In the early morning of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Lin Su left the drunken guest house and went to the Supervision Department.

As a person in the Supervision Department, he has to go to work, no matter how much he doesn't like to see the faces in the Supervision Department, he can't help himself in the officialdom.

Compared with the other six departments of the imperial court, the Supervision Department is still quieter.

After all, not many people want to wander around places where "making trouble for others" is their life's mission.

He met with several inspectors, including two five-grade inspectors at the same level as him, Chen Dong and Li Zhiyuan.

Chen Dong is relatively young, three years ago, the palace examination jinshi, the exam ranking is not high, almost the bottom of the existence, so the first time to give the official is from the seventh grade, but in just three years, mixed to the fifth grade, with the champion Lang Lin Su at the same level, cow?

Li Zhiyuan is the other extreme.

He debuted twelve years ago, and the official given at that time was from the five grades, and it took him a full twelve years to remove one word: from.

Lin Su looked at his face full of years and frosts, as if he saw himself twelve years later—if his situation remained the same.

But he looked down at Li Zhiyuan's white-washed official uniform, which was still somewhat comforting, at least, this handsome guy is in the "money road", there is a high probability that he will not be able to mix this picture.

He and the two of them just gave a salute before passing each other and entering the office of his immediate boss.

Zhu Shiyun has been a year old, and he has gained weight again, and the wide official uniform is worn on him, which is a little funny, and when he sees Lin Su, his smiling face is like Maitreya Buddha in the temple......

"Lord Lin, Your Majesty has given you too long to take a leave of absence, how long have you not seen you?"

"More than three months!" Lin Su said with a smile: "These three months are not all the holidays given by His Majesty, and two of them are also drudgery in Xizhou. ”

"That's that...... At present, it is still the first month, and it is a folk practice not to sue in the first month, so the division is very idle at these times, and if Lord Lin is concerned about the old and young in the family, he may as well go home and live for a while. ”

"My lord, your care for the lower officials, the lower officials keep it in mind, the lower officials are still on duty normally these days, after the Shangyuan Festival, the lower officials want to inspect all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, after all, as a supervisory envoy, you can't just wait for others to report, but also have to go down to the place spontaneously, in order to grasp the first-hand information, so as to share your majesty's worries."

"Lord Lin is really diligent, he is really a model for officialdom...... Zhu Shiyun dealt with him and let him go to his office.

Lin Su, as the Wupin Supervision Envoy, still has some privileges, at least, he has his own dedicated office.

Although he had never entered this office, there were still officials who cleaned it regularly, and it was clean and tidy.

Today, the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, he entered his office for the first time.

A messenger came in, poured him tea, and then stood by the door with his hands down, waiting for orders.

Miscellaneous errands are also matched by the division, with five grades or above, and can be equipped with special miscellaneous errands, cleaning, tidying up the office, and helping adults do some more "personal" things.

This miscellaneous errand has not seen his own master for more than half a year, although he is very idle, but he is so idle that his heart is hairy, and he has no status in the department, and he is always looking forward to the return of the adults, and today he is finally back.

"What's your name?"

"Back to the adult, the villain Li San."

Lin Su looked at the clothes on the errand's body, if he was not mistaken, the quality of the clothes was the same as the sack, it really didn't look like an errand boy in the Supervision Department, so he asked casually: "What is your salary?" ”

"Back to my lord, one or two or three dollars a month."

One, two, three bucks? Lin Su was so surprised, the miscellaneous errands in the Supervision Department, is the salary so low?

Li Si was a little embarrassed, and told Lin Su that the miscellaneous errands in the division are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the highest level of miscellaneous errands is given to Si Zhenglei, and the monthly salary is five taels of silver on the surface.

He is the lowest.

Lin Su understood, his miscellaneous errands, if he didn't choose the lowest, Heavenly Reason would not tolerate it......

Lin Su said with a smile: "I'm unlucky, and even my people are unlucky, and you will be the worst mess in the entire Supervision Division." ”

Li Sanpao smiled and said: "My lord, you are wrong, Zhang Lao Er is envious of me, and he wanted to change with me a few days ago." ”

Well? What's worse than you?

Li San added water to him, and explained with a smile, Zhang Laoer, with him Li San is a fellow villager, and at the same time he entered the Supervision Department as an errand, he assigned Li Zhiyuan as a miscellaneous errand, at the end of last year, an inventory, my lord, do you know how much salary he gets a year? Paste it upside down! His family originally hoped to give him a daughter-in-law, but now it was in the soup again.

A whole year of hard work, in the end upside down?

What is the name of playing?

Li San said, it's not that the department deducts wages, it's Lord Li Zhiyuan, what does this adult say? In fact, in my heart, those of us who are errands are quite obedient to him, he is not greedy or occupied, he goes out to run errands, and when he sees those poor people who are so poor that he can't open the pot, he can't bear to put money inside.

