Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 523 Quanzhou
Li Jing shook his head again and again: "You let me tell you what's good about you? Let you read a few books and learn more things, so I can promote you. You are good, reading books will give you a headache. If you continue like this, let me see, You can be an official to the present level."

Liu Er smiled and said: "Brother, brother still has some self-knowledge. Brother can be such a big official now, it's all under the cover of brother, brother who knows how to manage the place? It's just doing what the brother said. .”

Li Jing said with a smile: "You can do it without losing your shape. This is your skill. Some people ask him to do it, but he can't do it."

"Is this called skill?" Liu Er was surprised.

Li Jingjing nodded, and said seriously: "Your ability, ordinary people really can't do it. Many of our officials are self-righteous, always feel that they can do it themselves, and think that their ideas are right. So I read the scriptures carefully, and that's it. Be misread by them.

As for you, you never try to figure out my thoughts, you only know how to do things according to the rules, or you do what I say.Therefore, although you have never read a book, your political achievements are much more prominent than those who have studied. "

Liu Er smiled and said: "Hehe, brother asked brother to be the political envoy, brother must of course do things according to brother's order, otherwise, why did brother send me to do this errand?"

Li Jing smiled and said to Sun Meng: "Brother Sun, in fact, people like Er Leng are the smartest."

Sun Meng said with a smile: "What I'm talking about is that Er Leng does things according to the orders of the elder brother. He doesn't have to think about it, and he can do things well. He is much smarter than those who are self-righteous and try to figure out what the elder brother is thinking."

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

After laughing for a while, Li Jing suddenly said: "Brother Sun, do you know why I sent Liu Ming to assist Zheng Zhilong in guarding Manlajia?"

Sun Meng smiled and said: "Zheng Zhilong built such a huge fleet from scratch in just over ten years, he can be called a generation of heroes. Such a person, of course, has a good eye for others. Big brother arranged for Zheng Zhilong to work under him." As an errand, Zheng Zhilong could tell at a glance whether this person was capable or not.

Before Zheng Zhilong led the fleet back to Ming Dynasty, if we arrange a capable person to assist Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong will think that we are worried about him, and arrange someone to monitor him, then he may have resistance.It's better to arrange for a person with mediocre ability to act according to Zheng Zhilong's orders, so that Zheng Zhilong can feel at ease. "

After a pause, Sun Meng continued: "In addition, Liu Ming has been with the eldest brother for many years, and his loyalty to the eldest brother is beyond doubt. Arranging him to Manga, there is no need to worry about Zheng Zhilong buying him with money."

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

After a while, Li Jing said: "However, I still have to tell Liu Ming that it's fine to follow Zheng Zhilong's orders, but don't forget your responsibilities."

Sun Meng nodded: "I will tell Liu Ming that his task is to guard Manjijia. Under this premise, Zheng Zhilong can obey all orders."

Li Jingjing nodded, pondered for a while and said, "If I have time, I will meet Liu Hong and Liu Ming before leaving."

Speaking of which, Li Jing sighed softly: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen them for a long time. Alas! I have become more and more distant from these brothers these years."

Sun Meng sighed and said, "Brother, brothers all know that you are busy. In fact, as long as everyone knows that Brother is thinking of them, they will be very happy."

Li Jing shook his head and sighed: "What I miss the most now is the time when I drank big bowls with my brothers and ate big pieces of meat. How could there be so many troublesome things at that time? Sometimes, I really want to give up. Tired! Too tired!"

Sun Meng hurriedly said: "Brother, don't be discouraged, Daming is absolutely inseparable from Big Brother now."

Li Jing sighed: "It's not that we can't do without me, I'm afraid that the successor will ruin our hard work. Let's wait a few more years. After a few more years, when Daming is completely on the right track, I will rest."

Sun Meng said with a smile: "I'm afraid it won't work in a few years, but it will take another 20 years. After An Guo grows up and can take over from the eldest brother, the eldest brother can rest."

Li Jing waved his hand: "Isn't it a family?"

Sun Meng wondered: "What's wrong with the family world? In the past dynasties, which one is not the family world? We brothers can't end up making wedding dresses for others, right?"

Li Jing shook his head and sighed inwardly: these people would never understand my own thoughts.

At this moment, the carriage stopped suddenly, and then Xiao Jiu knocked on the door outside and said, "Commander, we have arrived outside Jinjiang City. Officials from Quanzhou Prefecture are waiting for you at the gate of the city."

Li Jingwen frowned: "Didn't I tell them when I came here, don't greet them when I go back?"

Liu Er laughed blankly and said, "That's what the elder brother said, but how dare they not welcome the elder brother? Not to mention the elder brother, even if I come down once, they will go out of the city to greet you, and I am so annoyed."

Li Jing sighed: "This is the bad habit of our officialdom. It is useless to clean up these things if you don't put your mind on doing things. I have never stopped welcoming officials since I left Beijing. Forget it, tell them, as long as They work hard, and I am happier than anything else. Now I am in a hurry to go back to Fuzhou, so I won’t see them.”

Liu Er nodded in a daze, and got out of the carriage.

