The scribes from Jiaoyin Prison were all hard-working and experienced officers. Under their clean-up, the accounts of various roads in Shaanxi were quickly reviewed and the account books gradually became clear.
Wu Chong and Zhang Yue joined forces to act, but the officials of the third division were dissatisfied. Some ministers told Han Qi and Zeng Gong that Zhang Yue was the salt and iron judge of the third division, and Wu Chong was the deputy envoy of the third division. Is it okay to work in the same yamen?
Han Qi directly returned to Lu Gongbi. He was the envoy of the third division, and Lu Gongzhu was the deputy envoy of the household department of the third division. Both brothers can be in the third division. So what can't be done with Weng's son-in-law?
Then the officials failed to succeed and tried another plan.
It is said that according to the rules, officials will return their posts after three years, and they will be removed from their posts after two years. Zhang Yue, who has been in charge of seducing people for two years, will be removed from his new post in court.
Han Qi replied that the judges of the three divisions had all served for a long time in the previous dynasty and were not included in this list.
Han Qi even thought about it and found out that Zhang Yue had indeed served as the judge of the Third Division for two years, so he canceled the original title of power to judge the Salt and Iron Division. Now that Zhang Yue was promoted to a court official, he was also in charge of seduction and prison. The sentence was changed to jail time.
In the Song Dynasty, judgment was the highest priority, followed by knowledge.
For example, if a high official invites a county, if Zhang Sheng, the former privy envoy, resigns as privy envoy and is appointed to Xuzhou, he is a judge of Xuzhou. In general, officials in the Beijing Dynasty who are appointed as state officials are just called magistrates of the state.
As soon as these two incidents came out, Zhang Yue's position as a prisoner was stabilized.
Even if the officials don't like Zhang Yue, they still know what an official is. He wants to check the accounts of various roads in Shaanxi. Lu Gongbi has been in office for several months, but there is no sound at all. Only Wu Chong and Zhang Yue carry out the task to the letter. followed his will.
In addition to Pu Yi, Lu Gong made both ends of the story, which made the officials angry.
Therefore, Lu Gongbi was dismissed as the three chief envoys, and Lu Gongzu was dismissed as the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Hubu.
The deputy envoy of the Ministry of Revenue was changed to Yan Du. As for the selection of the three envoys, he was suddenly given to Han Jiang.
Han Jiang had previously impeached Fu Bi, but now that Fu Bi had resigned from his post as privy envoy, Han Jiang was also recalled back to Beijing.
When Han Jiang learned about Chengdu, he had great political achievements. When he was invited to the capital by Han Qi, he was originally going to serve as the official magistrate of Kaifeng Mansion. However, because Lu Gongbi left the post of Third Secretary Envoy, Han Jiang changed his position and became the Third Secretary Envoy before he came to Beijing.
Shen Yu, the former prophet of Hangzhou, was appointed as the powerful magistrate of Kaifeng Mansion.
As for the post of privy envoy that became vacant after Fu Bi left office, the officials wanted Ouyang Xiu to take over, but Ouyang Xiu repeatedly declined and refused to take up the post.
The reason why Ouyang Xiu was unwilling to serve as Privy Councilor was because he was opposed by Wang Gui, Jia An, Fan Zhen and others during the Pu discussion.
The official family wanted to recognize their father, so Ouyang Xiu came forward to give an example. The adopted son called all his parents his parents, such as Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Bingji and Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty Liu Xiu. However, Jia An and Fan Zhen quoted scriptures and refuted it.
At this time, Empress Dowager Cao also wrote a letter, reprimanding Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and other middle school secretaries for not proposing the imperial examination to help the officials identify his father when the late emperor's body was still cold.
Then Lu Jie and Sima Guang stood up to criticize the official family and Ouyang Xiu, repeatedly emphasizing that the official family was the successor of the small sect to the big sect, and calling his biological father Huang Kao was an ungrateful act.
Nowadays, the struggle between the Zhongshu and Taijian factions is fierce, and Ouyang Xiu, who proposed that his sons should be called their parents, does not dare to risk the disapproval of the world and serve as Privy Councilor at this time.
Finally, the officials invited Wen Yanbo, who was recuperating in his hometown, to serve as the Privy Council envoy, and asked Lu Gongbi and Chen Shengzhi to serve as deputy Privy Council envoys.
