Just when Jingshi quickly turned into "hype mode" and was boiling over the city's discussion of this morning's edict, Hongyi had already begun to prepare his own "Royal Servant Bureau" in full swing, accompanied by Yue Le.

The yamen of the Royal Servant Bureau is located in the Buddhist Hall [1] of the former Ming Military Bureau, adjacent to Nanhaizi in the west, the cattle and sheep herd of the Three Banners in the north [2], the Changjie in the east, and the Houzhai Hutong in the south, close to Xuanye's grandfather, the Han Army's Zhenglan Banner Gushan Ezhen, and the third-class Jingqi Niha Pan Tong Tulai's house. The choice of this place is the result of the deliberations of the Empress Dowager, the Emperor and the Emperor's second son.

The former Ming Dynasty War Bureau Buddha Hall is located in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City, close to the East Second Institute of Xuanye's residence that has not yet opened the mansion, and it is convenient for the two-year-old Xuanye to go back to the palace at any time to find "milk ~ mouth". Facing the long street, if there is anything to do, you can enter the palace directly from the Xihua Gate in time. Next to a mansion in Tong Tulai, this is what Hongyi means, because this mansion may become an important activity place for Xiao Xuanye in the near future!

At this moment, the new "Minister of Palm Seal" is working seriously in the side hall of the Imperial Servant Bureau, which has not been created for a long time: issuing documents!

Under the service of Liang Gong, Hongyi still asked to personally press the jade seal [3] silver [4] "Tang Seal [5]" on the first official document signed by himself.

"Master, congratulations to the master for finally opening the yamen office!" Xiao Gongzi seized the opportunity and congratulated him with joy.

"Hehe, I'm happy too...... Uh, but remember, you don't want to get involved in this tolerance, I'm doing it for your good! Hongyi tried to mention Liang Gong as softly as possible.

"Minions, remember! Master, this official seal is really very exquisite, and the minions can see it! Liang Gong responded seriously, while continuing to speak according to his own train of thought.

"Oh, what's the point?" Hongyi deliberately asked, giving him a chance to talk.

"Master, first of all, the texture. Silver! Hehe, this can only be used by the emperor, and it is only one level lower than your Belle's seal. ”

Indeed, on the day of the merit of Dorobelle, Fu Lin had to reluctantly give a gold seal under the strong order of the queen mother. You must know that the Qing Dynasty was mainly the canonization of the queen mother, queen, imperial concubine, concubine and crown prince, prince, and prince among the concubines, so that they could be gold. At the same time, the blessing of "shading" Baylor is nothing more than a silver gilded seal. It's just silver-plated silver, and according to the regulations, it can only be used by the seal of the king of Doro, no way, who called these two princes!

"Master, if you have only sealed Baylor in the past few days, and the slave is brave, it is estimated that the emperor will definitely give you a golden seal!" Liang Gong knew how the emperor had been close to Xuan Ye recently.

"Nonsense!" Hongyi stopped in time.

"Huh! Besides, the button style of this official seal is even more talkative! "Liang Gong still doesn't give up, he has to slap the little Belle Ye on the back and slap the whole body!

"Okay, you go on." Hongyi looked at the seal letter in his hand, and also wanted to hear how Xiao Gongzi followed his own growth.

"Look, it's a turtle button! Only the ** concubine Niangniang, Prince Heshuo, and the prince can use their seals. It stands to reason that the Imperial Servant Bureau is just a three-grade yamen, and your seal letter has surpassed several levels in terms of material and buttons! Congratulations to you! After Xiao Gongzi finished speaking, he was triumphant.

"Haha, guess what I say?" Hongyi deliberately tensed.

"The slave is stupid, please show me."

"You're so smart!" Hongyi smiled.

"The minions are all following you, and this is the ...... that has grown" Xiao Gongzi was flattered.

