The atmosphere of the New Year has long since dissipated, and Jingzhao officials have already begun to live in a step-by-step officialdom. The same is true for Shen Huashan and Shen Zejing. The first official matter of the beginning of spring is related to Shen Huashan, and it is also his business.

On the seventh day of the first month of February, Yuan Kezhen, the squire of the Ministry of Industry, and He Kuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Water of the Ministry of Industry, said that the water conservancy and dredging of the river were rectified, and the Changtai Emperor ordered that all the blocked rivers be dredged within the scope of Jiangnan Province and Hanoi Road, and that the river embankment should be strengthened after spring ploughing.

Earlier, Si Tiantai has already drawn out Yi Wei Kun Lingtu no vain hexagram, the hexagram said "the sky will rain, there is no hurdle, and there are many people suffering from rain when the flood is coming", and there is a hexagram saying "natural disasters are coming, and the animals are waiting for it, and people will be free from hunger", this hexagram shows that there will be a flood disaster in Dayong this summer, and the officials of Si Tiantai immediately told this hexagram to the relevant officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Water Supervision Department, so that they can prepare. Yuan Kezhen and Shen Huashan consulted for instructions, and met with the Ministry of Water and the officials of the Metropolitan Water Supervision Department, and they all thought that this matter should be put on the agenda, there are many waterways in Jiangnan Province and Hanoi Province, and there are many large and small water conservancy facilities, if there is really a big flood this summer, then these tasks must be done well, and it is imperative to improve water conservancy and dredge rivers.

This matter is related to the long-term peace and stability of Dayong, and Emperor Changtai immediately ordered Jiang Chenghai, the servant of the Ministry of Households, and Zhang Xi, the Shilang of the Duzhi of the Ministry of Households, together with Yuan Kezhen of the Ministry of Industry, He Kuandu, the Minister of Water of the Ministry of Industry, and Han Zhong, the envoy of the Water Supervision of the Capital, to lead the matter; Ye Zhengchun, the observer of Jiangnan Province, and Wei Liangcha, the observer of Hanoi Province, also urged this matter, and also reported the situation of water control in various localities in a timely manner, and it was necessary to make sure that the river was dredged and the berm was reinforced.

The relevant officials named received the order one by one, and the official documents sent to Jiangnan and Hanoi would also issue the order of Emperor Changtai, and the matter of controlling the water was carried out one after another in the spring, and after the spring plowing and spring sowing were over, more people were mobilized to participate in this matter.

After Yuan Ke really went up, the court officials discussed the second thing, which was really a big deal compared to controlling the water. Water control is mainly carried out in Jiangnan and Hanoi, not to mention 108,000 miles away from the Jingzhao officials, it can also be said to be quite far away, except for the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Water Supervision officials, the Beijing officials do not care at all, they are more concerned about the current major event, Changtai 36 years, and it is the year of the five-year examination, the five-year event, which is related to the promotion of Dayong officials, is actually directly related to the net worth and life of Dayong officials, can this not be taken seriously? Many officials are simply enthusiastic, not only thinking about taking advantage of the year of the exam to be promoted to the first class, but also thinking about letting competitors make mistakes so that the examination department can seize the handle, the court can be said to be filled with an invisible smoke of gunpowder, many officials looked at Shen Zejing's eyes became extremely enthusiastic and enthusiastic, Rao is Shen Zejing was extremely calm and felt a little hairy in his heart: This is not me alone.

According to the past practice, Emperor Changtai appointed officials to take the examination, and ordered the Ministry of Officials to preside over the examination in conjunction with the Imperial Historical Observatory. Among them, Xu Youyuan, the secretary of the ministry, and Gong Ruxi, the imperial historian, presided over the inspection of the official examination of the Ministry of Officials, and Gong Ruxi, the imperial historian, for the official examination of the school in Beijing, and the official examination of the Beijing superintendent, Shen Zejing is mainly responsible for the examination of Beijing officials above the seventh grade and below the fifth grade, and Gu Zicheng, the outer officer, is responsible for the examination of the Beijing foreign officials below the fifth grade. The "merits and demerits" of the prince, the middle book, the Sanpin Beijing official, and the Seven Great Avenue Observation Envoys were directly reported to the Menxia Province, and after the Menxia Province gave the matter and the service to the middle of the examination, the emperor personally presided over the examination, and ordered that the assessment officials should not engage in favoritism and malpractice, and that the ranking of the officials should be strictly in accordance with the ranking rules to determine the ranking of the officials, and the praise and depreciation of the evaluation style must be just, fair and grounded, and the division of labor between the officials and the Imperial Historical Observatory will be checked and balanced, and if favoritism and fraud are found, they will be punished by criminal law! It is necessary to complete the examination and so on.

Shen Zejing and other officials naturally received orders one by one. More than 210 years after the establishment of the country, after years of formulation, exploration, and development, the examination has been quite mature and complete, and the officials of the Ministry and the Imperial History Observatory are also familiar with this, especially since the Changtai Emperor, the officials have also had a lot of experience in dealing with the examination, although the examination is still extremely strict, but the room for calculation is also loosened a lot, favoritism? How could it be, that is, to plan and plan within a reasonable range for the old in-laws, and the Yushitai will also turn a blind eye, and Dali Temple will not be held accountable.

So the officials withdrew from the court with their own little calculations, and the emperor's will was to be implemented, but how to implement it and how hard to implement it were all things to be discussed by the officials of the Ministry of Ministers and the Imperial Historical Observatory in private.

The Shen family has also become lively because of these two things, Shen Huashan is in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and there are also officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Water Supervision Department to visit, Jiang Chenghai, the household servant Jiang Chenghai needless to say, he and Shen Huashan have a deep friendship, and now because of the matter of water control, there are official contacts, on this day, he also came to visit Shen Huashan, for the sake of water control, and it is natural that he can't shout loudly in the Ministry of Industry.

