Chapter 194: Greeting the Chincha
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The things in the Great Song Palace, Zhong Hao naturally had no way of knowing. After all, the place of the palace was too far away from him, not only in terms of distance, but also in terms of status, and the distance was too far.
Zhong Hao has his own affairs to be busy, and today he is busy receiving the Qincha sent by the imperial court to investigate the authenticity of high-yield grain crops with a yield of ten stones per mu.
The name of the messenger sent by the imperial court is Lin Shaohua, who is a member of the household department.
The official offices of the Great Song Dynasty overlapped too much with each other's powers, and the stacking of beds and frames was very complicated. The power of the three provinces and six ministries of the Great Song Dynasty overlapped with other government offices, so they would naturally be embezzled by other government offices.
The division of powers among the three provinces and six ministries, the subordinate and the Zhongshu monk, is very unclear. The six ministries were usurped by other government agencies for more power.
Like the power that the household department should have, it was basically embezzled by the three divisions. A large part of the power of the officials was usurped by the Inquisition. The powers of the Criminal Department were seized by the Criminal Court, and the Taichang Rite Court divided the powers and duties that should have belonged to the Ministry of Rites.
Among them, the power of the household department was the most encroached upon, because the other ministries still shared the power with other government agencies, and the household department was directly placed under the jurisdiction of the three envoys. The Great Song Dynasty took salt and iron, household department, and degree branch as the three divisions, and set up one envoy for the three divisions to be in charge of the overall planning of state finance. At this time in the Great Song Dynasty, the household department was reduced to the same status as the salt and iron division and the degree branch division.
The powers of the six ministries have been reduced, and the rank of their internal official positions has also declined. Like the staff of each department of the six departments, from the fifth or sixth grade in the former Tang Dynasty, to the seventh grade.
However, a seventh-grade household member is not something Zhong Hao can treat slowly, after all, he is a Beijing official, and he is closer to the center.
After Zhong Hao arranged the reception of Jingqiang Village, he personally led people to Hehejin Ferry to greet the forester Wailang.
The pomp of the Great Song Dynasty was far less than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Qincha team led by the forester Wailang crossed the river by the ordinary ferry of Hehejin Ferry.
After getting off the ship, there was neither the legendary regimental dragon flag, nor the bright yellow umbrella flag, nor the guard of honor beating gongs and drums, but two soldiers of the forbidden army with bright armor playing two sets of signs, one of which read "Qin Ordered Envoy Lin" and "Two Lists of Jinshi Lin", followed by twenty soldiers of the forbidden army with equally distinct armor and mighty armor.
The Great Song Dynasty's Qincha ceremonial guard was not as big as the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, and the majesty and style were naturally far from being as big as the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations. The Great Song Dynasty's Qincha honor guard didn't have these things, so Zhong Hao naturally didn't have to kneel.
Of course, in fact, the Great Song Dynasty did not kneel very much, even if it was to meet the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, it was generally just a courtesy. Even if it is a court meeting, the ministers are all courteous to the officials, and there is no need to kneel.
In the Great Song Dynasty, only when the courtiers waited for a reward or a crime, and saw the official family alone, would they kneel and bow to thank the monarch or punish him.
The Great Song Dynasty was far from being like the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, especially the Qing Dynasty, where courtiers wanted the emperor to kneel at every turn. In the later Ming and Qing dynasties, not only did the courtiers have to kneel to the emperor, but the level difference between the courtiers is big, and they also need to kneel.
The dignity of human beings, in this constant kneeling, is becoming less and less.
The officials of the Great Song Dynasty have not trampled on the dignity of their courtiers at every turn like the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations. Of course, even if the officials of the Great Song Dynasty wanted to trample on the dignity of their courtiers, it was not so easy to do. This is an era of "officials and scholars ruling the world together", and the imperial power is far from being as concentrated as in later generations, and the scholars still have a great right to speak.
It is said that Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin felt that the prime minister was sitting on an equal footing with himself when he was in the last dynasty, which was very unhappy. So once, Prime Minister Fan Zhen and others played to Zhao Kuangyin, and at first the ministers were still sitting, Zhao Kuangyin said that his eyes were dizzy and he couldn't see clearly, so he asked the ministers to point him closer. By the time Fan Zhen and the others returned to their original places, their seats had been removed. Fan Zhen was helpless, and it was difficult to ask for a seat, so the prime minister had to stand in front of the emperor to discuss matters.
Even if the eloquent Emperor Taizu wanted to cancel the prime minister's seat in the court, he did so by using this kind of small means that were not on the table. The other Great Song Dynasty officials wanted their courtiers to kneel during the meeting, but I am afraid it would be difficult to do so.
Zhong Hao of the Great Song Dynasty likes this point very much, and later generations are used to everyone being equal, but he is really not used to kneeling down at every turn.
After the guard of honor was set up, the forester Wai Yin slowly disembarked.
Zhong Hao saw the forester Wailang in a green official robe get off the boat, and hurriedly smiled and stepped forward to salute.
"The forester came from afar, and the subordinate officials missed the distance, and they hope to forgive their sins!"
"Zhong Chengshi is too polite, welcome here, this official is already deserved!"
The officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty all call each other by their surnames and official abbreviations, and Zhong Hao really feels a little awkward. Of course, awkwardness also has to be done by the locals.
"Xiaguan Jingqiang Village has prepared a banquet to wash the dust for the forester, let's go on the road, right?"
"Zhong Chengshi is polite, then let's go to Jingqiang Village."
Qincha's carriages and horses were all on another ferry, and when Zhong Hao and the forester were polite to each other, the messengers at those ferries had already helped the forbidden army unload the carriages and horses.
With such a long errand, it is naturally impossible for the forester to come by sedan chair. If he wants to go out on a sedan chair to set up a score, he is naturally not qualified as a small outsider, he came by carriage.
Soon the carriages and horses had been unloaded, and more than two dozen soldiers of the Janissary Army in bright armor were guarding a well-painted carriage with two flags on it. The flag is written on the same as the flag of the forbidden army at the beginning, and it is also a flag with the words "Qin Ordered to Send Envoy Lin", and a flag with the words "Two Lists of Jinshilin".
The forester walked slowly to the brightly painted carriage, and his own entourage helped him lift the curtain of the carriage, and the forester climbed into the carriage elegantly.
I have to say that although this forester is nearly middle-aged, he is very handsome, and this set of actions is elegant and decent, and he has a chic and elegant demeanor. The civil and official demeanor of the Great Song Dynasty will not be lost at any time.
Not far from Hehejin Ferry to Jingqiang Village, only a dozen miles away, Zhong Hao led people to guide the Qincha forester and his party, and soon arrived, all the way without words.
When you arrive at Jingqiang Village, there is still more than a mile away, and you can see the obvious new pad of the loess road. In order to show the importance of Qincha, Zhong Hao and the military and civilian loess mats of Jingqiang Village pad the road, which is more than a mile away.
Walking on the new pad loess road, the forester Wailang is very complacent, when will he be able to get such courtesy? !
She thought it was a chore to come to the northwest on this trip, but now that she has seen Zhong Chengshi's style, I am afraid that it is not an ordinary, northwestern bun that does not understand etiquette, and she may be able to get a lot of oil and water on this trip, and the forester Wailang thought very happily! (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.