Huaizhong City, Huaishui Bofu Mrs. Wei's Living Secretary Office, Office Director Jiang Chi has not yet fully adapted to the office environment. As the eldest daughter of a concubine in the family, she is actually quite satisfied with how far she has come.
His original goal in life was just to serve the emperor in Chaoge.
In the past, Jiang Chi would think about a question: Which one is more noble, the Marquis of Wei or the Bo of Huaishui?
But after coming to Huaizhong City, she suddenly understood that it didn't matter whether you were noble or not, it was who had the final say that mattered.
Even if Wei Guo is one of the princes, he must bow his head when facing Li Jie, the Bodhisattva of Huai River.
"Huh." He picked up the tea cup and blew on the still hot tea. The tea leaves rose and fell in the cup, and the amber tea soup was smudged, which looked very beautiful.
These things would never be her turn to enjoy during the singing session.
"very nice."
As she murmured in a low voice, she was also secretly looking forward to establishing a relationship with Huaishui Bo Li Jie through the princess line.
As a woman with the surname Jiang and Gong, it goes without saying that there is no need to talk about her beauty. Women with the surname Jiang and Gong are not ugly.
If there were, they would have died young and drowned. Ugly women were not allowed to live in the Jiang family.
However, when Jiang Chi saw A Qing and A Bi at Qingyu Terrace, she understood that beauty alone was not enough.
It's just a beauty that makes people's eyes shine. At most, it will be played with by Li Jie. After playing with it, it is a question whether she can stay. After staying, whether she will be the mistress or the maid is another question.
Thinking about it secretly, Jiang Chi felt that he couldn't be too eager.
She now has a big advantage, she is Ji Douzi's person, and this alone makes her quite stable.
"Director Jiang, Mrs. Wei asked you to come over."
"yes!"
Quickly putting down the tea cup, Jiang Chi stood up in a hurry and followed the Qiubei female soldier to Ji Douzi's residence.
After she left, the office suddenly became slightly noisy.
"If someone else had met with the princess that day, Meng Jiang might not have been the director."
"Don't say too much."
"That's what it is!"
Someone was very angry and was sorting out scrolls and letters there. Some bamboo slips and wooden slips brought from Chaoge were spread on the desk. These female staff in Mrs. Wei's life secretary office all acted as "secretaries"
, working for Mrs. Wei.
It's just that this time, the work does not have to be paid for by Ji Douzi, but by Huaishui Bofu.
These little secretaries are busy translating the classics brought by Chaoge. They have not yet mastered the local "Chinese characters" of Huaizhong City, but they can slowly translate through the common word comparison table.
By the way, during the translation process, because there were some gaps in the common word comparison table, it happened to be possible to check and fill in the gaps in the common word comparison table.
In fact, Huaishui Bo Mansion has already started to carry out a large project, with Shang Wuji in charge.
This big project is the "Chinese Character Dictionary".
The person who proposed this big project was President Li himself. Once he proposed it, everyone in the shogunate thought it was wishful thinking.
This is a super project with extremely high requirements on the talent pool and a huge amount of funds to be invested.
However, when President Li said that he did not want the right to authorize the "Chinese Dictionary" as long as it was produced, everyone in the shogunate who knew how to read said that "there are always more difficulties than solutions." No matter how hard and tiring this kind of hard work is, we must grit our teeth and persevere!
Most of the staff don't know how to accumulate in daily life, so they only know how young they are when they are flattering. My uncle Shang Wuji took out a small notebook, turned over a page at random, and said "the merit lies in the present" when he opened his mouth, and "the benefit lies in the future" when he closed his mouth.
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When others heard this, they could only praise Yaksi.
There's no way, it's so well said, it makes sense, it absolutely makes sense.
Then everyone applauded and praised each other, and the eldest uncle Shang Wuji also laughed and accepted it.
Transfer, transfer...
Shang Wuji doesn't plan to finish this work this year or next year or the year after next. He doesn't want to rush it. He takes his time and starts it first so that people know that this is happening.
After all, this is a "classic"!
The "Chinese Dictionary" thing is mainly to determine the name. My uncle Shang Wuji doesn't care much about the rest.
At this stage, it is good to occasionally update the "Common Words Comparison Table".
For an organization like "Mrs. Wei's Living Secretary Office", when translating the books collected in Mrs. Wei's hometown, if any new words are discovered and filled in, then they can just patch it and make a set of "Common Words Comparison Table" version 1.01.
Every update is a credit to my uncle Shang Wuji.
It’s not merit, at least it’s hard work, isn’t it?
But for the little secretaries in the office who were as busy as dogs, what they complained about was not the work itself, but how the position of office director fell into Meng Jiang's hands.
No one thinks that they will get a share of the credit for their hard work in the future.
