It is said that many scholars of the Hanlin Academy could not afford the expenses in the capital, or were worried that the big examination once every few years would not be embarrassing, so they asked for leave to return to their hometown after being selected, and then found various excuses not to return to Beijing. The same is true for the Hanlin officials who are serious about editing and reviewing, as long as they don't want to go to the order, they can always find an excuse.

Therefore, since the hall was built, Ji Yunfei and Ao Tongchen would invite a group of friends to come to the hall every two or three days to chant poems, and no longer only went to Taoran Pavilion, kilns and temples outside the city as before, and they were too lazy to go to the mixed restaurants.

Han Xiufeng sent Pan Er away, washed up and ate some breakfast, then went to the temple to make incense and make a vow, and when he returned to the hall, he found that Ji Yunfei, who had not drunk much last night, came again, and was sitting in the main hall with a book in his hand and reading it with relish.

Han Xiufeng walked into the hall and asked, "Master Ji, what are you looking at?" ”

Ji Yunfei put down the book, looked up and said with a smile: "I'm waiting for a few friends, I'm idle, I'm idle, and when I see a book here, I flip through it casually." ”

"It's good to read books, and I'll read more books in the future." Han Xiufeng subconsciously glanced at the bookshelf and asked with concern, "Master Ji, how many friends do you have later?" ”

"Two, didn't you go to the temple early in the morning to make a vow, Changsheng is not here, I explained to Lao Yutou, he and Xiao Shandong are helping me prepare the wine and food at noon."

"It's the same with them."

Seeing that the tea in the cup was colorless, Han Xiufeng was about to get tea to help make a new cup, Pan Er came back from outside in a hurry, crossed the threshold with the corner of his clothes, and was about to open his mouth to see Ji Yunfei sitting in front of him, and was stunned for a while.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived! Running sweaty, where did this go? Ji Yunfei asked with a smile.

"Speak, Master Ji asked you." Han Xiufeng reminded.

Pan Er is so shrewd, how can he not know what to say and what not to say, and this morning he really made a great discovery, raised his arm to wipe his sweat, and said colorfully: "Master Ji, I'm not afraid of your jokes, if it weren't for my young master asking me to go to the Fujian Hall to inquire where Master Huang lives, I don't know that the imperial history of Huguang Road is also a Beijing official, and I always thought that the imperial history of Huguang Road should be in Huguang at ordinary times!" ”

Master Gu has been a royal historian, but the relationship between Han Xiufeng and Master Gu before coming to Beijing to confess is average, and he didn't have the opportunity to ask about the imperial history, and Master Gu also didn't say it.

After coming to Beijing, he mainly dealt with Ji Yunfei, Ao Tongxian, Qian Junchen, Jiang Haoxuan and other Beijing officials, except for Huang Zhongyin, who had a one-sided relationship, Han Xiufeng had never been in contact with Yushi. What's more important is that any official can spend money to donate, but the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate can't donate money, so they don't bother to inquire about the imperial history.

Hearing Pan Er say this, Han Xiufeng also felt strange: "Doesn't the imperial history of Huguang Province have to go to Huguang?" ”

"Hahahaha......" Ji Yunfei had never encountered such a funny thing, and he was almost laughed at by their master and servant.

Han Xiufeng asked puzzledly, "Master Ji, what are you laughing at?" ”

Ji Yunfei smiled and waved his hand: "Wait, let me finish laughing first." ”

"What's so funny about that?"

"It's funny, Zhixing, Zhixing, you are still the head of the guild, and you don't even know this. The imperial history of Huguang Dao has to go to Huguang, so does the official of the Sichuan Qing Officials Division of the Criminal Department also have to go to Sichuan. Hahaha, laugh at me......"

Han Xiufeng reacted and asked curiously: "So the fifteen imperial histories of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are all Beijing officials like the officials of the six departments, and they usually stay in the capital, so they don't need to go to the provinces to supervise?" ”

"What do you think?" Ji Yunfei burst into tears and laughed.

"I always thought it was Goshi going on patrol."

"You have watched too many dramas from the previous dynasty, and you are still on patrol, do you think that supervising the imperial history is the same as the imperial history of the previous dynasty?"

"Isn't it different?"

"It's different." Ji Yunfei wiped away the tears that came out of his laughter and explained: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate has fifteen imperial histories in Gyeonggi, Henan, Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou. Each provincial imperial history sits in Beijing to supervise the provinces, and not only supervises the officials and government affairs of their own provinces. For example, the Imperial History of Shanxi Province is not only responsible for supervising Shanxi Provincial officials and inspecting Shanxi Provincial Criminal Names, but also inspecting the Military Department, the Hanlin Academy, the Six Sections, the Zhongshu Section, the Governor's Warehouse, the Grain Hall, the Datong Bridge and the Tongzhou Second Warehouse. ”

"I said that when Du San filled the vacancy last year, why did the imperial history of Shanxi Province go to the military department to supervise the lottery, it turns out that the imperial history of Shanxi Province does not need to go to Shanxi!" Han Xiufeng understood as if he had been empowered, but after thinking about it, he asked again: "No, Master Ji, Master Huang is the imperial history of Huguang Dao, why did he go to Huguang?" ”

"It was ordered to go to Huguang on an errand, which is what the people often call the minister, and after the errand is completed, he will naturally return to Beijing."

"In this way, although Master Gu has done the imperial history of Jiangxi Dao, he has never been to Jiangxi."

"Nope." Ji Yunfei smiled, and then said: "During the Yongzheng Dynasty, there was a patrol of the imperial history of various provinces, and after that, there was no longer a permanent inspection of the imperial history, and the emperor was temporarily dispatched in case of trouble. However, the provinces are not without imperial history, and the governors of Zhili, Liangjiang and other provinces generally add the title of Shangshu of the Military Department and the right capital of the Imperial Inspectorate, and the governors of the provinces generally add the title of the Servant of the Military Department and the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspectorate. ”

"It's a shame." Han Xiufeng couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"It's normal if you don't know, and besides, there are no outsiders here." Ji Yunfei patted his arm, then turned around and asked, "Changsheng, what are you going to do with Master Huang?" ”

Pan Er relieved himself and hurriedly said: "My young master said that Master Huang is also our fellow townsman in Ba County no matter what, and I didn't know that the imperial history of Huguang Road turned out to be a Beijing official, and there is no way to build the guild hall, and now that the guild hall is built, send me to invite Mr. Huang to take a look and ask him if he is willing to move over." ”

Although Huang Zhongyin, the imperial history of Huguang Province, has been studying and living in Ba County since he was a child, he is also a Xiucai in Ba County, a person who took the examination in Sichuan, and a jinshi who came to Beijing to take the examination as a person from Sichuan, but his ancestral home is Fujian. Sichuan candidates don't regard him as a fellow villager, and Fujian candidates are the same, they occupy both ends, and they don't occupy either, and the situation has always been very embarrassing.

Those people in Ba County felt that people from other provinces had robbed them of their jobs and made their money, and they hated the merchants of the eight provinces; Those gentry in Ba County, especially those who are not as talented as the Shi Gong and the prison students, feel that the scholars from other provinces living in Ba County have seized their students and even the number of people, blocking their way to progress, so they also hate the merchants of the eight provinces.

The reason why Mr. Gu and other officials and some people raised their eyebrows and faced each other with the eight provincial guilds was mainly to take the lead in local affairs. For example, before the establishment of the survey and adjustment bureau, whoever hosted it could earn a lot of money. Another example is the group training that is being held in various provinces, and whoever hosts it can petition for the establishment of a financial bureau.

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