The horses are colder, and the saddle is embroidered on the clothes.

The sky in Donghua is not known, and the bright moon is full of dryness.

This is one of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty, a great literary scholar, the first assistant to the cabinet of the Yongle Dynasty, and the editor-in-chief of the "Yongle Canon" Xie Jin's description of the early dynasty.

The early dynasty of the Ming Dynasty began in Yin, but the officials who participated in the early dynasty must arrive at the noon gate when they were ugly, so Xie Jin had the feeling of five colder horses, three is the middle of the night, and the fifth watch is five o'clock in the morning, according to later generations, it is a quarter of 0 o'clock in the morning, that is to say, the officials have to get up after twelve o'clock, put on their clothes and rush to the noon gate, otherwise it will be too late.

Zhang Bin got up earlier, because he lived in the outer city, more than ten miles away from the palace, and the capital couldn't beat horses and gallop, so he got up in the middle of the night.

I don't know what it means to go to the court so early, is it that waiting for dawn to let everyone go to the palace will delay things?

Now he was sitting in the carriage yawning and complaining.

This is the first time he has been in the morning court, and he is really a little uncomfortable for a while when he gets up so early.

He originally didn't plan to go to the early court today, but he knew that with Chongzhen's urgency, the early dynasty would definitely deal with the matter of Min Hongxue and Min Mengde today, and he didn't want to wait anxiously for the results in Chongxing Temple, let alone miss the perfect opportunity to observe Wen Tiren's move, so he decided to go to the morning court!

The carriage swayed for more than half an hour, and finally stopped, and Zhang Pan said softly outside: "My lord, the West Chang'an Gate has arrived." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he opened the door curtain, turned over and jumped off the horse.

A cold wind hit, and he couldn't help but shiver, it was really cold.

At this time, the sky was still dark, and Zhang Bin looked around by the faint light of the torches on the city wall, and there was already a long queue outside the West Chang'an Gate, and one by one the officials were showing their waist cards in turn, giving the palace gate guards a closer look, and the whole team was moving very slowly.

No wonder they have to come over so early, there are thousands of officials who go to the court every time, and they are slowly inspected one by one, and I am afraid that it will not be enough for half an hour.

He didn't have a special waist card for entering the palace in the morning, so he came a little earlier, because he had to register and take the waist card, but he didn't expect that there were people who came earlier than him, these officials are really "diligent".

Zhang Bin shook his head and slowly walked towards the city gate, he did not line up, but walked directly to the position where the guards registered in the city gate cave.

In fact, these guards are also very busy, because every time an official passes by, they have to draw a picture on the roster, so that the Metropolitan Procuratorate and various departments can check the matter, whether there are officials in Beijing who are absent from the early dynasty, if they are absent, it will be a big trouble, and the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and each section will play a fold to impeach you!

There are dozens of pages in the roster of thousands of officials, and it is not easy to quickly find the name of each official, Zhang Bin was looking at the registered guard's tick, and a guard suddenly shouted: "What person, stop." ”

It turned out that he had unknowingly walked into the city gate.

In order not to arouse Chongzhen's suspicion, Zhang Bin did not let Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing greet the guards at the gate of the imperial city, so these guards did not know his identity, and he had to go through the regular process to enter the palace.

He also inquired about the formal process, which is to register and get a temporary license plate.

He quickly took out his waist card, handed it to the guard, and said loudly: "The left deputy of the Imperial Palace, the squire of the military department, the governor of Fuguang, Zhang Bin, went to Beijing to report on his work, and he came to participate in the early dynasty." ”

It's a long list of official positions, the officials queuing up in front of the door couldn't help but be startled by the position he reported, although he was wearing a three-rank civil official uniform, most people thought he was just a fictitious three-rank official, because he was too young, I didn't expect him to be a real feudal official!

The face of the city gate guard did not change, he just looked at the waist card carefully, and then looked back at the general flag that was being registered, the general flag looked up, and then bowed his head and said, "Wait a minute." ”

This wait is to tell Zhang Bin to wait, and it is also to tell the officials who passed through the city gate to wait.

Of course, if Zhang Bin is just a seven-grade county order, then Zhang Bin will wait alone, and when the other officials are finished, he will be given a waist card.

I saw that the general flag quickly pulled out a roster that was still half blank, brushed down Zhang Bin's official position and name, and then took out a waist card and looked at the number on it, and then wrote it down on the roster, and then handed it to the guard next to him, and said to Zhang Bin: "Come back after leaving Beijing." ”

Zhang Bin took the waist card with both hands, thanked him, and then walked to the back of the official team and followed the line.

There were not many people at this time, there were only a dozen officials in front of him, and in less than a stick of incense, he passed through the door hole and entered the imperial city.

