Chapter 107
Today is the end of the month, everyone in the Hanlin Academy is waiting eagerly, but they waited and waited, but no one from the household department came to ask them to receive their salaries. With a cry, he almost burst into tears, "This month's salary will not be in arrears again, I have a centenarian mother and a three-year-old child, what should I do, the family will be in trouble again..." Zhou Yi
sympathized Looking at him, there is no one to be an official at this level, and this guy looks like he is in his forties, why he has a three-year-old child, he is too capable of giving birth, everyone else is now a grandfather.
"Don't panic, maybe it's not our turn yet, just wait a little longer." Wen Qu stood up to appease everyone. In fact, his family's life is not too rich. It fell to the point where there was nothing left to cook.
After waiting, it's time to go down to the Yamen.
Everyone in the Hanlin Academy was hopeless, but the official who nearly blinded them still did not appear.
"It's too late, this is no way for people to live, let's go make trouble together..." Someone was furious immediately. For those officials in the real power government, they can naturally look down on this idea of salary, and they can go wherever they want Water is also more than this salary, but for the Imperial Academy, these salaries are simply life. The key is that the Ministry of Accounting is also the master of watching people order dishes, because the Imperial Academy is now an idle department, so generally if the money is not enough, the first one to default is the Imperial Academy, and because other departments have real power, the Ministry of Accounting dare not In arrears, as long as there is money, it will be kept and paid out in full and on time. This is simply death from drought and death from waterlogging.
It's no wonder that these people from the Imperial Academy gritted their teeth when they mentioned the Ministry of Accounts.
So within two months of joining the job, Zhou Yi embarked on the road of asking for salary for the second time.
This time he was not as relaxed as he was the first time. He already vaguely felt that it was not easy to entrust the salary this time. After all, Da Qiang did not meet Ci from Dayue this year.
Although the envoy said some harsh words when he left, but because of the confident and resolute attitude shown by the Da Yue government and the public, they did not dare to be presumptuous. After going back for so many days, they never heard that there was going to raise troops there offense or something.
This year, there is less expenditure on the Daqiang side. It should be said that it should not be a problem to pay the salaries of hundreds of officials. Why do we have to rely on salaries now?
When we arrived in front of the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, we realized that quite a few people had already gathered here. This time, it wasn't just the Imperial Academy and the Military Officer, but people from every department.
Among so many people, those generals were the ones who yelled the most fiercely: "Why don't you pay the army, do you know that the soldiers below have been hungry for three days, if this continues, the people in your household department will be responsible Is it?"
"Exactly, why are you in arrears with our salaries? What does your household department do for food?" A group of people behind them followed suit.
The colleagues of the Imperial Academy around Zhou Yi yelled hoarsely. After all, this is related to the livelihood of their whole family, and they cannot tolerate them not working hard.
"Everyone, colleagues, please listen to me, listen to me..." It was not the old man who came out this time, but Tao Dihua, the Minister of the Household Department.
When a big guy like him spoke, these people still gave him face and gradually calmed down: "My colleagues, it's not that our household department deliberately defaulted on your salaries, but because we really can't pay you." "Fart, didn't it just
happen Do you collect a tax from the south? Don't think that we are big bastards, so you can trick us!" The military officer and the others don't buy it, no matter what official you are, even the Minister of the Ministry of Households will scold you! "Hey, colleagues, you will know about this tomorrow. Let me just say it here. The canal in Yuanping Mansion burst and many people died. Everyone has been an official for many years. I don't think the importance of Yuanping Mansion needs me." More to say, all the money has been used for disaster relief, for the sake of those refugees, for the sake of the common people, don't rush our household department." Zhou Yi was surprised, what! The canal in Yuanping Mansion burst its embankment, wasn't it reinforced last year?
Yuanping Mansion is the gateway to the east of the Dayue Dynasty. It is densely populated and has a low altitude. There is a section of canal built directly above the altitude of Yuanping Mansion, known as the Hanging River
. Dare to imagine how many people will die.
The noisy officials were also taken aback when they heard the news. Yuanping Mansion is the second largest mansion after the capital city. This...
for an instant, the people in front of the household department all quieted down.
"Dear colleagues, this time His Majesty issued an imperial decree to transport the money to the disaster relief as soon as he learned of the disaster in Yuanping Mansion. Now the Ministry of Households really can't get the money. You see that there are so many victims in the disaster, so you are lenient." Let's make a deal for a few days."
As soon as these words came out, most of the officials decided not to make a fuss, after all, they didn't rely on this little money for food, but the household department dared to owe them their salaries, so they wanted to make a fuss It's nothing more than encouraging the unhealthy trend of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but now that they know that the money from the treasury is used for disaster relief, they don't want to make trouble anymore. don't want?
So a large group of people prepared to retreat.
Only the military attache did not seem to accept this reason.
