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During this time, in addition to the palace, there was another group of people who were also in a very happy mood - but the officials and officials of the Ministry of Rites, one of the six departments of the imperial court, to be precise, the subordinates of Qian Qianyi, the old man of the Ministry of Rites. ◎WWW.◎￠￡

According to the division of responsibilities of the six departments of the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites is mainly responsible for some retreat etiquette affairs, which leads to the fact that the officials of the Ministry of Rites do not have much real power in their hands.

However, this year, the shape shì is different, the following is not enough to make up for the top, their big boss, Qian Qianyi Qian Da Lao Qian actually gave everyone a vote for "year-end benefits" for the first time - it is said that that is the rule of the people. And the big stack of small pieces of paper that Lao Qian took out is also the special "shopping coupon" for the short-haired market that has been rumored to be flourishing and the most popular in the capital recently.

Qian Ge Lao has a good relationship with Shorthair, and it is precisely by relying on the power of Shorthair that he was able to recover, and climbed all the way to the high position of the Ministry of Rites and the Cabinet Scholar, which is a fact that everyone in Beijing knows. However, Lao Qian seemed to be quite taboo about this in the past, whether in daily life or official transactions, he avoided showing too much short-haired style as much as possible, and his interactions with Chen Tao and others were always sneaky - this is also a common problem of most literati, the so-called "both to do xx and establish xx", it is very appropriate to describe Qian Qianyi's actions in the past few years.

However, recently, I don't know whether I have figured it out or seen it, or I feel the idea of "competition" from other high-ranking officials, and Lao Qian no longer seems to be taboo about this. When Chen Tao's Mingguang Hall was opened before, he not only gave a plaque to the Ming Guang Guangming, but also allowed the craftsmen there to enter the official office of the Ministry of Rites, and gave a pair of glasses to the top and bottom of the Ministry of Rites, and all the officials and officials in the hall were equipped with glasses -- most of the eyes for clerical work were not very good, and basically everyone had to match them.

So Lao Qian's hand not only won people's hearts. It also brought excellent income to Chen Tao's newly opened glasses shop - Qian Qianyi only paid for glass lenses with public funds, which was not really worth much - and the cost price that Chen Tao gave him was very low. However, the price of the frame is to be paid by each person, according to the material of the frame, the process is different, and the price is not the same. The cheapest ones are copper shelves, the more high-end ones are silver, and the more high-end ones are inlaid with gold and inlaid treasures...... There's no bottom to it. Anyway, Chen Tao cooperated with several nearby silver buildings and invited their craftsmen to make jewelry to help make frames, and the price was naturally calculated according to the price of jewelry. Those officials, regardless of their positions, were definitely considered "superior people" in this era. It is certainly impossible to be too stingy in this regard. Usually they are willing to spend money to create jewelry for the women in their family, but this time there is still a "serious" use, of course, there is no need to be thrifty. Usually there is intrigue, and they have to compare with each other.

On the other hand, the Ministry of Rites took the lead, and of course the rest of the ministries and yamen could not sit still - their members also had vision problems, and some of them were much stricter than the Ministry of Rites - such as the household department in charge of the world's finances, the busy civil affairs department, and so on. The more you are at the bottom, the more people who do practical things. The greater the trouble in this regard, and although these people have a low status, they are very numerous, and when they come into contact with each other, everyone only needs to praise or complain one or two: "Look at the people of the Ministry of Rites, Shangshu Qian, how is it...... How is our palm print ......" is enough to set off a tide of public opinion in the capital.

The so-called "public wrath is hard to do." Under this pressure, even though the ministers were secretly scolding Qian Muzhai in their hearts, they had to try to find a sum of money to dispense glasses for their subordinates. to meet their "work needs".

-- Now Chen Tao's glasses shop is completely popular. Later, there were too many orders to do it, so I had to outsource the frame part, and the Mingguangtang headquarters was only responsible for grinding the lenses. Even then, new customers have to wait in line for months before they can be on.

This was still a while ago, and recently, the incident that Qian Muzhai and Qian Ge Lao did made the commanders of other "fraternal units" even more angry--the kind of short-haired market shopping coupons that he distributed in the yamen of the Ministry of Rites made the hearts of the entire Beijing officialdom float.

In the past, at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, before the major yamen closed and sealed, the department chief would organize one or two unit dinners and go to the restaurant to have a tail-end banquet. If you meet a more generous chief, in addition to eating a big meal yourself, you can also bring a pre-prepared food box back to your family to try, this is the limit. As for the benefits of being an official, it is all up to yourself, the Ming Dynasty has never had any "incorruptible silver" saying, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang can't wait for the officials all over the world to sew up their mouths and not eat or drink to work for him.

