In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, March 27, this day has a special significance for Shen Xi, this is the first time he has participated in the court since he became an official. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of officials usually had to make preparations one day in advance, and they could not go home the night before the court meeting, but had to temporarily live in the official residences on East and West Chang'an Avenue, such as Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and the six scholars of the Cabinet who must come to each dynasty, and other dignitaries had their own specific residences on East and West Chang'an Avenue.

On the day of the dynasty, the officials of the upper dynasty, called the court counselors and the officials of the Beijing dynasty, wore tooth cards and walked into the palace from the east and west Chang'an gates.

The noon gate is the main gate of the Forbidden City, there are three ques, the middle is the royal road, and it is not often opened. The left and right two ques are for the general and the guards to carry the staff and flags. The left and right sides open a door each, called the left and right doors, which are the doors for hundreds of officials to enter the court. The name of the upper floor of the noon gate is "Wufeng Building", and the bell and drum are set up, and the eunuch of the bell and drum division is in charge.

When you enter the palace gate, you will not immediately enter the gate to see you.

The court meeting during the Hongzhi period, mostly the noon dynasty, will be carried out after the morning hour, and the hundred officials enter the palace and wait to enter the court, which is called "to be leaked".

There are a number of court rooms built in the imperial city, which is called "waiting to be leaked", and the officials sit here according to their ranks, so that the close ministers can wait to leak into the court.

"Close to the yamen, there is a straight room in the end door." To the south of the right gate, it is a straight room of brocade clothes; The next three rooms are the Hanlin straight room, when waiting for the dynasty, the university scholars live in the north wing, the bachelors are in the wing, and the rest are in the south wing; In addition, there are five straight rooms on the left side of the end door, also known as "board room", which is the place where the Zhan Shifu, the left and right spring squares and the officials of the Department of Economic Affairs are waiting for the court.

In the event of a great court meeting, there are many civil and military officials who enter the palace, and hundreds of officials need to wait in the "courtyard to be leaked" to which they belong.

But Emperor Hongzhi was diligent, as long as his health was fine, he would hold a court meeting every day, which corresponded to saving a lot of red tape. In addition to the Great Dynasty Meeting, the Hongzhi Emperor listened to the government basically in the Qianqing Palace, and if there was a non-negotiable recital or sparse, he summoned the cabinet scholars and the subordinate officials of the six ministries and nine secretaries to discuss together.

Whenever the emperor is in the Qianqing Palace, the courtiers who enter the palace, etc., are waiting in the Hanlin Straight Room.

In the Hanlin straight room of the "Waiting for Leakage Courtyard", the officials waiting for the court sat in strict accordance with the division of ranks. Shen Xi entered the palace as a Hanlin official to listen to the court, and because his official character was not high, he could only sit at the last seat. And the people in front of him are mostly members of the six ministries, as for the three cabinet scholars and the six ministries and seven secretaries, they are not in the Hanlin Zhifang, but directly wait in the Wenyuan Pavilion, which is also a privilege that Emperor Hongzhi gave him to favor ministers.

Shen Xi didn't know many people, except for a few officials from the Ministry of Rites, the rest of them had met him with Xiong Xiu, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, but they had also met him when they were with Ma Wensheng before. As for the others, they didn't even greet Shen Xi, and he was a little embarrassed to sit in the corner.

It wasn't until the end of the day that the celebrant sent someone to pass the word, and hundreds of officials entered the court.

It is said that there are 100 officials, but in fact, there are less than 30 officials who entered the Hajj this time, which is already a large court meeting at the end of the Hongzhi period. With the gradual loss of health, Emperor Hongzhi is now in the court, and many times he only summons the cabinet scholars, the six Shangshu, the Zuodu Imperial History and several lords to the Qianqing Palace to discuss matters, and even the six ministers are not qualified to participate.

The great dynasty held outside the Fengtian Hall should be divided into two classes, civil and military, but today's noon dynasty is basically a civil minister, so there is no need to enter the palace in two classes.

The Ming Dynasty respected the left, and the civil officials had to go through the left door to enter the palace, cross the Jinshui Bridge, and go all the way to the outside of the Qianqing Palace, and they had to wait for a while before the emperor arrived.