One of the leaders said: "Bah, who doesn't know that the embankment of the canal was only reinforced last year, so much money was sprinkled, and the embankment burst this year. What are they doing for the Ministry of Industry? They must have greedy for the money. The money fell into their pockets, but now they are in arrears with our salary. What is the reason? Those soldiers in the army are not waiting to get the money to go back to support their families. If you don't send money now, do you let them and their Is your family starving to death?"
As soon as these words came out, most of the people present changed their faces, and they all looked at the military officer. This group of savages, who don't know the twists and turns, but they can easily say Is it exported? Repairing the embankment is not only the Ministry of Industry, as long as the departments and personnel involved, which one has not made a fortune in it? It is not bad to be able to achieve half of the success after peeling off layer by layer. No one at the Hanlin Academy was a fool, they all winked quietly, went aggressively, and came back quietly.
After returning, Wen Qu sighed, Zhou Yi knew that he was worried about the disaster victims in Yuanping Mansion.
On the way back, Zhou Yi was full of thoughts.
The bursting of the canal is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. These officials are too greedy!
"Zhou Yi!!!" Zhou Yi was walking thoughtfully, when suddenly a voice of surprise came from above his head.
Zhou Yi looked up and saw Tong Baobao on the second floor smiling at him with the window open.
"Zhou Yi, come up, come up, let's have a drink together!" Tong Baobao waved excitedly, grinned and shouted, no matter how you look at it, it looks like Erha sticking out his tongue.
Zhou Yi rubbed his nose. This Tong Bao Baogui is an uncle of the country. Although his mind is simple, he also saves face. If he loses face, I'm afraid that the little plastic friendship formed a few days ago will be ruined again. Disappointed, Zhou Yi had no choice but to enter the Taibai Building. On the second floor, Tong Baobao had already opened the door and was waiting for him at the door.
"Zhou Yi, come in quickly." Tong Baobao waved to Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi followed Tong Baobao into the room, only to find that there were two other people in the room, dressed in exactly the same style as Tong Baobao, in short, it was just an exaggeration.
"Let me introduce to you, this is Qi Qu, the young master of Duke Qi's mansion." Tong Baobao pointed to a young man with a fan inlaid with rubies.
Naturally, Zhou Yi could only quickly say hello.
Qi Qu looked Zhou Yi up and down, then snorted and rolled his eyes.
Zhou Yi didn't care either, the smile on his face didn't change at all.
"This is Ma Biwen, the eldest grandson of the eldest princess." Tong Baobao pointed to another young man whose whole body looked golden.
Zhou Yi understood that the one sitting here was the top dandy of Dayue Dynasty.
It's just that the name of the horse wall pattern really made Zhou Yi want to laugh, wouldn't he become Bi Mawen after changing it?
Zhou Yi wanted to laugh, but he still had to hold back, and gave Bi Mawen a serious... oh no, it was Ma Biwen saying hello.
This Ma Biwen didn't even look at Zhou Yi, he just brushed his hair.
Zhou Yi felt a toothache when he saw it, and this guy looked a little sissy.
When it was his turn to introduce Zhou Yi, Tong Baobao had his own sound effect, and after a few clangs, he said to Ma Biwen and Qi Qu, "You don't know, this is my new brother, Zhou Yi, This year's champion of the new department, you must be very good."
"Hehehehe..." Ma Biwen laughed, it was a really "coquettish" smile, and her voice was like a good girl, "I said baby, you are too hungry now, what? Everyone is called brothers, is the number one scholar really great? Doesn't the imperial court select a number one scholar every three years?"
When Ma Biwen was speaking, Zhou Yi always had a calm smile on his face, even when he heard Ma Biwen His voice and face didn't change at all.
Ma Biwen was also observing Zhou Yi while talking, seeing that he didn't show any strange expression when he heard his voice, Ma Biwen felt relieved. The look at Zhou Yi was no longer the critical look he had at the beginning.
Zhou Yi can talk, but he has become acquainted with these people after just one drink, and he is neither humble nor overbearing. Although he talks warmly, he doesn't seem to be trying to please them, which gives these people countless novelties. , either because of the anger of the previous generation, or the dislike of their companions, and the rest of the people are all here to curry favor with them, and the bright flattery on their faces made them extremely annoyed.
Zhou Yi held an extremely sincere face, which made it easy for the three people to believe that every word he said came from the bottom of his heart, and he didn't blindly agree with the three of them, and he would move every inch where there were disagreements. Do not let the argument. This makes people believe that Zhou Yi is not saying good things to please them.
This is an experience that these dude disciples have never experienced in making friends in the past.
Now, when the banquet was over, not only Tong Baobao, but also the other two were called by Brother Zhou.
On the way back, Zhou Yi thought of how these dudes gossip about every household in the capital, and a thought came to his mind.
But right now he has no one he can trust, so he has to hold back temporarily.
Back home, Wang Yan and Liu Ya had already returned, Zhou Yi sat down and asked, "Mother, how are you?"