The lobby of the Inspection Division is not large, and it is even a little dilapidated.

In front of him was a three-foot-long public desk, on the left was a small table for scribes, and on the left and right sides of the front of the hall were placed two Taishi chairs whose paint had long since fallen. There is no Jiangya Mountain and Sea Chart behind him, but a yellowed landscape painting and a couplet, and there is no plaque on the top of his head.

Despite this, Han Xiufeng was still full of emotion, looked back at the pair behind him, and muttered: "I am thin and thrifty, and the official is humble and honest and self-respecting, this pair is well written, it is the so-called clean and honest, honest and powerful!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the big head and the officials of the state government carried into a basket of handcuffs and leg shackles, and rested on the ground paved with bluestone slabs with a "clang".

Chu Chenggui and Jiang Huai of the Yamen of the Inspection Division looked at the big basket of handcuffs and shackles in front of them, thinking that there were still a few big baskets that had not been brought in, and then looking at the big heads of the five and three big heads, the two of them were frightened, and secretly thought that the inspection master who had just come was not good to serve, and he would really be beaten by the board.

Li Xiucai was also so frightened that he stood aside nervously and didn't dare to squeak.

The archers were all outside the hall, watching the big head and the officials of the state government busy, not daring to come forward to help, not daring to move around casually, and not even daring to pant loudly.

Fang Shimei had never seen this kind of situation, and he planned to take the opportunity of the handover to sell to Han Xiufeng the account books that he bought with his predecessor more than four months ago, including Xiaojing Zhizhou, Zhou Tong, Xuezheng and Yunsi Yamen, but when he heard Han Xiufeng say "Qingsheng Lian, Lian Shengwei", he not only didn't dare to mention it, but also didn't want to stay in Hai'an for a long time.

"Master Han, this is the official seal, why don't you hand it over first."

"Oh, I almost forgot about business." Han Xiufeng beckoned him to sit down, and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, I bother you to help this official draft a document of arrival." ”

"Master Han waits, and I will draft it later." Li Xiucai relieved himself and hurriedly sat down.

"Shiheng, help Mr. Li sharpen the ink."

"Yes." Zhang Shiheng couldn't care about being complacent, and hurriedly rolled up his sleeves and waited for him.

"Changsheng, check the official seal."

"Yes!"

If you want to talk about the official master, Pan Er can see him almost every day when he is in the capital, but it is the first time to stand in the hall like today, and he sees that the scribes and servants who are powerful and blessed on weekdays are more honest than the other, and secretly sighs that being an official is majestic. He glanced at Chu Chenggui and Jiang Huai, stepped forward and took the official seal from Fang Shimei's hand, pretended to inspect it, and then took a piece of paper from Li Xiucai's small case and printed it on the paper.

Han Xiufeng took out the seal from the state government, took the paper that Pan Ergang had just stamped, compared the two seals, and then raised his head and smiled: "Brother Fang wait, wait until the documents are ready to be sealed, and Xiufeng will send Brother Fang again." ”

"No hurry, no hurry." Fang Shimei hurriedly bowed his hand.

"Brother Fang, sit."

Li Xiucai just eats the bowl of rice that is transcribed and exchanged, but there is no scribe in the Yamen of the Inspection Department, he is just a helper like Han Xiufeng in his hometown before, not only does he have no food, money, and even paper and candles have to bring his own.

Over the years, the inspection master has been changing constantly, and drafting the arrival documents is not a problem for him, and it has been written in a blink of an eye. Han Xiufeng took the paperwork that had not yet dried and looked at it carefully, and motioned for Pan Er to use a seal on it.

Seeing that he was about to eat lunch, Li Xiucai did not dare to delay the efforts of the new inspector, and hurriedly presented the inventory of the armor protection prepared earlier, the map under the jurisdiction of the Hai'an Inspection Department and a set of Taizhou chronicles with a cover that had rotted early and I don't know which year it was, so that the new inspector could understand the local situation.

"Okay, I'll look back." Han Xiufeng flipped through the list of armor protection, and then put it down for Pan Er to put away.

"Master Han, this is the key to the yamen."

"Changsheng, put it away."

"Huh!" The key has to be put away, Pan Er immediately took the key, thinking that he would go to the door after eating lunch, who wants to see Han Si in the future without a door bag.

Han Xiufeng didn't know what Pan Er was thinking, and he didn't care what he would think, so he immediately got up and bypassed the public case, and arched his hand: "Brother Fang, junior brother will send you." ”

"Master Han stays, I'm ready, even the boat has been hired, you just arrived in a lot of official duties, you really don't need to send it."

"It should be sent, Brother Fang, please."

"That's embarrassing."

