In the afternoon, Xu Ping left the Sansi Yamen. Looking at the red sun hanging in the west, I felt refreshed.≧

Today's Chongzheng Palace report was the most nervous time when he came to this world to be an official. It was difficult to explain this feeling clearly. Anyway, when sitting in the hall, I always felt that I was immature in thinking and didn't know where there were loopholes. When I was in the hall, I just felt this way and couldn't figure out why. It was not until I finished my business and left the yamen that I remembered what was the reason.

Today is the first time Xu Ping has seen Wang Zeng. Thinking about it carefully, it may be this person who puts Xu Ping so much pressure. In the past, even when facing the old official Lu Yijian, Xu Ping could talk freely and argue with reason and not be afraid. Wang Zeng was kind-hearted compared to Lu Yijian, speaking slowly and drizzling, and he looked gentle and elegant, but he had a different temperament.

The ten years of the empress dowager's rule were the era of Wang Zeng and Lu Yijian. The two of them were of the same age, had similar experiences, and stood on the same front in the most difficult days, cooperating and confronting Empress Dowager Liu, and ensuring that the young emperor succeeded in power.

In terms of qualifications, Wang Zeng completely overwhelmed Lu Yijian.

Lu Yijian became a Jinshi in the third year of Xianping, one earlier than Wang Zeng. However, Wang Zeng won three yuan in a row in the fifth year of Xianping, and became the Jinshi as the top scholar. His career began higher than Lu Yijian. In the first year of Qianxing, Wang Zeng became the prime minister for the first time and was the third top scholar prime minister after Lu Mengzheng and Li Di in the Song Dynasty. After Wang Zeng became prime minister, he promoted Lu Yijian, who was then the chief official of Kaifeng Prefecture, to be the chief political affairs. Wang Zeng had a good understanding of Lu Yijian. In fact, the relationship between the two was also good during the Tiansheng period, and Lu Yijian was very respectful to Wang Zeng.

The two of them have roughly the same experience as officials. In addition to being in local offices, most of the people engaged in real positions such as human resources and criminal prisons, and then they are censors, who are promoted to prime ministers.

The biggest difference between the two is that Lu Yijian is a bureaucrat after all. Although he has the ability to do things, he is still a bureaucratic habit in his bones. The stability of Lu Yijian's status is more about privately tyrannical gangs and playing with power. Those who do this are not necessarily treacherous officials, because although Lu Yijian controls the government, he does not harm the public because of his own private matters, and he still grasps the standard between them.

Wang Zeng was a traditional literati and doctor. He had no private party and acted with public spirit, because of his ability to promote his colleagues and subordinates. This was nothing. The Song Dynasty never lacked such people, and there were quite a few of Xu Ping's peers. The biggest difference between Wang Zeng and those people was that although he was such a person, he never relied on his own mouth, but on his own real ability. In fact, few of his similar people had this kind of political ability after Wang Zeng, but only relied on one mouth and one pen to enter politics.

Wang Zeng did not train his private party, but the scholars and officials in the world looked up to him, and the supporters in the court were no less than Lu Yijian.

According to Xu Ping's personality, he is more willing to deal with Lu Yijian, doing business and having nothing to do with his private affairs. Wang Zeng puts too much pressure on people. Although his personality is very kind, his politically stern habit makes people very restricted.

Looking at the setting sun in the sky, Xu Ping shook his head, "Where is the reason for everything to go well as an official in politics? Let's go step by step.

The court will not be held tomorrow at 18th, and the day after tomorrow the 19th day after tomorrow will start the seven-day winter solstice. Although there is no holiday on the first and last day of the long holiday, and you have to go to the Sansi Yamen to take care of things, who still has the intention to do things at this time? Of course, they are all preparations, calling friends to prepare for a banquet, and some Yamen will also use ministerial money to eat and drink.

Speaking of the most unaccustomed to being an official in the court, the minister's money suddenly decreased. Although the subsidies for various official positions were much higher than those in local areas, the actual income was much smaller. Xu Ping's family was not short of money, but he had no reason to spend money on official social engagements. The humanity of the yamen in the capital was much less popular than that in local areas. However, people from different yamen, as long as they are in similar interests, they can treat each other to have banquets, and their social scope is much larger than that in local areas.

Taking advantage of the long winter solstice holiday, Xu Ping wanted to move his family outside the city. Although the new home has not been fully built, it is already possible to live in. His parents lived there, and taking care of him also saved Xu Ping from running out of the city every day.

Xu Ping has already made the door plaques of the new home. The four big characters "Yongning Hou Mansion" were written by Cai Xiang. This can only be blamed for Xu Ping's limited appreciation. He only knows that at this time, there was a Cai Xiang in a well-known calligrapher in later generations. He asked Cai Xiang to write any important words, and gave him a lot of money from Runbi.

On the twenty-year-old day, the weather suddenly became colder. The north wind was not strong, but it was like a knife cut on the face, blowing its face suddenly.

When Xu Ping left the house, Liu Xiaoyi led the horse. Xu Ping got on the horse, and he harried and took the horse to the outside of the city.

My parents and Lin Su Niang moved to their new home two days ago. Today they were on vacation and celebrated the housewarming ceremony. Now they are high-ranking officials in the court. This kind of happy day will inevitably lead to colleagues coming to congratulate you, and gifts and other things. There are even major business banks that have direct interests in Xu Ping.

The biggest difference between Xu Ping and other officials in this dynasty was that his family was not short of money, not that he was pure and weak, but that he really didn't have time now. He just had time, and when he was free, he would make money with whatever he wanted. With his current deputy envoy of the Three Divisions and the marquis of the county, he was not afraid of anyone coming to cause trouble. As for salary, it was pocket money for Xu Ping.

The biggest headache for Xu Ping to hold such a celebration is that he doesn't want to accept gifts, but he can't stop others from giving gifts. If he receives too much gift, he will be targeted by the censors. He is fine in normal times, but if he has something to do, he will be brought out to commit crimes.

After leaving Wanshengmen, Xu Ping's face was already numb from the cold, as if it was not his own.

As soon as I got off the road, I saw a man riding on a green donkey in front of me, constantly joking with his hands. His whole body was shrinking, almost forming a ball and stuffing it into the donkey's belly.

Xu Ping grabbed the horse's belly and quickly caught up from behind. He said to the person on the donkey: "June, did you come so early?"

Wang Gongchen raised his head and looked at Xu Ping with a bitter face, "I'm going to tell you my brother, I haven't had breakfast yet. I originally wanted to go to your house to scratch a meal, but I didn't expect that the wind was so strong, but I was losing."

Xu Ping smiled and said, "What's the loss? After drinking two glasses of wine, your body heats up and you'll make up for everything."

Wang Gongchen's family was burdened. Now he was a small official and was not well-off. There was no good fortune in the Qingshui yamen, so his life was naturally not as good as others. Xu Ping's family often helped him, but his situation did not fundamentally change. It is said that the officials in the Song Dynasty had high incomes, which was because they only saw high officials and nobles. In this era, officials' incomes were polarized, so the priests and governors naturally had high officials and generous salaries, high houses and courtyards, and there were many slaves at home. The lower-level officials were miserable, especially in the capital, and they had to count copper coins to live.

The two met, one horse and one donkey were running side by side, and Liu Xiaoyi followed behind. After not much time, he arrived in front of Xu Ping's new home.

Xu Chang and two servants came to the door and just hung it on it. When they saw Xu Ping coming, they said happily: "The county marquis is back, hurry up, hurry up, take out the firecrackers and set them off!"

A moment of crackling firecrackers sounded, and red paper scraps flew.
Chapter completed!