Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

Although Lu Ci wanted to take Xiao Di Qing, who had returned to Beijing, out for a walk, but despite the completion of the Caihe governance process he presided over, there were still a lot of reports to be completed.

After all, when it comes to the whereabouts of large sums of money, there is no room for sloppy reporting.

After much deliberation, he still had to regretfully hand over the task of taking him to buy daily and study necessities, as well as to enjoy the scenery and stroll around the forest garden, to Liu Qi who is the best at it.

From the beginning to the end, Di Qing never dared to expect that Lu Gongzu would accompany him in person, so he just sat obediently on the side, waiting for Lu Ci's arrangement.

Seeing that he wanted to trouble Liu Qi, he got up solemnly, and bowed to Liu Qi who was waving his fan gracefully and nodding in response.

He didn't give up until he bent halfway and was directly stopped by the opponent's hand.

Although Liu Qi prevented him from making a big gift, he couldn't help but feel a little better about this young but very polite governor.

Is a well-behaved.

What's more rare and more important is that this cuteness is not like that of Zhu Di, who only faces Yu Yu alone, and it is the same when he is directed at him!

Liu Qi, who was touched by Xiao Xiao, had no way of knowing that in the eyes of the folks in Fenzhou, Di Qing was a loner every day, with a utterly rebellious boy in his brows, and a stick even for his own father. If you go down, you may not be able to hit a dull gourd that makes a noise.

The main reason why he became a different person after entering Beijing was that Di Qing dreamed of impressing Gongzu Lu, so naturally he didn't want to be rude to his close friends who were like brothers.

After seeing Liu Qi take Di Qing out of the house with his own eyes, Lu Ci looked at Zhu who was waiting for him to give orders, and couldn't help laughing: "It's rare to go out with you, Brother Zhu, you don't plan to go out with me, but you want to be bored. What are you doing in the house?"

Zhu said with a shy smile, but his tone was very firm: "When I was in the local government, I also had contact with government affairs related to water conservancy... Don't dare to say anything else, but in terms of sorting out, it should be able to help Brother Shang Lu is a little busy."

Telling Zhu about the kindness he offered personally, Lu Ci knew that if he still refused, he might hurt the other party's heart, so he planned to turn down his disrespect.

He deliberately sighed: "You left the great Xiahe and didn't go to admire it, and Jinmingchi didn't go swimming, but took the initiative to send it to your door, and wanted to accompany me to bury my head in boring official documents..."

Speaking of this, he paused for a while, and Zhu Shuo couldn't help but stop slightly nervously.

But Lu Ci changed the topic, and continued with a smile: "I'm going to have the audacity to accept this and assign tasks directly, instead of being polite to you."

Zhu said it was only then that he heaved a sigh of relief, and couldn't hold back a happy smile on his lips: "I can't ask for it."

With the addition of Zhu Shuo, who has handled similar matters, Lu Ci's efficiency has indeed been greatly improved when sorting out the summary.

However, unlike him who was graciously spared by Zhao Zhen for the next half month of the morning court, Zhu Shuo and Liu Qi only had a two-day rest.

After the end, Zhu said that of course he still had to do the work in the pavilion, even though the job was becoming more and more idle-after all, the current emperor Zhao Heng had happily gone through the temporary resignation procedures for himself in advance, and a faction Zhao Zhen, who was working hard to rule the prime minister, was still a prince. In order to avoid violating taboos, he naturally wouldn't come to the library where the official's private documents were stored.

But Zhu said that he never fished in troubled waters, and would even take this opportunity to leave early. He still did his job diligently every day, and when it was time to go home, he would come back immediately and help Lu Ci continue to organize documents until late at night.

Lu Ci didn't want to spoil him, and only assigned him a very small workload, and forced him to rest early every day.

Then I got dizzy because of being busy, and was blinded by Zhu Shuo's previous good performance, so I didn't pay much attention to that little trick.

So it was only when he was almost finished that Lu Ci suddenly realized that Zhu Shuo, who had always listened to him, had obeyed on the surface, but in fact secretly brought some official documents, brought them back to his room to light the lamp and continued to work, and would quietly put them over tomorrow.

