Sitting in the office on the second floor of Ju Ren Hall, Lin Zhe did not rush to open the various documents that had been placed on the desk, and these documents on the table were either reports and documents from the cabinet and the high command, or they were sent by the senior officials below.

And these documents can't be urgent documents, if they are urgent documents, such as major military information, even if they are announced, they will not be said to be on Lin Zhe's desk waiting for him to read them.

And he is not in a hurry about these daily documents, anyway, there are so many things, he can't finish it in the morning and at night, even if he is immersed in 24-hour work, he will always have a lot of documents on his desk.

So he sat down on the sofa used to meet his subordinates, and then started making tea by himself!

Although Lin Zhe also drank tea in his previous life, it was just as water, and he didn't have any special hobbies, and after coming to this world, he didn't have a special preference for tea in the past few years, but he often greeted his subordinates in the office to drink tea in order to show his affection and attention, and he got used to drinking it over time.

Now he is accustomed to making tea, not because he likes to drink it, but because he is used to it!

Pour water and boil water, wait for the water to boil first warm a cup, and then pinch a small pinch of tea leaves into the teapot, and wait for the boiling water in the kettle to cool slightly, after leaving eight or nine minutes of heat after pouring water into the pot, the white mountain spring water is like a thin line floating into the teapot, the tea leaves in the teapot are immediately churned up under the water rush, and the faint white mist between the churning gradually rises, and at the same time, a fragrance of tea leaves is also emitted in the air.

The tea used here is this spring's West Lake Longjing, of course. This tea is good, but it is definitely not a rare product with only a few tea trees on the edge of a cliff. It is produced by the royal family's own tea plantation in Hangzhou's West Lake.

The predecessor of the royal industry was the Lin family firm, although it was mainly engaged in raw silk. But like other big families, they also do a lot of messy industries, in the past, the Lin family's industries involved many industries, inns, cloth, all kinds of shops, even pawnshops, rice shops, but they are all small businesses. It's about making money, but it's better to say it's for your own service.

The Lin family has a tea house in Hangzhou, the scale is not large, and a very small number of treasures in the tea produced are all used by the Lin family or given to relatives and friends, and the remaining ones will be sold a little less, in addition to various expenses such as labor in a year, when the year is good, it is more than a few hundred taels, and when it is bad, it is not enough to make ends meet.

The current tea house is still the same, and the people in charge of these miscellaneous industries in the royal industry are also engaged in a signboard of royal tea. Trying to expand the scale and speculate the price of the tea plantation, but it will not be fruitful for a while!

After brewing a pot of tea, Lin Zhe drank it. While looking out the window again, there was a large open space outside Pingrentang, empty of nothing. Further afield, there are buildings such as the Xinhua Hall and the Zhonghua Gate, which are still under construction.

In fact, Lin Zhe is still quite satisfied with this Pingrentang, although the local pattern is a little smaller. But there are small benefits, such as the lack of space now. Most of the institutions of the palace affairs department are still set up outside the palace, and only some important departments of the secretariat and the chamberlain have set up offices in Pingrentang, and the total number of people is about 40.

There are fewer people, and it will be quieter, and it will not be the same as when I was in the official residence of the business district, where hundreds of people are huddled together to work.

And once the Xinhua Hall is built, it is estimated that it will also revert to this kind of filling, in addition to the financial department of the palace affairs department, other people will definitely be stationed in the office, and then the headquarters will definitely set up an institution in the Xinhua Palace, and the people on the cabinet side will definitely run where every day, when the time comes, there will be a huge Xinhua Palace, and it is estimated that there are two or three hundred people in the office.

There is no way, although this Xinhua Hall is used as the former main hall, but from the beginning the design of this building is to office, reception.

It's not like other feudal dynasties, spending a lot of money to build a huge palace, and you can't use it a few times a year!

If it is more realistic, then this Xinhua Hall is actually an office building, and it has little to do with the palace.

After drinking a cup of tea, Lin Zhecai sat behind his desk, and according to his previous office habits, he first read the daily briefings handed over by the cabinet and the high command.

There is nothing big about the cabinet side, it is all about the daily affairs of various departments, and after Lin Zhe glanced at it, he put down the briefing on the cabinet side.

Then I took down the briefing of the Command, and the briefing of the Commanding Department said more, first of all, it was the movement of several large armies outside, saying that Shi Qingxuan in northern Jiangsu had led the army back to the south, and was standing in Taoyuan and the Qing army.

He also said that Fujian's Third Army recently fought with the Qing army again in the area of Zhangzhou Prefecture in Fujian, and annihilated hundreds of enemies!

In addition to these simple battle reports, it is also said that the winter clothes of the troops are still insufficient, although the quartermaster department has tried its best to procure them, but the number of winter clothes purchased at present is still not enough, and the several troops fighting in the north are better, and the winter clothes have been prepared and distributed before, but the winter clothes of several units fighting in the south, such as the Third Army, have not yet been found.

The Ministry of Munitions places orders everywhere, but due to the large number, and there is no large-scale, modern garment and quilt factory in China, in the past few years, they are looking for some big businessmen to disperse orders, and these big businessmen are not their own organization of manual production, but the orders are subdivided, and finally often fall into some small-scale handicraft workshops, or some women from the shops to receive materials, and then go home to do their own.

This model is troublesome, and after being passed through the layers of hands, the price is a little high, if it were not for Lin Zhe's strict prohibition of the military to mess up the business, it is estimated that the military will have to open its own factory to produce clothes, shoes and hats by itself.

However, in order to maintain the purity of the army and avoid turning the army into a business businessman or the like, Lin Zhe has never been allowed to do so, even if it is an arsenal, the military cannot directly intervene.

