Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 584
Wenyuan Pavilion, located outside the Donghua Gate, has a black glazed tile roof, green glazed tile trim, and a pool in front of the pavilion, which looks quiet and harmonious.

Although the pavilion is not big, with only eight rooms, it is divided into upper, middle and lower floors. The middle and upper floors contain a large number of books, exuding a strong fragrance of books.

And at the lowest level, this is the power center of Ming Dynasty - where the cabinet is located.

The cabinet, as the name suggests, is Wenyuan Pavilion in Ouchi, referred to as the cabinet.

Huang Zongxi walked in small steps and arrived at the overcrowded cabinet.

As a Hanlin native, after a month of daily life, he took turns in the cabinet and served as a member of Zhongshushe.

The entire cabinet gathered all the general affairs of Ming Dynasty, and the Secretary of General Administration simply collected memorials and public opinions from all over the country, and submitted them to the cabinet in one go.

As for those of Zhongshushe, the biggest task is to classify memorials.

Little things, big things, and urgent things.

Just in case, a memorial will only be submitted to the three cabinet ministers after it has been confirmed by the three Zhongshu.

Moreover, with the determination of the division of responsibility, the six memorials should also be classified and presented to the elders separately, so that no mistakes can be made.

Huang Zongxi was so tired that he was sweating profusely. Although this job was simple, it was extremely tiring and exhausting. He couldn't take it anymore.

Let him deeply understand that reading these memorials can not only add a touch to his qualifications, ahead of other Jinshi, but also increase his experience, and have a preliminary understanding of various places in Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, he could only know superficially, such as how the nine borders are, which provinces, states and counties are affected by the disaster, how the taxes are, and so on.

But with the improvement of experience, he gradually became able to distinguish the true and false contents of the memorabilia, and the priorities, this is practice makes perfect!

Sighing, Huang Zongxi hammered his waist.

"Take a break!" Zheng Sen, who was tall and burly beside him, said indifferently, with a concerned smile on his face.

"Ok!"

Huang Zongxi snorted softly, and looked up at the other colleagues, some were resting, some were twisting their wrists, and some were even reading non-stop, with the classified memorials beside them piled up like a mountain.

"When I first came here, I wished I could read half an hour for one memorial, but now it takes less than a quarter of an hour for ten books, how fast it is."

Huang Zongxi smiled lightly.

"After reading so much, the memorials are almost the same, and the drafting is also very familiar."

Zheng Sen echoed: "It's so difficult to govern this huge world. It's hard to understand the truth after reading the old man's ticket several times."

"I don't know when we will be able to draft the imperial decree!"

Zheng Sen looked out of the window. On the other side was the Hanlin who was in charge of drafting the imperial decree. They were free every day. They only needed to draft the imperial decree, file it, and organize the files. They were very relaxed.

"Not urgent."

Huang Zongxi shook his head and said, "We still have something to learn now!"

At noon, a few boxes of memorials were sent to the elder's desk, and the eunuchs came in one after another, bringing the cabinet's meals.

The welfare of the cabinet is like this, and the imperial dining room specially provides meals.

"Several servants, the meal has arrived."

The eunuch said respectfully: "Today, I specially made sour plum soup. Your Majesty is considerate of everyone, and specially relieved the heat."

"Your Majesty's kindness cannot be repaid!"

Several people hurriedly got up, bowed their hands respectfully to the north, then opened the lunch box and went outside to eat.

Three dishes and one soup, with meat and vegetables, looks exquisite.

Zheng Sen smiled, took out a silver coin from his pocket, and placed it in the lunch box.

Huang Zongxi was dumb, took a sip, and nodded.

The food in the imperial dining room is already disliked by people. Either it has little salt and oil, and it is tasteless, or it is full of fish and meat, and it is greasy.

However, if you add some money, you can eat private food.

The eunuchs bought it privately to make up for the lack of food. During the Zhengde period, the eunuchs even abducted famous chefs to make new dishes, thinking that the emperor would come to eat here.

Later, the emperor's concubines also had private kitchens, and the bitterness of the imperial dining room could only be eaten by the officials.

Huang Zongxi took advantage of Zheng Sen's attention, ate his own food, and feasted on it.

And in a side hall, a few elders finished their meals and drank tea to digest their food. The doors and windows were wide open, and they didn't care about the rolling heat.

"I heard that the eldest son of the emperor has entered school?"

The three looked relaxed, drank the tea given by the emperor, and chatted about the affairs in the palace.

Although it is said that Wenyuan Pavilion is located in the outer court, it is also in the Forbidden City after all, and he knows a lot about the affairs of the inner court.

Zhang Shenyan smiled slightly and spoke.

"Not bad!"

Yan Chongxin was the youngest, with a trace of worry on his face: "Your Majesty is like this, is it serious or not?"

"No!" Zhao Shu shook his head, and said casually: "The Zhongxing Daming has only been around for a few years, and His Majesty will definitely see thousands of miles away, so he will definitely not lose his sense of propriety."

"I don't want to be too nervous about the prince's education."

"Although that's the case, who can't care less about the Tian family's every move?"

Yan Chongxin laughed.

"Relax."

Zhao Shu said softly: "The ancestral system is here, the foundation of the court's stability, and it will never be chaotic."

As he spoke, he put down the teacup in his hand, and said the last sentence: "Don't make a mess."

Zhang Shenyan said with a blank face: "I will not hide it from you two, even if I give up my life, this will definitely not happen."

"Drink tea, drink tea—" Yan Chongxin hurriedly said, the atmosphere was too dignified.

Kunning Palace, which sits in the north and faces south, has 9 wide corridors and 3 deep ones, with yellow glazed tiles and double eaves on the roof.

As the queen's residence, the Kunning Palace stands side by side with the Qianqing Palace, and it can be said to be second to none in the entire inner court.

Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Hall, and Kunning Palace are located on the same central axis and arranged in sequence, followed by the Imperial Garden.

In the Qing Dynasty, it became a place for shamans to worship gods, but it was only held here when the emperor got married.

When Li Zicheng left Beijing, he burned a fire, and the Kunning Palace was slightly damaged, but now it has been renovated.

After returning from Yuquan Mountain Villa for a few days, Sun Xueniang started to work, she went up and down lightly, and then rested.

Sun Damianang hugged her son and stayed in the Kunning Palace, eating smoothies, looking relaxed and at ease.

Sun Xueniang said she was a gentle and quiet person, she didn't say anything when she saw this, and let her go.

Suddenly, a maid came quietly and whispered something in her ear, Sun Xueniang shook her head:
"Forget it, let him go, don't care too much."

"Yes!"

"What's the matter, sister?"

It was only then that Sun Damianang noticed her sister, and asked, it doesn't matter what the status is.

The maid at the side shook her head, but there was nothing she could do. They were sisters, and the rules were paper.

"The eldest son of the emperor has entered school."

Sun Xueniang said lightly: "Several years have passed in a blink of an eye, time is too fast."

"Oh!" Sun Damiana nodded, her eyes were inexplicable.

Although she is a bit naive, she is indeed straightforward, not stupid, so she naturally understands its meaning.

"Sister, don't worry, the rules of the world are here, so you can't mess them up."

(End of this chapter)