Chapter 1546: Uneasiness

Su You quickly coughed, signaling Gao Taotao to pay attention to the next situation.

Gao Taotao then remembered that everyone was celebrating his birthday with the Liao envoy today, and suddenly he remembered something: "Are you a student of Bachelor Chen?"

Li Qiande's voice was choked with sobs: "I have been taught by Bachelor Chen and Su Shan, and the students only regret that they have no way to repay their gratitude to their teachers."

Gao Taotao said: "When you enter the court from now on, you must remember to serve the country wholeheartedly, and you must not violate the system because of the teacher-student relationship."

Li Qiande said: "I will comply with the Emperor's decree and I will definitely bear it in mind."

Gao Taotao smiled and said: "It's quite appropriate. Li Daocheng founded Confucianism in Jiaozhi, Li Wensheng succeeded him, and then Yang Shi. Now it seems that it is time for you, the county prince, to be the one."

Li Qiande said: "I have something to ask your Majesty."

The imperial censor was about to step out to stop him, but Gao Taotao coughed lightly and stopped the impeachment in the palace: "Oh? Let's talk about it."

Li Qiande said: "The scholars from Nanhai traveled far and wide to participate in the imperial examination. The late emperor gave me a mansion in Beijing. I really can't use it so much, so I want to donate it as a place for Nanhai students to stay after they enter Beijing, so as to share it with others." Let’s learn from each other and wait for the exam with peace of mind.”

Li Qiande was not short of money. Li Daocheng and Li Wensheng were still very loyal to Li Qiande. They built several mining and metallurgy projects for Li Qiande in the South China Sea. Every year, Li Qiande's share of the money and grain shipped to the South China Sea was included.

Gao Taotao became more optimistic about Li Qiande's character and asked, "In this case, where will you live?"

Li Qiande said: "The appointment of the minister has not been announced yet. If it is a foreign county, then it will have its own official field office without bothering the Empress Dowager."

"If we are in Beijing, I rent a small building near the Polytechnic Institute for the convenience of daily study."

Gao Taotao smiled: "The prince is really a scholar. Bachelor Chen teaches his disciples well. I agreed to the prince's invitation, but I have a condition."

Li Qiande quickly bowed: "I don't dare, but if the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager give me a kind message, I will do my best."

Gao Taotao said with satisfaction: "What I want is your words. Just wait, there will be a decree for you in a few days. By the way, can you play the piano?"

Li Qiande said: "I know a little bit about it."

Gao Tao said: "Today's banquet for the Liao envoys is also the first day of music. How about the prince playing a song for me?"

Li Qiande bowed and said: "Qiande will obey the orders of mercy."

Soon, beautiful piano music sounded in the hall, and Li Qiande was playing one of the major cultural projects of the Beijing Normal University Conservatory of Music, the latest work of Yale - "Si Qi".

The song expresses the poetic flavor of "The Book of Songs, Daya, and Siqi" and praises three great women, namely the "three wives of the Zhou Dynasty" - Taijiang, King Wen's grandmother, Tairen, King Wen's biological mother, and Taisi, King Wen's wife.

The three mothers of the Zhou Dynasty, Taijiang and Rensi, started the rise of civil and military affairs. Taisi was the most virtuous, and she was called Wenmu. The virtues of the three aunts were also very great!

The song is played loudly on the Kuncheng Festival, which can be said to be a good blessing and a good prayer.

When the song ended, Lu Gongzhu was moved to tears by the meaning of the song, and he led the ministers to express their congratulations to Gao.

Geng Shen, the imperial court consecrated Li Qiande as the Prince of Nanping County, sentenced Taichang Temple, and issued an imperial edict. The young daughter of Taiwei Jing Wang Zhao Kai became the wife of Zhao Xiaoluan, the princess of De County.

Su You took leave from the Empress Dowager and Zhao Xu. Since the royal family was getting married, he had to let Guan'er come in and become the bride of the Su family.

Bian Guan and Bi Guan have only become funny in the past year and a half. In the past, when they went to school together, Su You couldn't tell that there was any feeling between them, and was extremely worried. However, when things went smoothly, the two of them seemed to suddenly have an enlightenment.

Later generations talked about love like that!

Write love letters, meet up to see the scenery in the suburbs of Beijing, listen to music, watch movies and go to restaurants, go to Sitianjian to look at the stars...

Bi Guan is guided by Lu Ruo, and he is much better than Su Xiaomei in terms of female celebrities. It is no problem to make underwear for Bian Gu.

However, Bian Guan and Guan'er could not see each other every day. Instead, Shi Wei and Su Xiaomei were with Bi Guan almost every day. Shi Wei regretted not having a daughter and loved Bi Guan very much.

Su You liked what he heard and did not interfere with Bian Guan and Bi Guan's "association", but the Bi brothers were a little worried.

Although the Bi family is a family of prime ministers, there are not just one or two poor prime ministers in the Song Dynasty. Although the two brothers are now well-established in their official career, they have only just started.