"What's embarrassing?"

According to the rules, as long as they are sent to Yimen, Han Xiufeng has been sending the Fang brothers to the "gap" in front of the City God Temple, and only returned to Yamen after seeing them get on the boat.

Li Xiucai bowed down to greet him.

Chu Chenggui and Jiang Huai stepped forward to pay their respects.

The archers went to the front of the church to meet them.

After the scribes, soap subordinates and archers in the yamen finished paying homage in turn, Han Xiufeng's new official inauguration ceremony was over. Li Xiucai accompanied him around the yamen, Chu Chenggui took a group of archers to help Pan Er and Datou settle down, and Jiang Huai took a few archers to cook lunch.

"Master Han, these three rooms were originally the scribe's public house, and later the inspection department no longer set up a scribe in the yamen, and each master only invited one person to write when he arrived, so these two rooms have been empty, and the later life is the first one."

When he was in Taizhou, Han Xiufeng inquired that Li Xiucai was not a local, but a native of Fu'an, but his home was not far from Hai'an. Fu'an is not only the salt field of the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division, but also under the rule of Dongtai County, so he is a talent in Dongtai County.

However, Xiucai is a general term for students, and there is also a difference between Xiucai and Xiucai.

Those who have the best knowledge, have passed the years, and are in the forefront of the two examinations are called Liao Shansheng, referred to as Di Sheng. There is a fixed number of places, depending on the size of the state and county, there are about 20 in a county, and every year you can receive four taels of silver from the county school, subsidize your life, and you can give insurance to the children who take the exam.

The first class of the two examinations and the last rank of the year and the department are additionally added, so they are called augmentation, referred to as hyperplasia; The additional attachment to the end of all beings is called the attached student member, referred to as the epistudent.

Li Xiucai's career is not smooth, he was an epiphyte in the examination seven or eight years ago, and he has not been able to be admitted to hyperplasia for many years, and he doesn't even want to go to Jiangning to participate in the township examination for the exam, let alone he, an epiphytomy who is not even hyperplasia.

Han Xiufeng has been idle in the Yamen Gang for so many years, and he knows very well that the officials of the Yamen who are beaten by iron and flowing water, and the two officials and ten archers in it will only go against the yang and the yin if they change their non-stop inspections, and they will only look forward to Li Xiucai, the scribe who is idle.

Next, he wants to do big things and make a lot of money, Han Xiufeng didn't want Li Xiucai to continue to gain power, looked at the house where the three archers lived opposite, and said lightly: "Mr. Li, you are a person with a meritorious reputation, and you are too condescending to help the small yamen in the Inspection Division, and you can't do the errand of this official if you have a meritorious name as usual." ”

Li Xiucai didn't expect Han Xiufeng to say this, and hurriedly took out a bag of silver money that he had collected last night: "Master Han, Wansheng is just helping to transcribe ......"

"What are you doing?" Han Xiufeng didn't wait for him to finish, pushed his arm to the side, and then smiled: "Mr. Li misunderstood, the official didn't think about it and wouldn't smash your job, but I just think that you are too condescending to be a secretary again, and I plan to hire Mr. Li as a western seat, if you have something to help the official plan, and if you have nothing to do to help the official and the priest Heng study, fifty taels a year, I don't know if Mr. Li is willing?" ”

"Master Han, Shiheng is your family?"

"It's not the official's family, it's the baby of a friend of the official, his father is far away in Sichuan to work for an adult, and he can't take care of his family for thousands of miles, so he asks him to the official, and the official naturally can't watch him waste his studies."

Fifty taels a year, no more and not too little.

What's more, if you don't agree, this scribe won't be able to do it. Li Xiucai didn't dare to ignore the promotion, so he could only stubbornly say: "Master Xie Han appreciates the meal, and he is willing to be born later, but what should I do after the armor inventory and official documents?" ”

"Someone, someone will take over." Han Xiufeng smiled, and suddenly turned around and shouted, "Chu Ban Leader, Chu Ban Tou!" ”

Chu Chenggui hurriedly ran over and asked, "What does Master Han command?" ”

"The official didn't bring any family members, and there aren't many family members, so you all move to the second hall in the future and vacate the six rooms outside. After eating, go buy a few thicker pieces of wood and seal the windows completely. Look at whether the wall is solid and strong, if it is not strong, think about strengthening it. ”

"Master Han, there are wood sellers in the town, but why do you want to seal the windows in these houses?"

"This official wants to turn these six rooms into a class room for prisoners, and it will be okay if the windows are not sealed, right?" Han Xiufeng asked rhetorically, and then ordered: "Go find some straw shop and spread thicker." A prisoner is also a human being, but he cannot be frozen to death. ”