The Ming Dynasty patrol city imperial history is under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Procuratorate, so the power in the hands is very great, what fights, graffiti, open defecation, random parking, etc. have the right to ask, as well as people who come to Beijing to fight lawsuits, the imperial history of the city patrol also has the right to accept the pleading. If it is divided according to the later generations, it is a combination of urban management, traffic police, sanitation, and circuit courts.

It is precisely because of the great power in the hands of the Imperial History of the City Patrol that Zhu Yuanzhang set the rules that the Imperial History of the City Patrol must be selected and transferred to be an upright person, and they are all some nerd people who admit death. The imperial history Zhou Guanzheng in the Hongwu period is a typical example.

One day, Zhou Guanzheng was wandering around the inner city, picking a little fault with anyone. At this time, a eunuch in the palace with a bunch of dancing girls was about to be led into the palace. Zhou Guanzheng took a look, and this was okay. He stopped the eunuchs and prevented them from entering the palace. The Grand Supervisor said bluntly: "This is the emperor's order!" "Zhou Guanzheng said that if you don't use the emperor to pressure me, you just won't let me in. The eunuch had no choice but to enter the palace to inform the emperor.

After a while, the eunuch came out with a smile and said to Zhou Guanzheng: "Lord Yushi, this matter is over, the emperor doesn't want a dancing girl." Zhou Guanzheng said that it would not work, I had to ask the emperor to come out and tell me in person. In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang really had no choice, so he had to come out of the palace in person, and said to Zhou Guanzheng in person: "Because the etiquette in the harem is not happy, I want the concubines to learn it." I already know it's wrong, so please go back. Zhou Guanzheng just gave up.

From this point, we can see how great the power of the imperial history of the Ming Dynasty was, and the emperor had to come out and apologize in person if he made a mistake. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial history system became a tool for those cabinet elders in the court to fight against differences, although the imperial history system changed its nature, but the system of patrolling the city and the imperial history still persisted.

After Zhu Hongsan took over the Ming Dynasty, he also inherited this system, and selected and transferred appropriate officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate to serve as the imperial historian of the city. And today Li Fugui was unlucky, and he happened to run into the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspectorate.

Li Fugui was sitting in the sedan chair, with his eyes closed and dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Festival, when he suddenly felt that the sedan chair stopped.

Li Fugui frowned, no! My home is far away from the main street of Luomashi, how can I get there so quickly.

Li Fugui stomped his feet with his eyes closed, and then asked, "What's the situation?" ”

The family members outside the sedan car listened to the old man's words, and hurriedly approached and whispered: "Master, I have met the imperial history of the city patrol on the other side!" ”

In the late Ming Dynasty, the military generals and nobles were suppressed by the civil officials, and the military generals had to kneel when they saw the civil officials. Although Li Fugui is a marquis, in order to avoid getting into trouble, he still tells his family to avoid the sedan chair when he encounters a civil official, not to mention the mental illness of the city patrol royal history.

Li Fugui heard what his family said, nodded and didn't speak. Originally, he thought that his palanquin was carrying a lantern, and it read "Guangning Marquis Mansion", and he should not be able to find trouble with this lantern to patrol the city.

Knowing that the group of people outside didn't leave in front of Li Fugui's sedan chair, a voice asked, "Who are you?" ”

The Li family hurriedly said: "If you go back to your lordship, we are from the Marquis of Guangning, and my lord is in the sedan chair!" "That family member is also smart, and when they saw Lord Yushi's question, they quickly carried their master out, hoping that Lord Yushi would raise his noble hand and let him go.

The Lord who knew that Imperial History snorted and asked, "Hmph! Guangning Hou? Why hasn't this official heard of it? ”

"Lord Hui, my marquis is a hereditary marquis of His Majesty, and at the same time, my lord is also His Majesty's minister of the dragon in Wuchang!" That family was also a little unhappy, although the Marquis of Guangning and those dukes could not be compared, but now there were less than ten marquis in the capital, and his lord was about to become the emperor's in-laws, so the Li family was still relatively arrogant.

The Li family originally wanted to brag for their master, but they didn't expect these words to annoy Lord Yushi who patrolled the city.

"Hmph, what the Marquis of Guangning is, this official doesn't care! But don't you know the law of the court? Don't you know about the curfew after the first three quarters? As a noble member of the court, your lord is about to set an example and set an example for the people of the world. Come! Take these people down and bring them back to the yamen for a detailed trial! ”

The Imperial History of the City Patrol took fifty armor soldiers, and when he heard the adults say this, they rushed up one by one, and they were about to make a move.

Li Fugui didn't come out today because he was pretending to be forced, but because this kind of thing didn't happen before. Li Fugui used to always come out to drink when he had nothing to do, and it was common to go home at night, and he had encountered the Jinyi Guard, the Infantry Yamen, and the Imperial History of the City Patrol, but he didn't turn his face like today.

Li Fugui heard in the sedan chair that people didn't give face, so he had no choice but to walk out of the sedan chair in person, and said, "Lord Yushi." Mishi-sama! The old man is really Guangning Hou Li Fugui! Please raise your noble hand, Li will definitely remember the kindness of the adult! ”

Li Fugui is a super marquis, plus he is the emperor's comrade-in-arms, that imperial history is only from the seventh grade, and it is already very good that Li Fugui can put his figure so low. Li Fugui was also an old fritter in the rivers and lakes back then, and he knew that the county officials were not as good as the current management, but now that he is in the hands of others, he still has to say some small things.

