Chapter 2 first quarter

This year, Enming, the governor of Anhui Province and the son-in-law of Prince Qing Yikuang, received a letter of recommendation.The letter was written by his old superior, Mr. Yu Liansan, who was once the governor of Shanxi, recommending his cousin, a young man named Xu Xilin from Shanyin (now Shaoxing), Zhejiang. En Ming has always been a protégé to Yu Lian, and after reading the teacher's letter, he did not hesitate to arrange for Xu Xilin, who had obtained the status of a Taoist priest through "donation", a "hands-on" management position in the Wubei Academy. The so-called donation, to put it bluntly, is to spend money to buy an official to do it.Selling officials and nobles has never been new. It can be legalized and institutionalized by the government, and the only one that can be sold at a clearly marked price is the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty began to sell officials when Kangxi's conquest of Junggar was insufficient, in order to open up the government's financial resources, and it has continued since then.Is the price fair?Let’s take a look at the prices in the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu: 2073 taels for the doctor in the capital, 1728 taels for the master; One hundred thirty taels, one thousand four hundred and seventy-four taels for Tongzhi, nine hundred and ninety-nine taels for county magistrate, and two hundred and ten taels for county magistrate.At that time, one tael of silver was equivalent to about one hundred and seventy-eight yuan today. After conversion, it was not cheap.

People who spend a lot of money to buy officials, of course, did not come to serve the people. The first thing after taking office must be to recover the cost and make a lot of money.Of course, it is impossible to rely on salary, and the method must be to search for corruption. Wasn't the Qing court afraid that these officials who bought their power would ruin the country?not afraid.Li Hongzhang, an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, had a famous saying: "The easiest thing in the world is to be an official." Since anyone can do this job, then sell the job, and whoever pays will do it. There is the joy of making a lot of money.As for the fact that they will definitely search for bribes, the unfortunate thing is that the common people are not me; if you search for bribes, just search for bribes, as long as you don’t fight back, then everyone is still your own.

From the empress dowager Cixi at the top, to Enming, the governor of Anhui, and Yu Liansan, the old governor of Shanxi who wrote a recommendation letter for his cousin, none of them would have thought that those who were determined to revolutionize and tried to overthrow the Qing government would accept donations and enter the officialdom , and then launched a shocking blow! This young man who returned from Japan with a pair of myopia glasses on his delicate nose said to his comrade Qiu Jin and others before he took office in Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province: "Eighty years of the French Revolution." I don't know how much blood was shed during the battle. In the revolutionary stage of our country, we should not hesitate to bleed to irrigate the fruits of the revolution. I went to Anhui this time to prepare for the bloodshed. You must not think it miserable and shrink back good idea."

How could Enming know that the name Xu Xilin will be closely linked with his Enming's name in the future, and the historical story of "Xu Xilin stabbing Enming" will be passed down from generation to generation. Buy officials to enter the system in order to find opportunities to kill the system internally.Xu Xilin and several of his comrades are the most unique buy-and-run officials in history.