"Okay, you have to pay attention to your own growth to get to where you are today, and I am not greedy for merit. But don't do it recklessly, you know? Without waiting for Xiao Gongzi to agree, Hongyi continued:

"It's good for you to understand the meaning of this seal letter, be careful to go out and talk nonsense, and when you come back, you must record it in the file!"

"The slave knows!" Liang Gong promised from the bottom of his heart.

"Mr. Ji, Mr. Tan, Master Zhu Zhixi, as well as Yang Yongjian and Min Xu, you went to talk about them?" Hongyi turned to ask about what he had been concerned about.

"Back to the master, early this morning, the slave went out of the palace according to your instructions, and before the edict was issued at Tiananmen Square, he told several adults and gentlemen the gist of it. The reader's brain is good, and the minions only said it once, and they all remembered it in their hearts. Liang Gong lowered his voice.

"Oh, what do they say?" Hony asked with concern.

"They all spoke in unison, and they all said that they should immediately go to their colleagues, fellow villagers, teachers and friends, etc., and preach the deep meaning of the holy decree well, so that everyone in the world can understand the emperor's good intentions."

"Good!" Hongyi was very satisfied, and then called.

"Mara!"

"The minions are here!" In response, it was Mara, a fourth-rank and second-class guard who had been standing under the porch of the door for a long time!

Seeing Mara, who was already loyal to him now, Hongyi was just about to speak, but he remembered something, paused for a moment, and then said:

"Mara, from this day on, you will be by my side, and you will not have to stand outside the door."

"The minion doesn't dare, the minion is a guard, don't dare to make a mistake!" Mara was as upright as ever.

"Haha, don't be polite, you are not an ordinary guard, you are now, like Xiao Gongzi, you are my close person, and you are all close to my right-hand man!" After Hongyi finished speaking, seeing that Mara was still stubborn, he directly ordered:

"That's it, no need to say more!"

"Huh!" The one below is also real, and he got up and stood behind Hongyi and next to Liang Gong.

"Alas, I said you, I haven't finished asking yet, you ran to the back, and you asked me to crook my neck to talk to you! Is! Hongyi turned his head and pretended to be angry.

"Hehe, the minion forgot ......" Mara didn't make amends this time, but smiled innocently, patted her head and turned back.

"Hehe, you......" Hongyi and Xiao Gongzi both laughed happily.

"Let me ask you, have you gone to the glass factory?" Hongyi stopped smiling and asked seriously.

"If you go back to your master, the slave went there this morning, and found the lame beggar that day, and according to your wishes, let him go back and spread it quickly." Mara's reply was succinct.

"Well, the poor should also know what the will of the court means. Well done you two! Hongyi smiled with satisfaction.

"The slave serves Lord Belle and will never give up!" The two henchmen spoke in unison, and the master and servant were hearty and harmonious.

"By the way, Mara, these days, you have to go to Lord Ji Kaisheng's house and walk around more with Zhang Suihan Songzhuzhai, firstly, for me to comfort Mr. Qianqian, and secondly, you must also take care of Songzhuzhai's thoughtfulness, and pay attention to whether there are Korean dead soldiers who have any nostalgia for Zhang Suihan, just in case."

"The minions do it!" Mara readily agreed.

"Master, why don't you let the minions take care of one place? It's good to help Brother Mara save a little bit. Liang Gong on the side couldn't bear the loneliness and took the initiative to ask for battle.

"You? Don't forget your identity, going out of the palace on an errand is not something you can do! Remember, you are a father-in-law, you must know how to do something and not to do something, you must not learn from that Wu - Wu Nu, your hand is too long! Hongyi and Yan Yuese admonished. Originally, I wanted to call Wu Liangfu "Wu Eunuch", but when the words came to my mouth, I remembered the personal feelings of Xiao Gongzi, who was also a eunuch, and changed it in time.