His own salary is only so much, and he always makes himself penniless, so what should he do with the miscellaneous errands who follow him? You can't watch adults starve to death, can you? The expenses on the outside are occasionally compensated by miscellaneous errands, little by little at a time, and finally calculated, and the wages of the whole year are put in, not to mention, but also upside down.

Li Zhiyuan?

Lin Su vaguely saw a familiar figure from this big brother - another Zeng Shigui!

"My lord, did you see Lord Li's face just now?"

"Yes! It's pretty gloomy, what's wrong? ”

"He just had a fight with his head......" Li San's voice was very low.

What's going on?

Li San said that it was because he was deducted from his annual bonus.

Why?

Li San shook his head, the reason for deducting the bonus does not need to be mentioned, anyway, it is not the real reason at all, the bonus booklet has been made as early as a year ago, but there is no money in the household department before the year, and it was delayed until the new year, and it was originally planned to be sent yesterday, if it was really a problem with his errand last year, why didn't he mention it last year? Do you have to suddenly deduct money this year when everything is ready?

The real reason for the deduction of money is the Great Morning Meeting the day before yesterday.

At the Great Court Meeting the day before yesterday, Lord Li Zhiyuan was also one of the people who knelt on the spot!

Lin Su's heart is bright!

Get you back!

The revenge of the court officials is coming!

At the beginning, due to the situation, His Majesty finally stood on their side, pardoned Li Xiaotian, and did not dare to hold those main battle factions responsible, but it did not mean that they did not hate, and they couldn't find a reason to punish them, so they played a little trick behind their backs.

Even the thing of deducting people's bonuses can be done, and it is too inferior.

"In addition to this Lord Li, who else has been suppressed?"

On this topic, Lin Su also asked himself more, and originally didn't expect Li San to be able to answer, but to his surprise, Li San actually answered......

Judging from the current situation, three people have been suppressed.

One of the most serious is probably Deng Hongbo Deng, yesterday, Deng received an order from Lord Shangshu, asking him to review the accounts of the household department for the whole year within half a month, my lord, half a month, the accounts of the household department for a year are piled up, how can I review it clearly in half a month? Lord Shangshu made it clear that this is what His Majesty wants, if he can't complete it, please ask him to send it to you!

Lord Deng was angry and anxious, and he had fallen ill.

Pity such a third-grade master, no matter whether the illness can be cured or not, the career is over.

Lin Su looked him up and down: "Li San, how do you know the inside information of so many officials?" ”

Li San smiled: "This is called the official road, the poor road, we are the miscellaneous errands, and there are exchanges from time to time, the miscellaneous errands of Lord Deng's family, I also know, yesterday, he also followed the son of Lord Deng's family, and made a special trip to Bailu Academy to ask to see the professor of the Department of Arithmetic of Bailu Academy, but this professor closed his door. ”

Lin Su stood up, put his hands together, and handed a silver ticket to Li San: "Li San, today is still the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, you and I will meet for the first time, and I will give you a New Year's gift, and I will leave first." ”

"My lord, this is not ......"

"Take it!" Lin Su slapped the silver ticket on his hand and turned out.

Li San unfolded the silver ticket and looked at it, his eyes suddenly widened, oh my God......

He rubbed his eyes, looked again, and it was still the same, and the silver ticket clearly stated the number: One hundred taels of silver!

One hundred taels of silver, my God, his odd wages are one tael or three cents a month, how long does it take to make up one hundred taels? Seven years!

Lin Su casually gave a New Year's "thin gift", which was his salary for seven years!

……

At the same time, on the north peak of the West Mountain, in front of the Tianji thatched hut, a guest came.

This is a young man, dressed in cloth, with an extraordinary atmosphere, he is followed by a partner, also a young man, dressed in green clothes, saying that he is a child of a big family in the capital, and he wants to come to the owner of the thatched hut to calculate his fortune.

After listening to the introduction of the young man, the old man smiled, raised his hand and picked off a leaf, and with a wave of his fingernails, the lines on the leaves suddenly changed and became one word: white!

The white letters floated up and landed on top of the young man's head.

The young man frowned deeply, not knowing what he meant, but the young man in Tsing Yi next to him was overjoyed, and bowed to the ground: "Thank you seniors for predicting, a small gift money, not a respect!" ”

A piece of gold was placed on the stone table next to it, and the two of them walked away quickly.

As soon as they left, they went straight to the bottom of the mountain, and when they reached a secluded place, the young man stopped: "Du Qing, what does he mean?" ”

"Congratulations, Your Highness!" The young man Du Qing bowed deeply.

They are the third prince and his henchman Du Qing.

