At noon, it was time for lunch. Li Hao saw that all the officials in the hall had no intention of eating, so he prepared to pay for people to buy some food. However, he did not expect that Jia Cang Cao would bring someone back. I brought the lunch box over.
When Li Hao saw it, he asked out of curiosity: "Where did this food come from? The government is in charge of food."
After hearing this, Jia Cangcao said: "This is a gallery meal. It is prepared by the public kitchen. As a rule, breakfast and lunch are provided every day. If there are official matters that need to be dealt with in the evening, dinner can also be provided according to the amount."
"Sir, you can tell me in advance what you want to eat tomorrow and I will make arrangements."
After hearing this, Li Hao reacted: "Is Cang Cao responsible for this too?" Then he looked at the others and asked, "Is it everyone in the house?"
Jia Cangcao replied: "I, Cangcao, am responsible for the rural cooking. In fact, most of the chores in the house are under the control of Cangcao, so if you have something to do, just give me your orders. As for the dining room, all the officials in the house are responsible for it." Yes, but after the meal starts, most people go to eat on their own."
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "That's it. It seems that I still need to understand a lot of things slowly."
After hearing this, Jia Cangcao said: "It is normal for your Excellency to not know many details when you come here for the first time. Of course, this is also the reason why I have not explained it in detail to Your Excellency." After self-examination, he still asked: "Do you have any favorite dishes, Your Excellency? I will make arrangements for you tomorrow."
Li Hao said: "Don't bother, I will just eat normally. There is nothing special."
After hearing this, Jia Cangcao said: "Well, I will leave first. In addition, after you finish your meal, just put the things aside. Someone will come to collect them." After receiving the response, he retreated. go out.
When Li Hao opened the lunch box, he found that the work meal was quite rich. The roasted lamb, fruits, vegetables and meat were well matched. Then I tasted it and found that it tasted quite good. I couldn't help but feel that this job was really good and it included food.
After finishing his meal, he put the lunch box aside, then leaned on the chair and closed his eyes for a while.
After all the officials below had eaten and returned, he ordered people to bring the official records of each department in Kaifeng Prefecture. Because Li Hao found that he thought he understood the specific responsibilities of each department, so he was prepared to study them carefully. The specific responsibilities of the company are the same as in the past.
As a result of this research, it was found that the authority of Kaifeng Prefecture is great, and the details of the powers and responsibilities of each department are beyond one's imagination. First of all, in terms of criminal law, all prison cases committed in the capital are subject to trial. Small matters can be decided by oneself, while major matters can be dealt with directly by the emperor. If With the emperor's order, even the Ministry of Punishment and the Yushitai have no right to interfere. In terms of specific prison matters, the Si Lu Division, Fa Cao, and the Left and Right Military Inspection Yuan all shared their responsibilities. However, at the same time, they were also responsible for reviewing objection cases from other divisions, and the management was strict.
The same is basically true for other departments. Looking at the work content of Cancao, Li Hao also discovered the work of allocating official residences. Of course, the assigned official residences were not very good, but he still asked Li Hao to deal with the Song Dynasty. Officials are satisfied with their welfare. After all, they have food and housing included.
The whole afternoon passed while Li Hao was studying documents. At Yin Shi, it was the time for officials to leave their offices. Li Hao then sent someone to invite Jia Cang Cao, Zhang Hu Cao, and Cao Shi Cao, and then left the government office together.
At this time, the three of them had changed into civilian clothes, and Li Hao felt that it was not appropriate to look at the official clothes on them. When I left the government office, I happened to see Fu Deng outside.
Li Hao went to the car to change into casual clothes, and then asked Fu Deng to go back to his home without waiting any longer.
Next, the four of them went to Fanlou together. When they arrived at Fanlou, Li Hao asked the three of them to order, but the three refused and said that they wanted Li Hao to call. So Li Hao ordered a table of wine and food by himself and waited for the food and wine to arrive.
Li Hao raised his glass and said: "You all know that I have just entered the officialdom. In the future, I will need the help of three people in the government office. I would like to toast you all today."
The three people raised their glasses quickly, and then Cao Shicao said: "We will do our best to assist you, sir." The other two people also agreed.
