Da Cang night watchman

Chapter 330 Those Colleagues of the Supervision Department
In the early morning of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Lin Su left the drunk guest house and went to the Supervision Department.

As a member of the Supervision Department, he had to go to work. No matter how much he disliked seeing the faces of the Supervision Department, he couldn't help himself in the officialdom.

Compared with the other six imperial ministries, the Supervision Department is quieter.

After all, not many people want to hang out in a place where their life's mission is to find trouble with other people.

He met several inspectors, including two fifth-rank inspectors at the same level as him, Chen Dong and Li Zhiyuan.

Chen Dong is relatively young. Three years ago, he was a Jinshi in the palace examination, and his ranking in the examination was not high, almost the bottom of the existence, so the first time he was given an official, he was from the seventh rank, but only three years later, he was mixed up to the fifth rank. One level of Su, right?

Li Zhiyuan is another extreme.

He debuted as a holy Jinshi 12 years ago, and the official he was given at that time was Cong Wupin. It took him 12 years to remove one word: Cong.

Lin Su looked at his face full of years and years, as if he saw himself 12 years later—if his situation remained the same.

But he looked down at Li Zhiyuan's whitishly washed official uniform, which was somewhat comforting, at least, this handsome guy probably wouldn't be able to mix up with this appearance on "Qiantu".

He just gave a salute to the two of them before passing by and entering the office of his immediate boss.

After a year, Zhu Shiyun gained weight again. The loose official uniform on his body looked a bit funny. When he saw Lin Su, his smiling face was like the Maitreya Buddha in the temple...

"My lord Lin, the vacation your Majesty gave you is too long. How long has it been since we saw each other?"

"More than three months!" Lin Su said with a smile: "These more than three months are not all the bathing leave given by His Majesty, and I was also on hard work in Xizhou for two months, my lord can learn from it."

"That's that... It's still the first month. It's a folk practice not to file a complaint in the first month, so the department is very free these days. If Mr. Lin is concerned about the family, you might as well go home and live for a while."

"My lord, your care for me, I will always keep it in my heart. You should be on duty these few days. After the Lantern Festival, I want to inspect various places in the south of the Yangtze River. After all, as a supervisor, I can't just wait With others complaining, you have to go down to the place spontaneously to get the first-hand information, so as to share your majesty's worries."

"Master Lin is really diligent and a role model in the officialdom..." Zhu Shiyun dealt with him and sent him to his office.

As a fifth-rank inspector, Lin Su still has some privileges. At least, he has his own dedicated office.

Even though he has never been in this office, there are still office servants who clean it regularly, keeping it clean and tidy.

Today, the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, he entered his office for the first time.

A servant came in, poured him tea, and stood by the door with his hands down, waiting for orders.

Miscellaneous errands are also assigned by the department, and above the fifth grade, they can be assigned special errands, cleaning, tidying up the office, and helping adults with some more "personal" things.

This errand hasn't seen his master for more than half a year. Although he is very idle, he is so idle that he feels hairy. He has no status in the department. He always looks forward to the return of the lord, and he finally returned today.

"What's your name?"

"Back to the lord, the villain Li San."

Lin Su looked at the clothes on the errand, if he read correctly, the quality of the clothes was the same as that of the sack, he really didn't look like a supervisor, so he asked casually, "How much is your salary?"

"Master, one or two or three dollars a month."

One, two or three dollars?Lin Su was surprised. Is the wages of the miscellaneous jobs in the Supervision Department so low?

Li Si was a little embarrassed, and told Lin Su that the errands in the department were divided into three, six, and nine grades. The highest level of errands was for Si Zhenglei's regular errands, and the monthly salary was obviously five taels of silver.

He is the lowest.

Lin Su understood, his errands, if he didn't choose the lowest one, it would be against the law...

Lin Su smiled and said, "I'm unlucky, and my people are also unlucky. Visually, you will be the worst mess in the entire Supervision Department."

Li San accompanied him with a smile and said, "My lord, you are wrong. Zhang Laoer is so envious of me, he wanted to change with me a few days ago."

Um?Is there anyone worse off than you?
Li San reassured him, and explained with a smile, Zhang Laoer, he is from the same town as Li San, and he joined the Supervision Department at the same time as an errand, and he was assigned to Mr. Li Zhiyuan as an errand. Do you know how much he earns a year?Post three or two!His family had originally hoped to find him a daughter-in-law, but now it failed again.

After a whole year of working hard as an errand, in the end it turned out to be unpaid?

What tricks are you playing?
Li San said, it wasn't the department that deducted wages, it was Mr. Li Zhiyuan. What does this lord say?In fact, from the bottom of our hearts, those of us who work as errands admire him quite a lot. He doesn’t want to be greedy or take money. When he goes out to do errands, he can’t bear to spend money on those poor people who are so poor that they can’t open their hands.