The two of them were talking about the money and money of the water. In fact, the household department allocates money to various provinces and states for water conservancy every year, but it is often given money, repaired and repaired every year, and washed out every year. When he heard this number, Jiang Chenghai's heart skipped a few beats, his annual income was only more than 1,300 taels, although the ministry was in charge of the world's wealth, but he had to spend five million taels at once, where could the household department afford it? This is not a matter of 52,500,000 taels, but 5,000,000 taels.

However, water control is a critical matter, and the Yushitai has to take charge of the examination course, where are the redundant officials who go to the scene one by one to verify whether these situations are true? If there are officials who fill their pockets and falsely report the situation, isn't the household department doing a big deal? If so much money is really needed, if the river collapses and the people are displaced because the household department is unable to allocate money in time, it is not only a matter of money, it is a problem of people. As soon as he thought of this, Jiang Chenghai felt that his head hurt, and he and Zheng Pucun, the secretary of the household department, divided into two ways, one was Zheng Pucun to find Emperor Changtai to explain the situation, and the other way was naturally Jiang Chenghai came to Shen Huashan, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, to discuss countermeasures.

Unfortunately, Shen Huashan has no way to deal with this, which is actually a major concern for the Ministry of Industry. The difficulty of water control, the difficulty of flooding, not only lies in the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, the most related to it is the rule of officials, the sages have sighed "The law of the country makes it, and the people who fight the basket are responsible!" Shen Huashan also felt helpless, he took office as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry for less than two years, and he also had a personal experience of the difficulty of water control, but his duty lies, although he knew that the difficulty of water control was tight, but he still asked Yuan Kezhen and others to ask for water control, and he really had to do such a thing.

The two of them smiled bitterly at each other, there was no way. Jiangnan Province is relatively better, the observation makes Ye Zhengchun and Shen Huashan have a good relationship, and he is Shen Zejing's teacher, plus Shen Kaishan is the assassin of Hangzhou, the situation in Jiangnan Province is estimated to be able to touch seven, seven, eight or eight, but Hanoi Road is not clear at all, Shen Yuxian is just a small priest in Xiangzhou, and he can't provide useful information at all.

The two of them thought about it a few more times, except for Shen Huashan who gave Ye Zhengchun a letter of repair, Jiang Chenghai decided to go to the imperial historian Gong Ruxi to chat, the Gong family and Hanoi Dao observed that the Wei family was about to get married, how could the Gong family know a little bit about these situations, right?

Compared with Shen Huashan's worries, Shen Zejing was also helpless. The liveliness of the Shen family also lies in the fact that many officials' wives have recently paid homage to the Shen family, and they all want to visit Shen Yu's family, for what, Shen Zejing and Shen Yu's naturally know, fortunately, Shen Yu's excuse for pregnancy pushed most of the officials, her belly is already very big, it is an excellent excuse, but Shen Zejing also knows the truth of being clear and having no fish and no disciples, which people must be pushed, which people must be seen, the Shen family naturally has a measurement, and has also visited several official families one after another, For example, Xu Shenxing's family in the military department came to visit on this day.

Xu Shenxing's official position is the same as Shen Zejing, so the two ladies are also close in age, and there are a lot of topics, most of which revolve around Shen Yu's pregnancy, Mrs. Xu sighed Shen Yu's good fortune, think about it, she is not bad, she has three sons and one daughter, this time she also brought her daughter Xu Mengyao with her, and let Xu Mengyao meet Shen Yu's family, and exchange names with Shen Ning, etc., Shen Ning had a relationship with Xu Mengyao when he was a guest soldier in the Chen family of Shangshu Mansion last year, and goodbye at this time, naturally there are a lot to say, The two of them talked about Chen Wanrou, the second princess, saying that the second prince accepted the side concubine Jiang again, saying that Chen Wanrou was not pregnant, etc., Mrs. Xu and Xu Mengyao also had lunch at the Shen family under the warm invitation of Shen Yu's family, and Shen Yu's family said unintentionally: "My master said that Xu Langzhong is righteous and fair, so things will go as he wishes, and I am really sorry to trouble you to go on this trip." Mrs. Xu also smiled, in fact, Shen Zejing had already promised Xu Shenxing, but Xu Shenxing thought that he would also pay a visit.

Another example is that Zhang Shu's family, a member of the Ministry of Rites, also came to visit, Zhang Shu is also from Hangzhou, and his Taishan Lord is Ye Zhengchun, with such a relationship, the Shen family naturally treats him warmly. Zhang Shu only took up the post of Wailang of the Ministry of Rites in May last year, and he also wanted to take advantage of this year's examination to make another move, when Shen Zejing and Zhang Shu were discussing in the front yard, Shen Huashan also came to see Zhang Shu, greeted Ye Zhengchun how he was doing, and asked Qingming if he was going back to Jiangnan, etc., Zhang Shu was respectful to Shen Huashan, and answered his inquiries one by one.

Shen Yu and Mrs. Zhang met when they were still in the boudoir, that is not close to two words can be described, speaking of which, Shen Zejing and Shen Yu's marriage is still Ye Zheng Chunbao's matchmaker, Mrs. Zhang has no daughter, she loves Shen Ning very much, and the meeting gift is also very heavy, it is a hairpin of Hetian jade carving, so precious that even Shen Ning is a little embarrassed, when she saw Shen Yu's nod, she said: "Thank you, aunt." Accept it, this aunt called Mrs. Zhang with a smile, and Shen Yu's agreed that when she washed the third fetus, she must call her, she wanted to come to add a pot to her nephew, and Shen Yu's also agreed with a smile.