And for servants with some skills, the price will rise a lot.
For example, a gardener's salary is more than fifty taels of silver.
Both the accountant and the butler cost more than a hundred taels of silver. Like the accountants sold in some noble mansions, the butler's price is higher.
Cooks generally earn more than 120 taels.
Wu Ding, who possesses martial arts skills, will calculate the price based on his strength. A cheap one may cost more than thirty taels of silver, while an expensive one may cost one or two hundred taels.
But no matter how expensive a servant is, the price is not as expensive as his house.
With a cook, Fang Xiaoyue invited Baojia from this street, and the neighbors had a meal in the outer courtyard to celebrate her move to a new home.
Logically speaking, the house where he lives should also hire or buy a concierge, a bookkeeper or a housekeeper, and a gardener.
But the concierge, Fang Xiaoyue, was ready to wait for someone from Kuangluo County to choose one.
Accountants and housekeepers are not needed for the time being. After all, there are only seven people in the entire Fang Mansion, including Fang Xiaoyue.
Fang Xiaoyue temporarily handed over the money in and out of the Fang Mansion to Cheng Xiaoyue. He put five hundred taels of silver notes with Cheng Xiaoyue to use for the entire Fang Mansion's expenses, whether it was buying food for the kitchen or purchasing clothing, cloth, firewood, etc.
out of this money.
After all this struggle, Fang Mansion finally managed to return to the right path.
At least Fang Xiaoyue can eat steaming meals every day, and has someone to fetch water and wash her face when she wakes up. It feels pretty good.
During the Lantern Festival, Fang Xiaoyue took a group of people from Fang Mansion out to experience the excitement of the Lantern Festival in Beijing.
However, as soon as the Lantern Festival was over, the government offices in various places immediately opened their printing offices, and Fang Xiaoyue took her official credentials and walked to the Hanlin Academy to report.
Compared with other government agencies in Beijing, the Hanlin Academy can be regarded as noble.
The so-called noble means to be noble and noble.
To put it more clearly, one has a leisurely job and a noble status.
Fang Xiaoyue fully felt this after entering the Hanlin Academy.
The gatekeeper heard that the No. 1 scholar was coming and hurried in to report.
Not long after, a sixth-grade editor wearing the same official robe as Fang Xiaoyue welcomed him in.
While chatting on the road, Fang Xiaoyue learned that the editor was Li Yingcong, his previous top pick.
This Li Yingcong first took him to see the boss of the Hanlin Academy - Hanlin bachelor Feng Ru'an, who was in the fifth rank.
Feng Ru'an is a handsome man in his forties with a fair complexion and a long beard.
He encouraged Fang Xiaoyue gently.
Afterwards, Feng Ru'an took him to see the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Lectures.
In the establishment of the Hanlin Academy, there is one Hanlin bachelor, two associate bachelors, and two associate lecturers. All four of them are from the fifth rank.
After that, there were two attendants and two attendants each (the sixth grade). However, these four people did not have independent offices. They all shared the same hall with the editors, editors and other officials.
Therefore, there was no need for Feng Ru'an to bring Fang Xiaoyue to visit alone. After arriving at the public hall, more than a dozen officials surrounded him.
After exchanging greetings and greetings, Fang Xiaoyue almost understood about 30% to 40% of the situation in the Hanlin Academy.
To put it simply, in addition to the attendants who read and lecture, there are four editors and seven editors.
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Among them, except for Fang Xiaoyue and Feng Ruan, who were directly canonized by the number one scholar, the other two editors were promoted from editors.
The seven editors are the top picks and second place winners in previous years.
Of course, these No. 2 picks are not all No. 2 picks.
It is said that the Imperial Academy is a place where nobles are noble and can be promoted quickly, so it is a place for prime ministers.
But in fact, many editors may not have the chance to be promoted even if they stay in the Hanlin Academy for seven or eight years.
Therefore, after many editors have been in the Hanlin Academy for several years and no longer see hope, they will apply to be transferred from the Hanlin Academy and go to various ministries or even work in other places.
The advantage of this is that if you are transferred from the Hanlin Academy to various ministries, you will be promoted to a rank and become a subordinate.
Sixth grade.
And if he is transferred to another place, he will be promoted from the third rank to the fifth rank.
But in this way, it will be much more difficult to join the cabinet and become a prime minister, because officials such as the Minister of Rites of Daze Kingdom and the Yushi of Zuodu are the first choices to join the cabinet.
Most of the positions such as Minister of Rites and Yushi of Zuodu were promoted from Hanlin bachelors or Hanlin attendants or lecturers.
Governors and governors from other places may not have opportunities, but compared to the Hanlin Academy, the opportunities will be much less.
