To The Land of Nevernight

Just after the first month, Shengjing City was still shrouded in heavy snow.The officials of the Ministry of Industry had just returned to the yamen to do business, and an imperial edict was sent to the main room of Yuan Mu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

Yuan Mu received the imperial edict, and he sat in the armchair for a long time without speaking.Half an hour later, he called his confidant, Li Yude, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry.There were only the two of them in the room, Yuan Mu didn't care, and directly handed the imperial decree to Li Yude, motioning him to open it.

Li Yude solemnly took this small booklet, after he opened it and read it, his face was shocked, he raised his head and said: "Master Shangshu."

"You saw it too."

Li Yude said in a low voice: "Why does Your Majesty favor Wang Zifeng and his younger brother Tang Jingze so much?"

Yuan Mu glanced at him, and said with a smile, "You still can't see through it. There are only two kinds of ministers of our Majesty, who can protect themselves wisely and have a prosperous official career. One is muddleheaded officials like Xu Xiang and me, and we never care about it." For other things, whatever the Holy Majesty wants us to do, we will do it well with all our heart, and we are the most useful officials the Holy Majesty can use."

Li Yude also gradually understood that to be the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, although he is the kind of "foolish official" that Yuan Mu said, he is not stupid.He thought for a while and said, "The other kind is like Wang Zifeng and Tang Jingze."

Yuan Mu: "Exactly. This other type is the official who is most favored by the Holy One. Look at the Yin Yinsi that Wang Zifeng worked for, and Tang Jing is now in charge of the next errand. And Su Feiran, Li Jingde, why? They are so young, they can even become important high-ranking officials in the court today as reformed people? They have done a great job, they want to do it, and it is not the Holy Majesty who wants them to do it. It’s just that accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger, which is also a knife There are advantages and disadvantages in dancing on the tip. The last official who won the emperor's favor was Ji Xiang."

Li Yude deeply agrees.

Ji Xiang Ji Weng Ji is also a well-known practical faction in the Song Dynasty.

The reason why he was able to become the prime minister of the court step by step from his background as a top-ranked Jinshi was because he had done many great things while he was an official abroad.After returning to Beijing, he also used strong means to purge the imperial court and bring peace to the world.

Zhao Fu once regarded him as his right-hand man, but his fate was extremely tragic. He was able to save his life, not only because of Zhao Fu's many years of affection, but also because of the Song Dynasty's law of not killing officials.

Thinking of this, Yuan Mu and Li Yude looked at each other and smiled, but said nothing.

At such an age, Tang Shenneng is an official of the third rank, he has gained a lot, and there are also many threats behind him.Whether he can become the next Wang Zifeng, or just like Ji Xiang, this is fate, no one knows.

At the beginning of February, Tang Shen, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, reorganized the Ministry of Industry and changed the rules that had been in use for many years.

As soon as this move came out, the entire Ministry of Industry was shocked.Immediately, some officials went to look for Shangshu Yuan Mu and Zuo Shilang Li Yude, but the two remaining senior officials from the Ministry of Industry did not say a word and let Tang Shen do it.The officials were at a loss, and some officials responded: "There is only one person in the world who can make three adults go to work together."

"who?"

The official stretched out his finger and pointed to the sky.

There are many officials in the Ministry of Industry. In addition to Shangshu and Left and Right Ministers, there are four departments of Tuntian, Yubu, Water Department and Wensiyuan. Each department has many officials such as Langzhong, Yuanwailang, and Chief. Officials below the seventh rank who do not belong to the four departments.

As for the craftsmen affiliated to the Ministry of Industry, there are countless.

If the Ministry of Industry recruits, all craftsmen in the 36 states of the Song Dynasty must be called.

The first thing Tang Shen did was to directly promote Ji Mengwen, a judge of the Wensi Academy of the Ministry of Industry.

Ji Mengwen has been in his forties for a few years, and he was a Juren in Kaiping for 15 years.Wensiyuan is a department that mainly repairs gold and silverware in the world, and the judge is considered a low-ranking seventh-rank sesame official.Such official positions are often not appointed by the imperial court, but directly appointed by officials of the Ministry of Industry, and then reported to the Ministry of Officials.

