After a while, there was a noisy sound of footsteps in the distance outside the main hall.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and then, the door of the palace was pushed open by a young official in a cyan official robe, and after entering the main hall, the young man in the cyan official robe trotted all the way to the emperor, and knelt down without hesitation, his head was tightly attached to the ground, and he didn't even dare to look at the emperor.

The officials in the Nanli court divided the colors of their official robes according to their ranks, and it was because of Nanli's official robes that there was an allusion from it.

"If it is a group of people, the secretary is often uncle, and he is Zhu Peizi, and he is white with gold"

What does this mean?

The meaning of this sentence is that it is the big officials who wear red robes and hang purple seals, and it is best for ordinary people not to provoke these characters.

But who would have thought that above Nanli's court meeting, officials like this who wore red robes and hung purple seals were basically all such characters at Nanli's court meeting every three days.

And this also represents that among the official robes of Nanli's current officials, the color of the high-ranking officials represented is vermilion, and if you want to enter this vermilion high-ranking official threshold, your official rank will start with five grades.

In Nanli's planning, the official robe of the five-grade official is just a pale red court dress, but even if an official is wearing an official robe of this color, it is not something that ordinary people can provoke.

And when it comes to the third-grade officials, then your court clothes and daily official robes will become pure crimson official robes, and the characters who usually wear this kind of official robes are basically the characters of the six squire levels.

As for the second-rank officials and the first-rank officials, it is different, and the officials who usually reach this rank are the real high-ranking officials who can control and use a part of the authority from the hands of the emperor.

And the existing civil officials of the first and second grades can only be regarded as seven.

The six Shangshu lords in charge of the first department are second-class officials, and they are basically allowed to embroider dragons and other patterns on the corners of their sleeves to show their status.

As for the only first-class official in the civil service, it is naturally the current prime minister of Nanli.

As for the old man's court clothes, he was specially approved by Emperor Lidi to embroider a dragon picture in the middle of the court clothes that was about to transform from a dragon to a red dragon.

Of course, this can't be generalized, there will always be some special examples, for example, as the president of the Ruling Division, although this figure is only a mere fourth-grade official in terms of official rank, but the power he holds in his hands makes the six Shangshu dare not easily offend him.

And his official robe will naturally not be an ordinary four-grade official robe, after all, the leaders of a yamen with a distinctive style like Zhijinsi are basically loyal to the emperor.

As a more favored cronies of the emperor, this adult's official robe is tattooed with dragons like the six scholars on the sleeves, and one pattern is two dragons, and in the middle of his court clothes, it is embroidered with a tiger going down the mountain.

What's more, not all of these civil officials are respected in red official robes, because of their functions, there will be a few other officials among the hundred officials in Nanli, although their rank is not high, but the power in their hands cannot be underestimated.

Moreover, most of these other officials are officials who are independent and outside the yamen of the six ministries.

The first to bear the brunt is naturally the president of the executive department to lead this adult.

But this adult is also a member of the red-robed master, so it can't be regarded as a typical example.

can be regarded as a typical example, just like the person Shangshutai Shangshuling who is now kneeling in front of Emperor Li, trembling and not daring to raise his head to look at Emperor Li.

Shangshuling this official position, the official rank of six products, but it is in charge of Shangshutai, and the function of Shangshutai is to help the monarch draft the edict and prevent the monarchy from falling, Shangshutai set up Shangshuling one person, official six products, Shangshu servants shoot two people, official seven products, and the rest of about five or six people are in Shangshutai who are responsible for the supervision of the yamen of the various ministries in the south of the country.

The reason why Shang Shutai pioneered it was because to prevent Nanli from appearing a giant family in a certain era, and a giant family that could influence Nanli's various decisions.

It's like the several great families who now control the government of the Beigen Kingdom, which is also an empire.

The purpose of Shangshutai's establishment was to prevent this from happening in Nanli, so it was said that Shangshutai would be given great authority.

However, the authority of this Shangshutai is big and big, and it is not big or big, just because of the supervision task of the rest of Shangshutai, Shangshutai only has the power to supervise and report statistics, and they do not have the power to directly arrest and bring to justice like the Jinsi or the Jinyi Guard.

This is also a special regulation set up by the former emperor who founded Shangshutai, in order to prevent the small yamen of Shangshutai from expanding more and more.

This rule hung over the heads of the people of Shangshutai like the sword of Duck Morris, reminding them all the time not to overstep their authority.

