prosperous age

Chapter 183 Chapter 182

After receiving the notice from the Ministry of Rites, Wei Guangde packed his clothes and went to the office of the Ministry of Rites early the next morning.

This time, when he was outside the gate of the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, the petty official at the gate kindly invited him into the second gate and rested in the public room.

"The adults still have important matters to deal with, and I will send you in as soon as I deal with it."

The little official said with a flattering smile, the last time Wei Guangde brought someone to the door, he was not polite to him, so he should be careful when looking at this new Jinshi.

After Wei Guangde entered the room and sat down, he took a sip of the tea brought by the clerk, feeling a little puzzled.

There is no one else in the room, why is it only me?

When the little official brought tea and was about to leave, Wei Guangde stopped him.

"Are there any other contemporaries of mine in the yamen today?"

Wei Guangde asked curiously.

"I don't know about that, you are the first Jinshi to come to the Yamen this morning."

The little official said with a smile.

"No one else is coming?"

Wei Guangde frowned, a little strange.

"Wei Chuanlu, how dare a petty official lie to you, so far, you are the first Jinshi master I have ever met."

The little official said seriously with a smile on his face.

In Wei Guangde's mind, arrange Jinshi to come to the Ministry of Rites to collect the results of the imperial examination. No matter whether he is elected to the Imperial Academy or not, there should be a few talents right. For example, Chen Xi and Dai Ke, who rank high in the imperial examination, should have how many people. It’s only right that I was elected into the Hanlin Academy as a good scholar, why am I the only one.

Without any clue, Wei Guangde had no choice but to sit down and continue drinking tea, waiting for the officials from the Ministry of Rites to come and deal with him after finishing their official duties.

Wei Guangde wasn't worried that the clerk made a mistake yesterday, saying that he would come in the afternoon instead of coming in the morning, and he entered the yamen of the Ministry of Rites without seeing that he didn't stop him.

First, the little official also said that all the Jinshi will come today and tomorrow, and they are all those who have already arranged the place to watch the government by the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials.

They come, the security.

Wei Guangde didn't bother to think too much, and sat there drinking tea in small sips.

Not to mention, this tea is not bad, it should be Mingqian tea, the smell is still very fresh and strong, presumably it was picked and processed before the Qingming Festival, the good ones are naturally tributes, and the rest will be sent to the residences of the adults in the capital and the yamen .

Not long after, Yan Na, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, came in, followed by a scribe.

"Wei Chuanlu has been waiting for a long time, he is really busy with official duties, and I just came out from Lord Shangshu."

Wei Guangde didn't dare to continue to sit there, when the right servant entered the room, Wei Guangde had already stood up and bowed to salute.

"Master Yan is polite, but students dare not be."

Although Wei Guangde passed the Jinshi examination and became an official, he was not awarded an official after all. He claimed to be an official or a subordinate official, so what kind of official are you?

There is no way, Jinshi at this time is a little embarrassed, Wei Guangde still chooses to call himself a student when he sees the official.

"Sit down."

Yan Na smiled and said to Wei Guangde, waving for him to sit down and talk.

Although Yan Na's surname is Yan, he has nothing to do with Yan Song's family. He is from Changshu County, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili. Huanxi, super conferring a Hanlin bachelor, and moving to the right servant of the Ministry of Rites is the first step towards the cabinet, and Wei Guangde naturally dare not entrust him with it.

"Master Yan, I don't know why the students came here today."

Wei Guangde didn't become an official, so he first learned the ways of the officialdom thoroughly, and pretended to be confused.

"Hehe, it's been a while since the exams have ended, today and tomorrow are the places where you will be arranged for your new Jinshi."

Yan Shilang said with a smile, then glanced at the scribe standing beside him, the clerk immediately handed a note to Wei Guangde with both hands.

Wei Guangde took it over and saw that it was a document. Unlike other Jinshi, the document stated that he was not going to a certain yamen to observe politics, but to go to the Imperial Academy to study as a good scholar.

"Let's go to the Imperial Academy according to the time on the note. Yintai, Yinzhanshi is now in charge of the affairs of the academy, you should know him, he is a fellow, hehe."

Yan Shilang continued.

After receiving the note, Wei Guangde bowed to Shilang Yan, "Thank you, sir."

"Don't thank me, it's just that the Ministry of Rites is in charge of you Jinshi, that's why you are sent here. The imperial examinations are all in charge of the Hanlin Academy. We are just assisting, and we can't interfere in the selection of the hall."

Yan Shilang just smiled.

"Master Yan, I wonder how many people went to the Imperial Academy with me this time?"

Interrupted by Yan Shilang, although Wei Guangde didn't say anything later, he still respectfully saluted him before asking.

