After returning to the mansion, Lao Bao presented Wu Zhi with a lot of greetings and gifts, which he left after others came to visit the palace in the morning.

These people who came to visit Wu Zhi were not strangers, they were some literati and official friends he made last time he came to Bianjing, including Xu Ning, Director Lu, Zhou Bangchang and others, as well as a group of students who had made friends with the pair in Fan Lou that day.

Wu Zhi also saw the name he wanted to see in this worship post - Qin Hui.

The current Qin Hui is just a small outsider in the Ministry of Rites, the kind of Beijing official who doesn't even have the qualifications to go to the court.

Put down the greeting post and instructed the housekeeper to return the salute one by one, Wu Zhi also planned to have time to pick a few acquaintances to walk around in the future.

Qin Hui naturally wants to meet him, but not now.

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The next day, Wu Zhi got up early in the morning, and the three ladies who got up earlier than him gathered in Wu Zhi's bedroom, and the three girls surrounded Wu Zhi and happily changed their clothes for Wu Zhi together, as if today was a grand festival.

Although today is not a festival, it is a day for the Great Song Dynasty to look at the court, and Wu Zhi, as the president of the Wupin Hanlin Painting Academy, is a "promotion official" who can go to the court.

In the Song Dynasty, "promoted officials" were a general term for middle and high-ranking officials who could meet the emperor and attend banquets.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the civil ministers from the crown prince Zhongyun, and the military ministers from the inner temple Chongban and above were all promoted to the court. After Shenzong reformed the official system, Wenchen went from Tong Zhilang to Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and Wuchen cultivated Wulang from Wulang to Taiwei, and was promoted to the court. It was also changed to an official above the attendant officer who went to the vertical arch hall every day to see him, and was called a "regular (Japanese counselor) official"; The court officials of each department of the imperial court go to the Zichen Hall once every five days to meet the court, which is called the "Six Counselors (six times a month) official"; The other is to go to the Zichen Palace to see every Shuo (the first day of the new year) and Wang (fifteenth), called "Shuo Counselor".

And Wu Zhi, the "promotion official", is the highest-level "permanent officer" among them, the kind that goes to the court with the prime minister and the secretaries of various ministries.

Therefore, their own officials have become serious officials, and the traditional ladies who want their husbands to become Jackie Chan are naturally happy, in their opinion, even if their own officials have made all the money in the world by doing business, they are not wearing crimson official uniforms, and they can feel more satisfied when they set foot in the Son of Heaven Palace.

Wu Zhi stood in the middle of the bedroom like a tree, Jin Lian was squatting on the ground to help him tuck his pants into Dengyun's official boots; Xue'er finished buttoning and was helping Wu Zhi sort out the belt inlaid with white jade; Sanniang is tall and is tiptoeing to help Wu Zhi put on his official hat.........

Wu Zhi let the ladies serve, because he knew that if he didn't let the ladies do it at this time, they would be unhappy.

"That's it!"

After the three ladies finished tidying up, they looked at Wu Zhi happily with a satisfied face.

"Okay?"

Wu Zhi asked the ladies with a smile.

"That's right! And this ......"

The three beautiful girls' eyes were flooded, and Xue'er suddenly grinned and handed a white object to Wu Zhi.

"Official, show me this, hehe!"

What Xue'er handed over to Wu Zhi was an ivory jade wat board, also known as the court board, which was the utensil that the ancient minister held in his hand when he went to court.

In ancient times, when the minister of civil and military affairs met the king, he held the wat with both hands to record the king's order or will, and could also write down the words to be played to the king on the wat board to prevent forgetting.

In the Book of Rites, it is recorded that "the length of the wat is 2 feet 6 inches, and the middle width is 3 inches", because the size of the ancient times is different from today's size, therefore, 2 feet 6 inches is shorter than today's 2 feet 6 inches. In the Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that the fifth-grade officials and above held the ivory wat, the sixth-rank officials held the wat made of bamboo and wood, and the first- and second-rank prime ministers held the jade wat board.

