Prime Minister

Chapter 485 Yue's Invention

Now the branch office of the third division looks like another.

The scribes from the Jiaoyin Prison are hard-working people. After they cleaned up, the account books of all the roads in Shaanxi were quickly reviewed and gradually began to take shape.

Wu Chong and Zhang Yue jointly acted, and were dissatisfied with the officials of the third division. Some ministers told Han Qi and Zeng Gong that Zhang Yue was the judge of the third division of salt and iron, and Wu Chong was the deputy envoy of the third division. Is it okay to work in the same Yamen?
Han Qi directly replied that Lu Gongbi was the envoy of the third division, and Lu Gongbi was the deputy envoy of the household department of the third division. Both brothers can be in the third division, so why can't Weng and son-in-law?

Then the officials failed at one plan and made another plan.

It is said that according to the rules, the dispatch of the official department will be returned after three years, and the official will be removed after two years.

Han Qi replied that the judges of the three divisions had served for a long time in the previous dynasty, and they were not included.

Han Qi even thought about it, and Zhang Yue had indeed served as the judge of the third division for two years, so he canceled the original title of "quan" for Yantie division.Now that Zhang Yue has been promoted to a court official, he has changed from being in charge of prostitution to prison to being sentenced to prison.

Sent by the Song Dynasty, Judgment is the highest, followed by knowledge.

For example, if a senior official invites a county, if the former privy envoy Zhang Sheng relieved the privy envoy to serve as Xuzhou, he will be sentenced to Xuzhou, and the general official of the Beijing Dynasty who is appointed as a state official is just called Zhizhou.

As soon as the two incidents happened, Zhang Yue's position in the Jiaoyin Prison was stabilized.

Even if the officials don't like Zhang Yue, they still know what an official is. He wants to check the accounts of various roads in Shaanxi. Lu Gongbi has been in office for several months, and there is no sound at all. did his will.

Together with Pu Yi, Lu Gong made the officials angry by discussing the two ends of the snake and rat.

Therefore, Lu Gongbi was dismissed as the third envoy, and Lu Gong was also dismissed as the deputy envoy of the household department.

The Deputy Envoy of the Ministry of Household Affairs was replaced by Yan Du. As for the selection of the third envoy, it was suddenly given to Han Jiang.

Han Jiang impeached Fu Bi to go out before, but now Fu Bi has resigned from the post of privy envoy, and Han Jiang has also been recalled back to Beijing.

When Han Jiang knew Chengdu, he had a lot of political achievements. Han Qi invited him to the capital to serve as the governor of Kaifeng, but because Lu Gongbi left his post as the third envoy, Han Jiang changed his post to become the third envoy when he returned to Beijing.

And Shen Yu, the former prophet of Hangzhou, served as the governor of Kaifeng.

As for the post of privy envoy that became vacant after Fu Bi left office, the official wanted Ouyang Xiu to succeed him, but Ouyang Xiu repeatedly refused to take the post.

The reason why Ouyang Xiu did not want to be the privy envoy was because he was opposed by Wang Gui, Jia An, Fan Zhen, etc. in Puyi.

The officials wanted to recognize his father, so Ouyang Xiu came forward to give an example. The son of the heir would call all parents his parents, such as Liu Bingji, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty.As a result, Jia An and Fan Zhen's quotations from the classics were refuted.

At this time, Empress Dowager Cao also wrote a letter, reprimanding Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and other Zhongshu not to put forward the theory of Huang Kao when the bones of the late emperor were still cold, and help the officials recognize his father.

Then Lu Hui and Sima Guang stood up to criticize the officials and Ouyang Xiu, repeatedly emphasizing that the officials are Xiaozong following the Dazong, and calling your biological father Huang Kao is an act of ungratefulness.

Nowadays, the two factions of Zhongshu and Taiwan's admonishment are fighting fiercely. Ouyang Xiu, who proposed that the sons of his successors should be called their parents, dare not risk the disapproval of the world and serve as a privy envoy.

In the end, the officials invited Wen Yanbo, who was recuperating in his hometown, to come out of the mountain to serve as the privy envoy, and let Lu Gongbi and Chen Shengzhi serve as the privy envoys.

