After sending Meng Ang's father and son away, Ah Cha Lan and his party also embarked on the way home, but this time Ah Cha Lan returned with a full load, and all the congratulatory gifts received by the third child were taken away by him, when the carriages full of supplies passed in front of him one after another, Li Yang instantly pulled his face down, although he was unhappy in his heart, he couldn't say that after all, he had handed over these things to the third child and Du Chalan

The clear sky was cloudless and as clear as jasper, and the Li family manor had returned to its previous calm, Li Yang was enjoying the shade under the gazebo in the courtyard, he was busy sharpening his saber while humming a little song in his mouth, and at this time a family member came to him, followed by two state cavalrymen, "Young master-these two officials said that they sent you an official document to take office"

When Li Yang heard this, he quickly stood up, he wiped his hands on his clothes, and then clenched his fists at the two officials: There is a difference between the two officials

The cavalry of the state capital took a long cloth bag from his back and handed it to Li Yang with both hands: "Master Li, this is your official document to Taizhou City, congratulations to the head of the Li family, and the brothers will thank you for your care in the future."

After Li Yang took the official document, he took out a few silver coins from his sleeve and stuffed them into the hands of the official: It's easy to say-it's easy to say, I hope the two of you will smile if you have a little heart

The official envoy didn't delay and put the silver into his arms, and then bowed to Li Yang: Then we won't ask for mercy from the Li family

So Li Yang waved his hand to the family on the side: Send the two official envoys for me

"Yes-young master"

After the two official envoys left, Li Yang opened the cloth bag in his hand, took out a roll of official documents made of silk from it, and opened it to see that the content on it was: Li Yang, the head of the Li family in Alan County, is talented - concerned about the family and the country, and the special guarantee is to take over the post of the head of the household house of Taizhou Mansion, and he went to Taizhou City on July 1, 1526 to take up his post, and the official seal of Taizhou Mansion is also stamped in the lower left corner

The cold window has been studying hard for more than ten years just to become a Feihong, and entering the official career is the dream that many scholars have been chasing in their lives, even if it is a seven-grade county order, it is a major event to glorify the ancestors, even if it is a small official, the villagers in the left and right neighbors have to look up at you, this is undoubtedly a great joy for the Li family, and the Li family has been really good things recently

In a blink of an eye, it was the day to go to Taizhou City to take office, the genius Meng Mengliang has always loved to sleep lazy Li Yang did get up early in the morning today, he quickly washed his face and changed into clean clothes, and breakfast was just a mouthful, when the people in the manor were still in a quiet dream, Li Yang had indeed taken a carriage to Taizhou City

On the first day of work in the yamen of the state capital, Li Yang was afraid that he would be late, so he told the coachman to hurry up as much as possible, and would rather we arrive a little earlier than go late, the coachman heard that his hands were slamming the reins: Driver-young master, you can rest assured that it will definitely not be late, the young master will have to take more than an hour to Taizhou City, or you can take a nap first, and I will greet you when you are in the place

Li Yang patted the coachman's shoulder: I'll squint for a while, and you can call me if there's anything

An hour later, the carriage stopped in front of the main gate of the state capital yamen, and the coachman whispered into the canopy behind him: Young master, the state government yamen has arrived

Li Yang got out of the canopy, he raised his hands and stretched his waist with all his strength, and then jumped off the carriage with a brisk step, he tidied up his clothes and walked to the guard, took out the official document from his arms and handed it to the guard

The guard took it and looked at it carefully, and then made a gesture of invitation to the palace: Master Li Bantou Sun is in the inner hall, you can go in quickly

When Li Yang heard this, he hurriedly threw his hand to the guard: Okay

When I got to the inner hall, I took a look inside, there were quite a lot of people in the good guys, there were about 10 people, they were sitting on the chairs on both sides and discussing something with Lord Sun, so Li Yang stood at the door and bowed to Lord Sun: The students meet the prefect

Sun Yuanwu waved at me: Colleagues, this is Li Yang, the new head of the household

At this time, a person of the same age as Master Sun sat on a chair and looked at me: "Well-yes, it's really a talent."