Congratulations, congratulations.
"Would you like more tea? Freshly boiled water."
"It's really hot today, is there any herbal tea?"
"There's herbal tea next door, I'll go get it."
The rattling bamboo slips are everywhere. Once you copy one copy, file it away. To some people, these collections of books are just garbage and useless.
However, President Li built a large warehouse specifically to store these bamboo slips and wooden slips. It was also built on high ground, with no pasture or woodland around it, to prevent fires.
Just in case, I dug a pond in the high ground. After tamping the bottom, I attached it to a ceramic plate, then laid a layer of fine sand, pebbles, and riverbed stones, and finally filled it with water to prevent water storage failure.
This water is also used for fire prevention.
Because of President Li's behavior, people knew at a glance that he valued these bamboo slips and wooden slips, so the little secretaries did not dare to fool them when copying and translating.
Whether the work is completed or not is not their final say, they also have to check and accept it.
The person doing the inspection has nothing to do with them at all, and can't speak to them. If they point out mistakes, they have to call them back and redo them. They have to rework when they should. They have no ability to refute and resist.
"Hey, I heard that starting tomorrow, our office can also share some ice?"
"And ice?!"
A little secretary exclaimed, "During the Chaoge, I didn't even see a few pieces of ice."
"I heard that the doctor's residence from Zhou Dynasty had an ice cellar with a lot of ice cubes."
"Ah... it's really nice to be in Huaizhong City. Fortunately, I don't have to go back to Chaoge. If I go back, I'm afraid I'll be a concubine with someone else."
"Concubine? Let's be a dowry!"
"Shh... keep your voice down, those women outside are all female soldiers, they are very fierce."
"What are you afraid of them doing?!"
"You are not afraid, but I am. These women all listen to Mrs. Yue. In Chaoge and Xu State, the princess has a noble status, but in Huaizhong City, that is not necessarily the case."
"I heard that the person living there at Qingyu Terrace is Princess Chen."
"Didn't you say that 'Peach Blossom Fairy' and 'Little Peach Blossom Fairy' are all here?"
While I was chirping and lazily, a little secretary came outside, carrying a huge teapot, sweating profusely from exhaustion, and shouted as he walked: "I am next door, and I can hear you making noise. How long have you been here?
The phonology of Huaizhong is quite decent."
"I'm so hot, please have a cup of herbal tea."
"You don't want to say thank you either?"
"Thank you, thank you. If I get the favor of Uncle Huaishui in the future, I will definitely let you wait on me."
"Pooh!"
These little secretaries from Weiguo are very fast learners. They have already learned the Huaizhong dialect very well before they have been here for long.
Even the weird grammar used by the locals has been adapted to it.
There are even two smart little secretaries who are learning the Wudi dialect from the female soldiers in Qiubei and can already understand some common expressions.
When asked by others, these little secretaries from Weiguo all used the reason of doing as the Romans do in their own country to explain, which was very pleasant to hear.
More than a dozen women took a break from the business and gossiped. Some were busy opening windows to ventilate the air, some were helping to fan themselves with large instant noodles, and some were pouring tea and passing cups.
Although they were reluctant to give in, it was obvious that they were very supportive of each other.
"Hey, why did you say Meng Jiang went to the princess here?"
"What Meng Jiang?! Call me Director Jiang!"
"Okay, okay, Director Jiang, Director Jiang, Director Jiang. Then what did Director Jiang do when he went to the princess?"
"While having breakfast in the morning, I heard someone said that travelers from the Wei Kingdom arrived in Huaizhong yesterday."
"Why are you here again? Could it be that Your Majesty doesn't want me to stay here?"
"What sir!"
"Yes...could it be that Marquis Wei has something else he wants?"
“It’s such a summer day, we can’t have another big battle, right?”
"It's not a big war, but it's also for the sake of a big war. Once summer is over, it's autumn harvest, and there's always a big fight."
"In that case, I must have come to Huaizhong to buy armor. I have seen my father and brother's armor at home. I am afraid that it is not as good as the female soldiers from Qiubei. They are all leather armor. I just took a look at it and I knew it.
Good or bad.”
After saying that, the little girl looked even more smug, "If Marquis Wei really comes to beg the princess again, someone from our office will definitely come to lobby. Do you think we should be careful?"
I have never eaten pork but I have seen pigs run away. What’s more, they are a group of ice-snow smart ladies who have been involved in mid-to-high-end events in Chaoge. My father and brother have never used this skill of "eating cards and getting it", and I have seen it elsewhere in Chaoge.
of.
If someone from the Wei Kingdom comes to work as a lobbyist, they will have to learn a lesson no matter what.
When they came to Huaizhong City, they had heard Huaishuibo's saying of "following the gourd and drawing the dipper"!