Under the Ministry of Rites, there are four divisions of ceremonies, ancestral sacrifices, hosts and guests, and fine meals. Among them, one of the priests, one of the outsiders, three directors of the ceremonial department, two directors of the ancestral sacrifice and the second director of the host and guest, and one director of fine food.

The Yamen of the Ministry of Rites has a Huitong Hall, a Casting and Printing Bureau, and a Teaching Workshop Division. one ambassador and two deputy ambassadors of the Casting and Printing Bureau; There are four ambassadors and eight deputy ambassadors of the four stations of the Huitong Pavilion; There are a number of instructors.

The officials of the Shishiro Office and the chief and deputy ambassadors who did not enter the stream went to the hall one by one to bow down, and the officials and servants under the hall bowed together, which was regarded as an official appearance in front of the new minister.

Lin Haoran faced the officials who came up to pay homage one by one, in addition to Longchi, he had also seen some people at his father-in-law's house in the past, and nodded slightly.

Now that he is the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, he naturally understands the affairs of the Ministry of Rites.

There are four divisions under the Ministry of Rites: the Department of Ceremonial and Cleaning Officials, which is in charge of the ceremony, military ceremony, management of academic affairs, and imperial examinations; The priest of the ancestral sacrifice is in charge of auspicious and murderous affairs; The host and guest clearance department, in charge of the guest ceremony and the reception of foreign guests; The fine food and cleaning officials are in charge of the affairs of the feast and the sacrifice.

It is not difficult to see from the division of labor of these four divisions that the ceremonial and clean officials are precious, the ancestral sacrifice and the host and guest are secondary, and the fine food and clean officials are not so important.

The Casting Seal Division, as the name suggests, is the casting of official seals, and the official seals of all officials in the world are derived from this.

The Tongtong Pavilion is a place for the imperial court to receive foreign guests.

The Jiaofang Division, formerly known as the Jiaofang that began in the Tang Dynasty, was changed to the Jiaofang Department in this dynasty, which was responsible for celebrations and welcoming VIPs to play music, and was also an official brothel with many musicians and official prostitutes.

Compared with the other six ministries, the officials of the Ministry of Rites are obviously not much, and the power is not great. As for financial resources, in addition to the silver input of the Teaching Workshop Division, the Casting and Printing Division and the Tongtong Pavilion are only in and out.

After the officials have received the salute, it is customary for the new ministry officials to give a lecture.

Lin Haoran stood in front of the case and faced the officials present, and also took out the prestige of the ministry to reprimand: "The ministry has just taken office, and it shouldn't have said this, but the official decided to still want to say ugly things in front. I'm afraid you have also heard that during his tenure in the Shuntian Mansion, this official was quite strict with his subordinate officials, and even smashed some people's jobs. ”

The officials under the hall were secretly sweating, and when they heard that he had smashed people's jobs, they knew in their hearts that this was definitely not a good lord, at least more severe than the current Lord Shangshu.

Lin Haoran knew that an official who wanted to do things still needed to hold up some majesty, but he continued expressionlessly: "According to this official, this governing local affairs and handling the affairs of the Ministry of Rites are actually the same reason, that is: each performs his duties and does things seriously. If you can abide by your duties and do things conscientiously, the headquarters will definitely not embarrass you for no reason, but if you dare to disobey the yang and the yin, or deliberately perfunctory to the affairs ordered by the headquarters, then the headquarters will not be lenient! ”

The officials swallowed and spit with difficulty, and they already knew the style of this cold-faced new department, so they bowed down and said: "The lower officials (villains) will abide by the teachings of Uncle Zuo, and will definitely abide by their duties and do things seriously!" ”

"The headquarters is new to the hall, and it is inconvenient to meddle in specific affairs for the time being, so you can go back and get busy!" Lin Haoran's face softened slightly, and he raised his hand lightly with official authority.

The officials such as the Shishiro Office gave another salute and dispersed one after another.

He Bin, the host and guest of honor, did not leave immediately, but asked Lin Haoran: "Uncle Zuo, your reception banquet has been scheduled for today's unitary time, but I don't know if it is arranged in the same hall or the teaching department?" ”

"It's a guild hall!" Lin Haoran glanced at He Bin, but he didn't understand why he asked like this.

Although he did not have much rejection of the Workshop Division, it was always a place with a bad reputation. His dignified Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites took office, but the reception banquet was held in the Teaching Workshop Division, but he was not allowed to be pointed out by his colleagues.

He Bin's face showed a stammering smile, and he even arched his hand: "Then the lower official will arrange it!" ”

Lin Haoran watched He Bin and the others leave, and then turned around and went to the back hall.

Naturally, the Shilang Ya cannot be compared with the Shangshu Ya, there are only the front hall and the back hall here. However, similar to the county government, more than 20 scribes were arranged in front of him to run errands, which were completely under the control of him, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

It is worth mentioning that he can also hire ten errand servants, who are paid ten taels of silver per month by the military department. If he doesn't use it, the money goes straight into his pocket.

Lin Haoran would not save this insignificant amount of silver, so he gave the compilation to Lin Fu and others, whether it was an errand or a work, after all, it was convenient for his own people.

"Uncle Nineteen, this back hall is too poor and sour!" Lin Dazhuang ran to the back hall and took a serious look, watching Lin Haoran come in from outside, and whispered with some disgust.

Lin Fudang even reprimanded: "What do you know, no matter how small this place is, it is not something that ordinary people can come in!" ”

The Yamen of the Ministry of Rites was originally not large, and the Shilang Yamen only occupied a corner of the southwest, which did seem a little childish. However, although the place is small, it is cleaned up, and the scenery of this small courtyard is still eye-catching.

Lin Haoran walked through the courtyard into the signing room, and found that although the place was small, the layout of the inner and outer halls was very exquisite, especially the tables and chairs were all high-quality golden silk nanmu, which was not a grievance.

In fact, compared to the cabinet, the environment here is simply heaven.

Lin Haoran didn't pay too much attention to the office place, but frowned and looked at the words hanging on the wall: Etiquette, the powder of heavenly principles. This comes from "Taigong Liutao", which means: Etiquette is the best powder that God gives people.

This pair of words is undoubtedly very appropriate here, but he doesn't like this nonsense, and prefers pragmatic things, so he asked Lin Dazhuang to take this pair of words off.

He already had an idea in his heart, that is, he asked people to bring a pen and paper and carry a sentence: There are difficulties in the world, and it is easy to do it; If you don't, it's easy and it's hard.

This sentence comes from the Qing Dynasty's "For Learning", but in this era, it is already his first creation.

Since he had just taken office and was not the official in charge of the seal, he had nothing to do.

Lin Haoran watched Lin Fu come in in a hurry, and asked, "Have you inquired clearly?" Is Li Shangshu here? ”

"I've inquired clearly, Li Shangshu has been here today!" Lin Fu immediately responded.

Lin Haoran nodded, and then ordered: "You bring your things, let's go to meet the Great Sect Uncle!" ”

If he was appointed as the prefect of Leizhou, Guangzhou or Shuntian, he would naturally not have to pay attention to anyone, and he could be said to be far away from the emperor of the mountain. It's just that he, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, has arrived, so the first thing is naturally to meet his new boss, Li Chunfang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Not long after, Lin Haoran came to the Shangshu Ya signing room and saw Li Chunfang, who was immersed in office.