As the sedan chairs and horses drove away one after another, what happened on Qipan Street spread throughout the three provinces and six departments.
Naturally, it also reached Emperor Hongjing's ears.
As soon as Emperor Hongjing came to the court, he heard about this place, but he just shook his head and smiled inexplicably, making it hard to guess what was going on in his heart.
At the same time, discussions about these princes' appointments were being discussed everywhere. Naturally, King Jin has been talked about and talked about. Some people say that King Jin is a pedant, and His Majesty asked him to be a minor master of the sixth rank, and he really acted like a minor master. Some said that these princes are not easy to get along with, and it is best to stay as far away as possible. Naturally, there are also some people who follow the trend, wanting to climb a high branch and hope that they will become prosperous from then on.
However, such people are in the minority, most of them are low-level officials, and few of them are stupid if they can reach the fifth rank or above. In the case of unclear intentions, no one will express anything on the bright side.
Especially in places like the Ministry of Industry, it can be regarded as the lowest status among the six ministries. Because the Ministry of Industry is not like the Ministry of Households, which handles money, unlike the Ministry of Rites, which handles ceremonies and sacrifices to the imperial examination, and is not like the Ministry of Officials, which handles the promotion of officials. To put it bluntly, the Ministry of Works is in charge of all kinds of construction, civil engineering and water conservancy matters, and the Ministry of Works does all the dirty work and the undignified work.
Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and workers rank third, which is evident in their status.
And there are many officials here, most of whom were promoted from "workers" to "officials". In addition, Hong Qi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, is a taciturn and pragmatic style, so since he entered the government office of the Ministry of Industry, King Jin has not Seeing a little bit of enthusiasm.
Most officials came and went in a hurry with their heads down, as if they were very busy. Many people clicked their dicks, and they disappeared.
The person who came to greet the King of Jin was a young master surnamed Zhou. The order about King Jin came down on the first day, and the place where he was going to take office was the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Cleaning, who was in charge of military affairs. In fact, they repair and build houses.
There is one Lang Zhong and two Yuan Wai Lang in the Department of Cleaning Up Officials. There are four small masters like King Jin, and King Jin is just one of them. Under the company, there are also affiliated institutions such as Yingxiongsuo, Huangmu Factory, Mucang, Liuli Kiln and so on.
The office of the Bureau of Cleaning Up Officials is located in a row of houses at the innermost end of the government office, to the south. Officials like the principal can be allocated a room for office and rest. King Jin's value room has been prepared in advance, regardless of the lighting direction, it is excellent.
The reason why he came to such a conclusion is also the experience of the king of Jin after he saw the housekeeping of several other principals.
The chief surnamed Zhou led Jin Wang to the duty room, and gave him some neatly bound documents, and left respectfully. King Jin's task today is to read these documents, which will help him understand the Ministry of Industry. It is said that this is what Shangshu meant.
Fortunately, Jin Wang was no stranger to this kind of thing when he governed his fief before, so it wasn't too difficult.
After reading several volumes in a row, King Jin stopped to rest his eyes. Originally wanted to order tea, only to find out that this is the Ministry of Industry, and he didn't bring anyone with him, so he had to do it himself.
He looked around the value room back and forth, and found teacups and tea leaves in a cabinet near the corner. But there was no water or stove in the room, so he could only go out to find it. As soon as the door of the duty room was opened, a person came out from a wide open door next to the duty room. It was the chief surnamed Zhou.
His name is Zhou Wu, and he is also the head of the Ministry of Cleaning Up Officials. He has been watching King Jin's movements for a long time. Even before King Jin came, Shang Shu Hong Qi had greeted his subordinates, saying that he should not be treated as a prince or prince, but an ordinary official. This is His Majesty's oral order .
It can be said that the people in the Ministry of Cleaning and Cleaning Officials couldn't help but feel a little nervous. They all knew what these princes came to do in the Sixth Department, and they didn't dare to curry favor in public, let alone offend them easily. How to get along with it has become a university question.
Zhou Wusheng had a long face, with a pair of horoscope eyebrows drooping slightly, his face looked a little unlucky, but he was a very well-rounded person. As soon as he saw King Jin, he showed a smile that neither made people feel overly enthusiastic nor made people feel rude, and cupped his hands: "I don't know if Mr. Zhao needs help?"
Hearing this address, King Jin was taken aback, and immediately understood that it was addressing him.
It was also this man who was so bold that he dared to call King Jin by his surname directly, without an honorific title. But if you think about it seriously, this is really not an exaggeration, because if King Jin is just an ordinary official, he is indeed called that.
