"stop."

"What's the matter, aunt?"

"Are you coming back for lunch?"

"No, I can't come back."

"Isn't it time to take a bath today? Didn't Tanlang say a few days ago that he would have half a day off to have dinner with me?"

"I have something to do and I need to go to Xunyang Grottoes."

"It's the Xunyang Grottoes again. Why do you go there every day? It feels like my Tan Lang is the busiest in the entire Xunyang City. By the way, what do Yuan Huaimin and the others eat?"

Huaiye Lane Residence, Inner House, Early in the morning, Ouyang Rong put on a blue Confucian shirt while walking, walked quickly into the dining room, and swallowed a jujube drink in front of Zhen Shuyuan, who was looking graceful and elegant, preparing to accompany his beloved nephew to eat.

After eating half a bowl of glutinous rice porridge, he picked up a piece of golden pancake from the table, held it in his mouth, and prepared to go out.

Zhen Shuyuan stopped him with an unkind expression and asked sideways, her eyebrows raised:

"Tanlang, I don't like to talk too much and take care of things, but sometimes, you can't do everything yourself, so you have to leave some things to the people below. You are the nominal highest official in Jiangzhou. How can you take care of everything? Isn't it tiring?

die."

The beautiful woman in Luoqun said sincerely:

"You have to be good at using people. Look, auntie, our family is so big and the housework has to be divided among them. How can I let my concubine do it all by myself? Don't you think so? No matter how busy you are, you won't even have time to eat.

None, I didn’t have time to eat breakfast, I didn’t have time to eat lunch, I guess I don’t have to wait for dinner, eh.”

Ouyang Rong took off the pancake from his mouth and said with a somewhat embarrassed expression:

"Actually, I don't do much myself. Liulang and Huaimin are still doing things, but today is special. I temporarily agreed to Rong Zhennvshi to go to Xunyang Grottoes to discuss important matters with her. It involves the Giant Buddha, which is of great importance...

…”

"Okay, okay, needless to say, it was the female historian who made the appointment. I understand that I really can't let outsiders do it for me when I have a private meeting with her. No wonder I left in a hurry, right?"

The more Ouyang Rong listened, the more he felt that something was wrong:

"It's a private meeting. It's a serious chat. She said there is a special plan that needs to be discussed..."

Zhen Shuyuan seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "Yeah, yeah, yeah."

Ouyang Rong couldn't stand it anymore: "Auntie, you are really serious."

"Some people are serious, but some people may not be serious. There is always one who is not serious."

"..."

Zhen Shuyuan's words are a bit convoluted.

Ouyang Rong frowned when he heard this and opened his mouth to say something. After a moment, he closed it again, turned around and continued to leave.

The beautiful woman sitting in the hall continued to shout with a straight face:

"I don't care, you come back for dinner at noon. This is a dead end. I have to discuss important matters with your female historian. I have to go back and forth on the road. Plus the discussion time, I think you are leaving so early today. You have been away all morning.

There must be enough time, unless there is a ghost, it is really a private meeting or something, if not, you will come back for lunch at noon, do you understand."

After she finished speaking, she saw Ouyang Rong stop and pick up a piece of rice cake with chopsticks, put it into his mouth to chew, and hummed softly.

Ouyang Rong was about to speak but stopped.

Zhen Shuyuan put down her chopsticks, with a warning look in her eyes, and lowered her voice:

"I called Huanwen in advance. She also thought you had a day off in the morning. If you leave now, she will come later. I can only drag her until lunch at the latest. You have to come back to meet me. Do you understand?"

"OK."

Without hesitating for long, Ouyang Rong simply nodded and strode out.

…

Ouyang Rong left home early, but did not go to Xunyang Grottoes immediately.

First we visited the Jiangzhou lobby.

Speaking of which, Ouyang Rong had not been to the governor's office in Jiangzhou for a while. Military and political documents and other matters were ordered to be sent to the Jiangzhou lobby by Chief Shi for review.

The powers of Jiangzhou Governor's Office and Jiangzhou Hall are different.

Because the governor of Jiangzhou held the military and political power of a state and was regarded as a smaller version of the feudal official, military and political affairs, including the Jiangzhou Zhechong Mansion, were first sent to the governor of Jiangzhou.

