Chapter 135: Seal (Three Changes)
Soon after the court trial, Luo Qing and others set off to return to Beijing, to Emperor Yongle to return to life, before leaving Luo Qing specially to Li Yuntian to give some encouragement, he admired Li Yuntian very much, optimistic about Li Yuntian's future development in the career. Pro, eye & fast, a large number of novels to read for free.
Because Cui Hui "mistakenly believed" the confessions of Shi An and the three of them, and smashed the case of Li Yuntian, Chen Tianxun, the right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, set up a table of wine before leaving, wanting to reconcile the relationship between the two in order to calm down the situation this time, and also to appease Li Yuntian.
No matter how Cui Hui is hunting on behalf of the sky, although the method of handling the case is a little extreme, but on the whole, there is no dereliction of duty, and Li Yuntian can only consider himself unlucky.
To Cui Hui's surprise, Li Yuntian actually attended the wine party, and talked and laughed at the wine party, and toasted him, as if he didn't take the matter of the case to heart, which made Cui Hui feel an inexplicable chill rise up his spine, and he knew very well that Li Yuntian would not let him go lightly.
Cui Hui guessed correctly, Li Yuntian hated Cui Hui very much in his heart, but he had to give Chen Tianxun face, so he acted on the spot, and he was false and wronged.
"Cui Xun, today's kindness is in the official's heart, if he has a fate in the future, the official will definitely double it!" Taking advantage of Chen Tianxun's opportunity to go to the toilet, Li Yuntian's eyes flashed coldly, and he raised the wine glass in his hand at Cui Hui, and said coldly, deliberately accentuating his tone on "kindness".
"What do you want to do?" Cui Hui clearly felt the murderous aura on Li Yuntian's body, and suddenly became nervous, and asked inwardly.
"Just to remind you, if the mountains don't turn around, sooner or later we will have to deal with each other again!" Li Yuntian found that Cui Hui seemed to be timid, smiled slightly, and drank all the wine in the wine glass.
Cui Hui saw Li Yuntian blatantly threatening himself, his face suddenly turned pale, his fists clenched tightly, he now regretted that he had taken over the errand of rectifying Li Yuntian, and in the future, there would be such a terrible enemy as Li Yuntian in his career, which would really make him sleep.
The reason why Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou were able to make such great progress in Nanzhili and Zhejiang this time has a great relationship with the letter written by Zhou Yuting to the commander of the Nanzhili garrison and the Zhejiang Dusi.
As for how Li Yuntian would have thought of asking Shopkeeper Zhao to check the source of the five silver tickets, it is thanks to his usual dealings with the merchants who came to Baishui Town, and he once overheard that the Jiujiang branch of Longchang Qianzhuang had changed a batch of silver tickets in June, he didn't care at the time, and after seeing that the five silver tickets were all new in the court, he decided to gamble on his luck, and what happened later.
When Li Yuntian returned to the county seat of Hukou County, firecrackers were set off everywhere in the county to dispel the bad luck on Li Yuntian's body, and it was as lively as the New Year.
Wang Yu led a group of officials and gentry out of the city to greet Li Yuntian, and picked him up in the restaurant.
Because of the alarm of Emperor Yongle became the imperial case, so Shi An, Liu Ming and Gu Manfu and others were severely punished, the three of them can be described as extremely evil, all sentenced to death by Ling Chi, his family was also exiled to the army, the round-faced middle-aged man with thick eyebrows was wanted by the whole country.
Li Yuntian believed that although the middle-aged man with a round face and thick eyebrows escaped by chance, he would find out sooner or later and let him be punished as he deserved.
In Li Yuntian's busy affairs, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is approaching, and there was a heavy snowfall in Jiujiang Mansion two days ago, due to the cold weather, there is still snow on the eaves and trees that has not yet melted.
"My lord, there are eight hundred miles of urgent paperwork in the capital." Just as Li Yuntian was discussing some affairs for next year with Wang Yu and Zhao Lang in the county yahoutang, a government official hurriedly came in to report.
"Eight hundred miles expedited?" Li Yuntian was quite surprised when he heard this, he was a small magistrate, and it seemed that it was not worth the imperial court to use eight hundred miles to expedite.
didn't have time to think about it, Li Yuntian led Wang Yu and Zhao Lang, who were also suspicious, to the county government hall, only to see two dusty soldiers standing there, each carrying a yellow burden.
"The person who came is the magistrate of Hukou County?" The leader was a schoolmaster with a national character face, and he said to Li Yuntian with a stern expression.
"It's this official, I don't know what happened to the mission?" Li Yuntian bowed his hand to the captain of the national character face and asked in a deep voice.
"Li Zhixian, this is the document given to you by the ministry." After confirming Li Yuntian's identity, the captain of the Guozi-faced school took off the burden, took out a sealed official letter from it and handed it to him.
Looking at the official letter stamped with the seal of the Ministry of Officials in his hand, Li Yuntian suddenly felt a trace of inexplicable excitement in his heart, the Ministry of Officials was in charge of the promotion and dismissal of civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, and he would not send him a document for no reason.
Under the eager gaze of Wang Yu and Zhao Lang, Li Yuntian hurriedly tore open the seal, took out the official document inside, and opened it to see that his eyes showed a hint of joy.
