"You're back, hurry up and go in to congratulate the third uncle." In the front yard, Chu Jian was pointing fingers and ordering the servants in the mansion to be busy, and when he heard Chu Qian's voice, he hurriedly smiled and said.

"What's wrong with Uncle?" Chu Zhen didn't know what he meant.

"I've been promoted." Chu Jian's smile was incomparably bright: "Today, the imperial court issued an official document appointing the third uncle as the governor of Kaifeng Mansion, and he will take office on the same day." ”

During the Tang Dynasty, the festival envoy, the observation envoy, the regimental training envoy, the defense envoy, the interview and disposal envoy are all set up to push the official, second to the judge, the secretary, the palm push the prison lawsuit, the Song Dynasty followed the Tang system, the three departments of the imperial court each department set up a member, in charge of the case, Kaifeng Mansion belongs to the left and right halls, each hall pushes the official one member, and takes turns to try the case every day, relatively speaking, the Kaifeng Mansion is the Great Song Dynasty Kyoto, although the official quality is not high, but the real power in the hand, the power is great, and the easiest to promote.

Today's Kaifeng Mansion Yin Zhao Xuan, who also served as the official of Kaifeng Mansion at the beginning, later went out to the local area for a few years, and immediately after returning to the dynasty, he was promoted to Hanlin Bachelor and Kaifeng Mansion Yin, and now Chu Qian sits in this more important position from a county governor, which is not only as simple as upgrading, but also shows that the imperial court may be interested in starting to reuse.

When Chu Zhen heard this, he smiled, and immediately walked into the hall with Chu Jue.

"Zhen'er and Jue'er are back." Chu Qian smiled slightly, looking so indifferent, if you look closely, you will find that there is a spring breeze between his eyebrows.

"Congratulations to the third uncle on his ascension." Chu Zhen bowed his hand and congratulated Chu Jue in unison, in fact, it made sense, in the past ten years, from a local one from the ninth rank of the main book, to the current Kaifeng Mansion official with real power, although the speed of promotion is not extremely fast, for Chu Qian, who is less than forty years old, it is indeed rising step by step, and forty years old is the most suitable age to be an official, if you seize the opportunity, it is not a strange thing to be promoted several levels a year.

"Hehe, the third uncle will accept your auspicious words." Chu Qian chuckled lightly and said, "Tomorrow I will have a family banquet in the official residence, you must go." ”

Even if it is so close to Bianliang City, but on the first day of taking office, the matter of transfer and handover is cumbersome, so naturally there is no extra time to celebrate, Chu Qian has been busy for most of the day, and now he has time to come to inform this happy event.

Chu Zhen naturally agreed repeatedly, and chatted with Chu Qian in the hall for a long time, until Chu Luo came back, and then returned to the room.

Kaifeng Mansion is located in the city between the West Corner Tower Street and Junyi Bridge Street, in stark contrast to the endless flow of people in the two streets, the front of the Mansion Ya seems to be a little deserted, more than a dozen hands holding sticks and wood, waist with a knife of the official face expressionless stand apart, revealing a bit of awe-inspiring atmosphere, under their vigilant gaze, several sedan chairs slowly pass through the front hall gate of the Mansion Palace, over the high thick wall, to the official residence of the Kaifeng Mansion Outside.

In ancient China, the residence of officials was referred to as the official house, often very close to the official office, and the ancient officials also had wives and children, and dragged their families with them, and when they took office, they naturally involved a housing problem, and at the beginning, the imperial court would not pay attention to this kind of thing, and later considered that the officials who went to work in other places took their families to take up their posts in other places, and could not live with the officials, which would make the officials increase the burden of renting another house to settle their families, which was inconvenient for both public and private.

I don't know whether it was because the emperor was popular with the people, or it was proposed by the officials themselves, but after the development of several dynasties, the imperial court slowly improved the official residence system, stipulating that the imperial court provided the official residence of the officials who went to the office, and family members were also allowed to live together.

Of course, in Kaifeng Mansion, the official residence is not all officials are qualified to live in, after all, the problem of redundancy in the Great Song Dynasty is very prominent, although the Beijing officials in Bianliang City have not been counted in detail, but at least there are more than 10,000 people, this is still not calculated several times their officials, miscellaneous servants and guards.

If the imperial court arranges the housing problems of these people one by one, I am afraid that the land for the official residence will occupy a small half of Bianliang City, and besides, some wealthy officials or princes and ministers, who either settle their own family property or have the emperor give them the mansion, naturally disdain to live in relatively simple official houses.

There are too many officials, and the official residence is limited, so the imperial court simply stipulated that only officials who have actual duties are allowed to live in the official residence, after all, the main reason for the construction of the official residence is to facilitate the officials to handle official business, as for those poor officials who are not qualified to live in the official residence, and can not get the emperor's house, only rent the house.

got off the sedan chair, under the leadership of a servant, came to the official residence where Chu Qian now lives, just entered the courtyard, looked around, Chu Zhen immediately felt that this place was much simpler than the back house of Xiangfu County, but if you think about it carefully, it is not a strange thing, after all, when you were in Xiangfu, Chu Qian was the lord of a county, of course, he lived in the best house, and now he has taken office in Kaifeng Mansion, although he has been promoted, but there are still a few bosses above, and the house is naturally simpler.

"Second brother, you're here." Hearing the news, Chu Qian hurriedly came in to welcome everyone to the living room.

"I just moved to a new house, everything is simple, and the second Bomo wants to be surprised." At this time, Pan Shi also walked out with a bright smile, and after seeing Chu Qian, the smile was even worse, and he hurriedly ordered the servants to put seasonal fresh fruits, tea and snacks.

"It's all a family, what kind words to say." Chu Luo smiled and said, "Now that I live closer, I will inevitably have to move around more in the future." ”

"That's nature." Pan nodded with a smile and apologized, Ying Ying Shi said goodbye and left, as the hostess, there are still many things for her to deal with at today's banquet.

"So, how do you feel when you take office?" Picking up the cup and taking a sip of tea soup, Chu Luo chuckled and said, "In comparison, do you feel more comfortable in Zhixian?" ”

Chu Luo also started as a local official, and he has also had a few ups and downs in the middle, so he naturally has his own experience of being an official, this is to deliberately mention a few words to Chu Qian, from the head of the ruling party to the back of others, there is a mentality problem here, if it can't be adjusted well, I'm afraid it will have an impact.

"Second brother, don't worry, I naturally know it in my heart." Chu Qian smiled and said seriously: "Bachelor Zhao is upright and knowledgeable, and it is my luck to be an official under him." ”

"If only I could think so." Chu Luo nodded slightly, looked out of the hall, and said with a smile: "It's been so long, why hasn't the eldest brother come yet." ”

"Don't worry, it should be here after a while." Chu Qian waved his hand and smiled, and said softly: "I heard that there seems to be some movement in the court recently, and it may have been delayed because of this." ”

"Father, third uncle, what's going on in the court?" Chu Jian, who was on the side, couldn't help but ask with curiosity in his heart, as a scholar with a career in office, it was a compulsory lesson to care about the current affairs of the imperial court.