Before I knew it, it was noon, and Xu Ping was about to ask the family to prepare wine and dinner, when suddenly Xu Chang came in from outside and said, "Da Lang, a group of pavilion officials came outside, and they were brought by Yan Zhizhi, saying that they came to see your condition." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoDo you want to see it? ”

Xu Ping said: "I said that when I saw guests today, I naturally had to receive them." You go out and let them wait, and I'll come." ”

Seeing Xu Chang go out, Li Zhang said to Xu Ping: "You go to see the guest, I'll go to the backyard." I don't know these people well, so I don't have much to say, and I don't let others gossip. ”

Li Zhang is a foreign relative, and there are clear restrictions on his dealings with officials, that is, the so-called forbidden law. Although this law is sometimes loose and sometimes tight, because of the influence of the Empress Dowager Liu when she was in power, the emperor was strictly tried again after he took office. One of the most important is that it is forbidden to hand over guests privately, and it is especially forbidden to pay homage to the noble and powerful ministers in private. If there is something to do, I will go to the government hall and the Privy Council to talk about it, and I am not allowed to meet and talk in private.

The Xu family and the Li family are world friends, and others can't say anything when they go back and forth every day, but under the forbidden law, more things are better than less. Consciously avoiding people's eyes and ears also means that you are afraid, not unscrupulous.

Sending Li Zhang back to the back house, Xu Ping changed into official clothes, cleaned up neatly, and moved from the small flower hall to the front living room.

At this time, it is about to be ambushed, and the weather is already unbearably hot. In order to escape the heat, the verandah in front of the Xu family was deliberately widened to prevent direct light from coming in. And he brought water from a cool well under the ground, and flowed down from above, and the verandah was opened with a ditch to receive the water that flowed down. With this design, the living room is extremely cool.

Yan Su took a few young people to stand in the verandah and look left and right, and said: "Xu Zhizhi really knows how to live, even this living room is so comfortable, and I don't feel like a summer at all." ”

Cai Xiang said: "In the miasma of Lingnan, Yongzhou used to say that it would not return nine out of ten, and Xu Zhizhi had not done a good job there for two terms. He was unscathed, and these means are indispensable. There are many people who go to Yongzhou on Fujian Road, and I heard from my family that in the past two years, a lot of these tricks have been passed on, called Yongzhou New Style. ”

Zeng Gongliang nodded again and again: "Yes, Fujian Road has passed a lot of things back from Yongzhou in the past two years, and I heard that most of them are from Xu Zhi's ingenuity." According to my family, these things are pretty easy to use! ”

The Cai family and the Zeng family are both famous families in Fujian, and when it comes to these, they are more familiar than anyone else.

Xu Ping has been in Yongzhou for six years, and he has kept a lot of things there, and he has also gotten a lot, among which the qualifications he has earned are the most critical. Due to the influence of the grinding method, the emphasis on seniority in officialdom is ubiquitous. Roughly speaking, officials take the exam once a year, and in general, three exams are passed in general, and two exams are passed in Lingnan and Chuanxia. Xu Ping Yongzhou for six years, the first four years of the four examinations into the general judgment of two capital, and finally because of the right to know the state, although only one year, he reluctantly calculated the state of Zhizhou.

If it is an ordinary official, the general sentence is to transfer two funds to Zhizhou, and one capital of Zhizhou can be transferred to Dafan, and after the two capitals, it can be transferred to the prison. After the two capitals are raised, they can be transferred to the deputy envoy, and then the two can be appointed as the three-way transport envoy in the north, or as the Jianghuai shipping envoy, and then the deputy envoy of the three divisions. Xu Ping skipped the seniority of the envoy, the transfer envoy and the shipping envoy, and directly served as the deputy envoy of the third department, so even if his position has reached the level of waiting for the system, the deputy envoy of salt and iron still carries the word "power", and his qualifications are insufficient, so he cannot really become a regular officer. To get to this point, it is still the state that plays a key role.