It was also this week that Wu Sheng had a delicate heart. When he was sent out on this errand yesterday, he spent a whole night thinking about it at home. In fact, it wasn't just this night, since he knew that the fifth prince, King Jin, would be sent to the Ministry of Industry, he had been planning how to climb high.
Climbing high branches also pays attention to strategy. If you climb well, everyone will be happy; if you climb badly, you will be bored. So he did his best to collect a lot of information about King Jin's personality, hobbies, etc., and also collected some news about the entry of the Eight Kings from the court.
During this period, a lot of effort was spent, and the amount of money spent was unknown. Fortunately, the hard work paid off, not only did he figure out some meaning, but he was also lucky to be sent to such an errand.
Based on these premise, Zhou Wu stood in front of the gate of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce early this morning, and saw King Jin in a blue official robe from a distance, neither riding a horse nor riding a car, so he understood what this Lord meant. That's why he took the risk of calling King Jin by such a title.
It can be clearly seen that King Jin acquiesces to this title, or it may be that the other party is too self-cultivated and does not want to care about him. All in all, Zhou Wu took the first step very well.
Now that the first step has been taken, there is naturally a second and a third step. He led King Jin to the tea room as usual, and introduced some basic affairs in the government office to him.
The tea room is at the corner of this row of houses. It is not only a tea room, but also a place where colleagues drink tea and laugh together. It was also a coincidence that when Jin Wang and Zhou Wu arrived, several officials happened to be drinking tea and talking together, and they happened to talk about the entry of several princes into the Sixth Ministry.
Men's gossip is no worse than women's, and I don't know where they heard some gossip, but they have their noses and eyes. It happened to be talking about the King of Jin again, so Zhou Wu hurriedly made some noise on purpose, so as not to say something bad, which would anger the King of Jin and make him a bad person inside and out.
Seeing the handsome young man in blue official robes beside Zhou Wu, these officials of different ages all stood up, with the appearance of 'this official is very serious, you just misunderstood'. Hearing that Zhou Wu referred to King Jin as Master Zhao, they also lost their embarrassment, exchanged a few words with King Jin, and each made excuses to leave.
"These adults are really too idle. Here, when we are free, we are too busy to fight mosquitoes, and we are so busy that our feet don't touch the ground. Unlike other places, there are probably not many people in the value room at the moment, and they are everywhere. I'm busy." Zhou Wu said with a sneer.
King Jin just listened and didn't speak.
The boiling water in the tea room is constant, and it will not stop until everyone is on duty, and is guarded by an elderly tea servant. King Jin made himself a cup of tea, and returned to the value room with the tea. Zhou Wu didn't follow him in to get close, but just told King Jin that the public kitchen would serve meals at noon, and asked King Jin to remember to come out at that time.
At noon, there was a lot of excitement outside, and it seemed that everyone who had hidden in the value room earlier had come out.
As soon as Jin Wang stood up, Zhou Wu knocked on the door of his room, and the two went to the public kitchen together.
This public kitchen is a general term, which refers to the place where meals are served, and also refers to a free meal provided by the imperial court to the officials of the seat every day. After all, during the duty period, you can't leave the government office without a reason, and you have to solve the problem of feeding everyone.
Just like before, the whole hall was silent when seeing King Jin coming, but King Jin has always been arrogant, so he didn't think he was disobedient at all, took his own food and went back to the value room.
The dishes are one meat, one vegetable and one soup, and they are prepared uniformly, that is to say, as long as you come to the public kitchen, from the minister to the minister, you will have this kind of food.
A cucumber fried meat, a shrimp tofu, the soup is the simplest vegetable tofu soup, it can be described as extremely simple. The bowls and chopsticks are taken care of by themselves. Since the king of Jin could not predict the future, the tableware was borrowed by Zhou Wuguan's servant who worked in the public kitchen, and he had to return it when it was used up.
King Jin took a sip. It wasn't delicious, but it wasn't unpalatable either.
With two dishes, he ate a bowl of rice and drank some soup, which made him half full. During the tea break after dinner, he looked around this ordinary value room. On the wall facing east was a pair of calligraphy and painting, with the words 'Quiet Zhiyuan' written on it.
The paintings are ordinary, and the characters are also ordinary, but it makes King Jin feel a kind of spiritual peace.
Maybe the days ahead won't be hard, maybe they'll be very interesting.
Just as King Jin was sitting in the duty room of the Ministry of Industry, eating free meals provided by the public kitchen.
In Prince Jin's mansion, Yaoniang is also eating with Xiaobao.
Yaoniang has always had a good appetite, but today, for some reason, he didn't even see him eating chopsticks.
