Right Prime Minister Wen Yanbo hurriedly walked up the steps of Ziwei Palace, and came to the imperial study in the apse, he waited at the door for a while, a eunuch went in to report, and came out in a moment: "The official family invites Wen Xianggong to enter!" ”

Wen Yanbo walked into the imperial study, only to see that Han Qi was already sitting aside, Wen Yanbo hurriedly saluted: "Weichen see Your Majesty!" ”

"The minister of literature is exempt from courtesy, give me a seat!"

A eunuch brought a chair, Wen Yanbo also sat down, Zhao Zhen smiled slightly: "I am talking to Han Xianggong about Fan Ning, and I also accidentally learned that Fan Ning has returned to Beijing, has he already gone through the resignation procedures?" ”

"As far as Weichen knows, it seems that it has been done the day before yesterday."

"And how is his new job arranged?"

Wen Yanbo glanced at Han Qi, bowed slightly, and said, "The opinion of the officials is to arrange for him to enter the Privy Council, and Han Xianggong should also know." ”

Han Qi smiled, "The Privy Council welcomes Fanning's arrival!" ”

"What about the opinion of the prefectural government?" Zhao Zhen asked again.

Generally, officials below the seventh rank are directly appointed by the Ministry of Officials, above the seventh grade, and below the third grade, it is the Ministry of Officials who propose a plan and the decision is made by the Zhizheng Hall, and the officials above the third rank are appointed by the Son of Heaven, but the Son of Heaven has the right to interfere with the appointment of important officials above the fifth grade, and the degree of importance, the right to interpret lies in Zhao Zhen, the Son of Heaven, who believes that important is important.

Wen Yanbo immediately realized that Zhao Zhen was afraid that he was going to interfere with Fan Ning's appointment.

He pondered and said: "The opinion of the Zhizheng Hall is slightly different, for example, Han Xianggong supports the plan of the Ministry of Officials, and Fu Xianggong advocates that Fan Ning continue to serve in the overseas Jiedu Mansion, and Weichen considers that Fanning still needs to be trained, and it is best to let him go to the place to be a transfer envoy, as for where to go, Weichen has not yet considered it." ”

After a pause, Wen Yanbo asked again, "Does Your Majesty have any suggestions?" ”

Zhao Zhen took a copy of "Chao Bao" from the table and handed it to Wen Yanbo, "Wen Xianggong take a look at today's "Chao Bao". ”

It is an open secret that the Son of Heaven likes to read the "Chao Pao", but several Xiangguo know that the Son of Heaven not only likes to read the "Chao Pao", but also likes to read the "Tabloid" and understands the people's livelihood from the newspaper.

Wen Yanbo took the "Chao Bao", only to see the headline on the front page: 'Kunzhou's Million Gold'.

This is the style of the "Chao Pao", the headline is more neutral, and if it is published in the tabloid, the headline will definitely be: "The Secret of a Million Gold".

Wen Yanbo took a closer look, and it turned out that Kunzhou's supervision system for officials was actually written in detail in Fanning's work report, but Wen Yanbo and all Xiangguo believed that Kunzhou was special and could not be compared with other state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty.

The key is that the officials went to Kunzhou to gild, the purpose was to turn into Beijing officials, not to make money, the purpose of the officials was obvious, of course, they were relatively clean.

Moreover, Kunzhou is basically a young official, with relatively simple thoughts, ideals, and enthusiasm, and is far from being corroded by the rules of officialdom.

Besides, Fanning himself may not be incorruptible, everyone knows about his two cousins' gold panning in Kunzhou, and the Son of Heaven will not pursue it.

Wen Yanbo didn't know why Bai Zi let him read this article, he said for a while: "The situation in Kunzhou is special, and their experience may not be suitable for other state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"I also know that the situation in Kunzhou is special, but I think that Fan Ning said it well, 'If you find signs of mistakes by officials, you should stop them in time, not to punish them, but to protect them, so that they don't fall deeper and deeper into prison, and finally go to jail, which is a love for officials!' Isn't that right? ”

Wen Yanbo smiled bitterly, this truth is indeed relatively novel, but it is not realistic, officials do everything to make money, and they are all recidivists when they are discovered, how can there be any first offense.

At this time, Han Qi coughed lightly and smiled: "Does the official family think that Fan Ning has the talent of supervision?" ”

Han Qi's words suddenly made Wen Yanbo wake up, it turned out that the official family wanted Fan Ning to be the supervisor, and it is estimated that this article of "Chao Bao" touched the heart of the official family, and he looked up at Zhao Zhen, wanting to get Zhao Zhen's affirmative answer.

Zhao Zhen smiled faintly, "Fan Ning is a fourth-grade official, according to the regular system, it should be appointed by the Zhizheng Hall, I just made a suggestion, you go and study it!" ”

"Wechen obeys!"

Wen Yanbo and Han Qi got up and saluted, and then retired.

..........

Fanning moved back to his mansion in Feihongqiao today, and they took three large boats by water to transport Fanning and their luggage to the mansion.

