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The fifth day of the fifth month of May is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, on this day, the indispensable activities are to eat zongzi, race dragon boats, hang calamus, artemisia grass, mugwort leaves, atractylodes, Angelica angelica, drink realgar wine, tie Baisuozi, make fragrant slots, paste five poisons, paste charms, put yellow smoke, eat twelve red, etc.

On this day, every family in the city, do their best, get calamus, ginger, apricot plum, plum, perilla, cut fine as silk, sprinkle salt and expose to the sun, make this kind of Dragon Boat Festival fruit called Baicaotou, or soak the plum with molasses, make stuffed plum candy, the most important thing in the Dragon Boat Festival is food, it is from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period called the horned rice dumplings.

Chu Mansion is no exception, this morning, the sky is not yet transparent, Chu Mansion up and down began to get busy, take out the previous days have been prepared to save supplies, drums, fans, Baisuo, etc., hanging in the corners of the beams, drums, are small drums, some on the hanging rack, some placed on the seat.

Fans, are all small fans, divided into blue, yellow, red, white four colors, but embroidered or painted or wisps of gold or color, the style is different. Baisuo, is a hundred rope with colored silk thread knotted, these Dragon Boat Festival things, its source from the summer solstice yin germination, the people are afraid of things, so the production of drums, fans, Baisuo, used to avoid soldiers and ghosts, to prevent disease and plague.

Of course, it was only the servants of the Chu Mansion who were busy, and in a courtyard in the center of the mansion, an elegant, handsome, and personable middle-aged scribe listened to the report of the blessing of the butler of the Chu Mansion with an indifferent face.

"My lord, firecrackers, spices, three animal sacrifices, and horn millet fruits have all been prepared." The name of the housekeeper who obtained a very auspicious blessing said respectfully, in the Chu Mansion, the only person who asked him to be respectfully called like this was Chu Luo, the head of the Chu Mansion.

"Well, is the sedan chair ready?" Chu Luo asked, seemingly preparing to go out.

"According to the instructions of the adults, five sedan chairs have been prepared in the courtyard, and the people who carry the sedan chairs are also ready." Blessing said with a smile, but there was a muttering in his heart, why are there fewer sedan chairs than in previous years.

"Thrifty children drag people to pass on the message, the Taixue course is arranged tightly, and the Dragon Boat Festival is not off, and I don't go home." Seeing the doubts of the blessing, Chu Luo said in a deep voice, as if he was a little dissatisfied.

"Also, the township exam will be held in three months, and the eldest prince really wants to study at ease in the country, and after winning the middle school, he will take the top exam next year." Blessing said with a smile.

"I wish the housekeeper good luck." Chu Luo smiled, although he knew that this was not possible, let alone the champion, it was difficult to take the Jinshi test, but he was happy when he heard it.

"Husband."

At this time, Mrs. Hui's weak voice sounded outside, and when the housekeeper heard the blessing, he said goodbye to Chu Luo very wisely, and when he withdrew from the door, he did not forget to say hello to Mrs. Hui.

"I don't know what happened to my husband looking for a concubine?" Walking in lightly, Mrs. Hui floated a bright smile, and her delicate face was glamorous.

"Jian'er won't come back, so I'll leave for my eldest brother's house at the end of the hour." Chu Luo paused and continued: "As for Qian'er, let him stay at home and reflect, and don't have to follow." ”

"Husband......." Mrs. Hui was anxious, and her beautiful face quietly swept up her worries, you must know that the eldest brother in Chu Luo's mouth is not an ordinary person, but the current head of the Chu family, Chu Ji, a scholar of the Guanwen Pavilion of the Imperial Court Inquisitor's Yuan and the Zhiyuan.

Although the official system of the Song Dynasty was inherited from the Tang system, in order to prevent the dictatorship of six types of people, including civil ministers, military generals, empresses, relatives, clansmen, and eunuchs, the Song court formulated a set of various systems such as centralized power, military power, financial power, and judicial power, and concentrated power in the hands of the emperor.

At the same time, the method of dividing the duties of officials and dividing the powers of the governors at all levels is used to weaken their powers, so that some officials only have empty names, so that they can maintain their official positions and receive salaries, but they do not hold real power; according to this system, ordinary officials have two titles, official and dispatch, and some officials also have the title of post, and the official only means that he can receive the salary, and the official has actual power.

The separation of official titles and actual duties made a large number of officials inside and outside the imperial court idle, and the three provinces, the six ministries, and the twenty-four divisions all had official officials in name, but unless the emperor specially ordered them, they did not care about the ministry of the ministry.

At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu set up two members of the Liunequan, the delegation of the right to judge the Liuneiquan, in charge of the examination and selection, the judgment of cases and the preparation of dispatches, etc., and also set up three classes of courts, appointed the three classes of court affairs, the number of members is uncertain, responsible for the examination of the east and west officials and other military ministers and the preparation of dispatches.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Mokan Jing Dynasty Officials and the Mokan Shogunate Prefecture County Officials were established, collectively known as the Ruban Shogunate Prefecture Officials, which were responsible for the assessment of the Beijing Dynasty officials and the selection of people.

That is to say, the Inquisitorial Court and the Examination Institute are actually equivalent to exercising the functions of the Ministry of Officials, and are in charge of the functions of the Wenchen Jing Dynasty officials below the level of assessment of merit and demerit, the description of their ranks, the annotation of dispatches, the selection of examinations, the annotations, the responsibilities, the promotions, the resumption, the shadow supplements, and the examination of courses.

And Chu Ji, as the Tongzhi Yuan of the Inquisitor's Court, is in the second rank, and he can really be described as a member of the imperial court, not to mention the civil and military officials of the dynasty, even the lord of the clan has to give a little face, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a high authority, in normal times, in order to avoid gossip, Chu Luo Chuqian, who is his own brother, does not dare to ask for a meeting easily when he is fine.

Only during the New Year's holidays, can you justifiably bring your family to visit, there is such a strong uncle, Mrs. Hui naturally hopes that Chu Zhen will show her face in front of him more, and she can take care of Chu Zhen more in the future, but now that she heard that Chu Luo did not let Chu Zhen go with her, Mrs. Hui was naturally extremely resentful in her heart, knowing that Chu Luo's anger had not yet dissipated.

"That's it, you go back and tell the hostel so that he can reflect at home." Seeing Mrs. Hui's eyebrows tightly locked, and her beautiful and resentful appearance, Chu Luo was unmoved, stood up, and hurriedly left with his sleeves brushed.

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"Mother, if you can't go, you can't go, anyway, during the Qingming Festival, the child has already gone to see the uncle." Hearing Mrs. Hui's hints, Chu Zhen was furious, and because Mrs. Hui was on the side, he reluctantly pressed back, but instead showed a smile, hoping to comfort the sad Mrs. Hui.

"Qian'er, your father hasn't known that you have repented, and after the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother will immediately make it clear to your father." Mrs. Hui said softly, but she sighed in her heart, if it wasn't for the quarrel between the little uncle and her husband the night before, the anger in her husband's heart should have almost dissipated, but the third uncle is also kind, how can he blame.

Chu Zhi naturally agreed with a smile on his face, but he was very disapprehensive in his heart, he knew from his previous memories that for his father Chu Luo, Chu Zhi was always afraid of him, and he didn't have any sense of intimacy, but now, his status in Chu Qian's heart was not as high as Qiu'er, and Chu Zhen naturally didn't take him to heart.