On the grounds that he had made great efforts to govern the country during his tenure in Hukou County, was diligent in government and loved the people, had a clear judgment of cases, and had made meritorious contributions in suppressing bandits, he was specially promoted to two grades, and then set off for the capital to report to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to report to the Metropolitan Procuratorate of Huguang Dao and take up the post of Metropolitan Procuratorate Huguang Dao Inspector Imperial History.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate is different from other ministries in the capital, and the supervision of the imperial history must be hand-picked by the imperial pen of the Yongle Emperor, which means that Li Yuntian can enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate this time, and the Yankuai is the promotion of the Yongle Emperor.
The Ming Dynasty has an unwritten custom, not a bachelor, not a bachelor, not an official, not a minister.
This means that if you are not a Hanlin Academy, you can't become a scholar, and you can't enter the cabinet, and if you haven't been an official in the Imperial History of the Imperial Court and the Six Departments, then you can't serve as a ministry official or a local official.
It is worth mentioning that only Jinshi and Gongsheng are eligible to enter the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, while only Jinshi above the second grade of the palace examination are eligible to enter, they can be described as the elite of the Ming scholars, the close ministers around the emperor, and the descendants of the lineage.
"Li Zhixian, are your three concubines available?" Just as Li Yuntian was happily looking at the official document in his hand, the Guozi-faced captain asked in a loud voice.
"The two concubines of this official are now in Baishui Town, and the county government only has the concubine Chen." Li Yuntian was slightly stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect that the captain with the national character face would mention Lu Cao, Chen Ningning, and Zheng Wanrou, and replied in a deep voice.
"Li Zhixian, there is a decree from the saint, please come out and receive the decree." The captain of the national character face took out a yellow scroll from the baggage and handed the burden to the sergeant behind him, holding the yellow scroll in both hands and said.
Li Yuntian didn't react for a while, he never thought that Emperor Yongle would give a favor to the green calyx, and hurriedly asked people to go to the back house to call the green calyx.
When Lu Cao heard that the emperor had a gracious will, he hurriedly dressed up, dressed up and followed Zhou Yuting to the lobby and knelt in front of the captain with the national character.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Chajiangxi Jiujiang Prefecture Hukou County Zhixian Li Yuntian concubine Chen's green calyx is gentle and skillful, loyal and strong, is really a model of the Ming woman, I am very relieved to hear it, so I specially issued a decree, Chen's green calyx can inherit the glory of the main room, and enjoy the seal of the wife!"
The schoolmaster with the face of the national character opened the holy decree, read it out loud, and then closed the holy decree and said to the green calyx, "Chen, thank you for the decree." ”
"Concubine Chen's green calyx, thank you, long live my emperor, long live long live!" Green Calyx's mind was blank at this time, and he took the holy decree with both hands and said in a coquettish voice.
The so-called seal of the life woman refers to the title of the life woman in the main room of the officials above the seventh rank of the Ming civil official, the wife of the first rank official is named "Mrs. Yipin", the second official is named "Mrs.", the third official is named "Lady", the fourth official is named "Gongren", the fifth official is "Yiren", the sixth official is "Anren", and the seventh official is "Ruren".
Among them, the fourth grade or more is given the edict, and the fifth grade or less is given the edict.
Taking the green calyx as an example, because Li Yuntian was promoted to a civil official of the sixth grade, she will become a "He'an person" after receiving the title.
As for the "Lady of the Commandment", which is usually mentioned, it refers to the title obtained by the wife of a civil official of the second rank or above.
The imperial court gave the wives of civil officials above the seventh rank a kind of honorary title, no money, let alone power, but it represents a symbol of identity and status, has an official edict, is the court wife, which is equivalent to a kind of fame, and low-level officials have to salute when they see them.
After Green Calyx received the holy decree, Captain Guozi-faced opened the yellow baggage carried by the sergeant behind him, and there were three small yellow burdens in it, and handed one of them to Green Calyx.
In addition to the imperial court's edict to the green calyx "He'an people", there is also a pair of Xia Wei of Mrs. Hui, Xia Wei is the signature device of the wife, ordinary ladies are not allowed to trespass, otherwise they will be severely punished.
The so-called Xia curtain refers to a kind of shawl, and different grades of women correspond to different grades of Xia curtains, just like the official uniforms of officials, and people can tell the grade of women at a glance.
When Li Yuntian accompanied the captain of the national character face to the Chen family and the Zheng family in Baishui Town to pass the decree, the two families had already received the news in advance, bathing and changing clothes, burning incense and setting up the case, which seemed very grand, after all, Baishui Town had never received a holy decree.
Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou are the same as the green calyx, "inheriting the glory of the main room and enjoying the seal of the wife", in the eyes of the two families, this is the supreme glory, and there is green smoke on the ancestral tomb.
Under the ardent expectations of the family, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou, who were holding their stomachs, put on a xia veil, and suddenly looked extravagant and heroic.
The decree of Emperor Yongle was offered by Chen Bozhao and Zheng Gui, with these two decrees, the two families also have to rely on and have a heritage, it is obvious that Emperor Yongle will not be under such a decree for no reason, and no one on the ground in Jiujiang Mansion will dare to trouble the two families in the future.
Li Yuntian knew very well that the reason why Emperor Yongle gave these three edicts was actually a kind of appeasement to himself, and at the same time, he also showed his appreciation for himself, which was the king's way of control, and Zhang Chi made him grateful and tried his best to do things for the royal family.
At the same time, the deeds of Lu Cao, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou in Li Yuntian's case also spread along with Emperor Yongle's kindness on the ground in the south of the Yangtze River, and they were regarded as loyal and intelligent strange women. One