Prime Minister

Chapter 365 Apprenticeship
When Zhang Yue was on duty at the ceremony, he also did some things.

Although Zhang Yue said that his qualifications were the shallowest among the four prefects, the new official took office three fires.If you don't do something, the officials below will have the intention of neglecting and despising the superiors.

Don't think it's easy to manage just because there are few people in the yamen.

Although it is a small yamen, internal struggles and clique formation are no less than those of a large yamen.

But how?

This also needs to be considered, the big one can't be moved, after all, if you make a big move, it will easily cause Chen Jian and other prefects to be unhappy.

So Zhang Yue did some inconspicuous things.

The first is the matter of drafting water in the yamen. On weekdays, the Taichang Courtyard uses well water or river water.

Eating this kind of water is easy to cause stomach upset.

Zhang Yue was at home, and Shi Qi Niang hired people to carry water from the upper reaches of the Jinshui River outside the city to drink at home.There are all kinds of industries in Bianjing, and many high-ranking officials and noble families hire people to carry water from outside the city in order to obtain good water.

It is not cheap to pick such a barrel to the home.This method must not be used in Ya Nei.

There is a stove next to the public stove in the Liyuan, and Zhang Yue and other officials can drink boiled water from the public stove, but the public servants and officials' entourage can't, they can only drink cold well water and river water.

Zhang Yue then planned to set up a tea room.

But the tea room is a big expense for the daily charcoal and firewood for the courthouse with limited envoy money, because Kaifeng city has no charcoal firewood after all, and everything has to be bought from the vendors who sell charcoal in the city. buy here.

Cooking is okay on weekdays, but in spring and winter, the cost of charcoal soars. Every winter, there are poor families who cannot afford charcoal at home, and the elderly are frozen to death at home.

Therefore, it is somewhat taken for granted that boiling water was popularized in cities and towns in ancient times.

Not even the Liyuan, which is not a large courtyard after all.

There are no more than 30 to [-] ministers, and the envoy's money is no more than a hundred guan, and all the expenses are added up to only two thousand guan. If you get more tea every day, you can spend more than a hundred guan a year, which is really unaffordable.

Zhang Yue also thought that copper tanks can filter water, but because copper is easy to rust when exposed to water, he failed.

Later, the official suggested using alum to filter the water, but Zhang Yue vetoed it without even thinking about it.

In the end, Zhang Yue used the old man's old method to dig a place in the back hall of the ceremony to make three pools, one pool was covered with charcoal, the other pool was covered with fine sand, and the last pool was used for sedimentation. The water was led from one pool to the other. Pool heavily filtered.

When Zhang Yue sued Chen Jian, he didn't care, thinking that he didn't need to bother with these trivial matters, even if Zhang Yue borrowed money from pool diggers, he wouldn't get much money.

So Zhang Yue took out more than a dozen ministers' money to dig a pond in the back hall of the ceremony courtyard.

At the beginning, some people questioned and objected, but after the filter pool was built, Chen Jian, Yan Chengyu, and Lu Xiaqing, who were the Changlitai, all said that the water was sweeter than before, and it could be used for making tea.

And the public can drink good water, and they are very grateful to Zhang Yue.Don't look at these as small benefits, but it will make the public's evaluation of you higher.

Chen Jian saw that in the past three months, the etiquette written in detail by the Zhang Yue was well written, the worship of temple sacrifices, and the details were planned in advance, and the transfer of official documents from each yamen was also very decent, so he made Zhang Yue the chief detainee of the ritual courtyard .

The detainee is usually responsible for any text issued by the Provincial Department, and can withdraw an additional [-] yuan from the Yamen every month.

There is another advantage of being the chief detainee. If you have served in the Liyuan for three years and have no major faults, you can take an examination letter from Yushitai.

Passing the exam can be supplemented as a full-time job, that is to say, the Tongzhi Yuanshi can be changed to Zhiyuan Shi.If you don't want to work in the Liyuan, you can also transfer to other official positions at the same level.

