The next day, after getting off the morning court, he went to the Salt and Iron Division to deal with some official business, and Xu Ping, Liu Xin, and Guo Jian hurried to the regulations editing office. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Today is the day of formal training for the first batch of public officials transferred from Beijing and West Roads, and the chiefs of various divisions and subordinate field affairs are all watching with their eyes, waiting for Xu Ping to set out the charter so that they can choose someone to return to their yamen.

Suddenly, more than half of the manpower was missing, and the various yamen were busy these days and urgently needed manpower replenishment. Of course, the busyness is secondary, and what is even worse is that the remaining officials have been busy for a few days, and they find that the things they handle are not much different from before, and there is nothing that cannot be done and needs to be delayed, and the chief has no intention of increasing money and food. As soon as they put it together, they won't be able to reap half of the benefits if they continue to do this, and it may be possible that the court will not add more people in the eyes, so they slowly slack off, and more and more official affairs are delayed. The commanders had no choice but to find ways to replenish their manpower.

Walking to the road, Xu Ping said to Guo Zheng: "There have been a lot of new 'Jing Yu ingots' new coins in the smelting and foundry, including the black iron coins we talked about earlier. A few days ago, the book was set to be tried in Ru, Tang, and Deng Prefectures, and you need to go over and keep an eye on it in the past two months, and if there is anything wrong, you must correct it as soon as possible. A few years ago, Zhao Yan went to Ruzhou to serve as Zhizhou, he is an old man in the third division, and I have known each other for many years, so I can ask him for help with anything. ”

Guo Yu agreed.

Zhao Yan has served as a judge in the Third Division for more than four years, and recently finally took up a foreign post and went to Ruzhou to be the governor. After this governor, as long as he doesn't make any mistakes, he can return to the imperial court to take up important positions. The judges in the three divisions and the directors of the other miscellaneous divisions are waiting for such an opportunity, otherwise these messengers of the three divisions really have no future.

Zhao Yan and Xu Ping are in the same year, and they usually have a good relationship, so Guo Jian naturally knows this. With the help of such a magistrate, things will be much easier.

Xu Ping said: "You have a lot of things to do in the past six months, in addition to iron money, there is also the tea method." Fang Tianyan had already arrived in Xiangzhou, Jingxi Road, and in two or three months, the new tea there would come down. How to sell in the north of Jingxi Road, you have to spend more energy. This new tea method was proposed by our Salt and Iron Division, and it must not be messed up. ”

Although the Jingxi Road was only divided into two roads in the north and south for a short time during the time of Taizong, and soon merged again, there were always two official residences of the transfer envoys, the envoy was in Luoyang, Xijing, and the deputy envoy or judge was in Xiangzhou. In fact, it was still divided between the north and the south, but the distribution of money and grain on the whole road was arranged by the transshipment envoy. Because of this, Xiangzhou is the second largest state on Jingxi Road, and many branch offices are there.

Xu Ping said again: "Also, after the Qiaodao Xiang Army came, the book in the first half of the year was to let them build various bridges between Kaifeng and Luoyang. In Yongzhou, they are accustomed to steel and cement for building bridges and paving roads, and this is naturally the case when they arrive in the Central Plains. This month, the people of the Qiaodao Xiangjun are going to build a field in Chicang Town outside the city, and the pig iron used is all transported from Wuyang County. You go to see the new iron money, and by the way, go to Wuyang County to have a look, followed by the people of the Qiaodao Xiangjun, to see how their iron smelting yard is. ”

Wuyang County belongs to Xuzhou, and at this time there is already a drum smelting field, which is an industry under the management of the three divisions, and it belongs to Guo Zheng, and he went there to see the righteousness. Wuyang Iron Mine is quite good in the Central Plains, even in Xu Ping's previous life, it was also the most important steel base in the Central Plains together with Anyang. Anyang was Xiangzhou at this time, and the history of iron smelting was much older than that of Wuyang, and it was also the largest and most important iron smelting base in the Great Song Dynasty at this time. However, it is a little farther away from Fengfu, and there is no convenient Ru River - Cai River water transportation in Wuyang, so it is not the first choice.