What I saw and heard after I came here today is a bit weird, but I didn't see one of the same year.

"You don't know yet?"

Yan Shilang was a little surprised, and then nodded, "It's normal, I only found out yesterday that Jinshi in Jinke didn't choose a hall, and the imperial examination was just arranging a place to go. After Yin Zhan's performance yesterday, His Majesty singled you out to enter." A scholar of the Imperial Academy."

Speaking of this, Yan Shilang's eyes were full of envy, and he sighed: "Wei Chuanlu's Long En is really enviable."

At this moment, Wei Guangde was a little dumbfounded after hearing Yan Shilang's words.

When did I have a deal with the emperor?

Scholars in this subject have no plans to choose a library?
I became the only concubine in this discipline?

Wei Guangde didn't know how to answer the words for a while, how should he answer these words?
When leaving the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, Wei Guangde had an extra note in his arms, which was his document to go to the Imperial Academy.

After getting out of the yamen of the Ministry of Rites and getting into Li San's carriage, Wei Guangde was still thinking about this on the way back to the Jiujiang Guild Hall, why did the emperor treat him so well?

The paper bag didn't know the fire, and the Yan family also said when the news came, that their ranking was ordered by the emperor, and the Yan family knew that Wei Guangde would know this sooner or later, so they didn't hide anything.

Of course, the role that Yan Ge played in it was not concealed, and Wei Guangde naturally knew what the Yan family had done.

It can be said that without the promotion of Mr. Yan Ge, his papers would definitely not reach the emperor's eyes, and it would be impossible to naturally promote his rank.

At that time, Wei Guangde thought that his article was well done, but now it seems that he is not so good at it.

Even if the article caught the eyes of the emperor, why did he point him into the Imperial Academy?

Well, because he was singled out by the emperor, even Yan Na envied him. You must know that he was already a person who entered the cabinet.

Indeed, whether to enter the court or not depends to a large extent on the attitude of the emperor, but Wei Guangde has met Emperor Jiajing twice, once for the palace examination, and once for the ceremony of passing on people, without saying a word.

It is said that those in the Hanlin Academy are prime ministers, but in fact, for a large number of Hanlin Academy, only a small number of them can make it to that point in the end.

In fact, there are not many roads for the Hanlin Academy to enter the cabinet. Generally, it is to stay in the Imperial Academy until it is a bachelor's degree or a bachelor's degree. One direction, that is to join the Ministry, enter the Ministry of Rites or serve as the right servant in other ministries.

Generally speaking, the person that the emperor likes will be transferred to the position of the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, and then promoted to the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, or transferred to the left servant of the Ministry of officials to join the cabinet.

This is a standard procedure, and most of the cabinet ministers favored by the emperor take this shortcut.

If you entered the Ministry of Officials when you joined the Ministry, then you still have the opportunity to transfer to the Ministry of Rites, but if you are in the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of War, generally speaking, you may not have a chance to be with the cabinet in this life.

After all, there are only a few positions in the cabinet. Every time there is a by-election of cabinet ministers, the Minister of Rites is only one of the candidates. At the same time, he is competing with those academicians from Taichang Temple and Zhan Shifu, as well as the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials.

And most of these servants came out after the Hanlin Academy passed the exam.

Because these candidates often have Hanlin's mark behind them, there is a saying that Fei Hanlin will not join the cabinet.

It can be said that the Ministry of Rites is the private plot of the Imperial Academy in the court hall, and those who have no experience in the Imperial Academy cannot enter the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

Wei Guangde was a commoner in his previous life, so naturally he didn't know much about official promotion.

But in this life, especially after he came to Beijing to take the exam, Wei Guangde collected a lot of information about his previous official promotions from Xia Kefan and other Jinshi, businessmen in Beijing and Jiujiang, and Zhang Ji for research, especially knowing that he was appointed by Emperor Jiajing. After passing on the post, my self-confidence was a little inflated, and I specially studied the background of the cabinet ministers.

It is completely different from what Wei Guangde thought in the past. Most of the cabinet ministers in the Ming Dynasty were not selected from the five ministers except the Ministry of Rites, but from Zhan Shifu, Taichang Temple, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Officials. Most of them still have the title of Hanlin Bachelor.

As for the titles of Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Minister of Officials, or Minister of the Ministry of Households seen by later generations, that is actually a title given by the emperor after entering the cabinet, which is used to improve the rank.

After all, the cabinet ministers are the bachelors, and the rank of the bachelors is the fifth rank.

That is to say, most of the cabinet scholars in the Ming Dynasty entered the cabinet directly from the positions of ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials, rather than entering the cabinet after becoming ministers.

On the contrary, Wei Guangde clearly felt that except for the Minister of Rites, the other five ministers seemed unable to join the cabinet.

