Chapter 2259: Who Values Loyalty More?
In the moonless sky, twinkling little stars dominate the scene.
Under the light, most of the ministers were eating and drinking happily. They would not go to work tomorrow, but other officials also had a day off today.
They are in the fifth rank official position and participate in court meetings.
Theoretically, they have a holiday from the first to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, seven days, to celebrate the New Year.
The number of holidays has increased and the number of days of each holiday has decreased, making it closer to Li Yi's time.
But as Li Yi and Bi Gou said, companies arrange workers within a certain range, which is itself exploitative.
Officials who are qualified to participate in the Great Court Meeting live in Lijiazhuangzi with their families.
I don't have to worry about food and drink, and I don't have to worry about seeing a doctor. Then I go to class for a walk during the holiday to see what's going on and sit down to deal with it.
Otherwise, they have nothing else to do but stay at home and read? It's better to go to the 'work unit' to see it.
As for bathing and resting, they are available in Zhuangzi, where they are washed every day, and there are also people who give massages.
The Imperial Medical Office has a massage department. If the apprentices want to practice their skills, they go to the big pool in Zhuangzi, massage the massages for the officials, and take a bath at the same time.
Including female apprentices, who served as ministers to the officials' female relatives.
The wives of officials did not have to cook and ate in the cafeteria. Instead, they embroidered, knitted, read newspapers, and took care of their children.
It is impossible for them to go out to find work, and their family's financial situation is not good, so they can only weave and sell cloth to make money.
Now that the welfare is high, they have begun to know how to take care of themselves and get in touch with the women's families of other officials.
"Xiao Yi, I understand."
Bi Gou Weixun found Li Yi. He drank rice wine instead of beer. As a result, he drank too much when he was happy.
"Bring me a bowl of spicy soup." Li Yi glanced at Bi Gou.
Cuiliu behind him turned around and trotted away. Two minutes later, he came back with a small food cart.
Bi Gou was sizing up Wang Han. Wang Han was a little nervous. He was shocked today.
He finally understood how high Li Yi's status was in the Tang Dynasty, and he said that the arrangements would be made from the fifth-rank official.
The key is not to be domineering and to speak in a nice voice.
How many people of the same age can be so humble and gentle in this position?
"Ziyu, where the heavenly soldiers are, are the soldiers at ease?"
Bi Gou took a look and found that he had one nose, one mouth, two ears and two eyes.
"Go back to Bi Zaifu and ask. The Heavenly Soldiers have made money and sent it back to their families. There is no shortage of food, and their morale is strong."
Wang Han raised his butt and bowed forward.
"Okay, that's good. Xiao Yi, what's the difference between taking a holiday and not taking a holiday? You're right!"
Bi Gou nodded to Wang Han and talked about the ministers' work.
When there is nothing to do, everyone will run to their office. Even if they are not working there, they can just sit and read newspapers and drink tea.
Read the newspaper, remember what happened, and deal with it quickly.
Li Yi stretched out his chopsticks to pick out some food from Bi Gou's spicy soup bowl, sipped it in his mouth and clicked it twice.
He put down his chopsticks and poured pepper into the bowl: "There is no other way. If you want to avoid being exploited, you can live outside. You will lose a lot of benefits. At least you can't go to the Zhuangzi cafeteria to eat."
As Li Yi spoke, he poured vinegar into the bowl again: "Lao Bi, I will go back to Zhongshu and ask my subordinates to make the book. Brother Ziyu needs an official position of inspecting the canal railway from the fifth rank."
"From the fifth level?" Bi Gou stirred the soup himself and looked at Wang Han again.
Boy, how can you be so virtuous? The Jinshi who took the exam before was promoted from the fifth rank today.
"The official position is too small to hold down the position, the benefits are too great, and wealth and silk are very attractive." Li Yi explained the reason.
"One person is too busy. Sun Xin has nothing to do now, so why not take responsibility together."
Bi Gou stopped stirring and mentioned someone, Chang Sun Xin.