The three of them talked as they walked and entered the yamen of the Ordinance Editing Office.

"Why are there so many people today? All the yamen are coming? As soon as he entered the door, Liu Xin was startled and couldn't help muttering.

Xu Ping looked up and saw that the main hall was full, and he knew that they were all here to ask about the manpower deployment of the newly recruited officials. The three divisions of this matter made Kou Ying leave it alone and handed it over to Xu Ping to deal with, and the other yamen were afraid that he would pretend to be public and private, so they gave priority to arranging people into the salt and iron division, and it was normal for people to keep an eye on it.

In terms of official position, the deputy envoy of salt and iron is the first deputy position in the three divisions, and Xu Ping is the second person in the three divisions under Kou Ying. Even though others have ideas in their hearts, no one openly doubts them.

Entering the main hall, a group of officials from the three divisions saluted Xu parallelly.

Seeing that Wang Weizhong, the deputy envoy of the household department, and Li Hong, the deputy envoy of the Duzhi, were also there, Xu Ping hurriedly said: "Why are the two deputy envoys free today?" ”

Listening to Xu Ping's words, Wang Weizhong couldn't help sighing: "It's not that we are free, but that the yamen is busy and crazy." With so many fewer people all at once, where can things still be done? If this continues, this year's "Leap Year" will not be completed. When it really comes to that point, the face of the three divisions will be lost! ”

Xu Ping sat down and said to Wang Weizhong: "At most, it will only take a month or two, and the manpower will be replenished." Usually, it was not long after noon that the officials in the yamen would go home, but now it is an extraordinary time, so let them suffer for an hour or two more. Each yamen wrote down the extra time each person stayed in, so that they could set up some money and food, and they would not be treated badly. ”

Wang Weizhong and Li Hong glanced at each other and did not speak again. Although the remaining officials did not make many fortunes, there were still many people who were well-off and worked for a little more money and food, and they were not necessarily happy.

At this time, the work and rest time was very different from Xu Ping's previous life, and the time to see things was very early, and they went home not long after noon. In fact, the work of the yamen is about the same as that of the old farmers who farm, going to bed early and getting up early. The officials all got up in the middle of the night in the court, talked about things in the hall in the early morning, and when it came to Xu Ping's work time in his previous life, the morning court dispersed. At this time, when they returned to the yamen, the petty officials had just finished sorting out the matters to be done that day, waiting for the officials to deal with them.

This damn schedule made Xu Ping very unaccustomed to it, every morning was a torture, and at noon, just when he got up, there was no one in the yamen. According to the habits of his previous life, Xu Ping always felt that it was not difficult to let officials work overtime, and it was a big deal to pay overtime. In fact, no one paid attention to Xu Ping's proposal, not to mention that many people have to use the afternoon to deal with personal matters, and it is difficult to meet the transportation in this era.

Kaifeng City is very large, but the most crowded inner city is not large, every inch of land is expensive, and non-dignitaries or local natives cannot afford to live at all. The lower-level officials and officials who do specific work cannot afford to live even more, they all live in the outer city, and some even live outside the city. If you go home a little later in the afternoon, the city gate may be closed, and you won't even be able to go home.

Xu Ping has always wanted to solve this problem, such as building a residential area for officials like in his previous life, gathering them as much as possible, and then providing shuttle buses to and from work. This thing is easy to think about, but it is difficult to do, and it is very difficult to find a large vacant land in Kaifeng City. There were many obstacles to the expansion of the palace, not to mention the construction of residences for officials.

Moreover, most of the industries of the dignitaries and magnates are concentrated in the rental of shops and houses, and the settlement of the treasury and the introduction of shops, according to Xu Ping's previous life, is the real estate industry and the financial industry. Taking the ground from their mouths, Xu Ping didn't have that much energy.

Most of what Xu Ping can do now is tinkering, which is both aggrieved and angry, and there are complaints everywhere. However, this is a necessary stage in officialdom, and it is also the time when people are tempered the most.

(In the past two days, Kavin, I know what to write below, but I always feel that the organization is not very good, readers forgive me, let me make a slight adjustment.) These two days have been introductory, and I feel anxious, but I can't help it. (To be continued.) )