Two hundred and eight errand boys

In ancient times, the rookie who just became an official was actually similar to the college student who had just joined the company now, saying that it was internship and learning, in fact, it was similar to serving tea and water and running errands. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But you really don't think that people are unwilling, in fact, they are very willing, because when a modern college student who has just joined the company or an ancient new science and technology scholar is most eager to be recognized, even if you buy some food for your direct boss, it is a thing that makes you feel happy in your heart, because at least you have something to do, and you will not be a transparent person who sits stupidly all day and does not watch others go through the fire.

You know, in a place where the pace of the work atmosphere is quite fast, when everyone is working hard for their work, it is very embarrassing for a newcomer who has nothing to do and no experience.

Xia Yan is very willing to train Zheng Guang, and he is also very optimistic about Zheng Guang, so that Zheng Guang will follow him as his university scholar's confidential secretary, responsible for handling clerical matters, and based on his excellent calligraphy, he drafts some edicts dictated by Xia Yan, that is, he is specially responsible for the cabinet documents to get up early, and the most important job every day is to write, and then he has to forward some things such as the chapter handed over below.

This is a relatively tiring errand, you know, the Ming Dynasty has 1,936 post stations across the country, a post road with a total length of 300,000 miles, and the situation of the two capitals and 13 provinces is constantly reported to the capital, and tens of thousands of people are running back and forth on the galloping roads across the country for the work of government affairs, what a huge workload it should be?

You really don't think that in ancient times, the imperial court didn't do things or it was very procrastinating, they didn't know how many things had to be done, and the pressure of officials was far greater than the pressure of current officials, after all, the speed of modern information transmission is too fast, and some things can be solved with one or two phone calls, and you try it in ancient times! When you leave the city of Beijing, it takes about half a month for the cabinet chief assistant or the officials of various ministries to figure out the cause of a thing, and during this period, you can't do anything, you can only wait.

There are many things, and they are also miscellaneous, such as what is going on in the north and I am going to start robbing again, and the Japanese in the south are also raging, the progress of disaster relief in various places is slow, and the people who can't go on have begun to make trouble, etc., etc., the affairs are complicated, and the excerpts that are transferred by the various ministries every day, not to mention hundreds of them, this is still a big matter that the ministers and officials cannot handle, and those more trivial things have been solved by the people below, and those sent to the cabinet are some bigger things, and even things that need to be decided by Emperor Jiajing himself.

These twists and turns arrived in Beijing City, and after a period of sorting and processing, a batch of things that could not be handled by the six departments were summarized and handed over to the cabinet, and Zheng Guang was the hub connecting the six departments and Xia Yan, because although Xia Yan handed over the affairs of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Justice to Yan Song to manage, basically all the twists and turns were sent to Xia Yan first, and after Xia Yan looked at the twists and turns of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Punishment, he saw that there was nothing important, and then sent them to Yan Song to deal with.

Xia Yan's authority is very heavy, Yan Song didn't dare to refute, and the six departments also knew very well, during this time, Xia Yan suppressed Yan Shifan very strongly, and knocked Yan Shifan once or twice from time to time, and Yan Shifan was angry that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas went out of the body, but there was no way, so he could only endure and wait for the opportunity.

Early every morning, Xia Yan will first deal with the government affairs that he didn't have time to deal with yesterday, and Zheng Guang will take advantage of this time to go to the six yamen to take the government affairs that need to be handled and hand them over to Xia Yan to deal with, these twists and turns through Zheng Guang's hands, sent to Xia Yan and Yan Song to discuss, they wrote the suggestions on a piece of paper, and now Zheng Guang has become Xia Yan's confidential secretary, and they all appreciate Zheng Guang's calligraphy, which is dictated by Xia Yan or Yan Song, Zheng Guang wrote it on the paper, and then pasted it on the chapter, which is called the vote, which is the power of the cabinet.

And there are some things that Xia Yan does not have the final decision-making power, let alone Yan Song, they will say to Zheng Guang - give this fold to Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to make a decision after the Imperial Review! So Zheng Guang has a more fatal job, that is, to send the excerpt of the ticket to the Shengshou Palace to present the Jiajing Emperor's imperial view, it stands to reason that the emperor will look at it and review it, but the Jiajing Emperor is also an emperor with a very strong desire for power.

For example, if there is a drought in a certain place, and the state government asks for 100,000 taels of silver for disaster relief, Emperor Jiajing will ask how wide the affected area is? How many people are involved? How many acres of land? Will there be any impact on the next year's harvest and tax revenue? Is the area still stable? Is it true that the official warehouse has no money and no grain storage? What do those officials eat? Disaster relief money is required every year, and the rule of the imperial court is to keep enough for your own use and then hand it over, what is going on now? Who are the county magistrates? Don't want a head?

Eunuchs can't ask about political affairs, can't ask, so Zheng Guang can only run errands to the ministries again and again to ask, Emperor Jiajing doesn't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, only ask one question at a time, and there is one after asking! The most outrageous time, Emperor Jiajing made Zheng Guang run eight times in the household department on a disaster relief note, which stunned the entire household department, and Wang Gao, the head of the household department, looked at Zheng Guang sweating and panting, and he was embarrassed, and offered to go with Zheng Guang, which saved Zheng Guang from running more than a dozen more tragic encounters.

