Music came from outside, accompanied by the noise of people. Sun Mian stood up and said to the two: "I think it's the husbands who are here, let's go out to greet them. By the way, what I just said has been decided like this. You two must do this favor!"

Lu Ge agreed: "Brother Yuangui, don't worry, there will be no one in Zhengzhou to come to Henan Prefecture!"

After seeing this situation, Wang Zhi had to say: "I will send someone back to prepare for the renovation of the old canal in a while. Naturally, no one in Tangzhou can send it. Yuangui is at ease."

"Thank you, thank you! I will definitely give you a good reward in the future!"

"We are in the same year, and since we should support each other, we will see each other if we say anything in return."

While talking, the three of them left the courtyard of the inn.

The Yicheng was so anxious that he saw Sun Mian coming out, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "It turns out that Ms. Sun Tong is so anxious here! The Grandpa Li of Mengzhou and Grandpa Chen of Zhengzhou were here together, and the Supervisor Xuzhou also arrived within ten miles of the city. By the way, the General Liu of the Salt and Iron Department came with the Supervisor Li Zhizhou."

Sun Mian was stunned: "Why is there a judge from the Yan and Iron Department coming? We will discuss the matter with Guan Yan and Iron Department!"

The official secretary spread his hands: "How can I know this when I'm young? Please ask the judge Sun Tong to bring people to greet him quickly."

Sun Mian was suspicious and no one asked, so he had to organize people and prepare to go out for a welcome.

There are Shili Pavilions and Wuli Pavilions on the outskirts of the post road, which are aimed at the welcome and farewell standards of officials of different status. Li Di and Chen Yunzuo are both out of office magistrates and do not need to go out to welcome them for ten or five miles. Sun Mian took his men to welcome them out of the city. As for the comforting envoy Li Zunxu and his party, the specifications are of course not higher than the two former husbands.

As for Xu Ping in the city, every magistrate on Jingxi Road was under his supervision and could not come out to welcome him. As for the Henan magistrate Li Ruogu, as the left-behind Xijing, he was treated second only to the governor of the magistrate, so he would not come out.

At the Transportation Office, Zhong Shiheng bowed his hands to Xu Ping and Yang, "The Xiaguan has checked the ancient canals of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the past two days, and they have been completely silted. It will take a lot of labor to clean it up again."

Xu Ping said: "I naturally know that it is not easy. You guess how many people are needed if the repair is limited to this winter?"

Zhong Shiheng thought for a while before saying, "The officials thought that if there were more than 5,000 people, they were afraid that it would be difficult to accomplish anything."

"Five thousand?" Yang Gao shook his head repeatedly after hearing this, "How many households in Henan Prefecture are there? Apart from the personnel required to maintain the Xijing Imperial Palace and the Yong'an Imperial Mausoleum, where can we draw 5,000 people? It is to count all the old and weak women, and whether we can get together is still between the two!"

Zhong Shiheng smiled bitterly: "The five thousand people are afraid that they will have to be continuously constructed for more than one month. Except for the nearby counties of Luoyang and Henan, at most, the two counties of Xin'an and Shou'an, the other places are too far away from this, and it is too difficult to supply rations. In this way, it is true that so many people cannot be collected no matter what. However, if there are fewer people, they have to divide them into two years and three years to take their time."

Xu Ping waved his hand: "You don't need to worry about money, grain and manpower, just calculate the manpower required. By the way, you'd better make a plan, start from where to start, and do it specifically to avoid a mess. After the plan is completed, write a letter of writing for me and Deputy Envoy Yang."

After hearing this, Zhong Shiheng knew that Xu Ping was going to transfer people from other prefectures and counties, so he hurriedly bowed and said, "Sir, obey the order!"

Xu Ping told Yang: "It's not too early, and the auspicious time has come. You can take people out of the city to welcome you. There are many big people here today, so beware of it and don't lose your etiquette. Most of the magistrates who came here are higher than my official positions. Don't neglect them!"

Yang Qiao bowed: "Du Cao, don't worry, the lower officials know that they will definitely not lose the face of Cao Cao."

After saying that, he went outside to recruit people, prepared a ceremony guard, and went to the inn outside the city to welcome the people who came to attend the rally today.

At this moment, the public officials outside reported that several magistrates had already arrived at the Transportation Commission Office.

Yang Gao did not dare to neglect, so he hurriedly took Zhong Shiheng out.

Xu Ping was also a little confused about his current clues, so he had to drink tea in the chief's hall and wait slowly.

The same provincial government has different levels. The provincial military branch has many levels of training, defense, military governor, etc., and according to the number of household registrations under the rule, it is divided into several levels. There are also Jingfu, which has a higher status. For example, Henan Prefecture is the Jingfu, although under the West Jingfu Road, Henan Prefecture has a higher status than the Transportation Office.

Among the prefectures, Jieduzhou and Governors were both Dafan. They were often important officials of the court to serve as governors in these places, especially Governors. Governors generally had positions above the waiting system or above the two major provinces. Xu Ping’s current official position may not be higher than them. This principle is similar to Xu Ping’s previous life, which was also a prefecture-level city, and was divided into general prefecture-level cities, provincial capitals, sub-provincial cities, independent cities, and municipalities directly under the central government. Unlike that era, the Transportation Envoy Department was not a formal administrative level, and the official position of the Transportation Envoy was far inferior to that of the provincial chiefs at that time. In fact, those who were sent to the dispatcher often had small officials outside the court to take over power, which the central government used to restrain the local government.