Of course, officials whose real prospects are optimistic will not follow the path of ordinary officials. They generally have the two capitals of Zhizhou, and then they enter the pavilion to admonish Taiwan, and then the two systems of ministers enter Hanlin, which is a shortcut to the Qing Dynasty.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Although the first road is long, it is steady, basically every key position in the entire regime has been experienced, and the affairs are proficient, and those who go to the end are often capable officials for a while, the most typical is Ding Wei. Although the second road is fast, it is not familiar with the operation of the government, and when it comes to being in a high position, it is often difficult to be powerful. Most of the rulers are actually the second way, and at most they are only some positions mixed with the first way in the experience of the eunuchs. For example, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others all started from Taiwanese officials, and Lu Yijian couldn't help Xu Ping for this reason.

There are quite a few officials above the waiting list, but they are either old people in their seventies and eighties, or important magistrates in foreign offices, or important officials in the court, and very few of them really hold complicated ministry. Now in this position, there are only two people who are young and strong, and their status is not high, and they can do things.

Fan Zhongyan sentenced Guozijian to education, but according to Xu Ping's previous life, he was a member of the Central Committee in charge of ideology. Private scholarship, publishing, and of course, education, are all under his control.

Xu Ping, as the first-ranked deputy envoy in the three divisions, is actually in charge of finance. Although there are many things to do and few things to do, newcomers who have just squeezed into the decision-making circle are all treated like this.

The officials of the pavilion like to gather around Fan Zhongyan and Xu Ping, both of whom are newcomers, and they are relatively young and easy to talk is one aspect, and the other aspect is that Fan Zhongyan is in charge of their heads and thoughts, and Xu Ping is in charge of their money bags. Although the influence of these two people on their benevolent path is limited, it is closely related to their lives.

Some time ago, Xu Ping scrapped the expenditure and issued real money, which almost doubled the actual income of lower-level officials, which was an important reason why Xu Ping was supported by low-level officials. Although the actual delivery is a shopping coupon, the unspoken rule that the three stores give priority to those who use the shopping coupons makes the actual value of the shopping coupons above the denomination, which is more heartwarming.

Xu Ping came out from behind and bowed his hand to Yan Su: "Yan is waiting to come to the cold house, it is really brilliant!" ”

Yan Su returned the salute and laughed: "Although this is a commonly used saying, the word 'cold house' is not a taste when the word 'cold house' comes out of Xu Beizhi's mouth." If you are a humble house here, I am afraid that there is no decent place in the capital! ”

Everyone looked at the living room with bright windows, felt the cool breeze blowing on their bodies, and laughed together.

Xu Ping is not extravagant and luxurious here, there is no carved beams and paintings, there is no brocade and hanging colors, but it is clean and tidy, the decoration is extremely elegant and elegant, and people are comfortable inside, and there is another taste.

After a few polite words, everyone sat down, and Xu Ping instructed his subordinates to bring the cut watermelon up.

Let the subordinates take the plate and give it to everyone one by one, Xu Ping said: "Last year, Deputy Envoy Li sent an envoy to Khitan and brought watermelon seeds back, I took them and planted them in the nearby garden, this year's harvest is good, how about you taste it?" ”

This is a rarity, and the most important thing is to quench thirst, which is just right for this season. Everyone took a piece of melon in their hands, chewed it carefully, and were amazed. If you say that with the rarity of this melon now, a melon is sold consistently or even several times without worrying about sales, so if it is taken out to entertain guests, there is only Xu Ping, a rich family.

When everyone was eating melons, Xu Ping had time to take a closer look at the people who came today. There were too many people, and they didn't greet each one just now. Ouyang Xiu, Yin Zhu, Cai Xiang and Ye Qingchen and other pavilion officials not to mention, there are also a few young people in Beijing such as Fan Zhen. At the end, I found a character who was as gentle as jade, it was Duan Yunjie who was wearing men's clothes. (To be continued.) )