The Jiangzhou Hall, under the actual auspices of deputy Jiangzhou Governor Shi, is in charge of the people's livelihood affairs of one city and several counties in Jiangzhou.

In the main hall of Jiangzhou Hall, the first seat is the office of the governor. However, generally speaking, the governor rarely comes. For example, the late... no, the former governor of Jiangzhou, Wang Lengran, who died heroically, has not come to Jiangzhou Hall for a long time, all day long.

Staying in the governor's office is already considered neglect of government.

After Ouyang Rong took over the position of acting as the governor of Jiangzhou, he reversed the situation and decided not to go to the governor's office at all, and directly asked people to move the governor's desk to the lobby of Jiangzhou.

On weekdays, all the military and political intelligence that was originally sent to the Jiangzhou Governor's Office was sent to the Jiangzhou lobby.

Generally, wherever the governor is, the state's decision-making team will be there, with him as the core.

In fact, there should be another layer of consideration here, a possibility that knowledgeable outsiders can think of:

This young governor surnamed Ouyang was born in the main hall of Jiangzhou. There are more direct descendants here. However, the governor's office in Jiangzhou is still using the team from Wang Lengran's period. There may be some of his cronies who have not been eliminated and are hidden...

…

As soon as he arrived at the Jiangzhou lobby, Ouyang Rong found Yan Liulang.

"How was the check? Is there anything that can be improved?"

Yan Liulang handed over a case scroll and smiled in relief:

"The Ming Dynasty has been overly concerned. You have acted openly and aboveboard in the past, and your family background is also clean. In your humble position, you cannot imagine that there is any risk of failing the review by Si Tianjian."

Ouyang Rong nodded slowly.

He took the scroll handed over by Yan Liulang and looked at it.

This scroll comes from the internal secret vault of Jiangzhou Hall and records the portraits of officials in this state and the status of previous imperial examinations.

Only the Control Yuan and the governor of this state can access it.

The scroll in my hand is one of them and belongs to Ouyang Rong.

Ever since he became the magistrate of Longcheng County, Jiangzhou, he has been keeping records, and there is really no stain on it.

Disaster relief, flood control, offering auspiciousness...the year-end assessment is all about "going up and up".

Now he is creating a statue for Her Majesty the Queen, and it has won the favor of Rong Zhennvshi, who is a personal envoy of Her Majesty. She has repeatedly reported it to the press for praise.

No wonder Wang Lengran, who was the governor at the time, couldn't find an angle to attack him and couldn't suppress his promotion.

However, the Control Yuan should have a more detailed case about him.

In addition to the simple official resume in Ouyang Rong's hand, there are also scrolls introducing his family background and some details of his life and deeds.

There were even state-level censors who went to his hometown of Nanlong for on-the-spot inspections to prevent counterfeiting...

Ouyang Rong put down the simple file and touched his chin.

Rong Zhen admitted the day before yesterday that before confessing to him the secret defense at the core of the Xunyang Grottoes, a confidential investigation by the Si Tianjian was needed. In a sense, it was similar to the political review in his previous life, only more detailed.

Si Tianjian should have checked the files above.

However, there is another process, which is to send people to the places where he served as an official, open up channels of communication in the local officialdom and among the people, and collect extensive reviews of this person's reputation.

Or the envoys photographed by Si Tianjian directly inspected several anonymous officials.

See if anyone reports him for corruption or bribery. Of course, the whole process will be kept confidential.

If there are no serious flaws, it is considered to have passed the confidentiality inspection.

Overall, the supervision system of the Zhou Dynasty's officialdom was quite mature.

After thinking for a moment, Ouyang Rong realized that he had forgotten nothing, and turned around to go out.

Arrive at Xunyang Grottoes.

"What? Rong Nushi isn't here?"

Ouyang Rong looked at Wang Caozhi in front of him and asked with a frown.

"Well, Sister Rong seems to have something urgent to do this morning and has to go."

"Where have you gone?"

"It seems that he has returned to Xunyang City."

Ouyang Rong frowned and asked again:

"A few people went."

"It seems like one person and one horse."

"one person?"

Ouyang Rong thought for a moment, shook his head, and said before leaving:

"What a messy title, how many times have I said it, calling me my job title?"
To be continued...