Is the person who can name his son Master Lu an ordinary person?

Of course, there is also this possibility, when the father's lack of heart. Lack of heart eye is a disease, and the number of patients has been high.

But Master Lu's father was a talented man, and Master Lu did not live up to his expectations of his son. It is not unusual to be able to cast a cannon, because of the appearance of the cannon, it is not difficult to cast. The difficult thing is the accuracy, Master Lu not only took the accuracy into account, but also made the finished product to the point where Li Kui was incredible.

In terms of the skills shown by Master Lu, Li Kui felt that it was not too much to give him a seven-grade civil official.

Fortunately, Master Lu is also an official position, and he is still a deputy under the Ministry of Works. But the eunuch is a suffix of an official position, and there are all kinds of eunuchs in the Great Song Dynasty, such as tax supervisors, tea supervisors, iron supervisors, wine supervisors, and warehouse supervisors, which are not serious official positions. If a bureaucrat from a jinshi was to serve as such an official, he would definitely be degraded and deliberately humiliated. Back then, Su Shi was involved in Su Zhe because of the Wutai poetry case, and after the case was closed, Su Shi naturally went to Huangzhou to be his deputy envoy for regimental training. And Su Zhe went to work as a wine supervisor, which was the emperor's deliberate punishment of their brothers, and the meaning of humiliation was very strong.

There are three kinds of official positions such as general supervisors, the son inherits the father's business, just like Master Lu, the father imparts a lifetime of casting experience to the son, and then the son inherits the father's official position. Because the official position is not large, but the professionalism is strong, this inheritance is not valued, and it is easy to operate. This is much the case with the Imperial Doctor. In Shaofu, the Construction Division, there are many such official positions.

In addition, official positions such as iron supervisors and tea supervisors are an important part of taxation and are generally held by eunuchs from other provinces.

There is one official position in addition to it, that is, the secretary and supervisor, a high-ranking official of the fourth grade. Of course, this is also a sad official position. is obviously the boss of the secretary province, but the annoying thing is that he is not easy to speak in the secretary province. Sipin's official position is very high, but around the emperor, where is there a secretary and supervisor? Even if it is an official who compiles history books in the Secret Pavilion, the leaders are generally high-ranking officials such as Hanlin Scholars and Tianzhang Pavilion Scholars. It is clear that these officials of the yamen belong to the secretary province. The secretary is also one of the most non-existent officials around the emperor.

The last one is the official eunuch of Enyin, Su Shi's eldest son Su Maiyin made up the official position of a warehouse supervisor, that is, the official position of the chief of the grain depot, and the small one makes people angry. This actually has nothing to do with Su Mai, the root lies in Su Shi, who made his official position not big? For example, the sons of Fan Zhongyan, who has been the deputy governor of the government, started with the county order, and this is the gap.

In terms of identity, Master Lu is a miscellaneous official, even if it is a miscellaneous official, it is also an official position, and in the era of the official position, Master Lu can also enjoy the favor of the imperial court.

And the craftsman has a little advantage, that is, he can inherit his father's business.

Although he is a deputy supervisor, he can be regarded as a nine-rank official. But Master Lu entered the imperial city and was interrogated for a long time outside the Xuande Gate. There is no way, the imperial city is where the emperor, the prime minister, and the important ministers of the court work. Even the six yamen were not qualified to work in the Imperial City, how could Master Lu, as a small and unsmall deputy supervisor of the workshop under the Ministry of Industry, be easily allowed to enter the Imperial City?

Fortunately, Li Kui's face was big enough, and when he entered the Xuande Gate, he found Su Song in the Taishi Bureau. Su Song walked to the door of Xuande, was happy when he saw Master Lu, and pointed to Master Lu and said, "Master Lu, every time I see you, I always feel like visiting a senior master." Then he said to the captain who guarded the door: "This person is a craftsman in the workshop of the Ministry of Industry, and the old man will guarantee him." ”

Master Lu hurriedly defended: "Old beater, the name of the villain bothers you. ”

Su Song waved his hand and left. No matter how high his identity is, if it weren't for Li Kui's face, he wouldn't have talked to Master Lu at all.

The old prime minister served as a guarantor, and Master Lu successfully entered the imperial city.

Entering the Imperial City for the first time in his life, Master Lu found everything interesting to watch except for the slight nervousness in his eyes. Li Kui, as the secretary and supervisor of the imperial city for half a year, naturally took on the task of explaining. I have to say that Li Kui attaches more importance to technical talents than literati and martial artists, which makes Master Lu feel that Li Zhimi is intimate to cover up his inner tension.

It didn't take long for Master Lu to find that he was thinking too much:

"This broken bungalow is the yamen of Tianzhang and Baowen Pavilion, it looks ordinary, and it is a group of old men who don't have much eyesight, which is quite annoying!"

