Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 117 Reason
  After seeing off the internal officials who announced the decree, Zhang said excitedly: "Zi Qian, that's great. I didn't expect that the official family would give you an official title."

Li An curled his lips and said, "Master's wife, she's just a literary official. And she's the second-lowest from the bottom."

Li An is not stupid. If he were a real official, he would be extremely happy.

Wensanguan, also known as Jiluguan, has no actual position.

In the Song Dynasty, there were twenty-nine ranks of Wen Sanguan and thirty-first rank of Wu Sanguan. If we count from top to bottom, Li An was ranked twenty-eighth, and below him there was a ninth-rank general.

Chengzhilang of Sheng Hong is also a kind of prose official.

Of course, although the literary official does not have an actual position, it is not useless at all. He still gets a monthly salary.

Li An is no longer a novice now. If he remembers correctly, from the ninth rank of Wensanguan, he can earn five dan of salary and eight thousand taun of money every month.

Naturally, the salary of officials in the Song Dynasty could not be so low. There was also a salary according to the official rank.

In addition, there are job fields and various subsidies, which together are much more than the salary.

However, prose officials do not have those, only the most basic salary.

In addition, the prose official is also an official, and he also has the privileges enjoyed by officials of the same level.

Apart from these, there are no other benefits, which is why Li An is not very happy.

"Don't talk nonsense. This is an official reward and a favor. If what you just said is listened to, it will be a crime of disrespect." Mrs. Zhang said seriously.

Li An felt a chill in his heart and said quickly: "Thank you, Master, for reminding me."

The ancients believed that thunder, rain, and dew were all the king's favor, and punishment was all grace, let alone a reward like his.

If what he just said were spread, he would not be able to escape the charge of disrespect.

"By the way, Master, am I considered a scholar now?" Li An asked.

"Although he is a literary official, he is still an official, so he is naturally a scholar." Zhang said.

Hearing this, Li An's depression completely disappeared, and instead he was filled with surprises.

This is equivalent to saying that he already had a gold medal for immunity from death in the Song Dynasty.

This death-free gold medal is more useful than the real death-free gold medal.

Because the Song Dynasty did not kill scholar-bureaucrats.

Li An wants to study and gain fame, not for holding a high position, becoming a marquis, or becoming a prime minister.

All he wants is an official career.

The Song Dynasty was a paradise for civil servants, and the court treated them well.

It can be said that in the Song Dynasty, as long as you were a civil servant and did not rebel, you would not be punished with death.

Even if you spit on the emperor, or have political enemies target you, at most one of you will be demoted.

The so-called demotion means to be an official in a remote area.

You read that right, being an official.

The most famous among them is Su Shi. In the Wutai Poetry Case, he was almost killed. In the end, because he was a scholar-bureaucrat, he was not killed, but was demoted to the deputy envoy of Huangzhou Tuanlian.

Dongpo Pork, which was passed down in later generations, seemed to have been developed in Huangzhou.

After Liu Xuewen came back in the evening, Li An learned from him the reason why the official rewarded him.

Half a month ago, hundreds of officials forced the official family to adopt the clan and establish him as the crown prince. The official family was furious and demoted several people. In the end, he had to agree to adopt the clan, and ordered Grand Prime Minister Han Zhang and Zongzhengsi to jointly select a few suitable candidates from the clan, and then the officials made the final decision.

In the last court, after Han Zhang and Zongzhengsi reported the selected candidates, they asked the officials to determine the candidates for adoption, but the officials refused and said that they would carefully consider them.

Baiguan naturally saw that the official regretted it and wanted to delay it.

This is normal, but no one is willing to pass on the family business to others, not even his own nephew.

What's more, the official family is still the emperor, and the legacy is still the country. Although Guan Jia is almost fifty years old, there are many people who have children at this age, so Guan Jia naturally wants to work hard.

If the official's family is still young, the adoption will be done, and if there is a son in the future, there will be time to pave the way for him.

But now that the official family is almost fifty, the person who adopts from the clan must be an adult. Once he is established as the prince, the ministers in the court will inevitably move closer to him.

If he really has a son, this prince will be difficult to deal with.

The officials saw that the officials wanted to repent, so they were naturally unwilling to agree.

When preparing for today's court meeting, after the petition is completed, we will jointly petition the officials to determine the candidate for adoption.

It just so happened that during the early morning session of the Imperial Academy, the Imperial Academy invited Li An's words to be engraved and erected at the entrance of the Imperial Academy.

Although Li An's words were praised by the ministers of the DPRK and China, many people also opposed it.

After arguing about this matter for a long time, the officials finally took the opportunity to get angry and announced that they agreed to engrave those words on a monument at the gate of the Imperial College. They also issued a decree to reward Li An, and then announced their withdrawal from the court.

Only then did the officials realize that today they were preparing to make the final report to the officials to determine the candidate for adoption.

However, the officials have already left. They can't bring them back. They can only wait for the next court meeting.

It can be said that Ang Lee's reward this time was entirely due to luck.

If he hadn't helped the official family out of the siege by mistake, the official family might not have agreed to put these words at the gate of the Imperial College, let alone appoint a literary officer.

After Li An learned about it, he worried that he would be resented by civil servants.

Liu Xuewen told him not to worry. To put it bluntly, the officials were just looking for a reason to get angry and scare the officials, and it had nothing to do with him.

Even if there is no such thing, the officials will find other things to get angry about.

However, this incident also pushed Li An to the forefront. Liu Xuewen told him that it was best not to go out during this period except to study at Sheng's house.

This incident spread his name throughout Bianjing, and many scholars went to the teahouse he opened to meet him.

Because Li An didn't go, apart from a little trouble at first, it quickly calmed down.

And this incident also brought him a benefit. Many scholars stayed in the teahouse to listen to books with the idea of ​​​​trying their luck to see if they could wait for him. In the end, they became fascinated by "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

For a time, the teahouse's business was booming, and it was almost full from the time it opened in the morning to the time it closed in the evening.

After Li An learned about it, he quickly asked Shi Lin to restore the original price of snacks and tea, and implemented the minimum consumption requirement.

When the tea house first opened, Li An set the price of tea and snacks relatively high.

However, what is said to the outside world is that tea is free on the first day and snacks are half price.

Calculated, it is a bit cheaper than many teahouses in Bianjing.

Now that it has recovered, the price of tea and snacks is not much lower than that of several famous teahouses in Bianjing, and people are often scolded for this.

However, the reputation of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has already been established. In order to listen to the story, these people cursed and still paid.

In just one day, I made more than 20 taels after excluding costs.

This is why the teahouse cannot accommodate more customers.

However, as a result, the number of people in the teahouse was somewhat reduced, so Li An asked Shi Lin to go to the dental shop to hire a few more.

……

Early that morning, when the sky was slightly bright, Li An and Liu Waner took a carriage to the Sheng family.

Looking at Liu Waner who kept yawning, Li An smiled and said: "Sister Waner, you said you sleep well at home, why do you want to study."

"I don't want it. I'm bored to death at home. I can go to Sheng's house to play with Mo Lan." Liu Waner said.

(End of this chapter)