There were many calligraphy and paintings hanging in the lobby of Mr. Li’s house. Judging from the signatures, it was given to the ancestors of the Li family by important officials in the court. Mr. Li sat in the lobby without looking at these things. He had to look at these things every day since he was a child, and he had no feeling at all. More importantly, the Li family was discussing things that were far more important than these false heads.

"...If this is the case, we can wait for two years. But what about two years later?"

"Only give food, or only give 50% of the food collected from the tenants. There is no way to explain this to the family."

"The money has been released, and you can charge 18% of the interest a year. It's okay to give everyone 10%."

...

Faced with the remarks of failure, Li Yuanwai looked calm, because he had no other choice because he was not calm. So far, he had not heard a word about the division of the family. This made Li Yuanwai quite satisfied with the degree of unity of the family.

"Honor of the family, what will happen in the future? After Wen Zhang left, the new Lu Feizhi did not change at all." Someone asked.

After hearing this somewhat sensible statement, Mr. Li said: "The officials and cadres are all corrupt. Since the court is pretending to investigate corruption, we should help the court. There are many people in our village who have worked in water conservancy, and many of them work in farms. We have to ask those people if they have seen any corruption. We can also report it to the court."

"Can the court and the government work together? Can it be done?" The elders of the clan have no confidence in this.

Mr. Li raised his head and swept over the signatures of several calligraphy and paintings. When he took back his gaze, Mr. Li said, "The current court is no longer a magistrate, but there are still a few gentlemen. They must be willing to expose the corruption. But they are too far from Jiangning, and I don't know how much those people in Jiangning can do whatever they want."

Now that I learned that there were still people in the clan in the court, many elders of the Li family showed joy, and they all responded: "I'll do it right away."

Taking advantage of this recognition momentum, Mr. Li continued to order: "All children in the family have to go to school in the city. If dozens of cadres in Jiangning City are our family members now, even if the government does not give us face, we will not know nothing about the government."

"The head of the family, the cadre is the minor official."

"Our family has produced several Jinshi, alas! If it weren't for some elders... our family would have been a hero." Recalling the seniors who abandoned their official positions and fled when Mongolian besieged Lin'an, Li Yuanwai felt very regretful. In hindsight, the Mongolians were not afraid at all. If they were willing to follow the small court to Fuzhou, it would not cost to become a hero.

Trying to get rid of such regrets, Mr. Li said: "Our family has been a prosperous family for generations, and they will never be poor in the children of those teachers. Look at what the cadres in Jiangning City are from now, most of them are soldiers. Even the prefect of Jiangning is now a military magistrate. The worst of our family can be a cadre, and better when they go to college, they can become officials. At that time, our family can return to their previous days."

As the opposite of the Li family, Li Yuanwai took Lu Feizhi as an example. After Lu Feizhi's grandfather committed a crime, he was sent to Fujian to join the army, and at that time he asked his son to join Zhao Jiaren. Since Lu Feizhi became the prefect, various news about him began to spread everywhere.

The elders of the Li family also nodded one after another. When it comes to Guan Rong in the past, they were all very proud. Then an elder said, "This requires a lot of money."

"It has to be done as much as possible. This is related to the future of the Li family." Mr. Li was very firm.

"If the Li family's children learn the same way as Duan Fengming, how should we deal with it?"

Duan Fengming's attitude towards the Duan family was a bad thing in the landlord family. When Mr. Li heard someone say this, he sighed, "If everyone doesn't want to do it, I will let my children go to study. Everyone can do whatever they want."

“…When will the children gather?”

"As soon as possible, the new semester will start in July. It's already March now. Children from the countryside must first discipline the city."

After the talk here, Mr. Li sent away his family. He returned to the study and took down a thick book from the bookshelf. He opened the bookmark and saw it:

"When I saw the Lamb unveil the first of the seven seals, I heard one of the four living creatures, and his voice was like thunder, saying, Come on.

I saw a white horse riding on the horse with a bow and a crown given to him. He came out and won and won again.

When the second seal was revealed, I heard the second living creature say, come on.

