Chapter 149: A New Mission
After a period of time, Yu Zizhen never paid attention to how Wei Heng's family affairs were handled, Wei Heng thought that Yu Zizhen was deliberately leaving time and space for him, and he became more and more grateful and admired for her in his heart.
What he didn't know was that Yu Zizhen actually learned about the development of this matter through the small milk sound system every day.
She had recently become obsessed with learning Fanbang dialect, and while studying Confucian classics, the Six Arts of Gentlemen, and traditional Chinese medicine, she and the emperor applied for a young official who was fluent in many Fanbang languages to be a teacher.
The young official came from a declining clan of young scholars, and his father, who had died young, was the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, and he was extremely talented, coupled with his family roots, and at the age of only twenty, he had become the most proficient young official in Honglu Temple.
This head sounds loud, but in the current Daqi, places like Honglu Temple are basically a Qingshui Yamen with nothing to do.
That young official could not establish meritorious service with his own strengths, and naturally he could not raise his rank and treatment.
Not only does he have an old mother, a wife, and young children to support at home, but it is also a huge expense to interact with colleagues at ordinary times, and his meager salary cannot support the family's expenses at all.
Before Yu Zizhen found the emperor and asked him to teach him the Fanbang language, his wife and mother had been working hard to spin, weave, and embroider, just to earn some silver money to supplement the family.
He didn't know that Yu Zizhen had a "cannon fodder self-help system", and he had to do tasks in exchange for points every now and then, and he was one of the target people selected by the system for Yu Zizhen, so when he was ordered to come to Zhenbei Wangfu to teach Yu Zizhen Fanbang, but Yu Zizhen gave him a year's rich bundle for the first time, he unexpectedly stood directly on the spot.
"Thisβthis is not appropriate." Although he really wanted the two hundred and forty taels of silver to solve his urgent needs, he came here on the orders of the emperor after all, and he was leading the treasury to give him a fortune, and the emperor wanted him to do something, so how could he be embarrassed to ask Yu Zizhen for a piece of money again?
"Nothing out of place." Yu Zizhen smiled, and motioned to Jiang Yunshan to stuff the small wooden box containing the silver ticket to him, "My lord, you eat the king's fortune, and the matter of loyalty to the king is right, but the affairs of Honglu Temple are what you should do." As for teaching me the language in private, it's obviously not your job. β
Jiang Yunshan also said: "Take it." If you don't accept it, my family will be embarrassed to work you anymore and run to the Zhenbei Palace. β
What can the young official say? He was sent by the emperor, and he could never be driven out of the Zhenbei Palace.
He shook it to the end with gratitude, "Thank you for the generous gift of the prince, and the lower officials are grateful." β
Yu Zizhen smiled, "Usually you have to be on duty, it's inconvenient to run on both sides of the palace and Honglu Temple, why don't we set the time for studying on the day of rest for the officials of the DPRK and China?" β
The officials of Daqi take a break every ten days, and Yu Zizhen's arrangement is already thinking about this young official to the greatest extent.
However, to her surprise, the other party actually replied to Yu Zizhen with a wry smile, "The prince doesn't know, Lord Siqing has already given the next official a long vacation as soon as he received the holy decree. β
After a pause, he said, "Our Honglu Temple is now useless. β
Yu Zizhen: Is Honglu Temple now idle?
Thinking that there were a lot of officials idle there and nothing to do, Yu Zizhen's heart that belonged to the King of Volumes was suddenly not calm.
As far as she knew, there were actually a lot of things to do in Honglu Temple.
When the leaders of various ethnic minorities or foreign envoys come to Beijing to see each other, Honglu Temple is responsible for distinguishing their superiority and inferiority, enjoying the number of banquets, and at the same time is responsible for greeting and sending them off. The tribute items are first counted in the Honglu Temple, and the Honglu Temple evaluates its value and determines the amount of the reward items.
In addition, those who inherit the title will be identified by the officials of Honglu Temple. If there is an order, the officials of Honglu Temple will go to the canonization with the festival. When a high-ranking official dies in Beijing, Honglu Siqing, Shaoqing, and Cheng will go to pay respects on behalf of the imperial court and provide funeral utensils.
Then there is the person who is responsible for translating the Fanbang dialect, studying the customs of the Fanbang, and being responsible for accompanying the delegation to the surrounding ethnic minorities.
With so many things, even if Daqi is weak now, and the surrounding ethnic minorities and vassal states in various places are no longer in the capital to pay tribute, then Daqi will still continue to operate?
The succession of the title of the noble family, the meritorious person to pay homage to the prime minister, and the death of a high-ranking official in Beijing, aren't these things also handled by Honglu Temple?
She asked when she was suspicious, but the young official had a lot of scruples and did not dare to speak frankly.
In the end, when the little milk voice system was hesitant and didn't know how to explain the doorway to Yu Zizhen both vaguely and clearly, he simply told Yu Zizhen:
"The current Daqi has long since collapsed, and many of the previous rules have been stopped by people. The succession of the titles of the noble families, the meritorious people to pay homage to the prime minister, and the death of high-ranking officials in Beijing, these errands that have some oil and water to be fished, the Lu family has already hollowed out their minds and taken them into their own hands. β
Fan Zhongming's grandfather, Fan Ting, was born in a wealthy family, and the interest community headed by him did not look down on this idea at all.
Yang Shixian's grandfather, Yang Zhengde, was born in Qing, and his followers were basically brainless scholars with great integrity, style, and reputation, and they were unwilling to trample on the law for a little money, so that they would be stinking in the history books for thousands of years.
Therefore, the followers of the Lu clan have almost no competitors, so they can not put their money in their pockets.
Honglu Temple, as a relatively weak department, was one of the first departments targeted by Lu's friends.
As they continued to stretch out their hands, Honglu Temple gradually became the state it is in almost stopping.
The more Yu Zizhen listened, the more speechless he became, the Lu family even made this kind of money, and it was no wonder that it took the Lu family less than twenty years to toss their family from a prosperous rising state to a miserable state that almost wiped out the clan.
She put the matter aside and changed the subject, and seriously discussed her language learning with the young official.
The young official said that he had time at any time, and that Yu Zizhen would be summoned and that he would definitely come to the palace immediately to teach her.
Yu Zizhen thought about her current homework arrangement, "Then the adults will come to me in the afternoon every one, four, or seven." β
They are ten days off, and the New Year's festival period is counted separately, but Yu Zizhen generally has other things to do during the rest day and the New Year's Festival, so she set the time for learning the Fanbang language on the first, fourth, seventh, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-fourth, and twenty-seventh days of each month.
They didn't have classes in the afternoon for the past nine days, and she could spare time. (End of chapter)