His own salary is only so much, and he is always penniless, so what should he do with the odd jobs that follow him?You can't watch adults starve to death, can you?The expenses outside are occasionally subsidized by miscellaneous errands, a little bit at a time, and in the end, the whole year's wages are included, not to mention, but also subsidized.

Li Zhiyuan?
Lin Su vaguely saw a familiar figure from this elder brother—another Zeng Shigui!
"Master, did you see Master Li's face just now?"

"Yes! It's quite gloomy, what's the matter?"

"He just had a quarrel with the boss..." Li San's voice was very low.

what happened?

Li San said it was because his superiors deducted his annual bonus.

For what reason?
Li San shook his head, needless to mention the reason for the deduction of the bonus, anyway, that was not the real reason at all, the bonus booklet had already been made years ago, but there was no money in the household department before the year, and it was delayed until the next year, and it was originally planned to be done yesterday. Posted it, if it is true that he had a problem with his business affairs last year, why didn't he mention it last year?Have to suddenly deduct money this year when everything is in place?
The real reason for the deduction of money was the Great Court Meeting the day before yesterday.

At the Grand Court Meeting the day before yesterday, Mr. Li Zhiyuan was also one of the people who knelt down on the spot!

Lin Su's heart is bright!

revenge!

The court official's revenge is coming!
Due to the situation, His Majesty finally sided with them, pardoned Li Xiaotian, and did not dare to hold those main fighters accountable, but that didn't mean they didn't hate them. They obviously couldn't find a reason to punish them, so they secretly Played a little trick.

It's too low-handed to be able to even deduct people's bonuses.

"Apart from Mr. Li, who else has been suppressed?"

Lin Su asked himself more about this topic. Originally, he didn't expect Li San to answer, but to his surprise, Li San actually answered...

Judging from the current situation, three people have been suppressed.

The most serious one is probably Mr. Deng Hongbo. Yesterday, Mr. Deng received an order from Mr. Shang Shu, asking him to review the accounts of the household department for the whole year within half a month. My lord, in half a month, the accounts of the household department for a year are piled up into mountains , how can the review be clear within half a month?Lord Shangshu made it clear that this is what His Majesty wants, if it cannot be completed, please ask him to become an official!

Lord Deng was angry and anxious, and had already fallen ill.

Pity for such a third-rank official, no matter whether his illness can be cured or not, his official career is at an end.

Lin Su looked him up and down: "Li San, how do you know the inside story of so many officials?"

Li San smiled: "That's what it means that officials have official ways, and errands have errands. We work as errands, and we often communicate with each other. I also know the errands of Mr. Deng's family. Yesterday, he followed Mr. Deng's family." Young master, I made a special trip to Bailu Academy to ask to see the professor of the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Bailu Academy, but the professor refused to accept."

Lin Su stood up, held together a bank note and handed it to Li San: "Li San, today is still the fourteenth day of the first lunar month. It's the first time we meet. I'll give you a small New Year's gift. I'll go first."

"My lord, this can't be..."

"Hold it!" Lin Su slapped the silver ticket on his hand, turned around and walked out.

Li San unfolded the banknote and looked, his eyes suddenly widened, oh my god...

He rubbed his eyes, and looked again, and it was still the same. There was a clear amount written on the bank note: Wenyin 100 taels!

A hundred taels of silver, my God, his odd jobs are one tael or three a month, how long will it take to make up the hundred taels?Seven years!

Lin Su picked up a "small gift" for the New Year, which was his salary for seven years!

……

At the same time, a visitor came to the North Peak of Xishan, in front of the Tianji hut.

This is a young man, dressed in commoner clothes, with an extraordinary appearance. He is accompanied by a companion, also a young man, dressed in green clothes. He said he is a son of a wealthy family in the capital, and he wants to come to the owner of the hut to calculate his fortune.

The old man sat under the tree, unfathomable. After listening to the young man's introduction, the old man smiled, raised his hand and picked off a leaf. With a wave of his fingernails, the pattern on the leaf suddenly changed and became a word: white!

The white words floated up and landed on top of the young man's head.

The young man frowned deeply, not knowing what it meant, but the young man in Tsing Yi beside him was overjoyed, and bowed to the ground: "Thank you for the prediction, senior, a small gift is not a respect!"

A piece of gold was placed on the stone table next to it, and the two walked away quickly.

As soon as they left, they went straight down the mountain, and when they reached a secluded place, the young man stopped: "Du Qing, what is his intention?"

"Congratulations, Your Highness!" The young man Du Qing bowed deeply.

They are the third prince and his confidant, think tank Du Qing.

