The steam iron armored ship docked at the Huai'an Prefecture Ship and Coal Office belongs to the Fujian Commander Command. Now the one who uses this ship north is Hu Liangpeng, the deputy governor of the former Army Governor's Office.

In recent years, Hu Liangpeng has been in Fujian, supervising fleets to Japan, transporting Beijing transport from the north and south, and suppressing a rebellion and mutiny in the southwest, making many military achievements. He has made both merits and familiar with maritime affairs, and has a beautiful resume. Now he is in the Fujian Command and Commander Command to train maritime fleets in various places.

He knew Ye Xianggao's father Ye Chaorong a long time ago. It was time for Chen Mu to be the commander of the Nanyang Guard to escort the cannons to the north to deliver them to Qi Jiguang. Mr. Ye went to Beijing to take the exam to take the cannon carts of their Nanyang Guards.

That year, Hu Liangpeng and Ye Chaorong chatted with him all the way, making the old man so happy that he regretted that his daughter had already left the house and became friends of the ages.

It was the first year of Longqing. Ye Chaorong entered the Imperial Academy and later failed the exam for two years. He was disheartened and became a county magistrate until the fourth year of Wanli... It was not that he finally passed the Jinshi, but that the court had a vacant position and was transferred to Jiangzhou Prefecture to be a different driver, that is, a magistrate, and was in charge of tax collection and other matters.

This is a fat man, but when his boss asked him for bribes, the old juren took the imperial examination all his life. Generally speaking, the sages could not be used by reading too much. Many people studied hard for ten years and became officials and embezzled, but Ye Chaorong studied hard for thirty years.

Even an ugly man brainwashed himself all day long and said that I was the most handsome, but after thirty years of washing, he still felt that he was handsome.

So Ye Chaorong did not give bribes or did things, and was worn for a long time. He had been doing a lot of hard work and worked hard. He was even more diligent. But once he got to the exam, he was a middle-class person. He was not allowed to be promoted or demoted. He was just consuming the position of not being able to take the position, and he wanted to see all his colleagues being promoted and exhausted to death.

Until the previous year, the corruption incident of his superiors caused the earthquake in the officialdom of Jiangxi, and many people were implicated. Those who were imprisoned were imprisoned for a time, those who were exiled were exiled, and those who were exiled were executed.

After all the people who should leave, the court discovered that there was an old man who was in the mid-asset assessment every year, and he was not stained with the mud. Last year, Yangli Prefecture, Guangxi was vacant and was promoted to Yangli Prefecture as the governor.

Being an official has a ceiling with status restrictions. Many times, he has no shadow of his ancestors, and is good at dancing. He has no time to compete for his abilities.

There is academic discrimination in all eras.

For example, they are all Jinshi, and the first-class Jinshi directly enters the Hanlin Academy, which is the imperial cabinet and the heart-to-work reserve team of the six ministers.

In addition to being the top ones who can pass the Jinshi internal selection and examination, the Jinshi, the Jinshi, also have the opportunity to enter the Hanlin Academy; the others basically rank down from the heads of the six ministries and officials according to their grades.

The most capable people in the Three Ages can try their luck and keep them as not so powerful departments in Beijing. Most of them can only choose outside. In the end, they are lucky and capable, and they can be the governor, the Secretary of Nanjing, and the most outstanding people have stopped at this step in the prefect.

As for the Juren, the recent example is that Hai Rui, who was not a member of the imperial edict, wrote a letter to Emperor Daojun and almost pointed at his nose to the swear word, "Jiajing, Jiajing, every family is clean." He can still keep his life. Governor Ying Tian exiled the two sons of Xu Jie. His career breakthroughs through layers of obstacles, which is almost more difficult than being the chief minister of the third-class Jinshi.

As for ordinary juren, it is already a dream for many people to retire in the position of magistrate, especially for older juren, who have the same education and abilities, it is definitely more welcome to young juniors and easier to seize opportunities.

Ye Chaorong became the governor.

Ye Chaorong went to Jiangxi to serve as an official in his early years. Ye Xianggao studied in his hometown, so Hu Liangpeng often took care of him, especially when Ye Xianggao was in high school. He brought back his younger brother Ye Xiangliang who followed his father to Jiangzhou Prefecture. He became the leader of his own family, and even Hu Daxiong helped him to arrange the marriage.

This is a good fate.

I remember that Huo Daxiong was a young general under Chen Mu's command back then, and Ye Chaorong was an old juren who had been unhappy for thirty years in the imperial examination. Daxiong was an in-service officer, and Ye Chaorong was also a fame and fortune-telling elder. His identity was not very different, so he fell in love with it at first sight.

This time, Hu Liangpeng knew that Ye Xianggao was going to Beijing to take the exam, and he happened to be escorting supplies to Beijing, so he asked Ye Xianggao to be a passenger on the steamboat once.

"You came back quite early, and I thought the fleet would wait for you two more days, so we set off early."

On the deck of the ship, Hu Liangpeng's body was always practicing martial arts. Although he hadn't fought in person for a long time, it did not change much. He was just a circle bigger than his former burly body, and he didn't sit on the chair. He just wore armor and sat cross-legged on the shiny deck, holding a long pipe in his hands.

The tobacco he had in his hand did not come from Asia. Chen Muming ordered the ban on many Asian companies from the business scope of merchant ships, east of Tierra Tierra and west of the Western Military Administration. All ships could not sail to the west coast of Asia without a ship license, especially tobacco.

This tobacco comes from Luzon.

Lou Qimai, who was stationed in Guangdong's coastal defense, sent Luzon vendors from Haojing to the Fujian Navy Admiral Huang Dexiang, Hu Liangpeng, and others from the training camp.

Over the years, Hu Liangpeng has almost watched Ye Xianggao grow from a child who once knew nothing to a juren today. The two are so close. For his age, giving birth to a child late and being a boy; Ye Xianggao gave birth early and being a girl, so the children of the two families are similar in age.

They even agreed to have a baby marriage in the next family and have become a family.

Hu Liangpeng patted his side, asked his followers to bring the short table and fruits, and asked, "Have you finished worship?"

"Yes, after worshiping, I have fulfilled a wish."

Ye Xianggao said and walked over. He took advantage of the opportunity of the ship docking at the Huai'an Mansion Ship Coal Station to pay special attention to Wu Chengen.

But there is a very interesting thing. In today's world, there are many people who know "Journey to the West" and fewer people who have read it, and very few people who know that this book is written by Wu Chengen.

"Brother, when I returned to the boat, I met a professor Huai'an on the shore. He took more than ten boy scholars to talk about the steamboat. I heard the old man say it very seriously, so I chatted a few words and learned that he wanted to take the boys on the boat to see it. I wonder if my brother can agree?"

“Back on the ship?”

Hu Liangpeng shook his head and followed Ye towards the direction of the master's finger. Sure enough, he saw an old man on the shore holding more than a dozen boys looking at him. He heard Ye Xianggao say next to him: "The old man is very serious, but he has never seen these things and does not understand them. He is told all by others..."

"You can't get on the boat. Your Majesty has ordered the steamship generals from all over the country that no one is allowed to wait for boarding. If your family and relatives need to take the boat, they can only be on the deck, so even if you want to go down the deck, it won't work."

Hu Liangpeng said, rubbed his face, looked at the shore with a little helplessness, and said, "But they are all students of His Majesty Wanli New Primary School. Hu refused to let them get on the boat. It would be too much for me to get off the boat and teach them a lesson, right?"
Chapter completed!