Following Zhu Wanting's order, the painting boat soon stopped at the humble wharf of a fishing village by the river.

"Case leader Li, Miss Qin, the county lord is a little unwell, and he has to get off the boat in advance, and a luncheon has been prepared on the ship, so you can enjoy it with peace of mind."

To Li Hongyu's surprise, Zhu Wanting did not drive him and Qin Yue off the boat, but coldly explained a sentence to the two of them and then got off the boat surrounded by the guards.

The moment she got off the boat, Zhu Wanting couldn't hold back the sadness in her heart anymore, and tears rolled down her cheeks like beads with broken threads.

In Zhu Wanting's opinion, she was simply a joke in front of Li Hongyu and Qin Yue, who showed affection, which was undoubtedly a humiliation that she had never felt before, so she couldn't wait to escape from this place.

In fact, the angry Zhu Wanting wanted to drive Li Hongyu and Qin Yue off the boat in a hurry, but then reason stopped her from thinking about it, although she was defeated today, she always had to leave the last dignity.

On the deck of the painting boat, Li Hongyu looked apologetically at the back of Zhu Wanting, who was going away, he knew that today's incident must have hurt Zhu Wanting's heart, so he felt extremely guilty.

Qin Yue stood beside Li Hongyu in a complicated mood, although she had defeated Zhu Wanting in the competition of piano skills just now, but in the end, Zhu Wanting's departure greatly surprised her.

This means that Zhu Wanting seems to care about Li Hongyu very much, otherwise as a dignified county lord, she would definitely not run away, which made Qin Yue's mood a little bad for some reason, she would rather be beaten up by Zhu Wanting's guards.

"Brother Yu, what should we do next?" Waiting for Zhu Wanting's figure to disappear from sight, Qin Yue took a deep breath and asked Li Hongyu on the side.

"Since the county lord has prepared a sumptuous banquet, then how can we waste a piece of the county lord's good intentions." Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, turned around and walked towards the cabin.

Qin Yue couldn't help but shake her head when she heard this, and followed behind Li Hongyu, with the current situation, where is she in the mood to eat, I am afraid that even if the delicacies of the mountains and seas are placed in the mouth, it will taste like chewing wax, but since this is Zhu Wanting's intention, she and Li Hongyu have to enjoy it hard, no matter how much façade work is done.

In the afternoon, Li Hongyu and Qin Yue entered Wuchang City in a carriage, and the two of them were silent along the way, thinking about their own thoughts, and what happened on the painting boat made both of them very depressed.

"Young Master, you're back, Lord Qincha is already waiting inside to deliver the holy decree to you!"

In front of the Li Mansion, Rou'er was waiting there anxiously, and when she saw Li Hongyu's carriage coming, she hurriedly looked happy, and quickly greeted her, and Li Hongyu, who got off the car, said in a coquettish voice, with an unconcealable excitement in her words.

"Chincha? Divine decree? Li Hongyu was slightly stunned at first when he heard this, and then his eyes lit up, it seems that his "destruction of the family and relief of difficulties" in Baihe Town has been responded to by Emperor Wanli.

"Brother Yu, go and receive the holy decree, don't let Lord Qincha wait for a long time." Just when Li Hongyu was a little stunned, Qin Yue, who got off the carriage after him, reminded happily.

Li Hongyu came back to his senses this time, and hurriedly walked into the courtyard gate, it turned out that the Qincha who came from the capital to deliver the decree arrived in Wuchang City in the morning, and he was already on Zhu Wanting's painting boat at that time.

Some soldiers were resting in the shade of the courtyard, with the honor guards of the Qin Cha beside them, talking in groups, while Li Hongqing in the living room in front of him was standing there with a smile on his face, accompanied by a middle-aged man in eunuch clothes and slowly sipping tea.

Li Hongyu knew that the eunuch was the messenger sent by the Wanli Emperor to deliver the decree, and he was only responsible for conveying the holy decree of the Wanli Emperor and did not interfere in local government affairs.