When I saw that the person who was speaking, he was also wearing a blue official robe and was the same as Master Sun, so this person's official position in Taizhou Mansion must not be small, so Li Yang hurriedly bowed to the adult: Student Xie praised it

At this time, Li Yang glanced to the right with his peripheral vision, and found that on the chair on the right hand, there was also a person wearing a blue official robe

Lord Sun called me to his side and looked at the adult who had just spoken: Hongting Mansion will introduce you to you, this is Master Jia Mingdong, the Tongzhi of Taizhou Mansion

Li Yang bowed to Jia Mingdong: The student has seen Master Jia

Then Sun Daren looked at the right-hand side again: This is Lu Boren, the general judge of Taizhou Prefecture

Li Yang bowed to Lu Boren again: Lord Lu

Then Master Sun introduced several colleagues in turn-Taizhou Prefecture Governor-Lord Teng Gangteng, Taizhou Prefecture Governor Lu Ning-Zhaomo Xun Lixun-Inspector Hu Shenghu - Officer's Office Foreman Xing Xiong - Rite Room Foreman Cai Tai - Workshop Foreman Wu Tong - Soldier's Room Foreman Cui Chen - Torture Room Foreman Yan Zhen - Chief Arrester of the Arrest Division Zhong He

After Mr. Sun finished the introduction, Li Yang hurriedly handed over to his colleagues: Li has just arrived, and I will ask my colleagues to take more care of them in the future

The attitude of the colleague in the gray silk robe was enthusiastic, "It's easy to say-it's easy to say, if you don't understand anything, you can ask us, and a few of us will have to take care of the head of the Li team in the future" But the attitude of those adults was relatively cold, and they just symbolically responded with a "hmm"

Sun Yuanwu: Did you bring the official uniform that Xing Bantou asked you to prepare?

Xing Xiong hurriedly returned to his chair and picked up a cloth bag: "Lord Hui's official uniform has been prepared according to your instructions

Saying that, Xing Xiong handed the cloth bag to Li Yang: Li Bantou, this is your official uniform, you can try it in a while to see if the size fits

Li Yang took the cloth bag and responded: Thank you

After that, Lord Sun asked fellow acquaintance Jia Mingdong to take Li Yang to the household to take office, and Lord Sun's purpose for doing this Li Yang also understood in his heart - to be virtuous and avoid relatives, out of the inner hall, Li Yang has been following Jia Mingdong, originally wanted to chat with Jia Mingdong for a few words, but when he saw Jia Mingdong's serious expression, he thought that it was better to forget it, don't stick a cold ass on the whole hot face, and it's boring to talk about yourself

Waiting at the door of the house, Jia Mingdong stood in front of the door and coughed lightly into the house, the little official in the house immediately went to the door to greet him, Jia Mingdong swaggered in with his hands behind his back, and as soon as he entered the door, he greeted a middle-aged man who was about 41-2 years old, and he bowed to Jia Mingdong with a smile on his face: Zhang Wen has seen Master Jia

Jia Mingdong casually pointed at Li Yang: Well-Zhang Wen, this is the new foreman of the household-Li Yang, you can help me more with the errand of the household

After speaking, Jia Mingdong pointed his finger at Zhang Wen again: If Li Bantou doesn't understand anything, you can ask him

So Li Yang bowed to Zhang Wen: Brother Zhang, you have to worry about it

Zhang Wen: It's all your own people who are easy to say-easy to say

Jia Mingdong: Where is Li Bantou's desk?

Zhang Wen turned around and pointed to the corner of the wall on the left, there was a large square table and a wooden chair, and there were some books and the four treasures of the study room on the table: the public table of the adult Li Bantou was there, and it was cleaned up for Li Bantou yesterday

Jia Mingdong: Li Bantou has just taken over the household, and everyone wants to assist him in handling the errand of the household

"It's an adult"

On the first day of his tenure in the household, Li Yang didn't know what he should do, and saw that everyone was busy and only he sat there stupidly, so he glanced around and counted the number of people, and there were a total of 12 people in the entire household, my seat was in the corner on the right, and Zhang Wen's seat was in the corner on the left, and the middle was separated by a screen engraved with landscape paintings

Li Yang was originally an idle person, and when he saw that others were busy, he couldn't sit still, so he got up and came to Zhang Wen: Brother Zhang, are you convenient now, I have something I want to ask you for advice

Zhang Wen: Li Bantou is his own person, so you don't have to be so foreign, if there is anything you don't understand, just ask

