Ming politics is actually official politics, and after the cabinet system is formed, the central operation process should theoretically be as follows.

In the first step, the celebrant clerk's office collected the recitals on behalf of the emperor at the Huiji Gate (formerly known as Zuoshun Gate), and then presented them to the emperor.

The second step is to wait for the emperor to read it, and then send it to the cabinet, and the cabinet will draft the vote.

The third step is to hand over the ticket to the emperor, and if the emperor has no opinion, let the celebrant approve the red, and then send it back to the cabinet to draft a formal edict.

But this process was so cumbersome and cumbersome that the emperor himself was impatient, and gradually simplified.

Nowadays, in practice, after the clerk's office of the celebrant receives the note, if there are no special circumstances, it will be directly handed over to the cabinet, and the cabinet will first draft the bill, and then submit the note to the emperor.

On the afternoon of the second session of the martial arts test on 12 April, Lin Daguan went around and smashed the doors of several houses, but they also lost money on the spot, and tried frantically on the edge of the law.

On April 13, Shoufu Shen Shixing came to Wenyuan Pavilion to work, and as soon as he sat down in the room, he saw Wang An, the little eunuch in the clerical room, send him over.

The classification is quite neat, for example, those from the border towns are classified into one pile, and those from the Metropolitan Procuratorate are classified into another pile, etc.

In view of the recent situation, Shen Shoufu first looked through the recital from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

He silently counted in his heart, a few days ago, there were only four copies of the Song Shu Attack on the King's Wall, and today it has increased to eight.

Looking at the content carefully, most of them were impeached together with Wang Zhiyuan and Lin Tailai. The wording is nothing more than embarrassment, collusion, and accusing Wang Zhiyuan of shielding Lin Tailai.

It is also said that Lin Tailai is deficient in virtue and should not be used for materials, and should be expelled from the martial arts test. In addition, there are more knowledgeable ones, who actually exposed Lin Tailai for harming the place under the protection of the Wang family.

After reading it, Shen Shoufu sighed deeply.

If the person who sheltered Lin Tailai to harm the place was the Wang family, then where was the Shen family?

The confidant surnamed Li next to him asked, "Why is the elder Ge sighing?" ”

Shen Shoufu pointed at Song Shu and said: "Today, so many people impeached Lin Tailai, but no one took the old man with him.

Just 10 days ago, they said that I had connived at the lawlessness of my disciple Lin Tailai. ”

Li Sheren was speechless, Shen Shoufu, why is your tone quite lost?

Others are not stupid, their main purpose is to pull the king's wall off the horse. Before Shousuke makes a clear statement, who wants to provoke Shousuke?

The so-called draft vote basically means that the cabinet drafts the opinions on behalf of the emperor.

Shen Shoufu's vote for these eight recitals is: "The Lower Metropolitan Procuratorate will investigate the recital in detail and appoint the imperial historian to inspect the martial arts examination room." ”

Li Sheren was very stunned when he saw the result, could it be that Lin Tailai was going back to the Shen family, and Shen Shoufu wanted to clean up the portal?

In the Ming system, the impeachment of the official is considered a rumor, but the investigation by the Metropolitan Procuratorate is regarded as the initiation of the "judicial procedure".

But this storm of attack was originally manipulated by Zuodu Yushi Xin for self-cultivation, and then sent back to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for processing, the result is self-evident.

This situation is a bit of a "who in the hall sued the official for what".

Eight bullet stamps pressed, just after noon, Wang Zhiyuan, the left attendant of the household department, went home from work early and closed the door again.

Wang Zhiyou and Wang Xiangmeng are not at home, and Lin Tailai is not at home.

Wang Shaositu could only ask the fifteenth sister, "What about Lin Tailai?" ”

Wang 15 replied: "I should have gone to the capital to command the Zheng Mansion." ”

The so-called commander Zheng Mansion is the mansion of Zheng Guifei's father, Zheng Chengxian, and Zheng Guotai, who participated in the martial arts test, as his son, of course also lives here.

Wang Zhiyuan was stunned for a long time, but he couldn't understand what Lin Tai was doing when he came to Zheng's mansion.

Wang 15 added: "I heard Lin Jun say that he is going to Zheng Guotai to meet his friends with martial arts and win a heads-up victory. ”

Wang Zhiyuan: "."

How does the word heads-up sound so naïve, like two children fighting, is Wuke Dabi child's play in the eyes of you Lin Tailai?

After coming back to his senses, Wang Shaositu said to Wang Fifteen: "Actually, although the life of the Gao family may be a little dull. But this Lin Tailai's behavior is too much. Drifting. ”

Wang 15 persuaded: "Brother don't worry, the bigger the movement Lin Jun tosses, the more stable he will be in the martial arts test, and the more the examiner will not dare to make mistakes."

Therefore, all these actions of Lin Jun are to suppress the bonus brought by the status of Emperor Zheng Guotai's relatives. ”

Wang Zhiyuan was a little angry and said, "Have you forgotten? Our focus is to compete for the book of the household, not the martial arts test! ”

Wang Shifu said with a smile: "Didn't Lin Jun say that the position of the head of the household book is a matter of picking grass and beating rabbits." ”

Standing outside the gate of the Zheng Mansion under the command of the guards with brocade clothes, Lin Daguan stood with his hands in his hands and led a dozen men to block the outside of the gate tightly.

Lin Daguan's recent behavior in Beijing has faintly shown signs of the men's nemesis, and the disciples have always become victims of Lin Daguan's demonstrations.