As the chief detainee, you can save a year of effort.

In any case, Zhang Yue was unanimously praised by everyone after working in the Liyuan for three months.

That's exactly what happened in May.

Dazong Zhengsi said that General Youwei and Yuezhou regiment training envoy Zhao Zongshi once again surrendered the post of Taizhou defense envoy to the emperor, and Zhizong officially reported this to the emperor.

The emperor issued an edict not to allow it.

The matter of storing positions has once again become the focus of court officials' discussions.

At the moment, in Prince Pu's mansion, Cheng Langzhong is taking the pulse of Zhao Zongshi and Junjun Gao Taotao respectively.

Cheng Langzhong made the diagnosis and said: "Junjun's condition is fine, it's just a slight cold. As for the group training, it has improved a lot. It's nothing more than too much thinking. If you save your labor and calm your nerves, your condition will gradually improve."

Zhao Zongshi was very happy when he heard this, and said: "There is Mr. Lao Cheng, the three-character poem copybook you gave to my son before, I like it very much, and I haven't thanked you yet."

Cheng Langzhong said: "The villain is trained by Tuan, the county lord is very kind and virtuous, and the copybook is just a little effort, so what's the point?"

Gao Tao said: "Mr. Cheng has something to bother you. The child likes calligraphy very much, and he has worshiped several gentlemen, but he has been unable to get started."

"This Zhang Zhuangyuan who wrote the Three-Character Classic is not only good in his writing, but also his calligraphy is at its peak. He is even praised by the officials. Do you see if there is a way for him to teach children calligraphy?"

Hearing Gao Taotao's words, Zhao Zongshi couldn't help but said: "As a court official, how could Zhang Zhuangyuan easily make friends with our clan, don't even think about it."

Gao Taotao said: "I know, but I think my son likes calligraphy very much. It's rare that the champion of this chapter is in Beijing again. You said that the champion of Zhang is not good, but he can write well at this age. If he teaches my son, that would be nice."

Zhao Zongshi shook his head and said, "Not right, not right."

Zhao Zongshi knew what Gao Taotao meant, and both the officials and the empress liked calligraphy very much.

Zhao Zongshi Gao Taotao practiced calligraphy hard when he was at the queen's knee since he was a child.Now Gao Taotao asked his eldest son Zhongzhen to learn calligraphy, naturally in order to win the favor of Empress Cao, and to increase the possibility of establishing a reserve by himself.

However, Zhao Zongshi believed that an official like Zhang Yue would definitely cherish Yuyu and would not agree to the request.

But Cheng Langzhong kept it in his heart.

On this day, the doctor went home to pack up, prepared generous gifts and went to Zhang Yue's house.

When Zhang Yue bought the house, he owed favors to Cheng Langzhong. Today, seeing him visiting and bringing generous gifts, he guessed that this person most likely had something to ask for.

Zhang Yue waited for Cheng Langzhong to speak, and as expected, Cheng Langzhong chatted with Zhang Yue about the weather for a while and said, "My old friend has a son who adores the calligraphy of the Zhuangyuan Gong. I wonder if it is possible to join the Zhuangyuan Gong's family?"

As expected, Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Is this why Lang Zhong came here today?"

Cheng Langzhong said: "That's exactly the case. I have inquired before I came here. A few years ago, someone studied calligraphy under Cai Junmo's door and gave him [-] guan a year. But this person is the son of my old friend, and I owe him a fortune." It is a great favor, as long as the champion is willing to accept him as an apprentice, I am willing to give a thousand guan."

Zhang Yue listened and said, yes.

Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Cheng Langzhong is too polite. I don't know who's student?"

Cheng Lang said: "He is the son of the merchant family."

Zhang Yue wondered: "Why are the children of merchants willing to pay such a high price to learn calligraphy?"

Cheng Lang said: "It's not he who pays, but the old man. In front of him, the number one scholar only said that he was destined for him, and he didn't take any money."

(End of this chapter)