Chapter 122 Chapter 122 Carrying out the mission
Officials who came to Anjing from Xihe Road and Jinnan Road to take up their posts were rewarded with houses by Lin Si one after another.
Many people died in Anjing this time, and many houses were left empty.
The house on the street closest to the palace had the best location, so Lin Si pointed it out to her confidants.
Lin Si's confidants are different from many officials in Anjing. They do not have complicated families behind them. Some were even orphans born as slaves and came to Anjing alone to take up their posts.
For example, Yang Yidong.
But Lin Si gave her a big house.
Although Liang Nian and Zuo You live next door, Huang Yaoniang lives across the street, and Mo Jinglian's family lives diagonally across the street.
Mo Yu and Ye Xialan were even considerate enough to buy servants and let Yang Yidong choose them.
Yang Yidong didn't need much help on weekdays. Apart from occasional martial arts practice, the rest was just daily dressing and eating, so he chose a few servants including cooks, maids, and butlers.
But the house is too big, and it still feels empty even with just a few people.
So on the second day after she moved in, someone knocked on the window.
Three long and two short knocks, the way of knocking on the door at dawn.
Xiang Feifei yawned. "His Majesty said you live alone in this large house. I just finished eavesdropping from the alley over there, and I was too lazy to go back to base. It's so far away, so I slept in the room next to yours. Remember to sign my statement tomorrow. You know how serious Di Yan is."
Speaking of Zhong Diyan, Xiang Feifei pondered again. "He seems to be in a good mood these past couple of days, but I can't go gambling! What if he punishes me with constant surveillance? I don't want that!"
He said he was leaving in a flash.
Only Yang Yidong was left holding the pen.
Okay, okay, this way this big house won’t be wasted.
Even after Yang Yidong left court, he would not rest when he returned home after finishing his work in the yamen under the Ministry of Personnel.
The Ministry of Personnel is a large department responsible for important matters such as finance and land registration. Your Majesty comforted her by allowing her to work hard in the past few years. In two years, when good talents are found, the finance department will be separated into a separate department. This will facilitate management and reduce her burden.
Yang Yidong didn't feel it was hard. Her life was saved by His Majesty, so she would not hesitate even if it meant going through fire and water.
It was getting late, the candlelight was flickering, and the maid brought in the midnight snack prepared in the kitchen.
"Girl, it's time for a midnight snack."
Now that the cold winter has just passed, the cook made a bowl of hot soup noodles.
Yang Yidong is not picky about food. As long as the food doesn’t taste as exaggerated as what Wei Peng cooks, she can eat it.
The maid's name was Xia Lan. She was carefully selected by Mo Yu and Ye Xia Lan. She was about thirteen or fourteen years old and very smart.
Yang Yidong asked out of concern: "Are you used to living in this house? If there is anything you need to buy, please let me know."
Xia Lan smiled sheepishly. How could she not be accustomed to this? This was the first time she had encountered such a kind host. There were less than ten servants in such a large house. And the servants only had three meals a day. God, she never thought she would have three meals a day in her life.
Xia Lan replied: "I have nothing to be accustomed to. It's very good here. I have never met such a good master."
Yang Yidong put down his bowl and said, "I see you're not that old, but you've already been married to several families?"
Xia Lan nodded. "Three years ago, in the cold winter, my father and mother sold me for a small bag of wheat. The family I followed couldn't grow anything in the fields due to the cold weather, so they had to sell off most of their servants. I was eventually sold to Tongchuan Road, but somehow my master at the time offended that thief Zhuo, and they were left with no livelihood. But we servants were fine; they just sent us away. To be honest, I saw that thief Zhuo once. He gathered all the servants in the master's house and looked at them one by one. I don't know who he was looking for."
Xia Lan then realized what she had said and quickly lowered her head.
"Girl, I am definitely not an ominous person."
Xia Lan knew that many hosts would mind.
Yang Yidong shook his head. "It's okay. Now that we have a new emperor, people won't be selling their children anymore."
Yang Yidong’s house is in the middle, on the left are Zuo You and Liang Nian, and on the right are Feng Ling and Zhang Dai.
Zhang Dai was originally not qualified to live in this house, it was all thanks to Feng Ling.
Wu Gengtian's manor was settled in Anjing by Lin Si, so Feng Ling also came to Anjing. Although Feng Ling did not have to go to court, she insisted on living next door to Mo Jing.
Lin Si gave her the house.
Zhang Dai's mentality has completely changed. His junior sister has such shitty luck, so what's wrong with him clinging to her?
So he went to Feng Ling's house and reminisced about the past in front of him.
"If Master knew in the afterlife that your senior brother and I were running out of places to live in Anjing, he would definitely be heartbroken. I dreamed of Master last night."
Feng Ling scratched his head. "Brother, you can live in this house. I'm alone anyway, but you have to be responsible for our living expenses. You can't just live here for free."
Zhang Dai was embarrassed. "How about you split the living expenses by 40 and I split the living expenses by 60? I'm just a small technician in the Ministry of Industry, and the prices in Anjing are high."
Feng Ling patted Zhang Dai's shoulder. "Brother, you're lucky you still have me as your junior sister. Otherwise, how would you survive in this world?"
On the morning of the second day after Zhang Dai moved in, he went out and ran into Yang Yidong and Chen Qian from the Ministry of Personnel.
