In the autumn of the third year of Hongwu.

Outside the Taihe Palace.

"Xuan!"

"Suning Hou! Xiao Han, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites! See you in the palace! ”

Under the noon sun, accompanied by the chanting of the great eunuch, under the steps, a figure slowly walked up.

This person is only in his twenties, but he is already wearing a scarlet robe, with a strong bookish atmosphere on his handsome face, plus the scarlet robe that only a third-rank or above can wear, and he is a beautiful man.

Seeing that this person was approaching, Wang Jinghong, the great eunuch who often accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang, couldn't help but smile.

"Marquis Xiao, the emperor has announced you."

"Please."

"I'm tired of my father-in-law."

Xiao Han smiled and nodded, stepped forward and arched his hand, the sleeves of the two seemed to touch, and then as if nothing happened, Xiao Han followed Wang Jinghong's side and walked to the front of the palace gate.

"The emperor is having lunch, and when he hears that you are coming, he will see you while eating, and he will not see him at all, this holy family is really envious of the dead slave maid."

Wang Jinghong seemed to be chatting and said with a smile.

"It's really a serious matter, so I had to come to ask to see the superior when the excerpt was just finished."

Xiao Han also replied with a smile.

As he spoke, he took out a fold and said, "Look, this ink has just dried." ”

"Xiao Hou concentrates on state affairs, and he is really the humerus of my Ming Kingdom."

"Father-in-law praises."

While speaking, the two had already arrived at the side hall of the Taihe Palace, Wang Jinghong confessed his guilt and hurried a few steps in.

Xiao Han was waiting at the gate of the hall to be summoned.

However, after a while, it was not Wang Jinghong's voice that was waiting for him.

It was a somewhat muffled, neutral voice.

"Xiao Han is here? Come on in. ”

"Yes."

Xiao Han bowed his head in response, and then walked into the side hall.

The side hall is not very large, and in the middle there is a round table with a few seasonal vegetables and a large fat chicken.

A man with a square and majestic face dressed in a loose blue linen robe was sitting at the table, biting a half-pulled steamed bun with a chicken leg in one hand and a half-pulled bun in the other.

This is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, whose name is Hongwu!

Xiao Han took a few steps forward, folded his sleeves, and bent his knees.

"Xiao Han, see ......."

"Okay, okay, and there are no outsiders, come and sit."

Before his knees were bent, the voice of the great tomorrow's impatience was heard.

Xiao Han raised his head and saw Zhu Yuanzhang pointing to the position opposite him.

"Yes."

Xiao Han said, still knelt down, and then stood up.

"You kid, you are a vulgar courtesy."

Zhu Yuanzhang scolded with a smile, but his eyes showed satisfaction.

is worthy of being a smart person in the world, what to do, how to do it, the heart is clear.

"Now the minister is a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, if he doesn't even have the gift of the monarch and the minister, then it is really a corpse vegetarian meal."

Xiao Han stepped forward, and after thanking him again, he sat down on the low stool.

"Just you?"

"In the past, we compared Kong Ming to goodness, and Xun Yu to Qing."

"But you Xiao Han, Xiao Fengxue didn't recognize it, but compared himself to Jia Xu Cheng Yu."

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the youngest scarlet-robed minister of the Ming Dynasty opposite with disdain, and said jokingly: "Now it's about etiquette?" ”

"I was young and frivolous in the past."

Xiao Han said with a slightly embarrassed face.

"Don't talk nonsense, you're only twenty years old now."

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, picked up a steamed bun and stuffed it to Xiao Han, and said: "You shouldn't have eaten either, then let's order you to talk while eating, and talk less about those things that don't make sense, understand?" ”

"Yes."

Xiao Han responded with a smile, then relaxed, and broke off the other chicken thigh.

"Hey, you're welcome, kid?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was anxious when he saw it, so he directly grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth, and when he came out again, there was only a bare bone left.

"We only eat chicken once in three days, and we only have these two legs!"

Listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's muttering voice, Xiao Han smiled and said: "The upper position is now rich all over the world, sitting on the Ming Dynasty, how can you eat a chicken and count the days?" ”

"You don't think it's appropriate, do you?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes suddenly lit up and said, "Let's give you the right to participate in the impeachment!" Go tell us about it. ”

Xiao Han knew what was going on as soon as he heard it, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang's belly, silently took a bite of the steamed bun, and said, "The minister didn't say anything." ”

"Why don't you still talk?"

Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Xiao Han unhappily.

"If you get angry with your superiors, at most you will hit the board, but if you make the mother angry, not only will you hit the board, but the prince's fist will also be really beaten."

Xiao Han rolled his eyes.

"Tell me, we are an emperor, and we are in charge of what we eat every day, what is the reason?"

Zhu Yuanzhang also seems to be crazy, and he pours bitter water at every opportunity.

Xiao Han didn't say anything, slowly ate steamed buns, and secretly pried a chicken wing down.

Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to sigh and ate with his head bored.

After eating three big steamed buns, Zhu Yuanzhang burped, and Xiao Han also put down the steamed buns in his hand when he saw this.

"Tell me, what's the big deal that made you hold back a meal?"

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of tea and said slowly.

He knew Xiao Han's temperament, if it was urgent, he would say it when they met, and if it was a trivial matter, it would be solved while they were eating.

Only big things can make Xiao Han so stable.

Xiao Han slowly tidied up his clothes, took out a fold from his arms, got up, knelt on the ground, and said loudly: "Minister! Su Ninghou, Xiao Han, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, please prelude! ”

As soon as these words came out, Rao is Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment.

The so-called prelude to the monarch is the most formal way of communication between the monarch and the minister, and every word and deed and every move of the two parties will be recorded in detail into the living notes of the Son of Heaven.

Later, it will be sorted out into the history of the country.

Therefore, if the matter is not important, or if it is not handled properly, it will be ridiculed by future generations for an unknown number of years.

And Zhu Yuanzhang has ascended to the pole so far, no courtier has taken the initiative to propose that the monarch and the minister play the right, and it is all he, the emperor, who has proposed that "the monarch and the minister ask the right".

Of the two, one is the courtier's work, and the other is the emperor's advice.

In the former, if things are not important, they will stink for 10,000 years, and in the latter, if they are not dealt with effectively, they will also stink for 10,000 years.

As for the emperor?

The emperor can't be wrong.

At least while the emperor was still alive.

"Summoning the scholars!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression also became serious, he took a deep look at Xiao Han, and his own little eunuch took the order and left quickly.

And Zhu Yuanzhang also turned around and went to the apse to change clothes.

The official monarch and the minister are right, but they have to wear court clothes.

Xiao Han also stood aside and waited.

After a while, as soon as the eunuchs removed the table, a green-robed official hurriedly came over with a pen and paper.

"Lord Xiao."

The middle scholar looked at Xiao Han and bowed.

Although the Zhongshu Sheren is only from the seventh grade, as a close minister of the Son of Heaven, he is extremely noble.

But this Zhongshu is very discerning, no matter how close he is to the Son of Heaven, is he closer to this Marquis Xiao, who is commensurate with the prince's brother?

It is said that in the early years, His Majesty even had the idea of accepting Lord Xiao as his righteous son.

"Hmm."

Xiao Han nodded.

After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang came out of the apse, and he had already changed into a bright and yellow dragon robe, with a majestic expression.

"See Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty for all blessings!"

Xiao Han and the people of the middle school bowed and bowed together.

"I'm there."

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said: "Flat, each in its place." ”

The scholar hurriedly walked to the corner and knelt down, licking the wolf pen of Huimo and writing solemnly.

"On the third day of October in the third year of Hongwu, before a moment, Emperor Yu Taihe played against the Marquis of Suning, and Xiao Han, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites."

Almost as soon as the people of Zhongshu put down their pens, they heard the majestic voice of the Son of Heaven.

"What's the matter with Xiao Aiqing?"

When Xiao Han heard this, he took out the fold again and held it above his head.

"Chen Xiaohan, above: Please compile the Hongwu Ceremony and make a fold!"

"Your Majesty, please!"