Chapter 1796 Do your best

Therefore, in Zhao Desan's view, in order for Fang Qi to transfer to the formal establishment of Xijing Municipal Bureau earlier, he must do his best to help Qiu Qiming.

After thinking about this, Zhao Desan smiled and took the initiative to express his opinion: Brother Qiu, I will tell my cousin about your affairs as soon as possible.

Seeing Zhao Desan proactively expressing his opinion, Qiu Qiming felt warm in his heart, his face was filled with ecstasy expressions. He immediately picked up a glass of beer, raised it with a smile, and said: Come on, brother, I will toast you.

Zhao Desan picked up the wine glass and greeted it, "Hehe" said with a smile: Come on, Brother Qiu.

After the two of them finished drinking this beer, Qiu Qiming smiled at Zhao Desan and said: Brother, after the matter of brother is settled, Ah, brother will do his best to match you and Xiao Fang. What's going on?

Zhao Desan narrowed his eyes and smiled: Brother, you are talking nonsense, why are you matching us? Xiao Fang is the other Minister He's person, Ah, are you making me unable to get along with Minister He?

Qiu Qiming smiled with a vulgar smile and said: Minister He has too many women, so how can he have time to care about so much...

Zhao Desan looked at Qiu Qiming curiously and asked with a wicked smile: Who else is there except Xiao Fang?

Qiu Qiuming looked around vigilantly, and then smiled and said: You don’t know, brother tells you, there is also your district leader, District Mayor Wu.

Really Ah?Zhao Desan asked with a look of surprise.

Qiu Qiming nodded affirmatively and said: Minister He’s mother celebrated her birthday that day, didn’t you go there too?You didn't pay attention. Minister He and your District Mayor Wu and others sat at the same table. Minister He drank a little too much at the table. Guess what I saw?I saw Minister He reaching his hand on your District Mayor Wu’s thigh and touching it...

Minister He just drank too much, and he couldn't explain any problem.Zhao Desan tried his best to speak for Sister Wu in front of Qiu Qiming.

Qiu Qiming smiled and shook his head and said: It must be like that if you don’t drink too much, your District Mayor Wu didn’t respond at all. This doesn’t mean that there is a relationship between Minister He and your District Mayor Wu.As he spoke, Qiu Qiming looked at Zhao Desan with a vulgar smile.

Zhao Desan didn't want to continue to extend this matter with Qiu Qiming, so he seemed a little taboo: OK, brother, let's not talk about the leader's affairs, unless we don't want to do it anymore.

Qiu Qiming quickly said with a smile: Yes, yes, I won’t talk about the leader anymore, I won’t talk about it anymore.After a pause, Qiu Qiming brought the topic back to his own affairs and asked Zhao Desan with a smirk: By the way, Xiao Zhao, do you think I should express it to Minister Su?

After hearing Qiu Qiming say this, Zhao Desan knew that Sister Su would not accept other people's things under normal circumstances, but this time he was a matchmaker. If Qiu Qiming didn't say it was not appropriate, he slightly contemplated and thought about it. Zhao Desan asked Qiu Qiming with interest: Brother Qiu, then how do you want to express Ah?

Qiu Qiming said with a smile: Medical skills are important in treating drugs, and he said he must give his preferences. Do you know what Minister Su has in his daily life?

It's indeed an old world. From Qiu Qiming's very philosophical words, Zhao Desan could tell that he was indeed an old man. At a glance, he knew that he had already put a lot of effort into the promotion to the deputy bureau.

After years of experience in the officialdom, Zhao Desan has summarized two things that must be mastered in interpersonal communication in the officialdom. First, drinking is drinking. In the officialdom, drinking is a science. Many things, as long as you can drink and know how to drink, will be solved at the table; second, giving gifts, giving gifts is an activity that has been the most frequent exchanges between officials in the officialdom since ancient times.

Giving gifts is an important part of the ancient officialdom. It can bring closer feelings to officials and facilitate government affairs.

But the problem facing many people is: How to give gifts?

If you give it to me, you can be happy. If you do something well, if you give it to me, you will not only return in vain, but may even be completely opposite and harm others and yourself.

How can I send it to you safely and effectively?

Therefore, many people just don’t know how to deliver gifts to officials.

In the ancient officialdom, giving gifts was an art.Since it is art, it cannot be explained clearly in lines like science, using concepts and formulas. There are many contents that can only be understood but not expressed in words.

First of all, giving money and gifts to officials directly is the most direct and simple way, but the effect is also difficult to predict.

Strictly speaking, it is the crime scene: the person who gave the gift bribes, the person who received the gift received the bribes, and the person who received the gift was also stolen.

Therefore, the most direct way to give gifts is too dangerous, neither safe nor guaranteed.

For officials, the most realistic choice is to refuse righteously and scold the gift giver: Who do you think of me?Take it away quickly, I will be out of the mud without any stain!If you are a little more humorous, you can say: Please send the gift to the government.As a result, the gift giver became a tainted witness to officials' integrity, and a gift giver became a case of refusal to corruption.

There was a joke in the Ming Dynasty, saying that the magistrate celebrated his birthday.

The magistrate is a rat, and a small official lost all his money and cast a golden rat to the magistrate.

The magistrate accepted it with a smile and then reminded him: Zhujing's birthday next month, she is a ox.If a gift giver encounters such a top-notch official, he will probably collapse.

Therefore, giving gifts in the officialdom is not a transaction. You can’t be so direct.

Fortunately, officials have some hobbies, like to be artful and give gifts to their preferences. Because they are hidden, they are safe, and can often better play a role in enhancing emotions.

