Qin Lin exchanged a few words with Zhang Gongyu, and seeing that his face was still a little indignant, he asked knowingly: "I don't know why Zhang Daotai came to this general secretary?" Is it all done? ”

Zhang Gongyu's face turned red, and he was embarrassed to say that he was insulted by the little official, so he laughed dryly: "It's not important, Mr. Huang is too busy today, and the official will come back next time." ”

Qin Lin secretly laughed in his stomach Zhang Gongyu slapped his swollen face and became fat, and raised his eyebrows: "Oh, why did the lower officials hear Zhang Daotai scolding what gentleman and villain just now?" ”

Zhang Gongyu's face was red, and he knew that Qin Lin had seen through it, he was really faceless, and he was embarrassed and annoyed for a long time, and said ashamedly and annoyedly: "These cunning officials are really despicable, and this official came to vote for thanks, and he actually pushed back and blocked, so unreasonable!" ”

It turned out that the scribes of the yamen of the various ministries of the Ming Dynasty were extremely powerful, and although they were not official officials and only held general powers, they also had advantages over official officials.

The imperial court officials were born in the imperial examination, and they were reciting the Four Books and Five Classics in their best years, and they were not familiar with things such as official documents of the ministry, money exchanges, and military order transfers, and this year's Ministry of Rites and Politics was inspected, next year they were released to Zhizhou, and in a few years they went to the Criminal Department to be Langzhong. Therefore, they had to rely on him and be held hostage by him everywhere.

In addition, the official is one person for one term, and the transfer at the end of the term is called a stream official, and the clerk can be inherited from father to son, and the father is old and let the son take over, and the position of the scribe of the yamen of each ministry has become the iron rice bowl passed down from generation to generation of the family, and can even be sold, and a rich scribe position can be sold for thousands of taels of silver.

These scribes have been inherited from father to son, from generation to generation, and there are intricacies in a department, don't say that Zhang Gongyu is a fish, sometimes even the officials of this yamen are held hostage by him!

"The official also knows the rules of the Jiuqing Yamen in the north and south of the capital, the six departments, and the Yamen, and originally prepared money to stuff the dog hole, but, but, but" Zhang Gongyu was so angry that he fell to his feet, and his goatee trembled: "But they deceive people too much, and this official is also a protégé of the two Jinshi and the Son of Heaven......"

It turned out that Zhang Gongyu was confused, and he spoke in a Yangzhou native accent, these scribes were all vicious-eyed, and at a glance they knew that the wronged boss was coming, and they knocked the bamboo pole loudly, in addition to the regular practice, they asked for more silver until four or five times as much.

Zhang Gongyu's words were also entangled, and after a little hesitation and did not take out the money, the scribes began to say no good words in their mouths.

Unexpectedly, although Zhang Gongyu was incompetent, he was very pedantic, and he attached great importance to his identity as a protégé of the Son of Heaven of the two lists, and looked down on these scribes from the bottom of his bones, so the more he talked on both sides, the more choked he became, and finally had a big quarrel.

When Qin Lin heard this, he laughed out loud: "Zhang Daotai is a scholar, and when he encounters these cunning officials, he is naturally a showman and a bandit to reason - he can't tell it clearly, so it's better to go out and see what he has to say." ”

Zhang Gongyu looked at Qin Lin suspiciously, and then looked at Huo Chonglou, who was wearing the clothes of the East Factory Division, and Quan Zhengyin, who was dressed like a businessman on the outside road, and shook his head involuntarily, meaning that he didn't believe that Qin Lin could deal with that scribe, after all, this is one of the Jiuqing Yamen, and the General Administration Department alongside the six ministries, Qin Lin is a military attaché, can he still lead someone to smash the Yamen?

Qin Lin didn't explain, and walked forward with Zhang Gongyu.

The scribe who had just taught Zhang Gongyu hurriedly came out to stop him, very arrogant: "What kind of person, go inside without a head or a brain?" Did you vote for a post, did you register? If not, go and squat over there! ”

Although the spring was warm, the wind was still cold in the morning and evening, but these people were wearing single clothes, squatting on the ground and snorting - in addition to the duty of guarding the entry and exit of the various yamen and submitting the seals, the General Administration Department also "reported the suggestions of the subjects of the Quartet, complained about the wrongs or sued the lawless", simply put, the latter function was similar to the later Letters and Visits Bureau, and those bitter ordinary people were the petitioners of the Ming Dynasty.

Qin Lin was obviously wearing the five-grade official uniform of the deputy Qianhu of the brocade guard, and the scribe also asked him to go and squat over there, which was obviously a joke.

Looking at the several scribes here, they all laughed, and those officials who were queuing up at the bottom of the corridor also secretly laughed at Qin Lin's incomprehensibility: No wonder this brocade-clothed official is on good terms with that confused Daotai, and he is also a person with a clear brain, obviously seeing Zhang touching a nail, not only did he not hide away, but he also dragged him back, wouldn't he even touch the nail himself?

Qin Lin smiled, his face was full of harmlessness to people and animals, the scribe only said that he was frightened by himself, and he was beaming proudly, suddenly his body was light, he was grabbed by the collar and lifted up, he was so panicked that he danced with his hands, only to see a person in front of him carrying himself, his hands were as yellow as eagle claws, his beard stood up like steel needles, and his appearance was so vicious.

Huo Chonglou smiled, stretched out his fingernails and lightly scratched on the scribe's clothes, and then neatly cut them from the middle, which was even sharper than a tailor holding scissors, and then moved his index finger back and forth on the person's face.

The clothes are torn, isn't it a big hole in the face? The scribe was so frightened that he didn't expect this little secretary to be so hot.

