Yang Nian didn't know what Yang Zheng was thinking, today the lord told him that he must rush before the fifth watch, so that Yang Zheng feels outside the palace gate, otherwise he will miss a big event, but there is no good fruit to eat, seeing the always gentle master, he suddenly gave such an order, how not to hurry. For fear of delaying the master's big event.

"Let's go?" Yang Zheng saw that his face was full of anxiety, and he couldn't bear to look at his anxious appearance, so he answered and went out first.

When he first came to the capital, he didn't know much about the rules of the capital, and there was no sedan chair at home, horse-drawn carriages and other substitute tools, he thought he walked to the Forbidden City on two legs, but he didn't want to park a sedan chair outside the door, although in the night, it was still a clear jujube red sedan chair, four sedan chair men stood in front of the door, although he didn't understand many of the rules of Daming, but this rule still understood big, Daming did not allow officials to take a sedan chair to work, Zhu Yuanzhang strictly forbade officials to sit in a sedan chair, and asked them to continue to ride horses. Only the elderly, women, and civil officials of the third rank and above are allowed to sit in the sedan chair with permission. "Golden Vase Plum", a fake story of the Song Dynasty, is actually a novel that describes the customs of the Ming Dynasty, Ximenqing, as a military attaché, always rides a horse; Ordinary civil servants sit in sedan chairs; In terms of the common people, we saw that Chen Jingji, Ximenqing's son-in-law, a flat-headed commoner, always rode a "head", which was actually a donkey. There is a strong contrast between Ximenqing's tall horse and Chen Jingji's lewd donkey. This is the contrast between the status of the government and the people.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang strongly forbade ordinary officials and male ordinary people to sit in sedan chairs, Zhu Yuanzhang was still extremely sympathetic to officials, and once said to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty: "Etiquette is greater than other noble and lowly, Ming and other prestige, and now the political secretary and the judge are all important ministers; The state capital and county officials, the people's teacher rate. Wen Duo rode donkeys in and out, and he was very obedient. Its commander is the city horse". That is to say, Emperor Zhu thought that it was a loss of dignity for officials to ride donkeys to work. However, the officials of the Ming Dynasty, when the emperor bought them horses, they were already sitting in a sedan chair, and there was no majesty in riding a horse. Three grades or more and Beijing officials, the top of the sedan chair with silver, the sedan cover, the sedan cloth with soap, four sedan chair drivers in Beijing, eight sedan chair drivers when leaving Beijing; There are two sedan chairs for civil officials below the fourth grade, and the top of the sedan chair is made of tin. eight governors and governors of the province; four officials below the division, the provincial level, and the teaching level or above; Miscellaneous jobs on horseback. There are eight ministers with more than three sedan chairs. These sedan chair officials mainly refer to civil officials, and as for military positions, even if they are official to the first rank, they are not allowed to sit in sedan chairs, and can only ride horses. Generals, admirals, commanders, and other generals who are over seventy years old and cannot ride horses must ask for permission in advance if they want to sit in a sedan chair. Ordinary officials who go out for a long distance will take another sleeping sedan chair, which will be used in a sedan chair that can be used as a bed. This kind of sedan chair is a bit larger than the ordinary sedan chair. When officials travel in sedan chairs, they also have to sound gongs to open the way, and there are strict regulations on the sound of gongs to open the road. The county travels and rings the gong seven times, which means "the military and civilians are all out of the way"; The prefect sounded the gong nine times when he traveled, which means "the officials, the soldiers, and the people are all out of the way"; Yang Shiqi is a waiter of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of the Huagai Palace, and a member of the Imperial Court of the Ministry of War. “

"This is a bit out of order, isn't it?" Yang Zheng asked cancan.

Yang Nian said: "My lord said, Lord Yang will sit sooner or later, and it doesn't matter if you sit down, and today is a special matter, special treatment?" ”

"It's thoughtful, anyway, Yang Shiqi still has twenty years of power, and no one dares to bite his tongue in the future, unless he doesn't want to mix in officialdom?" At the moment, he didn't say much, he bowed his head and walked over, the sedan chair man led by him hurriedly opened the curtain, and let Yang Zheng in with a respectful face, although they are sedan chair men, but on weekdays with Yang Shiqi in and out, his eyesight is still not bad, and Yang Shiqi can be so valued by Yang Shiqi, there are few who can use their own special sedan chair to pick up people, that is the first time, it can be seen that the young man in front of him who is smiling and smiling, making people feel like a spring breeze, has a high status in front of his own master, and they don't want to offend.

"The subordinate of the official family is Su zhì Gao?" Yang Zheng has the feeling of riding a BMW to work in his previous life.

The sedan chair has a bit of a simple feeling from the outside, but you can sit in it and take a look, the space is huge, the quality of the curtains is also excellent, all kinds of decorations are the most popular styles at the moment, Yang Zheng has a bit of luxury car, carefully put the butt on the soft seat, immediately felt soft like a quilt, and said: "No wonder we have a Ming Dynasty, officials have been repeatedly banned from sitting in a sedan chair, there is such a comfortable sedan chair, who wants to ride a horse, hot days and deaths, cold deaths in winter, and can't sleep back to the cage, in the final analysis, I still enjoy being weird, was thinking wildly, and heard Yang Nian whisper: "Lord Yang, there will be a while to go to the palace, you might as well sleep in it, and then call you when you get to the palace villain?" “

"That's what the little nephew means?" He smiled and said, "Thank you Uncle Yang for reminding me, I know."