Prince Qing Wang Yiheng and Zai Zhen, who were powerful in the late Qing Dynasty, became famous for their greed.

Due to the strict anti-corruption system and active public opinion supervision, the gift-giving gift-giving people are not afraid to be too much, and Wang Yiheng and his son are not inconvenient to make money directly.

So Zaizhen came up with the idea of ​​opening a high-end club.

At that time, the "Crooked Opera (Mahjong)" was very popular in the Beijing-Tianjin generation. Wang Yiheng and Zaizhen and his son formed yards in Tianjin and Beijing one after another, and after decoration, they were used as a "climbing" place.

After the visitor, the guest and the host will naturally have to have some entertainment and sit together to play mahjong.

Zai Zhen’s mahjong chips are very high, 3,000 taels per game.

Most of the people come and seek official positions, so it is normal to lose thousands or tens of thousands of taels at a time.

Wang Yiheng and his son decided to sell official positions based on how much money the guests lost.

Public opinion calls it "Qingji Company".

Later, the business was so prosperous that Zaizhen couldn't come out to socialize guests every time. There were guests who played by themselves, Zaizhen took money. Fortunately, the guests were drunk and the intention was not to drink, and they were satisfied as long as they lost money. This gift was also given.

Calligraphy, painting and antiques were another hobby of ancient officials. Many officials liked to collect antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and a group of gold and stone experts and calligraphy and painting connoisseurs emerged.

Duan Fang, the ambassador of the late Qing Dynasty, was an expert in gold and stone. He also published monographs "The Book of Jijinlu" and "The Book of Jijinlu" that studied antiques of gold and stone, which can be regarded as a work.

He had a good reputation in the late Qing Dynasty and had the reputation of integrity.

When others give him gifts directly, he would ask for gifts and gifts to the court to show that he was very honest.

However, Duan Fang likes to study calligraphy, painting and antiques. When someone comes to him for "appreciation", he enthusiastically discusses and appreciates them all, so he stays at Duan Fang's home for him to slowly appreciate them.

There were quite a few such "painting, painting, antique controls" like Duan Fang in the late Qing Dynasty.

Because there are too many treasures collected, there are many behind-the-scenes owners of antique shops on the Liulichang Street in the background. They are senior officials, such as Duanfang, and the front bosses of the nobles are either their relatives, their slaves and confidants.

The "elegant" senior officials placed their antiques, calligraphy and paintings at home in Liulichang to sell. In order to improve their performance, they often inadvertently "disclose" to the people who ask for their services, what a certain antique or a certain calligraphy and painting is good.

Sometimes, they simply raise the work of a certain author in a high-profile manner.

Those who were interested in asking them to do their jobs would naturally go to the market to find relevant calligraphy, painting and antiques, and found that they were in the shop opened by the person.

Therefore, it is understandable if you see a certain antique coming and going back and forth in and out of the mansion of a high-ranking official.

Giving calligraphy, painting and antiques seems to be very expensive, but it is not.

Although the proportion of scholars among ancient officials was very high, there were very few people who were truly proficient in literature and history and knew antiques, calligraphy and painting, and most of them were just art of elegance.

This is not to mention those high-ranking officials and nobles who have entered their careers through messy channels.

Duan Fang is actually a sensual and elegant person. After his death, people found many fakes and many unremarkable collections in his collection.

It is said that Duan Fang's judgment of antique calligraphy and paintings relies entirely on his subordinates who are not very clear about them. The standard of judgment is to rely on the boast of gift givers, but to look at the reputation of the author of calligraphy and painting.

Needless to say, Duan Fang's monograph on epigraphy is also likely to be a ghostwriting work.

As long as officials like Duanfang believe that the gift is valuable, the purpose of the gift giver will be achieved.

Gift givers can find fakes or defective products to make up for the numbers, which reduces the cost of gift giving.

Whether it is to dedicate to their preferences or to send calligraphy, paintings and antiques, there is a gift of words, which cannot completely eliminate the traces of interest transfer. They are not like legal and upright people from labor.

So, how can we establish labor relations with officials?

The most common way is to ask officials to write inscriptions and write articles, and then give officials a considerable pen to moisten them.

Runbi income was an important source of income for officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere of buying calligraphy and articles from officials gradually formed in society. The people asked officials and subordinate officials for writing and writing to superior officials if they had any problems.

The officials agreed with great affection but reluctantly, and after writing, they half-received the pen.

Later, the officials did not ask about the character or reason of the writer's writing, but only cared about how much the pen was.

In the end, it turned into officials' inscriptions and articles that had to be paid for, and there was nothing for free.

By the Qing Dynasty, this trend became more and more prosperous, and the expenses for pens became higher and higher, becoming a semi-legal income in the officialdom, accounting for the majority of the income of some officials. Until now, some officials in the officialdom still like to publish some so-called monographs to earn a legal reward.

It is said that when Zhang Zhidong was still the governor of Huguang, he once had the idea of ​​running the pen because he lacked money to build a modern cause.

A rich man had a very poor reputation during his lifetime. In order to whitewash his father's life and to bleach his father's malice, he urgently wanted Zhang Zhidong to come forward to write an epitaph for his father.

There is a positive attitude of a top parent official, who dares to say bad things about his father?

Zhang Zhidong really wrote it.

He was a high school student in the imperial examination and was born in a Hanlin school. It was naturally no problem to write articles that praise merits, but the cost of writing is not low.

A word of money is worth a thousand taels, Zhang Zhidong made a stern slap in the rich at a price of one thousand taels. However, the good side of Zhang Zhidong was to spend the expenses on modern careers and not put them into his own pocket. The bad side was to ignore the object and write articles regardless of facts.