I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 15 Bao Zheng: Dear brother Jing Ming, you are a god.

October [-]th is the day off for officials.

Early in the morning, Su Liang, wearing a green shirt, appeared on the Bianhe pier.

According to his understanding of his wife Tang Wanmei, the latter will definitely make time to arrive in Bianjing on her day of rest.

Since the two separated in Qizhou in July, one went to Bianjing and the other went to his hometown in Yangzhou, they have not seen each other for nearly four months.

You can take a merchant ship from Yangzhou directly to Bianjing, which takes about half a month.

Su Liang has already inquired that a merchant ship from Yangzhou will arrive at the dock in the morning.

So he had been waiting here early.

He and Tang Wanmei can be called a free love.

Tang Wanmei was three years younger than Su Liang. She was the daughter of Tang Ze, a teacher at Shangwen Private School in Yangzhou City.

Tang Wanmei was born with beautiful face and gentle temperament. When she was 16 years old, she had crossed the threshold of marriage proposals.

There are even some wealthy officials and wealthy families.

Tang Wan didn't like her, but she fell in love with Su Liang at first sight.

This gave Su Liang enough motivation to study, and after passing the Jinshi examination, he immediately married Tang Wanmei.

……

After about half an hour.

A huge multi-masted merchant ship docked.

Su Liang immediately stood up from the tea shed next to the pier, asked the rented carriage and groom to wait aside, and then he walked towards the pier.

About half a cup of tea.

People began to disembark from the merchant ship one after another. Su Liang stood at a high place and looked out, and soon saw Tang Wanmei.

Tang Wanmei is tall, has a delicate face, and has particularly fair skin.

The pace is elegant and calm, and the temperament is gentle and calm.

It is easy to be recognized in a crowd.

At this moment, Tang Wanmei was wearing a light green narrow shirt and long skirt, with a hosta in her hair, and her cheeks were slightly red, obviously she had just applied rouge.

Behind her was her personal maid, Xiao Tao, who had just turned 13 years old.

Su Liang waved excitedly.

Tang Wanmei quickly spotted him, the two looked at each other and smiled, then ran in both directions.

After a while.

Su Liang came to Tang Wanmei and Xiao Tao and carried all their luggage on him.

The two looked at each other, full of tenderness.

"I've lost weight!" Tang Wanmei said with pity in her eyes.

Su Liang leaned close to Tang Wanmei's shoulder and whispered: "Lovesickness makes you thin!"

"Disgusting!" Tang Wanmei rolled her eyes at Su Liang, and then couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing, revealing two very beautiful dimples.

Immediately, the three of them got into the carriage and rushed home.

Su Liang and Tang Wanmei sat side by side, clasping their fingers with one hand, and then introduced the market outside the window to them.

About half an hour later.

The three finally returned to the house.

Although the apartment Su Liang rented was a first-floor apartment, it had many rooms.

Facing south, the main room has three rooms.

The middle is the main hall, the left is the bedroom, and the right is the study.

There are also one east and west wing rooms, and one wing room each used as a kitchen, warehouse, and latrine.

Three people live here, it is very spacious and comfortable.

After taking a short rest, the three of them went to the nearby Huixian Tower for dinner.

When his beloved wife came to Beijing, Su Liang naturally wanted to take her and give her a good massage.

After having enough tea and food, the three of them walked around the neighborhood and then returned home.

Tang Wanmei was a restless person. Seeing that Su Liang's house was very messy, she and Xiao Tao sorted it out and worked until dusk.

Then, Tang Wanmei cooked in person and made Su Liang's favorite fried bones and snow-white porridge.

Su Liang ate with gusto, and suddenly felt that this was the feeling of home, warm and beautiful.

into the night.

After Tang Wanmei finished washing, as soon as she walked into the bedroom, Su Liang, who had been hungry and thirsty for a long time, took her into her arms.

Su Liang raised Tang Wanmei's chin and murmured: "My wife is so beautiful!"

Tang Wanmei's face turned slightly red.

"Husband, I have a lot to say to you, how about we first..."

"Let's talk after we finish the business!" Su Liang picked up Tang Wanmei and walked inside.

Tang Wanmei also hugged Su Liang's neck tightly. …

The next day, five watch.

Tang Wanmei and Xiao Tao prepared breakfast for Su Liang.