Zhang Yue looked around and found that they were all old acquaintances.Wen Yanbo and Han Jiang are both in-laws of his father-in-law, which means that the market price of his father-in-law will rise in the future!But Ouyang Xiu is in trouble.

He helped Han Qi out of righteousness, but unexpectedly, he caused misfortune. Now all the criticisms from the officials of the Manchu Dynasty are focused on him.

At the end of July and August in Kaifeng Prefecture, there were sudden torrential rains.

This rain was so heavy that the Bian River swelled.

It was raining heavily in front of the Sansidu Branch Office.

Zhang Yue held an umbrella and rushed to the branch hall.

But I saw Han Jiang, the new envoy of the third division, laughing with Wu Chong, the deputy envoy, in the hall.

Han Jiang returned to the court, looking even better than before.

Seeing the two of them saluting quickly, Zhang Yue said with a smile, "The deputy envoy and I are talking about you."

Zhang Yue hurriedly said: "I don't know if the governor mentioned the lower officials, what's wrong with the lower officials?"

Han Jiang smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, it's because I'm curious. Just now I saw that you handed over the scribes to the supervisor to settle the accounts. There are more than a dozen people who don't use the chips but use the first-class beaded plate. I don't know what it is?"

Zhang Yue said with a smile, "I would like to report to the governor, this thing was made by the lower officials, and the lower officials call it the abacus."

"abacus?"

Han Jiang and Wu Chong were slightly surprised and said, "Duzhi still has the way of accounting?"

Zhang Yue smiled and said: "I understand slightly, I understand slightly. I remembered that Lao Tzu said that those who are good at planning don't need to make strategies. We know that counting chips were used in the Spring and Autumn Period, and there was abacus calculation in Han Dynasty, but how to calculate it has long been lost."

"Therefore, I see that Jingzhong scholars use counting chips to make accounts. The upper chip counts as five, and the lower chip counts as one. If this is the case, why don't I make a counting bead plate, and the upper two beads count as one?" Ten, the next five beads are counted as five? Then use the beams as the crotch, and restore the method of counting beads in the Han Dynasty?"

Han Jiang and Wu Chong nodded and said, "There is indeed something new."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yue ordered someone to go to the warehouse next door to settle the accounts and borrowed an abacus from the book to demonstrate it to Han Jiang and Wu Chong.

Zhang Yue straightened his abacus and gestured: "The above refers to turning the lower beads to the beam, and the following refers to turning the lower beads away from the beam to the side."

Zhang Yuedao: "When I do my abacus, I have a formula. For example, when dividing by two, you can add two to one, four to two, six to three, eight to four, and two to one to five!"

"In this way, I taught several young scholars in the Jiaoyin Prison, and let them learn it. They will be slower at first, but soon surpass those old scholars who use calculations. As time goes by, now there are three One out of every scribe can use an abacus."

Han Jiang suddenly said: "Very good, very good, our third division takes accounting as a major issue, and it won't consume much manpower and materials every time we check the accounts. If all the scribes below can use abacus, then the accounting will be faster than before. Quick and easy?"

Wu Chong said: "I see that I can try it. I think it would take three months to thoroughly check the register of Shaanxi Road, but now it seems that half a month can be saved."

Han Jiang said happily: "That's right, that's right, your son-in-law is really a genius, and he is so proficient in how to detect objects."

Zhang Yue hurriedly said: "The governor of the province is absurd, I am really ashamed to be an inferior official."

Han Jiang said with a smile: "Don't dare to take it seriously. You want to popularize this method of abacus among our three divisions, so that the calligraphers can learn it and use it. That's how this matter is settled."

Zhang Yue had a wry smile on his face. It would not be easy for old bookmakers who have used abacus for decades to switch to abacus.

Han Jiang gave herself a difficult job just after taking office.

Zhang Yue could only agree temporarily.

Then Han Jiang chatted with Wu Chong: "Now the matter of checking the accounts is gradually becoming clearer. Many officials in Duzhi participated in this case of false accounts. Several officials in Shaanxi have involved many officials in the transfer of corrupt ink."

Wu Chong said: "It's not easy for us to be extravagant when Xia Bandit is committing crimes. We can't investigate to the end, but the officials have to explain, so how extensive and deep the investigation is, I ask the governor to make a decision."

Han Jiang also showed embarrassment when he heard the words.

(End of this chapter)