It wasn't until it was nearly finished that he became suspicious of the unusually fast progress, and then secretly asked his servants to ask, and found out that Zhu said that the lamp oil in the house had been depleted very quickly since a few days ago, every night. When it was time to use nearly two liang of oil, Fang realized what was going on, dumbfounded.

He immediately broke into Zhu Shuo's room, and caught the person who pretended to have listened to him and went to bed, but was still concentrating on reading the documents.

Just when Zhu said he was at a loss, Lu Ci just sighed, rubbed his head hard, messed up his turban, and sent his servants to tell the cook to make an extra supper.

Afterwards, Lu Ci neither urged him to go to bed nor spoke to him.

Zhu, who knew he had made a mistake, was full of anxiety and felt even more tormented, as if being sharpened by a slow knife, but because of "the stolen goods are taken together", he did not dare to defend himself at all.

He just looked at Lu Ci honestly, and had no time to respond to Liu Qi, who was leaning against the door with folded arms, pretending to be sympathetic, but his eyes were full of surprise and ridicule, and Di Qing, who was full of envy.

Lu Ci himself drank wolfberry water for eyesight and refreshment, and asked Zhu to boil it, but it was his favorite fresh fish and tofu soup on weekdays.

Zhu said that he held the bowl and drank it absent-mindedly, not knowing what it was like for the first time.

After treating Zhu Shuoleng for half an hour, Lu Ci listened to Zhu Shuo's uncontrollable slight belch, then raised his eyes to look at him, and then glanced at the bed next to him for a nap.

Zhu said, who had been watching the words and expressions, quickly understood, and lay down on the bed as if he had been pardoned, and then pulled the quilt to cover himself tightly.

"Is that the end of the matter?"

Liu Qi muttered in a low voice in disbelief, and after provoking Lu Ci's indifferent eye, she suddenly fell silent, and hurriedly pulled Di Qing, who was still standing there stupidly, to retreat together.

When the distance was far away, Liu Qi pretended to complain to Di Qing angrily: "I knew that Yu Yu was partial! If this matter happened to me, how can half an hour of cold eyes be wiped out? I'm afraid You don't have to stop drinking for a few months!"

Seeing that Di Qing was silent, he asked, "Di brother, what do you think?"

As soon as Di Qing didn't pay attention, he said what was in his heart in a tone full of melancholy and longing: "It would be great if I could help."

Not only can he share his worries with Lu Gongzu, he can get Lu Gongzu's cold eyes, he can ask Lu Gongzu to rub his head, and he can even sleep in Lu Gongzu's room.

Liu Qi: "..."

Looking at the leisurely and fascinated Di Qing, he silently swallowed the unspoken nonsense.

How did he forget?

This is clearly a sicker person than Zhu Di.

Liu Qi deeply tasted the loneliness when everyone is drunk and I am alone.

But it was rare to see the scene of Zhudi being "trained", which still made him feel fresh.

So after returning to the room, Liu Qi couldn't fall asleep for a while, and after walking around for a while, she was so inspired that she simply lit the lamp and happily wrote a funny little poem—" Seeing Brother Zhu being punished for violating yang and yin."

As for Liu Qi's little evil taste, Zhu said that he still doesn't know.

Although he was still a little guilty, but lying on the comfortable bed, listening to the slight sound of the pleasant pen nib writing smoothly on the paper, and the dim and soft light coming through the screen, the exhaustion caused by continuous rotation quickly hit him , and soon fell asleep.

In the next few days, Lu Ci directly let the credit-bankrupt Zhu Yue temporarily move to his own room, and only temporarily pulled a thick curtain between the desk and the bed to block the light.

Such an arrangement made Liu Qi shake his head in sympathy, and made Di Qing, who pretended to be passing by, peeking in from the corner of his eye, be envious to death.

Zhu couldn't say a word, so he listened obediently.

Under Lu Ci's nose, Zhu said that no matter how much he wanted to secretly stay up late to help, he couldn't do anything.

The rain in the summer of the second year of Tianxi was more frequent than in previous years.