"Li Kui, I knew it would be okay for you to come."

"I'm here to give you good news, your piece is going to be demolished, aren't you happy?"

"You're just relying on the old man's tiger might, you little Straight Secret Pavilion can't control the top of my Tianzhang Pavilion. Since Taizu, this piece is where the imperial court has a book collection, don't you want to use words to confuse, no one dares to demolish our building. ”

"Yo, dare to stare and tell your bachelor that sooner or later this dilapidated building will be bulldozed."

"Li Kui, don't talk crazy, we are not scared, we have the ability to let the horse come."

"Come on, are you an opponent?"

……

Master Lu had the urge to keep his distance from Li Kui and have nothing to do with it. But I was afraid that I would be caught as a fine work if I didn't have a waist card to walk around in the imperial city. His face was tense, he originally thought that Li Kui was the kind of big man who had face wherever he went. Unexpectedly, Li Kui had enemies wherever he went, and on the edge of the imperial road in the imperial city, he scolded the officials of Tianzhang Pavilion.

Master Lu was full of remorse, how good would it be if he didn't come?

The officials in the imperial city, Li Kui is not afraid, but he is afraid! The officials who ran out of the imperial city, let alone the capital, were in the yamen of the inner city, and they were one level older. If his little deputy was to be remembered, wouldn't he suffer endless retaliation?

He really thought wrong, Li Kui didn't look at the many officials who quarreled with him in the imperial city, but there were almost no people who hated him.

Master Lu secretly thought: I still underestimated Li Kui's cards in the imperial city. There is a kind of horror that has just fallen into the grass, and encounters the encirclement and suppression of the officials and soldiers.

"Greetings to the adults!"

"You're still working in the Imperial City?"

"The villain is just a guy who runs the hall, where else can he go? By the way, my lord, are you going to go back to the Imperial City? ”

The person who came to ask was the guy in the restaurant who sold food in the imperial city, and the imperial city of the Great Song Dynasty also did business, and preparing food for officials was one of them. When Li Kui was in the imperial city, he had dinner with him at his house. As the most extravagant diner in the imperial city, the cost of one sheep per meal is not something that ordinary officials can afford, Li Kui naturally became the biggest customer of this restaurant in the imperial city.

It's just that the other party doesn't open his eyes! What did he say about being promoted and returning to the imperial city, he thought about it, but unfortunately the people above didn't let him! Li Kui waved his hand angrily and said: "The lord is here to entertain today, prepare twenty roast sheep, and after roasting, send three to the Yushitai, two to the Zhibi Pavilion, five to the Taishi Bureau, and Shaofu also send five to the past, and prepare more mutton soup and meatloaf for the brothers who built the bell tower." I'll bring the rest. ”

"Your Excellency, it's going to take a lot of work. Thanks to the adult's secret recipe, our roast lamb tastes much more authentic than before. ”

"That is, don't look at why the reputation of the foodie in the imperial city is on the head of this official." Li Kui said proudly: "Roast sheep without cumin, is it still roast sheep?" ”

"Renjie, you want to have a treat?"

"How rare? I'll give you one too. ”

"I can't eat it, we have few people in Tianzhang Pavilion, so we will take two leg of mutton, and leave two more sheep tails for us."

"Angry stuff, don't you feel bad when you eat so greasy?"

"This official likes fat, can you manage it?"

"When it's delivered, you can choose it yourself!"

……

The people who talked to Li Kui were all petty officials in green robes in the imperial city, ranging from the ninth rank to the sixth grade, and there were few sixth-grade officials, most of whom were seventh-rank and eighth-grade officials.

The little guy who received the order carried a bamboo recliner and put it in front of Li Kui, and said: "My lord, your throne villain has stored it for you, and it has been brushed with a layer of tung oil before winter, a little handle, you can take care of it." ”

Master Lu didn't dare to speak at all, followed Li Kui, and when he saw that the people were leaving, he asked Li Kui in a low voice: "My lord, aren't we here to do business in the Privy Council?" ”

"You're stupid, aren't you going to eat?" Li Kui raised his eyelids and comfortably ravaged the chaise longue made of Lao Nanzhu, making a creaking and annoying noise. Then he raised his hand and said to Master Lu along the royal road: "Where are you looking?" Are there many officials waiting outside the courtyard gate, we go at this time, when will it be our turn? ”

Master Lu looked at it and wondered, "My lord, where is it?" ”

"Privy Council, by the way, the courtyard in the middle is the Privy Council, the side is the Metropolitan Hall, and there is the province under the door, the secretary is ......" Li Kui found that the small yamen such as the secretary and the supervisor were completely blocked by the building of the authoritative yamen, and suddenly said boringly: "That place is not easy to find." ”

In the Imperial City, the busiest thing is never the Metropolitan Hall, but the Privy Council. The Privy Council, which accounts for 60% or even 70% of the annual tax expenditure of the Great Song Dynasty, accounts for more than 60 million yuan of money every year, and such a large amount of money will inevitably make a large number of officials wait at the door of the Privy Council, hoping to obtain a considerable amount of money from the military spending.