Li Fugui's abacus is very good, but the imperial history of the city patrol does not give face. The imperial history got off the horse, looked Li Fugui up and down and said with a smile: "You said that you are the Marquis of Guangning, what proof do you have?" And what if you are the Marquis of Guangning? Is there still His Majesty the Emperor? When Emperor Taizu Gao made a mistake, he had to come out in person to admit his mistake to Zhou Yushi, what are you doing? ”

The last sentence of the imperial history was already sharp, and he said to the soldiers beside him: "What are you waiting for? Still hands-on? Take down this guy who pretends to be a marquis! ”

With Shangguan's order, those soldiers no longer hesitated, and stepped forward with ropes to tie Li Fugui and the family strongly.

Li Fugui is almost sixty years old this year, and he is the opponent of those soldiers, struggling to be tied up, Li Fugui scolded loudly: "Do you know who Lao Tzu and I are?" Do you know what the relationship between Lao Tzu and His Majesty the Emperor is? You wait, what's your name? Lao Tzu must tell Your Majesty that you will be sent to prison! ”

That imperial historian was in his thirties, and when he heard Li Fugui's words, he laughed and said, "You want to sue?" Okay, you remember, the official's name is Jiang Huan, a person from Nanchang, Jiangxi, if you want to sue, go to sue! ”

This imperial history is called Jiang Huan, and he is the only son of Jiang Yueguang, the old man of Zhishi Pavilion. When Jiang Yueguang took his family to Guangdong, he handed over his family to his friend Qian Qianyi to take care of. Jiang Yueguang is highly educated, but Jiang Huan is not good, Jiang Huan and the genius child Qian Yiai cannot be compared, Jiang Huan has read books for more than 20 years and is just a talent.

Qian Qianyi saw that his old friend's son was really not a reading material, so he couldn't use the power in his hands to arrange Jiang Huan to enter the Ministry of Rites as a secretary.

After more than ten years, Jiang Huan, under the care of Qian Qianyi and his father Jiang Yueguang, also mixed with the six-grade member wailang in the Ministry of Rites. Last year, when Jiang Yueguang was old, Emperor Zhu Hongsan was a little embarrassed to see that Lao Jiang had worked hard for himself for more than ten years, and in the end there was no title, so he ordered to give Jiang Huan a gift to the same Jinshi background, which was regarded as a reward for Jiang Yueguang's more than ten years of dedication to himself.

It was Qu Shiyun who succeeded Jiang Yueguang in the cabinet, not to mention Lao Qu, who was a student of Qian Qianyi and a student of Jiang Yueguang. After Qu Shiyun took office, in order to repay Jiang Yueguang's kindness, he spent a lot of effort to get Jiang Huan into the Metropolitan Procuratorate as a seven-rank imperial history.

Jiang Huan was originally a sixth-grade, but when he went to the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, he became a seventh-grade and lowered by two levels, but Jiang Yueguang was very grateful to Qu Shiyun after knowing the news. Jiang Yueguang was not mad, and his son was demoted and thanked Qu Shiyun. It's that the identity of this Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is very unusual.

The growth process of officials in the Ming Dynasty is divided into two lines, after winning the Jinshi, he learned well and entered the Hanlin Academy as a Hanlin, and even more awesome went to the Prime Minister's preparatory class, that is, Shu Jishi. These Hanlin and Shuji were the pillars of the country, and in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, they formed a tradition that non-Hanlin and Shuji were not allowed to enter the cabinet.

There is also a group of people with average examination scores who go to the six ministries to observe the government, and after a year, they are assigned jobs according to the examination results, and some enter the six ministries and some go to local officials. If there is no chance for these, the highest in this life will be mixed with the four-grade prefect, and then it will be more than enough to have more than enough strength. However, there are exceptions to everything, and there is another fast track for promotion outside of Hanlin, that is, the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is a very magical department, these lowly officials and the Hanlin and various departments have formed a strange group in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Qingliu. These guys are not afraid of chaos, they have to participate in everything in the court, and if they succeed, they will be famous all over the world, and if they don't succeed, they only need to say "rumors".

It is precisely because of the characteristics of the Imperial Procuratorate that these imperial historians are very familiar in front of the emperor, and everyone knows that it is easy to do anything with the boss, so when he was promoted, the emperor also thought of these imperial historians for the first time.

These imperial histories look at a low level, but they all hold heavy power, Hu Zongxian, a famous anti-Japanese general of the year, was born in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, at first he was a patrol, and finally became the governor of Zhejiang, you say that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is not powerful.

Of course, everyone is watching such a good department, and Jiang Yueguang also wanted to get his son into the Metropolitan Procuratorate back then. However, Jiang Yueguang, as the elder in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, got his son to a good department before he retired, even if his colleagues didn't scold Jiang Yueguang, he didn't have the face to do this. (The morality of officials in the Ming Dynasty was much stronger than that of later generations, and it was common for later generations to arrange their sons into good departments after retirement!) ）

Jiang Yueguang can't do this, but there is no problem with Qu Shiyun, he understands the intention of the old leader, and not long after taking office, he will bring Jiang Huan into the Imperial Procuratorate as the imperial history, this great favor Jiang Yueguang naturally cried with gratitude.

It's just that the nature of the work of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Rites is different, and the Ministry of Rites is responsible for specific business, and if you do a good job, you can be promoted. However, if the Metropolitan Procuratorate wants to be promoted, it must be in the limelight, that is, scolding and impeaching officials.

After Jiang Huan entered the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he soon found that he had to do the same if he wanted to be promoted, but Jiang Huan had just entered the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he was not qualified to serve as a low-powered patrol, and he had no chance to scold people, and there was no condition for impeaching officials, so Jiang Huan had no choice but to serve as the lowest-level city patrol imperial history, at least he could meet unlucky officials.