The next ten days can be said to be the most leisurely period since Li Ling entered Beijing. He didn't have to worry about exams or errands. He slept until he woke up naturally every day, and then rested at home, talked to Yue'er, or discussed with Wanlang and the others about the arrangements for the next monthly report, and almost didn't take much effort.

The only thing that he had a little brainstorming was the novel that Yue'er had worked hard to write. Since he knew that his brother's injury was not serious, Yue'er gave Li Ling a little jealously, and then ran away with a blushing face.

Li Ling looked at her sister's escaped back with amused look, and then she read it carefully. After looking at it, she couldn't feel a little impressed by her sister's imagination. She actually combined the themes of two novels that were quite popular in the market and seeking immortals and asking for Taoist romance, and wrote a story about a man and a woman who was infatuated in the fairy world who finally came to fruition after a bitter love affair.

Some of the love plots were obviously learned from some novels of talented men and beautiful women, and then the twists and turns of the test of fame and fortune were replaced by cultivating immortals. It was quite interesting to see them. At least in this era, it was a genre that was created, which made Li Ling nodded repeatedly.

Then, I called my sister who was hiding back to her room, and gave her some careful advice and told her some areas that could be improved. Then I sent the little girl to continue to modify the novel. Of course, I also encouraged her that as long as she revised and improved, she would not only publish the novel in the Zongheng Monthly newspaper, but also publish it in a book and sell it, which made Yue'er cheered with joy.

In addition to these trivial matters in the store at home, Li Ling also had contact with some colleagues from the Ministry of Revenue. In fact, it is not very accurate to say that his colleagues are not. In fact, most of the greetings from the house during these days were mostly clerks in the yamen, etc., but no real officials came to the house.

But even so, Li Ling still knew some changes in the Ministry of Revenue from them. For example, several servants in Chengfa House were directly expelled, and Bian Xuedao, as the minister, was reprimanded by the court for this incident, making him think of his mistakes at home. Those who were also implicated were more than a dozen officials who arranged food affairs between the border army with Li Ling. They were either transferred for other reasons or fined their salaries. Even Lu You, the position of doctor who should have obtained, was replaced by others, and he was still only his official lord.

After hearing the news, Li Ling sighed and felt a little ashamed. To be honest, many people were indeed implicated by themselves. Especially Lu You, he took some care of himself, but because of this incident, he missed the only chance to change into a red official robe in many years. I believe this boss must be resenting himself at home now...

Unexpectedly, Li Ling was wrong this time. One evening after the Mid-Autumn Festival, he decided that Lu You, who resented him, suddenly came to the door. This really caught him off guard. He quickly asked someone to change his clothes and went out to greet him in person: "I don't know that Lord Lu is coming to the humble house and the officials are missing. Please don't be surprised."

While politely speaking, Li Ling looked at the other person secretly. Lu You smiled at the front and left and right, looked at the environment of the house, and helped him up and said, "Wen Zhong is too humble. If your house is considered a humble house, the official's house will not even live in."

"This..." Li Ling couldn't answer for a moment, but it made the other party laugh: "Just just jokes, you don't have to take it to heart."

Li Ling, who was smiling happily when he led the guests to the hall to take a seat, became more and more confused. After both parties took the seat to see the tea and exchanged some greetings, he couldn't help but ask for a question in his heart: "Sir, don't you blame the officials?"

"Blame you? At the beginning, I was really angry and thought that you almost harmed me. But after thinking about it calmly, you will understand that in your original situation, doing so was the best choice. In fact, if you hadn't done this, I'm afraid that I would not be hopeless now, but that I would not be able to protect the position of this man and even be imprisoned."

"Sir..." Li Ling was moved to say something, but was interrupted by Lu You waved his hand: "Listen to me. Although I don't know the specific inside story, I can still see the clues after that, when the prince and the king of Yong fought with our Ministry of Revenue as the battlefield.

"Only Wen Zhong, you have the means and courage to play with everyone. If you change to someone else, I'm afraid you will really take us and the officials of the Ministry of Revenue to rush to the front line of this dispute. By then, you really don't know how you died.

"Do you know that in just over ten days, not only our Ministry of Revenue, but also other yamen in the court, many people were demoted and dismissed for various reasons, especially the Censorate. This time, there were heavy losses. A total of more than a dozen censors were directly expelled from the yamen. They all wrote memorials to impeach our Ministry of Revenue.