He silently followed the officials in front of him through the Chengtian Gate, passed through the six duty rooms to the noon gate, and then found a place and stood there alone and waited.

At this time, hundreds of officials had gathered in front of the noon gate, three of them in groups, five in a group, and they were gathering together to whisper something, and no one came to greet him, but many officials pretended to glance at him casually and remembered his appearance in their hearts.

Most of the officials gathered together at this time were talking about Min Hongxue and Min Mengde, but some people occasionally mentioned him, such a young feudal official naturally wanted to introduce it to the officials he was familiar with, so that they could see Zhang Bin's appearance, if nothing else, this Zhang Bin would definitely be an important minister of the court at the level of a cabinet scholar in the future!

As time went by, more and more officials came to the noon gate, Zhang Bin saw Xu Guangqi and Bi Maoliang, but he didn't go over to say hello, Chongzhen was very disgusted with forming a party for personal gain, and it was better to be careful in everything.

He didn't run to say hello to anyone, but someone ran to say hello to him.

I saw an old man with a gray beard, a puffy face, and dark eyes walking over from a position near the noon gate, and arched his hand at him: "Dare to ask, but Lord Zhang, the governor of Fuguang?" ”

Zhang Bin glanced at him inexplicably, who is this, I don't know, I am about to become a panda eye, obviously overtrained, I am so old, I don't know if I am overworking in the yamen, or overpracticing at home.

He politely replied: "Exactly, exactly, I don't know who this adult is?" ”

People are wearing robes from the first grade, and they don't know which big guy it is, so they don't dare to offend casually.

Unexpectedly, the old man bowed to him solemnly, and then arched his hand and said: "The old man is strict, and he has always wanted to find an opportunity to thank Master Zhang in person, but he has never had the opportunity to meet, and today I finally met, thank you Lord Zhang for saving his brother's life." ”

Bi Ziyan, one of the few capable officials in the late Ming Dynasty, his talent is no less than Yuan Keli, however, because he is in charge of the finance of the Ming Dynasty, he is not as famous as Yuan Keli, but his contribution to the Ming Dynasty is not inferior to Yuan Keli.

It can be said that the finances of the Chongzhen Dynasty can persist for more than ten years without making ends meet, relying on him, as soon as he dies, the finances of the Chongzhen Dynasty will collapse, if he is careful in his calculations, Chongzhen will not be poor in the end to borrow money from the minister!

The reason why he wore the robe from the first grade was precisely because he was in the second year of Chongzhen, when Huang Taiji attacked the capital, he didn't sleep for more than a month, and mobilized grain and grass for the army of 400,000 Qin Wang, and finally, Huang Taiji retreated, and he was so tired that his head was swollen like a grain bucket, vomiting blood, Chongzhen was very moved, and promoted him to the crown prince.

Such a famous minister who works hard for the country and the people, Zhang Bin is very respectful in his heart, he hurriedly replied, and said respectfully: "Lord Bi is polite, I just happened to confiscate a few corrupt officials, and I didn't dare to take credit, I didn't dare to take credit." ”

Bi Ziyan praised: "You didn't happen to raid a few corrupt officials, you exterminated pirates, rectified the officialdom, opened up the mutual market, and achieved remarkable results." To put it mildly, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are all asking me for money, only you are sending me money in a strong way, and you can have a capable official like Lord Zhang, Daming is very lucky! ”

When he said this, Zhang Bin blushed a little, and he said embarrassedly: "Master Bi, I have won the award, I have won the award." ”

After Bi Ziyan saw Zhang Bin, he seemed to be quite happy, and he said enthusiastically: "Master Zhang, you are the first time to come to the early dynasty." ”

Zhang Bin nodded awkwardly and said, "Yes, Master Bi, you know everything!" ”

Bi Zi couldn't help but smile and said: "Hahahaha, of course I know, you are standing in the wrong position, you are a member of the third grade, what are you doing standing behind here, you can't run when you wait for the next queue, hahahaha." ”

Zhang Bin was surprised: "Ah, line up." ”

Bi Ziyan nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, the drum of the noon gate is beating, and the civil and military ministers have to line up to greet each other, come, it's not too early, I'll take you to the front." ”

This thing was really a little embarrassing, he forgot to ask himself where he should stand, but fortunately, there was an old courtier here to guide the way, and he secretly asked: "Master Bi, where should I stand." ”

Bi Ziyan led him forward, then shook his head and said: "Your main position is the left deputy capital imperial history of the Metropolitan Inspection Institute and the squire of the military department, both of which are the third grade, but the squire of the military department is a false title, and the left deputy of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan is the real main position, so you should stand behind the left imperial history of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy." ”

Who is the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he really doesn't know it, but Bi Ziyan has moved forward, and he can only follow hard.