Li Yang: Brother Zhang-Brother, I arrived on the first day, and I was a little numb about the work of the household, and I didn't know what I should do

Zhang Wen: Li Bantou, the scope of our household management is relatively extensive, such as the household registration of residents in the jurisdiction, financial expenditure, taxation, land, grain collection, disaster relief and relief are all under the management of the household, and if there is a need to withdraw money from other houses, we must first say hello to the household to see if the surplus silver in the treasury is enough

Li Yang: Brother Zhang, when you say this, the burden on our shoulders is quite heavy

Zhang Wen: The burden on the shoulders of the household is really not light, fortunately, the household is usually busy in the morning, and in the afternoon there is basically nothing to do, Shen Shi (between 13 o'clock in the afternoon and 17 o'clock in the afternoon) can call it a day and go home, Li Bantou has any work you can let a few of us do it, and you will be familiar with it after a while

Hearing Zhang Wen say this, Li Yang felt a lot more energetic in his heart, so he bowed to Zhang Wen and his colleagues: Li has just arrived, and the errand of the household has to be bothered by Brother Zhang and his colleagues

When he returned to his seat, Li Yang picked up a book of Taizhou Ding Ji from the table and flipped it up, this book of Ding Ji recorded the population of Taizhou Mansion - the number of cultivated land and some official properties, Xingyuan 1526 The total number of registered population in Taizhou Mansion was 377412 people - the total number of cultivated land was 3526784 mu, of which 300,000 mu of official land was 300,000 mu, and the population distribution - the registered population of Taizhou City was 160,000 and 1117761 acres of farmland

Alan County has 63,300 people registered and 273,200 acres of farmland - Pengxi County has 32,645 people registered 326752 acres of farmland, Huangyan County has 27,696 people registered 349632 acres of farmland - Aohai County has 34,963 people registered 413221 acres of farmland - Changpu County has 29,863 people registered 356595 acres of farmland - Linhai County has 28,945 people registered 389623 acres of farmland, 3 official iron ores - 2 copper mines - 1 silver mine - 113846 taels of surplus silver in the treasury

After Li Yang finished reading this Ding Ji, he had a question in his heart, Alan County, as the most populous county under the rule of Taizhou Prefecture, does not have much cultivated land per capita, and in the north, the fields are divided into households, and a household divides six acres of cultivated land according to the standard of three people, and each additional person will share one more acre of cultivated land, so that a family can divide six to seven acres of land, and a large number of people can divide eight to nine acres of land

Don't look at a family that is only divided into six or seven acres of land, it is already quite a good family in Taizhou Mansion, a year's food and clothing can be completely self-sufficient, not to mention that there can be some surplus grain, Alan County's annual taxes in Taizhou Prefecture, in addition to Taizhou City, second only to Aohai County, you can see this Dingji Taizhou Mansion and other counties, the per capita cultivated land is basically more than 10 acres

It is impossible for Alan County to become the second largest tax-paying county in Taizhou Prefecture, thinking of this, Li Yang has a preliminary judgment, that is, the content of this Ding Ji record is not accurate, it is a special record to deal with the above appearance, Li Yang also put the Ding Ji back without saying anything, after all, he went to work on the first day of his house, and he didn't know a lot of things and things at work

Finally stayed up until the afternoon, the time was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the clerks began to sort out the items on the table with their own care, at which time Zhang Wenniao quietly walked over to me: Li Bantou and everyone are busy with the things at hand, do you see if you can finish work early today

Li Yang stood up as soon as he heard the end of work, in fact, he couldn't sit still for a long time: everyone is done, so don't lean on here and go back to rest early

Zhang Wen shouted softly to the officials: Call it a day

When the officials were leaving, they waved to Li Yang: Li Bantou, then we will go back first

Seeing this, Li Yang also waved to the officials, thinking that he was finally looking forward to getting off work, don't you say the old saying, if you don't get off work, it's either a big stupid hat or a big stupid fork, Li Yang is the same, he riveted his strength after work, and was ready to go home, but as soon as he got out of the courtyard of the house, he was stopped by a servant, and he was quite mysterious, and pulled me aside to see that there was no one around, and then told me that Master Sun wanted me to go to the back hall to see him

So Li Yang was led by the servant, came to the back hall where the prefect and his family lived, Li Yang walked to the door of the main room and stopped, he was tidying up his clothes and preparing to bow to the meeting, and the voice of Lord Sun did come out of the house: Hongting is exempt from the courtesy, you can come in directly

After entering the house, Master Sun invited Li Yang to sit beside him, and personally brought him a cup of tea: How about the first day of office, are you still used to it?

