Chapter 1922 Officialdom Is Like a Battlefield

The queen mother didn't call Zhu Zhanji for a long time, so when he heard the call, Zhu Zhanji put aside the matter and hurried to Ningshou Palace.

As soon as Zhu Zhanji entered, he saw Duanduan and Wanwan accompanying the queen mother, Duanduan was showing off his hard work with a wooden carving, in exchange for a word of comfort and praise from the queen mother from time to time.

"The queen mother."

Zhu Zhanji saluted a little bluntly. He always felt that he was right, and the queen mother was unwilling to interfere in politics, and the mother and son were just quarreling.

The queen mother took the wooden statue over and sighed: "Duanduan knows how to be filial, I still think about when you were young, you loved to laugh, and your father was happy when he saw you drooling when you smiled, and then Wipe your drool with my own sleeve..."

Zhu Zhanji said with some embarrassment: "Mother, Duan Duan is here!"

Being said to be drooling in front of his daughter, Zhu Zhanji couldn't hold back his face.

Wanwan covered her mouth and sniggered, then glared at by Zhu Zhanji, she leaned on the empress dowager's shoulder and said, "Mother, the emperor is a murderer."

The Queen Mother patted her hand and asked, "Where's Xiao Fang?"

There was a barking of dogs outside, and the queen mother said, "Poor little Fang, who is so obedient, was caught and let in."

Then Xiao Fang rushed in with his whole body shaking. He probably knew who was the best, so he just wagged his tail at the Queen Mother's feet.

The Queen Mother leaned over and touched the top of its head, and said with a smile, "It's very good."

Zhu Zhanji also jokingly said, "Queen, why don't you keep a dog here too?"

The room was silent for a moment.

The queen mother raised her head and thought about it, and said seriously: "Okay, but it's better to have a dog like Xiao Fang. Those big dogs are said to be very powerful, but they are too fierce."

...

The mother and son in the palace are reconciled as before, the mother is kind and filial to the son, but Jiao Quren is a bit difficult to move forward.

He was assigned to Huanxian County, Shaanxi Province, which was the front line in the Song Dynasty, but now there are no enemies outside the Great Wall, and there is a bit of peace.

Since it is peaceful, the county government is just living a stable life.

Yes, places like Shaanxi, even if there is no external aggression,

But under the harsh environment, agriculture is underdeveloped. Needless to say, business, in the past it was possible to do business outside the Great Wall, but now there is only Xinghe City outside the Great Wall, and there is nothing but the vast grasslands.

So Huan County, together with the whole of Shaanxi, gradually declined.

Being assigned here was not caused by Jian Yi, but by Fang Xing's arrangement.

Walking into the county government office, I felt that the room was gray and the people I saw were all lazy. Even the horse dedicated to the county magistrate Wang Xu put his head on the fence, and the fodder in the trough had no energy to eat. .

Jiao Quren went all the way to the value room, where the two colleagues Pan Zhi and Li Xincheng glanced at him, and then continued to deal with business.

The so-called petty officials are better than handymen, but in fact they are not very different from handymen.

Shangguan asked you to sweep the floor, don't you dare not?

When Jiao Quren first arrived, he was very warm up and down, and he also felt that he had arrived at a good place, and he couldn't help being grateful to the other party.

"Jiao Quren, Lord Fan asked you to go."

The two colleagues waited until Jiao Quren sat down to check the performance of the grain chiefs in various places before slowly reminding him.

But a quarter of an hour had passed, and Jiao Quren had neglected Shangguan.

This is office politics, one of the methods used by colleagues to pit opponents. Not trendy, but very practical.

Jiao Quren stopped his hand and sat there for a while, then put the brush on the pen holder, got up and went to look for the chief bookkeeper, Fan Ying.

Walking along the eaves, after entering the inner courtyard, the room on the right is Fan Ying's value house.