How smart and clever Liang Gong is, Xuan Ye was a little speechless, and immediately understood the master's favor for the slave, and instantly he didn't know how to confess in a thousand words, so he had to kneel on one knee and said solemnly: "The slave bows to Lord Belle's great grace, and he must remember the master's teachings and swear allegiance to the death!" If you break your oath, you will be destroyed! ”

Mara on the side, although she didn't understand why Liang Gong suddenly swore such a poisonous oath, she could also feel the excitement of following such a wise master, and she also knelt down and swore an oath: "The slave swears allegiance to death!" ”

"Okay, I don't want you to swear allegiance to me, but I want you to have the world in your heart, perform your duties, be good and bad, and be good people!" Hongyi is also a little excited, it has been two years since he came to the Qing Dynasty, and for the first time, someone has sworn allegiance to the death, indicating that he has initially established some family foundations!

"Get up, get up. You don't live up to me, I don't live up to the two! Hongyi stretched out his hand to hold each other, only then did he realize that the dead seal was still in his hand, so he hurriedly handed the huge turtle button [6] silver seal carefully to Liang Gong, who had just gotten up, and picked up the official document he had just written, and said to himself: "Regulations on the Administration of Imperial Servants of the Great Qing Dynasty (Provisional)!" Good ......" looked at the "Regulations" written vertically from right to left in traditional block letters over and over again, Hongyi was very proud!

After all, China's thousands of years of reform of the bureaucratic system cannot be achieved overnight at this stage, but it can find another way to cultivate a group of alternative servants, and the most important thing is that they will always be in the hands of the royal family, or Xiao Xuanye, and will also enter the homes of hundreds of thousands of clan Jueluo, imperial relatives, and princes and ministers from the small yamen of the imperial servant bureau......

Even in terms of content alone, this "Regulations" is unprecedented!

Its main contents include general provisions, obligations and powers, job grades, recruitment, assessment, rewards, discipline, job promotion, job appointment and dismissal, training, exchange, recusal, salary and welfare, resignation and dismissal, retirement, complaints and accusations, management and supervision and supplementary provisions, etc., a total of 18 chapters and 88 articles, all of which were written by Hongyi himself with the memory of later generations and combined with the reality of the Qing Dynasty at that time.

For example, the chapter "Job Ranks" is very much reflected in the combination with reality:

The royal servants were divided into nine ranks, and the highest rank was the "servant pipe belt", which was the same grade as the "post officer and the official"[7], and they were all "uninformed" officials. It is divided into eight classes, from high to low: the leader of the servants, the leader of the servants, the servants, the first-class servants, the second-class servants, the third-class servants, and the fourth-class servants. Newly recruited royal servants are given a one-year "apprenticeship" before they are scheduled, which is a probationary period and does not have a definite rank. After passing the examination one year, he was appointed as a fourth-class servant.

The servant's salary is equivalent to "from the nine products and the flow of people", that is, the annual salary is 31 taels and 5 yuan, and the rice is 31 and a half. Among them, the royal payment is 16 taels of silver, Lu Mi is 16 hundred, and the rest is paid by the messenger......

Only Hongyi, who is now concurrently serving as the "one lord and four positions" of the Great Qing Kingdom's Dorobelle, the Minister of the Zuo President of the Firearms Battalion, the Prime Minister of the Lower Five Banners Clan, the Zuo Zongren of the Zongren Mansion and the Minister of the Palm Seal of the Royal Servants Bureau, understands that this "royal servant" may become a "national civil servant [8]" in later generations!

At the same time, this folk discussion, directed by Hongyi himself, is sweeping inside and outside the imperial city......

[1] Now Wanshou Xinglong Temple in Beijing.

