Han Gang arrived in Beijing and didn't take much time to settle down with the next family.

When he went to Xuande Gate to leave his name, he was informed that the imperial court had given him a mansion. Originally, Han Gang thought that he would stay in Chengnan Post for a few days before he could wait for the news of Kaifeng Mansion, but he didn't expect it to be so well arranged.

Therefore, on the day they arrived in the capital, Han Gang's family stayed in the mansion located in Xinlingfang, the first compartment of the Left Army in the old city. At this speed, Wang Yi was also surprised.

"When my father went to Beijing from Jiangning, he first let my brother go to Beijing to find a place to stay."

"Is it the one in the fourth year of Zhiping?" Han Gang asked.

"Which time else?" Wang Yi asked rhetorically, and said, "When my father asked my brother to find a house near Sima Twelvezhang's house, he said that it was good to be a neighbor." ”

"It seems that my father-in-law had a good relationship with Sima Jun back then."

"Well, Daddy used to praise Sima Twelvezhang's moral knowledge at home." Wang Yi's face was a little gloomy, "It's just because of the change of law that I turned against him...... Not only Sima Twelve, but most of the friends who were good friends with his father back then have parted ways. ”

"That's because my father-in-law persevered to the end." Han Gang was deeply touched, "Anyone who can achieve great things is a wise and brave person with a resolute character, and he will cross over without caring about any obstacles." ”

"The official is boasting." Wang Yi's expression changed and he smiled.

"It's not bragging. Could it be that the husband is inferior to the father-in-law in this matter? ”

Wang Yi snorted lightly, but he didn't deny it: "You and your father have a temper." ”

The topic was deviated, but it soon returned to the house in front of him.

Han Gang had previously thought of buying a piece of land in the capital to repair a house and get a house of his own. But after some consideration, I still think it's over. No one can say when he will be sent out of Beijing, and if he goes to work in other places, he will have to keep people to guard the houses he builds, wasting money and manpower. In fact, for this reason, except for those who decide to move their hometowns to the capital, few officials will buy property in Kaifeng.

It's not that Han Gang is short of people and money, but there is no need to be too conspicuous, and it is not a smart way to show off his wealth. Moreover, in the capital, every inch of land is expensive, and good land has long been occupied, and in terms of location and scale, the mansions that can be bought in Tokyo City today are far inferior to the official residences that Han Gang can get from the imperial court.

Just like Feng Congyi, he bought three properties in the capital, but the two largest in the city were only three large. The houses that can settle Hanoka's family are all in the Tianquanbo of the first box in the western part of Beijing outside the walls of Tokyo Castle. It is not directly under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, but is under the jurisdiction of Xiangfu County - only the area in Tokyo is directly managed by Kaifeng Prefecture, and the counties outside the city are under the management of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Feng Congyi's house, Han Gang lived in nothing, but it was too far away from the palace, and it would take an hour to talk about it when he went to court, and it was very troublesome for people to come and go around that house, so it was convenient to live in the official residence assigned in the city.

However, most of the official residences have passed through a lot of tenants, and they are dilapidated. The house when he was a herdsman in the same group was finally renovated, and Han Gang went to Hedong, which was cheaper for the people behind. This time, the mansion arranged by Kaifeng Mansion looks good at first glance, but there are also many places that need to be repaired.

Han Gang discussed with Wang Yi, and tomorrow he sent someone to Kaifeng Mansion to find the officials in charge of the repair of the official residence, and asked them to transfer some craftsmen to repair the damaged places.

The house where you live is still the end, and the important thing is to meet the Son of Heaven.

Han Gang's pilgrimage was set two days later, and he was not hung for many days like when he came back from Guangxi, but he was not impatient to enter the palace on the same day.

The attitude of the Son of Heaven largely determines how much space Han Gang can have in his upcoming position. Judging from the treatment this time, Zhao Ji, the emperor, still hopes that Han Gang can make certain achievements in office.

With two days to spare, Han Gang accepted the invitation of relatives and friends such as Wang Anli and Zhang Tun, but the officials and scholars who came to see him basically pushed it away. However, the officials in charge of the construction of the official residence in Kaifeng Mansion came to visit them with a light car.

The officials of Kaifeng Prefecture who came to the prefecture had several encounters when they were serving as officials in the counties and towns of the prefecture in Hangang. Han Gang saw the old love and met him. However, this official was also knowledgeable and knowledgeable, so he didn't dare to delay Han Gang's time longer, said a few flattering words, recalled the old things about Han Gang's tenure in Kaifeng Mansion, and got up to leave.

Han Gang sent him to the hall door, and the official turned around and asked Han Gang to stay, and asked, "I wonder what other instructions Duan Ming has on the wall?" ”

"Shine on the wall?" Han Gang was a little puzzled when he heard this.

