Chapter 1262 Li You's Visit
Although Chen Xu now has a younger brother and two younger sisters, only Xing'er is the real blood relative of his compatriots. Han Xin and Xiaomi both picked it up. Although Chen Xu was not too distant, he really felt that he could not get close to him.
When my sister gets married, she naturally needs to prepare her dowry. When the dynasty is the Grand Tutor and the Left Prime Minister, the money in the mansion is naturally piled up into a mountain. Chen Xu is not stingy at all. He is piled up in the warehouse and cannot be used up. He ordered the carts to pull out the carts. The water is gentle. Ying Shiman and Meng Wan's three sisters-in-law have a deep relationship with Xing'er, so they are naturally not stingy. They each prepared a lot of clothes, silk, gold, jade, jewelry and other clothes they had accumulated on weekdays. Each of them also gave a large cart, and there were many gifts temporarily sent by relatives and friends such as Meng Yun, Chen Ping, Liu Bang, and Hu Kuan. In this team of returning home to visit relatives, there were more than twenty cars just for gifts. The value could not be calculated, and at least millions of dollars were said to be.
Because Fan Caiying was busy at the critical moment of the Tantu Plan, the Huaxia Money House stayed at the Huaxia Money House to take charge of the overall situation, and also took care of the two big houses in the Hou Mansion. Fan Caiwei also had to take charge of Qinghe Shopping Mall and help keep the business of Qinghe Park, so she also stayed in Xianyang.
But even so, Chen Xu's three genuine wives, spring, summer, autumn and winter, four concubines, as well as the maids and servants in charge, as well as officials sent by the Ministry of Rites, several carriages of gifts, and the imperial guards protected by the accompanying guards. The entire team was as large as thousands, with more than fifty carriages and thousands of horses.
Therefore, before the team set off, the entire Qinghe Villa was already yelling at the yard, monkeys jumping up and down in the yard, two giant pandas also joined in the fun and rolled around, and several big dogs guarding the house kept barking at the outside of the yard.
Although Chen Xu didn't need to make arrangements by himself, he felt that his head was about to explode when he saw this messy scene. In the end, the busy water was arranged to go to the lounge chair in the backyard to cool off. The newly recruited little maids also followed the four maids in spring, summer, autumn and winter to learn how to take care of the care of serving tea, water, and pounding their legs and shoulders.
There are too many people going out like this, and Chen Xu feels tired, far less free and convenient than Yu Wuya and his wife going out.
Just as Chen Xu closed his eyes and enjoyed the awkward massage of a group of young maids and thought about things, the doorman manager came to report, and the Customs Office Chief Li You came to visit.
"Well, please go to the study!" Chen Xu turned over and sat up. The four maids in Chunxia, Qiudong quickly helped to tidy up their clothes. Shortly after Chen Xu came to the study and sat down, Li You came in under the leadership of the manager.
After a while of greetings and greetings, the maid left the study after serving tea. Chen Xu then smiled and said, "Li Shucheng had just arrived in Xianyang, and may not be used to life in Xianyang. He was originally aware of many things or had reminders, but seeing that Li Shucheng was busy every day, he delayed it!"
"The Zuo Gong forgives his crime. Li You should have visited him earlier, but it is indeed as Zuo Gong said. He is very unfamiliar with Xianyang's living habits and the service style of the office. The Shanghai Customs Administration has just begun to prepare for many things. Li You doesn't understand much and asks some colleagues for advice on daily life, so he came many days late. Please don't be surprised!"
Li You was in his forties and dressed in a simple and elegant manner, which was somewhat similar to Li Si, especially his two thick sword eyebrows, which were exactly the same. Even the movements of sitting down to drink tea could be vaguely seen.
Although Li You is twice as old as Chen Xu, the status and status of the two are now very different, so Li You has been very careful and respectful since entering the study.
When Li Si was there, the Li Prime Minister's Mansion was as noisy as the Qinghe Marquis Mansion today. The carriages and horses were as crowded as guests every day, but times changed. Since Li Si's death, the former lively Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion was instantly deserted in front of the door, and it was soon forgotten by the crowd in a corner of Xianyang City.
Li You returned to the capital to work and lived in the old prime minister's mansion, but the mansion was deserted and deserted without the luxury and noisy of the past.
Li You still remembered that he moved to Xianyang with his father and was taught by his father since he was a child to be a virtuous minister with a lofty eyes and assist the king. He also watched his father come from a retainer and a minor official in the palace of Lu, and finally step by step to the power center of the Qin Dynasty, and he was granted the title of Shangqing as the left prime minister, and was above ten thousand people. He upholds the court to implement laws and creates a generation of powerful ministers who respect and fear in the world.
Under the halo of his father, he directly recommended to be the magistrate of Sanchuan County and stationed in the eastern capital Luoyang.
Sanchuan County is close to Xianyang, and Luoyang can also be regarded as the last gateway to Guanzhong in the Central Plains. Hangu Pass is under his control and handed over such an important position to Li Youmushou, which shows the favor and trust of the First Emperor in Li Si's family.