However, due to the effectiveness of the water control works presided over by Lu Ci, in the past half a month, there has been no waterlogging in the city of Kaifeng, which has been raining heavily.

Especially in the southern part of the city, which has been affected by disasters all year round, merchants dared not stay at home after observing the situation for a few days. Instead, they held up big umbrellas and continued to open their doors for business.

Naturally, the governor of Kaifeng also noticed this good phenomenon.

But when he handed over the memorial and mentioned this matter, he only downplayed Lu Ci's hard work in the past few months.

Little did they know that although Zhao Zhen was a filial son, when it came to the heavenly scriptures, he had no intention of 'inheriting his father's legacy' at all.

When he heard the melody recited sonorously and vigorously in the early court, Zhao Zhen was overjoyed on the spot in his heart.

There is such a brazen person who even dares to erase the credit of the prince Zuo Yude in order to flatter him?

Although he didn't believe a single word, he didn't show any emotion on his face, he just nodded lightly and asked people to go down, and asked the internal servant to put away the memorandum.

Whether you want to let it go in the future, or you want to settle accounts after the autumn, it is easy to find someone.

Although the governor of Kaifeng saw that the little prince looked calm, he didn't approve, but because the little prince came from Jianguo with such a serious and unsmiling appearance, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, but returned calmly. Queue up.

Only the few people standing in the forefront looked at each other calmly.

——This person is really, he kicked the iron plate without knowing it.

Kou Zhun's face was even more bluish black with restrained anger.

He is quite familiar with Wang Sui of Kaifeng Mansion.

Not because of anything else, but because of this person, he is one of the "pro-corruption factions" with a clear stand between the DPRK and China.

How can you be so stupid when you don't see it when you meet each other on weekdays, and you can do such stupid things?

Burning with anger towards Wang Sui, Kou Zhun was still a little upset even when he returned to the Zhengshitang after the court was dismissed.

When he saw Lu Ci who came to present the memorial, his black air had not dissipated.

Lu Ci couldn't help thinking a little more, but Kou Zhun had turned from cloudy to sunny in an instant, and said in a pleasant tone: "Put it down, I'll just watch."

Lu Ci paused: "...Thank you, Mr. Xiang."

Kou Zhun said to watch immediately, so he took it seriously.He directly put down the copy he was reviewing, picked up Lu Ci's thick stack of reports, and looked through them carefully.

Lu Ci stood straight in front of him, ready to answer Kou Zhun's questions anytime.

This wait is a whole hour.

Kou Zhun didn't say a word the whole time, only the wrinkles on his brow gradually relaxed, and he nodded from time to time.

Because Lu Ci is written in great detail, the language is used in a relatively simple way, so all strategies can be directly compared according to the environment.

Even people who don't know water conservancy can understand the advantages and disadvantages at a glance, so they naturally agree with the rationality of Lu Ci's choice of which ones.

The review of the amount of money will still be handled by the people of the Ministry of Finance. Kou Zhun only has a rough look at it, and he is going to have someone make a copy and hand it over to the officials of the Ministry of Finance.

When he raised his eyes, he realized that Lu Ci was still standing here. Kou Zhun couldn't help but stare, and blurted out, "Why are you still standing here?"

Lu Ci smiled and said, "Msanggong never spoke, how could he leave without authorization?"

Kou Zhun's face darkened, and he scolded the surrounding officials unceremoniously: "Why has he been standing here for so long, and no one brought him a chair?"

Lu Ci wanted to say 'no', Kou Zhun had turned into a tyrannosaurus completely, and spit fire at the official who just moved the chair clumsily at this moment: "People are leaving, what's the point of moving here now?" use?!"

Lu Ci: "..."

He finally realized firsthand how Kou Zhun managed to make people hate him and make others admire him at the same time.

The author has something to say: Notes:

1. It is known that the king of Kaifeng Mansion Sui is one of the officials who were liquidated by Ding Wei after the defeat of the bandits in history. He is considered neutral or pro-bandits. ("If This Is Song History 2")

2. According to "Price Research in the Song Dynasty", the lamp oil used to read a book all night is about 0.16 catties, and the equivalent price is 4-5 Wenqian.