make up a third-class guard, you will be a fifth-rank guard. After ten years, you will be promoted to a first-class guard, and you will be a third-rank guard." .According to what the two brothers-in-law said, it will take only ten years to be released first and then transferred to Beijing officials. After 7 years of official career, you can survive to be a first-rank official. It takes 20 years for one liter to reach the first grade."

"There are also people who have family support, and there are many people who entered the cabinet when they were born in the imperial examination." Cao Yong said.

"Ah? Fourth Brother..." Cao Fu thought of Cao Xiang who was in Henan Xuezheng, and was speechless.

When Cao Xiang returns to Beijing next year, he will be a bachelor of the fifth grade in the Hanlin Academy by that time.

Although the speed of promotion from Hanlin is not as fast as Cao Song, but everyone is young. Even if he enters the cabinet in 20 years, brothers Cao Yong and Cao Song will know their destiny.

If the three brothers of the Cao family had a big age difference, such a future would ensure the longevity of the family.But in fact, from Cao Yong to Cao Xiang, the difference between the three brothers is less than ten years.

In this way, the rise of the three brothers at the same time is too eye-catching.

Among the noble families in the capital, brothers, uncles and nephews are also dignitaries, and there are also examples to follow. Most of them refer to the appointment of foreign officials, or different careers in civil and military affairs, but there are not many of them in the same capital.

In the early years, Cao Yin became an official because of self-defilement, just to avoid this and make room for his son.

When that step is reached, one of the brothers Cao Yong and Cao Xiang must be released.It is Cao Song, as long as Cao Yong is in the capital, he will not even think about transferring to the sixth department.

Hearing about Cao Xiang, everyone thought of how powerful it was, and couldn't help but look at each other.

For a family as prominent as "Tong Banchao", the premise is that there are Taizu Yuanfei plus two generations of empresses, who are inseparable from the royal family and are inseparable, and have been managed for several generations to reach this point.

Other families, not to mention the Cao family, even the dignified relatives of the Nian family, are just adorned with flowers, cooked with fire and oil, and looking at the scenery.Family honor and disgrace, but in the emperor's mind.

Cao Xiang smiled "hehe" and said, "I'd better be a bodyguard honestly. With double salary, the work is easy and easy, and there are many rewards throughout the year. When I'm over 40 and can't do it anymore, I'll transfer to a samurai or a guard." Lost ministers."

Cao Yong waved his hand and said: "Don't think about that much, wait for the emperor's arrangement. You are a military officer, and have nothing to do with civil servants. The fourth child is still young, and if he wants to survive in the capital, it will take ten years at least." It will take a few years. At that time, I don’t know what will happen, so why worry about the future.”

Although he said this, he thought in his heart that when Cao Xiang came to the capital, Tianyou would also come and stand, and he might be able to retreat.

He is not a person who is greedy for power, as long as the safety of the family is guaranteed, he will not be happy to enjoy leisure, and he will never suppress his cousin's progress for his own wealth...

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Changchun Garden, Qingxi Bookstore.

On the desk, there is a drawing about ten feet long.Standing in front of the table, Yongzheng pointed to a place on the blueprint, and said to the thirteenth brother: "In the south of the garden, build a few more palaces and government offices, so that the Summer Palace can be moved to the Old Summer Palace in the future."

A few days ago, Li Wei sent people from Yunnan to send back more than 150 million taels of salt tax; the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already started to produce opium-added cigarettes in several tobacco factories in Henan and Beijing. The first batch of cigarettes, Has been shipped to Guangzhou.At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent people to Xi'an to set up a tobacco factory. Later, the added tobacco would be sold to Qinghai and Tibet through the Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor's Yamen.

If the bloodiness of the Erut people is reduced, even if the Jungar people want to make trouble in Tibet and Qinghai in the future, I am afraid it will not be easy.

Yongzheng was in a good mood, so he thought of repairing the garden.

After all, he is still in Changchun Garden, not to mention the age, there are traces of the former emperor's use everywhere, which makes people feel uncomfortable.It couldn't compare to the Old Summer Palace, it was his gift.The earliest arrangements were all to his liking.

Elder Brother Thirteen looked at the area he was pointing at, and said, "There are [-] mu of open space over there, which is enough. But besides the government office, do we need to add some scenery? Looking at it from the garden, it is also a bit empty .”

Because Yongzheng was already Prince Heshuo when the first emperor bestowed the Old Summer Palace, the Old Summer Palace covers an area of ​​[-] mu, second only to Changchun Garden and Chengwangfu Garden among the gardens in northern Beijing.However, due to the high cost of repairing the garden, there are still many unused places in the garden.

Brother Thirteen suggested this because if Sheng Jia wanted to move to Yuanmingyuan, the empress concubine and princess elder brother would also go with him, and the current buildings in Yuanmingyuan would be insufficient.

Yongzheng pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said: "It's better to only build the official office, more than a thousand acres of land is almost enough, and we don't need such a large space. If the garden is connected with the Changchun Garden, there is no need to build a new house..."

Brother Thirteen knew that the emperor was still reluctant to spend money, so he didn't say much.

You know, Shengjia didn't go to Rehe for the past two years, and the money he saved was enough to repair half a garden.

In the final analysis, there is still no money in the treasury, and the emperor is also tied.

The atmosphere was a bit dull, so Elder Brother Thirteen interrupted the conversation: "The emperor knows how to employ people. This Li Wei does a good job. Although Yunnan is a province with a large salt production, it is not as good as Jiangnan. The tax money is less than 300 million taels, and Yunnan is 70 to 150 taels, and Li Wei received [-] million taels in Yunnan this year."

Yongzheng snorted coldly when he heard the words, and said: "If the tax money of the Yanke Branch cannot be paid, it is not because of those moths who are greedy for ink. Li Wei's 150 million taels is not cheap. The Yunnan Salt Administration is rotten to the end. Last year he asked for orders to take down those people, how could it be so easy? There are troublemakers in poor mountains and rivers. He has been in Yunnan for a year and a half, and he has encountered several "accidents". If he hadn't been vigilant, he would have been killed. He is a disciple of Zhen, and the papers of impeachment and slander are handed to the imperial court every now and then. Those corrupt officials, apart from money, I am afraid that even I do not trust them!"

Elder Brother Thirteen is also familiar with Li Wei, and has a good impression of him. Hearing Yongzheng's description of his situation as dangerous, he remembered that he had gone to the south of the Yangtze River with Yongzheng to investigate the salt administration in the early years, and felt sad: "Salt merchants It has always been rampant, and they can cover the sky in the rich and prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River, let alone the remote places in Yunnan and Guizhou."

When he said this, Yongzheng also remembered the old things, and added a bit of coldness on his face, saying: "I forgot about them... It seems that Li Wei is going to move somewhere..."

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Tears ran, asking for a monthly ticket.The first six are not stable. .

(End of this chapter)