"It is still the craftsmanship that Duan Ming taught when he was repairing the house of the herdsman, and used broken porcelain to spell out Wang Duwei's "Yanlan Qingxiao Tu". Nowadays, the mansions in Beijing have begun to use broken porcelain pieces to stitch patterns, but there are still many broken porcelain pieces. The broken porcelain in the various kilns in Gyeonggi was originally piled up, but after only two years of hard work, it was almost consumed, and there began to be porcelain kilns that specialized in firing various colored porcelain pieces to be used to puzzle the walls and walls. ”

Is this another industry, Han Gang wanted to laugh a little, he really missed the star on the wall now.

"Discarded things can also come in handy, as soon as Jingzhong talks about it, there are people who compare it to Tao Huan Gong when he is in Jin."

Han Gang thought for a moment and asked, "Tao Shixing?" ”

"Exactly."

Han Gang smiled, "That's really not daring." ”

Tao Kan, who is known as Tao Kan, is the great-ancestor of Tao Yuanming and a famous minister in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. If you are good at using soldiers, you will be able to get by. The wood chips left over from the shipbuilding are not lost, and they are taken out and sprinkled on the road surface to prevent slipping on heavy snowy days. Han Gang's use of broken porcelain is indeed similar to him.

It's just that now the folk customs are extravagant, and it is rumored that Han Gang is like Tao Kan outside, and there is not much kindness, and I think it is more to laugh at his small family spirit from a poor family. But this kind of sarcasm is just a breeze for Han Gang, after all, in the face of pox seeding, no kind of ridicule can become the mainstream.

Han Gang looked at the flattering smiling face in front of him, he didn't know what Lu Dao meant.

casually made a few requests against the wall, and the petty official of Kaifeng Mansion said goodbye and left. In order to get to the door of Han's house, it was not cheap for him to give a gift, which was a pair of transparent glass vases. However, the rules of the Han family were to refuse to accept it as usual, and after the others left, they only presented the list to Han Gang.

Transparent glass appeared at the end of the first year of Yuanfeng, when Han Gang was still serving as a herdsman in the same group, but at that time, transparent glass was still difficult to manufacture, and even if it had to rely on luck, it could not become a raw material for lenses. However, at that time, the principles and ingredients had been summarized almost completely, and the general supervisor and the ordnance supervisor saw that the dawn was coming, and at the same time increased investment, so at the end of the second year of Yuanfeng, a furnace with a regenerator and a small batch manufacturing could finally appear.

After only half a year's work, Han Gang didn't expect that in such a short time, transparent glass products would be put into the market. But think about it, after all, glass lenses need to be ground before they can be used. The ability of the lens grinder determines the demand for the original lenses, and the rest of the production capacity must be released for all kinds of objects. But glass can play a greater role in other directions than porcelain, and should not be placed on decorative vases.

Under the guidance of well-intentioned people, the speed of the diffusion of technology in this era is extremely fast, and perhaps in two years, flat glass will be used instead of window paper. The one-foot-square glass can't be made for a while, and the size of the palm will not have too many technical problems, and when the time comes, you can do a mosaic on the window, but the price must be a number that ordinary people can't afford for a while.

As a person with a heart, Han Gang is looking forward to greater progress in the technology of glass firing, and instruments such as test tube beakers are of great significance to chemistry, mirrors and lamps are also positions where glass can show its talents. He had already discussed with Feng Congyi that the glass workshop he was going to set up in Gongzhou would not bother with utensils, but would strive to develop new applications, namely mercury mirrors and oil lamps.

The things at home are settled, and the time has come to get into the right place.

Han Gang entered the Hajj and was arranged after the early dynasty. The Son of Heaven does not sit in the regular court, and officials who have real duties often do not need to waste time at ceremonial court meetings, but Han Gang, who has not yet officially taken office, still has to go to Wende Hall early in the morning.

In the shift shift, Han Gang was in front. Below stood a bunch of old guys with gray beards, no jobs, and empty collars. But when it comes to the importance of location, the sum of the three dispatches such as the Taichang Temple is not as good as that of a military envoy who guards the borderland, not to mention the Hanlin scholar who is the private of the Son of Heaven.

Under the guidance of Wang Qi, after bowing to the empty imperial couch, Han Gang went to the Chongzheng Hall to wait for the summons of the Son of Heaven.

Zhao Ji didn't plan to treat Han Gang too coldly. There are many obedient courtiers, but there are only a handful of obedient courtiers at the level of Wang Qi. In the same way, there are not many capable courtiers, but those who can reach the level of Han Gang are also rare.

When today's deliberations were over, the ministers of Zai Fu came out one by one, and he did not rest, and directly summoned Han Gang into the palace.

After Han Gang got up again, Zhao Ji gave him a seat and said, "Han Qing guarded Hedong and won great victories one after another. I can sit back and relax in Beijing, and Han Qing's strength is also. ”

"This is not the work of the ministers, but the blessing of His Majesty's holy virtue, and the soldiers use their lives."

After a few years of tossing, the atmosphere of getting along with kings and ministers no longer exists. The greetings between the monarch and the minister are like coping with a story, and this kind of dialogue makes people feel familiar. However, the atmosphere of getting along with the monarch and the minister was not the norm, and Han Gang had never thought about what he would get by relying on the emperor's favor.