After leaving the palace, we returned to Wanping.

So Jia Lian could only go home and tell him, and the next day he would catch up with someone on horseback.

But what Jia Lian didn't expect was that when he entered the Changgou camp, he not only saw Shi Guangzhu and Xue Pan who had been urgently summoned by Shi Zhongkui, but he was also trapped in the camp by Shi Zhongkui.

In the next three days, I saw the housekeepers of the palaces of the princes and princesses, and the servants or nephews of the third-rank and above officials in the dynasty constantly coming to my door.

Anyone who has a servant coming to the door will not even be able to enter the camp.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui didn't go too far and asked Xue Jinping and several officials to take these servants to see the 3,000 acres of paddy fields being cultivated, as well as the nearby wastelands.

Of course, the most important thing is the spring.

As for the housekeepers of the prince's and princess's houses, they were all left to Shi Guangzhu and Jia Lian, who had been promoted to a young man, to receive them.

Shi Zhongkui himself used the name of Wen Huiyou to entertain the nephews of those high officials.

In addition, the officials in the camp hinted that Shi Zhongkui did not care about how the farmland was distributed.

So even if Shi Zhongkui did neglect these people, no one thought he did it on purpose.

Rather, he was thinking that he was avoiding suspicion and had to do this.

On the fourth day, whoever comes to the door again, unless they are the first rank in the court, is the prince-consort himself, and they have long since lost their place.

Not to mention those officials below the fifth rank.

However, Shi Zhongkui still left more than 4,000 acres of land and asked people to distribute it to Yu Shi and Liu Ke to Shizhong.

And how to distribute it is entirely decided by Yushitai himself.

This method of deflecting conflicts is not very clever, it is even very straightforward, but it is very useful.

On the fifth day, three thousand paddy fields had been cultivated, and officials from the Ministry of Works happily came to inspect them.

Originally, these fifth- and sixth-grade officials wanted to make some decisions, but as soon as they said this was not good, that was not good, they were interrupted by several palace stewards who were impatient to wait.

They almost got pointed at their noses and scolded them for not knowing how to behave.

After five days, the water output from the spring showed no sign of decreasing at all, and the large amount of flowing water had soaked all the 3,000 acres of cultivated paddy fields.

Depending on the situation, let the field soldiers rush to plant a wave of rice. If the winter frost comes ten days and a half later this year, maybe we can harvest a whole crop of rice.

With this in mind, any family assigned farmland would have the smell of money in their eyes when they looked at Shi Zhongkui.

It is no longer a secret that there are many springs in Wanping. Since it is said that Liu Yuan Gong is proficient in the Zhouyi Bagua, he might be able to find one or more springs.

Even if new farmland cannot be created by then, just by diverting water to the 30,000 acres of land here, all the land can be turned into paddy fields, and the value will immediately increase several times.

Someone approached Shi Zhongkui and tried a few words, but the reply he received was 'no time'.

The fact that they still have to take care of the task of dredging the river made these people understand that 'lack of time does not mean unwillingness'.

But if you want him to be willing to find springs for everyone, it must be beneficial.

For the powerful and important ministers, helping others get promoted is the easiest and least costly bargaining chip.

After Shi Zhongkui officially handed over the task of clearing up wasteland, he took Xue Jinping's three thousand field soldiers back to the camp outside Wanping City, preparing to let the soldiers repair for three days and to go to the Gyeonggi River for an on-site inspection.

There were already people from the civil service department in the court asking for merit for Shi Zhongkui.

Even in the court, there were censors who stood up to speak for Shi Zhongkui because they had taken advantage of him.

The emperor knew why, and he was willing, but still a little dissatisfied.

After all, the right to promotion is controlled by the cabinet and the staff, which would make an emperor unhappy.

Not to mention that the real power is still in the hands of the Supreme Emperor.

Fortunately, this time, no matter whether it was the courtiers of the Supreme Emperor's line, the people on the emperor's side, or the neutral ministers, they had no objections to this matter.

Although land reclamation does not mean land expansion, it does increase the amount of farmland. In every dynasty, the scholar-bureaucrat class liked it most, and there was no reason to cause trouble.

However, some censors said that the credit for land reclamation was enough to be upgraded to three levels in a row, but the bad thing was that only 3,000 acres were reported openly.

Although everyone basically knew at this time that the real amount was 30,000 acres, they even guessed that Shi Zhongkui might be deliberately lowering his own contribution.

The purpose may be just to stay in the Hanlin Academy temporarily.

After all, if you don't go through the promotion process of the Hanlin Academy, it will be much more difficult for Shi Zhongkui to enter the cabinet in the future.

Even just being promoted from the Hanlin Academy's Compiler to the Sixth Rank of Serving Reader and Serving Lecturer is much better than being transferred to the Sixth Department at this time.

Therefore, no one objects to the promotion from the sixth rank to the sixth rank, but there are disputes over the actual official position awarded.

Except for the Rites Department, everyone in the Six Departments knew that Shi Zhongkui would definitely not go to his own yamen to become a fifth- or sixth-rank official at this time, so there was no competition.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate wanted to bring Shi Zhongkui into its own territory so that he would not have to worry about losing farmland in the future, but the highest official among the thirteen ministers was the seventh rank, which meant he had great power but a small official.

The next higher level, the palace censor, is from the fifth rank, and although the palace censor will not really stay with the emperor every day.

But if this person were Shi Zhongkui, the emperor would definitely treat him as a close minister.

Not to mention that Shi Zhongkui already had the errand of traveling around the imperial study room.

Regardless of whether they were from the emperor's line or the emperor's line, few people wanted Shi Zhongkui to follow the emperor every day.

Civil officials openly dislike ministers who are favored by the emperor, but in fact everyone understands that favor is far more important than hard work.

After much deliberation, it turned out that Shi Zhongkui was promoted to the post of lecturer of the Hanlin Academy.

Although the Imperial Academy's attendants and lecturers are all in the sixth grade, just this half-level is a hurdle that countless common people and scholars cannot overcome in their lives.

There are two bachelor's degree attendants above, starting from the fifth rank, and going up are the Hanlin bachelors of the fifth rank.

It can be said that after Shi Zhongkui crosses this level, the probability of entering the cabinet is at least 10 times greater than before.

If you keep a low profile for a few years and defeat the top officials, or wait until someone is promoted and leave the Hanlin Academy to join the Sixth Ministry as a minister, you can successfully take over as a minister.

At this stage, he also has the opportunity to be directly appointed as the Minister of the Sixth Ministry, or the right-hand censor of the capital from the fourth rank of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Chapter completed!