Wu Zetian finished sealing Wu Yanzhi's official and knighthood, looked at Xue Jichang again, and said with a smile: "Xue Aiqing has also made great contributions to the country and the selection of talents for me. I will let you serve as the governor of Luo, and be responsible for the management of the Divine Capital. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness! The minister must do his best to die, and take care of Luoyang, the capital of the gods! When Xue Jichang heard this, his face was full of surprise! Unexpectedly, he was promoted from the fifth grade ministry to the third grade.

The history of Luozhou is concurrently served by the prince, so Changshi is the number one, that is, the later Henan Yin, who is in charge of the divine capital Luoyang and more than a dozen surrounding counties, and is in a high position.

Wu Zetian turned her head to look at Wu Yanzhi's spirits, she was very happy. And said, "Yanzhi, where do you live now?" ”

"Aunt Qi, my grandson now lives in Xuantian Temple, which is very good!"

"Oh? What's good, don't lie to me, you must be poor and have no money, right? The master of the view is willing to take you in the view, and he also has a heart, so I will give him the doctor Chaosan, the prince of Changshui County.

In addition, I will give you another 200 horses and 500 pieces of money, and you should also prepare some salutes, and when you go out on an errand, don't be too shabby. ”

"Grandson thanks to grandmother for her great kindness!" Wu Yanzhi's face was full of excitement. This old lady is really good to herself, she can't see that she is the one who wants to kill her own son in order to be the emperor!

"Okay, retreat!"

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!" The people bowed their heads in unison.

After the emperor left, Wu Sansi said a few words to Wu Yanzhi to grasp the cliché of copper smelting, and left.

Wu Yanzhi and Xue Jichang complimented each other. Li Bochang, the secretary of the Si Si, ran over with a smile and said, "How?" Wu Lang was promoted from white clothes to the county prince and Wupinlang, and Li congratulated Wu Lang. I don't know if Wu Lang is free at noon, please go to the despicable cold house for a few drinks? ”

"Thank you! Let's talk about it another day, there are still some trivial things for the contemptible people to return to the Taoist temple, and I will ask Li Gong to bring more support in the future! "Wu Yanzhi doesn't want to drink any wine with him, he is not familiar with people, how can he drink the wine?

"Wu Lang is the emperor's person, where do contemptible people dare to take care of and support? By the way, just now the saint said that he wanted to give Wu Lang a room to the sect, and I happen to be free today, so it is better to ask Wu Lang to go to the office of the Si Affiliated Temple now and do this matter! Li Bochang said with a smile.

He saw that Wu Yanzhi refused to go to his house at noon, but he thought of another way to treat him.

Wu Yanzhi couldn't, so he had to nod and say, "Okay, Wansheng will go with Gong Li now!" ”

Xue Jichang looked at it and shook his head, this Li Bochang is too good at slapping horses. So he rushed to Wu Yan's way: "Wu Lang, you have to hurry up to receive the holy reward and the officials to take their own lives." In addition, you also have the position of envoy, and you also have to choose judges, inspectors and other staff, there are a lot of things, farewell! With that, he turned around and left, ignoring this Li Bochang.

Li Bochang can go from being a high-ranking official from outside the stream to a high-ranking official of the third grade, and he is naturally not very human. He didn't care that Xue Jichang despised him.

He said in his heart: This Xue Jichang is too straightforward to speak. Now the Wu and Li families are competing for the position of crown prince, and the situation is very delicate and complicated. You don't know how to avoid it, I'm afraid that there will be times when you will suffer!

At this time, Qiao Gong, the chief eunuch of Shang Fangjian, as well as Zhang Zhiguan and Wen Zhiguan, also came over to say goodbye. Na Qiao Gong said: "In the future, many affairs of Shang Fang Prison will be under the leadership of Wu Lang, please go to the prison more often!" ”

"Why did Gong Qiao say this? The contemptible person is just a five-grade lang, how can he dare to say that he leads the affairs of your eunuch? Joe's words are serious! "Wu Yanzhi doesn't quite understand this management procedure yet.