"After all, whether we or they are, they are all swords in the hands of the Prince Yong's party. They can't help but decide what to do, and the consequences are even harder to say. And I also heard that within half a year, General Jiang was afraid that he would lose his official position and could only retire early."

When saying these words, Lu You looked scared, and after hearing these changes in the court, Li Ling also looked solemn: "Has this storm actually involved so many people?"

"Yes, so I felt relieved later, and even felt more grateful to Wen Zhong. If you hadn't used a trick to give them a trick, I'm afraid our fate would be ten times worse than theirs. Only then would it be like a desperate situation."

Li Ling could see that these words were from Lu You's heart. He was indeed frightened by the aftermath of the storm, so he bowed and said, "You can understand the difficulties of yourselves. It's really shameful for you to bet on the matter at that time, and you can't think of a better solution. You can only gamble. Finally, you have good luck and are not deeply trapped in it, but in the end it still has a lot of colleagues."

Lu You waved his hand: "You don't have to do this. This has always been the case in the officialdom, especially in the turbulent capital. Often, when a wave rises and falls, countless innocent officials are suffering from catastrophes. So what you and I have to do is to properly protect yourself and not be exploited by others."

"Keep the official in mind." Li Ling said sincerely, and then tentatively, "By the way, sir, since the officialdom in the capital is so dangerous, why don't we leave here and go to the place to avoid the limelight?" This is indeed a way he thought of recently, stay away from the disputes here. After all, his own people are slight, and even if they are covered by the emperor, it is not safe in the capital. Lu You smiled bitterly: "Are you all stupid? To be honest, no official in the court today does not want to be an official in the local area, but this is not easy."

"Is this... it's difficult to be a local official?" Li Ling said inexplicably. He had never paid attention to this before.

Seeing that he didn't understand very much, Lu You helped to explain his doubts and doubts: "This Beijing official wants to go to a local official. It is easy to say it is easy, but it is difficult to say it is difficult, but it is also difficult.

"It is easy to say that those high-ranking people are naturally easy to go to the local government. Sometimes they will be demoted from the capital because they do something wrong. However, in this way, it is difficult for them to return to the court again. They have to make great contributions, or His Majesty will use them before they will recall them. But even so, they will not be able to hold power as they did before. After a few years of wasted time, they may have been surpassed by their original subordinates and their original position had been occupied. Therefore, those who can easily go to the local government will never leave the capital."

Li Ling nodded in understanding and then asked again: "What about the so-called difficulty?"

"The difficulty is that small and medium-sized officials in Beijing, like you and me. We have a hard time fulfilling our ambitions here, and we have many responsibilities. And once something goes wrong in the yamen, the mistakes will be pushed to us - just like this time, the one who is responsible in the end is the small officials at the bottom.

"So for us, being able to be awarded a county magistrate is the best future. However, since the time of Taizu, our dynasty had rules that we would not enter the center of the prefectures and counties. In this way, these local officials have become popular items that many powerful officials with backgrounds and power are competing to win. It is impossible for us to turn to.

"And even if there is a backer, especially those newly rated Jinshi, who have not experienced the government office in the middle school for three or five years and have a certain degree of qualifications, I am afraid that it will not be allowed to be transferred to a landlord."

Li Ling was stunned and then realized that the little county magistrate and prefect still had such a hidden secret. When he saw this, his teacher had a deep background. He was only in the Hanlin Academy for three years and was released from the Jiangcheng County Magistrate. In comparison, he would probably take more time to do this.

Seeing Li Ling frowning and thinking deeply, Lu You smiled and said, "Anyway, I have never thought of entering the center, so naturally I don't want to be an official in the local area. As long as I can go further, I will be satisfied with my retirement in the red robe."

After a pause, he said again: "If you don't mention these depressed words, I still have news here, which may make you feel relieved."

"Oh, but what is it?" Li Ling hurriedly retracted his thoughts and asked curiously.

Lu You lowered his voice slightly and said, "Just yesterday, news came from the palace that the two prime ministers had read the documents you submitted, and found that there were still problems. They determined that military rations could not be delivered to the front line before winter, so after asking His Majesty for instructions, they decided to reject the request for troops from the northern border, and all their plans were disappointed!"
Chapter completed!