Because there is no court meeting in Chang'an, the officials go to court a quarter of an hour later than the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Southern Tang Dynasty is a quarter of a minute to the court, that is, half past six o'clock, and Chang'an is the right time, seven o'clock on time, the court and work are the same thing, not allowed to be late, you can ask for leave in advance if you have something at home, or explain the situation to your boss later.

Guo Song's carriage was usually parked in front of the official room, and he got off the car directly and walked into the official room.

Although his official room is called a room, it is actually a group of buildings, and there are more than 100 people under his subordinates who are engaged in various military and staff activities, dealing with the huge and complicated military and political affairs of the Tang and Jin Kingdoms.

Guo Song's official room is divided into the left and right outer rooms and the inner room, after Guo Song walked into the official room, the left and right two lobbies are two outer rooms, each has more than 40 people, one side is the main army, one side is in charge, into the middle hall courtyard, the left and right are still two halls, the left is the library, and the right is the inner room, the number of people in the inner room is small, only a dozen people, they mainly deal with military and political affairs involving secrets.

Passing through the middle courtyard, the inner courtyard is inside, which is actually a small garden, surrounded by five or six rooms, which is Guo Song's own official room, which has the main hall, the council hall, the rest room, the map room and so on.

Guo Song walked into the main hall of the official house, sat down in front of the wide and heavy table, he sat on a wide and comfortable official chair, also called the brocade chair, from the time of Hexi, to now it has become popular all over the world, almost all officials sit on the brocade chair, and even the study of large families is also equipped with brocade chairs, no matter the family, the restaurant outside and other places, the high-legged seat has gradually become the mainstream.

At present, there are three people in Guo Song's office to join the army, the earliest is Zhang Baoyi, who is now the counselor of the counselor's building, and the second is Du Siye, who is now serving as the governor of Shang and has gone to the local government to hone his training.

Then there is Wen Miao, Lu Lun, and one more person was added last month, Wei Lun, transferred from Baihutang, at present, these three people are all children of famous families, and they are talented, Wei Lun has experience in local government, and he has the courage to send a thousand trough ships from Chenliu County to Taiyuan.

As soon as Guo Song sat down, the tea boy brought hot tea, and Wen Miao put a stack of documents on the table, and at the top of the documents was a compiled table of contents and abstracts, from which Guo Song could select the documents of interest according to his own concerns.

"Has the plan for the imperial examination been prepared?" Guo Song asked.

"Your Royal Highness, the preparation has not been completed yet, and the humble post was urged yesterday, mainly to confirm the inns, temples and other accommodations on the spot, everyone is running outside, and there are many details that need to be confirmed one by one, so it is not so fast."

This pragmatic style is what Guo Song has always advocated, rather be slow, but also be down-to-earth, not behind closed doors, patting his head and thinking of a plan.

Guo Song nodded, "Just let them hurry up, no need to urge, in addition, Puzhou Yanchi wants to increase production, this matter cannot be delayed, ask the Counsellor Hall to go all out, I want to see results next month." ”

Puzhou is today's Yuncheng area, where there are also several large salt lakes, which used to belong to the military salt ponds, which were used by the army and were mined and dried by the army.

However, due to the remote location of the salt pond in Yanzhou, it is still very inconvenient, and the output has not been able to rise, and the east brine pond in Fengxian County is facing depletion, so Guo Song made a decision to divide the three major salt lakes in Puzhou into two, assign two salt lakes to the Salt and Iron Administration, and leave the other salt lake for the military.

"Remember the lowly position, and then arrange it."

At this time, Guo Song suddenly remembered something and asked, "Is your father still in Chang'an?" ”

Wen Miao's father, Wen Ji, also returned from Chengdu, and the couple are currently living in their son's house.

Wen Miao hurriedly said: "My father is still in Chang'an, and he may return to Taiyuan in a few days to worship his ancestors." ”

"Worship the ancestors for the New Year! It's only October, and it's a little too early to worship ancestors. Guo Song said with a smile.

Wen Miao scratched his head, "Actually, it's not to worship the ancestors, but to arrange various preparations for the ancestors, after all, he is the head of the family, and he can't keep it alone." ”

Guo Song nodded, "Bring him to see me tomorrow morning, I want to talk to him." ”

"Go home and tell your father."

Wen Miao retired, and Guo Song took the document and carefully reviewed it.

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Xi'anmen Street has become an Internet celebrity check-in place in the Tang Dynasty, even Wen Ji is the third time to come here, the first time is to visit Xi'anmen Street at night with his wife after dinner, of course, this is also because the son's official residence is very close to here, his son Wen Miao is a doctor in the middle of the five products, and there is an official residence of three acres of land in Andingfang, which is close to the entrance of Xi'anmen Street.

Although the official residence of the Zhengliupin official is also three acres of land, it is not an independent official residence, but a townhouse official house.

Today, Wen Ji accompanied Pei Zhen to see the store, Pei Zhen's store was naturally transferred to him by Xue Xun, as a famous family in the world, the Pei family needs to set up a family property in Chang'an and even the most prosperous place in the world, which is not just to make money, but a kind of logo, a sense of existence in the mainstream of society.