In addition to these officials, there are other officials in the Hanlin Academy who are Doctors of the Five Classics (eighth rank), Classics Confucius (eighth rank), Shi Shu (shishu), Ninth rank, Waiting for imperial edicts (Nineth rank), etc.
However, Doctor of the Five Classics is a fictitious position in the Hanlin Academy. It is usually inherited by the descendants of those Confucian sages, and they only receive a salary and do not come to work.
Officials such as Classics, Shishu, and Waiting are responsible for managing various books and accounts of the Hanlin Academy. They are generally promoted from officials such as Kong Mu and so on.
After laughing and chatting with many seniors until her facial muscles almost stiffened, Fang Xiaoyue finally came to sit down at her desk.
At this time, the main mission: the scientific examination was settled.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the main mission: Scientific Examination! Does the host resolve this main mission? If it does not resolve this main mission, the branch mission will be forced to start. In the end, the main mission will be combined with the branch mission to calculate the reward."
Fang Xiaoyue thought about it and finally chose not to settle the main task.
After all, he had made a lot of preparations after coming to this world this time. It would seem a bit disadvantageous to settle the main mission like this.
If branch tasks can be opened and rewards are finally combined and calculated, the reward quality will undoubtedly be much higher.
After all, as far as the main mission completed now is concerned, it is not difficult at all for Fang Xiaoyue, so the rewards after settlement must be very small.
As Fang Xiaoyue refused to settle the main mission, a new branch mission was immediately opened: "Ding, congratulations to the host for opening branch mission one: I don't want to be a prince-in-law. Opening branch mission two: Immortality Card. Opening branch mission three: Promoting to an official rank."
The dice opened three branch tasks for him in one go, which was something he didn't expect.
As Fang Xiaoyue checked all three branch tasks, she roughly had some understanding of the contents of the branch tasks.
To put it simply, the tasks in these three branches have different levels of difficulty.
The simplest is branch task three: promotion to official rank.
As long as Fang Xiaoyue raises her official rank to the sixth rank, this branch task will be completed.
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In fact, as long as Fang Xiaoyue is willing to give up her future and apply for transfer from the Hanlin Academy, this branch of the task can be completed immediately.
And even if Fang Xiaoyue has been in the Imperial Academy for three to five years as the top scholar in the Imperial Examination, this branch of the task will have been completed.
In this aspect, the No. 1 pick is much better than the No. 2 pick and No. 3 pick.
The second branch of task: Immortality Card is a little more difficult.
One hundred households need to take the initiative to set up longevity tablets for Fang Xiaoyue at home.
The Immortality Card is actually rarely seen in Daze Country. Only those who have made great contributions and made the people extremely grateful can receive this treatment.
Fang Xiaoyue must not induce or force people in any way to set up longevity tablets for themselves.
To be honest, this task seems a bit difficult, but in fact, upon analysis, Fang Xiaoyue found that this task is really difficult.
As the saying goes, people's hearts are separated from their belly.
Many times, when you do good deeds and others appreciate you, it is just a verbal expression of gratitude, and at most they give you some gifts.
Fang Xiaoyue remembered that in the Daze National Calendar that she had read, there were many records of officials benefiting the people for the official side. However, in most of these records, when the officials left office, the common people rushed to send them Umbrellas.
Commend this official's merits.
But there are almost no such things as erecting longevity plaques for officials.
Fang Xiaoyue didn’t know those ten thousand
Whether the civilian umbrella is faked by officials or something, we can see how difficult it is to get the people to take the initiative to set up a longevity plaque for you.
After all, if you set up the Immortality Tablet, you need to worship it regularly as if you are worshiping gods, and light incense oil lamps in front of the Immortality Tablet, etc. This is a big expense for most people.
When it comes to these issues, ordinary people will still consider money.
As for the branch task: I don’t want to be a prince-in-law, it is a very real problem for Fang Xiaoyue.
Because since the dice gave this branch task, in reality, it is very likely that within a short period of time, I will be attracted by a princess for various reasons, and then be granted marriage by the emperor and become the consort!
Of course, becoming a prince-in-law is definitely a beautiful thing for most people in Daze Country.
First of all, the royal family of Daze Kingdom has been inherited for more than two hundred years. As generations of beauties have entered the palace and the royal bloodline has been optimized, those princes and princesses are actually not ugly.
Take the current Holy Emperor as an example. When he was young, he was a famous handsome prince in the capital.
Even though he is older now, he is still a handsome man.
It can be seen from this that the princesses are definitely beautiful beauties.
No one will refuse a beautiful woman to be his wife.
What's more, the official position of Prince Consort Commandery itself belongs to the nobility.
