There are a lot of things in the shogunate, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are many opportunities in the day.

Zhang Juzheng is now the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but the matters under his jurisdiction far exceed the internal affairs of the Ministry of Rites, such as military affairs, river transportation, military training, levy and salary, land, land endowment, river governance, official personnel appointments and dismissals, and all kinds of other things, he has to take care of them. Moreover, I feel that Zhang Juzheng's shogunate is simply a miniature version of the small imperial court, exercising the functions of the prime minister's office.

The Ministry of Rites mainly manages the national literati and etiquette matters, such as education, imperial examinations, etc., and then there is the table for those so-called chaste women, the so-called chaste women are not married for a lifetime, on the contrary, they will not get the reputation of chastity if they do not marry, and the object of the Ministry of Rites is those who can be from the beginning, never remarry after the death of the husband, and how can the widow have forty or fifty years to have the hope of obtaining the table, of course, it is no problem to live for a few years, the Ministry of Rites can make a fuss, saying that you are overly sad because of the death of your husband, or a hunger strike, Or those who hang their husbands can get a watch, and it is the only way to quickly obtain the archway of chastity.

Moreover, not long after entering the shogunate, he encountered a question to discuss whether a woman should be given a chastity archway.

This is a letter to the wife of a servant, and the grief and observance of her husband after his death are of course only testified to by the descriptive words on paper, and they do not believe much.

A heated argument broke out between several of Mr. Zhang's aides over the woman's death from a fish bone less than three years after her husband's death.

According to the description on the paper, this woman committed suicide with a fish bone, which can be called a martyr, and a martyr can get a torii.

"How can such a woman show that she still has the heart to eat fish when her husband dies, this is a three-year mourning period, and she can't eat meat." One of the staff members said angrily.

"Dude, people don't eat fish, they use fish bones as a tool for suicide." A pro-list aide argued.

"If she didn't eat the fish, where did the fish bones come from?"

"Maybe it came from outside, maybe it was eaten by someone else in the family, but this woman didn't eat fish."

"It's just on paper, and I seriously suspect that she was killed by a fish bone while eating fish."

Besides, I feel funny in my heart, and this is clearly with serious doubts. He didn't speak, though.

So, the aides who were in favor of the table and those who were against the table went to war, and they debated for an afternoon without a conclusion. The main thing is whether the woman eats fish or not, if she eats fish and is stuck by fish bones, it means that she has seriously violated the vows during the mourning period, where can she still get the watch. Those who were in favor either pretended not to see it, or insisted that the woman had obtained the bones from elsewhere and that she had eaten the fish herself.

The opposing side questioned: Since it is a suicide martyr, there are so many tools for suicide, why do you choose such a part-of-the-way fish bone? Does the patio have a lid? Don't have scissors or rope at hand?

The positive side is really speechless about this, they also secretly hate in their hearts, why do they want to commit suicide with fish bones, not to mention alternative tools, and the heat when committing suicide is not easy to master, although there are people who are stuck by fish bones every year, but it is not easy to use fish bones to kill themselves, and it is much more difficult to commit suicide than swallowing gold.

In the end, they had to insist: although they didn't understand why this loyal and respectable woman had to choose to commit suicide with fish bones, this loyalty could never be questioned to the heavens, the earth, the sun and the moon.

After Zhang Juzheng listened to the debate between the two parties, he finally made a decision: the table can be given, but the text must be handled well, don't mention the fish bones of the loser, just simply say that this woman died is enough. As for how she died, it is enough not to write too much, but to focus on how she grieved during her mourning.

Afterwards, Zhang Juzheng said his bitterness: this year, there is no woman who is good enough to watch, this phenomenon is not good, it shows that there are signs of decay in the world's etiquette and morality, and he is in the Ministry of Etiquette Shangshu can be described as a dereliction of duty, and it can also show that the emperor's strength in ruling the world with filial piety is not enough, so a representative figure is urgently needed to boost the moral atmosphere.

Zhang Juzheng was angry in his heart, and lost his temper at the person who didn't know where to draft this application for this form: "Fish bones? He thought that this was the "Mencius" test in the field, and he was still stabbing the bear's paw, this was a failure, and it was definitely a failure. ”

Obviously, as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Juzheng also felt responsible for the decline of the literati and humanistic style, so he was angry.

When he first entered the shogunate, he was not in the circle of debate and decision-making as an observer or spectator. This is not only Zhang Juzheng's suggestion, but also his own thoughts, and he will wait until the general situation is understood before expressing his opinion

Moreover, I suddenly thought of a famous saying: without investigation and research, there is no right to speak.

Absolutely no one in the shogunate has ever heard of this sentence, but this is really the reason for doing it here, and whoever can get the right to speak must be an expert on this issue.

The shogunate collected information from all over the country, and almost all aspects of the matter can be found here, and the most surprising thing is that there is a file of the official and the official of the whole country, as well as the file of the imperial court and the officials to be elected.

Besides, while flipping through the information, I thought: If Gao Gong knew this detail, there would definitely be a copyright dispute, isn't Zhang Juzheng a typical infringement? Official archives are ironclad within the authority of the ministry and are not allowed to be touched by other departments.

