In October, it was already much colder in the capital.

In the room of the Hanlin Dynasty at noon, all the scholars were sitting, and the rest of the Hanlin were standing and discussing.

However, it is said that after the eleventh year of Wanli and the two expansions of the Jishi in the fourteenth year of Wanli, the Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy has increased from more than 30 people to as many as 50 or 60 people.

Originally, one court room was no longer enough, so the officials who hung the title of Zhan Shifu and the Shu Jishi went to the court room on the west side.

Therefore, although the number of people in the court room is smaller, the relationship between them is closer, and everyone can speak more boldly.

Before several cabinet scholars arrived, Lin Yanchao sat silently and listened to everyone's complaints.

Since September and October, the Son of Heaven has been exempted from the court.

The court is the court discussion, and the talk is the day of the speech, and the feast.

The court discussion was originally 369, and now although the Son of Heaven can be exempted from the court, he can't be an official.

Now that the Son of Heaven is not coming, of course, the officials are full of resentment.

Lin Yanchao took a sip of tea, and the discussion of the Hanlin people below became louder and louder.

The Son of Heaven said that the most harmful interests are these Hanlins.

As a Japanese speaker, the banquet is regarded as a lifetime honor for every Hanlin official, and it is also the only opportunity for them to admire Tianyan and get promoted.

From the Japanese lecture feast, he was appreciated by the Son of Heaven and entered the cabinet to worship the prime minister, which was the shortcut to the south of the Hanlin of all dynasties.

Now that the daily lecture feast is gone, and I heard that it will be stopped for a long time, can these Hanlin not be angry?

Now all the Hanlin people are speaking with resentment, and even one or two words accusing the Son of Heaven of neglecting the dynasty have come out.

Lin Yanchao glanced at it when he heard this, and sat on Xu Xianqing, the new head of the Hanlin Academy, to see how he reacted.

Now there are only two of them in the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, and Xu Xianqing has just returned to the Hanlin Academy from the Zhan Mansion to serve as the head of the academy.

A few months ago, Zhang Wei, a bachelor in charge of the academy, took leave to return to his hometown due to illness, and Chen Yuma also said that he was sick, and as for Wang Hongzhi, Yu Shenxing was also promoted to the left and right waiters of the Ministry of Rites.

The official positions of the two were originally below Lin Yanchao, but this promotion was above Lin Yanchao.

Now Shen Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Central People's Republic of China, Zhu Geng, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, plus Yu and Wang, are all popular candidates for the cabinet. When the official position reaches this step, they can enter the cabinet at any time to worship the prime minister.

But several people are different, for example, once Shen Li enters the cabinet, he is a second-grade scholar. But Zhu Geng, Yu Shenxing, and Wang Hongzhi entered the cabinet with the title of a third-grade waiter.

Generally speaking, the first assistant and the second assistant of the cabinet scholars are divided into three assistants, and those who have been in the cabinet before and after are considered to have been in the cabinet, and the oldest is the first assistant.

However, if the second-grade Shangshu is in the cabinet, the order is above the third-rank squire.

For example, Shen Li is now in the cabinet, and Wang Jiaping, who has the rank of servant in the ministry, has automatically dropped one place in his ranking, from the fourth assistant to the fifth assistant.

Shen Carp ranked fourth directly.

But just last month, Wang Jiaping Ding went back to his home in Shanxi.

There was one less scholar in the cabinet, and it happened that at this time, the Son of Heaven began to exempt himself from the court again.

Lin Yanchao was bent on Shen Shixing to be Wang Anshi, but in order to show the Son of Heaven that he had no intention of controlling the government, Shen Shixing took the initiative to say that the cabinet affairs were heavy, and the Son of Heaven, you are on strike, and we have one less person, and there are not enough manpower, so he asked the officials above the third rank in the court to push and discuss a candidate for the addition of a cabinet scholar.

As soon as this omission was over, everyone's eyes were on Shen Li.

Shen Li has been in the Ministry of Rites for almost three years, and everyone is talking about when he will enter the cabinet.