After a while, Liu Er came back and said, "Brother, these officials didn't leave. They said that when my brother came, he left without having a meal. When I go back, I have to treat my brother to a meal."

Li Jing shook his head, smiled wryly at Sun Meng, and said, "It seems that the good intentions are hard to get over, let's go, go and have a few words with everyone."

With that said, he opened the door and got out of the carriage.

Seeing Li Jing getting down from the carriage, a group of cavalry immediately pushed aside their horses to make way for a passage.

He led Sun Meng and Liu Er Leng to a group of officials, and when they saw them, they hurriedly bowed to salute.

Guo Fengrong, the prefect of Quanzhou, took two steps forward, bowed and said, "Why did your lord get out of the car and come over here? I really don't dare to be an official!"

"Hehe, it's hard for you to be so kind. How can I come here by car? It's all free." Li Jing smiled slightly.

"Your Excellency is approachable, it's really unprecedented, I really admire it." Guo Fengrong said with a smile.

Li Jing smiled: "You are so kind, how can I neglect everyone? It's just that I didn't want to disturb the place, and I didn't inform you when I came here. I didn't want you to be well informed. My itinerary was actually clear. .”

"My lord came to Quanzhou, if I don't know, then I'm too incompetent to be a magistrate. Just think, if I don't even know about your itinerary, how much can I care about other things?" Guo Fengrong laughed. .

Li Jing smiled and said: "That's quite reasonable. The fact that you can say this shows that you still put your heart into being an official. However, I really don't have time to hang around in Quanzhou, so I can only appreciate your kindness. "

"My lord, it's not that the lower officials deliberately entertained your lord, but it's really not easy for your lord to come to Quanzhou. If you don't taste the food and wine of Quanzhou, would you come to Quanzhou in vain?" Guo Fengrong said with a smile.

"Hehe, what you said is reasonable. I don't know when I can come to Quanzhou again next time. It's rare to come here. I should try the food and drink in Quanzhou. How about this? There are many officials here, so let's not go to any restaurants. You let people Arrange the food and drink here, and I'll have a drink with everyone." Li Jing said with a smile.

"This...is it inconvenient?" Guo Fengrong hesitated.

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's nothing inconvenient. Taking the sky as the screen and the earth as the case is just my nature. In addition, when you bring people to make arrangements, I can chat with everyone, which also saves a lot Time isn't it?"

"If that's the case, then I'll wrong you sir." Guo Fengrong said helplessly.

Li Jing smiled and said: "It's okay, it should be said that I disturbed everyone."

Guo Fengrong hurriedly said: "It is also the luck of the lower officials to be able to disturb the adults once."

Li Jing smiled: "Okay, you can make arrangements, who is the county magistrate of Jinjiang?"

As soon as Li Jing finished speaking, he saw a person stepping forward two steps, bowed and said, "Your official is here."

Li Jing raised his eyes and saw that this man was about fifty years old, his beard and hair were already grey, but he was very energetic.

"No need to be too polite." Li Jing waved his hand and smiled.

Looking around, Li Jing pointed to one side and said, "Let's talk here, don't block the way of pedestrians."

After all, go first, Sun Meng, Liu Erleng and a group of officials hastily followed.

Walking to a spacious flat area in front of the moat, Li Jing stopped, sat on the ground casually, and then lightly patted the ground around him: "Come, everyone, sit down."

Seeing that Li Jing sat down on the ground suddenly, all the officials were shocked. Guo Fengrong had already finished the arrangement at this time, so he rushed over and said, "How can my lord sit on the ground? Be careful of catching cold."

Li Jing waved his hand, pointed to the farmers in the distance and said: "They have been farming in the fields all year round, and they sit on the ground when they are tired. How can they care about not getting cold? They can sit, why can't I sit?"

At this time, an official suddenly interjected: "My lord is a man of gold, how can he be like those grassroots people?".

Li Jing raised his eyes to look at this person, then turned to look at Guo Fengrong.

Guo Fengrong hurriedly said: "My lord, this is Cui Bin, the prefect of Quanzhou, Mr. Cui."

Li Jingjing nodded, looked at Cui Bin and said with a smile: "You said they are grassroots? Then do you know that if there were not these grassroots, how would we be able to dress and eat? In your eyes, these people may be grassroots, but in In the eyes of this official, they are our food and clothing parents."

As he said that, Li Jing shook his head lightly: "You, the official is too serious. If you don't get rid of this problem, you may not be an official for long."

When Cui Bin heard this, his face suddenly turned pale, and sweat dripped from his forehead.

Seeing Cui Bin being reprimanded by Li Jing, everyone quickly sat down on the ground without any hesitation.

Li Jing smiled, and said to the county magistrate of Jinjiang, "What's your name?"

"My lord, the next official's surname is Li, his name is Zhi, and his character is Tonghe." The magistrate of Jinjiang said hurriedly.

"Oh? Your last name is Li. We were one family 300 years ago." Li Jing smiled.

Li Zhi hurriedly said: "It's a blessing for me to be a subordinate official to be able to have the same surname as an adult."

Li Jing said with a smile: "What kind of blessing is this? Is the surname Li very special?"

(End of this chapter)