In addition to Fan Ning, other officials who participated in the reform of the law were rewarded, such as Lu Chunqiu was promoted to Jingdong Road transfer envoy, the original Jingdong Road transfer envoy Wang Jian was reappointed as a pacification envoy, and Wang Anshi was promoted to know the affairs of Tianfu and took over Fan Ning's position.

Hou Wen, the former magistrate of Songcheng County, was promoted to the general judge, Lu Huiqing, who joined the army, was promoted to the seventh rank Xuande Lang, and was reappointed as the governor of Songcheng County, and Liu Chu was promoted to a doctor from the fifth rank of Chaosan, and served as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

In terms of military rank, Li Han was promoted to General Zhengwupin Dingyuan and served as the left general of the Shenwu Army.

Due to the restructuring of the Xiang Army into the forbidden army, all the generals were promoted to one level, and the soldiers' monthly salaries were increased by one or two yuan, and the military rewards were added.

In the Zhizheng Hall, Han Qi smiled at Fan Ning: "Although you are not very old, your qualifications are not short, you have been out of office for more than ten years, Feng Jing, who is only one year higher than you in the Jinshi examination, has also been promoted to the service system from the four-rank Longtu Pavilion, this time even promoted two levels actually has the meaning of making up for the promotion, if I am not mistaken, you were from the fourth grade five years ago!" ”

Fan Ning nodded, "When I came back from Kunzhou, I came from Sipin, and then my father Ding Wei stayed at home for a few years." ”

Han Qi said again: "Being an official requires political achievements, the better the political performance, the faster the official will be promoted, the reason why you can be promoted to the fourth grade at a young age is because you created the overseas economic strategy and established Kunzhou, making Kunzhou the largest horse farm and gold and silver production area in the Great Song Dynasty, it can be said that the merit lies in the community, and this time you were promoted from the fourth grade to the third grade, also because of the success of the army's law change, this is an extremely shining political achievement, no one will say anything about you!" ”

Fanning nodded silently, "Thank you for the public guide!" ”

Han Qi waved his hand again, "Past political achievements, even if they are in the past, you are now the crown prince Zhan Shi, in charge of the East Palace, where do you plan to start?" ”

Fan Ning thought for a moment and said, "I plan to start by improving the rules and regulations. ”

"This idea is good, the East Palace has been abandoned for decades, and the official position is in vain, as far as I know, the officials of the East Palace are very lazy, and there is even a matter of opening a store in the last dynasty, what you have to do is to rectify discipline, and you can't let people say behind your back that you are not strict."

"Remember."

"In addition, there is the army, although you have a military position, but you do not have an army rank, this is a typical civilian officer in charge of the army, and most of the civilian officials in charge of the army are named, regardless of specific military affairs, but I still ask you to arrest the affairs of the army, such as you try to change the method of separating people and personnel, the change of training and assessment, etc., you must continue to persevere, you must always pay attention to it, personally take care of it, and must not let this army degenerate after a few years, do you understand what I mean?"

Fan Ning knew very well what Han Qi meant, he actually wanted to firmly grasp this army in his hands, so that this army would become the first army of the Eastern Palace in the Great Song Dynasty and an army that Zhao Zhongzhen could command.

"What else would you like to say?"

Fan Ning sighed and said: "What I'm most worried about now is Ying Tianfu's reform experiment, Wang Anshi has many practices that I don't approve of, such as the Qingmiao Law, which I resisted before, and I am afraid that after he takes office, he will begin to vigorously promote the Qingmiao Law and harm the interests of the rich peasants." ”

"You don't have to worry about this matter, no matter how it changes, it should be in the heavens, it is impossible to promote it to the world, if it is found that the interests of the people are seriously infringed, the court will definitely interfere and order him to change back."

"Then please pay more attention to Ying Tianfu!"

"I will, in addition, if you are free, you still have to pay attention to the king of Julu County."

Fan Ning heard what Han Qi said, he didn't say to visit, but to pay attention, which made Fan Ning immediately realize something?

"What happened to the King of Julu County?"

Han Qi groaned and said, "He has been in a very abnormal mood recently, and the day before yesterday he was sent by the Son of Heaven to give him a serious warning, and he may be deprived of the throne. ”

Fanning frowned, "How could this happen?" ”

"I got a little bit of news, it seems that His Royal Highness the King of the County asked the imperial physician Zhang Hongji about something that should not be asked."

Fanning immediately reacted, "Did he ask about the physical condition of the Son of Heaven?" ”

"Seems like so."

"But he is the adopted son of the official family, as an adopted son, isn't it normal to care about his father's physical condition?"