Later, while the four of them were drinking and eating, the three of them listened and inquired about Li Hao's general actions and direction in his subsequent official career.
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "How can I have any ideas now? Mr. Fu Yin also mentioned this to me before. I said that now I am just a follower of Xiao Gui and Cao Cao. After all, everything you have done under Cai Xueshi's tenure Everything is fine, then just keep it up."
After hearing Li Hao's words, the three of them felt a lot more at ease.
So at the next wine table, Li Hao started chatting with the three people in a hazy manner. At this point, after experiencing the baptism of countless nonsense literature in later generations, Li Hao successfully made the three of them dizzy.
The banquet was not going to be dispersed until 4:00 a.m. Originally, the other three people were rushing to settle the accounts and said they wanted to entertain Li Hao, but Li Hao could not agree. After the accounts were settled, the three of them were allowed to leave. went.
Then he went home on his own. When he arrived at Kaifeng Mansion the next day, Li Hao heard that Judge Cai Ju had ordered Mao today, so he came to visit him.
After the announcement, Li Hao entered the left hall and saw Judge Cai. To be honest, he is also a powerful figure. He entered the officialdom from the regent of Guangnan as a successor. He served two terms for six years before becoming a full official. Later, during his tenure, he was transferred back to Kaifeng Mansion to serve in the Qingming Dynasty, which was extremely rare in the Song Dynasty.
However, it was obvious that Judge Cai was not very interested in a young man like Li Hao who was born as a Jinshi and could catch up with his half-life hard work as soon as he entered the officialdom. He simply chatted with Li Hao for a few words and then let people see him off. .
In the days that followed, Li Hao lived a good life of ordering and leaving the office on time. He had nothing to do in the government office on weekdays. In addition to working as usual, I checked the account books and records on weekdays, and corrected three official documents normally. There was nothing special, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
On the contrary, the Secretary of Records, the Left and Right Military Patrol Courts, and other chief officers of the Six Cao Middle School would come to visit and greet them from time to time. Li Hao naturally received them in a friendly and cordial manner, communicating with them.
However, when checking the accounts, Li Hao sorted out the retest accounting method of the four-pillar debit and credit method currently used. To be honest, this retest accounting method is extremely advanced in this era, but precisely for this reason, the threshold is high and the calculations are complicated, making it easy for people to manipulate it.
So Li Hao used the debit and credit accounting method to rearrange the accounts in his spare time, and check whether there were any problems with the accounts.
It's just that Li Hao used Arabic numerals, and everyone really couldn't understand what Li Hao was writing. They just thought that Li Hao was just doing ghost drawings for nothing. But everyone is a subordinate, so naturally no one will care about this matter.
But when Ouyang Xiu found out about it later, he specially called Li Hao to the house one day after he was released from office, and asked: "In recent days, I have always heard that you are often drawing some messy things when you are working in the right hall. Of course I understand your temperament, so I won't do anything useless, but what exactly do you want to do?"
After hearing this, Li Hao smiled and said: "Uncle, that is not a mess. When it is done, uncle will be happy after seeing it. But let me give it a try first, and I will finish it in a while. Bring it to your uncle and he will know."
After hearing this, Ouyang Xiu said: "Okay, then let me see if you can come up with something good. In addition, you should pay attention to yourself and don't cause everyone to argue. That will not be good after all."
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "I know, uncle. I will pay attention to it later."
However, when Li Hao was chatting with Ouyang Xiu, he saw Madam Xue walking in from the backyard, accompanied by a young man wearing a t-shirt with a handsome face and a tall figure. Li Hao felt that she was better than him. A little bit more handsome.
Then Mrs. Xue introduced to Li Hao: "This is my eldest son Ouyang Fa, named Bohe. He has just returned to Bianjing. I just want you to meet him today."
Then he said to Ouyang Fa: "This is Li Hao I mentioned to you."
After hearing this, the two people greeted each other and then sat down again. Xue said to Li Hao: "Brother Fa is coming back to discuss marriage, so do you have anyone you want to meet?"
After Li Hao heard what he said, he suddenly felt that his happiness was gone. He thought to himself that at this young age, I would be at the age where I would be urged to get married.