Therefore, the door of the Zheng Mansion did not even dare to open the small door, and only opened a crack in the door to talk to the Lin officials outside.

"Please come out and speak!" Lin Tailai shouted at Menzi.

Menzi replied: "My uncle is quietly preparing for the martial arts test, and there are no guests!" ”

"Phew!" Lin Daguan said loudly: "The Zheng family is a relative of the emperor and the country, and they are treated preferentially everywhere.

Now he has even resorted to an off-the-field move, instigating a group of officials to attack me! Dare to do it, what kind of hero! ”

For some reason, the Zheng family behaved very low-key, and only let Menzi pass the word: "This matter has nothing to do with my Zheng family!" ”

Lin Daguan said: "In the previous martial arts test, Zheng Guotai and I were both superior, if nothing else, the first place in the final martial arts test will be produced from the two of us!"

Just talk about not practicing fake tricks, just practice not talking about stupid tricks, and practice and talk about real tricks.

I, Lin Tailai, have no other skills, so I invite Zheng Guotai to come out and compete face-to-face! ”

Menzi replied again: "The day after tomorrow is the third exam, see the real chapter in the examination room, and do not accept private fights!" ”

Lin Tailai laughed a few times, "The third game the day after tomorrow is the knife and gun weapons project, and the candidates dance knives and guns, and the evaluation level is all human-oriented."

I, Lin Tailai, am just a small civilian, and in the artificially assessed project, where can I compare to the emperor's relatives?

Your Zheng family can even use off-the-counter tactics like launching an official attack on me, won't you do tricks in the evaluation?

When the time comes, give Zheng Guotai a top grade, give me a medium or low grade, where should I find fairness? ”

Even though Lin Tailai blocked the door and shouted, even though Lin Tailai seemed to be justified, no one from the Zheng family came out, so Lin Daguan was helpless.

But Lin Daguan was not idle, and he transferred to the door of Wanshan's house in the imperial history, after all, this is the enemy's "vanguard general", so he should take more care of it.

It's just that the gate that was smashed by Lin Daguan yesterday has not been repaired at all, and the Fang family is just wide open, completely undefended.

Then there were a few gray-haired old men, squatting under the shadow wall, looking at Lin Daguan through the doorway without a door panel.

This made Lin Daguan a little distressed, how could he be like yesterday, without rushing into the gate to ride his face and humiliate?

After thinking about it again and again, I finally got a lot of ink and wrote a big-character poster directly on the outer wall: The imperial historian, colluding with the imperial family!

The next day, that is, on April 14, after Zuodu Yushi Xin went to the government office, he heard Lin Tailai's behavior yesterday.

But he didn't care, this was all expected, and he had guessed that Lin Tailai would inevitably tie up the Zheng family and those officials.

Then he received an order to let the Metropolitan Procuratorate investigate Lin Tailai, and appoint the imperial history to inspect the martial arts examination room.

This made Xin Zongxian a little surprised, because this feedback came too quickly.

Yesterday, a batch of music was sent to the palace, and today there is a will to be conveyed, which is really not like the Ming Dynasty.

Based on Xin Zongxian's experience, it must have been the first auxiliary vote to be drafted quickly, and then the emperor did not have any more opinions and turned it back, and the cabinet quickly issued it.

However, isn't Lin Tailai Shen Shoufu's doorman?

Presumably, the young and frivolous Lin Tailai broke away from the Shen family and took refuge in the Wang family for the sake of women, which caused Shen Shoufu to be dissatisfied?

If that's the case, that's good news.

Immediately, Xin Zongxian handed over the task of going to the examination room to inspect the senior head of the imperial history Fang Wanshan.

It was originally a matter of Fang Yushi's report, and then he was responsible for further investigation, which is normal, right?

Another day later, on April 15, the third session of the 14th year of Wanli martial arts examination was held as scheduled.

The first is strategy, the second is bow and arrow or brawn, and today the third is the sword, gun and weapon project.

Of course, this is definitely not the "big brawl" that Lin Daguan is most looking forward to, and the candidates can only perform armed martial arts in a proper manner, and then the examiner on the podium will score them.

This scene is a bit like a martial arts competition in later generations.

The candidates who came to participate in the third session today all understood that they would definitely not be able to win the first place in the martial arts examination, and all they could fight for was the place of Wujinshi.

After all, there were two rare top-notch exams, and the first place in the martial arts exam must have come from these two people.

Today's designated weapons are knives or guns, which are also the two most common standard weapons in the army.

Lin Daguan chose marksmanship, after all, he learned the "Tang's Liuhe Gun" from Qi Shaobao for a few days. Although I haven't fought much, I can still do it after a few laps.

At the beginning, time was limited, so Lin Daguan learned some tricks, and in the future, he would fish for three days and dry nets for two days.

Therefore, in the eyes of experts, Lin Daguan's marksmanship is still mostly fancy.

After being named, Lin Tailai went to the martial arts arena with a big gun, and finished a set of fights smoothly.

Zheng Guotai, the biggest competitor, also stood on the edge of the field and carefully watched Lin Daguanren's marksmanship drill.

So Uncle Zheng Guo was a little relieved, and the level that Lin Tailai showed was obviously not top-notch.

As long as you have a higher martial arts rating, you can surpass Lin Tailai and become the first, which should not be difficult.

After a while, everyone heard the score that Lin Tailai received, and in the four grades of upper, upper, lower, and lower, Lin Tailai got the upper-middle.

(End of chapter)