The imperial envoy is on his way, so there is no need to rush. You only need to walk twice a day.
The so-called daily journey is the distance between the previous station and the next station.
Two journeys, that is, starting from this station, passing through one station on the way, and then ending at the next station.
In order to facilitate the supply of food, vegetables, fruits, fodder and other materials, the post stations in the Qing Dynasty were mostly located in prefectures, counties or along the official roads of large markets.
Yuzhu was lying high with her beauty in her arms. After a good sleep, she felt hungry.
Wu Jiang came in and reported, "Master, the food you and Mrs. Zhao like to eat has been prepared."
Yuzhu nodded. The servants Wu Jiang and Wu Sheng were old men who had been with him for more than ten years. His and Qingwen's eating habits had long been understood.
Having said that, if Wujiang and the others still haven't figured out Yuzhu's preferences after all this time, they should go back to the countryside to plant sweet potatoes.
After washing up, Yuzhu and Qingwen entered the West Flower Hall hand in hand.
I saw that the large table was filled with all kinds of food, and there was a dazzling array of everything.
"You are a thoughtful person. You know that I like to eat glutinous rice balls stuffed with sesame seeds. Come and watch." Qingwen couldn't help but smile when she saw her favorite sesame glutinous rice balls. She ordered her maid Cuimei to bring five taels of silver.
I admired Wujiang in front of the jade pillar.
Wu Jiang held the silver reward in both hands, bowed his waist, and said respectfully: "I thank you, Mrs. Zhao, for the reward."
What is five taels of silver to Wu Jiang? He is not a small character who has never seen the world.
As a confidant and chief steward around Yuzhu, at the end of the year, Wu Jiang received the red envelope, which started at five hundred taels of silver.
Yuzhu is not Zhou Papi who crows in the middle of the night. He has always believed in the principle of letting the horse run fast and letting the horse eat good grass.
As the saying goes, the emperor still needs hungry soldiers.
One of the most important factors that allowed Liu Bang to conquer the world was the clear distinction between rewards and punishments.
On the other hand, Xiang Yu's method of sealing the world's princes was simply extremely confusing.
In a nutshell, most of the true heroes who followed Xiang Yu to conquer the world have not been sealed. How can they have no complaints?
This is the same mistake Dong Zhuo and Grand Master Dong made.
What's wrong?
The confidants were suppressed and thus alienated, causing the small group to lose its cohesion.
The gentry ministers whom Taishi Dong tried so hard to win over all looked down upon him, a country bumpkin from the northwest.
The noble ministers, while enjoying high official positions and generous salaries, secretly plotted to kill Grand Master Dong.
Yuzhu understood better than anyone that if Wu Jiang secretly harbored evil intentions because he could not make ends meet, the potential huge losses would be completely immeasurable.
When Cuimei saw Wu Jiang's disrespectful behavior, she couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled. It was only in front of Mrs. Zhao that Wu Jiang was so respectful.
If it were other concubines, they would be afraid of fawning over Wu Jiang, so why would they dare to put on airs?
There is no way, Yuzhu has always doted on Qingwen, Wu Jiang is not blind, how dare he neglect his concubine Qingwen?
Besides, if others don’t understand, how can Wu Jiang not understand?
Qingwen did not have a surname, but Yuzhu personally gave her the surname Zhao.
Even Wu Jiang cannot afford to offend a woman named Zhao!
While eating, there was a sudden noise in the courtyard.
Yuzhu had served as the nine-door admiral and was currently the foreman of the imperial minister. He had a serious occupational disease, so he summoned Wu Jiang and asked him to go out and take a look. What happened?
According to common sense, the two princes and the Duke of Zhenguo have already checked into the inn.
If a foreign official comes to stay again, Yi Cheng will take the initiative to tell him the truth unless he is out of his mind.
To put it bluntly, in the Qing Dynasty, no one except the old emperor could afford to offend the old emperor's two biological sons and one godson.
In most cases of the Qing Dynasty, the comparison was about background and strength.
Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, and shrimps eat soil, forming a complete food chain for the entire society of the Qing Dynasty.
Not long after, Wu Jiang came back. He leaned close to Yuzhu's ear, bent his waist, and whispered: "Sir, it was delivered by eight hundred miles from Heilongjiang. Although the messenger changed horses, he was still in the post station.
They were given cold meals and cold dishes. Maybe it was a man from a remote area who had a more straightforward temperament and had traveled a long distance. He was very tired, so he quarreled with the white servant who delivered the food."
In this era, there were actually very few real officials or officials who served as errands in the post stations or government offices.
In the yamen, most of the servants are good people who serve as corvees, collectively called white servants.
The white here means white body, that is, one who has no fame or fame.
Of course, this is only a theoretical situation.
In fact, there are countless people who want to work as white laborers in government offices.
As the saying goes, rare things are valuable.
The number of white servants is limited, but there are many people who want to work. This requires trusting connections, using backdoors and stuffing money.
Who gets up early without any benefit?
None of the white servants in the yamen have a fixed salary.
However, as long as they have something to do with the yamen, who among the ordinary people will not be afraid of them?
So, even if you don’t need money, you still want to be a free laborer.
The real key point is that these white servants can extort a lot of money from ordinary businessmen with just a few excuses.
Before coming to the Qing Dynasty, Yuzhu was a slippery old bureaucrat.
Today, he has been immersed in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and has served as a feudal official several times, so he naturally understands the tricks involved.
"There should be a lot of guards outside, right?" Yuzhu asked, Wu Jiang lowered his waist and said cautiously, "Master, nothing can be hidden from your eyes. The guards outside are all here.
Staring."
Yuzhu nodded. Although Wu Jiang didn't say it clearly, he somewhat sympathized with the hurry-up guy from Heilongjiang and felt that some people in the post station looked down upon others.
As long as we are human, we have selfish motives and tendencies to stand.
It is actually impossible to hide everything.
A wise superior person only needs to control the people around him and hide all important matters, and cannot force too much.
"Well, since you sympathize with others and there is simply a lot of food, you can pick up some better food and use it in my name to give it to the hasty courier." Yuzhu knew in his heart that most of the major events that happened in Heilongjiang were related to
It has something to do with the strange movements of goose and bear.
"Hey." Wu Jiang agreed while whispering, "You should be punished for your rash act of compassion. You should ask for your own applause."
Yuzhu smiled slightly and said: "There is no need to hold the mouth, three meals are enough if you are hungry."
Qingwen took over the conversation and said with a smile: "I'm talking about Wujiang, you monkey spirit, you are so scheming? Who of the people below would dare to be really cruel and slap your big mouth?
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Wu Jiang's thoughts were broken, like an eggplant beaten by frost, his head drooped and wilted.
After dinner, while Yuzhu was sitting drinking tea, Wu Jiang came back and reported that the hurried messenger from Heilongjiang was very polite. After he had eaten and drank enough, because he still had plenty of time to go to Beijing, he insisted on coming over to kowtow and thank him for the reward.
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Well, that's right, this is the moment Yuzhu has been waiting for.