The reason why the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is mentioned separately is because the Ministry of Rites is a Qingshui yamen, which is relatively noble.

The only six ministers who were not ministers of the Ministry of Rites entered the cabinet, and that was Jiao Fang. He entered the cabinet as a minister of officials, but because Jiao Fang followed the eunuch Liu Jin, Emperor Zhengde nodded and agreed to join the cabinet.

Well, a bit of an idiosyncrasy and can't be considered the rule.

This discovery surprised Wei Guangde for a long time before he thought of a possible answer.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty invented and reused the cabinet department. It was not intended to manage the country, but to weaken the status and power of the six ministers, so that the cabinet and the six departments could check and balance each other.

If the six ministers enter the cabinet, their status and rights will undoubtedly be aggravated, especially if they can intervene in the affairs of the six ministries unscrupulously.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde was actually a little uncertain about how Emperor Jiajing planned to arrange himself.

In the past, Wei Guangde appeared in the form of a minister, who was good at dealing with some problems, rather than writing poems and paintings, and being a minister of poetry.

In this way, whether Wei Guangde can enter the Imperial Academy does not actually affect his future official career. At worst, he can enter the Six Departments, become a minister, and become one of the Six Departments and Nine Ministers. It is not in vain for him to pass through the Ming Dynasty.

But just now, he heard that Emperor Jiajing singled him out and threw him into the Hanlin Academy, which was a bit contradictory.

Is this going to let me enter the cabinet as a bachelor?

Wei Guangde was a little skeptical in his heart, but actually he was a little bit afraid.

Other Jinshi admitted to the Hanlin Academy were all rejoicing.

Before and after Wei Guangde took the imperial examination, he also had the same attitude towards the outside world. He really wanted to be admitted to the Imperial Academy and ask the scholars in the academy for advice.

Well, now that I've really passed the exam, it's still the only one with no semicolon.

Chuanlu's ranking in the palace examination is enough to attract attention, and now the emperor has made such a thing for himself, Wei Guangde doesn't know whether to cry or laugh.

A few days ago, Wei Guangde had already received many posts from ministers of the court, asking him to sit and drink tea when he had time.

Now that there is a matter of choosing a good man, Wei Guangde can predict that after the news spreads, more posts will fly to him.

As for why Wei Guangde didn't really want to enter the Imperial Academy to be a noble scholar, well, he was afraid of the homework he had to hand in every month.

Strictly speaking, Shujishi is not an official position. According to the Ming system, Shujishi studied in the Imperial Academy and was taught by a bachelor.

Shu Jishi is very noble, but has no rights. They are just reserve officials, which is why Wei Guangde feels a bit disadvantaged.

In addition, if he didn't become a good scholar in the same year, he would be an official, and he would continue to study his homework hard, and he would have to hand in an assignment for grades every month.

Wei Guangde positioned himself as a minister who handles affairs, rather than a minister who is good at writing and writing. The Imperial Academy is obviously not the place for him to stay.

As for Fei Hanlin not joining the cabinet, are cabinet ministers so easy to do?
How many auspicious scholars are there in the Ming Dynasty, and how many people can rush forward?

Just give yourself an official job, just make some money, live your life happily, take a few concubines, and your life will be perfect.

With my own perspective that has surpassed the modern times for many years, as far as the current court encounters, I can solve those things that I can solve with my own efforts.

How wonderful, there is no pressure in life, just enjoy.

However, it is clear that such a beautiful plan is gone forever.

Emperor Jiajing transferred himself to the Imperial Academy to be a good scholar, with a basic salary, fearing that he would not be able to live in the capital, let alone make money to support his family and take concubines.

Wei Guangde didn't want to understand what Emperor Jiajing's plan was. The carriage had already returned to the Jiujiang Guild Hall, and when he got off the carriage, he was surrounded by Lao Kan and others who were waiting here to ask questions.

Just as Wei Guangde thought before, they are all scholars who are eager for the position of the Imperial Academy and Shu Jishi, but it is a pity that they have no such opportunity.

As soon as Wei Guangde changed his frowning face on the carriage, he didn't need to rub his face to transform, a confident and proud smile appeared on his face.

"Look, let me just say, Guangde is going to be a good scholar this time. Unfortunately, I was not sent this morning, and I don't know which yamen I will be assigned to observe politics."

Seeing Wei Guangde's expression on getting off the car, Lao Kan immediately smiled and said to the other two.

"That's that, Guangde, when did you join the Imperial Academy?"

Xia Kefan asked enviously.

"Which subjects were selected into the Imperial Academy in the same year?"

Amid Lao Kanxia Kefan's envious voice, Wei Guangde was surrounded by them into the Jiujiang Guild Hall.

(End of this chapter)