On the first day of the first lunar month of the third year of Jiaxi, heavy snow fell all night and quietly stopped at dawn. The entire Qingyuan Prefecture City became a world covered in silver.

The snow is not too thick, but it looks a few inches. Although it may affect people's visits to relatives and friends during the New Year holiday, it is obviously not as difficult as they can't get out of the door. The only real trouble is that the intersection of the river mouth is frozen due to snow, which makes it extremely difficult for ships to enter and exit the port. In fact, in this case, the port will encounter such a few times a year, not to mention that the snow this year is not very heavy. However, as the most important and important festival of the Chinese nation, from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival, all the yamen are closed, so no one will deal with the ice accumulation in the port.

Fortunately, all ships traveling to and from Qingyuan Prefecture know this, not to mention that it is the Spring Festival, there are really not many merchant ships that will not go home to reunite with their families during the New Year and float on the sea. Even merchant ships traveling between the Song Dynasty, Goryeo, Japan, and even further away from the Indochina Peninsula, Arabian Dashi and other places will also follow the customs during the Spring Festival, docking in the port and enjoying the Spring Festival quietly.

Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. This snow not only did not feel any inconvenience to the people of Qingyuan Prefecture, but instead added a bit of joy to the Spring Festival.

On the first day of the first lunar month, it is the right time to visit relatives and friends. In addition, basically, since ancient times, temple fairs and rituals have been held during the Spring Festival to pray for good weather and good weather in the new year, etc., to express a beautiful vision for the new year. Although this snow has caused some inconvenience to the temple fair rituals, it still cannot resist people's enthusiasm for praying for blessings.

The matter of getting up in the morning to build a snowman was not successful after all. It was not because Jia Sidao couldn't get up in the morning or was unwilling to do so. It was really early in the morning that Jia Sidao had just gotten up and sent red envelopes to the managers, maids and servants in the other courtyards, and the visits were not one or two.

The entire Qingyuanfu basically had the officials who could get on the table seemed to have made an appointment, and they all came outside the other courtyard to hand over a greeting to Jia Sidao... New Year's greetings. It was possible to achieve the real lack of position in the mansion. Obviously, everyone is well-informed, not to mention that Jia Sidao had never thought of hiding his whereabouts.

In this way, Jia Sidao naturally could not let a group of officials who came to pay New Year's greetings to accompany Shi Zhenxiang to build snowmen, which made Shi Zhenxiang very resentful. In the end, there was no choice but to drag Xu Ruoxi, who was big belly, and Huang Jiaoniang built a small snowman in the backyard.

She said she was doing it herself, but in fact, most of the work was done by Jia Quaner, the unlucky guy, while Shi Zhenxiang just moved her mouth. The only thing she did was that after the snowman was piled up, she wrote down the names of several people on the snowman with her own hands.

In the living room of the front yard, a group of officials from Qingyuan Mansion sat around the hot stove with Jia Sidao as the center. The living room was as warm as spring and laughed constantly.

It is said that there are many, but in fact, in addition to the Qingyuan Prefect Su Qinghao, the magistrate Liang De, the inspector Ge Ming, and the Qingyuan Prefecture Naval Commander Wan Fu, whom Jia Sidao had met last night, there were only a lot of them. They were Feng Xiping, the deputy envoy of the Transportation Envoy of Liangzhe East Road Transportation Envoy, Dou Jian, and Yu Qing, the Xianshi of the Qingyuan Prefecture, whom the Eastern Road Transportation Envoy of Liangzhe East Road Transportation Envoy, and Yu Qing.

According to the customary rules of the Song Dynasty, each route was set up with the deputy envoy or judge. The Luzhou, where the transport transportation was busy, set up the Dulu and Transport Transport Transport Transport Transport Transport Transport Transportation Division and Dulu. Few Transport Transportation Division set up the deputy envoy and judge at the same time, and even the deputy envoy and judge would not be placed together.

Liangzhe East Road includes the capital of Lin'an, the capital of the Song Dynasty. The waterways are developed in the territory, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal runs through all regions. In addition, the fish and rice town in Jiangnan can be regarded as the most important grain production area in the Song Dynasty. The canal transport is busy. In principle, Liangzhe East Road is naturally the high-level transfer commander. However, because it is too close to Lin'an, the transfer commander of Liangzhe East Road was assigned a deputy transfer commander and a transfer judge to Liangzhe East Road Transport Commander without setting up a transfer commander. Both officials were actually in vacancies, and the imperial court directly selected the magistrate with better political achievements or alternative Jinshi who had actually in vacancies to fill the gap.

The Criminal Prison Office is a special inquiry agency specially set up by the Song Dynasty to the Ministry of Justice. This trial is naturally not an interrogation for investigating cases, but after government offices and counties at all levels report the criminals convicted that year, especially major cases that require the execution of the death penalty, the Criminal Prison Office will be responsible for reviewing the cases to prevent unjust and wrong cases from happening.

In fact, the punishment institutions of the Song Dynasty seemed very humane and sound, of course, if there were many redundant officials to be removed.

Of course, there must be far more officials in Qingyuan Mansion than those who appear in front of Jia Sidao now. However, compared to his identity, only these few seven people are barely qualified to pay homage to him.

It is inevitable that the deputy envoy and judge of the Transportation Commissioner of Liangzhe East Road met Jia Sidao. After all, Jia Sidao's Maritime General Office has many functions that can be said to be highly overlapping with the Three Envoys, especially the Transportation Commissioner. Perhaps it has not yet been thought that what Jia Sidao wants is to rely on the Maritime General Office to completely replace the Three Envoys who are extremely powerful but inefficient in the future, but many people have seen the possibility of the Maritime General Office replacing the Transportation Commissioner of the future.

At the same time, since the Maritime General Office has just started, there are still many aspects that require the cooperation of the Transportation Office, so it is obviously necessary for Feng Xiping and Dou Jian to come to see Jia Sidao. As for Yu Qing, who mentioned the Criminal Office, the current Minister of Justice is Xie Fangshu. Jia Sidao and the Xie clan are not very close because of two noble women. This is not a secret between the court and the country. Jia Sidao is stationed in Qingyuan Mansion, and Yu Qing is coming to see him for emotion and reason.

This villa's rich man obviously spent a lot of effort on burning such a large stove. The room was as warm as spring, but there was no feeling of depression. Eight people sat around the stove, perhaps because Jia Sidao deliberately lowered his airs and postures. After a brief period of inconvenience, the seven people slowly relaxed, which was considered to be the joy of the host and the host, and the harmony was harmonious.

"Jia Quan'er, come here."

Seeing that Jia Quan'er had finished tea going out, Jia Sidao waved and shouted.

Su Qinghao and others, who seemed to be chatting but were actually secretly paying attention to Jia Sidao's every move, suddenly fell silent.
Chapter completed!