Chapter 141: Imperial Historian (Second Watch)

Emperor Yongle was in high spirits, and chatted with Li Yuntian and Zhou Yuting in the Dongnuan Pavilion for half an hour, until he coughed violently, Li Yuntian got up to say goodbye, and led Zhou Yuting and Lu Calyx away. The update is the fastest and the fastest to the eye

"Your Majesty, Weichen has a reluctant request, and I hope the emperor will approve it." When he walked to the door, Li Yuntian seemed to suddenly remember something, turned back again, bowed his hand to Emperor Yongle, who was drinking tea, and bowed down and said.

"Speak." Emperor Yongle felt a little surprised, put down the teacup in his hand and said, it stands to reason that Li Yuntian is now thriving in his career, and there should be no additional requirements, and he feels that Li Yuntian is not the kind of greedy person who has won Longwangshu.

"Your Majesty, the last time Weichen took the Shu Jishi exam, he was seriously ill, so that his name fell to Sun Shan, and the Weichen was unwilling, hoping that the emperor could fulfill the Weichen, and Enzhun Weichen and the Jinshi of Jinke took the Shu Jishi together to end the wish of the Weichen." Li Yuntian bowed slightly, looked at Emperor Yongle and said loudly.

"For the sake of your achievements in Hukou County, I promised you that I would allow you to take the Shuji Shishi exam with Jinshi Jinshi." Emperor Yongle immediately laughed when he heard this, and agreed in one bite, he thought it was a big deal, it turned out that he wanted to take the exam.

"Thank you, Emperor Longen." Li Yuntian was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Emperor Yongle, and left happily.

Seeing this, the corners of Emperor Yongle's mouth showed a hint of a smile, as a king, he has never been afraid of his courtiers making conditions, and the more yankuai the courtiers, the easier it is for the king to control.

If he encounters that kind of courtier who has no desires, the king will be very nerve-wracking, which means that it is difficult to control it.

Hanlin Academy is the highest hall of the Great Ming Scholars, only the best scholars can enter, so every time in the imperial examination, only the champions of the palace examination, Bangyan and Tanhua can enter the Hanlin Academy.

Although the title of Shujishi appeared in the Hongwu period, it was during the Yongle period that it became the way for Jinshi to advance to the Hanlin Academy.

In the second year of Yongle, in order to select more young talents from the Jinshi, Emperor Yongle founded the system of promoting Shu Jishi to the Hanlin Academy.

According to the regulations, those who are among the top in the second class will directly become Shu Jishi, and those who are among the top in the second class and the top three must pass the guò exam to become Shu Jishi, commonly known as "Xuanguan";

The selected Shu Jishi will enter the Hanlin Academy to study for three years, and the knowledgeable Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy will teach and teach knowledge, commonly known as "sitting in the hall";

After three years, the examination will be held, and those who have excellent results in the examination will officially become the Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy, and will be awarded the position of editing or reviewing, commonly known as "staying in the museum";

The rest of the people only left the Hanlin Academy to serve as the chief or imperial history of the major ministries, or sent to serve as the prefect and other official positions, and the entry was much higher than that of ordinary Jinshi, commonly known as "Sanguan".

Generally speaking, as long as you become a Shujishi, even if you can't stay in the museum and become the Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy after three years, then you will be able to rise smoothly in your career, because they represent the elite class of scholars, and the emperor relies on them to run the government.

Since only the Jinshi of the new branch could take the Shu Jishi exam, Li Yuntian had to ask Emperor Yongle for a favor, which was his last chance to enter the Hanlin Academy.

As a jinshi of the previous subject, he can still ask to retake the Shu Ji Shi on the grounds of illness before the exam, after all, the time is not far apart, if he misses this subject, he will no longer have the face to make this request, otherwise the system of Shu Ji Shi will not be ruined?

"Xianggong, why did the emperor ask you about King Han?" Leaving the imperial city, in the driving carriage, Zhou Yuting couldn't hold back the curiosity in her heart, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

Li Yuntian is just a new superintendent of the imperial history, who is not familiar with the life in the capital, and seems to be far away from the affairs of the Han king.

"Although the emperor asked me, he actually said it to my father-in-law." Li Yuntian smiled slightly, where did he have such a big face, Emperor Yongle wanted to let Zhou Zheng understand his mind and not make a wrong choice.

"I see." Zhou Yuting nodded thoughtfully, it seems that Li Yuntian guessed correctly, the emperor didn't want King Han to enter the city.

"If it weren't for King Zhao's affairs last year, maybe King Han would have had a chance to come to Beijing this year." Thinking that Emperor Yongle had three sons, and he couldn't be filial to his knees in his later years, Li Yuntian couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, was the third son of Emperor Yongle, the brother of the crown prince and the first mother of the king of Han.

In May last year, King Zhao's guard commander Meng Xian colluded with the Qintian supervisor Wang Shecheng and the adopted son of the chamberlain Yang Qing to forge a forged edict to poison the Yongle Emperor and abolish the crown prince and support the Zhao King as the emperor, but he was denounced and captured by the Yongle Emperor by thunderous means, and Meng Xian and others were executed.

If it weren't for the prince's efforts to intercede for King Zhao in front of Emperor Yongle, then King Zhao might have been given death by Emperor Yongle, which hit Emperor Yongle very hard, so he was wary, and the best way was to prevent it from happening.

Now, the King of Han and the King of Zhao are in the domain, the prince is in the city of Nanjing, and there is only one person in the imperial city, Emperor Yongle is alone, and it is indeed a little embarrassing to say, there is no one in this world who is closer to him than the prince, the king of Han and the king of Zhao.