[2] i.e. Keihoji. Signed by the officials of the early Qing Dynasty, an institution affiliated to the Qing Internal Affairs Office. The original name of the Three Banners Cattle and Sheep Husbandry Department, the sixteenth year of Kangxi (1677) and the head of the ceremonial division, twenty-three years of Qingfeng Division. In charge of cattle and sheep animal husbandry affairs. Every year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs assigns the Minister in Charge to take turns in management. The division has Langzhong, Wailang, Director, Entrusted Director, Pen Slip, Scribe and other members. In the imperial city and Nanyuan, Fengtai, Zhangjiakouwai, Shengyi, Wula and other places, there are cattle and sheep pens, animal husbandry factories, etc., all of which are responsible for special personnel.

[3] A type of small seal. Chopsticks, commonly known as chopsticks. Because the strokes of the small seal are round like a jade chopstick, it is called a jade chopstick. As the name suggests, the font strokes are thick, just like the general lines of the jade chopstick. Such as "Yongtong all nations". The jade seal is rectangular in the glyph, and the structure often has the phenomenon of symmetry between left and right, giving people a feeling of upright and beautiful. The Ming Dynasty public seal font mostly used jade seals, which means that since ancient times, the iceberg of the "Nine Stacks of Script" to imprison the public seal has been loosened. In the Qing Dynasty, the classification of the 100 official seals was very strict, and the seals generally increased. Its fonts include Mongolian regular script, Manchu, Han seal and so on. The most common is that the Han and Manchu texts appear on the printing surface at the same time, which is also a major feature of the Qing Gongyin. Among them, in the Han seal, the nine stacks of text have not been very prosperous, and there have been jade seals, hanging needle seals, willow leaf seals, Zhiying seals and so on.

[4] The characteristics of the official seals of the Qing Dynasty are first manifested in the aspect of texture. The texture of the imperial treasures of the Qing Dynasty is dominated by jade. The silver official seal is the highest quality of the actual seal except for the imperial treasure, mainly for the first and second grade of the important seal, but also for some of the third grade. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the institutions and ministers who had the right to use the silver official seal, and counted the "Huidian" and the three links of the Qing Dynasty, most of them had the following great duties. The internal and external civil officials are the Inner Three Yuan, the Zongren Mansion, the Yansheng Gong, the Military Aircraft Affairs Office, the Ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Lifan Yuan, the Shengjing Five Ministries, the Household Ministry Prime Minister Sanku Affairs, the Hanlin Academy, the Internal Affairs Office, the Zhan Affair Mansion, the General Political Envoy Division, the Dali Temple, the Taichang Temple, the Provincial Metropolitan Division, the Bu Political Envoy, the Shuntian Mansion, and the Fengtian Mansion; The military positions include Gong, Hou, Bo, Minister of Economic Strategy, General, General, Minister of Guard, Commander, Admiral, Commander of the Town Guard, Commander of the Nine Gates, Commander of the Protectors, Commander of the Forward, Firearms Battalion, Commander of the Guide, Minister of Management of Ili, Urumqi, Yarkand, Kashgar, Aksu, Balikun and other Ministers, Minister of Counsellor of the Prime Minister of Ili in Yaercheng, Minister of Grain and Salary Affairs of Hami, etc. At present, there are many silver seals of military attachés in the physical remains, such as the "Seal of the Guide Minister", "The Seal of the Left Wing Forward", "The Seal of the Right Wing Forward", the Eight Banners of the Protector of the Army, and the "Seal of the Minister of the Three Banners of the Guard", all of which were made by the Qianlong Dynasty; The Shanghai Museum has the collection of "Admiral Guangdong Naval Division General Soldier Defense" and "Hunan Governor Guard", both of which were made by the Jiaqing Dynasty. The surviving clerical silver seals have the "Seal of the Governor's Internal Affairs Office" and "The Seal of the Holy Father", all of which were made in the 14th year of Qianlong, and are all stored in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