But not long ago, Bi Qiang, the head of the household, said to the Son of Heaven.

There are 17,000 people in the Jingli, and the craftsmen of the Inner Mansion are also at this number, not counting the clean army in the palace, which is really redundant.

Moreover, the palace frequently bought silk, weaved clothes, and made sky lanterns for tens of thousands, and then Bi Qiang asked the Son of Heaven to cut these items one by one, saving money for the household and the country.

Finance is nothing more than two ways to open up sources and reduce expenditures, and it is easy to offend people by opening up sources, so officials have always worked hard to reduce expenditures.

But Bi Qiang's letter, the eunuchs in the palace were not happy, and the Son of Heaven was unwilling to reduce expenses, and in the end, none of Bi Qiang's opinions were adopted.

Bi Qiang saw that his political views were not accepted by the Son of Heaven, so he was angry and quit and returned to his hometown.

The Son of Heaven couldn't wait for Bi Qiang to leave, so he immediately agreed.

Bi Qiang left after less than a year as the head of the household department, and the person who took over the head of the household department was Song Qi, the former head of the household department.

Song Qi is Shen Li's hometown of Guide, and the relationship between the two has always been very good.

And Shen Shixing's proposal to nominate cabinet scholars at this time is very chicken.

Once Shen Li enters the cabinet, then one of the two is the prime minister, the other is the head of the household, and he is also in charge of the Ming money bag.

Decision-making and administration are not separated, which is a taboo for the Son of Heaven.

At the beginning, Xu Xuemo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Shen Shixing were sons and daughters, so they were impeached by Zou Yuanbiao. The Son of Heaven and Shen Shixing said bluntly, the two of you can only keep one, and Shen Shixing competed with Zhang Siwei for the position of first assistant, so he could only sacrifice Xu Xuemo and let him go home.

Therefore, this time it will be pushed, and the most likely Shen carp will be excluded instead.

But the remaining qualified ones belong to Zhu Geng, Yu Shenxing, and Wang Hongzhi, but the Son of Heaven kept the opportunity to enter the cabinet for Shen Li, and the others did not consider it for the time being, so the Son of Heaven decreed that there was no need to add people to the cabinet, and the three people were enough for the time being.

However, from this matter, Lin Yanchao also saw the operation of entering the cabinet.

To become a Cabinet Scholar, a Hanlin must first be qualified, at least a Bachelor of Honour Attendant and a Bachelor of Attendant of the Hallym Academy.

For example, Yang Wei, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Wu Shilai, another servant of the Ministry of Officials, are not from Hanlin, and there are no words of poetry and bachelor after the official title, so any Sanpin Beijing official will not vote for them when they will push.

After obtaining the qualification, after the cabinet asked, and then the officials in Beijing voted on the three products, and finally the Son of Heaven nodded.

These conditions are indispensable.

For the current Lin Yanchao, what is lacking is the qualification of the official or the Ministry of Rites.

Of course, if Shen Shixing is willing to provoke the big beam, Lin Yanchao will not be so anxious to enter the cabinet, and boil up his qualifications in the officialdom, this is the way to work steadily and steadily.

The word seniority is important in officialdom, but at the same time it is very unimportant.

Lin Yanchao has been an official for six years and has been promoted to a bachelor's degree, which is already quite terrifying, just look at where he is now.

Therefore, when the waiter of the Ministry of Rites was vacant, let Yu Shenxing and Wang Hongzhi make up for it, not because Shen Shixing did not take care of Lin Yanchao, but because his qualifications were not enough.

The forcible promotion was criticized by the government and the opposition.

Therefore, Shen Shixing asked Lin Yanchao to go to the Hanlin Academy to teach Shu Jishi, which was to cultivate obscurity and at the same time boil up his qualifications.

Now Lin Yanchao has been teaching for a year.

Seeing that in the court room, all the Hanlin were already dissatisfied with the Son of Heaven, Lin Yanchao did not speak, but looked at Xu Xianqing.

Yu Shenxing, Wang Hongzhi and the two were promoted, Zhang Wei went home to recuperate, and now Xu Xianqing and Lin Yanchao are colleagues and faintly opponents.

