The emperor drove back to the palace, and under the guidance of the ceremonial officials, the ministers left the Forbidden City in turn.

Compared with the previous New Year's celebration in the palace, the team leaving the palace was obviously much lighter.

After leaving the Chengtian Gate, the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting was completely over, without the inspectorate of the imperial history inspection, the officials felt a lot more relaxed, and after the high-level officials got on the sedan chair and left, some six or seven petty officials gathered together.

After opening the royal purse without respect, they were all pleasantly surprised.

"Brother Chudao, I can go home this time and have a fat year."

A young official patted another slightly older official on the shoulder.

"What the righteous brother said is very true, this time your sister-in-law's face is estimated to look better, and Run'er and Liu'er can also pull two new clothes."

When the people around heard this, they immediately burst into laughter.

The older official was not annoyed, and laughed loudly along with the others.

These people are all scholars of the same department, and they are currently staying in the capital as officials, some are in the Hanlin Academy, and some are grinding in the yamen of various ministries, but they are all of low grades.

Because they are fellow scholars and are all in the capital, several people have always been close, and among them, the officials who are respected as Taoist brothers are older, so they have become the backbone of several people.

In the Ming Dynasty, the same year in the officialdom was a valuable connection, especially in the Ming Dynasty, where the party competition was fierce, and the same year was also a relatively solid political alliance, such as cabinet ministers Zhang Ruitu and Shi Fenglai were in the same year, and the two have always advanced and retreated together.

And these fellow scholars stayed in Beijing as officials, and these people formed a small group.

The elderly official known as Brother Daoist is named Wang Yiren, who is forty-five this year, and has been in the field for many years, before he was promoted in the middle of last year, and he has been promoted to Jinshi this year.

Wang Yiren's family also has a little thin field, but it has been almost dilapidated in these years to study and catch up with the exam, and if he relies on his wife's dowry to help, he will not be able to get to forty-five.

But all this is good, Wang Yiren finally ushered in the highlight moment of his life at the age of forty-five, ranked seventh in the high school palace examination, and was lucky to be selected to join the Hanlin Academy.

The Hanlin Academy is often regarded by the world as the starting place of the cabinet ministers, and there is a saying that non-Hanlin cannot enter the cabinet, and it has always been noble.

After the general jinshi stayed in the Hanlin Academy for two terms of performance appraisal, he either went out to serve as a prefect, or went to various ministries to serve as Langzhong.

After many years of training, if you are lucky, you can be promoted to Shangshu, and if you have an advantage in age, you can queue up to enter the cabinet.

Therefore, there is often a saying in the drama that the Jinshi points to Hanlin, as long as the Jinshi who is ordered to Hanlin, it is basically cultivated according to the seedlings of the cabinet assistants.

But all this is not so simple for Wang Yiren.

Wang Yiren is forty-five years old this year, he is only a seven-rank official, even if he started in the Hanlin Academy, there is basically no hope of joining the cabinet in the future, it is estimated that Shangshu is impossible, and ten years later, a five-grade prefect will be his best opportunity.

So when he was waiting for the assignment after the Qionglin banquet, Wang Yiren didn't think that he could stay in the capital, although he had a good ranking in the exam, but he was too old, and he felt that he would be sent to the county.

And he also wants to go to the local government, and when he is older, he will not have the ambition of a young man

Since ancient times, it has been difficult to be an official in Beijing, it is not easy to live in the capital, and Wang Yiren's family background is not good, so it is more suitable for him to be a Taiping Zhixian County.

For this reason, Wang Yiren did not move around in order to stay in Beijing like other fellow subjects, so he waited in the inn for distribution, but the result was unexpected, Wang Yiren was left in Beijing and entered the Hanlin Academy.

And the Jinshi, who have always trusted people to climb relationships, but are not ranked high, were not left in the capital, and all of them were sent out.

As for why this is such a result, the source of the matter has to start with Zhu Youzhen.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen didn't pay much attention to this list of Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, these new Jinshi who read poetry and books are not the talents of governing the country that Zhu Youzhen wants.

Moreover, in addition to the imperial examination, Zhu Youzhen is already brewing another way to recruit talents, because the time is not yet ripe for its launch, so it is still in the making.

Although I don't care about these new science and technology scholars, the fairness of the mechanism still has to be guaranteed, and Zhu Youzhen, who has been shaded many times in his previous life, hates those pervasive relationships the most.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen told the officials that if there was favoritism and irregularity in the selection and appointment of personnel, they would not be tolerated.

Xue Fengxiang, the newly appointed secretary of the ministry, did not dare to slack off, but he was afraid that he would be dissatisfied with the emperor if he did something bad, so he directly used the most trouble-free method and ranked them according to their ranks.

Zhu Youzhen also agreed with such a new science and technology selection plan, and the results were all obtained by himself, and no one could say anything.

Moreover, not only the question of whether or not to stay in Beijing was involved, but also the selection of the county administration office in the expatriate prefecture also complied with this plan.

In the past, the low-ranking Jinshila had a relationship with favors, but they went to a wealthy and stable state and county, while those high-ranking Jinshi of the Han family were sent to remote states and counties, which is a common thing.

But this time, under the supervision of Zhu Youzhen, no one dared to commit crimes against the wind anymore.

Therefore, the attitude of the jinshi of this section towards Zhu Youzhen is more loyal than that of other officials.

Of course, Wang Yiren, as one of the beneficiaries of this distribution, reluctantly left Jingshi and became a Hanlin that everyone envied.

But who is uncomfortable and who knows, Wang Yiren, who has a bad family background, has a hard time in Beijing.

Without a family background, a family of four can only rent a house to live, and it is a small courtyard far away from the imperial city, Wang Yiren can't afford to hire a sedan chair, and he has to walk for more than half an hour every day.

Even so, a month's rent is two taels of silver, Wang Yiren is a seven-grade petty official, and he is in the Qingshui Yamen of the Hanlin Academy, and a month's salary is worth four taels.

went to the rent, went to the family's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and basically there was not much left.

Wang Yiren's family could not afford to hire servants, and the family affairs could only be handled by his old wife, so he complained a lot.

But it's just a complaint, the two have been married for many years, and such difficult days have come, although it is hard at this time, but the life is much better than before, at least there is no need to rely on the mother's family to help.

Although there are not many monthly salaries, but saving some flowers, there is also a surplus to improve life, Wang Yiren can also drink a few taels of wine every month, and a pair of children can eat meat a few more times.

Wang Yiren felt a little reluctant to marry his wife, so his wife had the final say in the affairs of the family, and the result of forbearance was that he had a reputation of fear of guilt in Shilin.

At this time, in the face of the jokes of the same year, Wang Yiren didn't care, if he didn't have a wife to run the family alone a few years ago, he would definitely not have his own today, and he wouldn't even have the opportunity to be teased by these Jinshi.

"Haha, I smiled and smiled, I bothered you a lot in the past, but today thanks to the emperor's grace, I went to the front door for my brother to invite you to drink!"

Wang Yiren laughed loudly, and led a group of people to the front door in the same year.