Ji Mengwen was directly appointed by Su Wenyun, the former right servant of the Ministry of Industry.

After Ji Mengwen won the examination, he failed in the examination many times.In fact, when Tang Shen went to the Shengjing Gongyuan for the examination, Ji Mengwen was also among the 1 people.It's a pity that he still failed in the rankings. In a few years, he was appointed by Su Wenyun as a judge of Wensi Academy because of his good craftsmanship. Since then, he gave up the scientific examination and became a seventh-rank sesame official.

Tang Shen directly promoted Ji Mengwen from a seventh-rank judge to a sixth-rank chief, which shocked Ji Mengwen.

Juren without fame wants to be an official, the highest can only be a seventh-rank official.Although there is no clear stipulation in the laws and regulations of the Song Dynasty that a person cannot be a sixth-rank official, since the Taizu, there has never been a sixth-rank official who has made a person famous.

Ji Mengwen was terrified and frightened, followed the guards to see Tang Shen.

Who is Tang Shen? How could Ji Mengwen, as an official of the Ministry of Industry, know who Tang Shen was.He knew very well that Mr. Tang, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, was the mainstay of the royal party. He was only 23 years old, and he was a senior official of the third rank.But because the relationship between Tang Shen and Su Wenyun seems to be not good, Ji Mengwen was single-handedly promoted by Su Wenyun, and now that Tang Shen has been promoted to his official position, Ji Mengwen naturally suspects that something is wrong.

After coming to the right servant's room, Ji Mengwen lowered his head, not daring to make a sound.

Tang Shen's voice was gentle: "You are Ji Mengwen?"

Ji Mengwen made a bow and said, "Your Majesty Ji Mengwen, I have seen Mr. Right servant."

Tang Shen: "Raise your head and speak."

Ji Mengwen raised his head and finally saw Tang Shen's face clearly.At this moment, he has never thought that the fate of his future life will be completely rewritten by the young man in front of him.

Promoting talents and improving the salaries of craftsmen are only the first step Tang Shen has taken.

In March of the 34th year of Kaiping, Tang Shen went to the emperor and asked for the addition of the Ministry of Renovation, which was a special department outside the four ministries of the Ministry of Industry.This time, even Zhao Fu hesitated a little. As soon as this remark came out, all the officials expressed their criticisms.Most of them think that Tang Shen became the right servant of the Ministry of Industry only last year, and now he is going to add another department to the Ministry of Industry.

"Most of the official system in my Great Song Dynasty follows the previous dynasty. The previous dynasty has been used for hundreds of years, and my dynasty has been used for more than 100 years since the Taizu. How can it be changed after he took office? It's just nonsense!"

Although Yuan Mu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, felt astonished, he did not object.

Fortunately, the government of this dynasty is strict and strict, unlike the previous dynasty, the Ministry of Industry is a down-to-earth yamen.The officials of the Ministry of Industry are not good-looking people. All the officials have some opinions on Tang Shen's actions, but they don't really care.The power to decide everything fell to Zhao Fu again.

On the fourth day of March, Wang Qin left for Jinling.Before leaving, he kissed Tang Shen lightly on the forehead, and said softly, "Has Jing Ze ever been worried?"

Tang Shen sent him out, and asked back, "What are you worried about?"

"Do you know that the Holy Majesty has always supported you, but there was no movement when you played the special reform department?"

Tang Shen smiled: "The Holy Majesty is worried about me, and the power is too great. If I set up a reform department, this department must be all my cronies. This is what the Holy Majesty is worried about. Brother, I am right ?”

Wang Qin: "Yes, yes, you are very smart, and you have hit everything."

Tang Shen sighed and said, "I'm really not sure this time, for our Majesty, this is the most intolerable thing for us."

"Why worry?"

"Ok?"

"You are only 23 years old this year. Our Majesty weighs the age of the court is a round older than your age. Other things are easy to say. In this matter, no one in this world can compare with today's today."

