Traveling through books: Traveling through time with a golden finger to become a soft rice man

Everyone in the Yang family in Shunxing County learned from Yang Yuanzu's letter that the other party was not buying a house in Changjing City but planning to stay in his hometown for a while longer while repairing a house.

They will wait until the house is repaired before moving there, so as not to have nowhere to put the luggage that the family has transported there.

After Yang Yuanzu finalized the residence matter, he took the appointment letter and reported to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

He is currently only a sixth-rank official and is not qualified to participate in court. Although small people do not have to attend meetings, they cannot be late for work. Their clock-in time for work and the time for going to court are the same, but they can check the time at work, but they have to go to court. Wait outside the hall in advance.

The time for going to court is Mao hour, which is five o'clock in the morning. According to regulations, ministers must wait outside the palace before five o'clock.

Therefore, many ministers try to live as close as possible to the palace to make it easier to go to work. This also leads to the fact that the closer to the palace, the more expensive the house prices are, and the closer to the palace, the higher the official rank.

Because no one dares to compete with their boss for a house, unless you don’t want to hang out anymore.

Yang Yuanzu now lives on the outskirts of Changjing City, quite far away from the imperial palace, so he has to enter the city just after the curfew ends, that is, at three in the morning, otherwise there is a high chance that he will be late.

The consequences of being late in the Daning Dynasty were very serious. If you were late once in a while, you would be fined three months' salary. If you were late again, you would be flogged, which is a punishment between 20 and 100. If you don't change your ways after repeated admonitions, you will be dismissed from your post or sent to hard labor.

Under the heavy punishment, no one in the Daning Dynasty dared to be late. Even Yang Yuanzu, the king of checkpoints, had to get up early every day, and sometimes he didn't even have time to eat breakfast.

But who wants to have breakfast at two or three in the morning? He used to eat late-night snacks at this time...

On the first day of going to court, Yang Yuanzu waited early at the city gate. Fortunately, he could catch up on some sleep while sitting in the carriage.

But on the first day of going to court, he was a little excited, and he wasn't used to catching up on sleep on the carriage yet, so he couldn't sleep.

Lifting the curtains, there were a few small vendors waiting for them outside. They placed the bamboo baskets they carried on the ground and placed the poles across the baskets.

Some people were sitting on poles to catch their breath, while others were stamping their feet and rubbing their hands to keep warm.

Yang Yuanzu saw someone approaching a small vendor. The vendor didn't ask much questions when he saw the visitor. He opened the corner of the special quilt covering the basket, quickly took out a pancake from it, and quickly covered it again.

The vendor handed the pancake to the visitor, who skillfully took out five cents from his pocket, paid the vendor and left.

It seems that this is an old customer buying breakfast at the city gate.

Seeing Yang Yuanzu staring at the cakes in the basket, the servant thought that Yang Yuanzu wanted to eat the cakes, so he asked, "Do you want to eat the cakes?"

Just now when the vendor lifted the warm quilt, Yang Yuanzu saw hot steam coming out of the basket, so he must have thought that the cake must have been freshly baked.

Yang Yuanzu ordered the Heavenly Servant to buy two, and he gave one of them to the Heavenly Servant.

The pancake is even a little hot to hold in your hands, but the weather is perfect for serving such a pancake to warm your hands and stomach.

A person with a big appetite would not be full after eating such a piece of cake. Fortunately, Yang Yuanzu ate a bowl of noodles before going out, and he was not hungry himself.

It tasted sweet after taking a bite. As soon as I swallowed, there was the sound of the door opening at the city gate, and everyone rushed in.

The servant of heaven drove the carriage directly to the imperial city. When they arrived, the palace was already open. Since carriages were not allowed in the palace, Yang Yuanzu had to walk on his own legs.

He entered Changjing City at three o'clock. He had already spent more than an hour on the way there. After excluding the time spent entering the palace for body search and inspection, he had to rush to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to report for the appointment assessment before five o'clock. He did not have much time left. .

Fortunately, Yang Yuanzu met a colleague who knew the way at the door, and the other person helped him point out the way to report to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Since he didn't have a watch and couldn't tell the time, Yang Yuanzu trotted all the way to the staff department with the appointment letter. When he arrived, he was relieved to find that he was not late.

Seeing him panting, the head of the Ministry of Personnel asked Yang Yuanzu his home address. After learning that he lived on the outskirts of Changjing City, he advised Yang Yuanzu to move to the inner city.

Yang Yuanzu honestly replied that his house was still under construction.

The chief didn't ask any questions when he saw this. He accepted Yang Yuanzu's appointment letter and went through the assessment process before sending the person to the Agriculture Department.

The Agriculture Department is a department under the Household Department that manages fields and grain. In addition to these Household Departments, there are also departments that specialize in managing taxation, household registration, and the Ning Dynasty treasury.

The department where Yang Yuanzu works is usually busy with matters such as land verification and persuading farmers.

Villages, counties, prefectures, etc., they have verified and measured their own land, and then submitted the data one level at a time. Finally, Yang Yuanzu and his department will verify the land data of the entire Ning Dynasty, and finally compile it. The items that come out are stored in the warehouse.

Then it will be busier during spring plowing, summer planting and autumn harvest. At other times, it is quite a leisurely department.

When Yang Yuanzu went to the Agriculture Department, he met Feng Qingyang on the road. They had not seen each other since the day of the last palace examination, including Liu Baba and Zhu Yuyan who said they wanted to have a good get-together with him.

Of course, he had many things to do at that time and forgot about the gathering for a while. Now that he saw Feng Qingyang, Yang Yuanzu remembered what happened that day.

He greeted Feng Qingyang, who nodded coldly in response, and then returned the greeting to Yang Yuanzu, looking neither warm nor cold.

Feng Qingyang worked in the Hanlin Academy and had the same rank as Yang Yuanzu, so the two of them were on the same level and did not need to meet each other.

Feng Qingyang looked cold, but his colleagues in the Hanlin Academy who had never met Yang Yuanzu were indeed very warm and wanted to use Feng Qingyang's relationship to draw Yang Yuanzu into their camp.

Among my colleagues, they were not interested in knowing about Yang Yuanzu's family. They heard that he was born in the mud-legged family, and there was a workshop at home and a shop in the county. Because the distance was too far and they had little interest in Yang Yuanzu, they did not investigate in depth. , we only know the information through hearsay from the mouths of northerners.

People from Changjing in the Daning Dynasty always looked down upon small places, so their words were often deliberately derogatory.

The colleague didn't have much interest in wooing Yang Yuanzu. He just saw him on the street and thought that he was also the number one scholar in this year's new subject and worked in the household department, so he pretended to make a few remarks.

Being able to win over this person is just a matter of smooth success. Even if he can't win over, there is no loss.

Yang Yuanzu understood his colleague's intentions from the underlying meaning of his words, but he pretended not to understand, and only showed that he was worried that the newcomer would not be able to perform his job as an agricultural officer well.

Looks like an insecure newbie.

Seeing that Yang Yuanzu's qualifications were dull, his colleagues couldn't understand his words for a long time. They gradually lost interest and were too lazy to talk nonsense with Yang Yuanzu, so they found an excuse to leave.

After seeing the person walking away, Feng Qingyang whispered to Yang Yuanzu, "Keep a low profile."

Then he left with his colleague.