After Su Liang finished eating, he rushed to the Yushitai.

After traveling through time for more than ten years, he has long been accustomed to getting up at midnight and resting after dark.

Su Liang hummed a little tune and came to the Yushitai Yamen Office in a happy mood. He looked up and saw a middle-aged official standing at the door with a pen and paper in hand.

This person's name is Ma Dashan.

He is an official of the Censor's Office (the name of the official who is in charge of leading court meetings and ceremonies).

"Su Yushi, you came just in time. If you had been a moment later, you would have been too late! According to the order of Zhongcheng, I will be in front of the Taiyuan every day (checking attendance). Anyone who is late and leaves early will receive one month's salary. Please sign it. Name it!”

Su Liang curled his lips slightly, signed his name, and said: Ma Yin praised the hard work, and then entered the Taiyuan.

It is a common practice for officials to click on Mao.

But usually it is done intermittently, but now it has become daily and dotted. It is obviously Wang Gongchen's intention.

Su Liang didn't care either.

Although he is always the last one to arrive and the first one to leave at the Yushitai, he has never been late.

Next, for several days.

Su Liang still followed his biological clock, arriving half a cup of tea early and getting off work on time.

Another day, afternoon.

Bao Zheng saw Zhou Yuan going out and came to Su Liang's workstation.

"Jingming, I looked at the official records of the Yushitai. Every day, you have the shortest time in office. Now the time spent in office is included in the performance appraisal. You must not go against the order because of your anger with Wang Zhongcheng. This will affect your career!"

Su Liang smiled slightly, he understood Bao Zheng's kind reminder.

"Brother Xiren, it's not that I don't want to come home late for business, but the daily business is not much, and I finish it quickly!"

"Not much? How is that possible? Are you prevaricating me and bringing you this month's imperial treasure seal paper?"

Bao Zheng's face became serious.

Imperial treasure sealing paper is the special paper used by Taiwan admonishers to write memorials and annotate official documents and official newspapers.

It can reflect the quantity and quality of Taiwan's admonishment officers' daily work.

Imperial Treasure printing paper will be recycled every month.

It is the main basis for evaluating the promotion and demotion of Taiwan admonishment officials.

Another important basis is the impeachment chapter of Taiwan's remonstrating officer.

The Hanlin Academy compiled a book of Taiwanese admonitions and memorials.

The emperor placed it next to his imperial desk and read it frequently as a way to assess his advice.

Su Liang once played three times in one day and all of them were adopted.

This achievement is worthy of half a year of hard work by other Taiwanese admonishers.

His assessment on the impeachment chapter was naturally excellent.

If the content written on the Imperial Treasure Seal Paper and the impeachment articles are both top-notch, the length of time spent in office will not matter at all.

However, the quality of the imperial treasure sealing paper is basically linked to the length of time spent in office.

Like Zhou Yuan, and the newly promoted right officer Qian Mingyi, they were busy almost every day until late at night.

In the words of later generations:
Dot [-] is for attendance.

The annotations on Imperial Treasure Seal Paper are equivalent to daily homework.

The impeachment chapter is equivalent to the monthly test scores.

Bao Zheng is very aware of Su Liang's workload. It is almost impossible to do a good job without working overtime.

But after seeing Su Liang's Imperial Treasure Seal Paper, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Soon, he flipped through the imperial treasure seal paper that Su Liang had written today, and took out the official document that the memorial official had submitted in the morning.

"With so much content, you...how do you do it quickly and well?"

Today's report to the Academy contains a lot of content. Even if Bao Zheng were to review it, he would be busy until dusk and it would be difficult for Su Liang to make the same progress.

Moreover, Su Liang's annotation format is accurate and detailed.

He is ashamed of himself.

It can be called a template among Taiwanese admonishment officials.

It takes the shortest time, is the most efficient, and the content is the best in Taiwan.

This is a slap in the face of all Taiwan admonishers!

When the performance of Taiwan's admonishment officials is evaluated at the end of the year, officials will see Su Liang's imperial treasure seal paper.

Not to mention that Su Liang commuted to and from get off work every day. Even though he often arrived late and left early, his performance appraisal was rated as excellent.

Bao Zheng looked at Su Liang in disbelief and said, "Brother Jing Ming, you are a god!"

(End of this chapter)