If the military wants to build an arsenal, it can only be supported by the mode of advance payment, and it cannot be said that it directly opens an arsenal, and it is even more useless to engage in a clothing factory.

You can't do it yourself. There are no large-scale clothing factories in the private sector, and the current purchase price of military uniforms and clothing is too high. Therefore, the Ministry of Munitions mentioned in the briefing whether it is possible to let the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Cabinet coordinate. Solve the problem of the difficulty of the military in procuring clothing.

Seeing this, Lin Zhe picked up a pen and drew a circle, and then annotated next to it: Transfer to the Cabinet of Industry and Commerce for discussion!

These daily routine briefings are not much, and there are only about twenty of them on both the military and political sides combined, and he quickly read them, and after dealing with them, he looked up.

There are also three stacks of documents, and the first stack is a detailed report of seven or eight points handed over by the cabinet, which is not a briefing. And it's all tomes, usually dozens of pages up.

Picked up the top one, only weighed the thickness and knew that it was at least fifty pages or more, Lin Zhe didn't have time to read them all, he just read the previous overview, which was a report on the rectification of the customs in various places, the city gate tax and other checkpoint taxes, which was handed over by the Commercial Tax Department of the Ministry of Finance.

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Lin Zhe didn't look at the content carefully, he casually flipped through two pages, and then picked up the pen to annotate: transfer it to the secretariat for reading.

And then the next few documents, he mostly handled it in this way. In particular, the Ministry of Justice handed over a new version of the Criminal Law Rules, which is not only hundreds of pages long, but also some extremely boring technical terms. He didn't even look at it, and directly instructed the secretariat to read!

To put it simply, it is to have many secretaries of the Secretariat look at these tomes. Then make a suggestion to Lin Zhe and let Lin Zhe know what these reports say.

Then I came to look at the recitals handed by the subordinates. The emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties had thousands of concerts a day, but Lin Zhe only read dozens of concerts a day, because only middle and high-level officials at the local government level, central ministries and departments, and other middle and senior officials could send secret folds in.

There are not many of them, so Lin Zhe looked at them a little more carefully, and after opening the package, he saw that they were all thankful folds and threw them down directly, these thankful folds were all thankful folds when middle and senior officials had new appointments or other rewards, and they had no practical significance, so Lin Zhe didn't look at them and threw them aside.

However, there were several letters of impeachment against others, one of which was written by Xue Huan, the governor of Jiangsu, and the impeachment was by a number of officials under his rule in Jiangsu.

When he came over again, he saw the fold handed over by Song Guanqian to talk about the corruption of the grassroots officials in the He Susongtai area, and his brows wrinkled when he looked at it, and after reading it, he took Xue Huan's fold again, and successively instructed in these two folds: "Transfer it to the Inspectorate!" ”

This instruction is not 'reading', but 'discussion'. It means that the Inspectorate will deal with this matter, and then report a result to Lin Zhe!

It can be seen from the above that in fact, Lin Zhe's daily work does not say that he reads documents every day, because he rarely deals with the content of these reports personally, and his processing mode or instructions can be roughly divided into these types:

The most commonly used, and at the same time, the simplest is 'read' and 'know', which has no special meaning, if there is no special, most of Lin Zhe's instructions are these words.

Then there are some instructions with a large number of words: for example, 'transfer to the secretariat for reading', which means that I have not read the document, and I will make a decision when the secretaries of the secretariat read it in detail.

Then there is the 'transfer to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Finance to read', this kind of general design to multi-department coordination work, for example, the military requires the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to cooperate with the procurement of winter clothes, this is the case, the military side can not directly find the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, so Lin Zhe became a central coordinator.

And then it's 'transfer to a certain ministry, and a certain person discuss', which is basically a direct order to let a certain department or official start a certain work, and Lin Zhe wants to get a result on a certain matter.

Then there are some less useful ones, such as 'transfer to the ministry', which says that the matter is important, and the cabinet departments should hold a joint meeting to conduct special discussions, make decisions, and report the results to Lin Zhe.

There are also some direct rejections, which are generally used with the word 'reconsideration'.

Lin Zhe did not learn from those ancient diligent emperors, every day to look at the twists and turns, for some daily government affairs, he is mostly not in charge, and some important matters are also handed over to the secretariat to do the work, the work he has to do is actually very simple, that is, to sit on his throne, looking down on these subordinates who work for him, who does a good job will reward whom, whoever does a bad job will punish whom.

The core of the so-called emperor's art is nothing more than two words: control!

As for those rulers who like to grasp everything in their own hands and meddle in everything, they have either crippled the country or crippled themselves, and there has been no exception from ancient times to the present.

For Lin Zhe, the daily government affairs are not to deal with these documents, but to meet with military dignitaries!

Basically, Lin Zhe will meet with a number of generals and officials every day, most of the time is arranged in the afternoon, but sometimes it is also arranged in the morning, which mainly depends on the time and itinerary planning of the secretariat.

After clearing these official documents on the table, Lin Zhe looked up at the time, the clock had already shown that it was almost eleven o'clock, and immediately pulled down the drawstring next to it, and soon there were two taps outside, and then the door was pushed open and a person wearing Chinese clothes walked in, about thirty years old.

Lin Zhe leaned back on the chair, and said while relaxing his body: "I remember that there was an arrangement this morning, who is it, have you arrived?" ”

Immediately, the accompanying secretary just put away a large pile of documents on the table, and said at the same time: "It's Lord Tai from the Finance Department, he is already waiting outside!" ”

Lin Zhe closed his eyes: "Bring him in in fifteen minutes, and prepare tea, replace it with oolong tea!" ”

The entourage secretary immediately bowed his head and said yes, and then went out with a pile of documents! (To be continued......)