A Ruckus at the Ministry of Personnel

The Ministry of Personnel. Yang Zhengshan rode up to its gate.

The yamen runners at the entrance hurried forward and asked, "May I ask who Your Excellency is?"

If an ordinary official came to the Ministry of Personnel, these runners naturally would not bother with him. The threshold of the Ministry of Personnel was extremely high, and many officials returning to the Capital to report on their duties inevitably had to spend silver here. Even for the gatekeeping runners, if you did not give a few taels of reward money, you would not even make it through the door.

But Yang Zhengshan was clearly no ordinary official. Though he had only brought a few Personal Attendants and was dressed rather plainly, the plainness was only on the surface.

His robes were all sewn from the finest brocade, his belt woven with gold and inlaid with jade. Even the saddle on Red Cloud's back was made with silk. Most important of all, however, was the jade pendant at his waist, carved with a qilin pattern.

With an outfit like this, anyone with the slightest eye for such things could tell that Yang Zhengshan's status was extraordinary.

This was not that Yang Zhengshan was deliberately flaunting his nobility before others; it was simply that the Yang Family's current status and position did not allow them to be Low-key.

The Yang Family was not short of silver. Naturally, what they wore and used had to be a little refined. There was No Need To pretend to be poor and make themselves look shabby.

"This Old Man is Yang Zhengshan. Is Grand Secretary Zhou here?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Hearing This, the runner quickly bowed and said, "This lowly one greets Marquis. In reply to Marquis, Grand Secretary Yang did not come to the Ministry