The sun is very good, and everything in the world is warm. The spring breeze with pink peach petals drifts gently in the sunlight and sprinkles on the green grass.

Xu Ping moved the chair, sat on the grass of the rear office of the lifting division, bathed in the sun, and looked at the two documents in his hand. Gao Daquan's road construction was relatively smooth, and the forces that could make trouble for him had been swept away, and behind him, the sugar cane department began to arrange new cane fields along the road. Zhang Rong had some twists and turns, occupying this family's land and digging that family's grave, and all kinds of excuses came out of the little barbarian chieftains, in short, it was not okay not to give money, and only after giving money could we discuss the road from them.

Although there is an example of Shangsizhou, no one there jumped out to oppose the new law, but they are not happy in their hearts, and everything is not going well when the promotion division is there.

At this time, appeasement and bribery cannot solve the problem, but forcible suppression is also easy to cause local instability, and at this sensitive time, Xu Ping does not want to have an accident at the junction with Jiaozhi, so he can't make up his mind for a while.

At this moment, a soldier came in and reported: "Official, there is a guest from outside the door, saying that he is from Kaifeng Mansion, and his accent is similar to that of an official, which should be true." Do you see it or not? ”

Xu Ping didn't look up: "It's rare to have someone from your hometown, let him come in." By the way, did you say what your name was? "Xu Ping is also a big player, and occasionally people from his hometown vote for him.

The soldier said: "It is called-Sang Yi!" ”

"Oh-" Xu Ping replied casually, suddenly remembered, and stood up suddenly, "Hurry up and lead the way, this is my old friend many years ago, I have to answer it in person!" ”

The soldier was taken aback, in the remote place of Yongzhou, there are not many people who can let Xu Ping personally welcome him out, just now I saw that person looked down, I didn't expect that he really had an old relationship with the promotion official, but fortunately he didn't slack off.

As the soldiers came out of the Yamen, Xu Ping saw Sang Yi standing with a horse, covered in dust, although his appearance had not changed much compared with a few years ago, the temperament of the whole person had a little more vicissitudes.

Quickly stepped forward and grabbed Sang Yi's shoulder, Xu Ping said in surprise: "Brother, why did you come here?" ”

Sang Yi shook his head and sighed: "I've been depressed in the past two years, and it's not interesting to stay in the north, so I came here to join you, and asked you to take Bo a future." ”

"The two of us, why would my brother say such a thing?" Xu Ping said as he took Sang Yi's hand, "Let's go, let's talk inside the yamen, but I have often thought of you all these years!" ”

The soldier came over and took the reins of Sangyi's horse and led him to the stable of the lifting division.

Sang Yi looked up at the tall gate of the Yamen of the Tiju Division, and sighed: "I didn't expect that in just a few years, you have struggled to this point in Yongzhou." ”

Xu Ping saw that Sang Yi's officialdom had been unsatisfactory in the past few years, so he didn't say much, and dragged him back to the yamen.

When I arrived at the flower hall, the soldiers came to serve tea, Xu Ping let me go, and asked Sang Yi: "Brother forgive me, I asked directly, you told me the truth, why did you suddenly come to me?" ”

"Alas, I still blame myself for being too awkward. Since a few years ago, I was appreciated by the nobles and made up for the Weinan County Lieutenant, and when my term expired last year, I was changed to the County Lieutenant of Shaanxi County. I didn't expect to change my body in the third class courtyard, but I was blackmailed by a small official, and I had to give him fifty taels of silver and bring me to the pavilion. What should I do with him? As a result, I waited in the capital for a few months, but I couldn't change it. In the end, I saw that there was a list of soldiers and horses in Yongzhou Zuojiang Province in the third class courtyard, and no one pointed at it, and I thought that brother you are here, so I simply didn't do it as the county lieutenant of Shaanxi County. Yongzhou is located in Lingnan, which one in the capital is willing to come? But there are no more twists and turns, and the third class has taken a complaint and come here to find you. ”

When Xu Ping heard this, he also sighed and comforted Sang Yi: "It's okay to come here, although the place is a little bitter, but it has been much better in the past few years." Besides, if you do the previous term here, it will be easy to be promoted in the future. ”

In the Song Dynasty, there were few officials and many officials, and most of the officials' tenures were not long, and many officials were not familiar with official affairs, and they had to rely on old officials to not have business trips, resulting in great authority for officials in some departments. When encountering difficulties for officials, officials are sometimes helpless, calling officialdom "the world of public men".

Officials are selected and appointed to the Tribunal, the officials of the Beijing Dynasty are returned to the Court of Judges, the people are selected to be returned to the Neiquan of Liu, the military ministers and the minor envoys are returned to the Sanban Yuan, and the ambassadors and ministers are returned to the Privy Council. Relatively speaking, the officials of the Inquisitor Court are the most restrained, because the people who come here don't know when they will be able to make a fortune, and the officials who cover the sky with one hand are flies that can be killed with one hand in front of middle and high-level civil officials. The officials of the third class court are the most arrogant, and a military attache of this level of the little envoy will not have much success in his life unless he is against the sky, of course, he can handle it casually.

Xu Ping was sent to Yongzhou back then, and he was scared back when he asked, that is, he had no experience, and in fact, he was really willing to spend money and may not be able to change the faction.

Sang Yi is just a small envoy in the military ranks, and the officials in the third class courtyard are not so easy to speak. If you find the right person and give enough money, then everything is easy to say, things are done quickly and well, and there are even unexpected benefits, such as the cabinet door that the handler promised, and he will be promoted quickly after bringing it. If you don't give enough money, then things will be difficult, Sang Yi is still good to wait for a few months, and there are many adults waiting in Bianliang City.

