"The position of the left minister is vacant, and many people in the court are fighting these days, I want to ask Zhou Xianggong to recommend Yu Duanli to become the left minister. Just a letter of recommendation. ”

In fact, it was not only the left minister who was above the court.

In the court, there are countless vacancies for military attachés at present, of course, this is not important, there were countless vacancies before.

At present, there is a shortage of eleven court officials, and twenty-seven positions are vacant in Beijing.

Zhou Bida has always believed that Han Jiang has started the life that his father is best at again, selling officials.

Right now, only the Han family has this strength.

After staring at Han Jiang for a full cup of tea, Zhou Bida asked, "How much is a left minister?" ”

"Not a few!" Han Jiang actually responded to this, and Zhou Bida was very surprised. But who would have thought that Zhou Bida took out a bunch of contracts: "Zhou Xianggong, Yu Duanli borrowed a lot of money from me, but he also gave me the opportunity to make money in the Han family's shop and workshop, I fell on his favor, and helped him by the way, besides, I feel that he is very good as a left minister." ”

What a thick stack of contracts.

It is impossible for Zhou Bida to really look through them one by one, and it is impossible to calculate the difference in the amount of money.

In his opinion, Yu Duanli wanted to ask Han Jiang for help, but after all, he was also a person who cherished his reputation, so it was not good to give gifts directly, but he borrowed the items that he had to purchase to get a little friendship with Han Jiang.

Zhou Bida asked: "The rest of the officials, you didn't mark the price?" ”

"Zhou Xianggong, I am a good boy, my Han family has also restored the style of the famous family back then, and my Han family will no longer interfere in such a disgraceful thing as selling officials."

Zhou Bida didn't believe that the Han family had a history of selling officials. It has been at least thirty years and nearly forty years since Han Yanxuan's father, that is, Han Jiang's grandfather.

It can be said that in terms of the level of selling officials, the Han family is definitely the first in the dynasty.

Zhou Bida thought of a trick: "Okay, I will write this letter of recommendation, but I will write two copies, and the other is the year after Yili was appointed as the left minister, he presided over the grinding survey." So I recommend you to be the deputy of the left minister, Jingguan Mokan. ”

Grinding is something similar to the year-end assessment.

Han Jiang immediately refused: "Zhou Xianggong, I'm not available." ”

"Not available?" Zhou Bi laughed and picked up the tea bowl.

Han Jiang explained: "Next year, I have promised the official family to temporarily be responsible for the assessment of the flow outside the flow to the internal flow, which is also a big deal. ”

Zhou Bida's face sank: "Han Jiang, from the outside to the inside, there has never been such a thing as an assessment. Compared with the selling of officials and lords who are looking for, this is a big business in the stream. ”

Outside the flow refers to the outside of the nine products, which is called the outside of the flow.

Liunei, that is, the first to the ninth grade, is an authentic official.

Although some officials outside the stream have greater authority than the seventh-rank officials, after all, there is no grade, and who doesn't want to transfer from the outside to the inside.

Zhou Bi naturally thinks that Han Jiang is eyeing a big opportunity to sell officials, so he doesn't care about the vacancy disputes in the court now.

Han Jiang definitely wanted to prove his innocence, and immediately said: "Zhou Xianggong, you always look at it like this." From outside to inside, you are always the chief officer, and I am the adjutant, but I have to come out of the exam questions. This is absolutely just. ”

"Really?"

"Ten true."

"I still don't believe it very much, the old man is still that condition, you promise the old man to write a letter of recommendation, if you don't agree, forget it."

Zhou Bida has his own considerations.

Grinding is a big deal.

The major affairs of the country.

Not to mention Yu Duanli, he is the one who is presiding over it now, and he can't bear it in this year's situation.

But Han Fu can.

The Han government has the means to sell officials, so it is a master of the masters of official performance fraud, and the most important thing is that the Han government can control the scene, and at the same time, as long as Han Jiang is in this deputy position, it will also cut off the biggest loophole in the annual grinding, and the Han government will not help these people to make ghosts.

Han Jiang and Zhou Bida were in a stalemate for a quarter of an hour.

Helpless, Han Jiang could only agree: "Okay, I agreed to this." ”

Han Jiang was very uncomfortable.

Although Zhou Bida wants to resign and ask for a demotion, as long as he is in the court for a day, this influence is still huge.

It's like Han Yanxuan.

You don't care if I'm a high-ranking official, as long as I open my mouth, I can influence the court's decision, this is power.

In the evening, after returning to the Han Mansion, Han Jiang looked unhappy.

Shi Dazu greeted him: "Shaojun, say two things." ”

"Brother Dazu, you say."

Seeing that Han Jiang's face was not very happy, Shi Dazu reorganized the language of what he was going to say.

"This year's summer harvest has been a bumper harvest in many places in Yanzhou. But compared with the harvest of the bull head Zhuangzi, the harvest has also become ordinary. Han Yuan and Han Tong wrote documents, and it is the young monarch who is in charge of the house at the moment, and the eldest lady's words naturally have weight. The implementation of new mulberry fish ponds and new rice fields in Quanyan Prefecture cost a lot of money for the instructions of the eldest lady. ”

Originally, what Shi Dazu wanted to say was, Shaojun, your eldest lady has to spend money with her life, which is very scary.

It was precisely because he saw that Han Jiang's face was not very good, so he changed his euphemistic expression.

Han Jiang didn't say anything, and asked, "What about the other thing?" ”

"Another thing is that our craftsmen, with the help of Qianfu craftsmen, have completed the water conservancy loom. The craftsmen of the Wu family were not convinced, thinking that it was unfair, so they talked about it themselves, worked together to improve, and then shared the bounty. The problem at the moment is that although it has been done, it will have to be replaced in ten days at most, and the eldest lady has approved a lot of money. ”

After hearing this, Han Jiang smiled: "I said Brother Dazu, when did you manage the money and food expenditure in the house." ”

Shi Dazu replied calmly: "Although I don't care about money and food, I know that Mu Xiu is in the forest. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Taking advantage of the fact that now, the matter of the water conservancy loom has not yet come out, and even people and the machine are transported away. Let Lin'an know about this matter, I am afraid that it is more scary than our rice field fish farming. Then, the implementation of the new rice field method was slowed down, and each Zhuangzi first came according to forty percent, just saying that it was an attempt, and it was absolutely impossible for people to know that we were ready to fully implement the new agricultural technology. ”

It must be admitted that Starzu was right in his thinking.

He doesn't care about money, but about the new technology that turns into a cornucopia after success, although it costs countless dollars.

The craftsmen on Yanzhou's side were almost crazy emotionally.

The weaving cloth, which originally required people to push and pull, has now become woven by water conservancy, which is dozens of times faster, which is really a bit scary.

You must know that every powerful person in Lin'an City has rice fields and weaving workshops.

Han Jiang nodded: "Just do what you want, Brother Dazu, but Yanzhou can't do without weaving?" ”

Statzu gave his advice very seriously.

"Leave Seiko. Water conservancy weaving can only weave linen, and now it can only weave burlap. But I believe that it will take less than half a year to weave fine linen, and the requirements for the machine are too high for silk weaving, and it is impossible to do it without two years. Therefore, Yanzhou gave up weaving linen and changed to the production of cotton weaving and silk fabrics. ”

Han Jiang thought about Shi Dazu's words very seriously.

Reasonable.

Looking around, this is still the open space in front of the front yard, Han Jiang pointed in the direction of the study.

"Let's talk in another place."