On the contrary, it is the metropolitan office, although it is the official office of the prime minister, but it is lagging behind the Privy Council in the matter of officials waiting in line to be summoned. Who made the capital hall poor, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were so powerful, the yamen who had no money, and the people who came and went at the door were in a hurry, for fear of provoking the poor sour gas coming out of the yamen.

Master Lu followed the direction pointed by Li Kui and said secretly: "A lot!" ”

Isn't it a lot, the officials are frozen in the cold wind like hens who spend the night in the cold wind, curling their heads and necks, so pitiful, but they still look at the yamen, looking forward to seeing Shangguan, and take out the request document covered by his chest.

Master Lu smiled bitterly, his situation in the imperial city was also not good, he didn't even have a chair, which was worse than Li Kui. Fortunately, there were good deeds that brought a Maza, so that Master Lu was saved from the danger of being watched. But his heart was up and down, and his mind was still going over and over again that Li Kui and the officials of Tianzhang Pavilion were about to scold the street just now, but why did he invite the people of Tianzhang Pavilion to eat roast sheep?

couldn't help it, so he asked Li Kui.

Li Kui lay on the recliner weakly, and said impatiently: "If you quarrel during dinner, how stupid people will do it." Even if it's a delicacy, it tastes like chewing wax, and what's the fun at all. People, at first, it was for the sake of appetite, and when they ate beautifully, they were happy. If you don't even have this bit of joy, what else is there in front of this broken official? ”

It was the first time that Master Lu had heard of the fallacy that eating is more important than being an official.

The roast lamb is wrapped in a special hood and is served with hot oil.

"Eat, what are you doing in a daze? Poor people like us who don't have a yamen, we can only deal with one bite on the edge of the royal road, and when this roast sheep is cold, the taste will change greatly. ”

Master Lu tried to step forward and take a bite, the crispy sheepskin, with the rich aroma of fat explosion, instantly captured Master Lu's not picky taste buds.

He is a man who sells his physical strength, although he is an official, but the civil officials do not recognize him as an official, and the military generals do not want to see him, so he can only mix among the miscellaneous officials. There is a way to be a witch doctor and musician, and even in the identity of not entering the stream, he, the foreman who is engaged in hundreds of jobs, is not brilliant. After delaying in the imperial city for so long, he was already hungry, so he followed Li Kui to eat.

Click

The crisp sound of food chewing in his mouth made Li Kui satisfied, and he muttered: "The roast sheep skills in this restaurant have risen, and I often take care of their business if they are not innocent." ”

Li Kui is undoubtedly the big customer of this restaurant, as long as he doesn't stop, he can't stop the consumption of a sheep a day, and he has practiced the skills of the restaurant's roast sheep master.

was eating happily, Li Kui suddenly felt that there seemed to be an unkind eye staring at him behind him, and suddenly turned around a little unhappily and found that it was Li Qingchen. And Master Lu was so frightened that he swallowed the food in his mouth hard, but he burped vigorously. Although he is a miscellaneous official, he also knows that the purple official robe can only be worn by officials above the third grade.

In the official system of the Great Song Dynasty, the fifth rank and above wear a scarlet robe, and the fifth rank wears a green robe and a purple robe, which can only be worn by a third-grade official. As for the officials, only plain robes can be selected, what is plain? Xuan and white are only two colors, Xuan is black, and white is naturally white, commonly known as black and white dogs.

Master Lu is just a miscellaneous fish of the ninth grade, and when he saw the master of the third grade, he had to stand up and stand aside respectfully.

Li Kui turned his head angrily, and then his face grunted like boiling water, smiled, stood up and said, "Teacher, are you old?" ”

"The old man is waiting for you in the middle hall, why don't you come?"

"Isn't that my turn?"

Li Kui pointed to the large group of officials outside the Privy Council who were huddled under the wall and waiting to be summoned, and said helplessly.

Li Qingchen looked at Li Kui carefully for a while, and he was about to smoke angrily, he, a cheap disciple, why did he have the urge to strangle him and clean up the portal every time he saw him? Does Su Shi feel the same way when facing Li Kui? Even if Li Qingchen's cultivation is good, he couldn't help but point at Li Kui's nose and said angrily: "You didn't come to the Privy Council at all, the old man let the doorman wait at the yamen, if you came, you don't have to wait at all." ”

Li Kui was dumbfounded, and then said with an honor: "Is the disciple already so important in the teacher's heart!" ”

Li Qingchen snorted coldly and walked straight away.

Li Kui saw Master Lu stunned, and hurriedly shouted at him: "Why are you stupid, why don't you follow quickly!" ”

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