The low-level military attachés have a meager salary, there is no post allowance, and the prices in the capital are expensive, and the low-level officials who have fallen into waiting for election there will be poor in the first place, so some will beg for food on the streets, and some will even let their wives and daughters go out to lean on the door and laugh. Speaking of exaggeration, the people in the capital are not surprised.

If this kind of thing falls on you, it is really a no-brainer, so that the heavens should not be, and the earth is not spiritual. After checking up and down, all the officials who handled it were legal and compliant, and the third class court was not opened for anyone, and there were thousands of backlogs, so why should you do it first? In the end, it had to be stopped.

Xu Ping grew up in Bianliang City, of course these things were clear, and after listening to Sang Yi, he could only sigh.

Coming from afar, Sang Yi didn't want the atmosphere to be so dull because of himself, so he said to Xu Ping: "Don't talk about these frustrating things, I heard in the capital that your promotion has been smooth in the past few years, what is this official now?" ”

"This year, I just got promoted to Tuntian Yuanwailang, and I stepped on the ladder of Yuanwailang."

Sang Yi said with a smile: "Brother, you are a full man who doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry, you think that Tuntian Wailang is the beginning, and for many people, it is a position that cannot be climbed in a lifetime." ”

Xu Ping also smiled, he was just twenty-three years old this year, and he was already great on the road, and it would be a bit hypocritical to sigh that the road ahead was long.

Speaking of the position of Tuntian Wailang, Xu Ping still has an impression in his previous life, and even thinks it is quite majestic. When I learned Song Ci in the textbook, when I talked about Liu Yong, I said that he was the last official to be a member of Tuntian, and the world called Liu Tuntian.

When it was my turn in this world, I realized that this position had just begun on the road.

The middle-level civil officials of the Song Dynasty, from the outsider to the langzhong, were able to step out step by step, and since then the pheasant has become a phoenix, and he is a figure with a head and a face in the court.

There are only seven grades in the outside Lang, six grades in the Lang, and further five grades or more are high-ranking officials, there is no special reason, and the road Langzhong who is promoted by seniority is the end. But the journey of this foreigner and Langzhong is long and desperate. Even if it is an ordinary official, there must be one or two special promotions in this process, and one is promoted to the fifth rank, otherwise I am afraid that few people will be able to survive just by boiling up their qualifications.

From the outsider, the origin of the official is clearly distinguished, like Xu Ping, who has a background, to this step is to take the road of Tuntian-Duguan-staff, no background is the Yu Department-Bibu-Driving Department, and those who are born in miscellaneous streams or have committed corruption crimes are the Water Department-Simen-Treasury Department. As long as you ask the official, you will know what the future of this person is, even if it is the same level, people will look at it differently.

On this road, it is divided into left Cao and right Cao, left and right Cao, and more than a dozen official ranks.

A slightly good official, who has been promoted to a foreigner, has also reached middle age, and then he will not make any mistakes, and he will have gray hair when he takes this road, and it is time to think about retirement. Xu Ping is in his early twenties, and when he is lucky, he can hold his grandson when he gets to the end.

In fact, there are no people who go through every official rank at all, and they have to rely on special instructions to move out of the country. However, according to Xu Ping's current situation, Empress Dowager Liu is afraid that she will not give him this treatment.

There was a controversy in the court when he was promoted to Tuntian Wailang, because Xu Ping was also promoted by the cane sugar business, and according to the convention, such as the promotion of the money supervisor, these officials were promoted directly to Zuo Cao, and some people raised whether the sugar affairs with great interests also enjoyed this treatment, and the promotion from the ancestral hall member Wailang was finally rejected by the Queen Mother.

Xu Ping didn't take it to heart, his current official is far more than the Jinshi of the fifth year of Tiansheng, and the distance is too big if he overachieves it, and it is even more dazzling in the eyes of those who have a heart, and this is not bad now.

After talking about his current official position, Sang Yi asked about the current situation in Zuojiang Province, after all, he came here to be an inspector of Zuojiang Province, not a sightseeing tour.

Xu Ping introduced last year's Xing Kuo Ding Law and the incidents caused, and finally said: "Now most of the local officials in Zuojiang Province have been abolished, but for the imperial court, this is a new land, and I discussed with Feng Zhizhou to set up a new patrol officer in Zuojiang Province and Youjiang Province to suppress the locality. It's just right for you to come, the two of us know each other well, and it's easy to discuss a lot of things. Now Gao Daquan is leading people to repair the road to Qianlongtong, you might as well follow it in two days to have a look and understand the situation here. ”

Sang Yi nodded in agreement, he and Gao Daquan are also old acquaintances, and it is convenient to cooperate.

Xu Ping ordered to go down, and in the evening, he lifted the Sili to set up a feast to catch the wind for Sang Yi.

Sang Yi was able to come to Yongzhou, and Xu Ping was happy from the bottom of his heart. is not only the friendship between the two for so many years, but also because they have no worries with Sang Yi. Sang Yi's temperament is not enthusiastic, and there is always a feeling that the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, but this person is principled and treats people neither humbly nor arrogantly. Back then, Xu Ping was just an unsuccessful teenager from a rich family, and Sang Yi had never looked at him differently, and he treated him as a friend if he felt that he was compatible. Now for Sang Yi, Xu Ping is already high and is his top boss, and Sang Yi can still treat it calmly, which is really not something that ordinary people can do.