[5] The "Tang Seal" is the opposite of the "Xing Yin", which is the official seal of the main senior officials during their office in Beijing after the Shunzhi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty established the "dual-track printing of court officials". The "double-track printing" of the Shunzhi Dynasty is the "Tang Seal" and the "Line Seal". The first batch of double seal institutions determined was "the eighth year of Shunzhi, the six departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Luan Yiwei and other yamen officials, when they met the luck of the line, each yamen cast a seal, and added the word 'line in'. Its special guards, etc., all use Luan Yiwei to seal the letter. "In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Fu Lin was pro-government, and a series of systems such as court rituals and crown clothes were formulated. In April of the eighth year, Shizu went out of Andingmen for the first time to the north to patrol the luck, and the system of driving out of the patrol was formulated in advance. Casting the official subordinate line in the seal letter is an important part of the patrol system. In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, the double printing system was made in Guang and Tongzheng Embassy, Dali Temple, Hanlin Temple, Taichang Temple, Taifu Temple, Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple, Qin Tianjian and Tai Hospital, almost all the court and official institutions. In the 25th year of Jiaqing, there was a case of loss of the seal of the military department, which was recorded in the "Qing Shilu" and private notes. The Palace Museum in Beijing once acquired the "Xingzaitai Hospital Seal" made by Qianlong in the 14th year of Yifang, and it can be seen that the word "Xingzai" in the seal was added before the official title.

[6] The hierarchical characteristics of the official seal are also expressed in the button style. The highest-level imperial treasure in the official seal has been a dragon button for generations, and the imperial treasure of the Qing Dynasty is no exception. The turtle button is the second grade after the dragon button. The golden seal of the concubine of the Qing Dynasty and the treasure of the prince of Heshuo, the treasure of the prince of the prince, and the seal of the king of Joseon are all turtle buttons. However, the shape of the turtle button is different from that of the turtle button in ancient India. It can be seen from the various concubine seals left in the Qing Palace that the shape of the turtle is a dragon shape at the head and tail, and only the body resembles a turtle. This button pattern reflects the special status of the person who holds such a seal.

[7] Yicheng, the system of the Ming and Qing dynasties, each state and county has a post station, and there are post posts. In charge of the guard of honor, carriages and horses, greeting and sending things in the post station, not into the product. Ming provinces, prefectures, and counties, according to different situations, put post posts, or not, more or less, in charge of post wagons and horses to welcome and send. Qing along the place, the official rank is not into the stream, Yongzheng six years (1728) stipulates that the Manchu people are not allowed to be posters.

牐, pronounced zhá, that is, gate. The name of the clerk. The palm opens and closes the river, and it is stored and discharged in time. It is subordinate to the Governor's Mansion of the River.

[8] What is a "civil servant"? According to the provisions of the Civil Servants Law, it refers to the staff who perform public duties in accordance with the law, are included in the state administrative establishment, and are paid wages and benefits by the state treasury. According to the nature, characteristics and management needs of the positions, civil servant positions are divided into general management categories, professional jishu categories and administrative law enforcement categories. In accordance with the Civil Servants Law of the People's Republic of China, the State Council may add other types of posts that are special and need to be managed separately.

But as a member of the civil servants, Hongyi has a basic explanation for this, which is better understood, that is, "servant of the people"! Why? At the beginning of the creation of the civil service system in Japan, some people suggested that they should be called "civil officials" according to the name of the Oriental Japanese country. However, party and state leaders believe that after thousands of years of feudal dynasties, "official" has long become a specific title opposed to "the people" and cannot reflect China's concept and purpose of serving the people. Some people also suggested using the British titles of "civilian attendant" and "civilian servant", but they were suspected of belittling the vast number of "cadres". At a time when there was a disagreement, I don't know who proposed to borrow the general title of a soldier in the army who served in the organs and chiefs - "civil servant". In the military, the little soldiers who are responsible for the miscellaneous things within the organs are generally called "civil servants." This proposal was quickly agreed to by the top level, because he was neither a high-ranking "official" nor an inferior "servant", but a civil servant in our country should be a member of the citizens and a part of the masses of the people. So, the word civil servant is so fixed.