Before Bi Zhongyou, he was the eighth rank of the Weiwei Temple. He won the first place in the imperial examination and was promoted to the seventh rank. Later, he served as the collation of the pavilion. He was promoted to the sixth rank of Xiu Shen Zong Bao Xun. He was also sent by the Kaifeng Prefecture to promote the official.

He was promoted to the sixth rank before going to Hebei, and became a member of the Song Dynasty. He finally passed the iron threshold of being a fifth-rank official.

Speaking of which, Bi Zhongyou's promotion can be regarded as too rapid. However, first of all, he has made great contributions, and secondly, his test scores are extremely good. Thirdly, he has a high moral integrity in rejecting the Hanlin bachelor's degree, and is widely praised by scholars and courtiers. Fourthly, low-level officials are sent to other places.

It is normal to be promoted by one level, and it is two different things from being promoted to the DPRK, so there is no disturbance in the political arena.

On the other hand, the elder brother Bi Zhongyan developed much earlier than his younger brother. Bi Zhongyan was a major contributor to Yuanfeng's reform and the leading official system expert in the Song Dynasty. He had been so hard-working that his sister could hardly afford to support him, so he fell into the trap of Zhao Xu, who was "too enterprising".

, Sure enough, he was promoted fiercely all the way, and after the restructuring, he was promoted to Taichang Liyuan from the third level, and now he was placed on the outer road and became the transfer envoy of the Northwest Road of the Great Song Dynasty.

North Beijing Road includes four prefectures - Henan Prefecture, Yingchang Prefecture, Huaining Prefecture, Shunchang Prefecture, five prefectures - Zhengzhou, Huazhou, Mengzhou, Caizhou, Ruzhou and two armies - Xinyang Army and Yong'an Army

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It is said to be an outer road, but in fact it is not far from the capital. It is located at the strategic point of the Huanghuai River. Now there are railways, Luobian Canal, and Chidao. It is the throat connecting the east-west trade. It is the gateway to the west of Bianjing and is the largest in the Song Dynasty.

Industrial center, a first-class big shortage.

However, Bi Zhongyan upheld his family tradition and was extremely honest. Although his salary was generous, his family's financial background was too weak.

Zhengzhou is now a place where officials can make money with just a raise of their hands, but Bi Zhongyan is not greedy for a penny, and Zhengzhou's colored glaze mirrors are famous all over the world. Bi Zhongyan is afraid that others will say he is hypocritical, so he only buys a palm-sized tin box colored glaze mirror and sends it to Bian

Jing gave it to his younger sister as a gift after his brother became a high official and had a lot of money.

Now that the marriage is imminent, Bi Zhongyan is the transfer envoy. Even if he asks for leave, he cannot leave the jurisdiction. He can only bring his younger sister to Zhengzhou and wait for the Su family to come to marry her.

After taking Bi Guan to his house from the train station, Bi Zhongyan was both ashamed and frightened: "Sister, my brother is really incompetent and can only scrape together a dowry of one thousand gu for you. Fortunately, the Su family is very prosperous, and Situ and Mrs. Guo

I have already treated you as my daughter, and I will not despise you because of this."

Su You is now a first-rank Situ, starting from the second-rank Shangshu Zuopushe and serving as a servant. Among them, Situ is an honorary title, and Zuopushe, a minister, and serving as a servant is the actual job of the Prime Minister.

After Yuanfeng was restructured, post-job postings were basically abolished, but the three divisions, three public servants, and three young masters were still retained for the placement of Yuan Rong.

Among them, after the salary reform of Zhengyipin Situ, all kinds of income were unified into currency and no longer discounted, up to 360 guan a month.

As for the prime minister of the second rank, because he had a real job, his salary was much higher than that of Situ, the first rank. It was as high as 900 yuan a month, making him the number one wage earner in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, according to Yuanfeng's new system, the two items cannot be superimposed, and can only be higher.

Even so, even if Su You is not greedy for a penny, his annual salary is more than 10,000 yuan.

With one year's salary, you can buy a compound like Su Che's in Bianjing City, which is quite arrogant.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why in real history, all the officials of the fifth rank in the Northern Song Dynasty were quite honest.

This does not include Shi Wei's salary as a royal wife.

Moreover, the imperial court has provided for all the children, except for the naughty colander, who is now also a salaried official.

In addition, there are investments in Zhuangzi District in Beijing, the opening of the railway, and the completion of the Capital University. Nowadays, the land price in Zhongmou is soaring, almost approaching the situation of real estate outside Kezhentang in those days.

But none of these can compare with Ningshan Tang run by Shi Wei.

Su You knew that Ning Shantang was very profitable, but he didn't know how much he could earn, and he didn't dare to ask.

Therefore, even though Su You had donated all of Sitong's shares, he was still one of the richest people in the Song Dynasty. No wonder Bi Zhongyan was worried.

Bi Guan didn't care, money was just a number in her heart, and it was a tiring number.
Chapter completed!