Chapter 188 Promotion and additional position! (Here we come!)

"This is a genius idea!"

Jia Changchao was very surprised.

"In this way, the imperial court can obtain a large amount of reserved grain without having to pay any money. Next year, it can just use the annual Changping warehouse money to purchase it.

As for grain merchants, they have reduced risks and made profits, so why not do it.

It is a good thing for the common people. They can buy rations at cheap prices. In this way, even if there is a famine this year, a large number of people will not starve to death!

Hahahaha, you kill three birds with one stone! What a genius idea!"

Looking at Jia Changchao who was very happy, Zhang Heng felt very sad.

He suddenly remembered Mr. Zhou's words: Human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same, I just think they are noisy.

For this year's court, the increase in sea trade tax revenue and the increase in commercial tax revenue have made the court's tax revenue steadily higher. Last year's tax revenue was a full 10 million yuan more than the previous year, and this extra money was actually

That's the balance.

Obviously this part of the money can be used to provide disaster relief, but the emperor and his ministers all seem to want their lives!

The 12 principles of famine policy put forward by Zhang Heng are good strategies for famine relief, and this is recognized by everyone.

But when it came to investing, Zhao Zhen and others all withered.

It is now May, but the rain has not come yet. It is foreseeable that the grain harvest will be reduced this year, but they are still debating whether it is worth spending so much money to save famine.

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Zhang Heng was forced to think of other ways. He also set up traps to force corrupt officials to return the embezzled Changping rice to Changpingcang, and also tried to influence the grain merchants. They were all empty tricks!

If there really was any way, Zhang Heng would never use this method to find people to hate.

But for Zhao Zhen, this method of fulfilling his reputation as a benevolent king without spending any money was to summon Zhang Heng overjoyed.

"Ju Zheng is indeed a genius, with such empty hands... Hehe, these methods are as clever as Kong Ming borrowing arrows, extremely wonderful, hahahaha."

Zhao Zhen burst out laughing with joy and praised Zhang Heng for free, but Zhang Heng felt very awkward inside and even felt a little disgusted. However, Zhao Zhen's next words turned his disgust into joy: The official is a good person!

"... If you have done a good job in this matter, I will give you a promotion. No, I will give you a promotion now!..."

Zhao Zhen was quite excited when he said this, but when he was thinking about how to get promoted, he calmed down a little.

Because now for Zhang Heng, it is most suitable for Zhang Heng to be sent to the official household office of the imperial court made by the Zhongshu system. It is impossible for Zhang Heng to take other positions, so he can only be sent to the post of official and post.

Figured out a way.

It's just that Zhao Zhen has a headache.

Because the position in the post is the abbreviation of "job title", it can be the secret cabinet officer of the three halls, the bachelor of the Zhudian, the bachelor, the privy bachelor (the bachelor of the ancient palace), the bachelor of the Zhuge, the direct bachelor, the waiter, and the direct bachelor.

Called "job".

However, most bachelors in the palace are of third rank or above. Zhang Heng's current official rank is definitely inappropriate. Promoting someone out of the ordinary is not good for Zhao Zhen, nor is it good for Zhang Heng. It will easily attract criticism.

Zhao Zhen thought for a while and decided to start with Pavilion Bachelor for a hundred years, but there were some problems.

This has to start with the position of cabinet.

In the early Song Dynasty, there were two types of palace positions: bachelor, bachelor, bachelor of Guanwen Palace, Zizheng Palace, bachelor of Duanming Palace, and foreign officials who also served as secretaries of the three palaces.

There was no such thing as an imperial pavilion in the dynasties of Taizu and Taizong. It was not until Song Zhenzong succeeded to the throne that Longtu Pavilion was built in Xianping.

Zhenzong's original intention of building the Imperial Pavilion was to collect poetry and calligraphy treasures written by the late emperor Taizong. Later, in order to improve the status of the Imperial Pavilion, the corresponding titles were removed, such as Longtuge Bachelor, Longtuge Direct Bachelor, Longtu

Pavilion to be made, Zhilong Tuge, etc., these are all cabinet positions.

With the emergence of the title of Imperial Pavilion, the scope of titles in the Song Dynasty expanded. On the basis of the palace position and the three secret pavilion positions, the imperial pavilion position was established.

Zhenzong was the first to build Longtu Pavilion for his late emperor Taizong. Since then, every emperor in the dynasty has built imperial pavilions for his late emperor.

Zhenzong first built Longtu Pavilion, and then he probably got addicted to it and built a pavilion for himself to hide his various calligraphy works, administrative books, etc.

As for the later Baowen Pavilion, Xianmo Pavilion, Huiyou Pavilion, Fuwen Pavilion, Huanzhang Pavilion, Huawen Pavilion, Baomo Pavilion, Baozhang Pavilion, Xianwen Pavilion, etc., they have not been set up yet.

Zhao Zhen's dilemma is that the current cabinet positions in Longtuge and Tianzhang Pavilions are not in line with Zhang Heng's current situation.

Zhang Heng is a fifth-rank official. If he is a high-ranking official, he can go to the cabinet to wait for control. If he is low-ranking, he can go to the direct cabinet. But now the fifth-rank official can neither go up nor down, which is really difficult to do.

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "Juzheng, I will add you to Longtuge to be made!"

Zhang Heng was stunned when he heard this: "Your Majesty, isn't it true that only the fourth-grade official of Longtuge can be appointed?"

