Early in the morning, Sun Xiangfu put on his official uniform with the help of a maid in the Qin Mansion, rode his official horse, and headed towards the imperial city.

Influenced by film and television dramas, Sun Xiangfu has always thought that the palace is the place where the emperor lives and integrates his office, but in fact, the imperial city is the place where the emperor works, yes, the harem is where the emperor lives, the imperial city and the harem are called the palace together, there are high-walled gates and corridors between the two places, without the emperor's permission, no one will generally shuttle between the imperial city and the harem at will, even the queen mother generally will not appear in the Taiji Palace, let alone any concubines and palace maids, unless there are large-scale political activities, they need to appear, Therefore, there are still quite a lot of men in the imperial city, and there are at least three yamen who are all men working in it.

Qianniuwei is in charge of guarding the palace, Feiqi is the emperor's pro-army, the school field is naturally inside the imperial city, and there is the pastoral supervision office that is squeezed into a corner by these two military yamen, in nature, these three yamen belong to the royal direct subordinate.

Unless there is a special grace in the imperial city, it is not allowed to ride a horse, after showing the official disc at the gate of the imperial city, Sun Xiangfu led his official horse on foot to the rightmost animal husbandry supervision office yamen, the house of the main government is not tall but there is a connected yafang behind, the Taiji hall at the end of the central corridor is very tall, it seems that these small yamen in the corners are not so conspicuous, usually the courtiers are directly on the central avenue to the Taiji Palace, no one will turn to the small house here.

The highest prefect of the pastoral superintendent is the shepherd, generally served by the clan relatives, managing the entire royal family including some properties under the name of the minor vassal king, the second person is the deputy superintendent of the shepherd, who belongs to the deputy of the shepherd, and the position is equivalent to the middle shepherd, but there is no real power of the middle pastor superintendent alone, there are several in the middle of the shepherd, but they are generally on duty in the palace, most of them are eunuchs, also known as eunuchs.

When a petty official like Sun Xiangfu came to report, he didn't need to alarm the pastoral supervisor at all, he only needed to go to the middle pastoral supervisor Li Xian, who was in charge of Shanglin Yuan, to report to work.

Li Wenxian is a member of the clan, and he is Li Shimin's cousin who has not been in five suits, he looks like he is thirty-four or five years old, and it is difficult to cover his fat in an official robe that is two sizes larger.

"The lower official and fishery department's pastoral supervisor Sun Xiangfu will meet the middle pastoral supervisor." Sun Xiangfu bowed his hand according to the official invitation.

"Well, you are an official who was canonized by His Majesty's personal decree, and you will have to be more dedicated to the future in charge of the Fisheries Division, and this official happens to have a newly issued document issued by the harem here, and you will raise all of it according to your will and send it to the palace as soon as possible."

Li Fatzi knelt in front of his desk, too lazy to move, just hummed, and threw a roll of silk cloth with various obvious purposes written on it to Sun Xiangfu.

The so-called requisition document is a list of items, except for the items of other divisions, there is only one item belonging to the Fisheries Division, and the Fisheries Department sends 100 catties of yellow eel, 100 catties of loaches, and 300 catties of other fish and goods into the imperial dining room for the palaces to eat.

"Five hundred pounds a day?" Sun Xiangfu was stunned for a moment after reading it, and then realized that there are more than 100 nobles in the harem who have titles in the royal family, plus various levels of internal officials and internal servants, according to the system, there are probably no less than 1,000 people who can eat meat at each meal, and it is really not too much to eat 500 catties of fish a day, who is called that there are currently two harem groups living in the palace! One is Li Yuan's and the other is Li Shimin's, and these two people are famous for their many women and children, and there are thousands of palace maids in the harem.

"What? Is there a problem? Hearing Sun Xiangfu's stunned voice, Li Fatzi glanced at Sun Xiangfu unhappily.

"No, no problem."

Sun Xiangfu replied embarrassedly, and saw Li Wenxian yawn, waved his hand and said, "If there is no problem, hurry up and do it, don't come to disturb the official if there is nothing in the future, if there is a new requisition order in the palace, the official will send it to your company." ”

It seems that Sun Xiangfu came to report too early, disturbing Li Xian's dream, for such a lazy boss, Sun Xiangfu is still happy to see, so he hurriedly retired, out of the public house, and walked to a building not far away, with a plaque of the Fishery Division.

"The adults are here, and the subordinates will see the adults."

When Sun Xiangfu walked to the door of the official office of the Fishery Division, there were already more than a dozen people wearing official clothes at the door and bowed to Sun Xiangfu, some old and young, in addition, there were more than 30 people dressed as servants, who knelt down, after all, they did not have the identity of scholars, and when they saw the chief official for the first time, they needed to be more solemn.

"Excuse me, let's talk in the hall!"

After roughly understanding the simple structure of the yamen in this era, Sun Xiangfu stepped into the hall of the yamen of the Fisheries Division, and in the future, he alone had the final say on this one-third of an acre.

The hall is about 100 square meters, after Sun Xiangfu knelt on the main seat in the middle, the nine officials knelt on the left and right sides, and those servants were sitting near the door from afar, Sun Xiangfu repeatedly asked, they were willing to get closer, kneeling behind the officials.

"This official has just taken office, and I still don't know a lot of things, who can introduce the basic situation of the Fisheries Department to this official?" Sun Xiangfu glanced at everyone's faces with his gaze, and after seeing a familiar look, he spoke.

In fact, the basic situation of the Fisheries Department was on the boat yesterday, Zhang Shengye and Xiong Ting and others were almost the same as what he explained, and now he asked, just to give everyone a chance to introduce themselves, after all, Sun Xiangfu is in charge of the overall situation, the actual work, or these subordinate officials and servants, what kind of talents do they have, whether they are reliable or not, and Sun Xiangfu needs to be selected.

