Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

With the wind blowing in the capital, Zhao Can couldn't help getting out of the carriage, and took a deep breath comfortably: My enemies, are you ready?

Before Zhao Can could express his feelings, Ping An followed suit: "Your Highness, be careful of the wind."

Zhao Can: "..."

Ping An continued, "Even if the wind is not choking, the smoke and dust on the official road is still very heavy. Your Highness should come in first."

After being said by him in a few words, all artistic conception is gone.And I don't know if it's an illusion, Zhao Can always felt that he really seemed to have eaten a stomach full of ashes, and his mood suddenly became unbeautiful.

Ping An didn't know about his entanglement, but was telling Wang Congyi, "Everyone has worked hard for a trip. I will go to the Imperial City Department to deal with business, so you don't have to follow. When you enter the city, you will be disbanded. Go home and freshen up, and take care of yourself." Let's rest." He stopped and thought for a while before saying, "Let's take three days off and let everyone rest. Go and inform."

Of course, Wang Congyi didn't need to speak out by himself, he would naturally convey it after calling someone to give instructions.

Then he got into the carriage again and asked, "My lord, should I follow you?"

"Let's go back today too, and go to the palace to find me tomorrow." Ping An said.

The driver outside has changed from Qian Cheng to Feng Yutang, and he couldn't help asking, "My lord, what about me?" He is now considered to be a safe follower.But after returning to the palace safely, of course it was impossible for him to follow, so the position was very embarrassing.

"You go home too. Three days later, go to the Imperial City Division to find Commander Wang, and follow him first." Ping An pointed to Wang Congyi who was beside him.

Zhao Can watched Ping An arrange things from the side.Obviously, after such an errand, although not to mention the 50 people who went with him, half of them will always be there.So giving orders now is kind of like that.Of course, Zhao Can was more concerned about these people's positive attitudes when facing Ping An.

He himself belongs to the type that establishes absolute authority and makes people dare not resist.But this doesn't mean that Zhao Can doesn't appreciate other ways of being an imperial servant.Like Ping An, Zhao Can also finds it very interesting to make everyone convinced and willing to obey.

Zhao Can went out of Beijing by order, and now he will go to see the emperor when he comes back, so he and Ping An are on the same road.However, the treatment of the two is completely different.The emperor quickly summoned Zhao Can. As for Ping An, he only saw Wang Lixin, comforted him a few words, and then was sent back.

Fortunately, Ping An had known this treatment for a long time, so he went back to the small courtyard where the Secretary of the Imperial City was in the palace, washed up briefly, and then fell into a deep sleep on the bed.

Although a task has been completed, for him, more things are still waiting for him to do.So Ping An can give the people below three days off, but it is impossible for him to be free.

First of all, the materials and records of the Imperial City Division have been sorted out by the new clerks, and they are piled up on Pinna's desk, waiting for him to read.These are all necessary steps to understand the Imperial City Division.Since Ping An was taught a lesson last time, he felt that his judgment on the Imperial City Division was still too general and arbitrary, so he had already decided to read all these things when he came back.But it's also a big project.

Secondly, Wang Congyi will come to him soon to discuss the training class.Although it is said to be a unified training, it is impossible for everyone to go to class without doing anything, and it is impossible to teach so many people at a time, so there must be an arrangement, in what order, who comes first, and how is the evaluation at the end?Needless to say, those who have passed the assessment, if not, how to arrange it?

The relatives of the Imperial City Division are all hereditary, and most of them are not qualified to do intelligence work, and they are just trying to drive ducks to the shelves.But we can't take down all the people all at once, so how to rearrange these people is also the top priority.

In addition, regarding this training class, we must first communicate with Wang Lixin.At least let him know that there is such a thing to do, to prove that he is not living in vain, and of course he can get more support from above. ——Ping An has not forgotten that there are still two thorns in the Imperial City Division.

In the end, he had to deal with Wang Lixin's inquiries about the trip to the south of the Yangtze River. According to his own habits, Ping An had to sort out a copy of the information and give it to him.

There are so many things going on, so when Ping An opened his eyes, he immediately got up from the bed under the urgency, washed and changed his clothes, and then faced the new day full of energy.

No one came to look for it for the time being, so Ping An was able to go to the front office area to look at the pile of documents.After flipping through the two books, he was very satisfied with the work of the clerks. These materials were sorted according to his instructions, and it was clear at a glance.

Qingwen was the first to discover Ping An, with a surprised smile on his face, "My lord is back!"