Tianji thatched hut, they didn't dare to approach it originally, but yesterday the father ordered Si Tianjian Shaoqing to go to the Tianji thatched hut in person, and a clear signal has been released that the father intends to re-establish contact with the Tianji Daomen, so what is he afraid of? The first time to come to the door, to get a good impression, in the future, when the father Tianji asked, Tianji Daomen helped him say a word, which may affect the outcome of the entire battle.

He came and received an instruction.

But he didn't understand what he meant.

Du Qing bowed deeply and was overjoyed: "Your Highness, you are the prince!" What does the word 'white' mean when it falls on the top of the king's head? ”

The three princes were shaken all over......

The word "white" falls on top of "king", and the word composed is: "emperor"!

This is the judgment of heaven!

He will win the throne in the end!

"With such a heavy sentence, is it too light for you to give you a mere fifty taels of gold? Do you want to ......?"

"Don't! Your Highness, it is not yet time to invest a lot in front of you, since Tianji has already given a prediction, they must not dare to let their prediction fail, they know what to do...... Ah, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also here, let's hide. ”

The two hurriedly hid under the big tree on the side of the road, pretended to be ordinary pedestrians, and watched the prince's motorcade pass by them and go straight up the West Mountain.

In the Tianji thatched hut, Zhizhen turned out from behind the tree: "Senior brother, do you really predict that this person will be the King of the Great Cang?" ”

Lao Dao smiled faintly: "Did I say it?" ”

"White characters, white characters fall on the top of King Ping's head, what is it if it is not the emperor?"

Lao Dao smiled: "I'm talking about...... He's going to end up in vain! ”

Zhizhen was stunned, the white characters fell on the top of the king's head, it can be "emperor", but it can also be "busy in vain in the end", senior brother, you play like this, aren't you afraid that others will vomit blood? ……

Lao Dao's smile slowly converged: "At this time last year, the two sons were still evenly divided, and the king of the day still had three points of the royal purple gas, but when I saw it today, there was no purple gas, it seems that in just one year, there must have been a huge change in the capital, and the two sons have come to an end." ”

Zhizhen said: "According to what Senior Brother said, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has achieved the general trend, and we should stand on the side of the Prince." ”

Whether it is a Taoist gate or a Buddhist gate, the biggest taboo in participating in the red dust affair is to bet on the wrong treasure.

What is a wrong bet?

The two forces compete for the big position, you follow the wrong person, and in the end, the other party gets the big position, and the power is overwhelming, you can't get any benefits, and you provoke a big enemy out of thin air, that is, bet on the wrong treasure.

But for the Heavenly Machine Daomen, there is no such problem.

Their biggest advantage is "heavenly prediction", choose the one who has become the general trend, lay out in advance, and wait until this person takes the position, and their spring will come.

Lao Dao came to the capital this time, in addition to eliminating the contradiction between the Tianji Concept and His Majesty that day, he also had a far-reaching layout, to find the heirs of the descendants of the Great Cangjiang Mountain, and invest in him in advance. In exchange for the prosperity of the Daomen in the next hundred years.

The two sons compete for the crown, the world knows, and everyone knows that the future king of the Great Cangguo must be one of these two.

Through the Heavenly Machine Qi Measurement Technique, the Heavenly Machine Dao Gate saw that His Royal Highness the Three Princes had no imperial energy, so they could make a bold bet on His Royal Highness the Prince.

This is the opportunity they have taken the lead.

At this moment, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked to see him.

The prince is different from the third prince, he directly asked to see the old Taoist as the prince, and the old Taoist also greeted him politely, without many private words, what the prince said, and what Si Tianjian Shaoqing said yesterday is completely consistent, the cangs are eclectic, do not exclude all kinds of portals, Buddhism, Taoism are the same, but whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, they all need to abide by their duties, so that they can get along with the court and the royal family, and the royal family can support it in its proper name, Yunyun......

These words are in line with his position and identity, but they also vaguely convey his importance to the Tianji Daomen, and after the visit, he gave a gift money and said goodbye and returned.

Zhizhen was very happy: "Senior brother, have you found out?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still has a lot of respect for the Tianji Daomen, I heard that he has a most trusted disciple called Qiu Zixiu, who used to be an inch away, but today, this person is not by his side, there is only one reason, Qiu Zixiu has a Buddhist background, the prince is worried that we are unhappy, he even takes this into account, it is true respect......"

He said a lot, but the old way never spoke, and the expression on his face was very weird.

"Senior brother, what do you see?"

Lao Dao slowly raised his head: "It's amazing! Although the three princes have no imperial spirit, the prince's imperial spirit is also decreasing, could it be that there is a third person in today's battle for the prince? ”

Zhizhen's face changed drastically......

The two royal highnesses compete for the storage position, which is theoretically a situation where one loses the other.

But now, both of them are disappearing, who is rising?

Could it be that the other two princes in the capital have begun to exert their strength?

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