Without a new day, New Year's Day is the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The ancients considered the age of vain.

On New Year's Day, when Zi is twenty-five years old today, it is also the 14th year that he has ruled the world.

Last year, the imperial court relied on Li Chengliang to win a great victory in Liaodong, and the border affairs in Yunnan were pacified. The Burmese King Xian Dayi asked for surrender, and Pan Jixun and Lin Yanchao successfully managed the water in the Yellow River.

For the emperor, this can be said to have both civil and military achievements.

If the entire Ming Dynasty was supported by Zhang Juzheng for ten years before the Emperor reign, then after Zhang Juzheng, the emperor took power in charge. In the past three years, the emperor felt that he had delivered a good answer.

So this New Year's Day banquet was held in a particularly grand manner (it's time to brag about it).

The imperial city was decorated with fresh decorations, and various colorful satin hangings were hung. Flowers and trees were dotted with the palace city like money. The craftsmen in the palace deliberately exuded a prosperous atmosphere of flowers and cooking oil with fire.

However, before this banquet, there was a small episode. The emperor wanted to hold such a feast and let Guanglu Temple prepare for it, which was extravagant. So a censor wrote a letter saying that last year, military affairs were repeatedly caused by floods, and the Yellow River was flooded. Although it had been pacified and no disasters occurred, the national treasury had already suffered a deficit. This Spring Festival banquet should not be extravagant. The emperor should set an example and set an example for the frugality of the people.

The words of this censor were all right, but they wiped out the emperor's interest. So the emperor issued an order saying that the censor made a fuss, gained a reputation for his reputation, dismissed him from office, and later the cabinet came forward to protect him, which was changed to being demoted to the magistrate, so the officials did not dare to give any more opinions.

Lin Yanchao walked past the Daming Gate. This was not the first time he attended the New Year's Day banquet.

New Year's Day is the beginning of the year and the beginning of January, so the New Year's Day banquet is one of the three major banquets in the palace, second only to the suburbs' celebration banquet. It also shows that the emperor wants to show off his civil and military achievements last year, and also shows the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty's world, so this year's New Year's Day banquet is different from usual.

But the process is still the same. As usual, the emperor first accepted worship from the ministers in Fengtian Hall, and then gave banquets to the ministers in Jianji Hall. As for the queen, he gave banquets to the official wife in Kunning Palace.

The destiny women entered the palace from Donghua Gate, while the officials went to Daming Gate.

Lin Yanchao asked Lin Qianqian to take a carriage, first went to the home of Sun Jigao, a colleague of the Hanlin Academy, to pick up his wife, and then asked Lin Qianqian and Sun Jigao to enter the palace together.

This was the matchmaker for Lin Yanshou. Lin Qianqian had a very close relationship with her, so Lin Yanchao asked his wife to enter the palace with Mrs. Sun Jigao, and he hired another carriage.

After arriving at the Daming Gate, Lin Yanchao entered the palace with a bucket of sweet potatoes.

The process of giving a banquet on New Year's Day is that the ministers offer rituals to express their gratitude, and then the emperor rewards all officials and finally gives a banquet.

So this is the opportunity for officials to present gifts to the emperor twice a year.

Of course, as usual, the emperor is rich all over the world. The ministers give gifts to the emperor mainly to express their feelings.

Gifts are mainly about "mind", not about value. If the gift is expensive, everyone will think that with the meager salary of our Ming officials, where did the money you gave comes from?

Even the emperor was afraid that the ministers would compete with each other and explicitly ordered the ministers not to offer valuable rituals.

But what?

It mainly depends on people. Who is the person today?

Good things to be greedy for money!

That's right, that's the word.

So everyone can understand the courtesy of New Year's Day and how the ministers gave gifts.

So Lin Yanchao carried an iron bucket and wrapped it with red paper to seal it. The officials were amazed along the way.

What's the point of Lin Sanyuan?

This gift looks really good?

Lin Yanchao walked all the way, but saw an official bowing to him and saying, "Brother Zong Hainian!"

Lin Yanchao looked like he was a fellow villager and a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue.

Lu Yicheng was the one who learned that he had won the Jinshi class when the exam was released that year and fainted in the classroom.

Lu Yicheng once asked Lin Yanchao that he was appointed as a pedestrian in the pedestrian department. Three years later, he was promoted to Dali Temple's judges. In November last year, he was promoted to doctor of the Ministry of Revenue.

Moreover, he avoided the rotation system of internal and external officials and stayed in Beijing to serve as an official. For Lu Yicheng, who came from a poor family and had a low ranking in the junior high school, he could definitely be called a smooth road to officialdom.

However, among his fellow villagers, his reputation was not very good. It was probably because he praised him and turned against his old friends and ignored him. After becoming an official, he only knew to seek favors.

As for the specific details, Lin Yanchao doesn't know much about it.

Lu Yicheng asked with a smile: "Brother Zong Hainian, what is in this bucket?"

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "It's just a bucket of sweet potatoes."

"Sweet potato?" Lu Yicheng was very surprised.

"Why haven't Brother Nian heard of it? This was transported from his hometown."

Lu Yicheng said: "When did we have these in our hometown? I am ignorant."

Lin Yanchao asked with a smile: "Brother Nian, how long has it been since you came home?"

Lu Yicheng sighed: "I have been an official in Beijing for six years but have not returned home."

"Six years?" Lin Yanchao couldn't help but say in surprise.

Lu Yicheng quickly explained: "It's not that I don't miss it, but you also know that it's not easy to be an official in Beijing. I don't walk around in front of the ministry and Jingqing, for fear that one day, they will forget me or have no use, and let my younger brother be released as an official. After returning home for a few months, there are too many variables. In order not to fail, I will be able to save my family leave."