Their chat, can be the Manchu Dynasty civil and military shock, at this time the court does not have a master, Taifu, Taibao and other first-class civil officials, Bi Ziyan, the prince from the first grade of the Taibao is equivalent to the highest level of civil officials in the court, although he did not enter the cabinet, but in the Manchu Dynasty civil and military influence is not lower than the cabinet scholars.

Such an important minister of the court actually pulled a young man to chat enthusiastically, and completely forgot that this was outside the noon gate, who is this young man?

It just so happened that someone heard Zhang Bin's official position at the gate of the imperial city, and when Zhang Bin came in, some people couldn't help but introduce him to his familiar colleagues, and there were still many people who knew his official position, so Zhang Bin's official position soon spread among all officials.

"Hiss", the sound of inhalation in the field continued, such a young governor of the two provinces!

Zhang Bin didn't pay attention to these, he was thinking hard about who the left capital of the Imperial Court was, as for the right imperial history, he didn't have to think about it, which yamen boss was usually concurrent, and it was estimated that he would not stand in the part of the Imperial Palace.

He thought about it for a while, but he still didn't come up with it, but he didn't need to think about it, because he was already there.

Bi Ziyan greeted a green-bearded old man with a smile: "Lord Cao, this is your left deputy imperial history Zhang Bin Zhang. ”

The blue-bearded old man smiled and arched his hand, "Master Zhang, you can be regarded as back." ”

Zhang Bin is so embarrassed, he has been in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for four years, and he doesn't even know the boss of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he can only smile and salute back: "Lord Cao, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the lower official has been busy in Fuguang for a few years, and he hasn't had time to come to the meeting." ”

In fact, he was in the capital during the Chinese New Year last year, but at that time, Huang Taiji came over, the capital was in chaos, and all the yamen officials were dragged to organize the city defense, besides, he has been busy fighting and has no time to visit everywhere.

The imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is called Cao Yubian, and he is also a stubborn old man, originally he was also implicated in the case of Yuan Chonghuan by the remnants of the eunuch party in history, and was forced to resign, but now because Zhang Bin saved Yuan Chonghuan and survived.

He is the kind of meritocracy official, and he has long heard of Zhang Bin's ability, so he was quite polite to Zhang Bin, Zhang Bin apologized, he quickly shook his head and said: "It's okay, it's okay, you have a heavy responsibility, Governor Fuguang, you should focus on official affairs, and you don't need to come to see me, an old man." Haven't you seen this today, come and stand this way, stand this way. ”

Zhang Bin hurriedly stood towards the position he pointed to, but as soon as he stood over, he was stunned, because there was an old acquaintance standing there, Huang Chenghao!

Cao Yubian looked at him stunned, thinking that he was embarrassed because he didn't know anyone, so he hurriedly patted his forehead and introduced: "Oh, it's old, it's old, you see my memory, I forgot to introduce it to you, this is Lord Huang Chenghao Huang of the left deputy capital, and this is Lord Zhang Jie Zhang of the right deputy capital of the imperial history." ”

There is only one left capital imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but there are many temporary right imperial historians and left and right deputy imperial historians and left and right imperial historians, generally governors and the like, this Huang Chenghao and Zhang Jie are full-time deputy imperial historians, not in the Imperial Procuratorate, but in charge of the Imperial Procuratorate.

These two people are actually very familiar with Zhang Bin, Huang Chenghao needless to say, he threatened this thing as a one-eyed dragon soldier ruffian to overturn the two officials, and this Zhang Jie has also been investigated, because he is Wen Tiren's cronies, and he specially impeached Wen Tiren for dissidents.

These two people naturally didn't know Zhang Bin, but they saw that Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, and Cao Yubian, the imperial historian of the left capital, were so polite to Zhang Bin, so they naturally didn't dare to slack off.

Zhang Bin hurriedly returned the salute frequently, pretending to greet them, chatting and chatting, Huang Chenghao suddenly wondered: "Lord Zhang, where do we seem to have met, talking to you, it feels very cordial?" ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he fainted at the wrong point, but he was kind, if I wore an eye patch and blackened my face, I would have to scare you to tremble, he hurriedly snorted and diverted the topic.

Everyone chatted in a low voice for a while, and suddenly a drum beat sounded on the noon gate, and everyone immediately closed up and began to line up, Zhang Bin was forced by Huang Chenghao and Zhang Jie to the front of the deputy capital Yushi, and stood closely behind Cao Yubian.

He didn't care about it at this time, because he was carefully watching the flow of the early dynasty.