No wonder he was so happy.These people are working in this yard, and their future and fortune are actually all tied to Ping An.Without Ping An, this courtyard has no owner, which will inevitably make people feel uneasy.As soon as he came back, it seemed that the backbone had also returned.

After a while, the two clerks also came over, and they both came to salute Ping An.Ping An couldn't help but lamented that he had reached a certain level of status, and then asked a few words with a pleasant face, and then dismissed him.

He originally thought that Wang Congyi should come after reading the materials for a while.Unexpectedly, before he came, the decree from the original palace came.The emperor announced his audience.

This kind of glory is very enviable to other people in the yard.If it is not walking in front of the emperor, it is actually very rare for other people to have the opportunity to meet the emperor.Even if the errands are satisfactory, the emperor will only give rewards at best.Otherwise, everyone will see each other if they do a good job, and he doesn't have to do anything else every day.

The first time was born and the second time was familiar, Ping An followed the eunuch who delivered the decree to the original hall, and when he saw the door of the hall was closed, he knew that there was someone inside, so he touched the cover room at the back with familiarity.

Wang Lixin was actually here too.Pingan asked in surprise, "Why isn't Manager Wang serving in front of the imperial court?"

"As you get older, you have to take a rest. There are other people in front of the emperor." Wang Lixin narrowed his eyes and said, "You have to wait a while, some prime ministers from the cabinet are inside."

That is a matter of state.Ping An nodded understandingly, found a seat to sit down, and said to Wang Lixin, "That's just right, I actually have something to ask you." Then he said about the training, "The Secretary of the Imperial City is His Majesty's eyes, ears, eyes, and hands. Every move is very important, if you don't understand anything, the errands you do will naturally be unsatisfactory. So I thought, I would rather spend more time, don't you always say?"

"It's quite similar to Neishutang." Wang Lixin said thoughtfully, "It's just training the original people, so why recruit people from outside?"

"After the training is over, there will be an assessment. If you fail the assessment, you will naturally not be able to continue working in the Imperial City Division. There will be a gap. Naturally, more people will come in." Ping An said.

"What about these people who can't pass, how do you plan to arrange them? Don't make trouble at that time."

"I want to send them out."

Hearing this, Wang Lixin finally calmed down the faint satisfaction on his face, and opened his half-closed eyes completely, staring at Ping An, "Sent out?"

"Send out." Pingan nodded affirmatively, "You told me that the whole world is the land of the king, and the shore of the land is the king's minister."

Wang Lixin was silent for a moment before saying, "You are ambitious. It's just that our family can't decide on such a thing." He thought for a while and said, "Well, when you meet with me later, if there is a chance, Our family can help you with a word or two. Whether or not His Majesty can delegate power to you is beyond our control."

"Thank you, Manager Wang." Ping An immediately stood up and bowed, "With your help, everything will be possible."

"Don't put a high hat on me, at my age, whether I can still see that day, let's talk about it." Wang Lixin said.

Ping'an was surprised that he actually mentioned twice that he was getting old today, and he clearly intended to retire. If this is the case, the power in the palace may usher in another big change.It's just that I don't know who will be in the position and who will be unlucky.For myself, what is the impact.

With a flash in his mind, he said with a normal expression, "Stop saying such things, we juniors are not able to do things well, so we expect you to give us some pointers. Besides, if this is done, you will be honored, won't you?"

Wang Lixin, the chief inspector of ceremonies, is also the chief inspector of the imperial city, so Ping An said this.It's just that this is more of an empty title, because the Imperial City Secretary's status is important, so he was appointed admiral to show his importance.But he usually does not intervene in specific affairs, at most he sends messages between the emperor and the Imperial City Secretary: What does the emperor want to know?What did the Imperial City Secretary find?

During the conversation, a little eunuch came to remind him that the previous work was over, and it was Ping An's turn to see him.Wang Lixin got up and said, "Let's go, our family will go there with you."

Sure enough, the emperor's purpose was to ask about his experience on this trip to the south of the Yangtze River.Ping An didn't know exactly what he wanted to hear, so he simply said it from beginning to end.As a result, the emperor was very interested in his method of spreading out all the people around him to collect information, and asked several questions.

Naturally, Ping An seized the opportunity and brought forward the idea of ​​spreading itself all over the country.Anyway, this is not something that can be done overnight. It is not bad to draw a big cake first.

