Some people may decide to give up their upward motivation and live a dull life when they are depressed; but there are more ambitious but temporarily deadlocked people, who do not forget to stick to their original intentions, know how to use opportunities to achieve reversal.
Sometimes, life is really full of surprises, people often say that they hope to meet a "noble" to live in their own development, but the premise is that you must first have a certain amount of real talent and practical learning, in order to wait for the noble to discover, and this "noble" needs to "remember" you at all times.
The protagonist of the story shared today, his later smooth steps can really be said to benefit from his own "unintentional willow insertion", but it is also due to the gratitude of the "willow". The protagonist of the story is called Wu Tang.
Wu Tang's background in life was during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, when he was a small county commander in Qinghe County, Huai'an Province, Jiangsu Province. He was honest and honest with officials on weekdays, always concerned about the safety of the people, and although he was a small official, he was quite loved by the people.
However, such a good county order that has won the hearts and minds of the people has never been promoted and reused, and he has been sitting in his small Qipin County Order position for several years.
This must start from his own characteristics as an official, and the trend of deception and embezzlement that began to prevail in the official field in the Qing Dynasty is still quietly spreading. However, Wu Tang was a man who was clear to the bone, and he firmly believed that the promotion of officials and wealth was based on his own real knowledge, so he never despised to be with the worldly people in the official field, so he was repeatedly excluded.
But it was the inadvertent act of his personal servant one day, but it laid the deepest foreshadowing for his future soaring.
It was a day that was no different from the past, wu Tang got up early and packed up, he began to lie down on the side of the case to deal with business, just at this time a servant came to play the report, saying that one of his former close friends had unfortunately passed away due to illness.
Ya Gong then reported that his friend's family decided to send him back to his hometown for burial, these days his second son is already on the road, then will pass through Qinghe County, because he learned that his father's money-saving friend Wu Tang was a county commander in Qinghe County, so he sent someone to tell Wu Tang, which is also the last time for Wu Tang to visit his friend.
Wu Tang was extremely sad to hear this, but there were too many things above the main hall, and he did not want to delay the people's important affairs because of private affairs, so he finally decided to send the servants who had served her for many years to bring 300 taels of silver to mourn.
On that day, before seeing the servant take 300 taels to the shore to visit, Wu Tang carefully and carefully instructed a few words, to the effect that he wanted to bring his deepest sorrow and apologies to his friends and relatives.
When the servant came to the dock, he saw that there were two groups of ships with funeral rites docked at the edge of the dock, and he could not tell which side was the family of his master's relatives and friends. At this time, a cry from a boat attracted the attention of the servants.
The servant approached the ship and inquired that they were mourning his father, and he concluded that this was Wu Tang's friend's family, because ya had said that his children were responsible for the funeral.
The owners of this cry were two young girls of good age, and the two of them took the name sticker handed by the servant, which read: Qinghe County Order Wu Tang to pay tribute. Then the servant handed over the 300 taels of silver, conveying Wu Tang's deep sorrow, and then turned and left.
The two women were very shocked to see this full 300 taels of silver, because although the father was an official to a deputy general when he was alive, but the human condition was very realistic, and the friends in the official field heard that their father had died, and not many people really came to visit, even if they came, most of them were only a few or a dozen silver to send them.
This 300 taels of silver is definitely a big relief for them now, because the family was not rich before, and the family's savings were almost spent after the father's affairs. This Wu Tang not only sent people to visit, but also sent a hundred taels of silver, presumably his father must have been a sincere friend with him when he was alive!
In the future, we must repay this father's friend well! The two daughters were very impressed.
The servant who returned to Wu Tang's mansion explained to Wu Tang what had just happened at the dock, and the more Wu Tang listened, the more wrong he became: When Ya Gong came to report that day, he clearly said that he was the son of a friend, so how could he have two daughters? I've never heard him mention it!
He quickly sent someone to inquire, and only then did he realize that there were exactly two mourning ships parked on the dock at that time, and the servant had sent the silver two by mistake. These 300 taels were not a small amount for a seven-pin sesame official like him, and he was deciding to send someone to get it back.
At this time, the master of the county court quickly stopped him: "I have heard that the girl on the boat is the daughter of a Manchurian official eunuch, and this time she is also going to participate in the draft, if she really soars in the future, they will definitely come to thank you!" ”
Wu Tang pondered for a moment, and then raised 300 taels of silver to personally go to the funeral ship of his friend on the shore to mourn. And turned to the boat to personally visit the sisters, the two sisters saw Wu Tang personally came to mourn, and buried the benefactor's face and name deep in their hearts.
Subsequently, Xingzhen, one of the two sisters who arrived in the capital, participated in the draft. Her beautiful appearance deeply impressed the Xianfeng Emperor and she was named Lan Guiren.
Wu Tang continued to stay in his county seat in Qinghe County, but he still worked diligently. Later, when he encountered the Taiping Army uprising, he went to the imperial court in time to apply for rescue and reinforcements, and at the same time led the militia raised by his own strength to fight heroically and defeated the Taiping Army, which also showed Wu Tang's bravery and resourcefulness.
In 1861, just when Wu Tang was still a little discouraged because he had never been used by the imperial court, he was suddenly promoted to the position of Jiangning Bujian and became a member of the Erpin Dynasty. At this point, he really turned on the acceleration button on the road to politics.
He was soon made the Governor of Jiangsu, and the following year he was appointed Viceroy of Liangguang, during which time he briefly served as viceroy of Liangjiang. Not long after his appointment, he was immediately transferred to the governorship of Fujian and Zhejiang, and added the title of Right Governor of the Inspectorate and Shangshu of the Bingbu.
In 1867, the sixth year of Tongzhi, Wu Tang was appointed governor of Sichuan, when he was only 36 years old and in his prime.
Counting Wu Tang's rapid rise in the past few years, this is extremely rare in the political situation in ancient history. It should be known that since he entered the career path in the 1849 examination, he has been unmotivated for more than ten years, until he made many military achievements later, and the imperial court only gave him a four-pin Daoist.
And now how did it suddenly start to soar? Of course, this must start from the 300 taels of silver that he mistakenly sent that year, because the eighteen-year-old young girl who was deeply grateful to Wu Tangzhi for his righteous deeds at that time was Cixi, who later gave birth to the Tongzhi Emperor!
So sometimes, it is really necessary to sigh where life is not born, the eighteen-year-old girl who was in trouble at that time mistakenly got Wu Tang's "help", and Wu Tang also happened to have the appreciation and sealing of Cixi, who was firmly on the throne of the Empress Dowager when he was depressed in the official field!