Chapter 1085: A bright future

It was when Cao Yong and Nersu were talking in the study, Seshtu and Cao Song, and Cao Feng were having tea in the living room, talking about the future of the official career.

Cao Song was already thirty years old and had been in the guard office for more than ten years. He was promoted from a third-class guard to a first-class guard, and there was no room for further development. Next, he would either continue to live or choose to release himself.

Cao Fu was calm and had no desire for official career. Instead, he felt that he was in the position of the Ministry of Rites. He was as calm as a fish in water. He had less right and wrong and had a cousin to take care of him. He was very considerate of his feelings.

"Even if you don't plan for the past two years, you have to prepare for it. You have never been a servant in the guard office for a lifetime. Whether to be a capital official or a foreigner, your second brother must make a decision." Seshtu was no longer the dull boy at the time. Although he was a noble family, he had seen too many things and had a lot of insights.

Although there is a Tanhualang in the eastern prefecture of the Cao family, it has to be maintained step by step, far less than Cao Song, a first-class guard named in front of the imperial court, and has a road to heaven.

"It depends on the emperor's meaning. If the emperor wants to release people, it will be easy to say anything. If the emperor doesn't want to release people, it will be useless to say it." Cao Song was a one-and-a-half-year-old man in front of the emperor, and he realized something and said casually.

When Seshtu heard this, he couldn't help but feel silence.

Cao Feng interjected: "If the second brother comes out of the guard office, he will still be determined by the capital. Only the Northwest Army has the opportunity to go to the battlefield. The second brother came back from the northwest, and there is no reason to go out of the northwest. What's the point of putting it in other places? Civil officials are still good at governing the country and doing their best to make the people's livelihood. Local military officers, in addition to eating empty wages and drinking military blood, raise their concubines, give birth to children, and follow them to join in, which will defile themselves and may bury the family at any time."

Although he was the youngest among the Cao brothers, he read the most books, was knowledgeable and well-written, and his early education around his uncle made him more thorough in seeing things.

Cao Song and Seshtu heard this and agreed.

Seshtu sighed and said, "Although there are disadvantages, it is better to let go. Only by staying in the local area and then transferring back to the capital will it be easier to get promoted."

Indeed, there are officials from the six ministries who come from the guard office, who are military officers who have been sent out to serve several positions and transferred to the Ministry of War, and then serve in the Ministry of War or other yamen.

After all, the Cao family is now the Manchu White Banner, and Cao Song is full of flaws. The six Manchu ministers and Manchu ministers are mostly decorations. As long as you raise a few experienced teachers and clerks, this job is not difficult to do.

The three of them were talking, and Cao Yong and Nersu came out of the study.

Regarding Cao Song's future arrangements and Nersu's views, like Seshtu, they all felt that Cao Song did not have to continue to live with the first-class guards.

Cao Song was a little moved when he was said, and 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 and just wait and see the changes. If what is expected, there may be some changes for local civil and military officials at the end of the year."

Everyone is in the officialdom, so they can understand it at first.

Once the emperor was in power, the emperor had been in power for nearly two years, and his wings were abundant and his foothold was stable. The capital had already managed a piece of iron barrel. Even the Nine Gate Admiral's Office had his confidant serve as deputy to Longkodo. The next step was to sort out the place.

Nersu smiled and said, "Yes, I don't know how many vacancies will be freed up by then. There are many people waiting for vacancies on the civil servants, so everyone is afraid that they will squeeze their heads. For military officers, who else can be trusted by the emperor? Then, let alone the deputy general, they may be moved directly to the general and the deputy commander. After one, they will be promoted to the admiral or the chief minister. If they return to the capital, they will either be the Minister of the Shang Dynasty or the Minister of the Interior."

When the capital is released, it is mostly necessary to upgrade to one level or two levels.

Cao Song, the first-class guard, is now a third-class official. The one who sends military officers is either a second-class deputy general, a second-class general or a deputy commander.

After hearing this, Cao Song waved his hand and said, "Where is the prince who said so evilly? Isn't that faster than the eldest brother's promotion? Deputy General, General, etc., but there are many people who have no military merits to end their lives. I don't ask for anything beside me. First, they will be the deputy general, and then promoted to General, and I am satisfied."

When you reach the level of general, you can lead the troops and guard the entire place. It is easy to live a comfortable life.

He remembered clearly that the eldest brother's friend, Yongqing's father, was the general at that time, and was very powerful in Jiangning. Although he did not interfere in the local area, he was a natural line.

Seshtu said: "My second brother is young and has a reputation in front of the imperial court. It's hard to say how far he can survive."

Cao Song felt a little embarrassed when he heard this.

Cao Feng stretched out his hand, waved his fingers, and sighed, "I can't blame the fact that the next guard is short of, and all the money is 60,000 taels of silver. If you make up for the third-class guard, you will be the fifth-class guard. If you have been promoted to the first-class guard for ten years, you will be the third-class guard. According to what my brother-in-law said, it will take only ten years to release the outside and then transfer the capital official. If you have been in office for twenty years, you can be the first-class official. If you are admitted to the imperial examination, you will be promoted to the first-class official, and you will be promoted to the first-class official for 20 years."

"We also need to divide the family. If we have family support, there are many people who have entered the cabinet in their forties in the imperial examination." Cao Yong said.

"Ah? The fourth brother's side..." Cao Feng thought of Cao Xiang who was in the Henan Academy of Education and could not speak.

Cao Xiang will return to Beijing next year, and at that time he will be a fifth-rank attendant or a bachelor's lecturer in the Hanlin Academy.

