Thinking in his heart, he unconsciously walked to the front of Chengtian Gate, Zhang Yang saw Xu Xiaode first give a smile, and then looked at Lu Chengqing on the other side, and still gave a smile.

Waiting for the Chengtian Gate to open, Zhang Yang followed the crowd in.

The sound of footsteps continued all around, until he reached Chengtianmen, and Zhang Yang stood still in his place.

Xu Jingzong whispered: "Zhang Shangshu, the news has been sent from the Western Turks, saying that the Ye Protector Society has sent people to Chang'an City, and this year Ni Yi will also come in person." ”

Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Are you on the way?" ”

Zhang Dasu came over and whispered back: "I will enter the customs at the end of November at the earliest, and there is also news from Tubo that Tang Xuanzang has been staying in Tubo for some time, and Songtsen Gampo has begun to build the Potala Palace. ”

Zhang Daxiang also said: "The news from Liaodong has arrived, and the manpower for Da'an has also arrived. ”

Several guards of the Ministry of Rites surrounded Zhang Yangzheng and discussed things in a whisper.

When the eunuch shouted, His Majesty was coming, and everyone stood back in their places.

pretended to deal with the early dynasty, but talked about next year's imperial examination.

Xu Xiaode's footsteps hurriedly walked out of the Taiji Hall, and it seemed that he should have a lot of things to do.

Zhang Yang glanced at walking in the crowd, and Lu Chengqing also left the Taiji Hall quickly, looking in a hurry.

Xu Jingzong and Zhang Daxiang walked together, "Why is Zhang Shangshu walking so fast today?" ”

Zhang Daxiang sighed, "Maybe there are other things to be busy with." ”

Xu Jingzong tightened his shirt again, "This weather looks like it's going to get colder." ”

Zhang Dasu nodded and said, "Yes." ”

On this Suzaku Street, it is best to find the door of Lao Cheng's house, anyway, the door of his house is the most spacious.

Zhang Yang stood in front of the door with his hands in his hands for a while, and the weather became colder and colder.

After a while, Cheng Chumo walked out of the house, "The family came to report that there was a guy standing at the door of the house, and he thought it was who. ”

Zhang Yang stopped and asked, "What have you been doing lately?" ”

Cheng Chumo sat down in front of his house, "My old family wants to find me a marriage, and I have found a lot of homes, but they don't look down on me." ”

"There's something for you to do."

"Is it Xu Xiaode's business? Someone has been sent to protect him secretly. ”

"And Lu Chengqing, most of this guy has lives in his hands."

"I heard that a few days ago, there was a death near Bishan, and the government said that it was a mountain bandit."

"Do you believe it?"

Cheng Chumo frowned and said, "Our people went to inquire that there were no mountain bandits over there, and this matter will be over." ”

"Go and check, and then rob all the money that dominates the village."

"It's easy to do."

"Can you check Lu Chengqing?"

Cheng Chumo's ability to do things is still very good, and the braised pork gang has been operating for a few years, and its power has become stronger and stronger, and in addition to inquiring about news, it also has contact with the Foreign Affairs Yuan.

Zhang Yang still sat in place, his hand supporting his chin.

The eyes of the two looked at the pedestrians coming and going.

"Your old man arranges a marriage for you, who are you picking?"

Cheng Chu pondered: "Most of them are civil officials, and they are almost all over the place, and these people don't look down on me." ”

To say that Cheng Chumo used to be quite melon, but now he is relatively calm.

He stood up and said: "It is naturally incumbent upon my generation to eliminate violence and peace, you can rest assured that this matter will definitely come to light!" ”

Zhang Yang nodded Muran, why did this guy suddenly become enthusiastic again.

"That's going to be arranged."

"Proceed with caution."

Chu Mo strode away, Zhang Yang sat at the door of Lao Cheng's house for a while, and Niu Jinda just walked over.

"What are you kid doing here?"

Zhang Yang slowly stood up, "I'll come to see Chu Mo, what is General Niu doing here?" ”

"Come to see Cheng Zhijie, I heard that he has some sauce beef, which is suitable for drinking, do you want to come and drink some wine?"

"No, I've been on fire lately."

After glancing at him more, Niu Jinda stepped into the door and saw Cheng Biting Jin waving his horse lance.

When Zhang Yang returned home, Xu Hui adapted quickly and got along well with Xiao Wu.

The two of them can also kick shuttlecock and play, they didn't care about it before, but now they think that Xiao Wu really needs playmates of the same age.

"Husband, try on the newly made clothes."

took the clothes handed by Li Yue, the fabric of the clothes was made of wool, Zhang Yang took off his clothes and put them on his body and tried them on.

The daughter-in-law's needlework still needs to be improved, and there are a lot of threads on her clothes.