"Huang Xuan, a subordinate, is the first writer of the Fisheries Division, and he has a better understanding of the industries under the name of the Fisheries Division, so he will explain it to the adults in detail by his subordinates!" An old man sitting in the first place on Sun Xiangfu's left hand got up and arched his hand.

"Very good." Sun Xiangfu nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"There are 12 ponds under the jurisdiction of the Fisheries Division, namely Taiye Pond, Qujiang Pond, Kunming Pond, Pickaxe Pond, Ritual Pond, Elk Pond, Niushou Pond, Kuai Pond, Jicao Pond, Dongpo Pond, Danglu Pond and Lang Pond. Among them, the Taiye Pond is the royal landscape pool, there are tens of thousands of landscape fish, there are servants to feed and take care of it every day, in the rest of the pools, except for the Niushou Pond and the Lang Pond are quite rich in fish goods, most of the pools are open to the people, there are quite a lot of fishing anglers coming and going, and the fishery is not abundant. ”

"Are there any directions and drawings for each pool?"

Sun Xiangfu nodded when he heard this, and secretly said that the territory he managed was not small, twelve pools, the smallest of which had a circumference of several kilometers, and all of them were put on the efficient breeding industry, and the supply of fish for millions of people in Chang'an was not a problem, of course, this was impossible, just take the Qujiang Pond next to the Furong Garden, it was a living pool connecting the Bashui Canal, and there were many ships coming and going, how could there be a large school of fish willing to stay in such waters.

"Wait, sir."

After a while, Huang Xuan took a scroll of maps with the sizes of each pool to Sun Xiangfu's case, Sun Xiangfu took a closer look at it, but didn't say anything.

Shanglin Yuan is three hundred miles from north to south and east to west, Chang'an is in the middle, so these pools are not more than 100 miles away from Chang'an, basically around Chang'an City and beyond, and belong to the place where the people gather intensively.

The location of Niushou Pond and Lang Pond is a little remote, one is at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, and the other is at the foot of Yushan Mountain, so in this era when there is no large-scale aquaculture industry, the fish in these two ponds are quite abundant, if they know that the reservoir in Xingfu Village that is not even five kilometers in circumference is fed hundreds of thousands of fish, I am afraid they dare not say that these two ponds are quite rich in fish.

While looking at the map, Sun Xiangfu asked his subordinates to introduce themselves, including the servants, and he also asked each of them to say their names and specialties, and finally, after he wrote down the general data of the twelve ponds in his mind, he also figured out the personnel situation within the Fisheries Department.

At present, there are nine servants and thirty-five servants in the Fisheries Division, of which each officer has two servants as attendants, and of the remaining seventeen people, three are miscellaneous servants responsible for sprinkling and sweeping, three are cooks, two are boatmen, and nine are fishermen.

These people all perform their duties, except for the first pen clerk Huang Xuan, they all have daily work, such as Zhang Shengye, who was originally responsible for the taxation of the various pools of the Fisheries Division, all the fishing boats that catch fish in the twelve ponds must pay a certain fee to the Fisheries Division, and the pools in the city even charge ship docking fees, just like Sun Xiangfu's ship entering the city through the Jinshui Gate, to queue up to get a ticket and pay for the docking, Li Wenbin and Hao Tong are responsible for assisting Zhang Shengye, usually each with two servants and his own privately recruited people to manage a piece, These three persons are in charge of the income belonging to the Department of Fisheries.

There are also Zhang Qi, Hu Kang, Jiang Chao, the three of them are responsible for the water control of the Royal Landscape Pool, Taiye Pond and the feeding of landscape fish.

Xiong Tingzhong and another scribe named Liao Wensheng are responsible for some hiring, salvage matters, the Fisheries Department has a number of fishing boats of different sizes in each pool, fishing nets and other fishing tools, but only raised two boatmen and nine fishermen, the previous fishing task is not heavy, raising more people is also a waste, when there is a special task, you need to be responsible for contacting and hiring some boatmen and fishermen to complete the task of requisition in the palace, sometimes it can't be completed, and you also need to take money to buy it on the market.

Of course, with such a production management system in ancient times, it is impossible for officials not to be corrupt, first of all, Zhang Shengye, Li Wenbin, Hao Tong is responsible for the tax outlets, who to collect, who not to collect, how much to collect, usually they decide by one mouth, there may not be a lot of oil and water in this, because powerful people will not pay taxes, they can only pick some wool from ordinary people.

Zhang Qi, Hu Kang, and Jiang Chao are responsible for the landscape pool, and there are fixed expenditures every month every year, and how much of these expenditures are actually used and how much of them flow into their own pockets is also intriguing.

Xiong Tingzhong and Liao Wensheng also have a lot of free control here, how much to salvage, how much to report, how much to purchase, they have the final say, they can salvage 500 catties a day, send 300 catties to the palace, and then sell 200 catties, and even when there is spare money in the department, they say that they don't get a catty, and they can directly buy the fish they salvaged at a high price, and under the previous pastor's resignation, the middle pastor is too lazy to take care of things, and the person who summarizes and controls these interests should be Huang Xuan, After all, he is an old qualification of the Fisheries Department, and all interests cannot be separated from him.

Sun Xiangfu doesn't want to cut off other people's financial routes, in his opinion, it's no problem for a small official to get some oil and water, as long as he finishes his business, just like he came to be an official, not because of how loyal he is to the emperor, it's just that he wants to live safer in this feudal society, as long as others don't smash his pot, he won't smash other people's pots.

Therefore, when Sun Xiangfu announced that everything was business as usual, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, after all, he was not stunned, and he would carry out any reforms as soon as he came, touching everyone's interests.