Zhu Yuanfeng sent sixteen servants to Fanning's house to do things, the housekeeper is still the former Wu housekeeper, she is responsible for the internal, external is Zhu Yuanfeng's third housekeeper, surnamed Zhang, he is responsible for dealing with the outside world, this is also the rule of the general family, there is a housekeeper inside and outside.

These sixteen male and female servants include coachmen, grooms, servants, porters, gardeners, cooks, rough maids, etc., and there are four small maids in the house, but they were brought back by Zhu Pei from Kunzhou, all of them are Japanese ladies, who have served them for two years, and they all want to come to the capital with the mistress.

Then there is the inner room maid Aya, this is the personal maid who serves Fan Ning and his wife at night, she is more special, and there is also a special person is Jian Meizi, who belongs to a transcendent existence in the mansion, almost half of the master.

"Madam, there are not many houses in the back house, can the four maids of the inner house live in Cuiyun Tower, and the sword girl can live in the west courtyard."

As the housekeeper's wife, the Wu family has to arrange the residence of all the servants, the inner house only has two courtyards, the east and west courtyards, the east courtyard is the master's bedroom and inner study, the west courtyard is temporarily empty, Zhu Pei wants to live in the west courtyard with four maids in the inner house, but the housekeeper's wife feels that it is inappropriate, whether it is the east courtyard or the west courtyard is where the master lives, Aya has a special situation, she can live in the east courtyard, but the four maids live in the west courtyard is a bit out of line.

Juppé thought about it, so he nodded, "Okay! The four of them live in the left wing room on the first floor, two people in a room, Aunt Wu also lives in the left wing room, Steward Zhang wants to go home at night, but the house wants to leave a room for him, there will be no guest rooms in our house in the future, there are guests who can live in Furong Lane, which is specially for guests to live. ”

The housekeeper Wu nodded, "I know!" ”

At this time, Jian Meizi said on the side: "I also live in Cuiyun Building, I like to live in a high place, can I give me the suite on the third floor?" ”

The third floor of Cuiyun Building is the library, but there is a two-room suite on the right, the window is just facing the east courtyard of the back house, and the straight-line distance from the bedroom of Fan Ning and his wife is only three zhang, of course, ordinary people have to run downstairs, and then go around a big circle to get to the east courtyard, but for Jian Meizi is different, if there is any emergency, she jumps from the window to the corner eaves, and then jumps into the east courtyard with a light jump.

Because the situation in the back house can be clearly seen above the third floor of Cuiyun Building, under normal circumstances, Fan Ning does not let people live on the third and fourth floors, only the servants who clean the room during the day can go up, but Jian Meizi is more special, Zhu Pei smiled: "If Sister Jian wants to live, I have no opinion, and there should be no problem on the official side." ”

"Then I'll move in."

Jian Meizi carried her luggage and went directly to Cuiyun Tower.

Wu said to Zhu Pei again: "There is also the kitchen cooking, Madame see if you want to arrange two kitchens and separate the big kitchen and the small kitchen?" ”

Zhu Pei thought for a while and said, "It's okay to arrange two kitchens, but the cook doesn't have to divide them." ”

"Alright! Then I'll arrange it. ”

At this time, Zhu Pei saw her husband, and saw that he was directing several family members to place Cuiyun Peak, when they were not in the capital, Cuiyun Feng moved to the third grandfather's mansion, and only moved over yesterday, Fan Ning felt that it was not placed, and commanded Jia Ding to place it again.

"Madame!"

The porter hurriedly ran over and said, "There are three palace people outside!" ”

Zhu Pei hurriedly shouted to Fanning: "Husband, someone is in the palace!" ”

Fan Ning was stunned, and hurriedly turned around and went out, and Zhu Pei instructed the housekeeper to make tea money for the eunuchs in the palace.

There were three eunuchs leading horses standing outside the gate, and when they saw Fan Ning coming out, the first eunuch stepped forward and saluted with a smile: "The miscellaneous family is the inner servant Wang Qun, and the official family summoned Fan Zhizhou to the palace to meet him, and we are here to report!" ”

"It's hard work for the three fathers-in-law, are you entering the palace now?"

"That's right! The official family is waiting in the imperial study, Fan Zhizhou, please come with us. ”

Fan Ning hurriedly ordered the carriage to be prepared, and the housekeeper came out and stuffed the three skins into the three eunuchs, "A little heart, drink tea for the three fathers-in-law!" ”

The three of them took the heavy silver, and immediately smiled, "Thank you!" Thanks a lot! ”

At this time, a gorgeous carriage slowly came, pulled by two tall horses, whether the carriage is gorgeous or not does not matter, the key is that the number of horses is exquisite, the Son of Heaven by six, the prince by five, the kings by four, from the three grades of high-ranking officials by three, hundreds of officials by two, civilians by one, the hierarchy is strict.

In fact, the carriage on Fanning's mansion can also use three horses, his title is from the Taikang Marquis of Sanpin, but it is better to try to be low-key, he usually rides horses, and the carriage is used by his wife Zhu Pei, today because of entering the palace, the situation is more special, so take the carriage.

Fanning got into the carriage, and the three eunuchs on horseback followed the carriage in the direction of the palace.