Chen Qian is now considered Yang Yidong's subordinate, so he would respectfully perform a simple salute whenever they met.
"Good morning, Minister Yang."
Zhang Dai also greeted the other two people honestly, although the three of them went their separate ways.
Zhang Dai was not yet qualified to attend court, so he went directly to the Ministry of Works.
Chen Qian is the only native resident of this alley.
Yang Yidong knew that Chen Qian's wife had been ill before, so he asked with concern, "I wonder if the wife is getting better?"
Speaking of his wife, Chen Qian's expression softened. "Thanks to the imperial physician, she's fully recovered."
This alley is very close to the imperial palace, and Yang Yidong always walks there. As they walk, they talk about the new policies promulgated by His Majesty yesterday.
One of them is that someone discovered a type of rice called Champa rice.
This rice variety is not only drought-resistant, but also has a short growth cycle and high yield. It only takes fifty to one hundred days to mature. In this way, the south can even grow three crops of rice a year.
The only drawback is that the taste is not as good as that of japonica rice.
However, with its powerful advantages, this is no longer a disadvantage.
The promotion of Champa rice, potatoes and sweet potatoes can be said to solve the most core problem of grain production in Dachen at present.
Although the taste cannot be guaranteed, if these three things are added together, the number of people who die of starvation will be reduced by more than half compared to before.
Even the most barren land can be used to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Just based on this achievement, those old officials who had originally had some complaints about Lin Si ascending the throne as a woman were now convinced.
Chen Qian was born into a poor family and had lived in poverty since childhood. He couldn't help but admire, "Your Majesty's move will save many people from starvation. It's a heroic act."
Yang Yidong smiled. "Your Majesty's achievements are great, and they are not limited to this. You will know about this later."
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Before ascending the throne, Lin Si began to plan the inspection of officials.
Wu Gengtian went to several roads to investigate. After ascending the throne, he had more manpower, so he quickly completed the investigation of each road. When Wu Gengtian came back from the investigation, he handed the general report to Liang Nian.
It is easy to tell which ones are usable and which ones are corrupt and bad.
Liang Nian ticked off the list of those who were barely acceptable, and then presented those who were extremely corrupt.
After Lin Si stamped his agreement, Wu Gengtian secretly dealt with this little setback.
Wu Gengtian’s favorite mission is this kind of assassination mission. Compared with the boring daily monitoring missions, assassination missions can be completed faster.
However, this assassination does not involve just rushing over and killing someone. It still has to be pretentious, either making it an accident or an unsolved case.
And after killing someone, you have to write a report and get Zhong Diyan's signature. The mission is not considered complete until it is completed.
As for the travel expenses incurred along the way, you must keep evidence and claim reimbursement when you come back. There is a limit to the travel expenses, and you cannot claim reimbursement if you exceed the limit.
Now that Zhuo Zhengchu has been dealt with, there is no need for Wu Gengtian to be undercover for the time being, so most of the Wu Gengtian are engaged in assassinations and eavesdropping.
It was a rare day that Qi Liang woke up late. When he rushed to the task bar, there were only a few assassination missions left.
Qi Liang looked at the remaining two assassination missions on Xiguang Road and Nandong Road, and thought that he was unlucky.
He hesitated for a moment and chose Xiguang Road.
Both places are far away, and you need to take a boat to get to Nandong Road.
As luck would have it, he was seasick! He had been laughed at so many times that he even wanted to laugh at himself.
How could he get seasick?
Qi Liang took the task list and silently asked Zhong Diyan to sign it.
Zhong Diyan glanced at the task list and waved it in front of him. "Although Xiguang Road is far away, the travel expenses cannot be claimed if they exceed the upper limit. You will be charged by the number of days."
Qi Liang: "I know, I know. Big boss of Wugengtian, these two are the ones left over by others. Please assign me fewer monitoring tasks when I come back."
This was Qi Liang's first time to come to Xiguang Road. Xiguang Road was very poor because of its underdeveloped agriculture, many uncultivated mountains, and many mountain people who had lived in the mountains for many years and could not read or speak Chinese.
But it is such a poor and backward road that can support the fat and plump prefect and several county magistrates.
Qi Liang originally wanted to find a place to take a nap under a tree, but when he sat down, he felt someone staring at him.
Qi Liang opened his eyes and found that they were several children.
There were also several dark-skinned children wearing strange clothes. How strange were these clothes?
Qi Liang felt that it was not appropriate to describe it at this moment.
When the child found that Qi Liang had woken up, he quickly hid behind a tree and watched him, only his bright eyes were looking at him.
His resting place was disturbed, so Qi Liang stood up and prepared to leave.
He had no obligation to play with the mountain children.
He could hear the mountain children chattering about something, and then they ran quickly to Qi Liang, holding mushrooms wrapped in large leaves, and pointed at the half-eaten wheat cake sticking out of Qi Liang's backpack.
Qi Liang understood instantly that this was to exchange things with him.
Wheat cakes were not valuable, and Qi Liang exchanged a piece of wheat cake for a lot of mushrooms.
The dark-skinned mountain children seemed very happy, chattering away something inaudible, and walked away happily with the wheat cakes in their hands.
Qi Liang kicked the mushrooms into his messenger bag and continued on his way, only letting out a long roar towards the sky.
“The road to poverty alleviation is very difficult.”
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