Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 452: New Year's Banquet
"Another fairy island overseas was discovered by the navy, and it turned out to be a good place on earth"...
"A state of fertile land hangs over the East China Sea, please come and taste it"...
"Three candidates for governor have been finalized. Did you guess it right?"...
"Moving to Tanzhou, the first step to becoming a gentry"...
"Shocked! A native woman from Tanzhou actually wears this kind of thing?"...
In the second year of the Chuli period , starting from Jinling, the official gazettes of the surrounding counties had already published information about the reclamation of Danzhou on the New Year's Day.
Because nowadays there is more than one kind of Jinling's official bulletin, and the wording used is different, but generally speaking, they all want to attract people to open up new areas overseas.
Other counties will also fully publicize this matter within half a month.
Including the selection of three governors, the positioning of Tanzhou, the support for folk land reclamation, and the benefits of going to Tanzhou...
According to the plans of the three governors, the first five years were for the Chu state to send manpower and material resources to Danzhou, five years were for the initial land reclamation and construction, and for the initial "civilization" of the local people.
In the next five years, through incentives, we will attract no less than 500,000 civilian immigrants and basically complete the civilisation of the locals…
As a result, ten years later, there were more than one million immigrants in Danzhou, and the natives were basically naturalized, becoming no different from the Han people.
Of course, they have more specific plans. Half a month later, the three governors will start their journey to Tanzhou with the officials of their respective governor's offices, the first reclamation corps led by Jiang Qin, and experts in geology, hydrology, forestry, agriculture, fisheries and other fields from the Ministry of Industry.
Therefore, one of the themes of this year's New Year's banquet is to bid farewell to the pioneers who will go to Tanzhou.
Bai Tu specially arranged Jiang Wan, Bing Yuan, Yi Ji, and Jiang Qin to the positions closest to the main seat, far better than their normal official positions.
The scholars sent by the Ministry of Works were also invited to attend the King of Chu's New Year's Banquet this year.
At the beginning of the banquet, Bai Tu first "drank" a cup of wine to talk about the development of Danzhou, which further conveyed this signal to others.
The other seat, which was obviously much closer to the front than the previous one, belonged to the Palace Censor of the State of Chu...
According to the official system of the Chu State, the Palace Attendant Censor was just a subordinate official of the Censorate, ranking below the Grand Censor and the Chief Censor.
The Censorate itself was a supervisory agency, whose main function was to supervise and impeach officials. Its powers and responsibilities were similar to those of the Censorate before the Zhenguan period in history - it did not have the power to enforce the law or to judge.
However, in addition to being able to report matters to the King of Chu, the Censorate itself has the power of investigation, and the Chief Censor has the power to summon officials below the rank of two thousand stones for questioning. If the King of Chu agrees, he can even summon any official for questioning.
The scope of the inquiry is limited to the abuse of power by officials. If it is other illegal acts, it needs to be transferred to the Ministry of Justice for handling.
The official rank of the Censorate was not high, and the Chief Censor only had an official salary of 800 stones. Like the "Inspector" before the abolition of the governorship and the establishment of the prefecture, both were in the position of the lower supervising the higher.
Even so, the Censorate is the official that other departments least like to deal with...
Of course, the identity of the "Palace Attendant Censor" who was sitting ahead of the Grand Censor was somewhat special. Not only was he a Censor who was not too afraid of by a few officials, but also, contrary to his rank, he sat very close to the King of Chu.
The reason why officials were not very afraid of him was that he was the only censor who would not "make trouble for no reason" - Cao Pi.
That's right, because Cao Pi is already seventeen years old, according to the current relationship between Chu and Wei, it is not impossible for Bai Tu to continue to detain Cao Pi, but he also has the moral responsibility to teach and train Cao Pi.
In addition... for some well-known reasons, Cao Pi's treatment has been significantly improved in recent months, and he was also appointed as the Palace Censor.
Because he was an official of the Censorate, from the perspective of the State of Chu alone, Cao Pi was already half a level lower in rank - he could not command anyone, but he would not be afraid of anyone either.