The other scribes panicked, and called people around to get the bold ones who rushed into the ministry.

Those officials waiting in line were even more dumbfounded, telling them that they couldn't think of anyone daring to spread wild in the territory of Nanjing's General Political Division.

Qin Lin smiled and waved his hand, and Huo Chonglou put the scribe on the ground.

The scribe turned pale with fright, and said loudly: "Dare to spread wild in our yamen, wait, let's settle the account slowly......"

Qin Lin told the scribe with a pleasant face: "This official is Qin Lin, the deputy of Nanjing Jinyi Guard, and he went to the sea to appease him on the order of the imperial court. ”

"Jinyiwei is amazing...... You, what are you talking about, you are Qin, Qin, Qin, Qin Lin Qin? The scribe was so frightened that he sat on the ground, his eyes were just level with the waist tag that Qin Lin hung on his waist, and when he saw the official title and name on it, he immediately muttered in his throat, and his face turned sallow.

The other scribes were no better, their legs trembling as if they had seen a living ghost.

Qin Lin Qin Chief, what a great prestige! Even the strange case, said to break the sun and the night of the trial, Liu Yiru, the servant of the criminal department, fought with him and hanged himself, and Wang Bengu, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, fought with him, and was beaten into a pig's head and didn't even dare to let go of a fart, Liu Huzhi, one of the four sons of Jinling, was so afraid that he didn't even dare to scold his name before going to the execution ground.

You said that if you provoke such a fierce god, can there still be a good one?

In the mouths of officials who have received the benefits of Qin Lin, he is a timely rain in the officialdom to help solve difficulties, and the criminals who were brought to justice by him, as well as the glamorous guys, he is the king of Qin Guang, who is the first in the Ten Palaces!

Ping Pong kowtowed, and the clerk who was arrogant just now snorted and tearfully forgive: "Chief Qin spares his life, the little dog looks down on people, and the small one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, you have a lot of adults, don't worry about this stinky mouth of the little one!" ”

Qin Lin didn't care about these vain villains, waved his hand and let him go in to report, waiting for the summons.

Zhang Gongyu looked sour beside him, he was being treated as nothing by the small officials on the fourth-grade Dao platform, but Qin Lin was majestic from the deputy Qianhu of the fifth grade, and couldn't help but sigh: "General Qin really has a way to deal with such villains, like what kind of reason does this official tell him, but he is playing the piano to the cow, by the way, I don't know which senator or experience will receive us later?" ”

Qin Lin also didn't know the officials of the General Administration Department, so of course he couldn't answer this question.

No one expected that it was not the senator or the experience to meet, but Huang Jingzhai, the political envoy of Zhengsanpin Nanjing, personally greeted him!

This old man was in a scarlet robe, black yarn, a peacock supplement on his chest, his hair and beard were white, and he walked quickly, his face full of spring breeze: "General Qin came to the Yamen in person, and the old man was far away!" General Qin went to sea this time, tirelessly worked hard, bravely entered the wild sea, it was really hard work, the old man had long wanted to know the respectful face, and now he said to meet, sure enough, the young hero, it is really better to be famous than to meet, and it is better to meet than to be famous! ”

Qin Lin smiled and clenched his fists, and took a deep look: "Mr. Huang has won the award, and the lower officials are just bowing to the right time, and the success of the appeasement is still thanks to the wisdom of my Ming Emperor Tianwei and the ministers of Zaifu, and the lower officials do not dare to claim their own merits." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Gongyu could only lament that the sun came out of the west, the Ming Dynasty was noble and martial, and he had heard that Huang Lao'er was pretentious and high, and he could no longer look down on the second person except for Wang Shizhen, the leader of the literary alliance, how could he be so enthusiastic about Qin Lin?

However, Zhang Gongyu, who was also born in the two rankings and was fully qualified to talk to Huang Jingzhai, was ignored by the gorgeous ...... Fortunately, Qin Lin introduced him: "This Zhang Daotai is an old friend of the lower officials, and he also came to your yamen to do business. ”

Zhang Gongyu was embarrassed, and when Qin Lin introduced him, he was immediately grateful.

"Oh, Zhang Daotai, right?" Huang Jingzhai nodded without being salty, and asked Taifu, Xianxiang, and the imperial examination class.

Huang Jingzhai is a jinshi at the end of Jiajing, listening to Zhang Gongyu himself say that it was the early years of Wanli, he immediately put on the shelf of the old-timers, and Zhang Gongyu also followed the rules of Shilin to rank last and enter the last, with an extremely respectful attitude.

After only three words, Huang Jingzhai turned around and greeted Qin Lin again, which was much more enthusiastic.

Zhang Gongyu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and secretly said lucky, thanks to Qin Lin being here today, otherwise he will definitely touch a nail and go back, thank you for being late, maybe the court will say that he is arrogant, but he can't eat and walk around!

The officials under the corridor next to him looked at them so hot, but they also had to admire, Qin Lin and Qin had such a great reputation, and the things that others did were replaced by a second person, which was absolutely impossible.

"Oh, by the way, the people over there are all my Ming people, let them squat for a day or two, it's unbearable," Qin Lin asked with a smile: "Can Mr. Huang ask the scribes to move some benches to sit with them, so that the old man can seem to love the people like a son." ”

Huang Jingzhai of course agreed, waved his hand and ordered the scribes to move stools and chairs for the people to sit on, and also ordered hot water to be boiled for the people to drink.

It's a pity that these scribes are all pampered, and they are tired from moving chairs and stools, boiling water, and sweating profusely, and they can't complain a word.

"A good official, a good official who loves the people like a son!" The people rushed at Qin Lin again and again.

(To be continued)