"Li Hongyu, a member of Xiangyang Mansion, has seen Lord Qincha." After walking quickly into the living room, Li Hongyu came to the middle-aged eunuch and bowed in an orderly manner.

"The head of the Li case is dignified, and he is really a young hero." Hearing this, the eunuch put down the teacup in his hand, looked at Li Hongyu and said with a smile.

"Lord Qincha has won the award, and he just did what he should do." Li Hongyu smiled slightly, and asked quietly, "I don't know what Lord Qincha is called?" ”

"The miscellaneous family is Yang Yu, the left eunuch of the Divine Palace." The middle-aged eunuch smiled when he heard this, got up and said, "Since the head of the case Li is here, then let's take the order." ”

"Lord-sama wait a moment." Li Hongyu bowed to Yang Yu, got up and left in a hurry.

It is rumored that when receiving the holy decree, it is necessary to bathe and change clothes, burn incense and pray to show solemnity, although this is not an official process, but no one dares to take the emperor's grace lightly.

Li Hongyu was naturally not exempt from vulgarity, bathed and changed clothes under the service of Rou'er, and then hurried back to the front yard, Li Hongqing had already asked people to put an incense table in the courtyard and put a soft cushion for him to kneel to welcome the holy decree.

"Li Hongyu, a student of Baihe Town, took the order." When Li Hongyu came to the incense case, Yang Yu took a yellow brocade scroll rolled together from the hand of the chamberlain standing on the side, and said loudly to Li Hongyu.

"Li Hongyu, a member of Baihe Town, received the order, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Hearing this, Li Hongyu knelt on the cushion with his knees bent, and shouted loudly.

With Li Hongyu's action, including Qin Yue, the people of the Li family at the scene knelt down one after another.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Check, Li Hongyu, a native of Baihe Town, Jiangkou County, Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang, is especially young, loyal to the monarch and worried about the country, and the poor family has done their best to defend the border of eastern Liaodong, I am very pleased with this, so I specially inspected his admission to Beiyong."

Seeing this, Yang Yu opened the holy decree in his hand, and read it out in a sharp voice, "In addition, Li Hongyu's mother, Zhao's godson, has a good way, and she is specially given the title of a seven-grade widow and an example for the world. Chin this! ”

"Li Hongyu bows to thank the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live." After listening to the content of the holy decree, Li Hongyu's face couldn't help but be happy, and he hurriedly kowtowed again to thank him.

He enrolled in Beiyong for a small matter, but he didn't expect the Zhao family to become the wife of the Ming Dynasty's seven products, so he will undoubtedly feel much more at ease, the Zhao family has this title and the holy decree of the Wanli Emperor, then no one on the ground in Xiangyang Mansion dares to provoke her.

The so-called "Beiyong" refers to Beijing's Guozijian, after the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beiping, the Ming Dynasty implemented the two-Beijing system, that is, there are two capitals, one is Beiping City, known as Beijing, and the other is Jinling City, known as Nanjing.

Of course, Beijing is the location of the central yamen of the Ming Dynasty, which is commonly known as the five governments and six departments, but Nanjing also has the same set of central yamen as Beijing, and also has five governments and six departments.

The five government and six departments in Beijing are parallel in rank to the five government and six departments in Nanjing, and the official ranks of officials with the same position are the same, but the five government and six departments in Nanjing have been slimmed, and the number and scale are far inferior to the five government and six departments in Beijing.

The reason for this is because when the Yongle Emperor moved the capital, the northern border was unstable, and he was faced with the attack of the remnants of the Mengyuan Dynasty, and the Yongle Emperor implemented the national policy of "the Son of Heaven Imperial Gate" and signed the capital to Beiping City, but he was worried that your Beiping City was too close to the enemy, so he considered the possibility of the fall of Beiping City.

At that time, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty could move to Nanjing City to continue to sit in command, because there was also a set of central yamen in Nanjing City, which could be put into operation immediately, so that the country's military and political affairs would not be delayed.

Over time, the Liangjing system was retained, which means that the Ming Dynasty had two Guozijian, one in Beijing City, called Beiyong, and one in Nanjing City, and one in Nanyong.