"I heard that the prince is coming to the capital." After Li Yuntian's reminder, Zhou Yuting suddenly remembered something and said to Li Yuntian.

"The emperor is preparing to go west to Arutai, and the prince will naturally come to the capital to supervise the country." Li Yuntian smiled bitterly and shook his head, there was a trace of inexplicable sadness in his tone, if he remembered correctly, this was Emperor Yongle's fifth expedition to Mongolia, and he never came back.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolia was divided into two parts, the Tatars in the east, the Vashorns in the west, and the Arutai as the Tatar leaders.

At the beginning of 1424, Arutai's henchmen invaded Kaiping and marched south to Datong, so Emperor Yongle made the decision to conquer Mongolia for the fifth time.

Once Emperor Yongle goes on an expedition, then the prince who stayed in Nanjing will come to the capital to supervise the country, otherwise the prince will stay in Nanjing until Emperor Yongle makes a big trip.

I'm afraid that no one would have thought at this time that without the deterrence of Emperor Yongle, the Mongol Tile Spur Department would rise rapidly and become a major hidden danger in the Ming Frontier.

Due to the favor of Emperor Yongle, Li Yuntian immediately became busy, busy with the affairs of the Imperial Procuratorate, and preparing for the examination of the Jishi.

After learning of this, Xie Heng and the others in Huguang Dao were surprised and delighted, and secretly envied Li Yuntian's good luck, he was able to get the grace of Emperor Yongle, and after discussing it, everyone shared the affairs at hand of Li Yuntian, and tried to give Li Yuntian as much time as possible to let him prepare for the exam, if Li Yuntian was admitted, they would feel honored.

At the beginning of March, Li Yuntian relied on the grace of Emperor Yongle to participate in the examination of Shujishi with the Jinshi of Jiachenke.

Therefore, Li Yuntian stood out in the exam, and was admitted to the Shuji Shi with the first place, and was able to enter the Hanlin Academy.

Li Yuntian's situation presented a problem to the Hanlin Yuan and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, because the successive Shujishi were all obtained by the new branch scholars, so they had no official positions, so neither the Hanlin Academy nor the Metropolitan Procuratorate knew whether Li Yuntian should retain the post of supervising the imperial history, and could only report to the Yongle Emperor Holy Judge.

Emperor Yongle thought that Li Yuntian could be admitted to the Shu Jishi, but he didn't expect him to win the first place, and after a while, he made up his mind, and ordered Li Yuntian to take care of both the supervision of the imperial history and the Shu Jishi: Since Li Yuntian wants to take the Shu Jishi exam, then he should have this psychological preparation, which is also a kind of sharpening for Li Yuntian.

Moreover, Li Yuntian was able to win the first place in the examination of Ji Jishi, so naturally he was brilliant, and his studies in the Hanlin Academy would definitely not be difficult for him.

With the edict of Emperor Yongle, Li Yuntian created a precedent for the Ming Dynasty, becoming the first Ming Dynasty with an official title, and it was also such an important position as supervising the imperial history.

This means that Li Yuntian will be even busier than before, he will have to go back and forth between the Imperial Court and the Wenyuan Pavilion, not only to fulfill the duties of the imperial history, but also to study in the Wenyuan Pavilion.

The place where the Shuji Shi sat was not the Hanlin Academy, but the Wenyuan Pavilion in the palace, in addition to studying, he was also responsible for drafting edicts, explaining scriptures and history books to the emperor, etc., and was a close minister of the emperor's side.

The imperial court took a very generous treatment for the Shujishi, the master of ceremonies provided pen, ink and paper, the Guanglu Temple prepared morning and evening meals, the Ministry of Rites provided candles, lamp oil and moons, and the Ministry of Works found a spacious house near the Donghua Gate in the imperial city for accommodation.

In addition, the Kujishi can take a day off for five days, leave the palace on vacation, and send eunuchs and Jinyi officials to take care of him.

The leave of other officials is "ten-day off", and one day off for ten days corresponds to the first, middle and second half of the month, so it is called "ten-day leave".

Of course, Li Yuntian had to take a vacation according to the treatment of Ji Jishi, and in his opinion, the combination of work and rest could provide work efficiency, so that his time could be better distributed.

Moreover, there were just two days in each of the holidays in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Wenyuan Pavilion, which happened to deal with the affairs of both sides, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Wenyuan Pavilion also specially adjusted Li Yuntian's daily affairs arrangements for this reason.

Although Li Yuntian only spends half of the time he spends in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Wenyuan Pavilion every month, the affairs at hand have never been left behind, and everything is carried out in an orderly manner, which is really admired by his colleagues.

One evening at the end of March, Li Yuntian hosted a banquet at the Zuiyue Pavilion for Yang Demin, who had come to the capital to report on his work.

According to the news that Yang Demin inquired, he may be transferred to the Suzhou Mansion of Nanzhili as the prefect this time, although it is only a horizontal transfer, but "there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below", and being able to serve in the rich Suzhou Mansion is undoubtedly a step forward in his career.

For Li Yuntian's admission to the Shu Jishi, Yang Demin is highly praised, the Ming Dynasty hangs the title of the imperial history of the Shu Jishi, Li Yuntian is the first, and it is likely to be unprecedented, as long as there is no heavy dà difference, at least in the future can sit in the high position of the officials of various ministries.

"Li Yushi, please save my girl, right?" Just when Li Yuntian and Yang Demin were talking and laughing and drinking wine, the door was pushed open, and a maid with a double bun hurriedly walked in, knelt in front of Li Yuntian with a plop, and pleaded anxiously. One