Changsun Xin followed, bringing his wife, children, concubine and four staff members who had passed the Jinshi examination.
He didn't believe in letting Wang Han do things alone, and had to arrange for someone to suppress him.
Changsun Xin's official position from the fourth rank was one rank higher than that given to Wang Han.
As he spoke, Bi Gou looked up at Li Yi and blinked twice quickly.
Wang Han's expression changed slightly, but he quickly adjusted.
Li Yi put down his hand: "Brother Changsun has other arrangements and is busy in Luoyang. When Brother Changsun was in Lantian County, he was a little impetuous at first, but he became more stable later."
"That's alright!" Bi Gou said that I understand, you want to test Wang Han, and Changsun Xin was just a loose person at the beginning, but later learned how to behave.
"Thank you, Bi Zaifu." Wang Han stood up and saluted, looking respectful to Bi Gou, and Bi Gou relaxed his lips.
In fact, he learned to be tactful. For those who had just learned it, he thanked Bi Gou but not Li Yi, because he did not say thank you for his great kindness.
He secretly made up his mind to get things done and never let down Li Yi's heart.
He thought he understood. Li Longji and Li Chengqi looked at him at the same time and drank.
Li Yi wanted to laugh. You did it too obviously. Thanking Lao Bi but not me, it means that Lao Bi did it openly and I did it in my heart.
But didn't you see that Lao Bi did this on purpose? I know you talk about loyalty, so I did this.
It makes you think that you owe me a big favor. You have to think about today when you want to express your loyalty to others in the future.
I am forcing the Prime Minister to give you the sovereignty you want. Do you other loyal people dare to contradict the Prime Minister to do things for you?
All four people knew it, but Wang Han didn't know it. Wang Han thought his emotional intelligence had improved.
"It's easy to talk about. Xiao Yi made the soup and drank it happily."
Bi Gou nodded slightly. Anyway, Xiao Yi owes me this favor. Will I care if you thank me?
Then Wang Han drank too much and talked to Li Yi about the border affairs, how the soldiers went to rescue people in the white-haired wind, and how they were all warriors. He was willing to send more sheep to make mutton soup.
Fortunately, he didn't get drunk and leaned on the chair in a daze, and was helped back to his small courtyard.
"Sure enough, he is a man of upright character, not suitable for officialdom."
Bi Gou shook his head and looked at Li Yi, meaning that you are the kind of person who schemes against others.
"Next year's development is good, with a fiscal revenue of 100 million as a foundation. Whoever wants to build a large water conservancy project or connect some roads will be recorded in history books."
Li Yi curled his lips, as if you can't calculate, I'll tell you! A heavy stroke, next year's fiscal revenue.
"The more such people are, the more opportunities they should be given. Like Xiao Yi, they are worse than the enemy, but they follow their hearts and are kind!"
Bi Gou changed his words as quickly as possible, Xiao Yi, you are a good person.
He understood that with a lot of money, officials were allowed to use it to buy reputation, and see which place needed a big project, and the prime ministers chose it themselves.
It doesn't mean that you can embezzle or accept bribes. It is more important to leave a name in history than to embezzle a little money.
For example, Dujiangyan, Li Bing and his son, are famous for thousands of years.
Like the Yellow River Bridge and the railway from Haizhou to Chang'an, it is Xiao Yi's name.
Even if Xiao Yi doesn't need this name, the people know it.
"After the New Year, Meng Haoran and Wang Wei, why not call them, and Xun'er Qian'er from Lantian County, who was mentioned by Xi'er the day before yesterday."
Li Longji thought of Wang Wei through Wang Han. Wang Wei's family was also there, and there were many officials in his family.
The children of Meng Haoran's family, who was an official in Lantian County, were also very cute, so it was just right to find the twins to accompany Xi'er.
Li Yi looked up at the stars and judged the time. He didn't know how to do it before, but now he has learned it.
"Let's talk now. There's still time. We can set off early tomorrow morning and arrive in the morning."
Li Yi felt that Wang Wei and Meng Haoran should be gradually moving up. Both of them are working very hard.