Mortal Mage

"The court owes us three years of salary. We are lucky to be able to come to work, but we are also working overtime. What kind of overtime is this? I am afraid that this kid who hasn't even fully grown his hair doesn't know his own weight. He wears the hat of a second-rank doctor, but he has no control over our Feather Guards."

Dang Nanzhi looked at the ceiling with his eyelids closed. This was naturally what he was thinking in his heart.

Zhang Mingxuan's mouth twitched; "I'll give you overtime pay."

"How to calculate?"

Dang Nanzhi lowered his eyelids and glanced at Zhang Mingxuan who was tapping the table, his eyes full of confusion.

"Three times the salary."

Zhang Mingxuan already knew from Wang Han that the Lingyu Guard was seriously in arrears in salary, so he just mentioned it casually. Unexpectedly, Dang Nanzhi became more excited.

"Pay the owed wages first, and I'll let my brothers work overtime."

Dang Nanzhi adjusted his tone. He didn't want triple the salary, but as long as the three years of arrears could be made up, he had no objection to working twelve hours, let alone overtime.

"The salaries of other feather guards can be delayed, so why should the salaries of the feather guards in our Ministry of Revenue also be delayed?"

Zhang Mingxuan looked at Liu Lizheng beside him in confusion.

"This is Lord Wang's intention, because some of the Feathered Guards received money from the Ministry of Revenue to do the Crown Prince's work..."

"We in the Ministry of Revenue can't tell which ones are the prince's people and which ones are His Majesty's people, so we didn't send them out..."

"First, take 5,000 taels from the remaining money in the Ministry of Revenue and pay the salaries of the Feather Guards who work in our Ministry of Revenue."

Zhang Mingxuan knocked on the table, and Liu Lizheng responded by leading three or five young eunuchs to the Ministry of Revenue's warehouse to get the money.

Soon, several eunuchs came out carrying a large box containing five thousand taels of silver.

Zhang Mingxuan personally signed the salary note, then patted the box towards Dang Nanzhi and said, "Ask your people to take your money and come to work overtime."

Dang Nanzhi thought that this kid was just bluffing him, but he didn't expect that he really received the salary. He kowtowed to Zhang Mingxuan three times, "Dong Dong Dong!" "Master Zhang, you are so righteous and generous!"

Then he excitedly walked out of the Zhenghe Hall and shouted to the two small flags to go outside the palace to call their brothers to come to the Ministry of Revenue to collect their salaries.

When this was done, it was already sunset and the sky was getting dark.

Outside the household department of Zhenghe Palace, a hundred feather guards stood in neat rows.

Inside the Zhenghe Hall.

“The first step of reform and opening up.”

Zhang Mingxuan knocked on the table again; "Catch the corrupt officials."

"This...I'm afraid it's not something your Ministry of Revenue can handle, right?"

Dang Nanzhi looked embarrassed. He had expected everything, but he didn't expect that this new guy in office would catch corrupt officials. He thought he would be working overtime to collect taxes.

"Our Ministry of Revenue can't do that, but you, the Lingyu Guard, can."

Zhang Mingxuan narrowed his eyes and rubbed his chin in thought.

"Sir Zhang, the court has been dismissed, so I will leave first..." Liu Lizheng said softly; "In addition, my salary is still in arrears..."

Zhang Mingxuan scratched the wound on his shoulder and waved his hand to let Liu Lizheng leave first.

This little money can't afford to go tossing and turning. Then he continued to say to Dang Nanzhi: "When the Lingyu Guards catch corrupt officials, there are laws to follow, right?"

"Yes, there is, but our Lingyu Guard is just a warehouse keeper in the Ministry of Revenue. It's a bit..."

Dang Nanzhi gently scratched his left arm with his right hand.

Zhang Mingxuan saw that Dang Nanzhi's entire left hand and left forearm below the elbow were empty.

"Won't?"

Zhang Mingxuan curled his lips and smiled.

Dang Nanzhi nodded imperceptibly, "Fighting is fine, but I've never arrested corrupt officials."