Not long after, Wang Qin left Shengjing and went south to Jinling.

Three days later, Tang Shen finally knew how Zhao Fu wanted to use him.

"Under the door, I am ordered by the family of Haotian. The Ministry of Industry has been established since Emperor Xuan, with professional and sincere skills. There are pillars on the top, and skilled craftsmen on the bottom. Now there is a special renovation department, and 30 people in the expansion department will be appointed immediately. "

"Minister Yuan Mu leads the order." Yuan Mu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, led the rest of the officials to receive the order.

Since then, the Reform Department of the Ministry of Industry has fallen into Tang Shen's hands.The Reform Department can expand 30 people. Zhao Fu has completely delegated power to Tang Shen. The 30 people are not specially assigned to Tang Shen, but let Tang Shen choose by himself, even if he chooses [-] craftsmen who are only scholars. , the Ministry of Officials might let people pass.

Such kindness made many officials treat Tang Shen even more differently.

However, more people were very calm and did not harbor any resentment.

When Wang Qin, who was far away in Jinling, learned of the news, he was drinking tea with his fourth uncle at the Wang family in Langya.Although Wang Hui, the fourth master of the Wang family, is a businessman, he is also very aware of the stakes in the officialdom.There were two high-ranking first-rank officials in the family, and Wang Hui was fascinated by it, and sighed, "Zifeng, what do you think Your Majesty will do?"

Wang Qin looked at the clear tea soup. He had praised the tea for its clear taste and lingering fragrance on his teeth and cheeks just a moment ago, but now he silently put down the cup.

After a long time, he smiled helplessly: "Only Yin Yinsi is left!"

A few days later, Tang Shen received the imperial decree again, and the emperor appointed Tang Shen as the head of the three departments of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Water, and the Ministry of Reform, and governed the three departments.But at the same time, he was promoted secretly, and his official position as the right deputy censor of Yin Yinsi was removed, and the additional official position of deputy censor was abolished.At the same time, the official position of Yu Chaosheng, another left deputy censor, was also removed, and he was given another position: commander of Jiangnan Yinyin Division.

Tang Shen had already guessed that there would be such an outcome, but he never imagined that Wang Qin would be implicated.Zhao Fu divided some of the power in Wang Qin's hands and gave it to Yu Chaosheng.

He immediately wrote a letter and sent it to Jiangnan.

Soon, Wang Qin wrote back and forth.

"Recently, I have been sleeping at night for a long time. When I happened to hear this, I tossed and turned, and it was difficult to fall asleep. I thought that the names of me and Jing Ze would be written in the history books because they had been handed down for thousands of years. Never I thought, I lost my sweetheart, and only saw Yu Xianzhi. After eating at noon, I suddenly lost my appetite and lost a catty."

After Tang Shen looked at it, he smiled for a long time, as if he saw Wang Zifeng who was writing nonsense with a serious face.

He wrote back, and seven days later, Wang Qin was stunned for a while when he received the letter.

Wang Hui was at the side and asked curiously, "But Tang Jingze's letter?"

Wang Qin clutched his chest, turned to Wang Hui and said, "When Fourth Uncle went out to do business, did Fourth Aunt write a letter to Fourth Uncle?"

"...Naturally, I wrote it."

"Oh, that's gone."

"..."

"Fourth uncle may find it difficult to understand the affection here."

Wang Hui: "..."

What the hell is this!

Where Tang Shen knew, he wrote back a letter. Wang Zifeng took the letter and read it for two nights, reluctant to put it in the bookcase.

The letter was written in elegant characters with love words worth a thousand dollars: "Before you lied to me, you forgot to kiss me again. Senior brother always doesn't mean words, but I am different from senior brother. My name and senior brother have already been closely linked." Entangling, falling on the Sansheng Stone. Even if the history is thousands of years old, it is not impossible to be together. Senior brother is trustworthy, Yin Yinsi may not be better than the Reform Department..."

Wang Qin didn't read much about the content in the future, and it wasn't very important.