He was really a little sleepy, and the sedan chair of these four people was trembling, which was the best for sleeping, and after walking a few steps, he could hear a thunderous snoring inside.

Yang Nian heard it in his ears, and said in his heart: "This Lord Yang has a very wide heart, people go to the early court, isn't his face full of nervousness, he is better to fall asleep, is it really a bit of a backbone?" ”

I don't know how long I slept, but I could hear Yang Nian whispering in front of the window: "Lord Yang, Lord Yang is about to wake up, it's time for noon?" ”

Yang Zheng woke up quietly, opened the curtain and glanced at it, and said in a low voice: "It's not dawn yet, I'll sleep for a while?" ”

Yang Nian was taken aback, and said in his heart: "This Lord Yang is really not small, how can there be a reason to continue sleeping at noon!" He hurriedly shouted again.

After the Ming Dynasty from Yongle, it was basically the beginning of the morning dawn to go to the court, and the benefits were self-evident: "One is the holy bow to the Qingming, the second is the court weather is strict, the third is the attendant guards to avoid fatigue, can rectify the court, the fourth is that the civil and military officials will not be slack, can manage government affairs, the fifth bell is knotted, can be heard in a city, and the sixth is a period of introduction, which can be admired by the outside." In one fell swoop, the world will praise the Shengming", so that the officials suffered, in order to go to the early dynasty, many officials simply chose a house in the south of the city to live in order to facilitate the early dynasty, "such as the east and west Chang'an Street, the court officials live the most."

Every morning before the stars and the moon disperse, you must rush to the imperial city and walk into it from the east and west Chang'an gates.

The imperial court also knew that the officials worked hard in the early dynasty, and in order to facilitate the officials to wait for the court to "wait for leakage", there were many court houses built in the imperial city, and the officials sat here according to their ranks. As a gift to the close ministers, "the close servants of the yamen, the end of the gate each have a (special) straight room". To the south of the right gate, it is a straight room of brocade clothes; The next three rooms are Hanlin straight rooms, when waiting for the dynasty, the university scholars live in the north wing, the bachelors are in the wing, and the rest are in the south wing. In addition, there are five straight rooms on the left side of the end door, also known as "board room", which is the place where the Zhan Shifu, the left and right spring squares and the officials of the Department of Economic Affairs are waiting for the court. Therefore, although it was the fifth watch, there were already many officials, large and small, waiting outside the noon gate.

The noon gate is the main gate of the Forbidden City, there are three ques, the middle is the royal road, it is not often opened, and the left and right two ques are used to enter and exit when the general and the guard hold the staff and flag; And the left and right sides of the two open a door, called the left and right door, for the hundred officials to enter the court. The name of the upper floor of the noon gate is "five phoenixes", and the bell and drum are set up, which are in charge of the eunuch of the bell and drum division, reminding the court and the time of going out of the court.

Yang Zheng glanced at the officials surging in front of the noon gate, although it was at night, he could clearly see that under all kinds of court clothes, all kinds of rare and exotic beasts flashed around, which made people dazzled, and at the same time there was a feeling of "dancing with beasts".

Before he got off the sedan chair, he saw Yang Shiqi, Hu Ying, and Guo Zhong greet him, and the three of them were followed by a middle-aged man Yang Zheng had never seen.

Yang Zheng glanced at it a few times and said, "My day, is there anyone more handsome than me in this world?" Dare to ask Brother Taigao's surname? ”

Everyone was stunned and then laughed, Guo Zhong and he returned to the capital all the way, and had a good impression of him, and then hurriedly introduced: "This adult's surname is Zhou, his name is Chen, and now he is the governor of Yuefu!" As he spoke, he said Zhou Chen's resume like a few treasures.

Zhou Chen's words are like two cliffs, Jiangxi Jishui people. Yongle two years of Jinshi, choose Shu Jishi. Invited into the Wenyuan Pavilion, and repaired the "Yongle Canon" and so on. Director of the Penal Department, Outside the Staff. Although he has a talent in the world, he has been in the office for 20 years and has not been promoted. Xia Yuanji knew that Yongle recommended the history of the governor of Yue Mansion in the 22nd year, and was well-known for his good financial management, and was valued by Xia Yuanji, and wanted to push out his love in this court meeting.

"Zhou Chen——?" Yang Zheng muttered a few times, suddenly his eyes lit up, and said, "You, you are the self-created "square meter method". Square meters of thoughtfulness? “

In the middle school of the previous life, when the Ming Dynasty's enslavement system was mentioned many times in the history textbooks, the "square meter method" was always mentioned, and the transportation and requisition of grain was a very difficult and thorny problem in the field endowment system at that time. At that time, the grain from the south of the Yangtze River was transported to Beijing, and there were military and civilian movements. In the democratic movement, the burden of transporting the people is quite heavy, "the military ships give the officials, the people go to the boats, and they are miscellaneous, and the rate is three stones to one stone, and they go back and forth for many years, and they lose agriculture." ”

Zhou Chen discussed with Chen Xuan, the governor of Caoyun, to exchange the grain from Jiangnan to the Cao army for transportation, and the specific method was: the people transported it to Huai'an or Guazhou for water exchange, and then the Cao army transported it to Tongzhou. Each stone of grain is transported to Huai'an, and five buckets of grain are consumed, and five buckets of grain are transported to Guazhou, and five buckets and five liters are consumed. The officers and soldiers of the Jiangnan Guard Station directly transported it to the nearby warehouse, and added two buckets of rice across the river, and paved the reed mat fee of five he. With this method, the peasants not only saved costs but also made it convenient, and the Cao army also benefited.

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