Because the central yamen of Beijing City was responsible for the operation of the affairs of the Ming Dynasty, the seal was engraved with the words "a certain department of the Ming Dynasty", and the seal of each yamen of Nanjing City, which was the nature of accompanying the capital, was engraved with the words "a certain department of Nanjing" as a distinction.

Therefore, the Guozijian in Beijing is also called the "Guozijian of the Ming Dynasty", and the Guozijian of Nanjing City can only be called the "Guozijian of Nanjing".

As the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty, it is an act of glorifying the ancestors to be able to enter the Guozijian, and the prisoners in it can directly participate in the township examination, or they can become officials.

Of course, donor inmates like Liu Dongfu, who obtained the qualification of Guozi Prison Supervisor by donating money and property, cannot directly participate in the township examination, and are not regarded as the "right path" for prison students, and need to pass the assessment of the school officials, but the pass rate is much higher than that of students in the state capital.

With this holy decree of Emperor Wanli, as long as Li Hongyu did not take the Jinshi examination, he could stay in the Guozi Prison in Beijing to study, he was the "Grace Prisoner" among the prisoners, so he obtained the qualification to step into the officialdom as an official, and had the opportunity to enter the official from the prison.

However, in the civil official system of the Ming Dynasty, the jinshi from the two lists are the orthodoxy of the officialdom and can be ranked in a high position in the court, so Li Hongyu will naturally not be satisfied with the little prisoner.

"Case leader Li, the emperor's decree will be read to Mother Ling in Baihe Town, so this decree will not be given to you, and it will be handed over to Mother Ling for safekeeping."

Yang Yu put away the holy decree and said to Li Hongyu with a smile, "The emperor has high expectations for the head of the case, don't let the emperor down!" ”

"Thank you Lord Qincha for the reminder, I will do my best to repay the emperor's kindness."

Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, he naturally knew that this was Yang Yu being polite, where would Emperor Wanli care about him being such a little pawn, but he couldn't show it, and said to Yang Yu with a smile, "Lord Qincha, if it's late today, I don't know if the adults can appreciate the light, let me do the friendship of the landlord." ”

"The head of the Li case has a good intention, and the governor has already prepared a banquet, so let's wait for the next time we have a chance to get together." Yang Yu smiled slightly, swaggered away under the opening of the honor guard, and Li Hongyu led the people of the Li family to send him to the door.

Yang Yu did not only pass the decree to Li Hongyu and the Zhao family this time, he also brought the holy decree of the Wanli Emperor to praise the Yamen of Huguang Governor and the officials of Xiangyang Mansion and Jiangkou County, so the governor Li Yu naturally wanted to set up a banquet for Yang Yu to receive the wind and wash the dust.

"Third brother, our Li family has never received the emperor's holy decree, this time you can glorify your ancestors." Waiting for Yang Yu and his party to leave, Li Hongqing said to Li Hongyu with a smile, with excitement and excitement on his face.

Li Hongyu smiled when he heard this, to be honest, he didn't expect that the 10,000 taels of silver would be exchanged for such a rich return, and those people in Xiangyang Mansion who questioned him could obediently close their mouths, those people were short-sighted, and they only cared about the little interests in front of them.

"Young Master, there is one thing I almost forgot, Young Master Yi came from the prison and said that he wanted to eat sweet and sour fish." At this time, Rou'er, who was standing on the side, suddenly remembered something, so she stepped forward and whispered to Li Hongyu.

"You make arrangements, I'm going to visit the prison tomorrow." Li Hongyu's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this, and he instructed in a deep voice.

Sweet and sour fish is the code agreed between Li Hongyu and Li Hongyi, which means that Li Hongyi thought of the important details of the Mingyue Pavilion case, so he naturally wanted to go to the prison to see Li Hongyi.

"I'll do it." Rou'er smiled and nodded in agreement, since Shen Bocheng pulled the line last time, it was much easier to see Li Hongyi, and the money was spent in the right place, so it would not be wasted.