"Probably that's the case, I've also heard a true story about this golden white eyebrow, and my former husband told me." Chun Niang pondered and recalled a past she had heard.

Because of the regulations of the Qing Dynasty's bureaucratic system, it was forbidden to be an official in the township, so as to prevent officials from relying on their familiarity with people and land, and their official body protection, to form a party for personal gain, and form clan factions to endanger the locality. This golden white eyebrow was originally from Hunan, and he left his hometown to be an official in Chukou, it is said that he is born in both people and land, and he has been able to control Shangguan and his colleagues for so many years, and finally took deep roots in the intricate local forces, and then unified the black and white of Chukou, which is inseparable from his old scheme. But in the beginning, it wasn't like that.

Jin Baimei's arrival after the arrival of the first Shangguan is an extremely difficult role to deal with, surnamed Zhou Minghong, known as Hong Cannon, for the official upright, strong personality and jealousy and hatred, in his office, the power to overwhelm colleagues, and even the threat of Shangguan, relying on this Zhou Hong has an extremely powerful secret folding qualifications. With this nirvana, needless to say, the entire Yamen, even the governor tolerated Zhou Hong and deliberately wooed him, so this Zhou Hong controlled the entire yamen in office, saying that it was the same, very strong, not to mention the golden white eyebrows who were on an errand under him, not to mention taking power, even a little thing within his own responsibilities and powers, he had to look at Zhou Hong's face to act, he was basically a marionette, and his life was very uncomfortable.

Hearing Chun Niang talk about this, Simao couldn't help but interject and asked: "He is a seven-rank county order, and he actually has the qualification to perform a secret fold, this is too unbelievable, right?" ”

Chun Niang said: "Isn't it the right to report to the imperial court?" Worth all the fuss? ”

Simao smiled faintly: "That's my sister, you know it, I don't know why, do you think that the right to perform the secret fold is an official?" Let me tell you this, don't look at the thousands of officials in the imperial court, but there are only more than 1,200 people who have the right to perform this secret book, and these people can directly report to the emperor to make a small report, and no yamen or official has the right to intercept and dismantle it privately, just think about how stinky it is, right? ”

Chun Niang's face was full of disbelief, and she snorted at him and said, "Just break it blindly, you street gangsters can still understand these major affairs of the court?" Look, you have a nose and an eye. ”

Simao didn't think it was a pestle, and didn't make an excuse, but told Chunniang the ins and outs of this twist and turn in detail, and in order to make Chunniang listen to it easy to understand, he gave a sentence from a character on the stage as an example: "I want to start playing a ........ long live." As soon as Chun Niang heard this, she replied with a smile, she understood, and the officials on the stage often said this.

Simao then explained to Chunniang that don't listen to those officials on the stage who want to start a book at every turn, most of them are actually bragging, because those who can play the book are either the emperor's confidants or the emperor's close ministers, not all cats and dogs can write letters to the emperor.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were two kinds of letters written by ministers to the emperor, one was to talk about official affairs, as long as your grade was enough, or it was an official who heard about things, everyone could write it, but the emperor himself may not be able to see it, and it was a normal form of review and approval step by step. This is called a script, and it is a completely official document.

There is also a kind of so-called script, which is an unofficial official document, which is not limited by grade and status, and must be submitted by the emperor's cronies or people authorized by the emperor, and all the talk is about private conversations or private affairs with the emperor, of course, including some confidential information.

During the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, the book began to be included in the formal management category, as an important way for the emperor to understand all kinds of information and information sources, among the first people to participate in this pilot work was the famous "Dream of Red Mansions" author Cao Xueqin's ancestor, then Jiangnan Weaving Cao Yin. Through the exploration and summary of the pilot work, Emperor Kangxi suddenly found that this method of secret performance is really good to croak, which can bypass the cabinet, the ministers of the parliamentary king, officials at all levels, yamen at all levels and cumbersome institutions and processes, and directly grasp the first-hand information and situation, which is equivalent to having clairvoyance and ears, so he began to gradually expand the object of the book from a few people to more than 200 people.

By the time of the Yongzheng Dynasty, this old man was full of energy and energy, and he could be called a model worker among the emperors, and further carried forward the secret folding system, and expanded the number of people who were qualified to play the secret fold to more than 1,200 people in one fell swoop. Second, each person was given a leather safe for the book, and two keys, one for each of them and the palace, who opened it and who knows; Third, the recitals of cadres at or above the provincial and ministerial level are sent by special personnel to the Inner Qianqing Gate, handed over to the Inner Recital Office, and go directly to the Imperial Palace, without going through other administrative departments. The other people's scripts were sent to a few close ministers appointed by the emperor and then sent directly to the emperor, of course, the intermediary was absolutely not allowed to open them for peeking and interception. The Fourth Emperor will go back to wherever he came from after playing this imperial approval, but there is another point, after reading these emperor's imperial approvals, the highest instructions of these emperors' imperial approvals cannot be left privately, but all must be couriered to the emperor.

By this time, the system of playing and folding had actually gone hand in hand with the official documents of the inscription, forming an important tool and information transmission channel for the emperor to control the hundred officials and herdsmen. Even if your official is bigger than him, but you can't stand the acquaintance of people and the emperor, maybe you haven't suppressed him, he can kill you in the back with a black blow. So Simao is very strange how this small Qipin county order can have the qualifications and power to play secretly.

Chun Niang's surprise at the moment is not the question raised by Simao, but the little gangster who grew up yelling in the casino all day long, and then ran to sell noodles, how can she be so good at these things in the court, with her understanding of Simao, although Simao seems to be a hanger, but she has never been a person who likes to pretend to be forced, and these details are not something that can be pretended to be if you want to, Chunniang's black and white eyes opened wide, and she looked at Simao without blinking, and she couldn't speak for a while.

"Hey. Hey........ what's the fuss? What about you, how did you say that Zhou Hong has the right to go to the secret fold book? Simao stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Chun Niang, only to wake Chun Niang up.