Chapter 103 Are sweet potatoes delicious?(1/2)
The officials also knew what Li Zhi, Jiangdongzhi, and Yang Keli said.
The three of them are Shen Shixing's mortal enemy, and their evaluation of Lin Yanchao is so high. But now Lin Yanchao is a lecturer and is highly appreciated by the emperor. They can no longer touch Lin Yanchao, so it is okay to create some discussion.
As for Xu Zhenming, he was also sad. He had no thighs to support him, so he could only rely on Li Zhi, Jiangdongzhi and others. Li Zhi, Jiangdongzhi and others to support him. Didn’t he deliberately wipe out Lin Yanchao’s majesty and suppress his current momentum?
However, it cannot be said that it is useless. The officials in the court have recently talked much less about Lin Yanchao's achievements in Guide's water management. Instead, taking advantage of Xu Zhenming's rise, they have taken away the original gaze that was looking at Lin Yanchao.
The Hanlin Academy is a place where it is not easy to achieve results.
After too long, Lin Yanchao's outstanding achievements in water control such as Guide will finally gradually calm down in the discussions of officials. The emperor will regard it as usual, and time will cover up the original light.
Li Zhi's words reached the ears of many officials.
Of course they are all small circles inside Qingliu, but there are Lin Yanchao's own people in this small circle.
Lin Yanchao handed the gift to the eunuch in the palace in front of the Meridian Gate, and then looked at the banquet pictures. The order of the banquet and service squad seemed to be unrelated to outsiders, but for officials, it was absolutely impossible to make mistakes at once, and each time they moved one place forward, it felt like a process of a meeting in a later generation to get closer to the rostrum step by step.
When Lin Yanchao was looking at the banquet picture, Gu Xiancheng walked up to him and said a few words. It seemed that the two of them were laughing and chatting, but Lin Yanchao already knew about it.
After Gu Xiancheng left, another official came soon after.
This person is Zhong Yuzheng, who is a clerk in the rituals and is a party of censors. However, he was also a Jinshi in the eighth year of Wanli and was in the same year as Lin Yanchao. The two of them had occasional contacts, but they did not have deep relationships.
But when he saw him pulling Lin Yanchao together, he saw no one around and said a few words.
He was consistent with Gu Xiancheng's statement. Before he could deliver the bucket of sweet potatoes, Li Zhi had already made him look bad.
Li Zhi always spared no effort to attack Shen Shixing's party. Even generals like Pan Jixun, Xu Xuemo, and Gao Qiyu were defeated by him one by one. Shen Shixing and Yang Wei, the Minister of Personnel, were forced to resign from the emperor by him.
Now that he is too popular, his young master who has never been important has become the vanguard of the Shen Party, which has already made Li Zhi afraid.
But it is impossible to defeat himself, because he has the holy favor, so he first destroys his reputation and reduces the emperor's trust in him.
As for Xu Zhenming, the Qingliu Party, Li Zhi, was introduced to fight against him and find a way to suppress him.
Of course, what Li Zhi said is not without reason. Giving sweet potatoes from thousands of miles away is easy to remind people of Hua Shigang. As for letting Xu Zhenming play against him, they are also competing with their dignified strength.
The Qingliu Party claims to be a gentleman, and this method of dealing with people seems to be open and upright on the surface. As for what else is shameful, I don’t know.
Lin Yanchao nodded to Zhong Yuzheng. Zhong Yu was unable to figure out whether Lin Yanchao would like to thank or not.
The Great Chaoyi will begin later.
The Great Chaoyi is an imperial palace discussion, not the imperial sect originally outside the Huangji Gate.
Emperor Kangxi liked the Imperial Gate to dominate the government very much, but the place where the Imperial Gate to dominate the government during the Qing Dynasty was in the Qianqing Gate, while the Ming Dynasty was in the Huangji Gate.
The officials lined up and entered Huangji Gate.
Hanlin shift lectures are above Shangbao Session Shaoqing, the historian is below Shangbao Session Shaoqing, and the Shangbao Session Chief
Originally, Lin Yanchao's shift was very late, so it would be fine if he didn't mention it, but now he can talk about it in detail.
The Duke, Martial and Military Generals did not mention the first rank of the civil servants, and the total number of ranks of the 18th ranks of the civil servants was from the first rank to the ninth ranks of the eighteenth ranks.