Zhao Zhen chuckled: "You are already my doctor Zuo Jianyi."

Zhang Heng was shocked and looked at Zhao Zhen with a look of surprise: "Your Majesty, is this against the rules? I was originally a garrison official and belonged to the twenty-sixth rank of the official rank, but now I have been directly promoted to the second rank.

The twelfth-level doctor Zuo Jianyi has crossed the fourth level, will he attract criticism?"

Zhao Zhen shook his head and said: "Here are your achievements. If someone comes to me to talk about this, I will just tell them about your achievements since you became an official.

The reason why I let you step up step by step before was because you were young, but now you are able to stand alone and take charge of the household. You are more solid and steady in your actions, and you often make great contributions.

If you don’t promote officials like you who can really do things, can you only promote mediocre officials who come up in order of seniority?”

With Zhao Zhen's words, Zhang Heng felt confident, but he was still a little uneasy and asked cautiously: "Guan family, are you really going to give it?"

Zhao Zhen glanced at Zhang Heng with disdain and said: "Nonsense, you are not joking. I am recording it by the side. How can I say this nonsense?"

Zhang Heng looked at the envious expression on his face and finally laughed: "I thank you for your kindness!"

There is nothing awkward about it, this is all a surprise, brothers!

You should know that the promotion channels for Beijing officials with a waiting system are different from those of ordinary Beijing officials. Those with a waiting system have to go up a few fewer steps for promotion below the level of giving.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Zhang Heng, who is now Zuo Sijian, because his next official rank will be in trouble.

The key issue is that he immediately surpassed the ranks of Du Shui Langzhong, Zhifang Langzhong, Taichang Shaoqing and other official ranks and went directly to Zuo Sijian. This is a big leap!

A twenty-two-year-old fourth-grade official... awesome!

Originally, Zhang Heng looked at Zhao Zhen with a timid and cowardly look, but now he looked at Zhao Zhen with a kind face and kind eyes... Well, he is wise and mighty!

But Zhang Heng's hesitation was right, because when Zhang Heng's appointment letter was given, the first person who was surprised was not anyone else, but Zeng Gongliang.

Zeng Gongliang immediately approached Zhao Zhen to object: "I believe that Your Majesty should not allow Zhang Heng to be promoted too quickly. Young people should exercise more and gain more experience.

Your Majesty gave him such a promotion. Young people may be impetuous and arrogant because of this. The key is that they do not meet the seniority requirements, and I am afraid they will be criticized!"

Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "Zeng Shenzheng feels that Zhang Heng should not be promoted. Is it because Zhang Heng has insufficient merit or because he has insufficient talent?"

Zeng Gongliang smiled bitterly and said: "I just think he is not old..."

"Oh, he's not very old, so does he have the arrogance and domineering attitude of a young man, or is he impetuous, or has he done something wrong, or is he incapable of doing his job due to lack of work experience?"

Zeng Gongliang shook his head: "Zhang Heng is experienced and prudent in his work. He is steady and steady in his work, and his accumulated achievements are well documented."

Zhao Zhen spread his hands and said: "Isn't that just an official who works steadily, is qualified for the position, excels in examinations, has top-notch merit, and has made many contributions to the court? Isn't such a person worthy of shouldering greater responsibilities?"

Zeng Gongliang smiled bitterly and said: "But promotions that are not based on seniority are already a bit of an exception. This is not good after all, right?"

Zhao Zhen sneered and said: "I have participated in politics. I know that Zhang Heng is your disciple and even your son-in-law. But I hope that everyone will not be selfish, but they will not promote virtuous people and avoid relatives, otherwise many virtuous people will be left behind."

It's rural.

I watched Zhang Heng enter the official career. I watched everything he did since he entered the official career. If it weren't for his young age and his merits, he should have been awarded the official rank.

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If it is a special period and the time comes to employ people, I will not hesitate to send someone to participate in politics, just to let him make more contributions to the court!"

Zeng Gongliang was stunned.

Zeng Gongliang seemed to retreat in anger.

But in the evening, Zhang Heng arrived at Zeng Gongliang's house. Zeng Gongliang smiled and said, "I have eliminated the hidden dangers for you."

Zhang Heng bowed and saluted: "Thank you, teacher. Thanks to your visit, teacher, others will probably not go to His Majesty again to get into trouble."

Weng and son-in-law smiled knowingly.

Zeng Gongliang said with emotion: "I really didn't expect that you became an official in the second year of Qingli, and now in just five years, you have put on the red official uniform. The speed is so fast that I am stunned."

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "If this is not the case, how can you show that your vision is unique, teacher?"

Zeng Gongliang laughed.

When I returned to the household on the second day, all the subordinates in the household congratulated me, and then Zhang Heng rushed me back to work.

If you don't work hard, how can I get promoted?

Of course, it's just a joke.

The reason why Zhao Zhen risked being criticized by the ministers to promote Zhang Heng was of course not without purpose. He was waiting for Zhang Heng to sacrifice his life for him.

Since the beginning of May, officials from various places have sent letters to the court one after another, of course because of the lack of spring rain.

Without spring rain, farming will be difficult to carry out, especially in the north.

There is some good news in the south. Although there is no spring rain south of the Yangtze River, due to the dense water system, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are originally wealthy, so various water conservancy measures are also very complete.

Just make sure there is water when farming. As for later, when the rainy season comes, there will definitely be water, so this year's harvest can at least be guaranteed.
To be continued...