"Your father must be having meals now. Mother saw that there was a booklet about lunchtime meals. I don't know how the food in the public kitchen of the Ministry of Industry is. Your father is used to it?"
What can Xiaobao say, he can't answer such words at his age, anyway, he is a child, he just needs to eat.
Well, today the eight-treasure tofu is very good, smooth and tender, and the stewed pork with green bamboo shoots is also good...
Now Xiaobao eats by himself, and if he can't use chopsticks, he uses a spoon. A jade spoon specially made for him, with a short handle, and the head of the spoon is just enough for him to take a bite.
In order to be able to eat by himself, Xiao Bao also spent a lot of effort. Every time someone feeds him, he grabs the spoon with others. At first, it is to appease him and let him play with it. After playing, he takes the spoon and fiddles with it himself.
Seeing that he was cooking so well, Yaoniang gave him a small half bowl of rice for him to eat. At first, she would spill it all over the place, but then it got better gradually. Now, as long as he doesn't eat the kind of soup that is too watery or too watery, Xiaobao can cook it by himself without spilling a little bit.
He just can't bring his own food, but he can direct, and every time he eats, he is specially served with a little girl. When he is chubby, the girl will serve him vegetables.
In fact, Yaoniang didn't point out that her son could answer herself, she just told herself to listen to it.
Although Yaoniang's vision is not high, she is not stupid. She has been in the capital for so long, and she can see some things through what she has seen and heard and some details.
The current situation is like what she once heard from her mother and those loud-mouthed big girls in the neighborhood, about the gossip about the sons of the rich man fighting over the family property.
The rich man has four sons, all of whom are not easy-going lamps, and have been thinking about their father's property for a long time. Some of these sons were born to older women, and some were raised by younger women. They only had one share of the family property, so it was hard to divide them.
One year, the rich man fell ill, and his sons assembled a group of people to fight for the family property. You cheat me, I harm you, all means are used. But the key problem is that rich man Mao is not dead yet, he is just sick, and now these sons treat him as dead.
The rich man Mao was angry, angry and sad, and the disease was healed after being angry.
In order to prevent himself from being thrown on the street after his family property was divided, the rich man started to attack his own son. It's not a ruthless hand, it just takes back all the rights in their hands, and would rather let them idle than let them help with the family business.
Let Yaoniang see that Emperor Hongjing and King Jin are in this state now.
The father is getting old, and the son is always thinking about the things in the hands of the father. There are so many right and wrong in a small rich man's family, let alone Tian's family.
Yao Niang guessed that the sons of King Jin did something that made the Holy One angry, so the Holy One took care of these sons. So now you should not go head-to-head, but be honest, the more honest the better, after this period of time is over, the days to come will be easier.
Yaoniang is soft-tempered, as long as her bottom line is not violated, she will not question too much. But King Jin was different, she was afraid that King Jin would become rebellious and confront Emperor Hongjing.
A son who fights against Lao Tzu usually won't settle down.
She couldn't make any sense, so she could only coax King Jin. After coaxing this master well, he's calmed down, and he doesn't have so much fire to go against Emperor Hongjing.
"Your father is on duty for the first time today, shall we pick him up? No, mother can't go out now, and your father will be even more angry if you really go. Xiaobao, can you go for mother's place?" Okay? My little treasure is white, tender and cute, even if your father is full of anger, he will lose his anger when he sees you."
In fact, Yaoniang has a deeper meaning. Xiaobao reminds King Jin that you are the father of two children, so don't do it if you can, and always think about the children.
So when King Jin came out of the government office after he was on duty, he saw a car parked in front of the door, and Xiao Shunzi was standing beside the car with a big smile on his face. As soon as he saw him coming, he quickly went to lift the curtain of the car, and saw a baby boy sitting in the car.
As soon as the baby boy saw him, he said, "Father, mother asked me to pick you up."
King Jin was stunned for a moment, and then oh.
small theater:
King Jin: Who told you that this king is angry
Yaoniang: I guess.
King Jin: Who told you that this king coveted the old man's property? (Even if this king is greedy, what he is greedy for is not property)
Yaoniang: I guess.
King Jin: (with disdain on his face) With someone like you, I don't have to fight for world hegemony. I can just keep my wife and children on the bed and raise children at home every day. The virtuous housemates of other people's families are all twitching their buttocks in the back, but you wish this king would be as worthless as possible.
Yaoniang: (blushing) Then do you want your wife and children to be hot? Kangtouer Oh, hot Kangtou!
King Jin: (Squinting his eyes) This king thinks about it.