Then another horse came out, which was red. He had authority to give the horse rider, and could take peace from the ground and make people kill each other. Another big knife was given to him.

When the third seal was revealed, I heard the third living creature say, come on.

I watched and saw a dark horse riding on the horse holding a balance. I heard a voice among the four living creatures saying, "Buy one liter of wheat for one ounce of silver, and buy three liters of barley for one ounce of silver. Oil and wine should not be ruined."

When the fourth seal was unveiled, I heard the fourth living creature say, come on.

I watched and saw a miserable green horse. The one riding on the horse was named "Death". The underworld also followed him.

They have the authority to kill one quarter of the earth with swords, famines, plagues, wild animals."

...

After reading this, Mr. Li put down the Nestorian scriptures. He had many books in his family, and his family didn't care about the Nestorian scriptures he collected. When he was passing by, he saw a Mongolian army wearing a cross flag. Mr. Li remembered the badge on the cover of Nestorian scriptures he saw when he was a child.

When he got home, he read the scriptures, but he couldn't read anything. Recently, he liked to read the part about the Doomsday Judgment. Sometimes Mr. Li thought that it would be great if the Doomsday Judgment could really happen. As the top power of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guan Family would definitely be the first to bear the brunt.

No matter what Mr. Li thought, Zhao Jiaren, who is now at the top of the power of the Song Dynasty, is indeed facing many things first. The secretary of the General Office walked to Zhao Jiaren who was reading the official documents with a list and carefully placed them next to Zhao Jiaren's desk.

Zhao Jiaren rubbed his eyes and leaned on the chair, "What's the matter?"

"It's a memorial about Jiangning Prefecture." The secretary responded cautiously. The Zhao Guan Family is now the prime minister. It is impossible for the prime minister to fight alone. The Zhengshi Hall is the work unit of the Song Dynasty. In addition to ensuring the existence of the Zhengshi Hall, the Zhao Guan Family has also added a general office directly under the Zhao Guan Family. Although this general office is an aide organization, it has a lot of contents in charge.

"Are the keywords in the statistics list I gave you?" Zhao Jiaren continued to ask with his eyes closed.

"Yes." The secretary's voice became more cautious.

Zhao Jiaren opened his eyes and made a gesture to the list. The secretary quickly brought it to Zhao Jiaren. Zhao Jiaren picked up his glasses and put them on them. The words on the list immediately became very clear. Looking at the column "Family Origin" behind those names, he saw almost all the words "Jinshi". Zhao Jiaren put down the list, took off his glasses, closed his eyes and leaned on the chair again.

It is Zhao Jiaren's proud thing to maintain good eyesight for decades. Wearing glasses makes Zhao Jiaren feel that he is really old. Taking off his glasses only makes the fonts he sees a little blurry, and he can accept this level. It is very comfortable to sit on a human body function chair in the 21st century, and Zhao Jiaren is in a good mood. Recently, memorials and news about the corruption of local officials and cadres in Jiangning Prefecture flew in like snowflakes. The number exceeded Zhao Jiaren's expectations. Many people inside criticized Wen Zhang for his dereliction of duty, and after criticizing it, they questioned whether it was wrong to do this in Jiangning.

Most of the critics were Jinshi, and Zhao Jiaren felt that he could still accept it. If the criticism was initiated by various forces within the Song Dynasty court, Zhao Jiaren would be very troubled.

"Does the official have any instructions?"

"No."

"I'm going down."

"good."

The secretary walked out, stopped at the stairs and sighed, then took out a cigarette and lit it. After taking the "keyword" stipulated by the Zhao official family, the person in charge of the matter began to be uneasy. Since the officialdom of the Song Dynasty was obviously divided into "Corporate Certificate" and "Jinshi Certificate", especially when the official family used this to interpret the situation, it seemed very terrible.

After smoking the cigarette, the secretary finally made up his mind and walked downstairs quickly. When he got home in the evening, he changed his clothes and went to a restaurant. Since Zhao Jiaren was in power, the senior poet's doubts about when to stop singing and dancing in West Lake finally became a reality. The pleasure boat completely disappeared on West Lake.