Lin Yanchao also sighed when he heard this. He had less grudges about his fellow countrymen, and Lu Yicheng was not easy. He had no background in Beijing, so he could only walk around in front of the big guys, be familiar with each other, and smiled. He also had to pay attention to any opportunity to help others, and be careful not to offend anyone. If not, he would not have been able to become a fifth-rank doctor from the eighth-rank pedestrian.

Others said he was trying to get something, but didn’t he run to Shen Shixing Mansion all day long? Even the stone lion in front of Shen Mansion might recognize him.

Lin Yanchao comforted, "It's good to pass this threshold. Now you are a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue. Even if you are on the outside, your rank is not low. Find a chance to go back to your hometown. I remember you and your mother are serving in the hall."

After hearing this during the New Year Festival, Lu Yicheng couldn't help but cry and said on the spot: "Brother Nian really woke up the dreamer. I will go home no matter what this year."

Lin Yanchao nodded.

At this time, Lu Yicheng saw several officials coming to the right and said, "Brother Nian, this is the new Bi Sinong of our Ministry of Revenue. I want to go over and greet you. Let's take a step first. Please don't be surprised."

When he heard that his immediate boss, the Minister of Revenue, came, Lin Yanchao nodded and understood: "Brother Nian is just here."

At that moment, Lu Yicheng immediately smiled and walked quickly to Bi Qiang, the Minister of Revenue, and said, "The doctor Lu Yicheng, please pay homage to the master of the ministry!"

When Lin Yanchao saw that Lu Yicheng's expression changed so quickly, he also lamented how changeable people were.

But not only Lu Yicheng, but officials along the way heard that they were the Minister of Revenue, and now they all came forward to greet them.

Among the six ministers, the Minister of Personnel is the most respected, and the Minister of Revenue is the Minister of Revenue. He holds the Ming Dynasty's money bag, so the officials naturally have to be more flattering.

Lin Yanchao was used to this scene and continued to move forward.

After the ceremony, the Minister of Revenue Bi Qiang, a group of officials gathered behind him.

An official saw that everyone else came to pay homage to the new Minister of Revenue Bi Qiang, but Lin Yanchao walked forward alone, and couldn't help but ask: "Who is this official carrying an iron barrel?"

An official smiled and said, "Brother, this is Lin Sanyuan we talked about before."

"He is the new bachelor of lecturer, and the current Wenzong Lin Sanyuan?" The official was shocked.

"That's right, just now, we are talking about him asking his disciple Guo Mei to write a letter to a letter to raise the question and raise it to a position that is equally important with the meaning of the scriptures."

At this time, an official asked, "Do you know what kind of courtesy is Lin Sanyuan put in the iron bucket?"

The officials looked at him but saw that he was Li Zhi, the young minister of Taipu Temple.

"I don't know?"

"Didn't Dr. Lu talk to Lin Sanyuan just now? I'll find out after asking him."

Now that Lu Yicheng was recruited here, he smiled at everyone and said, "My colleagues, I wonder what you can do to find me?"

"I dare not be a disciple. You, Lord Lu, are now a doctor. I dare not mention the word "teacher" again."

"Brother Li asked you, what is Mr. Lin's gift to the emperor today?"

"See you?" Lu Yicheng pretended to be confused.

"Stop pretending to be confused," Li Zhi scolded Jiang Dongzhi, who was angry with him on the side, "You came with him just now and pointed at the iron drum and said several words. Why didn't he tell you?"

When Lu Yicheng saw Jiang Dong's face sinking. Although he is currently a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue and is on par with Jiang Dong's level, the other party was involved in Feng Bao and the person who was known to the emperor did not dare to offend him.

At this time, Shang Baosi Shaoqing Yang Keli smiled and said, "Mr. Lu didn't treat us as friends, so he refused to say don't force us."

Lu Yicheng immediately said: "A few guys, it's nothing. Lin Xueshi's ritual is just a bucket of sweet potatoes."

Everyone looked at each other.

"What is sweet potato?"

"It's a little local product in our hometown."

All the officials shook their heads and said, "I haven't heard of it."

Yang Keli said in contemplation: "Yes, even in the tributes in Fujian, I have never heard of sweet potatoes. Could this thing be from overseas with a word "Spicy"? Similar to potato taro?"

Li Zhi suddenly said, "I understand."

The officials said wonderingly: "What does Lord Li understand?"

Li Zhi said: "Did you forget it? Yang Yuhuan liked to eat lychees back then, so Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered officials from Lingnan to pass on the post horses and present lychees for Yang Yuhuan. I don't know what the price of this sweet potato is in Fujian? But it's different from thousands of miles to transport it to the capital. How much manpower and material resources does it take? If you like it one day, you will be ordered by officials from Fujian to pay tribute every year. If this continues, it will cost the people and the money you will suffer!"

Everyone knew Li Zhi's words, saying that he was in Heilin Yanchao, but what he said was also reasonable.

An official spoke out: "The emperor likes strange goods now, as we all know. It is fine for officials to compete to pay tribute to strange goods, but today's great scholar Lin pays tribute to the emperor with a sweet potato that he has never heard of before. What is the difference between Song ministers who presented flower stone stalks? Is this what Lin's knowledge of merit?"

Li Zhi said intentionally: "Brother Jiang, you are still a common person now, be careful of your words."

The official's name is Jiang Yinglin, who was Shujishi of the 11th year of Wanli. He said, "Why am I afraid? The worst thing is to leave the house."

But other officials advised: "Lin Sanyuan's character will not do such a thing. Before the truth is revealed, don't make a conclusion."
To be continued...