Li Yue looked at it carefully, "It's a little lenient." ”

Zhang Yang changed this shirt again, "This winter is early, and these woolen clothes can also start to be sold." ”

Li Yue packed up his clothes and nodded, "There are still a lot of wool and cotton stored in the warehouse in Lishan, no one buys cotton clothes when the weather is hot, and there is a lot of cotton cloth backlogged, and I went to the village to check the accounts and found out that there are nearly 30,000 pieces of cotton cloth stored, and they can be sold in the middle of winter."

Soap is better sold in the hot summer, and cotton is better in the middle of winter.

In the afternoon of the same day, notices were posted at all gates of Chang'an City, and the imperial examination was held again in May of the ninth year of Zhenguan.

The news soon spread throughout the Fang City of Chang'an City.

Some officials left Chang'an City on fast horses to deliver news to various places.

Since the last imperial examination, Di Zhixun has joined the Ministry of Rites to serve as a courtier, mainly helping Zhang Daxiang sort out various files and manpower arrangements.

He walked into the Foreign Service House with the dossier.

Compared with the ministries of the DPRK and China, the Foreign Affairs Yuan is relatively lenient and does not restrict officials too much on what they can and cannot do.

Walking into the Foreign Affairs Yuan, walking through the main hall and entering the backyard, there are also many scribes who come and go to do business.

Dickinson had the cook cook a meal, and now there are three cooks in the Diplomatic Academy, and people who work in the Diplomatic Academy can come here to eat.

The food tube is enough to be full, and there is meat and vegetables.

The crowd also discussed the various situations of the six departments and nine monasteries in the three provinces of the DPRK and China.

In addition to the money given by the court, the Foreign Affairs Yuan also gave some extra money to the scribes who did things, because the secretary who presided over the Ministry of Rites was Zhang Yang.

Di Zhixun heard more than once that people in Chang'an City commented on Zhang Yang.

It is said that he is a person with a strange temperament, and he has no friends in the court, and he will be a lonely minister in the court in the future.

On the contrary, such a person has been reused by His Majesty, and he has been given the title of county marquis and even entered Zhongshu Province.

This person has a lot of money and a lot of money, and most of the money in the operation of the Foreign Affairs Yuan is also from Zhang Yang.

This time, among the officials who entered the ranks, there were many poor children, and even if these poor children entered the ranks, they needed a lot of money to live in Chang'an City.

But as long as you enter the Foreign Affairs Yuan, then everything you need to eat, wear, live and travel can be solved.

This is a blessed land for poor children.

The Foreign Affairs Yuan is a subordinate yamen of the Ministry of Rites, and is independent of the six ministries except for directly reporting various matters to the Ministry of Etiquette.

I heard that Zhang Yang is a person who neglects political affairs.

After entering the Foreign Affairs Academy, he had not seen Zhang Yangqi for nearly four months.

It's ridiculous to say that when I was working in the Ministry of Rites, I hadn't even seen the book of the Ministry of Rites.

As he ate his meal, he checked the file in his hand again, put down the bowl in his hand, and walked to the other side of the courtyard.

There are two entrances and exits throughout the small courtyard, which lead to the other two pavilions.

Dickinson walked into the pavilion on the right, where there were more scribes.

Walking up the pavilion here, Decison came to a room in which the elephant was sitting.

Di Zhixun put these files on the table beside him, "Zhang Shilang, these are the files brought by the officials, and they all have the roster of scholars in this imperial examination. ”

"Let it go."

"Whoa." Di Zhixun saw that Shilang was busy writing without raising his head, and said: "Actually, after the imperial examination, Xia Guan still knows many scholars from poor backgrounds, can you recommend them to Zhang Shilang?" ”

Zhang Daxiang was writing with a pen and did not answer.

Di Zhixun said: "Even if these poor children are into the office, their life in Chang'an City is not good, although they can also live in a stable, the three waiters often say that our Ministry of Rites is very short of people, it is better to ask these people to come, first, they can increase the number of people for us, and secondly, the lower officials know that outside the independent six departments of the Foreign Affairs Yuan, they also hope to be able to recruit people in the market independently, and give those scholars a good impression in the future imperial examinations." ”

Finally, Zhang Daxiang put down the pen in his hand, "The people you want to recommend are written down, and the allocation of manpower is to be discussed by the three servants, and our Foreign Affairs Yuan often has to send scribes to various places outside the Guan, such as Tubo or Liaodong in the Western Regions, and it is impossible for all of them to stay in Chang'an." ”

Di Zhixun nodded, "Xiaguan will write this." ”

Zhang Daxiang glanced up at him at this time, this Di Zhixun has just entered the office, and it doesn't hurt to have three or two friends in the court, but the court is a big dye vat.

It can be seen that Dickinson is doing righteous, but this kind of righteous act is useless for his future.

The practice of forming gangs and factions is even more undesirable.

Among the people under him, Di Zhixon is quite effective.

In the past, the Foreign Affairs Institute was recruited by itself, and the reason why Zhang Yang opened the Foreign Affairs Academy was also for this consideration, to reduce the restrictions of the court.