At the beginning are the Three Dukes and Three Divisions. After Shen Shixing was appointed as the Grand Tutor, he was already the leader of civil officials, so of course he stood in the first row.
Then, according to the grade, one rank and one rank, the first is the rank, and the next is the yamen. For example, the Minister of Personnel must be the head of the Minister of Revenue, and the Secretary of the Six Ministers are the head of the Censorate of the Censorate of the Censorate of the Censorate.
What if it is the same rank and the same yamen? For example, the assistant minister, the left assistant minister must be before the right assistant minister.
In the Hanlin Academy, the bachelor's attending lecturer was preceded by the bachelor's attending lecturer.
Of course, this was the rule before Longqing Nian, and later it was not followed.
The reason is that there are two levels of officials who are not easy to rank, one is the Censor and the other is the Hanlin. The Censor has a low rank but has great power. The Hanlin has a low rank now, but has great power in the future.
The saying "Don't bully the young and poor" is specially designed for Hanlin.
Later, the rules were further destroyed and he became a servant (Hanlin, Honglu Temple, Shangbaosi, and Six Certificates), and Feng Xianguan (Censor) was not ordered.
When Lin Yanchao was studying, he was at Shaoqing of Shangbao Si (Fifth Century).
Now he is a post-school scholar, and he is under the Imperial College Priest (from the fourth rank) and above the Tongzhengsi (from the fourth rank).
As the bachelor of the Academy and Xu Xianqing, who was in charge of the Zhan Shifu, Zhang Wei was above the Chief Censor (the fourth rank).
This shows how the attendant Yue Ban disrupted the original order of the class. The rank in the officialdom can no longer represent the real power, and it is not as reliable as the order of the class of the prefecture.
Now Lin Yanchao is the first stop of the Imperial College Priest Zhao Zhigao, the lower one is Chen Yubi, Yu Shenxing, the left-handed political secretary Wei Shiliang, and the new Tongzheng Secretary Wei Yunzhen.
In addition to the Censorate, all the fourth-rank officials of the Great Nine Ministers stood at Lin Yanchao's lower head. For example, Shaoqing of Taipu Temple, Li Zhi, who had just blackened Lin Yanchao, had to stand at his lower head.
Therefore, from the preface of the court, the status of the lecturer in the officialdom is above the fourth rank and below the third rank.
This is still among the officials in Beijing. If it is placed in the foreign officials, let alone.
After the great court meeting, the emperor accepted all officials to congratulate the New Year at Huangji Hall, and then all officials offered tribute to the emperor, but this process was omitted, and the emperor would not give gifts to each official.
Only the officials who gave banquets in the hall would personally present gifts to the emperor in the Jianji Temple.
This official who is qualified to go to the palace to drink with the emperor Yanshen is the same as usual, a third-rank or above Hanlin, and a fifth-rank or above Hanlin. He is qualified to sit in the palace.
Judging from the qualifications for banquets, the bachelor of lecturers has further reached the position of third-rank.
Lin Yanchao finally obtained the qualification to sit in the hall, instead of sitting outside the hall all day long.
But among the big bosses in the hall, Lin Yanchao could only sit in the corridor outside the hall gate. Yes, this is also sitting in the hall.
In addition to the honorary, military officers and officials in the hall gate, there are only Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, the Six Ministers and Nine Ministers, and the Supreme Court of Shuntian Prefecture.
As for Zhang Wei, Zhao Zhigao was also the one who was Xiao Jiuqing, but his rank was not as high as he could only sit in the corridor with Lin Yanchao. However, the Minister of the Honglu Temple, who was also Xiao Jiuqing, did not have the qualifications to sit in the corridor.
The last time the officials outside the Jianji Hall inspected and held a banquet, the Governor and other officials sat in the hall, and the hall was still spacious, but this time the New Year's Day banquet was given, the hall was full of seats, but the specifications were much higher than the last time.
The banquet was given by Jianji Temple, of course, in separate meals.
The emperor gave three auxiliary ministers (Wang Jiaping did not have) the treasures.
The Supreme Master is the fine wine on the emperor's imperial table, and the precious dishes are nine dishes on the imperial table, three ministers and eight dishes.
The remaining officials had seven dishes.
Lin Yanchao nodded. This year was really much better than before, adding five dishes to seven dishes.
Then it's playing an optimistic dance.