Zhang Yue looked around and found that they were all old acquaintances. Wen Yanbo and Han Jiang were both relatives of his father-in-law, which meant that his father-in-law's market price would rise in the future! But Ouyang Xiu was in trouble.
He helped Han Qi with his righteousness, but unexpectedly he caused trouble to the east, and now all the criticism from the officials of the Manchu Dynasty was focused on him.
At the end of July and August in Kaifeng Prefecture, there were sudden heavy rains.
It rained so hard that the Bianhe River surged. Gu Zai
It was raining heavily in front of the Sansidu branch office.
Zhang Yue rushed to the Du Branch Hall holding an umbrella.
But I saw Han Jiang, the new envoy of the third department, joking with deputy envoy Wu Chong in the hall.
Han Jiang returned to the DPRK looking better than ever.
Zhang Yue bowed quickly when he saw the two of them, and Han Jiang smiled and said, "The deputy envoy and I were talking about you."
Zhang Yue said hurriedly: "I wonder what the provincial governor did wrong when he mentioned Xiaguan?"
Han Jiang smiled and said: "Don't be nervous. It's just because I'm curious. I just saw you handing over the accounts to the prisoner's servants. There were more than a dozen people who didn't use the calculations but used first-class beaded plates. I wonder what these are?"
Zhang Yue smiled when he heard this and said: "I'm reporting to the provincial governor that this thing was made by the lower official, who called it the abacus."
"abacus?"
Han Jiang and Wu Chong were slightly surprised and said: "Does Du Zhi still have accounting skills?"
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "I understand a little, I understand a little. I think of Lao Tzu's saying that those who are good at planning don't need to make plans. It can be seen that calculations were already used in the Spring and Autumn Period. There was abacus in the Han Dynasty, but how to calculate has long been lost."
"So I saw that the calligraphers in the capital used counting chips to make accounts. The top chip counted as five, and the next chip counted as one. In this case, why not make a bead plate for counting chips, and the two beads on the top counted as one.
Ten, what if the next five beads count as five? Then use the beam as a crotch piercing to restore the abacus calculation method of the Han Dynasty? "
Han Jiang and Wu Chong nodded and said, "There is indeed something new."
Having said this, Zhang Yue ordered someone to go to the next door warehouse to settle accounts and borrow an abacus from Shu, who showed it to Han Jiang and Wu Chong.
Zhang Yue straightened the abacus and then gestured: "The above means that the beads are moved to the beam, and the beads below are moved away from the beam and to the side."
Zhang Yue said: "I have a formula when doing abacus. For example, when dividing by two, every two will make one, every four will make two, every six will make three, every eight will make four, and two and one will make five!"
"In this way, I taught several young scholars in Jiaoyin Prison and asked them to learn it. They would be slower at first, but soon they were faster than those old scholars who used calculations. As time went by, there are now three people in Jiaoyin Prison.
One-third of the calligraphers can use an abacus."
Han Jiang suddenly said: "Very good, very good. Our third department regards accounting as a major matter. Every audit will not consume much manpower and materials. If everyone below can use an abacus, then the accounting speed will be faster than before."
Is it quick and economical?”
Wu Chong said: "I think we can try it. I think it would take three months to thoroughly check the Shaanxi road register, but now it seems that half a month can be saved."
Han Jiang was overjoyed and said: "That's right, that's right. Your son-in-law is really a genius, he is so proficient in the investigation of objects."
Zhang Yue said quickly: "The provincial leader is so complimentary, I am really ashamed to be a subordinate."
Han Jiang smiled and said: "Don't you dare to take it seriously? You have to spread this abacus method to our three divisions and let the calligraphers learn and use it. This matter is settled."
Zhang Yue had a wry smile on his face. It was not easy for an old calligrapher who had been using arithmetic for decades to switch to abacus.
Han Jiang gave herself a difficult task just after taking office.
Zhang Yue could only agree temporarily.
Then Han Jiang chatted with Wu Chong: "Now the audit is gradually coming to light. Many officials within Duzhi were involved in the case of false accounts. The movement and corruption of several officials in Shaanxi actually implicated many officials."
Wu Chong said: "Now that the Xia thieves are committing crimes, we are afraid that it will not be easy to waste, so we cannot investigate to the end. However, the officials have to explain, so we ask the provincial governor to decide how wide and deep the investigation should be."
Han Jiang also looked troubled when she heard this.
