Chapter 372 It's sour
There are no outsiders in the Qin family, so there is no need to be so particular. Qin Chi asked Sanlang to personally put the imperial edict in the room at the back where imperial edicts were enshrined, and Sanlang would find it when he passed by.
There is more than one imperial edict in this family.
Song Jin immediately said that he would reward the servants with three months' salary and give everyone an extra meal tonight.
Niu Niu was laughing foolishly beside them.
The adults are happy and the children are happy too.
Having a child at home will make the atmosphere much happier.
At the same time, Song Jin had looked at the deed of the house. The large houses in this area were usually where princes and nobles lived. This was a house with five courtyards, and it was said that it had once been the residence of a certain prince.
Song Jin arranged for people to clean the new house.
Repair any areas that need repair as quickly as possible.
Everyone at the Qin family became busy.
The news that Qin Chi was promoted to the second-rank official and became the Minister of Works caused an uproar in the entire court.
Originally, those officials were still spreading the story that Qin Chi's wife and children almost got into trouble, and he took leave to appease them. Some small-minded officials had already made up a story behind the scenes, saying that they were working very hard, but Qin Chi made a fuss by taking leave, and was not doing his job.
A lot of sour remarks.
The afternoon was only halfway over.
Before they returned home from the government office, they heard something else? Qin Qi'an, who was on leave at home, received an imperial decree that the emperor promoted him to the position of Minister of Works? !
He jumped from the fourth-rank position of Shaoqing of Dali Temple to the second-rank position of Shangshu of Works, becoming the youngest Shangshu in the history of the Great Xia Dynasty.
At first many people didn’t believe it.
I thought someone was spreading rumors.
Later, he arranged for his entourage to go outside and inquire, and they found out that the matter was true, just like the Ministry of Revenue.
"This official luck..."
Xia Wei had some love for talent before.
Now he was envious and jealous. He had worked diligently for more than 20 years to get to his current position, but what about others? The officials of the Hanlin Academy were also shocked.
They can still vividly remember Qin Qian'an, who was ostracized in the Hanlin Academy and who just kept his head down and did his work when he was bullied, as if it happened yesterday.
It seems like in the blink of an eye, he has already reached a high position.
The kind that even they couldn't bring themselves to feel jealous.
Ke Bingzhi used to be very jealous, but now he can't be jealous anymore. Before Qin Chi won the first place in the imperial examination, he was a bachelor of imperial studies. Now Qin Chi has become a second-rank minister of the Ministry of Personnel, but he still sits in the same position, just as his deceased teacher said:
We are all mortals, so don't compete with the evildoers.
There are always some people in the world whose talents, luck, and even wealth are far beyond our reach. For this reason, if we keep brooding over it and fussing over it, we will only bring trouble upon ourselves.
Not to mention the situation in other government offices.
In the Ministry of Works alone, some were happy while others were sad, especially the two assistant ministers, who worked diligently and desperately to complete the work of the Ministry of Works during this period. They were vying to make political achievements in order to be favored by Emperor Mingcheng and get promoted to a higher position.
You know, these two are the ones most likely to be promoted.
After all, they were only one step away from becoming the Minister of Industry. Ever since Yuan stepped down, the two began to compete with each other, and sometimes even tried to trip each other up in their work, just to prevent the other from suppressing them.
What is it now? Everything they have done is in vain.
Is it even making wedding dresses for others?
The two assistant ministers worked under the former minister and their relationship was relatively good. However, the position of minister had been vacant for so long that the little bit of friendship between the two was ruined.
If one of them goes up.
They failed, were not able to defeat the other party, or perhaps they could still be calmer.
The problem is that neither of them was promoted, and out of nowhere a person who is not even half their age was parachuted in. Moreover, this person used to work under them, and they had made things difficult for him?
A new emperor appoints his own ministers.
This also applies to the Ministry of Industry.
Now that Qin Chi has become their immediate superior, he must cultivate his own confidants.
The two of them were unwilling to follow Qin Chi and obey his orders.
They were so angry that they just threw the case out of the Ministry of Industry!
The other people in the yamen looked at it with expressionless faces, but there were many people watching the fun secretly, such as the people from the Yu Hengsi who thought they got along well with Qin Chi, and they all felt that Qin Chi's promotion was their chance.
When it comes to the Ministry of Works, who is close to Qin Chi?
There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!
Of course it’s their Yuhengsi’s people!
The former Yuwailang of Yuhengsi and the current Langzhong laughed and said, "The Left and Right Assistant Ministers have something to do today and have to leave the court early. What do you think? Should we prepare some gifts and go to Lord Qin's house to congratulate him and ask for a glass of wine? I heard that the barley wine in Lord Qin's house is very good. Everyone who has tasted it says it's good. Unfortunately, I don't have that opportunity..."
"Let's just forget about these two days."
The newly appointed official shook his head and said, "Master Qin must be busy at home right now. Going there now would only cause trouble for him. If you want to go, you have to wait until Master moves."
"Yes, His Majesty rewarded us with a big house." When the house was mentioned, everyone present became envious again.
Who wouldn't want to own a mansion with five entrances? Qin Qi'an's achievement was beyond the reach of others.
The doctor sighed: "When the master was my boss, I could see that he was an extraordinary person..."
This is what you say if you believe it.
Who among the people present believed it? Who didn't envy Qin Qi'an at that time? The sour feeling in their hearts was about to spread throughout the entire Yuheng Division. It was just that Qin Chi was their boss before, and they could still get in touch with him and imagine when he would replace him. Now he is standing too high, and they don't even have the qualifications to be jealous. After all, even if that position falls on them, they don't have the ability to be competent.
At this time, the Dali Temple was just the opposite.
Very quiet. Very quiet.
It was so quiet that it was a little eerie. Everyone felt like they were dreaming, or they felt like they hadn't woken up from their dreams yet.
No, they are about evidence.
Don’t spread rumors and don’t believe in rumors.
So when it was time to leave the yamen, some people hurriedly left the yamen and arranged for people to go to Cuihua Hutong to inquire. Some people even went to Cuihua Hutong with Dong Xingde on the pretext of having a candlelight chat with him at night.
Everyone knows that Dong Xingde lives in a house just opposite Qin Chi.
They didn't have the courage to go directly to Qin Chi.
He could only use roundabout means and go to Dong Xingde's house to find out the truth, because if there really was an imperial edict, there was no reason why the Dong family, who lived opposite Qin Chi, would not know about it.
The eunuchs in charge of ceremonies in the palace usually come to convey the imperial edict.
The scene was quite grand.
Not to mention that once people have arrived at the Qin family, they will surely become known to everyone in Cuihua Hutong as soon as they enter the hutong.