Although the speed of promotion from Hanlin is not as good as Cao Song, it cannot resist everyone's youth. Even if he enters the cabinet twenty years later, Cao Yong and Cao Song's brothers will be in the year of knowing their destiny.

If the three brothers of the Cao family were very different in age, such a future would be able to ensure that the family would last forever. But in fact, the three brothers were less than ten years apart from Cao Yong to Cao Xiang.

In this way, it would be too eye-catching for the three brothers to rise up at the same time.

Among the powerful families in the capital, brothers, uncles and nephews are both nobles, and there are also rules to follow. Most of them refer to foreign officials, or civil and military affairs, and they are both civil and military officials, but not many of them are in the capital.

In his early years, Cao Yin was defiled and retired, just to avoid this and make room for his son.

When it comes to that point, there must be one of the brothers Cao Yong and Cao Xiang who wants to be released. It is Cao Song, as long as Cao Yong is in charge of the Jingtang, he will be transferred to the civil service and join the Sixth Ministry.

When everyone heard about Cao Xiang, they thought of the greatness of it and looked at each other.

A family as prominent as "Tong Banchao" is the premise that the concubine Taizu and the two generations of queens are integrated with the royal family and are inseparable. It has been managed for several generations to reach this point.

Other families, let alone Cao's family, even the relatives of the Nian family are just clusters of flowers, cooked with harsh oil, and looking at the scenery. The honor and disgrace of the family are just in the emperor's thoughts.

Cao Xiang laughed twice and said, "I'd better be a guard honestly. He has a double salary and a light work experience. He has a lot of rewards throughout the year. When he is over forty and can't do it anymore, he will be transferred to a genius leader or a lost minister."

Cao Yong waved his hand and said, "Don't think about that much, wait for the emperor's arrangements. You are a military position and have nothing to do with civil servants. The fourth brother is still young and it will take at least ten years to get into the capital. At that time, I still don't know what the situation will be, so why bother with the future."

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

He is not a person who is greedy for power. As long as his family is safe, he still cannot enjoy leisure and will never be able to make a living for his own wealth. He will suppress his cousin's progress...

Changchun Garden, Qingxi Bookstore.

On the desk, there was a drawing about one meter long. Yongzheng stood in front of the table, pointed to a place on the drawing, and said to the Thirteenth Prince: "To the south of the garden, several palaces and yamen offices will be built, so that they can be moved to the Old Summer Palace in the future if they are in summer."

A few days ago, Li Wei sent someone to send him back a salt tax of more than 1.5 million taels from Yunnan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs had already started to make opium cigarettes in several tobacco factories in Henan and Beijing, and the first batch of cigarettes had been shipped to Guangzhou. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent someone to set up a tobacco factory in Xi'an, and in the future, the tobacco that was added to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor's Office would sell the added tobacco to Qinghai and Tibet through the Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor's Office.

If the Eruts are reduced, it will be difficult for the Junggars to make trouble in Tibet and Qinghai in the future.

Yongzheng was in a good mood and remembered the matter of building a garden.

After all, he is still Changchun Garden now. Not to mention the age, there are traces of the use of the emperor everywhere, which makes people feel uncomfortable. No matter how much he can compare to the Old Summer Palace, it is his gift garden. The earliest arrangements were all his favorites.

The Thirteenth Prince looked at the area he was referring to and said, "There are three thousand acres of vacant land there, which is enough. But in addition to the official office, do you also need to add some scenery? The garden is also a bit empty."

Because when the old emperor gave the Old Summer Palace, Yongzheng was already Prince Heshuo, the Old Summer Palace covers an area of ​​600 acres, second only to Changchun Garden and Chengwang Mansion Garden among the gardens in northern Beijing. However, because the cost of building the garden is too high, there are still many idle places in the garden.

The Thirteenth Prince suggested this because if the Holy Lord wanted to move to the Old Summer Palace, the concubines and the princess also had to go with each other, and the current buildings in the Old Summer Palace were insufficient.

Yongzheng pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "It's better to only build an official office. More than a thousand acres of land are enough. You can't use such a large place. If the garden is connected to Changchun Garden, you don't need to build a new house..."

The Thirteenth Prince knew that the emperor was still reluctant to spend money, so he didn't say much.

You know, the Shengjia has not been to Rehe in the past two years, and the money he saved is enough to build half a garden.

In the final analysis, the treasury is still free of money, and the emperor is also restrained.

The atmosphere was a bit dull. The Thirteenth Prince said: "It's still the emperor who knows how to hire people. Li Wei is a good job. Although Yunnan is a major salt-producing province, it is not as good as Jiangnan. In previous years, the tax on salt departments in various places was less than 3 million taels, and Yunnan has 600,000 taels in one place. This year, Li Wei collected 1.5 million taels in Yunnan."

Upon hearing this, Yongzheng snorted coldly and said, "The salt department taxes and silver cannot be raised, and they are all greedy for those worms. Li Wei's one million and a million taels of 1.5 million taels are not cheap. Yunnan Salt Administration is rotten to the end. If he hadn't asked for an order last year to take down all those people, how could it be so easy? He went to Yunnan for a year and a half and had encountered several "accidents". If he hadn't been alert, he would have died long ago. Even though he knew that he was my disciple, he impeached and slandered him, he handed it to the imperial court every few days. Those corrupt officials, apart from the money, may not even be careful!"

The Thirteenth Prince was familiar with Li Wei and had a good impression of him. He heard Yongzheng say his situation so dangerously, and remembered that he had traveled to Jiangnan to investigate the salt administration in his early years, and he felt sad: "Salt merchants have always been rampant. In the rich and prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River, they can cover the sky with one hand, let alone remote places in Yunnan and Guizhou."
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