"My good daughter, don't be afraid, ah. This is not a dream, it's all over, it's all over." He hugged Han Jingyun tightly with his arms, and tears filled his eyes, falling on Han Jingyun's hair.
Fortunately, fortunately, at the critical moment, my son thought of a way and met His Majesty. Only then did my family almost reach the gate of hell, and they came back again.
Without Han Du, the woman really couldn't imagine what kind of miserable experience the family would have had.
You can’t keep yesterday’s day, today’s day is full of worries!
In his sleep, Han Du felt vaguely the flickering light and shadow in front of him, and slowly opened his eyes.
He saw Han Jingyun standing in front of his bed holding an oil lamp.
"What are you doing if you don't sleep in the middle of the night?" Han Du took the opportunity to look out the window. It was dark. Obviously it was still night.
"Brother, have you forgotten? You are now the Treasurer and Treasurer, an official of the imperial court, and need to be on duty every day." Han Jingyun saw that Han Du had woken up, so he put the lamp in his hand on the table and turned around. Get Han Du's official uniform.
"You only go there in the morning when you're on errands, right? Are there people there who get up in the middle of the night to go to work?" Han Du was wrapped in a quilt and lazily in bed, showing no intention of getting up.
"Brother, what nonsense are you talking about?" Sister Jingyun covered her mouth and smiled, looking particularly hazy and charming under the dim oil lamp. Even a person like Han Du, who has been tested for her beauty for a long time, couldn't help but be moved by her expression.
"Dad has been an official for so many years, and he always gets up at this time to go on duty. In the past, my mother served me when I got up to go to work. Now, eldest brother, you are not married yet, so my mother asked me to come and wait for you to marry me later. Now that you have a sister-in-law, you will naturally have a sister-in-law to take care of you." Han Jingyun covered his mouth and snickered. Looking at Han Du's helpless expression, he comforted him, "There is no way anyone can make our home in the outer city too far away from the Yamen. .”
The layout of Jinling City, like many capital cities, is divided into the Imperial City, the Inner City, and the Outer City.
The large and small yamen of the imperial court are all close to the imperial city, but the distance from the imperial city is slightly different depending on the grade.
The higher the grade and the more important the yamen were, the closer they were to the imperial city. For example, the six departments are all located closest to the imperial city. Even before the Zhongshu Province was abolished by Lao Zhu, the Zhongshu Province simply worked in the imperial city to facilitate communication with the emperor.
To the outside of the imperial city is the inner city. In fact, the inner city and the outer city are just the common people's own terms. Although there are walls separating the inner and outer cities, the imperial court has not made a clear distinction.
Although the imperial court did not make a special distinction, it could not hold back the turbulence of people's hearts. Everyone among the people wanted to be closer to the imperial city, euphemistically calling it sticky nobility. Over time, the people living in the inner city were all dignitaries. Ordinary people did not have the strength, let alone the financial resources, to live in the inner city, so they had to live in the outer city.
Originally, Han Decong was a second-grade high-ranking official, so he could live in the inner city. But living in the inner city, the cost of living is naturally much higher than that in the outer city. Han De's salary was not much. If he lived in the inner city, he might not even be able to afford servants.
Therefore, Hande simply lived in the outer city, even if it meant that he had to get up an hour early every day to go on errands.
This is like buying a house in a first-tier city. Many people who are unwilling to bear the high housing prices in the city center go to the edge of the city to buy a house, even if they have to take the subway for several hours to commute.
Although it is a little more remote and takes more time every day, many people still know how to choose compared to the real money saved.
As for Han Du's Baochao Tiju Si Yamen, his rank was not considered high in the capital, and his location was naturally far away from the imperial city.
In fact, it can be seen from this aspect that Lao Zhu just used the treasure notes as toilet paper. Since we had no money to fight the war, we ordered the Treasurer's Office to print out a batch. When we had no money to distribute salaries, we ordered another batch to be printed...
The dignified banknote promotion company has been reduced to a street printing shop. It does not have the prestige of the Federal Reserve at all, let alone establishing a monetary system and building hegemony of banknotes.
But fortunately, it fell into his own hands now, and Han Du was determined to forge the currency sword of Bao Chao.
With great difficulty, Han Jingyun helped Han Du get dressed properly, carried a lantern to Han Du, and then kicked him out of the house.
Holding a lantern, Han Du walked through the streets and alleys of the capital, sucking snot from his nose that was about to flow out due to the cold. In his heart, he cursed Lao Zhu, a big and unscrupulous landowner. The days when he was an official in the Ming Dynasty were really not as good as the life he lived in 1996 when he was a clerk.
In 1996, he dared to argue with his boss, and at worst he would have resigned. What's the saying? "If you don't want to leave me here, I'll have my own place to stay."
It's a pity that now that it fell into Lao Zhu's hands, Han Du didn't dare to let go of it.