And Shang Shuling's official robe is also an inconspicuous cyan official robe.

But who would dare to underestimate this six-grade official in a cyan official robe?

Who can guarantee that they don't have any unbearable black background left on their hands?

As long as this Shang Shuling is willing to spend time with you and investigate mercilessly, as long as he finds some criminal records that are enough to kill you, then the one who comes to your mansion and knocks on the door the next day is Jinyiwei.

But it also depends on the character of this Shang Shuling, if this Shang Shuling has a strong personality and is jealous and hateful, then even if you are a six-part squire, as long as you have some dirty foundation on your hands, then you must be ready to be knocked down by the six-grade Shangshu Ling.

This is also the reason why Shang Shuling is called the little prime minister, after all, if this kind of power is used well, even the six Shangshu, and even the high-ranking prime minister, must pay attention to your movements.

But unfortunately, the current Shang Shuling, who has an extremely cowardly personality, is timid and afraid of things, and completely turns his huge power into nothingness, so that Shang Shuling, who is known as the little prime minister, and Shang Shutai, who should have been strictly defended, have become a grass platform team that is only responsible for passing on words.

This young unspeakable Shang Shuling, who made him just the illegitimate son of a down-and-out family.

Since he was a child, the living environment, as well as the attitude of others towards him, the family looked at him coldly, not only did not make this Shang Shuling's character become jealous or hateful, but made his character become timid and afraid, even if he knew that the other party had left a case record in Shangshutai, he did not dare to use this to coerce the other party, and even when he knew that the other party had some case records in Shangshutai, he would only use this to beg the other party not to bully himself.

Over time, the so-called little prime minister has become a six-rank official who can be bullied, no, it can even be said that during the tenure of this young Shang Shuling, Shang Shuling's official position has not only not made the red-robed high-ranking officials frightened, but has become somewhat inconsistent with the identity of the six-rank official.

What does this mean?

It means that this young Shang Shuling, as a six-grade official, begged for mercy from some local county officials more than once, begging the other party not to embarrass himself, not to make his affairs and his own work difficult.

As soon as this incident came out, this young Shangshuling suddenly became a big joke in the Nanli Imperial Court, basically all the yamen did not feel any threat and danger to the small yamen of Shangshutai, you boss is a soft-footed shrimp, you Shangshutai may still have a guy who dares to be tough with us?

Don't be funny, there are soldiers in the army who instigate one and will instigate a nest, which is even more appropriate in the yamen.

Just like the military department books, most of the military department books of the past dynasties are not the mainstay of the main battle faction in China, or the books of the Ministry of Rites, the books of the Ministry of Rites of the past dynasties, most of their temperaments are extremely hard, after all, they represent the country behind them, and talk to other countries, how can they fall into the prestige of their own country.

How tough are they?

Tough to the current generation of the Ministry of Rites, although on the outside it seems to be gentle and elegant is a scholar who has read poetry and books, but what is hidden under this layer of skin is an ambition to level the countries of the mainland, after all, this generation of the Ministry of Rites, if it weren't for his identity here, believe it or not, he would not hesitate to jump into the ranks of the main battle faction in China, waving the flag and cheering for the momentum is more radical than the Lord of the Ministry of War.

Naturally, the top bosses of their own yamen are all such a style or character, and most of the officials below are naturally also like this, even if they are not such a character, they will more or less bring some unique meaning of their own officials in the way they handle things.

Of course, this is also beneficial, such as the Ministry of Rites, if it weren't for the extreme hardness of the people's temperament, after the Central Plains coalition failed to besiege and crusade against Nanli, the army basically did not exist one in ten, and when they, the Central Plains countries, begged for mercy from the South, if it weren't for the hard character of the Ministry of Rites to negotiate with them on behalf of the Emperor, the ghost knows if these guys would take advantage of this to fool the past.

Otherwise, where did Nanli receive tribute from the Central Plains countries every year for nearly ten years, if it weren't for the credit of this Ministry of Rites, how could it be possible to make the total amount of tribute every year almost equivalent to half of Nanli's tax every year.

In other words, it is precisely because of the merits of this Ministry of Rites that Nanli's precarious military spending has been alleviated.

This is a qualified Shangguan.

Instead of being like this Shang Shuling, when he saw that the emperor was in a bad mood like this, he knelt on the ground without saying a word, and his posture was as low as he was, just like putting his position as a eunuch in the palace