Of course, the officials will definitely not treat themselves badly, and there is always a way to raise themselves fat and fat, but the government has always only entered and not exited, which is also a common practice. And this time, the "welfare" that Qian Ge Lao took out broke this convention, although the amount was not too large, but it gave those colleagues who were at the same level as him, or slightly lower, a big headache.

-- Things in officialdom have always been about "no examples, no prosperity, no examples", you Qian Shangshu has been a good person this year, and you will send a ticket for benefits to make everyone happy, but what about next year? And the year after? Do the successive Shangshu in the future want to continue this rule? Where do you get the money?

-- Even the Qingshui Yamen Rite Department has given benefits to its subordinates, so should the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Department of Households, which have always been recognized as fat and lacking, keep up? These units have been issued, so what about the more "clear-water" yamen such as the Inspectorate, the Hanlin Academy, and the Qintianjian? People usually don't have much money, so isn't this time a lot of money on their heads for no reason?

Whether it is horizontal comparison or vertical consideration, Qian Gelao's actions this time can be regarded as throwing a big stone in the officialdom of Beijing, which not only stirred up great waves in a short period of time, but also caused ripples that will not dissipate for a long time. This kind of solitary style is the most taboo in the officialdom, and with Jiang Zuo Qian Muzhai's good name and soft temperament, it stands to reason that he usually won't act so rashly. But this time, even in front of some old friends, Qian Qianyi was quite light-hearted:

"But I got some new things from Qiongzhen, it's better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, and share it with my subordinates, so why bother with so much?"

Seeing that the old money is so prosperous, others can only be silent, at most muttering a few words in their hearts - your old man is so close to the short hair, and he is on such a hard backstage, of course he has no scruples, what can we do without a backstage?

When the matter comes, no matter how difficult it is, it has to be done -- no matter how those ministers complain in private, in the end they can only follow the footsteps of Qian Ge Lao, try to get some money, and send a vote of "welfare" to his subordinates.

Jingshi Mintang, as the core authority of the feudal dynasty, it is still very easy to make money. In the past, at the end of the year every year, it was also the time for the people below to send filial piety to their heads. I didn't have this habit before, not because those officials and gentlemen were honest, but because they only cared about their own private benefits, and they didn't have the concept of "unit collective" at all. And this time, forced by the tide of public opinion, those old men had to take out some of the benefits that were originally completely exclusive to their own families and share the profits.

Among them, led by Chen Dalei, the hard work of a group of "Beijing Market" staff also played a great role. During this time, they have been wandering among many powerful people, vigorously promoting the kind of "shopping coupons" that are used in the big market, and according to the promotion model formulated by Julie, they have given a great discount - a shopping coupon with a face value of 1,000 yuan, that is, 500 taels, is actually 90% off, and you can get it by paying 450 taels of silver. If it is a closer department, it will only cost 400 taels, and the discount will be 20%.

Don't underestimate this discount, it has caused a little wave in the Beijing division - it can get the explanation and it is close to the short hair. In addition to the old Qian Ge of the Ministry of Rites, there are only a few families in Beijing who can enjoy it, such as Chen Tao's own Qin Tianjian in his name, or Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Zhou Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, and the commander of Jinyi Wei Luo, etc. When Chen Dalei visited the door under the banner of Chen Tao, the treatment he received was completely different from before, and the large-scale use of shopping coupons started from these few and quickly spread in the capital.

Each family ordered 1,000 taels or 2,000 yuan, and distributed it to the petty officials below, with the high-ranking officials receiving 510 yuan, and the lowest level actually receiving about 10 taels or 20 yuan, but they were already very satisfied -- just like the society a few years later, the requirements of these low-level small civil servants were actually not high, and the large people at the top ate meat, and it would be satisfied if they could give them a mouthful of soup. At the price level of this era, ten taels of silver can already make ordinary people live a very solid fat year. Moreover, in the big market, all kinds of New Year's promotions and big discounts can make those shopping vouchers more than their face value of the purchasing power. At least, in the eyes of those customers, they are taking advantage.

With the large number of shopping coupons being distributed in large quantities, the big market quickly became lively, and the burden on Chen Dalei suddenly increased a lot, and he was so busy all day that his feet did not touch the ground. However, he was busy, and his heart was very warm -- according to the agreement with the Qionghai Trading Company, in the future, he would be the general manager of the Beijing market and even the entire northern region, and he would have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of funds in his hands, which was much stronger than his own family in Luzon.

The only thing that made him a little depressed was that although there were already people coming and going in the big market, business was flying, but even an official plaque had not been hung up. Even with him, you can't turn positive.

Someone once asked him what was going on, and the big market that got the answer was not officially opened now, but only in a "trial operation". The real opening will only be counted until the owner sent from the headquarters of Qionghai Trading Company will be listed in person. (To be continued.)