A few years ago, Li You had returned to Xianyang. Li Si put wine at home. All officials and chiefs lived in front of him, and there were thousands of carriages in the house. Li Si said with deep emotion: "No one who is a minister now has higher rank than me, I can be called extremely wealth and honor."
Unfortunately, in thirty years, Hebei and in thirty years, there were no dynasties that lasted forever, nor did it last forever.
Li Si died of illness, and the extremely wealthy Li Mansion collapsed, and instantly became sparse and neglected. The target of the ministers and civil and military officials and ministers flattered Chen Xu of Qinghe Hou.
Li You never linked his father's death to anyone. After all, he was almost seventy years old, and it was extremely normal for him to die of illness and old age. Therefore, after Li Si's death, Li You didn't think too much about it. He transported Li Si's coffin back to his hometown to have a grand funeral, and then continued to return to Luoyang to be his Sanchuan County Magistrate.
Moreover, without his father's help in the court, Li You thought he could only be a county magistrate in his life, but he did not expect that a decree would be passed on to the Sanchuan County Magistrate's Office. The First Emperor wanted to transfer him to Xianyang to become the newly prepared customs chief.
The county magistrate is the third rank, and the chief rank is also the third rank, but the status and weight of the two third ranks are completely different, and the rights are even more different.
Li You was stunned when he received this order. He stayed for a long time and received the imperial edict at the reminder of the official who had passed the order in the Secretariat. Then he found out that the person who recommended him was the Marquis of Qinghe.
Li You was even more confused because of this.
He knew that his father had a bad relationship with the Hou Qinghe. The two of them were ministers in the same palace, but they had met tit-for-tat in the court several times, and Li Si had almost never won much. Under the aggressive oppression of Hou Qinghe, Li Si could only stop and retreat, trying to fight as much as possible, and the result of this retreat and retreat was that Chen Xu took the lead step by step and slowly took control of many initiatives. After Li Si's death, Chen Xu ascended the center of the court and took up the position of left prime minister, occupied Li Si's position and began to make drastic reforms. Over the years, almost changed the Qin laws formulated by Li Si and a group of Legal predecessors. In this process, Hou Qinghe's reputation became more and more powerful and powerful. In today's court, almost no one dared to fight with him.
Li You was at a loss and did not dare to set off in Sanchuan County. He arranged for his servants and servants to go to Xianyang to secretly inquire about the situation with some family forces. Finally, he confirmed that Chen Xu had no intention of harming him. Moreover, under the urging of one order after another from the Ministry of Personnel, he could only come to Xianyang with a confused look on his face.
Then... the office environment and methods of Xianyang are completely different from those of Luoyang. The office efficiency here is extremely high. A memorial was very limited in the approval time of the three provinces and six ministries. It cannot be delayed or shirked for no reason. The Customs Office, which he was in charge, is a new department. On the first day of reporting from the Ministry of Personnel, the Secretariat issued an order personally issued by the Hou of Qinghe, requiring that all office places, rules and regulations, officials, subordinate yamen, and seal officials must be planned within half a month. So a group of officials of the Secretariat and the Inner History Office come and go as busy as ducks. Li You could only follow these officials in a hurry and stay busy. Most of the time, he didn't know what he should do. He could only follow the arrangements of some officials in service. Many things were still confused.
After half a month of busy life, the Customs Administration finally prepared to complete the listing ceremony. Just as Li You breathed a sigh of relief, he thought he could finish his business quietly every day, and then he invited a large group of famous scholars and sages to gather in the mansion to have tea, banquets, dances and talk about the wind and moon, on the first day he officially went to court, Chen Xu submitted a memorial to officially start the implementation of the smooth road plan.
This huge plan is not unfamiliar to Li You, because on the day he received the order to be transferred to the Customs Office, he had learned about this unprecedented plan through the mouth of the official who sent the order. The envoy also told him that the Customs Office was born because of this plan, and he also nominated His Majesty himself to agree with it.
In this four billion investment plan, the role of the Customs Office is at the core. Therefore, Chen Xu attached great importance to it. He had met Li You twice while busy, but he did not discuss it too much. He just ordered Li You to send Customs Office officials to Langya to prepare for the first yamen, preparing to manage the merchant ships between North Korea and Yingzhou, which was to accumulate experience for large-scale overseas expansion in the future, and Li You could only do it quickly.
The Tantu project was soon implemented with the support of the emperor.
The three provinces and six ministries also held joint meetings several times to unify and coordinate. Li You attended each meeting as the head of an important department, but he was basically listening. He was very unfamiliar with this joint office quarrels and loud voices. Anyway, after several quarrels, all the work will be arranged quickly. The entire Xianyang department is not divided into size and officials are not divided into high or low, and they are all busy with this huge project. It was not until two days ago that Xianyang began to slowly calm down. At the same time, a news came out from the palace. The left prime minister Chen Xu was preparing to take leave and go back to his hometown to visit relatives because his sister was going to get married, and it took at least two or three months to go there.
Chapter completed!