Li Yang sighed lightly: On the first day of taking office, the student is indeed a little unaccustomed to it, and he looks like a fool for a day

When Master Sun heard this, he not only laughed, "Haha", wait a few days, you will get used to it, go to Taizhou City, do you have a place to live

Li Yang: Not yet

Master Sun: Then where are you staying at night?

Li Yang: The student plans to go back to the Li family manor to live

Master Sun: I'm rushing from my home to the government tomorrow morning

"Hmm"

Master Sun: That's so troublesome, your body can't bear it after a long time

Saying that, Master Sun took out a key from his sleeve and handed it over: This is a mansion prepared by the government for you in the city, although the mansion is not big, it can still live for more than a dozen people, and it is better to have a place to settle than you run at both ends

Li Yang took the key: Student Xie Meiyi

Master Sun: You don't have to show off your relationship with the Hongting Mansion and you, and when there is a chance for the Mansion to promote you in the future, lest someone gossip and invite right and wrong

Li Yang: The adults taught the students to write it down

Master Sun: When you leave the mansion in a while, someone will take you to the mansion

"Okay-my lord, the student quit first"

As soon as Li Yang came out of the mansion, he heard someone shouting "Seventh-Seventh" behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that the third brother Longchuan was waving to him, so Li Yang ran towards Longchuan quickly: The third brother is so coincidental

Long Chuan: Coincidentally, I've been waiting for you here for a long time, how did it go smoothly on the first day of taking office?

Li Yang: Third brother, don't mention it, this day is like a year, by the way, third brother, are you waiting for me, what's the matter?

Long Chuan: I'll take you to see the mansion

Li Yang: The third brother's house is not far from the mansion

Longchuan: It's okay to go along this road, turn a corner and walk to the one where you are leaning against the city wall

The two of them happened to pass by a tavern on the street, Long Chuan had to pull me in to accompany him to drink two glasses, as soon as he entered the tavern Long Chuan asked the guy to find a secluded place for the two of us, and then he asked for a plate of fried peanuts - dry fried fish and shrimp - braised carp - fried tofu, in two catties of high-quality peach source fragrance, and after the wine and dishes were ready, Li Yang picked up the wine jar for Longchuan to get a bowl of wine

Then Long Chuan took over the wine jar and got a bowl for Li Yang, and after a bowl of wine: Lao Qi, you said that your family is rich and in charge of thousands of villages, how can you think about taking over the errand of the house

Li Yang: The third brother and brother took over the household for nothing else, they just want to do their part for the country - for the Taizhou fathers

Long Chuan: Lao Qi, you are not in the officialdom and don't know the stakes involved, you have to pay more attention to everything in charge of the household

Li Yang: Thank you for reminding me, third brother, alas, I just have something I want you to ask you

Long Chuan: Ask what's the matter?

Li Yang: Third brother, you said that I have been in charge of the household for ten years, is there any possibility of taking over as the prefect of Taizhou?

When Long Chuan heard this, he squirted out a mouthful of wine, and then his tears of laughter were about to come out: Old Seven, you really dare to think, I know why you took over the household, not to mention that ten years is that you have been in charge of the household for a lifetime, and it is impossible for you to take over the position of prefect, you should not even be able to distinguish between officials and officials now

Li Yang: Please also ask the third brother to give advice

Longchuan: Officials are a general term for the people to the official family, the official is actually an official and an official, it is not the same thing at all, the official is a superior status of a total of nine grades and eighteen levels, the lowest official entry is from the ninth grade, three years for one term can get a chance to be promoted, meritorious people can be promoted to one level in two years, there are two ways to enter the office, one is to participate in the imperial examination, and the other is to have a hard enough relationship to ensure that the official is promoted

The duty of the officials is to help the officials to give advice, assist the officials in handling some government affairs, and be an official for a lifetime

Hearing this, Li Yang chuckled in his heart, he realized that he had been fooled by Master Sun, and he didn't paint the cake like this, and at that moment he suddenly became disheartened and wanted to quit this errand and continue to run his own business