Lin Yanchao sat in the seat, pouring himself and drinking, and from time to time, he raised his glasses with the officials who were frozen in the corridors.
Then the music and dance stopped and the ministers offered gifts to the emperor.
Lin Yanchao could see clearly outside the door. Xu Wenbi, Duke of Ding, gave a jade tree. The tree was carved with jade embellishments and was dazzling. Li Wei, the Boss of Wuqing, sent a treasure ship made of gold to the emperor. The treasure ship looked golden and shining.
As for civil servants, they dare not be like meritorious officials. Shen Shixing gave a copybook, Wang Xijue gave a Japanese knife, Hai Rui gave an ordinary pen holder, and other ministers gave it to me with amazing jewelry.
The emperor was very satisfied with Duke Ding and Wu Qingbo's gift. He was very interested and raised his glass to drink from time to time. He stopped the cup until the censor reminded him. At this time, when Hai Rui gave the pen holder, the emperor froze, looked at Shen Shixing, and then smiled and said, "In the past three years, I have received three pen holders from Haiqing. People call Haiqing the Bike Mountain. What's the point of sending Bike Mountain to me?"
Hai Rui replied: "Report to Your Majesty, people in the world call themselves Hai Bijia, and think they are honest, but I don't agree. However, after Your Majesty appointed me to governor Yixue, I thought that Bijia was a sign of prosperity for me."
"Your Majesty is rich in the world and seeks rare jewelry in the world, but gold and silver things cannot be eaten and drunk. The Bijia Mountain I gave can at least hold a pen. This Bijia Mountain is of great value to me, but I want to present this thing to Your Majesty, because I have never heard of reading and literacy, which can make people lose their ambitions, and I have never heard of establishing cultural education and education, which can make the national treasury deficit."
The emperor couldn't hold on his face anymore, and the plate on the table swayed gently.
The ministers were all worried about Hai Rui, and Lin Yanchao directly supported his forehead outside the hall.
After a while, the emperor said, "Haiqing said it well. I will accept this holder. I hope Haiqing will give me a holder every year to wake me up."
After hearing the emperor said this, all the officials breathed a sigh of relief.
Hai Rui’s incident is just a small episode.
It was finally Lin Yanchao's turn to offer gifts.
But when Lin Yanchao stood up and left the seat and went to the hall from outside the door, he spoke, "Report to Your Majesty, I offer you ten kilograms of sweet potatoes to congratulate Your Majesty!"
"Sweet potato?"
Small questions were raised on the foreheads of civil and military officials in the court.
The emperor laughed and said, "Lin Qing, what are sweet potatoes? I have only heard of potato shreds and potato taros, are they used for dyeing cloth? Or are they used for food?"
Lin Yanchao said: "Your Majesty is a wise and wise king. These sweet potatoes cannot be dyed with cloth, but they can be eaten as potato taros."
Several of the ministers had heard of Li Zhi's words outside the hall just now. Even if Li Zhi didn't say it, the ministers thought Lin Yanchao offered some rare things to please the emperor.
Many border ministers hope to send all kinds of local tribute to the emperor, if the dragon faces are happy, there will be a bright future.
Is Lin Yanchao giving sweet potatoes for this?
At the same time, in Kunning Palace.
The queen, Concubine Wang Gong and other concubines were drinking with the ministers and wives.
Lin Qianqian also presented sweet potatoes to the queen, concubine Wang Gong and other concubines.
When the queen saw the sweet potato, she smiled and said, "The courtesy of respect is fresh, don't know how to eat it?"
Lin Qian smiled and said, "Report to the Empress, I have tried this sweet potato. It can be used to cook porridge or steam it. Cooking porridge can promote salivation and quench thirst. If you steam it, it will be as sweet as honey."
The queen smiled and said, "Kung Ren is so good at speaking. After hearing this, the Ai family wants to taste it."
Lin Qian smiled and said, "As the lord of the six palaces, the Queen is in the world, and she has never eaten any delicacies. This sweet potato is really hard to enter the elegant hall, so it is okay to taste fresh."
The queen was even more happy to hear this: "What's the matter? Before the Ai family entered the palace, they were also a woman from an ordinary official family. By the way, although the Ai family was in the palace, they had also heard that Gongren and Mr. Lin shared the joys and sorrows and hardships when they were young. Mr. Lin passed the third year of the year, and now he is an important official of the country. You are really a good story."
To be continued...