Wang Lixin was listening, but the more he listened, the more surprised he became.He just heard that Ping An said that those people would be sent out, and he thought it was just exile in disguise. Everyone looked good, but it was not very useful.We must know that the Great Chu has been established for a hundred years, and the Imperial City Division has changed so many masters, and more than one has ambitions. However, the sphere of influence of the Imperial City Division is only in the capital.

But I didn't expect Ping'an's few words to move the emperor, and he didn't even need to beat the side drums by himself.

He felt more and more that Ping An was really a character.In time, I am afraid that the achievements will be higher than myself.It's just... I don't know if he has a chance to grow up.

To Ping'an's surprise, the emperor didn't ask Zhao Can about anything.After expressing his expectation for the new Imperial City Secretary under Ping An's management, he was sent away.Fortunately, Ping An was well prepared, took out the business trip record he had written, handed it over to Wang Lixin, and then resigned.

After he left, the emperor casually glanced at it a few times, and smiled at Wang Lixin, "This peace is quite interesting."

"The emperor's eyes." Wang Lixin said.

As the emperor's confidant, he knows better than anyone how Ping'an got from the Bell and Drum Division to the Inner School of the Prison of Rites.He even did it himself.

The emperor was very unusual about this peace, Wang Lixin understood this, so following the emperor's words, he praised peace.Finally, he sighed, "There are more and more capable people around His Majesty, and it's time for this old slave to abdicate."

"Why did Da Companion say that?" The emperor didn't seem surprised, just asked as usual.

Wang Lixin repeatedly stated that he was too old to be used, and he was afraid that he would miss the emperor's business.The emperor was finally moved to agree with him, and asked him to promote several people to stand up.Wang Lixin said a few names, and then got up to leave.

Coming out of the original palace, he stood at the door, looked up at the high palace wall not far away, and the endless sky beyond, and suddenly felt his whole body relax.

Companion to a monarch is like companion to a tiger, Wang Lixin understands this truth better than anyone else.His life was not without ups and downs. At the end of the day, he was able to step back from the position of the supervisor of ceremonies, and was rewarded by the emperor, instead of being pulled down arbitrarily by any young man, and his reputation and face were ruined. Said he was very satisfied.

From tomorrow onwards, he will not have to wait in front of the imperial court tremblingly, but can go out of the palace to buy a house, set up a few servants, and enjoy his last days.

The news in the palace spread very quickly, and Wang Lixin heard the news before he packed up his things and left the palace.While secretly sighing that his guess was right, Ping An also expressed his admiration for Wang Lixin's rapid retreat.

Everyone knows that a companion is like a tiger. Although his position seems to be glorious, it is actually full of dangers.This is not only the pressure from the emperor, but also the sense of urgency brought by the people below who are desperately chasing him.But not everyone can stay awake in this position.Power and glory always make people obsessed, and some people just cling to it and refuse to step down, so they will naturally be forced to be pulled down by those who can't wait.

In comparison, Wang Lixin's decision was shocking. ——Ping An used to be on duty at the Si Li Supervisor, and now he is in the Imperial City Department, a place where secrets can be mastered. He can more or less see that those people who have been suppressed by Wang Lixin for several years will not be able to sit still .

So the timing was just right.Not only can he gain goodwill from the emperor, but also make these people unable to use all the tricks they hold back.At the end of the day, he came to knock the mountain with one hand, and sure enough, Jiang was still old and spicy.

"This is the role model for my generation!" Ping An couldn't help sighing to Wang Congyi.

Able to take it and put it down, knowing the time to advance and retreat, the eunuch is the real winner in life for Wang Lixin's sake.

Wang Congyi obviously didn't expect to go so far away, but said with some concern, "I don't know who will be the chief inspector of ceremonies. Will he support our plans?"

Therefore, Ping'an had a better impression of Wang Lixin, and the old fox obviously knew this, so he took the opportunity to let him name the emperor, so that no matter who came to succeed him, it would be impossible to change it.He must accept Wang Lixin's favor, although the other party may just follow the trend.

From a psychological point of view, the last thing Wang Lixin did during his reign was peace. Is my own heir" this illusion.At least the emperor will be more impressed with Ping An when he evaluates it in the future.

He didn't know that the emperor had long been concerned about his own safety and added all these benefits to Wang Lixin, and then put this matter aside and continued to busy with his own affairs.

Thanks to the experience of reading countless articles in his previous life, after Ping An got used to vertical lines, he taught the two clerks the big killer of punctuation and asked them to pay attention to sentence breaks when sorting out.Therefore, the newly sorted information can be read very quickly.

