As soon as Li Yan walked into the staff department, an official with the sharpest eyes greeted him with great enthusiasm.
"Lu Lingshi!"
Li Yan remembered this person. When he first entered Chang'an and was newly appointed Zhenwu Colonel, when he came to the Ministry of Personnel to report, it was this person who handled the matter.
But at that time, Lu Lingshi was doing it for Pei Xingjian's sake.
Now that Li Yuanfang's name has spread throughout the country and abroad, she no longer relies on others' care, but has become a network that everyone is competing for.
Lu Ling rushed to meet him.
Use it cooked instead of raw. The two of them came to the workstation together. Lu Lingshi served tea: "Li Jiyi, please use tea. Do you need me to inform Mr. Pei?"
Li Yan took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said with a smile: "I'm just here for a small matter, so there's no need to trouble Mr. Pei."
Now that Li Jingxuan is in a desperate state, Pei Xingjian, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, finally lives up to his reputation.
I believe he very much hopes to make changes and get rid of Li Jingxuan's nepotism.
Lu Lingshi was even more excited: "Please give Li Jiyi's instructions. As long as I can do it, I promise to complete it immediately."
Li Yan asked: "Has the list of scholars in Jinke come out?"
Lu Lingshi nodded: "Jinshi subjects and Mingjing subjects have been decided, but the other subjects have not yet been announced."
Those subjects were things that my grandma didn’t care about and my uncle didn’t like them. Nowadays, the focus of the imperial examination is Jinshi and Mingjing.
The Ministry of Rites was responsible for the imperial examinations, but the Ministry of Civil Affairs would intervene. For example, the Ministry of Civil Affairs Yuan Wailang often served as the examiner of the imperial examinations.
Although the examiners of this era did not have a teacher-student relationship with the candidates as in later generations, they still had considerable power.
It is not unreasonable for the Ministry of Personnel to be the first of the six departments.
Li Yandao: "Give me a list of scholars from today's subjects, and then help me compile a list of scholars from other states who have failed the exam many times in the past five subjects."
Lu Lingshi's heart skipped a beat. This was quite a workload, but at this time, the greater the workload, the more capable he was. He stood up quickly and said, "Please wait a moment!"
Li Yan watched his back full of energy and summoned officials to check files together. He recalled that when he wanted to promote Di Renjie, he had to take out the prince's "Yaoshan Jade Color" to get the list of county captains...
Looking at it this way, the progress is quite rapid, and all the hard work has not been in vain.
After dozens of officials sorted it out, a long list was placed in front of them less than half an hour later.
Li Yan's eyes darkened slightly: "There are so many people in just five subjects?"
Lu Lingshi had estimated the number of people when he just counted: "There are more than five hundred people. Li Jiyi, please take a look. In addition to household registration and state tribute, I also recorded how many times they took the exam."
Li Yan nodded: "I'm determined!"
He looked down quickly, and with an almost photographic memory, he picked out the names one by one in an instant.
Suddenly, his eyes stopped on a person's name: "Su Weiwei from Zhaozhou also took the exam twice?"
Lu Lingshi immediately said: "Yes, he failed the exam in the first year of Xianheng."
When he was in Liangzhou Academy, Li Yan, who had not adjusted his attributes at that time, once discussed with his classmate Kang Da that there were fifty-four Jinshi in the first year of Xianheng, and there were only three places for elites from all states in the world.
There is no sour taste in it.
But Li Yan was a little strange. He knew the taste of Su because the famous Su Shi naturally paid more attention to Su Shi's ancestors.
Then why did Lu Lingshi, a capital official who always looked down on people from outside the state, suddenly tell us that Su Weili had failed?
His eyes moved: "Why is Lu Lingshi so familiar with this person?"
Lu Lingshi intended to close the relationship: "First, it's Su Caizi Jinke High School. Second, Li Jiyi is not an outsider, and I won't hide it from you. Only after the list was finalized yesterday did the news come out that Pei Shilang wanted to recruit
Su Caizi is my son-in-law."
Li Yan understood.
Historically, Su Weiwei was indeed Pei Xingjian's son-in-law. Obviously, this relationship was not a hasty decision.
But Pei Xingjian did not reveal the information to the public until he confirmed the high school of his son-in-law, so as not to affect the examiner's judgment beforehand. He was indeed a fair man.