No pleasure boats does not mean there is no entertainment venue. As the economy is active, the restaurants are becoming more and more active. The store where the secretary enters is a place that officials like to go, and the store owner is also an official, and the design is very popular among officials. If you want to be grand, you can walk on a spacious passage. If you want to talk about something, there are naturally other passages that will not be seen to lead to each private room. After entering, there are already people waiting, and the head of the secretary is Wen Tianxiang.

First, Wen Tianxiang's secretary spoke first, "Since you are all here, we are still the same rule. Don't inflate yourself like those people before, and finally you will be crushed to pieces."

"Yeah." Everyone who came had the same expression. They did a good job in the position of secretary, but in the end they made great achievements. Many people betrayed the news without authorization, even attacked them, and finally ruined their future. It depends on how to grasp it.

With a consensus, everyone started to eat, drink, chat casually. If there were outsiders, they would hear completely calm things, or listen to very interesting stories.

Someone asked, the personnel adjustments of the xx department recently were made. Someone said that it was similar to the legend.

Here, I asked xx to do business, and then said, "Go to find relevant units." Someone said, "I heard that xx belongs to oo."

If you don’t know the speaker’s meaning, you don’t know what the person who answers variously means. Even if you get a certain meaning right, you don’t know who the unnamed meaning means, and you won’t know anything in the end.

When it was about to disperse, the secretary here and Wen Tianxiang's secretary finally left. Wen Tianxiang's secretary heard the secretary of the General Office whisper: "The official family ordered people to collect all the memorials accusing Jiangning, and set up keywords of origin."

Hearing this, Wen Tianxiang's secretary was shocked. It would be too blatant to reveal the news like this.

"you mean?"

"I just admire Prime Minister Wen very much and have no other intentions."

“…Who wrote the memorial?”

"Most of them are Jinshi. There are old Jinshi and new Jinshi."

"Thank you."

"Go away."

When the secretary of the General Office was walking home, he felt like he had put down a big stone. His reason might sound ridiculous to others. The secretary knew that what he was saying was the truth. His grandfather was the same year as Wen Tianxiang, and he admired Wen Tianxiang's literary talent very much.

Wen Tianxiang learned the news that night. The Minister of Personnel of the Song Dynasty was not excited after hearing this. He sighed: "You are too brave."

"Shangshu, everyone admires you very much. Naturally, they don't want the Shangshu to be... harmed by others."

"Aren't it just some Jinshi? The officials and I have lived in the same three dynasties, and we have seen too many things like that. The officials just want to see if there are any changes in the Jinshi."

"Shangshu, I'm afraid that things in Jiangning will not be good this time."

"The official family has always been a person who moves forward. Not to mention the matters of Jiangning Mansion, even if they are in Jia Sidao's hands, they will not stagnate. If you have good or bad, you must understand it."

"Shangshu, even I know that many families who are from old cadres are trying to protect the future of their children." The secretary couldn't help but tell the truth. There were many people who asked him for advice during this period. The secretary admired Wen Tianxiang very much and was even more unwilling to joke about his future. Although he did not answer anything, he saw what kind of family was trying to protect his children.

"Do you think I will be law-abiding?"

"That's natural!" The secretary answered very simply. After saying that, he felt it was not enough and added, "Everyone in the court knows the character of the Shangshu."

"Since everyone knows, what are you still worried about? Just look at what they did. The people sent down have not yet come back from official documents, and after the investigation report is available, they will know what to do."

"Will it be too late to argue again?"

"No, no, no. In the past, the court only had a description of the ethics of officials, only the saying that officials should be honest and the errands must be done. What's going on with this errand? As in modern Chinese, the regulations are lyrical prose, not explanatory essays at all, and there is no logic in it. Now the officials are improving the system and clarifying the logical relationship. Wen Zhang has any responsibility, so he will bear some punishment. What I am afraid of now is that he will not do things according to the regulations. If he had been catching his beard and eyebrows in the past, he would really not see the mountain."
Chapter completed!