This is really the boss moving his mouth, the little brother runs and breaks his leg, every time at this time, Zheng Guang has to run around like a marathon runner between the emperor, the cabinet, the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, almost every day to run 10,000 meters of weight-bearing cross-country, the thick official boots can no longer be worn for more than a month, and go home three times in May!

During this period, I slept in a low and dilapidated wing room for seven or eight days three times in a row, and when I woke up, I went to various departments to get a fold, and I fell asleep when I went back to the wing, I didn't even have time to take a bath, and I didn't have time to go home at all, and the rest time was only three hours at most, during this time Zheng Guang couldn't even get up to practice boxing, and finally Xia Yan looked at Zheng Guang unkempt, exuding a sour smell all over his body, so he covered his nose and gave Zheng Guang an hour of bathing and dressing time......

But, don't underestimate this errand and talk errand, although tired, but this matter is really not simple, that is to say, it is okay for Xia Yan and Emperor Jiajing to do it intentionally, the knowledge here is very deep!

For example, the two yamen fight, they refuse to admit defeat to each other, the cabinet can't mediate, and when they get to the emperor, Emperor Jiajing ordered Zheng Guang to go down to ask each other separately and ask what the hell is going on.

So as the saying goes, the king of Hades is better than the little ghost, in the eyes of those big guys, the emperor is the king of Hades, then Zheng Guang is the little ghost, who knows if the other party has given Zheng Guang any benefits, what is Zheng Guang's character, will he be benefited to help others do things? Let us fall into the disadvantage and be blamed?

For example, once there was a conflict between the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, the second-in-command of both sides fought, but there was no result, and then the bigwigs on both sides went into battle in person to quarrel, slapping the table and smashing the bench, Xia Yan and Yan Song were not on duty in the cabinet for important matters, and only Zheng Guang was left on duty in the cabinet, and finally made trouble to the emperor, and the emperor thought about it, and immediately ordered Zheng Guang to ask and reply.

Zheng Guang went to ask, it turned out to be the problem of arrears, the Ming Dynasty's finances have always been a bad account, the household expenditure is extremely difficult, it has always been Yin to eat grain, the income of the year after tomorrow has been booked by a certain department, the money is spent immediately, and the warehouse of the household department cannot enter; Two years ago, the Ministry of Industry set a sum of money for this year to renovate the Yellow River, but I suddenly broke the border and ran away after looting, leaving a mess that gave the Ministry of War a headache.

Dead people, lost people, no face, this military department is in urgent need of a money turnover, come to the household department to check, the money is all booked, the head of the military department is big, but think about it, no, the money must be obtained! Otherwise, those big-headed soldiers will definitely make trouble! But whose money is the most convenient and the least trouble-free? It's also a science.

After thinking about it, they chose the Ministry of Industry, which has the smallest power and the lowest status among the six ministries, to bully, and dragged away the money that the Ministry of Industry had been waiting for for two years without asking, and when the Ministry of War applied for the money before, he didn't explain to Xia Yan that this was the money scheduled by the Ministry of Industry, and Xia Yan didn't know that this amount was set by the Ministry of Industry two years ago, so he approved it in a daze, and the matter became a big problem.

The Ministry of Industry couldn't swallow this breath and sent someone to the Ministry of War to reason, how could the Ministry of War reason with the Ministry of Industry? Chen Jing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, personally came forward to drive away the squire of the Ministry of Works, and Wang Yiqi of the Ministry of Industry was furious, and took a group of officials of the Ministry of Industry to pick up the guy and went to the Yamen Xingshi of the Ministry of War to ask for the guilt, and the Ministry of War was most afraid of making trouble, Chen Jing personally led the team to block, Wang Yiqi led people to break through, and the two sides were almost about to shoot, but the two Shangshu were civilized people, so they decided to settle the dispute in a civilized way - quarrel!

Quarrel, quarrel, no one can get a result, the Ministry of War feels that border defense is the most important, in case of a border crisis caused by this money, can you take on this responsibility? The Ministry of Industry did not back down, thinking that the renovation of the Yellow River was also an important matter, not to mention that Lao Tzu had waited for two years for this money, but to say that once the Yellow River flooded, hundreds of thousands of people would be affected, did you bastards take on this responsibility?

No one was convinced, almost did it, and in the end, it was the Ministry of Rites Shangshu who stood up to stop the brawl between the two ministries and asked the emperor to adjudicate, and the emperor was too lazy to come out and ask in person, so he let Zheng Guang, the unlucky guy, come to question, Chen Jing and Wang Yiqi suddenly realized that the outcome of this dispute was on Zheng Guang!

The two Shangshu-level bigwigs invited the new champion to their respective yamen, accusing each other of being wrong, and then expressing their difficulties with tears, Zheng Guang couldn't help but be moved by their acting skills, and almost shed tears of sympathy, and then the two of them also gave Zheng Guang the words, jade, and something worthy of Zheng Guang's "small gifts", and finally saw the poor dagger!

Let's talk about ours first, and then talk about those bastards! It's best to say a few kind words in front of Your Majesty, you know, you understand~

I know an egg!