Li Yan's eyes flickered, he looked at the list again, and quickly picked out a familiar name.
One, two, three...
Ten! Twenty! Thirty!
finally.
The thirty-five scholars from other states involved in the scholar poisoning case were all listed above, and they were basically from Jiangnan Road and Huainan Road.
Li Yan nodded slightly, only selecting in his mind without actually writing it down, and then looked at the list of scholars in Jinke.
After a moment, he raised his eyebrows slightly: "This selection of soldiers is very fair!"
Lu Lingshi immediately said: "Actually, our official department has always been fair in selecting and deposing officials, but Li Shilang has always... Hey, Li Jiyi must also understand that this time, Shilang Pei will supervise him, which immediately swept away the trend of decline.
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The current trend in the court is that if you don't say a few bad words about Li Jingxuan, it seems to be politically incorrect.
Li Yan was noncommittal. He verified the first thing and then asked: "Six years ago, all officials in Dantu County, Runzhou were demoted. Before that, were any officials promoted or transferred elsewhere?"
Can the information of those people be found?"
Lu Lingshi said: "Please wait a moment, I will take care of it immediately!"
This time it was faster. In less than half a quarter of an hour, the promotion and transfer records of Runzhou officials were found: "That's it."
Li Yan took a rough look at it.
It can be said that these officials who were transferred out have escaped an unnecessary disaster and are very lucky.
He added: "I'll trouble Lu Lingshi to check if these officials have been promoted to Beijing officials and are now in Chang'an."
Lu Lingshi said: "It's easy to handle."
He went to another area to investigate official status.
After Pei Xingjian took office, he set many rules to standardize the promotion of officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Otherwise, in ancient times, it would be a common operation to check all paper records, which would take several days.
If there is a fire, there is no need to waste all your energy. Just go to the local government to investigate the case files...
This time it was also very fast, but the answer was not very good. Lu Lingshi said apologetically: "There are no promoted officials in the capital."
Li Yan asked again: "Expanding the scope, how many officials from Runzhou are there among the officials in the capital now?"
Lu Lingshi whispered: "In my impression, there are very few Beijing officials with Jiangnan accents. I just checked and found that there are none in Runzhou..."
Unreasonable and expected.
Officials from the south of the Yangtze River account for less than 10% of the population in the capital. They are limited to a certain state, and often there are none at all.
Runzhou is not poor, nor is it a remote and remote state of exile, but the distribution of officials is so deformed.
Li Yan verified the second point, stood up and said, "Thank you very much, Lu Lingshi."
Lu Lingshi's face was filled with a smile: "It's just a trivial matter, it doesn't matter. If Li Jiyi wants anything, just ask him."
After walking out of the official department, Li Yan headed directly outside the imperial city.
Dongshi, Xiao Chamber of Commerce Headquarters.
Seeing the young man in a scarlet robe, the director of the Xiao family was happy and surprised, and hurriedly greeted him: "But the inner guard Li Jiyi?"
Li Yan looked at the Jiangnan-style layout of the main hall and nodded slightly: "Master Xiao, I came uninvited, sorry to disturb you."
Manager Xiao was surprised that Wu Dewei had come to ask him not long ago, why did he come in person, but he didn't dare to ask, he just bent down slightly and said with a smile: "Li Jiyi is here, what are you doing?"
Li Yan said directly: "I want to check something. Zhang Yang, a scholar from Runzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, can you summarize and give me the consumption situation in the shops of the Xiao Chamber of Commerce in the past six years?"
Manager Xiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief and thought: "Okay, we have a big store to register. If you find that the product is wrong when you go back, you can go to the store to return or exchange it. If Zhang Shizi signs it, every transaction in the past six years can be traced, but it requires
time."
"I'll give you three hours and send more manpower."
Li Yan said calmly, and then took out the place names he had prepared: "Focus on the shops in these places, which can reduce a lot of workload. Send them to the Duke of Wei before the East Market closes."
Manager Xiao said: "We'll do it right away!"
Li Yan nodded, turned and left.
His impression of the Lanling Xiao family was actually not very good.
Because the only descendant of the Xiao family that he knew was the traitor Xiao Ling who was instigated by Jia Sibo in Liangzhou and stabbed Qiu Ying.
