Chapter 174: The East Warm Pavilion of Wenhua Palace
Yunxi asked: "Zhang Qing, in order to facilitate the support of beggars, you asked to come out of the capital to be a local official. If you don't have brothers, why do you have to take your parents with you?"
Zhang Yanfang said: "Your Highness, I am the eldest son of the family, and I have the responsibility to support my parents. How can I escape from going out to do something? My brother is farming in the countryside for a living, and is only free in winter all year round. My parents are also from farmers.
, in the countryside, even though I am old, I still have no time to help out in the fields."
"But how can I be an official and watch my parents go to the fields? So I took my parents with me."
This reason shocked Yunxi. If what he said was true, he was very filial. However, Yunxi was very suspicious, except for Qi Tai, Lian Zining and others who had been commented on by Lao Zhu or recorded in history books.
Apart from the character, he doesn't trust others very much.
Yunxi asked a few more questions, and Zhang Yanfang answered them one by one without any inconsistency. Finally, Yunxi asked: "I see that you only walked twenty miles from Chuzhou to the capital, and you didn't arrive at the northern part of the capital until evening."
Station. But from the last station to the one in Chuzhou, it took one day, but it was thirty miles. Why is this?"
Zhang Yanfang blushed for a moment and then said: "Your Highness, my family is poor. If I arrive in the capital in the afternoon, I have to bear the expenses for the whole night. But if I arrive near the capital in the evening, I can save money on a night's accommodation, so I deliberately left
If you are too slow, please punish me, Your Highness."
Yun had already guessed that this was the case, and it was not surprising to hear this, but he admired Zhang Yanfang's attitude. In fact, he had many reasons to excuse himself, such as meeting an acquaintance on the road and chatting for a long time, or meeting something else.
The matter was delayed, and it would be difficult to verify it anyway. But he just told the real reason.
This shows that either Chen Yanfang is indeed an honest person, or he is a smart person, but no matter what kind of person he is, Yunxi can use him as long as he still has the weakness of filial piety.
This time Yunxi was sure that he was the candidate for promotion, and then he talked to him about the opening of the Shibo Division. Yunxi said: "... What you have to do now is to wait for you to arrive in Shanghu County and choose a place.
It is a place for merchants to trade. Then you have to discuss with the officers and soldiers of the local guard station to eliminate the pirates. The Guild will give orders to the local guard station and ask them to cooperate with you."
"There's no need for you to elect officers, I'll make my own arrangements." He felt very bad about the policy of separating officials from local staff. Since it couldn't be changed for the time being, he planned to use all officials at Shanghai Customs, even those who had not joined the ranks.
Without a hereditary official, it is easy to ensure integrity.
"Besides, since you are working two jobs, your salary will be doubled, which is enough to make up for your family's shortfall." The rule at this time is that if you work part-time, the salary will be based on the one with the higher official position, unless there is a hereditary inheritance.
Only those who are promoted will be given an extra salary. Yunxi wants to break this rule.
Chen Yanfang listened one by one, and when he heard the last part, he raised his hands and said to Yunxi: "I thank your highness for your grace."
Yunxi said: "No, I just think that since I have two errands, it is better to have two salaries. This is not a favor specially given to you."
After talking for a while, Yunxi felt that everything that could be arranged now had been arranged, and said to Chen Yanfang: "This is all I can think of now, there are no other arrangements." Yunxi looked at the time and saw that it was already Shen Shi.
He said to Chen Yanfang: "It's getting late, so you can help Gu Lai deal with things here. Tomorrow, go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to get the paperwork to sue you. As for tonight,"
At this time, Yang Ren said: "Let Brother Chen rest at my place tonight. I can still put up another bed in the rented house." Chen Yanfang did not refuse, and the matter was settled.
Then Chen Yanfang saw how the current second center of the Ming Dynasty operates. The folds from the General Administration Department have been divided into categories. Yunxi randomly handed over a certain type of folds to someone. After reading the folds, the person
Take out a piece of paper, write your own suggestions on the paper, and then put it in the fold and show it to Yunxi.
Yunxi read the excerpt and then looked at the suggestions. If he thought the suggestion was good, he would copy it into the excerpt. If he didn't agree, he would find the person to discuss it with and then write down the suggestion.
However, Yunxi handled all the excerpts about Fanbang himself and wrote down suggestions.
All the folds are finally summarized here in Yunxi, and then Yunxi sends people to send them to Lao Zhu. If there are important folds - under normal circumstances, important folds will not come to Yunxi, it is all handled by Lao Zhu himself -
Yunxi would personally take the zhezi to Lao Zhu's dormitory. Of course, the last one was told to him by Yang Ren, and there was no such important zhezi today.
They were busy until it was almost dark, and then they stopped. Yunxi stayed with them for a meal, and then let them go. Now that Lao Zhu was sharing the political affairs, Yunxi usually didn't have to be busy at night.
On the way back, Chen Yanfang said to Yang Ren: "Is this how you handle political affairs on weekdays?"
Yang Ren said: "What's going on?"
Chen Yanfang said: "Isn't this just like the Prime Minister?"
Yang Ren laughed and said: "How can we compare it with the Prime Minister? We are just drafting the terms on behalf of His Highness. In the end, it is up to His Highness whether to use it or not. The Prime Minister does not need to report many things to the Emperor and can handle them himself."
"Furthermore, the Prime Minister is courteous to all officials and has his own subordinate officials. All government orders are passed through the Prime Minister and cannot be bypassed. Now that His Highness uses us, we have the opportunity to participate in political affairs. If one day His Highness does not need us, we will
You cannot participate, it is completely different from the Prime Minister."
After hearing Yang Ren's words, Chen Yanfang also realized this and stopped talking.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is the end of March, and Chen Yanfang also goes to Shanghu County to take up his post.
When it was almost noon that day, yesterday's memorials were all processed. Yunxi wanted to get closer to Lao Zhu, so he went to Jinshen Hall with the memorials in person.
As soon as they reached the Huagai Hall, a horse suddenly galloped past, stopped at the entrance of Jinshen Hall, and then galloped into Jinshen Hall.
Yunxi suddenly became confused: "Ride a horse in the imperial city, how big of a deal is this?" Then he walked quickly to Jinshen Hall.
Entering the hall where Lao Zhu was, Yun He saw Lao Zhu with a sad look on his face and tears streaming down his face. Yun He hurriedly asked: "Grandpa, what happened?"
Lao Zhu said: "Yunxi, Fan'er has passed away."
Yunxi was shocked! Fan'er was Zhu Fan, and Zhu Yuanzhang's third son, King Jin, was in Taiyuan. He actually died of illness now! He was only forty-one years old. Although he lived one year longer than Zhu Fan, he was older than Zhu Yuanzhang.
Biao lived three years longer, but he was too young to die of illness at this age.
However, Yunxi immediately made a sad expression and asked everyone to get out, and then stepped forward to comfort Lao Zhu. After three sons died of illness six years ago, Lao Zhu must have been very uncomfortable and needed the comfort of his family.