This tradition of taking jade wat boards in the upper dynasty has been abandoned since the Qing Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty did not bow down, and another major function of the wat board was to put it in front of his face when he spoke, covering his face, and showing his humility and humility...... At the same time, don't let the foaming stars when you speak collapse into the emperor's face, such as Lord Bao during the Renzong period, obviously didn't make good use of this wat board.

"Chen Wuzhi, meet the three ladies!"

Wu Zhi complied with Xue'er's wishes, held the court board, and made a standard pilgrimage to Jinlian Xue'er Sanniang.

"Official, you can only give this gift to the official, we can't afford it!"

Despite what they said, the ladies all laughed.

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As soon as the sky was bright, there were already many carriages parked at the entrance of the palace, most of these carriages were made of red and gold-rimmed curtains, and the frames were very luxurious and noble, and Wu Zhi's carriage made of heavy gold was not very conspicuous in it.

"Wu Zhi, come on, come on, ......"

As soon as Wu Zhi got out of the carriage, Murong Yanda, who had already been guarding the gate of the palace, immediately caught a glimpse of Wu Zhi and waved to Wu Zhi from a distance.

Wu Zhi "went to work" for the first time, and it was inevitable that there would be unfamiliar places, and Murong Yanda, the "old driver", naturally wanted to take him, which was also agreed by them the day before yesterday.

"I've seen Uncle Murong Guo."

Wu Zhi walked quickly to Murong Yanda, and made a salute in a proper manner, and there will be officials entering the palace gate one after another, and they will clasp their fists to show their salutes when they see Murong Yanda, and Wu Zhi is not too casual.

"Master Lu, don't come unharmed?"

Murong Yanda was still standing beside him, and Wu Zhi hurriedly said hello.

"Haha! Wu Zhi! I didn't expect that we would become colleagues so quickly, haha! ”

Director Lu was also very happy to see Wu Zhi.

"Haha, Wu Zhi, you follow us, let's talk while walking......"

Murong Yan Dalu and Wu Zhi walked into the palace gate together, chatting warmly while walking, the people of the Great Song Dynasty were rich and prosperous, but there was nothing peculiar in the palace, not even as good as the Forbidden City in later generations, there was nothing to see, Wu Zhi would not look around like a country bun.

"Brother, you're not simple, I heard that you made a bet with the official family......"

After Murong Yanda asked, Director Lu on the side immediately extended a thumbs up to Wu Zhi and said, "Have the courage!" ”

"Where, it's just that the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger......"

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When they arrived outside the Vertical Arch Palace, the officials were divided into two columns, each column was divided into two teams, and after Wu Zhi found his position, he separated from Murong Yanda and Director Lu.

Murong Yanda walked to the front of the official team on the left, Chief Lu walked to the middle of the official team on the right, and Wu Zhi was at the bottom of the official team on the right.

In fact, Wu Zhi, the dean of the Hanlin Painting Academy, was not qualified to participate in the Japanese Dynasty, just because the current official family is lazy, and the last dynasty is just to walk around the situation, and generally nothing major will end soon, and then everyone will go back to their respective yamen offices to work, and Wu Zhi, the dean of the painting academy who often accompanies the emperor, can directly follow the emperor to the court when the time comes.

The officials have all arrived one after another, and there is still a while before the time of the court meeting, and after everyone has lined up, they all chatted left and right for a while.

Wu Zhi is a newcomer, he doesn't know anyone, he can only smile at the officials around him, and if someone hears his reputation and is interested in talking to him, Wu Zhi will be very humble and answer all questions.

However, there don't seem to be many people who are interested in Wu Zhi, except for a few warm conversations between a Yu Shi from the Imperial History Observatory and Wu Zhi next to him, the other officials around him are all smiling and clenching at Wu Zhi's meaning, so they no longer talk to Wu Zhi.

Wu Zhi didn't care about this, his eyes kept looking at the front of the team now, as if he wanted to see someone.