——The ancients used brushes to write, and rice paper is easy to bleed ink, so even the small letters with hairpin flowers are much larger than the printed characters, and the distance between them is also large, so that the ink will not bleed together.

As a result, there are not many words written on a page. It looks like a thick stack, but it is only hundreds of thousands of words when it is turned over.

If this is a novel, for Ping An, it will take less than a day to read it.However, this is information that needs to be studied carefully, so he made a simple summary while reading it. After three days, he finally read it roughly, and had a more three-dimensional and clear understanding of the Imperial City Division.

In addition, he also spared time to perfect the plan with Wang Congyi.The other two conductors, Xu Cong'an and Qin Congli, also came to Ping An to report on their work.

Fortunately, the emperor probably knew that he was busy, so he didn't send any new missions, otherwise Ping An would be at a loss.

On the fourth day after returning to Beijing, it was also the day when those relatives who followed Ping An out of Beijing returned to work after their vacations. Ping An led two documents with a lot of documents, all the way out of the palace, and came to the Imperial City Office.

During this process, Ping An pondered the possibility of buying a house outside the palace, but gave up in a blink of an eye.

There is no other reason, but lack of money.

Don't think that high housing prices and real estate speculators are something that only later generations have. In the capital of this era, the housing prices are comparable to the capitals of later generations. At least one official below the fifth rank will never be able to afford it in the capital with his own salary alone. house.Therefore, most officials can only rent houses to live in.So this gave birth to the ancient builders and charter companies, but everyone did their own thing, so the scale was not big.

As for the officials above the fifth rank, most of them do not buy their own properties, because at this rank, the imperial court generally arranges housing for them.Some officials and slaves will even be arranged to do chores. If they are generals, they can have their own soldiers.

Therefore, after many officials leave office, they usually do not stay in the capital, but return to their hometowns.On the one hand, it is the old idea of ​​returning to the roots of fallen leaves, and on the other hand, it is really because... Living in the capital is not easy!

So Ping An, who lives in a dormitory with a unit, pondered for a while before giving up his plan to buy a house.Anyway, if you buy it yourself, you won't have a lot of time to live.Moreover, although going out of the palace is troublesome, but living in the palace, one can get a lot of news.After all, there is the foundation of peace.

Because it was notified yesterday, so when it came safely, the Imperial City Secretary was not deserted.But in fact, the staff is not complete. Of course, everyone has their own reasons, but Ping An is very clear that this is just perfunctory.

Most of the people who didn't come were the two commanders, but they were there. ——This is Ping An's first official appearance. If they don't even come to this occasion, then they can pack up and leave.

One of these two is called Xiong Bin and the other is called Shi Shiwen.Xiong Bin seems to have a rough personality and doesn't have that much thoughtfulness.Shi Shiwen couldn't see anything, and he was the leader between the two.From Ping An's point of view, this should be a person with deep thoughts.

This is not a bad thing. For Ping An, intelligence work is a high-IQ game. It is impossible to let those who are only suitable for manual work.People like Shi Shiwen, on the contrary, are professional counterparts.According to Ping An's understanding, the people under him have always been the best at handling errands.

No wonder he was so undisguised when facing himself.

Ping An could even roughly deduce their thoughts, but felt that he was a child and a eunuch, but he was going to be on top of them, so he was upset.If Shi Shiwen was an eunuch, he might have come to sit in this lifting position.

Ping An didn't express anything about the absence of these people, and had a face-to-face meeting with the relatives. After officially showing their faces, they held a small meeting with the middle-level management cadres above the team leader to share the training they had researched with Wang Congyi. The plan was sent out.

"Let's take a look and see if you have any comments and questions you can raise."

As a result, no one stood up.Xiong Bin wanted to say something, but was held back by Shi Shiwen.

Ping An doesn't care what they think, "Since no one has any objections, then this matter is settled like this. Go to the next item: the development of training work cannot affect the daily work of the Imperial City Division, so the current thinking It is conducted by one command and one command. Each command is divided into two batches of rotation. Which command is willing to be the first pilot object?"

As he spoke, he raised his eyes and glanced away. Wherever his gaze passed, everyone except Qian Cheng and Wang Congyi lowered their heads.

"Then Commander Wang will come first." Ping An said, "Pick out two teams and start closed training tomorrow for three months."

"My lord, what is closed training?" Qian Cheng couldn't help asking.