They didn't dare approach the Tianji hut at first, but yesterday the emperor ordered Si Tianjian Shaoqing to go to the Tianji hut in person, which has sent a clear signal that the father intends to re-establish contact with the Tianji Daomen, so what is he afraid of?He came to the door as soon as possible to make a good impression. In the future, when his father Huang Tianji asks questions, the Tianji Daomen will help him with a word, which may affect the outcome of the entire struggle for succession.

He came and had an oracle.

But he didn't understand it.

Du Qing bowed deeply, his face beaming with joy: "Your Highness, you are the prince! What does the word '白' fall on the top of 'Wang''s head, what does it mean?"

The third prince was shocked...

The word "white" falls on top of "wang", forming a character: "huang"!
This is the judgment of heaven!
He will finally win the throne!
"Such a heavy sentence, your mere 50 taels of gold, is it too light? Do you want to..."

"Don't! Your Highness, it's not time for a large amount of investment. Since Tianji has made a prediction, they must not dare to let their prediction fail. They know what to do... Ah, His Royal Highness is also here, let's hide stand up."

The two hurriedly hid under the big tree beside the road, pretending to be ordinary pedestrians, and watched the Prince's motorcade pass by them and go straight to the west mountain.

In the hut of Tianji, Zhizhen turned out from behind the tree: "Brother, do you really predict that this person will be the king of the sky?"

The old man smiled faintly: "Did I say that?"

"White characters, the white characters fell on the top of Prince Ping's head, what is it if it's not the emperor?"

The old Taoist smiled: "What I'm talking about is...he'll be busy in vain in the end!"

Zhizhen was stunned, the white characters landed on the top of Wang's head, it could be "Emperor", but it could also be "in the end, it's a waste of work", senior brother, aren't you afraid that others will vomit blood when you play like this? ...

The old Taoist smiled slowly: "At this time last year, the two sons were still equally divided in the competition for the heir. At that time, King Ping still had three parts of the emperor's purple aura, but when I saw it today, there was no purple aura. It seems that in just one year, the capital must have Huge changes, the two sons' struggle for the reserve has come to an end."

Zhizhen said: "According to what the senior brother said, His Royal Highness the crown prince's general situation has been achieved, we should stand on the prince's side."

Be it Taoism or Buddhism, the biggest taboo when participating in world affairs is to bet on the wrong treasure.

What is wrong bet?
Two factions compete for a high position. If you follow the wrong person, the other party will end up with the high position, and the power will dominate the world. You will not get any benefits, and you will provoke a big enemy out of thin air. That is to bet on the wrong treasure.

But for Tianji Daomen, this problem does not exist.

Their biggest advantage is "prediction of secrets". They choose the one who has already achieved the general trend and make arrangements in advance. When this person takes the position, their spring will come.

When Lao Dao came to the capital this time, in addition to eliminating the contradiction between the view of heaven and His Majesty that day, he also had a far-reaching plan to find out the heir of Da Cang Jiangshan's descendants and invest in him in advance.In exchange for the prosperity of Taoism for the next hundred years.

The two sons competed for the crown, and everyone in the world knew it, and everyone knew that the future Lord of the Great Cang Kingdom must be one of the two.

The Heavenly Mystery Daomen found out that His Royal Highness the Third Prince had no royal aura through the Heavenly Secret Qi Measuring Technique, so they could make a bold bet on His Highness the Crown Prince.

This is their first opportunity.

At this moment, His Royal Highness asked to see him.

The crown prince is different from the third prince. He asked to see the old Taoist directly as the prince, and the old Taoist greeted him politely. There were not many private words. What the crown prince said was exactly the same as what Si Tianjian Shaoqing said yesterday. Cang is eclectic, does not reject all kinds of sects, Buddhism and Taoism are the same, but whether Taoism or Buddhism, they must abide by their duties, so that they can get along with the court and the royal family, and the royal family can support their legitimate status. so...

These words are in line with his position and identity, but they also implicitly convey the importance he attaches to the Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect.

Zhizhen was very happy: "Brother, have you found out? His Royal Highness still respects the Tianji Taoist sect. I heard that he has one of his most trusted disciples named Qiu Zixiu. He used to be close at hand, but today, this person is not here By his side, there is only one reason, Qiu Zixiu has a Buddhist background, the crown prince is worried about our unhappiness, he has even worried about this, that is true respect..."

He said a lot, but the old man never said anything, and the expression on his face was very strange.

"Brother, what did you see?"

The old Taoist raised his head slowly: "It's amazing! Although the third prince has no imperial aura, the crown prince's aura is also decreasing. Could it be that there is a third person in today's fight for the crown prince?"

Zhizhen's expression changed greatly...

The two Royal Royal Highnesses competed for the reserve position, and theoretically it was a situation where one ebbed and the other rose.

But now, both of them are disappearing, who is rising?
Could it be that the other two princes in the capital started to exert their strength?

……

(End of this chapter)