Xu Ping has been promoted very quickly this year and has become one of the top small groups of officials. In addition to the three border routes, he has the highest official position among the three routes. But the place where he is now an official is Jingxi Road, an important place in the Central Plains, and there are many important state troops under his rule, but in fact, he is still a small official in charge of power.

After not long after, Yang Gao accompanied several magistrates into the Chief Office, and Xu Ping hurriedly got up to greet him.

The one who walked in front was Zhao He, the governor of Dengzhou. Xu Ping was shocked when he saw it and bowed, "Why did the counsel come so early? Deputy Envoy Yang was about to take people out of the city to greet him. If you don't want you to go to the yamen."

Zhao He smiled and shook his head: "All things are complicated today, so I won't have to waste my heart. I rushed over and saved a lot of effort. You and I will work together on Jingxi Road in the future, and there is no need for these common etiquettes."

Xu Ping made a few polite words and greeted Zhao Xu, the governor of Ruzhou, Wang Zhi, the governor of Tangzhou, Wang Zhi, the governor of Caizhou, and others, gave up their seats, and ordered the public officials to serve tea.

The other three prefectures had low positions and did not dare to let the Transportation Commission go out to welcome him. It would be fine if Zhao He came here by himself. Logically, Zhao He should have waited for the inn outside the city. Dengzhou was Nanyang County, the governor of Wusheng Army, and one of the few great prodigal officials under the rule of Jingxi Road. Zhao He's original official was the right censor and the two major provincial officials, and was above Xu Ping.

Yuanwailang and Langzhong were two provincial officials, meaning that during the Tang Dynasty, they both belonged to the two provincial officials and the ministers and the ministers, and their official ranks were under the fifth rank. Officials with the fifth ranks of the two provincial officials, including the right Sanqi Changshi, the right censor, the right censor, the left censor, the left censor, and the ministers were called the two provincial officials. As for the higher two provincial officials, the Shangshu and the ministers were called "Six Ministers II". In this era, they were generally promoted by the prime minister, such as Chen Yaozuo, as the minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Xu Ping is now the right lieutenant, but he has taken a big step to advance to the right censorship doctor next step, and he needs to work hard and cannot be promoted for a long time.

After drinking tea and listening to a few words, Xu Ping understood what Zhao He meant. He was a right-hand counselor. He said that he had a high status in both provinces, but he really couldn't bear to be with them, facing Li Di and Chen Yaozuo, the two former prime ministers, Li Di and Chen Yaozuo. He was the consolation envoy behind Li Zunxu, who was also a subordinate, and the governor of Ningguo Army, could be used as a decent gesture.

Xu Ping sighed in his heart, he was not a close relative of the foreign minister. If he wanted to truly have a status in the officialdom, he still had to be the prime minister. Zhao He now has only one step away from the prime ministers. After all, he was surnamed Zhao, but he was still ashamed to meet others.

Yang Zhao said a few politely, and hurriedly took the ceremonial guard out of the city to welcome the three remaining prefects, and few of the civil and military officials in the court could surpass them, and they had to be polite and considerate.

It was almost noon before Li Di, Chen Yaozuo and Li Zunxu came into the city. In addition to the judge of the salt and iron, Liu Han, there was also Wang Gongchen, who was responsible for the field affairs of the camp, which made the ignorant of the magistrates puzzled him very much.

This time it was a joint discussion on Jingxi Road. Why did Xu Ping bring two officials from the court? The two officials were not far away, but the imperial court interfered in local affairs like this, so local officials felt instinctively uncomfortable.

When everyone sat down, Li Ruocong arrived late. Although he was in the same city, today's landlord was the Transportation Commission and Henan Prefecture was also a guest. It was already good that he had not waited for Xu Ping to send someone to welcome him.

Seeing that it was not early, Xu Ping ordered tea and meals to eat, and everyone would eat some casually and cushion their stomachs first. In this era, there was no such meal as lunch, and at noon, it would just eat some casually so as not to be inactive in the afternoon.

After finishing the tea and meal, the public official retreated. Xu Ping said: "While it was early, let's talk about business here. After an hour or two, I prepared some wine in the back yamen to cleanse the wind and dust for you."

The yamen talks about things, one hour of serious business, two hours of eating and drinking, which is a good efficiency. Moreover, all the magistrates come from afar and do not have the reason to go back on the same day, so they have to talk for three or five days. Not only is there enough time to talk about serious business, but they also have time to travel around.

Xu Ping coughed lightly: "I came to the West Jing Road to take office. According to the principle, I should meet the supervisors. I should visit me, but now the season is here. I have to build a canal that leads Luo to Bian. I can't wait, so I have to let you come to Xijing. By the way, Jia Ti encountered a small accident on the road to Zhengxing and needed to arrive tomorrow. We will just talk about it briefly today."
Chapter completed!