In theory, the functions of the "Palace Attendant" censor were to cover court ceremonies, internal affairs of the Jiangshan Garden, and officials in the capital, and he was a censor who was relatively close to the King of Chu.
How close are they? There are two imperial censors in the palace, who can enter and leave Jiangshan Garden at ordinary times. The other one is Ni Heng...
However, given Cao Pi's status, he would certainly not monitor the officials of Chu for no reason!
Xiahou Juan was still sitting at the same table with Cao Pi at this time. In theory, he was a deputy envoy, but he usually stayed in the post station and had not yet been officially admitted to the Chu Palace.
Mainly waiting for the dowry from Wei State...
Although in theory there is no need for a ceremony to take a concubine and one can just bring her directly into the palace, Xiahou Juan had a special status after all and was recognized by Cao Cao as a member of the royal family, so there were some rules to follow.
On the one hand, he cooperated with Xiahou Yuan and supported Xiahou Juan. On the other hand, he also made the "Chu-Wei Alliance" clear to other princes, mainly to the forces supporting the Han Dynasty.
As a result, Zhang Yang has not gone to the posthouse to "care" about Cao Pi and Sima Lang recently...
Although his "backer" Lu Bu was definitely much more powerful, since Xiahou Juan was already the princess, he didn't want to make things difficult for Lu Bu. After all, Lu Bu was still the queen's father. Those who didn't know might have thought that there was a discord between the princess and the queen.
Who can blame my niece for not being able to help at all...
Lu Lingqi, who was more than six months pregnant, only appeared with Bai Tu for a while before the banquet began, and soon went back to the backyard to rest.
After Bai Tu had his own feast, he specially called Cao Pi, who was not far away, to come over.
"Zihuan should have gotten used to living in Jinling, right? Is there any woman you like?" Bai Tu asked directly.
Cao Pi felt depressed when he heard this - listen...you're "used to it"?
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I am deeply immersed in studying and have hardly interacted with women." Cao Pi acted as if "I am here to study."
Cao Pi also thought that if the situation changed in two years, perhaps the State of Wei would take him back on the pretext of "returning to his hometown to get married."
"The Lu family has a legitimate daughter, Lu Ling, who is eighteen years old. She is close to your age... Of course, she is still young now. If you are interested, you can get in touch with her. In two years, I can help you arrange this marriage!" Bai Tu said generously.
"Pi still wants to read more books while he is still young..." Cao Pi wanted to refuse again.
However, Bai Tu interrupted directly and said, "That's perfect! Lu Ling from the Lu family is only eighteen years old. She has already passed the imperial examination and ranked second, but she just didn't accept the appointment. You can let her tutor you then."
Cao Pi: ...
Bai Tu really didn't lie. Lu Ling was the granddaughter of Lu Kang and the daughter of Lu Jun. Lu Ling had indeed participated in the imperial examination before, and when she first registered, Lu Kang didn't know about it. It was his son Lu Jun who directly recommended her. Because of Lu Kang's merits, although Lu Jun's official position was not high, he was granted the title of Guannei Hou, so he was also qualified to recommend.
When Lu Kang found out later, he was so angry that he hit Lu Jun twice with his cane.
How could he not know what Lu Jun was thinking?
But Lu Kang also knew that Bai Tu actually had no idea about female officials. The reason he supported the female imperial examination was simply to promote female officials...
If you can be like Xu Rong, with outstanding abilities or something special, and can stay in the center , then you still have some chances if you make some efforts yourself.
However, Lu Kang also knew how capable his granddaughter was, and it would be a stretch for her to get second place!
Otherwise, why did Lu Kang recommend the Xu family's daughter in the first place?
Finally, after the results were announced, Lu Jun was forced to resign before the official selection...
After all, the second-class rank will be demoted to the local level. If she is the daughter of an ordinary family, she may be very happy, because at least she can be the chief historian of one of the six departments at the county level. However, it is nothing to the Lu family, and she is also a granddaughter. Lu Kang is reluctant to let her go. He is also old and is very protective of his daughter, so he has no time to "show the advancement of the Lu family."