In Daze Kingdom, the Prince Consort is a nobleman who is above the count and below the duke.
Being a consort will enjoy many privileges.
For example, except for the serious crime of treason, if the prince-in-law commits a crime, the yamen at all levels are not allowed to investigate and punish the crime, but can only report it to the court.
For minor crimes, the clan leader would convene a meeting with the royal relatives in Beijing to discuss punishment, while for serious crimes, princes from various places would need to be invited to Beijing to discuss punishment.
From here, we can see that becoming a prince-in-law is like being possessed by a gold medal to avoid death.
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It's a simple matter. The prince-in-law is the husband of the princess and he is also a member of the royal family. If he commits an ordinary crime, will the royal relatives have the nerve to punish him? If he is punished, it will be a disgrace to the princess and a disgrace to the princess.
Wouldn't it be a disgrace to His Majesty the Emperor's face?
As for committing a serious crime, as long as it is not a serious crime of treason, the serious crime can be reduced, and the penalty of beheading can be changed to imprisonment, etc.
In fact, in the more than two hundred years of history of Daze Kingdom, the Prince Consort did not have a good reputation.
Since the princess is the daughter of the emperor, most of them have been arrogant since childhood. Even if they marry the prince-in-law, they will not live in the prince-son-in-law's mansion. Instead, the emperor will decree to build a separate princess mansion.
The princess lives in the princess's mansion, and the prince-in-law lives in the prince-consort's mansion. When the princess wants to see her husband-in-law, she sends someone to summon her. But when she doesn't want to see her, the prince-in-law can't even enter the princess's mansion.
Not to mention letting the princess serve her parents-in-law and take care of the housework like a folk woman.
Of course, after becoming the consort, even a poor family will not lack money for servants, so this aspect is not a big deal.
But the princess is still a woman, and most of the emperors of the Daze Kingdom are reluctant to let the royal blood flow out. Therefore, under these circumstances, the relationship between the princess and the prince-in-law is hardly harmonious, and even fewer children are born.
And the most unacceptable thing is that after becoming the Prince Consort, you can no longer be an official, nor can you interfere in the affairs of the court!
Because you are a relative!
From ancient times to the present, there have been many incidents of relatives interfering in politics, so emperors of all dynasties would not allow their prince-in-law to become an official.
If the prince-in-law wants to hand over the minister secretly, he will easily be charged with treason!
In short, even if there is no such branch task, Fang Xiaoyue is not willing to be a consort.
To put it bluntly, in his mind, the Prince Consort was just a worm waiting to die.
And if Fang Xiaoyue becomes the Prince Consort, not only will the first branch mission fail, but the second and third branch missions will also become difficult to complete.
Especially the third branch task: promotion to official rank.
After becoming the Prince Consort, it is impossible to serve in the Sixth Ministry, let alone to become a local official.
Officer, how to get promoted?
As for the second branch of the task, Fang Xiaoyue can only use more money to do good things for the people.
But if you, a foreign relative, do these things and fall into the eyes of the emperor, what will the emperor think?
Are relatives trying to win over people’s hearts? Have evil intentions?
Therefore, Fang Xiaoyue must complete this first branch task. Otherwise, it would be better to finish the main task before and change to the next world or plane.
After sitting at his desk and thinking for a while, Fang Xiaoyue asked Kong Mu, who was in charge of the office hall, to take him to the Collection Pavilion of the Hanlin Academy.
To put it bluntly, this collection pavilion is the library of the Hanlin Academy.
There are a large number of books collected here, including works, exegesis, history books, etc. by literary sages, great Confucians, and famous Confucian scholars of all dynasties. In addition, there are also various miscellaneous books collected from various places.
However, after Fang Xiaoyue came to the collection pavilion, she did not read any scriptures or history books at the first time.
Instead, I started reading the Yanfu Dadian compiled by the second emperor of Daze Kingdom.
This blessing ceremony is a collection of various scriptures, histories, chapters, and collections, involving astronomy and geography, yin and yang medicine, divination, interpretation of Tibetan Taoist scriptures, drama, crafts, agriculture, etc., gathering the birth of Daze Kingdom for more than two thousand years.
knowledge.
There are more than 8,800 volumes in total, of which 45 are the catalog alone.
When the Yanfu Dadian was compiled, there were more than 300 editors. However, because there were too many books involved, Emperor Yanfu ordered the expansion of the compiler team, and at one time the compiler staff reached more than 2,700 people.
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It took three years to compile the final draft. Emperor Yanfu personally wrote the preface and named it "Yanfu Dadian". Later, because the palace and the Ministry of Rites each needed to keep a copy, it took more than a year for him to copy it.