According to the rank, the cabinet scholars and Qiqing were the first, and then the nine temple Zhengqing, the six department officials and the entourage, etc., Shen Xi's official quality was the lowest, and he was ranked last.

During the Hongwu and Yongle periods, the cabinet scholars only entered the palace as the emperor's advisers or secretaries, and provided staff officers when the emperor reviewed the recitals. However, after the three Yang auxiliary government in the orthodox years, the status of the cabinet scholars gradually became prominent, and then through the preferential treatment of the cabinet scholars in the Chenghua and Hongzhi dynasties, the cabinet scholars have now been so much higher than the seven Qings.

In the last dynasty, on the left side are the three cabinet university scholars at the head, behind them are the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry and the Imperial History of the Left Capital, on the other side is the British Gong Zhang Mao is the head, and behind him is the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Punishment.

As for Jiusi Zhengqing, Jingzhaofu Yin, Shilang, Shaoqing and others are standing behind, basically on one side are officials from the Hanlin system, and on the other side are officials from the non-Hanlin system, which is clearly distinguished.

Shen Xi, as a newly-promoted right-handed concubine of the Hanlin Academy, stood at the end of Liu Jian's column, honestly lowered his head, and waited for the arrival of Emperor Hongzhi.

He has just turned sixteen years old and has been ranked in the court, and when the emperor goes to the court, he can admire Tianyan in the back of the crowd, which is an incomparable glory in the eyes of others, but it is a torment for Shen Xi, because now he only has the right to participate, but he has no right to speak, which is also a very sinful thing.

No matter how good or bad other people's opinions are on the court, he is not qualified to make mistakes.

Shen Xi went to the court this time, not to participate in politics, but after the end of the court, Emperor Hongzhi will leave him, and there may be a few ministers to ask him about the pacification of bandits and robbers on the southeast coast, which is equivalent to a strategic question, Shen Xi has been preparing for several days, so that he can answer the emperor's questions fluently.

Xie Qian asked Shen Xi to draft the recital book and directly play it to Emperor Hongzhi, but he did not steal Shen Xi's credit. In this way, what Shen Xi is facing today is to answer some of the details of the Pinggang Compendium mentioned in the previous recital, such as how to rectify the rule of officials, recruit troops, and raise food.

Shen Xi believes that the emperor will be very happy when he sees a copy of the book that took the initiative to ask for war, but did not ask the court for money, food, and soldiers and horses, but he couldn't help but beat the drum in his heart, this kid doesn't want anything, and he still wants to win the battle, is it reliable?

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi ascended to the Qianqing Palace.

Even if it is just the most ordinary Japanese dynasty, hundreds of officials also need to kowtow, after kneeling three times and nine knocking, Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand and said: "Zhongqing is flat." ”

Emperor Hongzhi sat down, and the hundred officials got up, each returned to his throne, and began to hold court discussions.

In the court discussion, some pending matters mentioned in the previous prelude were first discussed, and secondly, the hundred officials played their own games, which is similar to the principle of "there is something to start and nothing to retreat from the court".

The first item of the Heavenly Imperial Council was to impeach the officials of the 24th Prison for self-restraint in the construction of the palace.

The transcript was submitted by the cabinet, but the celebrant did not reply for a long time, and the general envoy was afraid that the emperor would not be in the middle of the issue, so he raised the issue in front of the court.

From Emperor Hongzhi's ugly face, Shen Xi knew that the Son of Heaven was not unaware of this, but that he didn't want to make a big move.

Obviously, the twenty-four eunuchs are institutions that serve the emperor and his family, and the eunuchs serving in them are equivalent to the emperor's domestic slaves. How much money is spent in the inner court, and whether there is any private deduction, it is an internal matter of the royal family, and you are holding on to this issue, obviously not giving the emperor a step.

Shen Lu, the political envoy of the general political envoy, obviously does not know how to do things, although he and Shen Xi are from their own family, both surnamed Shen, but Shen Xi found that this is a thankless figure.