The door of the duty room was not closed. Jiao Quren remembered Xie Jin's teaching that the officials who waited for the door to be closed were either prudish, or they had no idea. They were worried that they would not be able to withstand the temptation, so they simply opened the door to show their innocence.

According to Jiao Quren's understanding, although Huan County has declined, the more impoverished the place, the stronger the struggle and "motivation" among officials.

Standing at the door, Jiao Quren whispered: "Master Fan, I'm late."

There is a table facing the window inside, and an amiable middle-aged man with three strands of long beard is reading a document.

Hearing this, the man tilted his head to look to the right, frowned and said, "Why are you late?"

This was a question with a trap, Jiao Quren restrained his mind and said, "I just heard the news when I came back."

Don't justify too much, if someone wants to punish you, the more you justify, the more crimes you will accuse.

This is still Xie Jin's teaching.

The man is Fan Ying, the head of Huan County. He coughed dryly and said, "Forget it, next time earlier."

"yes."

Seeing Jiao Quren's respect and respect, Fan Ying stroked her beard and smiled and said, "I heard that your academy is very keen on immigrants, and now the chief envoy has ordered more immigrants from all over the world, and the remaining people should also plant trees. It's hard to leave, but it's embarrassing for Mr. Wang."

Jiao Quren just smiled, but didn't answer the question.

Fan Ying continued on her own: "I heard that your academy is a bit particular about immigration, and I want you to try it, how about it?"

Jiao Quren almost gritted his teeth in private.

Exquisite? What is elegant? How long has he been in Huan County? Unfamiliar with the situation everywhere. To persuade the people to immigrate, if successful, it will naturally be a thorn in the eyes of the county government, and if it is not successful, it will be a ready-made crime.

He wanted to refuse, but there was some meaning in his eyes, Fan Ying said with a smile: "You are new here, remember, be diligent, don't be lazy..."

This is a blatant threat: You have neglected the superior today, if I report it, no one can find fault with it.

And when Shangguan arranges you to do things, you still pick and choose, this is to be a master!

Jiao Quren cupped his hands and said, "Yes, the little one will go right away."

At a time like this, don't say I'll go after lunch, that's another crime.

Fan Ying said with satisfaction: "Okay, young people should act vigorously and resolutely when doing things, and work hard. I will watch you, and your credit will not be short."

Jiao Quren handed over his hand and resigned. Why was he looking at you? This is clearly telling him to be careful and not to make mistakes.

Back at the duty room, Pan Zhi smiled and said, "Hey! Seeing you smiling happily, Master Fan praised you?"

Li Xincheng also smiled and said: "Someone came to ask you if you were there earlier, we said you were out, but we forgot about it later, Mr. Fan didn't say anything, right?"

Jiao Quren smiled and said nothing. He packed up his things, put them in a cloth bag, slung it over his shoulder, and left the duty room.

"I think so highly of myself, it's ridiculous!"

"The clerks are all locals. He is the only one from out of town. He doesn't know how to make connections, so he just shows off that he can do things all day long, haha!"

...

Jiao Quren led a donkey out of the county government's livestock pen. This donkey is the luxury bus of the county government. Whoever goes out rides it. Therefore, it is carefully waited on, smooth and smooth.

All the way out of the county government office, the streets are deserted, and there are few customers coming in and out of those shops, and the reason is spring.

In spring, we need to prepare for plowing, but the land here is incomparable to other places. Even if we plant potatoes, the yield will be a little less.

The main street in Huan County is not long, and when we reached the end of the street, we heard the sound of fishing drums.

This is the shadow puppet show in Huan County, and the local people like it the most.

A piece of cloth, some paper-cut figures, this is the props.

An old man's voice came from behind the white paper. The performance of the paper-cut characters in broad daylight was not good enough, but the people were willing to watch.

The chariots and horses moved slowly, and the two figures moved and swayed relative to each other behind the white paper.

An old voice came from behind the paper, and the onlookers were all silent, watching and listening intently.

The singing is bleak, but it seems to tell the truth of the world...