Xu Xianqing is the young Zhan Shi of Zhan Shifu and the head of the hospital, while Lin Yanchao is the left concubine of Zhan Shifu, although he is also a bachelor but not in charge of the hospital, in terms of starting, Lin Yanchao is already a lot behind.

Moreover, Xu Xianqing is a fellow villager of Shen Shixing, and he is from his own family (both surnamed Xu), and the relationship may not be as good as his protégé, so Lin Yanchao is one step behind him again.

Now seeing the court room, the more several Hanlin talked, the more angry they became.

The Son of Heaven will definitely not go to court today, which makes officials, including Lin Yanchao, a little dissatisfied in their hearts.

Why do we have to get up at 4 a.m. to go to work, but you can sleep in the palace?

Although everyone has been in a situation since then, the boss has not done anything like you.

Listening to the complaints of several Hanlin, Lin Yanchao, and Xu Xianqing all knew that they couldn't let them go on, and no matter how dissatisfied they were, they had to maintain the dignity of the Son of Heaven.

Xu Xianqing said to Lin Yanchao: "Master Lin, the foolish brother is the first person in charge of the academy, do you think you came forward to persuade me?" ”

Lin Yanchao thought to himself that this matter was not easy to do, it was reasonable for Hanlin to be dissatisfied with the Son of Heaven not going to court, and it was also the right side of public opinion.

Xu Xianqing is an official and Zhang Wei is another style, and everything is handled in judo, which has the appearance of Shen Shixing's seven or eight points of true biography.

With such an official, Lin Yanchao may not be easy.

Lin Yanchao nodded, the two were secret rivals, but they had to maintain a situation of harmonious coexistence. Lin Yanchao grasped the measure, and immediately got up and walked in front of the few Han Lin who had just been discussing, and coughed lightly.

Although Lin Yanchao has been teaching Shu Jishi this year, and the academy is all in charge of Zhang Wei, but in the eyes of Zhonghan Lin, Lin Yanchao may not be worse than Zhang Wei, from the main examination of the examination, even the cabinet scholar Wang Xijue, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Shen Li, all attach great importance to him, which can be seen that Lin Yanchao is powerful.

But seeing Lin Yanchao coughing, he just talked about the Son of Heaven's attendant Zeng Chaojie, and Shen Ziwei took the initiative to bow to Lin Yanchao and said, "Bachelor, I'm sorry." ”

Seeing this scene, Xu Xianqing was taken aback, and said in his heart that Zeng Chaojie and Shen Ziwei were both Wanli five-year jinshi, Zeng Chaojie was still a scientific explorer, and he was still Lin Yanchao's predecessor in terms of qualifications, so he took the initiative to admit his mistake without waiting for Lin Yanchao's words, so it can be seen that the two of them were in awe of Lin Yanchao in their hearts.

When Xu Xianqing thought of this, he respected Lin Yanchao a little more in his heart, and he was also afraid.

Of course, if the two of them knew Xu Xianqing's questions, they would take the initiative to tell him that there was a person named He Luoshu in the Hanlin Academy in the past, so let's find out.

Lin Yanchao nodded and said: "This bachelor knows that you have something in your heart, don't vomit or be unhappy, but if you change your mind, it may not be the luck of the country, and you will go to the court now, whether the Son of Heaven is inevitable or not, but the courtesy of the minister must not be lost, don't let outsiders look down on our Hanlin Academy." ”

Listening to Lin Yanchao's words, Zhong Hanlin readily agreed.

Xu Xianqing said in his heart, Lin Zonghai has the degree of a prime minister, and I can't underestimate him because his qualifications are not as good as mine.

Lin Yanchao smiled at Shen Ziwei again: "I read the article sent by Ling Lang last time, and he is skilled in history, and he will become a great tool one day." ”

Hearing this, the officials chatted with Lin Yanchao

At this time, I heard someone outside: "Who is proficient in history?" ”

Everyone saw that the three pavilion elders had arrived.