Han Qi smiled bitterly, "There is a degree to many things, and it is okay to care, but if it exceeds that degree, it will be troublesome, and people have to suspect that Zhao Zongshi has selfishness." ”

Fanning was silent for a moment and said, "He still doesn't give up?" ”

"How could he give up? This kind of thing is taboo, everyone's hearts are like mirrors, if you don't touch it, everyone can be safe, but Zhao Zongshi just broke this balance, can you imagine the anger of the Son of Heaven? ”

Fan Ning pondered for a while and said: "Generally speaking, the imperial doctor will not easily stand in line to express his position, the normal way is that Zhang Hongji should not tell Zhao Zongshi, or say that he doesn't know, but he told Zhao Zongshi and at the same time went to complain to the Son of Heaven, could this be a trap?" ”

"You have a point, Zhang Hongji did say things that should not be said and did things that should not be done, which is a bit abnormal, and it is really like a trap."

Han Qi sighed, "It seems that Zhao Zongshi really did a big stupid thing. ”

"Then how much impact does this matter have on Zhao Zhongzhen?"

"The impact is not small, originally this time when the martial arts exercise should have announced the matter of the imperial grandson, but in the end, only the king of Feng Liang was announced, it must have been affected by this incident, obviously, the official family also has concerns, I am sure that the imperial grandson will not be easily announced."

Fan Ning suddenly became a little bigger, if Zhao Zhongzhen didn't enter the East Palace, what was the point of being the crown prince Zhan Shi?

Han Qi understood his worries, and said with a smile: "It's just that he doesn't have the title of the imperial grandson, but with the fact that the imperial grandson is the imperial grandson, the Son of Heaven will also start cultivating him, this point will not be ambiguous." ”

..

In the afternoon, Fan Ning returned to Zhu Yuanfeng's house, and Zhu Yuanfeng, who got the news, personally went out to welcome Fan Ning's return.

Although Zhu Yuanfeng himself is not in the officialdom, he has a very good understanding of the officialdom.

There are three major hurdles in the promotion of officials, the first hurdle is to be promoted from an alternate official to a Beijing official, that is, an official becomes a regular official, even if he is a jinshi, he will be faster if he has a background, and he will have to wait until he has a backstage, and it is normal to wait for ten or eight years.

The second hurdle is to be promoted from six to five grades, which is from Lang official to doctor, from intermediate official to senior official, without meritorious fame, and not from a special class such as a foreign relative meritorious family, then the six grades are basically at the top.

But even if you have a reputation for being a jinshi, but without political achievements, fame or a strong background, it is difficult to rise.

The third hurdle is to upgrade from the fourth grade to the third grade, which is a bit like the promotion of the department level to the provincial level in later generations.

The third-grade official was personally promoted by the Son of Heaven, at this time, the background background was useless, and the general political achievements could not be taken, there must be something that the Son of Heaven could see.

Even Fan Ning himself has been stumbling from the fourth grade for many years, and his political achievements in Kunzhou helped him to enter the fifth grade, but into the third grade, Kunzhou's political achievements were not enough, and it was Ying Tianfu's army change and his investment in Zhao Zhongzhen that finally made him break through the fourth grade and be promoted to the third grade.

This is not an exceptional promotion, qualifications and connections are no longer important at this time, the important thing is that the Son of Heaven can take a fancy to you, you must know that if you enter the third grade, you will have the opportunity to worship the prime minister in the future, this step is more difficult than the previous two hurdles.

For example, Fan Ning's father-in-law, Zhu Xiaoyun, is only in the fourth rank now, how many years have passed, and he can't take the step from the fourth rank to the third grade.

"It's coming! Here it comes! ”

The housekeeper shouted, "Uncle is here!" ”

"Hurry up!"

A few little guys set off a cannon fight, and the gate 'slammed!' There was a big crowd of children, jumping and jumping, and it was very lively.

Fanning was surprised, what was going on? How can Zhu Mansion be like a happy event.

When he saw the banner at the gate, 'Congratulations to his son-in-law Fan Ning on his promotion to a third-grade high-ranking official', he suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to turn over and dismount, throw the reins to Zhu Long, and step forward with a hard head.

"A-Ning, congratulations!"

Zhu Yuanfeng stepped forward, smiling so much that his face blossomed, Fan Ning saw that there were still a large group of neighbors standing around, all of them were envious in their eyes, he was really embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "Third grandfather, this is too exaggerated!" ”

"It's not an exaggeration, it's been promoted to the third grade, it's to celebrate, Apei didn't come!"

"They are still in Yingtianfu, and they have to trouble the third grandfather to help them move."

"This is a small problem, I will arrange for more than a dozen ships to pick up people, and let the third child go to the aftermath, you don't have to worry about it at all."

Although Zhu Yuanfeng lacks officialdom power, he is very energetic in social life, and small things such as moving and transporting are indeed a task for him.

Fanning put down his heart, and bowed his fist to the neighbors around him, and then walked into the house quickly.

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