But of course, Gao Gong will definitely know that Zhang Juzheng's shogunate is by no means a secret department, and what these people do here is all fanfare, not to mention Gao Gong, even the general figures in the imperial court know it.

Maybe that's how all the shogunates of the scholars worked, and that's all they could think about.

"Young man, people should be pragmatic, this is a place where there is no room for frivolity of talents." The old housekeeper, who was in charge of keeping the archives, looked at the way he kept flipping through the pages one by one, and persuaded him bitterly.

This old housekeeper is not untargeted, besides, he has seen a lot of this kind of young talent, no matter what is lacking in Beijing, there is no shortage of talents, even Wang Shizhen, the leader of the contemporary literary circle, has been squeezed out of the capital, this Wang Dameng is still Zhang Juzheng's Jinshi in the same year, what can it be.

Besides, he laughed twice and continued to flip through the pages, his photographic memories had already engraved all the information in his mind.

Ordinary land endowment materials can be taken out and read, but official files are not allowed to leave this mansion and can only be read here, so the photographic memory method comes in handy.

The old housekeeper couldn't persuade him, and he didn't say more, he decided that he was the kind of impetuous person who wanted to be a blockbuster and a blockbuster, and always wanted to give the emperor a 10,000-year peace policy and leave a name in history.

Besides, when I saw a page, I suddenly laughed, this is the archive of Wang Shizhen, the leader of the literary world, and the following comment is: There is more than enough literature, but there is not enough political affairs. It was Zhang Juzheng who wrote this comment.

Besides, seeing that Wang Shizhen's current official position is the envoy of Henan, isn't this the official position that Lian Daning was transferred to before? Lian Daning desperately avoided it, and finally sought to be appointed as the envoy of Nanjing, but he didn't expect that this official hat fell on Wang Shizhen's head in the end.

It can be seen from this incident that Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng really don't attach much importance to literary talents, and what they pay the most attention to is the ability to deal with government affairs, which is simply pragmatic, which is diametrically opposed to Nanjing, and the atmosphere in Jiangnan is still focused on talent.

The old housekeeper walked away disappointed, the expression on his face clearly stated that "the child cannot be taught", in his opinion, besides, this child is hopeless, and the official file is such a serious matter, he can still laugh out loud, it is simply intolerable.

The other staff members in the shogunate were also very ambivalent about the situation, and they all knew that they wanted to enter the shogunate two years ago, but no one expected that as soon as they entered the capital, they were awarded the title of Wupin Beijing by the emperor, and they were also the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Jinyiwei is the emperor's personal guard, and even the military department only keeps their archives, but has no right to govern, so it can be said that he is the emperor's side.

These staff members now look at it as if they were looking at an outlier who inexplicably broke into their ranks, and they can't position him correctly.

Don't say that they can't position themselves, and now they can't position themselves, because no one knows what the emperor has in mind.

His five-rank Beijing title is very prominent, although Jinyiwei is not as beautiful as in the early Ming Dynasty, but it is more authoritative than ordinary departments, but he is just sending Lu Jinyiwei, whether it is a formal Jinyiwei official or not.

Jin Yiwei commanded Lu Xingren to invite him to be a guest, he naturally couldn't refuse, went to Lu Daren a few times, and each time he prepared a gift that was not thin or thick according to the usual practice, but he did not follow the etiquette of officialdom to participate in the court, Lu Xingren treated him like a VIP, and he didn't mean to look at his subordinates at all, and the rank of his colleagues at the same table was higher, but they treated him like a guest, which made him uncomfortable.

They all think that Jinyiwei is just gilded, because only Jinyiwei is the department where the emperor can directly place people without going through the cabinet, without the consent of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War.

"Brother, the emperor's thoughts about you are not ordinary, if my brother rises to the top in the future, don't forget our brothers Jinyiwei."

After a drink, the drunk Lu Walker patted the shoulder and said.

Besides, he was interested: "My lord, what does the emperor think about me?" ”

Lu Xingren woke up when he was drunk, and said angrily: "Brother, you can't be a man without being authentic, you can understand this kind of thing, I understand, you must not say it." ”

Besides, I heard him say this, so I had to stop asking.

He didn't know the origin of this Lord Lu, Zhang Juzheng naturally knew, but he didn't ask.

The twelve eunuchs of the inner court and the Jinyi Guard are the emperor's own sphere of influence, and naturally they use the people around the emperor himself, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard in the Jiajing year is Emperor Jiajing's milk brother Lu Bing, although the two are not siblings, but they grew up eating a mother's milk, and the emotions are naturally different, this relationship is the same as the relationship between Emperor Kangxi and Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin, and the milk brothers are also a unique relationship in that era, sometimes not much worse than their own brothers.

Of course, Lu Xingren has nothing to do with Lu Bing, if he has, he can't stand firmly beside Emperor Longqing, and some of the old ministers of the Jiajing Dynasty are still retained in the outer court, but in the main positions in the inner palace and the Jinyi Guard, the people of the Jiajing Dynasty have been eliminated one by one, which can be described as a clean and complete blood exchange.