During this period, the Lanling Xiao family actually had very little influence in the court. Li Shimin still had Prime Minister Xiao Yu, and Li Zhi had Xiao Shu in the harem. Nowadays, there are only a few Xiao family descendants in Chang'an.
Xiao Ling's betrayal is an exception and cannot represent the Xiao family, but the impression score has definitely been lowered.
But when he came to the Xie's Chamber of Commerce next door, he found that it was not as good as Xiao's, and the head of Xie's was so ecstatic that he lost his temper.
Compared with the Xiao family in Lanling, the Xie family in Chenjun was even worse.
Not many people know the history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties in detail, but they should have heard about the uncles and nephews Xie An and Xie Xuan. The Battle of Feishui is so famous.
The Xie family can be said to have left a mark in history, but like a shooting star, it flourished very quickly and declined very quickly.
It reached its peak before and after the Battle of Feishui, entered decline after Xie Hui was killed, and then never improved in the political arena.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, there were no mid-level or high-level officials among the Xie family members. They were all grassroots and merchants. They were really like "the kings of old Xie Tang Qian Yan, flying into the homes of ordinary people."
Among the four major chambers of commerce, the Dou family, Li family and Xiao family are more or less official figures, while the Xie family is almost a pure businessman. If it were not for the strong grassroots foundation in Jiangnan, coupled with the close relationship with Xiao
The clans got together and came to Guanzhong to seek life, but they were swallowed up long ago.
Li Yan gave the same instructions to Xie, asking them to sort out Zhang Yang's shopping records as much as possible in the past six years. Xie immediately mobilized everyone to check it as soon as possible.
After finishing these two things, it was exactly noon, and Li Yan got off work directly and returned to the Duke Wei's Mansion.
Compared with the previous significant improvement in wisdom, this time the detective state is turned on, the effect is not so obvious.
But even so, it is excellent for assisting martial arts training.
It happened that during this period of hard paid practice, I accumulated a lot of experience.
At this time, on the martial arts training ground in the backyard, each of his swords rolled out, sometimes with lightning speed and majestic force, and sometimes with the subtlety of being a butcher cutting an ox.
Ethereal inspiration turns into constant intuition.
This kind of pleasure of being in control of the surrounding environment made Li Yan feel sincerely happy.
The power of the bow string is secretly taught.
Jiao Dingjin and Bloomberg often discuss each other.
Dan Yuan Jin has made progress in Dao Zhan Wu Min.
With these three as the foundation, coupled with the breakthrough of physical fitness and the polishing of skills, the Yum Sword Technique, which has always been difficult to improve, finally achieved a natural breakthrough.
At this point, it can be called a true biography.
"Whoosh!"
Time passed unknowingly, and this time Li Yan fully grasped the opportunity to improve his wisdom and practiced martial arts heartily.
When the sun went down, he was satisfied and sheathed his sword.
The servant who had been waiting for a long time came up quickly: "Xiao Lang, the head of the Xie Chamber of Commerce is waiting outside. A Lang asked if you summoned him?"
Li Yan was a little strange: "Yes, let him come over!"
Manager Xie quickly came to the front and presented the account book with both hands: "Li Jiyi, please take a look!"
The account book is very thin, with only more than 70 records in it, but it was compiled by all the accounting offices of the chamber of commerce and sorted out in the shortest time.
Every record is an account of Zhang Yang’s consumption in Xie’s shop in the past six years.
Li Yanchengqing: "Thank you for your hard work this time. I will take care of your business when I have time."
Manager Xie was stunned for a moment, a strange color flashed in his eyes, and he quickly said: "Thank you Li Jiyi!"
The servants brought the news, and the director of the Xiao family also came and presented a thicker account book.
There are no more than a hundred records.
Li Yan looked through each of them, compared them with each other, and a map emerged in his mind.
That was the route Zhang Yang took throughout his travels.
The states and counties were mapped out one by one, and the tribute scholars from each state and county also came to mind, and they were constantly selected.
In the end, there were only thirteen scholars from Imagination and thirty-five from Toshiko.
"Use the most humble way to obtain a relatively fair result..."
"You succeeded..."
“There is no murderer in this case, it’s all ‘murderers’!”