This Shen Lu is not very famous in the imperial court, not even a jinshi, just a man, married a lady, surnamed Zhang, is the aunt of Empress Zhang, that is, the sister of the former Shouning Marquis Zhang Luan, which is equivalent to the uncle of the Zhang brothers.

After Xu Qiong gave office, in order to reflect the preferential treatment of the Zhang family, the emperor promoted the little-known Shen Lu to the general political envoy, and also made him the official of the palace examination in the year of Renxu, and let a person be the chief examiner of the palace examination, which can be regarded as a joke, but this kind of thing, the famous Emperor Hongzhi did it.

And Shen Lu is honest, he will do whatever others say, someone wants to use his identity to attack the Zhang family, and he, as the Zhang family's in-law, is actually used without knowing it.

Shen Lu talked eloquently about the issue of the Inner Mansion deducting money and grain in the main hall, and Shen Xi got goosebumps when he heard it. Emperor Hongzhi clearly promoted a fool and stretched out his slap to slap the royal family and Zhang's face. You Shen Lu lacks heart and eyes, and you can be regarded as lacking home, Shen Xi thought to himself, fortunately, after I arrived in the capital, I didn't bother you because of your surname Shen.

When the issue was raised in front of the court, no matter how ugly Emperor Hongzhi's face was, this issue had to be discussed, but from the cabinet scholars to the officials of the Nine Temples Zhengqing, Jingzhao Mansion Yin, Shilang, Shaoqing, etc., none of them were willing to express their opinions on this matter.

Obviously, someone used Shen Lu to highlight the problems in the inner mansion, and whoever came out to speak would mean who was the one who pointed fingers at Shen Lu behind his back...... Take the initiative to jump out and admit it, isn't that asking for trouble?

"What do you think?"

Emperor Hongzhi saw that no one came out to speak for a long time, his tone turned cold, and his eyes swept over the officials present, as if to say, which of you told Shen Lu, the envoy of the general government, these nonsense words, and asked him to dig into the corners of the royal wall?

Shoufu Liu Jian said: "Your Majesty, there are still important matters to be discussed in the DPRK and China, and this matter may as well be handed over to the Ministry of Industry for detailed investigation, and then discussed." ”

Zhu Youzhu glanced at Liu Jian and nodded reluctantly.

Liu Jian took the initiative to stand up, the purpose was to ease the embarrassing atmosphere in the hall, Shen Lu came up and said something that should not be said, so that Emperor Hongzhi lost face, at this time Zhu Youzhu also hoped to divert the topic, and said at the moment: "Lu Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry went to investigate thoroughly." ”

At this time, Lu Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was as uncomfortable as eating fly feces...... I didn't have long been the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the good things didn't let me stand up, and the troubles were one after another, and this end was still urging the casting of cannons, and the other end was going to Cha Neifu to create a buckle, I was too idle to do anything?

But since the emperor had already ordered it, Lu Jian still hurriedly saluted and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Because Shen Lu came up and made a bad start, the atmosphere of the court discussion was a little depressing.

The next few things are nothing more than what disaster has been affected in which place, how much damage has been made, and it is necessary to allocate money and food for relief, and at the same time comfort the homeless victims.

The matter has nothing to do with Shen Xi, and he is just listening to the excitement in the back.

People from all ministries, including the cabinet scholars, all made comments, and the focus was on saving money for the imperial court, which was also in line with Emperor Hongji's wishes.

In the middle of the discussion, he finally said something that had something to do with Shen Xi, that is, the progress of the Ministry of Engineering's cannon casting.

Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, proposed to cast 200 more Franc cannons for the nine sides, and the imperial court made preparations from the beginning of last year, and officially started casting in October, until March this year, 200 cannons were cast, but the quality was uneven, and the pass rate was less than sixty percent. This made Liu Daxia quite dissatisfied, and Liu Daxia thought that the Ministry of Industry was negligent and perfunctory in the matter of casting cannons.

Shen Xi heard it, the so-called court discussion was just the various functions of the imperial court and the yamen in the court. He's a sesame mung bean official, just listen to the general meaning next to him.

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