Jieying, this is a timeless tradition in the officialdom, it is not any rule, but it has silently insisted on circulating in the "official history" of more than 2,000 years, and it is still in the market when the later generations of high pragmatism crossed over to the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called boundary greeting means that local officials lead their subordinates to the border of their own jurisdiction to greet them.

As for who to greet, it's hard to say, generally speaking, it must be to greet Shangguan. Moreover, Jieying is the highest specification to welcome Shangguan. At the same time, there is no doubt that if you welcome the royal car, you must welcome the world.

Of course, the master of the high attendant is far less noble than the royal driver, and the difference between this is 108,000 miles? However, for Liang Xianzun, it may not be, for him, the master of the high attendant may be more important than the royal driver.

Not to mention that there is basically no possibility of seeing the imperial driver as a magistrate in the Ming Dynasty, even if he takes 10,000 steps back, he can really receive the imperial driver, but His Majesty the Emperor will not pay attention to his small county order, and it is impossible for the sky to send good luck to Liang County, so that he can rise to the top and move to the right.

Liang Xianzun felt that if he could satisfy Gao Shiyu, after he returned to Beijing in the future, as long as he praised himself in front of Gao Ge Lao a few words, wouldn't his evaluation be "excellent"?

You must know that Gao Ge Lao is also the secretary of the ministry, and the affairs of the world are all in his hands! For a mere seven-grade county order, if he asks you to be promoted, you will inevitably be promoted; If he asks you to descend, you will definitely descend...... Who would dare to offend this? Anyway, Liang County didn't dare.

In ancient China's officialdom, there were the so-called three provinces and six ministries very early, of which the "three provinces" were abolished, but the six ministries have been stably maintained to this day, and the most special of the six ministries is the official department.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty at this time, Beijing officials do not need to kneel down to ask for peace when they see their superiors, but if they meet a cabinet scholar or a secretary of the ministry, they must kneel down to ask for peace.

There is a question here, why don't you kneel when you see other Shangshu, but you have to kneel when you meet a Shangshu of the ministry? Why is it that the secretary of the ministry can be so special as the cabinet scholar who "has no name as a prime minister, but has the reality of a prime minister"?

Without him, there is power.

Because of the ministry, it determines the future of most officials.

As mentioned earlier in this book, since the formation of the cabinet system, the cabinet began to gradually erode the power that originally belonged to the six ministries (no wind note: this refers to the six powers that have been strengthened after Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister), and in the Jiajing Dynasty, especially after Yan Song took power, the authority of the first assistant is even more prosperous, except that there is no "opening of the government", almost no different from the prime minister. Of course, Li Chunfang may be an exception......

How severe is this erosion? For example, if the military department does not have the consent of the cabinet, the dignified military department secretary cannot even transfer troops - if a border army general receives an order from the military department to transfer troops, he will not immediately implement it, but will first ask: Is there a cabinet document?

If not, I'm really sorry," he said. ”

All in all, in short, except for the Ministry of Officials, the power of the remaining five Shangshu has been greatly reduced. In the Ming Dynasty, some officials were not even willing to enter the cabinet. Because he entered the cabinet, if he was ranked low, it might be a bright rise and a secret fall, and the actual power was not as good as the official book.

The Beijing officials face all kinds of bigwigs every day, and it is not uncommon for high-ranking officials to do so, but if it is the official department of Shangshu, the Beijing officials call him the master of the heavenly officials. This is far from being reached by other Shangshu, even if nominally speaking, the Ministry of Rites is the first, but in terms of actual power, the Ministry of Rites is not even as good as the Ministry of Households.

The only advantage of the Ministry of Rites is that it is relatively easy to enter the cabinet, and many cabinet elders will first name the Ministry of Rites before entering the cabinet, and then hold a court push to enter the cabinet - for example, Gao Gong was also the case back then.

Why are the officials so powerful? Because its main function is to evaluate, approve, appoint and dismiss officials at all levels.

According to the rules of the imperial court, the appointment and dismissal of officials below the fourth rank are decided by the officials. Only officials above the fourth rank need the cabinet to consult with the ministry - note that it is with the ministry, and the ministry still has a lot of say.

Generally speaking, officials above the fourth rank belong to middle and high-level officials. According to the official system of the Ming Dynasty, only the prefects of the local prefects and important positions belonged to the four rank officials. In other words, those officials such as county and prefecture are just a number in the ministry. If an official offends the secretary of the ministry, the official department may take reasonable revenge within the normal scope of work.

For example, if an official is transferred to Yunnan this year and then to Liaodong the next year, how is it cool? Half of your term of office this year has been delayed on the road! You can't die? Do you dare to be disobedient? If you are disobedient, you will continue to return to Yunnan next year.

And the reason why Gao Gong has resigned from the Ministry of Officials several times in a row is precisely because this power is too great: he is the second assistant, Li Chunfang doesn't dare to take care of things, the cabinet is actually in charge, and he is also the secretary of the Ministry of Officials.

It's worth it! In the eyes of outsiders who don't know the truth, isn't this just "stealing people's prestige and blessing to self-indulgence"? If this charge is confirmed, then it will be a chaotic thief!

Therefore, Gao Gong has resigned from the post of secretary of the ministry three times in a row in the past half a year, but the emperor insists on refusing, so there is no way. At this time, Gao Gong himself would not know that in just over two years in history, he officially asked for the resignation of the Ministry of Shangshu as many as eight times, and the emperor was not moved at all.

Longqing's belief in the high arch is very deep, which can be seen.

As the so-called "Prophet of Chunjiang Plumbing Duck", Gao Pragmatic is in Gyeonggi, and he actually does not know enough about the power of Gao Gong, while Liang Wuliang County is respected in the local area, but he has a deeper understanding of the authority of his own grace.

So, at noon on this day, Gao Shishi had just crossed the border of Dingxing County along the Xuanhua Horse Post when he saw a scene that surprised him.

Originally, he felt that he was "returning to his hometown to prepare for the exam" with a full two hundred horsemen, which was already a huge pomp, who expected that the pomp and circumstance would be more awesome than the magistrate - Liang Xianzun was dressed in an official uniform, with the officials, officials and squires and elders from all over the county, plus extras hired from nowhere, there were five or six hundred people, lined up on both sides of the post road to welcome.

Gao was directly stunned and dumbfounded.

"What the fuck am I doing...... I'm really just passing through! In a voice that outsiders couldn't hear, Gao Shilin, who was famous for his literary name, sat in the carriage and scolded without grace.