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Chapter 580 The Emperor's Northern Tour
A few days after the general examination is the palace examination, and after the palace examination is the Jinbang Chuanlu, this process is done in one go, without delay.

When the rankings were released in the palace examination, as expected, because of the scandal of the scandal, the rankings of Jiangxi Juzi who dominated in previous years and Zhejiang Juzi who followed closely behind were greatly affected this time.Except for a Jiangxi candidate named Chen Xun who bravely won the No. 36 Scholar again, the second place, Tanhua, and Chuanlu were all included by Fujian candidates, accounting for more than half of the top [-]. It can be said that he picked up a big deal.

However, Jiangxi and Zhejiang are major provinces in imperial examinations. Although dozens of top candidates were pinched, there are still more than 27 candidates each, but the rankings are relatively low.Among the Zhejiang candidates, the highest ranking was actually Wang Xian's elder brother Lin Rongxing, who ranked [-]th in the second class.Li Yu also won a top three Jinshi, but he was overjoyed... He knows his own level well, if there is no such thing, with his own level, it is estimated that it would be difficult to get lucky.

In any case, it’s good if you win the prize. After passing the rank, it belongs to the glory of Xinke Scholars. They parade in red, go to Qionglin banquet, and set up the inscription monument in the Imperial College... Earn the attention of the common people, and also entered into countless large universities. In the girl's little daughter-in-law's boudoir dream.It's really a spring breeze, a horseshoe disease, seeing all the flowers in Chang'an in one day!

However, this excitement is no longer the center of attention of the Ming Dynasty, and even the capital is no longer the center, because the emperor Yongle, the supreme emperor of the Ming Dynasty, set off for the north one day after the palace examination.

It was not the first time that Emperor Yongle made a northern tour. In fact, since he ascended the throne, especially in recent years, Zhu Di spent more time in Beijing than in the capital.Therefore, although there are more than a thousand civil and military personnel, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and thousands of ships of all sizes, under the command of the sixth department, all aspects are in order and not chaotic.

The so-called Six Departments of Walking is an institution set up for the emperor's northern tour. Where the emperor is, there is walking.Zhu Di will be away from Beijing for a year or so at the shortest when he is on tour. Naturally, he cannot ignore state affairs for such a long time, let alone throw away power for such a long time.Therefore, in the sixth year of Yongle, Zhu Di ordered the Ministry of Rites to cast another fourteen seals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the Sixth Ministry, the Metropolitan Inspection Court, Dali Temple, and Jinyiwei, with the word "walking in" added to the seal; There are [-] seals of bureaus such as meals, cherished salaries, and military battles, and the word "accompanying" is added to the printed text.

Officials will be cast, but when the emperor was in Beijing, these institutions did not exist. Only when the emperor went on a tour, the [-] institutions of the inner and outer courts were transferred from various yamen in the capital to start operation.For example, during the emperor's hunting tour in Beijing this time, Xia Yuanji, Minister of the Ministry of Households, served as Minister of the Ministry of Households, and concurrently in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.The rest of the internal and external yamen also have their own appointments, all of them are smart and capable people, helping the emperor to control state affairs after leaving Beijing.

After these tours in the yamen with the emperor, the yamen in the capital continued to operate as usual except that the decision-making power was transferred, and they handled state affairs as usual under the leadership of the crown prince.In fact, after the assassination of the King of Han, the emperor ordered the prince to be called to Beiyuan, and allowed him to visit the King of Han. The foot ban was lifted, but the prince was cautious and still dared not go out.This time the emperor decreed that the crown prince will be in charge of the country during the northern tour, which is a formal edict to the world that the crown prince is safe and sound, and the father and son are reconciled as before...

According to the past practice, both the King of Han and the King of Zhao were going to accompany him on the northern tour, but this time when the Han King was assassinated, Zhu Di left him in the capital to recuperate, and only took Zhao Wang on the northern tour.Accompanying him were Duke Cheng, Marquis Ningyang, Marquis Yangwu and other dignitaries, as well as civil servants such as Xia Yuanji, Jian Yi, Lu Zhen, Yang Rong, Jin Youzi, etc., almost all of them were important officials.

Ji Gang, Hu Guang, Yang Shiqi and other civil and military personnel stayed in Beijing to assist the prince. Although Wang Xian, the governor of Beizhen, had a lot of power, he was not qualified to be arranged by the emperor alone. The capital stayed behind.

On the fifteenth day, Wang Xian followed the crown prince to send off the emperor's mighty northern tour team, and returned to the capital after dark.As soon as the emperor left, the capital immediately became less oppressive. When Wang Xian saw that His Royal Highness was returning, he ordered someone to roll up the car curtain... Although it was only a small gesture, it revealed the prince's feeling of relief. Knowing that, when leaving the city, Zhu Gaochi's chariot was covered by a curtain that was lowered and tightly covered.