Want to resign? Be careful of heads falling to the ground.
For the sake of his own head, Han Du still turned up his collar to block the wet night wind and continued on his way.
As Han Du got closer and closer to the inner city, there were more lanterns along the way. These were officials who lived in the outer city like Han Du.
It's just that he doesn't walk on his legs like Han Du. He sits in a sedan and the lantern is hung in front of the sedan.
When my father was still the Minister of Household Affairs, he would always ride in a sedan when going out. It's just that now all the servants of the Han family have been dismissed, and there is no one to carry the sedan, so Han Du has to rely on his legs to travel.
Along the way, Han Du felt angry in his heart, "When I get rich, I will definitely buy a house in this inner city." Otherwise, he would have to get up more than an hour in advance every day. Just walking this way would feel... My feet are almost blistered.
It was almost past midnight when Han Du came to Baochao Tiju Si Yamen.
Originally, the chief official of each yamen would check whether the officials were late or did not come at Mao hour. This was called Dian Mao.
But the world is so strange. Other officials will be punished if they come late. Han Du, the chief officer, came late, but no one dared to say anything.
Um, not really.
For example, under the current position of the hall official, two officials on the left and right looked at him directly, and their ridicule towards him was palpable.
Han Du ignored them and calmly walked to the main seat and sat down.
He held the gavel and clapped it, "I, Han Du, wish to be promoted. Colleagues, you are here very early."
There was silence in the hall.
The two officials who had looked sarcastic at Han Du just now were now like clay Buddhas, with their eyes closed and turned a deaf ear to Han Du's words. The other people in the hall looked at each other in shock. Seeing that the two officials did not speak, they did not dare to say a word.
When Han Du saw that no one was paying attention to him, he felt a little embarrassed. He knew that these people below were trying to show him off.
Firstly, it is to deceive oneself because of one's youth, and secondly, there may not be any intention to make oneself out of place.
Seeing this, Han Du rubbed the gavel and sneered in his heart, "Want to give yourself a blow? You have made the wrong calculation."
In his last life, Han Du was a veteran who had been struggling in the workplace for more than ten years. He knew that if he couldn't defeat their wishful thinking today, the treasurer's office would definitely not listen to him in the future.
"Yuan Tiju, where is Mr. Li?" Han Du continued to ask.
There has always been a Jiji in Baochao Jiji, and the original Jiji was Li Pu. However, because Lao Zhu directly appointed Han Du to be promoted, Li Pu, who was originally promoted, was automatically dismissed. This is really embarrassing.
If it were in other dynasties, according to general practice, he should be promoted to Li Pu's official position and then transferred out in an honorable manner.
But when it came to Lao Zhu, it didn't work. Lao Zhu believes that it is precisely because of your incompetence that I found someone to replace you. Since you don't have the skills, don't even think about getting promoted, just demote yourself.
Therefore, Li Pu was promoted from the eighth rank to the eighth rank, but now he has been promoted to the eighth rank. "Obstructing people's way of making money is like killing their parents." Those like Han Du who directly occupy other people's original positions and kick others down are simply sworn enemies.
Although Lao Zhu did this, no one dared to argue with Lao Zhu, so they had to target Han Du.
After Han Du finished speaking, the hall was still silent.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Han Du remained expressionless and continued to ask, "Master Cao Zhengcao of the Banknote Bureau and Master Cheng Shicheng of the Banknote Printing Bureau are not here either?"
After saying that, looking at the two people on the left and right, they felt a little unable to hold back.
"If you don't respond at all, then I have no choice but to report it to the officials and ask them for punishment." Han Du stared at the two of them with cold eyes showing in his teeth.
"Xia Guan Cao Zheng."
"Xia Guan Cheng Shi."
"I've met my lord."
The two of them stared back at Han Du with red eyes. Although they said they had met Han Du, they thought in their hearts that this was Han Du's humiliation to them.
"Master Han is such a powerful official. Since the ointment has passed, please forgive me for resigning." After saying that, the two of them were about to leave together.
The reason why the two of them were hostile to Han Du was because Han Du parachuted down and took the lifting position. Although Li Pu, who was originally promoted, is still there, the position of lifting is not available to any of them at all.
Bystanders think so, but the authorities don’t think so.
As the saying goes, what if the deputy doesn’t want to become a full-time employee?
Both of them believed that once the lifting position became vacant, they would be the ones to sit on it. To say that the relationship between the two people is not necessarily very good on weekdays, maybe they are still hostile to each other in private. It was just because Han Du suddenly landed in the air and became the center of the two attacks, causing them to unanimously attack.
Han Du clapped his hands and said coldly: "I am still here, where are you going?"
"Master Han, there is no need to show off to us." Cao Zheng was not afraid at all, and started to sneer at Han Du with his neck raised.