At this time, Li Bochang smiled and said: "Wu Lang is humble! Don't you know, in addition to the Winter Official Shangshu and the Squire, you are ranked No. 3, and the other three Winter Officials are all below you.

Shang Fangjian is also the one who executes the decrees of the Winter Officials, and you are the copper and iron envoy, and you are the Qincha, who is in charge of the mining and smelting of all metals in the world, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, etc.!

Shang Fangjian happens to be in charge of these things, so well, Wu Lang, you are naturally in charge of this Shang Fangjian too.

Besides, aren't you still the chief official of Shang Fangjian? Naturally, they have to consult Wu Lang for a lot of things! ”

Yes? Wu Yan was stunned, this copper and iron envoy is actually Qincha? He didn't expect that the chief official of Shang Fangjian might be equivalent to the chief engineer of the Ministry of Metallurgy in his previous life, but he understood this. Of course, this ministry was abolished many years ago.

Wu Yanzhi and Qiao Gong exchanged a few polite words, and Qiao Gong was going to feast on Wu Yanzhi, but he was preempted by Li Bochang, so he arched his hand and said: "Qiao Mou said goodbye!" When he is free, he will talk to Wu Lang in detail! ”

The two officials were also very modest, completely devoid of their previous arrogance, and repeatedly bid farewell to Wu Yanzhi.

Wu Yanzhi shook his head and said secretly: "In this ancient world, the humility of the upper and lower levels is too serious!" They are all higher than themselves, and they are several times older than themselves!

Just because they are now copper and iron envoys and relatives of the emperor, they are cautious about themselves and dare not slack off at all! Alas......"

As soon as Li Bochang saw that everyone was gone, he said, "Wu Lang, let's go!" ”

On the way, Wu Yanzhi was not very familiar with the rules of officialdom, so he carefully asked Li Bochang about the envoy, household closure, rent collection and other issues.

Li Bochang was also willing to explain to him: "Wu Lang! This post is specially sealed, and his subordinates are generally equipped with a judge, a secretary, and an inspector. Of course, if you don't think it's enough, you can also apply to the government office to increase the number of people.

The general staff officials are all chosen to be Jinshi or literati from the Ming Classics. Also, this job also has additional miscellaneous money, which is similar to the sum of the money, monthly food, food, etc.

After three days, you can go to the Ministry of Officials to take a complaint, and then handle the entry and other related matters. As for the reward, if you are not in a hurry to use it, you can receive it at any time.

There are also the 300 households that are sealed, and the big households near Luoyang must have been robbed by others. Wu Lang might as well choose from a distance, such as Laizhou and Dengzhou, aren't you the duke of Donglai County? It's just right.

You must go to the household department and try to pick the big ones as you can, they have account books there! And you don't have to collect the rent in person, the state and county will send people to send all the corn, silk, cotton, cloth and other things to Luoyang for free, and you don't need to spend a penny more.

If it is normally calculated at 4 ding per household, the closed household will receive two-thirds of the tax. In a year, there are 1,600 stone millet, 3,200 horses of silk, and 240 catties of cotton, which is about 2,300 yuan of income, which is much higher than my income! ”

"Are there still Tian Zuo Zhi Tian and Yongye Tian around here?" Wu Yanzhi asked again.

"There should be fields near Luoyang! You only need to rent the land to the family, and they will send the rent to the house every year. The imperial court stipulates that the rent of one mu of land cannot exceed six buckets of millet, and the forage is not counted, and it is generally two-way grass.

In fact, according to the rent collection of one stone, many people do not care about the laws of the imperial court. The government also turned a blind eye, and no one cared. Because the people in charge of this matter are like you and me, they are all people who also have jobs, and who wants to offend people and be thankless? ”

Then Li Bochang explained the general points to Wu Yanzhi in detail. Wu Yan listened, where to put hundreds of thousands of catties of grain and thousands of horses of silk a year?

When the time comes, most of them will not only be sold and exchanged for precious metals such as gold and silver.