Remembering that dozens of people were crowded in the main hall to do things together, and even slept in the diplomatic courtyard in order to be busy with the affairs of the Western Regions, Zhang Daxiang still remembers the sound of snoring and grinding teeth at that time.

Now that the Anxi Protectorate has been built, everyone is relieved.

The burden on my body suddenly became much easier.

Zhang Dasu's subordinates walked to the door and saluted: "Zhang Shilang, the envoy of Nanzhao has arrived in Chang'an City, Xu Shilang has already brought someone to greet him, and he wants to arrange for someone to entertain him." ”

Zhang Daxiang nodded and said: "I will arrange this, and tell Xu Shilang to keep everything simple, and there is not much money that we can use in the Foreign Affairs Academy." ”

"Whoa."

At present, there are still 3,000 yuan of silver coins left in the Foreign Affairs Yuan, and it is difficult to say whether there will be any silver coins in the coming year.

The entire Foreign Affairs Yuan counted Xu Jingzong asking for money the most, and he had to spend a thousand yuan every month in order to find out the news, and when he had the opportunity, he must talk to Zhang Yang well, this Xu Jingzong is too good at spending money.

After writing a letter, Zhang Daxiang walked out of the room and handed it to the clerk in front of the door, "Send someone to Liaodong and hand this letter to Youzhou Governor Shi, Zhang Da'an." ”

"Whoa."

Looking at the people coming in and out of the courtyard, he was a lot satisfied, and now he finally felt that this diplomatic courtyard looked like it.

Before the war starts, diplomacy takes precedence, and the Foreign Affairs Yuan must always stand at the forefront of the war.

At night, Chang'an City was relatively calm, Zhang Yang sat on a table in the courtyard with an oil lamp and a book in his hand.

Li Yue held a coat, "Husband, be careful of catching a cold." ”

Putting on a coat intimately, Li Yue sat down on the side and asked in a low voice, "What book does the husband read?" ”

Zhang Yang took a sip of hot tea, "Food and Goods." ”

Holding his daughter-in-law's shoulders, Zhang Yang said in a low voice: "This book talks about food and goods, and people are naturally inseparable from food when they take food as their day, and goods are special articles on transactions, business and money flow." ”

Among the many classics, this is one of the few books that deals with business models.

Li Yue looked up at the fine moon in the night sky, "Today's night is so dark. ”

"Well, there should be quite a few things going to happen tonight."

"Hopefully everything will go well."

Aunt Yang was guarding in front of her own courtyard, and Aunt Wang went out and hasn't come back yet.

Zhang Yang said in a low voice: "You go to sleep first, I'll rest after receiving the news." ”

"I'll sit with my husband for a while."

"It's fine."

"Aren't you hungry?"

"Just ate some pastries and I'm not hungry now."

The couple sat quietly next to each other, whispering a few words from time to time.

On the throne, there are more than a dozen people walking towards the village.

"Are you going to rob this place tonight?"

"Don't worry, the money in this village is also of unknown origin."

"Do you want to kill someone?" A man with a horizontal knife whispered.

"What do you think will happen if you kill someone?"

"If it's just a robbery of money, the government will ask at most, and if someone dies, most of them will be investigated."

"You know that you can't kill anyone, you still ask? If you want to kill people every day, how did you teach you in normal times, use more wisdom! ”

After the number of people in the lead fell under his men, he looked up at the direction of the wind, "Let's do it." ”

A group of people rushed to the manor, a few climbed over the wall, and three or two quickly knocked down the guards in front of the door and broke into it.

This group of people is often by Cheng Chumo's side, and they are also sophisticated.

Listening to the movement in the manor, there were angry shouts, and there was also the movement of crockpots and other objects falling to the ground.

As the hour passed, the movement in the courtyard gradually subsided.

Seeing that these subordinates in the manor were tied one by one, and their mouths were stuffed with cloths.

A few boxes of gold were quickly moved out.

Disguising the place as a robbery, the group searched carefully to make sure that there was nothing of value before leaving.

As for these people in the village, there will be officers and soldiers to save them tomorrow.

As long as things are done at this step, there are gang rules, gang rules are strict, and the most important one is that you can't do things beyond the government.

If it should be the affairs of the government, let the government handle it, help the people in the help to help the strong and the weak, and finally send the people to the yamen for the government to deal with.

In Chang'an City, under the cover of darkness, there are also many figures walking around in the silent city, and they skillfully avoid the officers and soldiers who patrol the night and walk through the streets and alleys.

It's rare for the Braised Pork Gang to use so many people for one thing.

As the night deepened, Zhang Yang glanced at his daughter-in-law who was leaning on her shoulder, her breathing was smooth and she had fallen asleep.

I'm going to be a mother, how can I sleep and keep my saliva.

Zhang Yang picked her up and walked into the house, put her on the bed, and covered the futon.