The Wen family also has a shop, but it is located on West Second Road, and it was his son Wen Miao who transferred it to the Wen family after getting a place, speaking of which, the Pei family also has a similar store, located on East Third Road, which is Pei Xin's quota, but the Pei family is a family in the world, and they want a store along the river to play out the brand of Wenxi Pei.

Pei Zhen transferred the riverside shop from Xue Xun is very good, relatively close to the south, because Xi'anmen Street is ten miles long, it takes twenty miles to walk around, ordinary people can't go so far, most of them are concentrated in the southern region, so the recognized good location must meet two conditions, one is located in the southern region, it is best to be located in the middle of the south, and the second is located along the river, east and west.

Pei Zhen this area meets these two conditions, belongs to the prime location, of course, the best location is close to the new Guanghuamen Square, Xue Xun also has a shop is located in the southeast of the new Guanghua Gate, the side is the Xinguang Huamen, erect a big sign, the whole square can be seen, belongs to the landmark nature, recognized as the best location of the shop, is currently rented by Taibai Restaurant, the annual rent of 5,000 yuan.

Pei Zhen opened the door with the key, and there was a large open space inside, surrounded by a high wall, Wen Ji looked at it, and said in surprise: "Brother Pei, why haven't you built a house here, I see that other places have built a two-story simple house even if they don't rent it, and this is actually empty land?" ”

Pei Zhen smiled slightly: "This is called a large shop, which is specially built for big shops, so it is all empty land, and the kind of shop that the virtuous brother said is a unified shop, which is eight points of land, so two floors are built." ”

"I see, there don't seem to be many large plots like this!"

"It's really not much, a total of 1,200 shops, there are less than 40 large shop plots, almost forty percent of them are the corners of Xisan Road, used to open a brothel in Qinglou, and there are only 20 large shop plots along the river, thanks to filial piety and generosity, I can be very happy to get this land."

Hearing that this land was transferred from Xue Xun, Wen Ji smiled, he originally wanted to ask the price, but now he won't ask more.

The two then came to the Pearl Restaurant not far away for lunch, they really didn't know that this restaurant was a restaurant opened by Guo Song's eldest sister, and now there was still an hour before the flower boat parade, the time was still early, and there were not many guests in the restaurant, so the two of them found a window position on the second floor and sat down, asked for a pot of authentic Meishou wine, and ordered a few side dishes.

Today, Pei Zhen invited Wen Ji to come and see the shop together, the real purpose is to touch the bottom of the Wang family, the five major families in Hedong, Pei, Wang, Xue, Wen, Wu, and the ones who can really compete for the position of Xiangguo are still Pei and Wang.

The Wang family and the Wen family have a close relationship, and the Pei family and the Wen family are also good, Pei Zhen believes that Wen Ji knows the situation of the Wang family very well.

Pei Zhen poured him a full glass of wine and asked with a smile: "What a coincidence!" happened to encounter a vacant phase, and everyone wondered if the virtuous brother came back with a smell? ”

"Nonsense!"

Wen Ji's face sank and said: "I didn't know about this matter before, but I only found out a few days ago that everyone was ridiculing Xue Changshou for having a son in his old age, so I didn't know that there was this Tao in it." ”

"I'm just kidding, Xue Changshou's resignation happened after you returned to Chang'an, of course my resignation from Nantang has something to do with this, but how could you think of resigning from Nantang?" Pei Zhen asked curiously.

Wen Ji sighed, "It's not because I offended the eunuch party, I wrote to the Queen Mother three times to ask for tax reduction, the tax is too heavy, the people of Bashu are not happy, a bucket of salt is sold for 1,300 Wen, or Bashu's own well salt, as well as tea and wine tax, shelf tax, household tax, commercial tax, especially commercial tax, from other places into Bashu to levy the first tax, into Chengdu to levy the second tax, and then the shop to sit on the business tax, in fact, is to levy three taxes.

But the blackest thing is the salt tax, the well salt mine is sold to salt merchants for 310 wen per bucket, why does it become 1,300 wen per bucket when it comes to the people? Who are these intermediate salt merchants, I wrote to the Queen Mother three times, asking the government to set up a monopoly salt shop, directly bypassing the salt merchants, and selling them to the people according to 310 Wen. ”

Pei Zhen smiled: "This suggestion offends people!" ”

"It's offended people, it's ruthlessly offended the eunuchs, in fact, I know that all the big and small salt merchants are eunuchs, but they hate them for exploiting the people, and the result is an order, transfer me to Yunnan Taishou, I have to resign and return to my hometown to retire."

"It is a wise move for the virtuous brother to come back, and he will definitely be reused by His Royal Highness the King of Jin."

Wen Ji sighed, "It doesn't matter if I am an official or not, I just hope that the local governments can treat the people well, and I hope that various government decrees will take into account the suffering of the people." ”

Pei Zhen held the wine glass and muttered: "It is said that this time the new Xiangguo may be selected from among the officials from Hedong, does Ling Lang know?" ”