But that's all, the prince was not in a hurry to talk to the courtiers, after all, his father had just left, so even if he wanted to talk to someone, he couldn't be too hasty.When he returned to the capital, Zhu Gaochi ordered all the remaining ministers to work hard and not to slack off, and after a few warm words of advice, he told them to disperse.

After the group broke up, Wang Xian didn't go back to the yamen, but hurried home. Today, after his brother-in-law became a Jinshi, he returned home to be a guest. How can he be absent as a brother-in-law?

A group of people hurried home, and the porter in green clothes and a small hat saw that the second master had returned, hurriedly opened the main door, stepped forward to pull the reins of the horse, and led his mount into the sedan hall.In the sedan chair hall, someone had already prepared a horse stool, and asked Wang Xian to step on it to get off the horse.Looking at the six servants in the sedan chair hall, standing there with their hands tied in order, they immediately showed the aura of some famous family members.

It is said that the Wang family is no longer compared to when they were in Hangzhou, but compared to when they first came to Beijing.When he first came to Beijing, the Wang family had just developed. Although the family had a lot of money, it had the aura of nouveau riche everywhere. The servants and servants in the mansion came from Hangzhou. The Hou family always wanted to take advantage of the company, but as a result, the subordinates were free and unruly, sneaking around, and even messing around with the servants, which made a big yard full of smoke.Although Lin Qing'er can't see it, her mother-in-law has the final say on all matters in the family, and she doesn't like to talk too much, so she can only manage the people in her own yard. As for the outside of the yard, just mess around.

Later, there were still a few embarrassing incidents, Aunt Wang herself couldn't bear it, and she wanted to rectify it, but people's hearts were already scattered, and it was difficult to gather them together.Aunt Wang had no choice but to ask her daughter for help, but Yinling was a sensible person, and said to her, why did you insist on marrying my second elder brother to Lin's sister-in-law back then?Isn't it because she is well educated and reasonable, and secondly, she has been a housekeeper and is a good housekeeper?Why do you not know how to marry a daughter-in-law into your home?
The old lady was embarrassed when she heard the words. Although she didn't think badly at first, when her daughter-in-law came into the house, her mind changed subtly. In short, it was the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law that made her always want to suppress Lin Qing'er, for fear that she would I was suppressed by my daughter-in-law.Therefore, although my old lady was polite to Lin Qing'er, she always used the excuse that she was weak and needed to take good care of her to carry on the family and not let her take care of the family affairs.Even when she couldn't take care of it, she would rather let Mrs. Hou take care of it than Mrs. Lin to intervene. As a result, Mrs. Hou, who didn't worry about it, only knew how to collect money from her own house, making the house even more unsightly.

After much deliberation, Aunt Wang finally admitted that taking care of such a big family, she is not the kind of material, and the eldest daughter-in-law is not enough to watch, and the second daughter-in-law has to take care of it... After hearing the mother-in-law's arrangement, Lin Qing'er Not hypocritical, immediately took the order and started to rectify the housework.In fact, these days, she has been watching coldly, she has already seen through the monsters and monsters in the family, and she is waiting for the old lady to hand over power.She first closed the door with her parents-in-law and elder brother and sister-in-law, and settled down the family rules one by one. This discussion lasted for two full days...

In fact, the family rules were drawn up by Lin Qing'er a long time ago, so it should not take so long.The main reason is that Hou feels that in this way, he will not be able to take advantage of the public, and he will not be able to arrange people at will.More importantly, as a sister-in-law, I will be under the control of my sister-in-law everywhere, so I always think of ways to instigate the second elder to fight with Lin.

Fortunately, Father Wang is sensible, and finally couldn't help cursing: "Boss, do you still understand the truth? You are so capable, how can the housekeeper be in a mess, and the expenses of tens of thousands of taels can't be accounted for? It would be fun not to ask you to fill in this hole! Now the second daughter-in-law is here to clean up the mess for you, and she is still babbling,

If you talk nonsense, get the hell out of here! "

Seeing that the father-in-law started a real fire, the Hou family dared not speak anymore, and it was difficult for the Wang family to come out with the family rules.

After setting the rules and having the support of her parents-in-law, Lin Qing'er naturally gained confidence. On the second day, she called the servants of the family together, brought out the nasty things they did in the past one by one, and drove them out on the spot Half of the servants were unwilling to leave immediately, and they were directly turned over to the government. The remaining half did not do evil, but most of the lazy and rude servants were punished, or they were demoted and retained.For a moment, the gods in the mansion cried and howled wolves, which really frightened a large group of people.

Lin Qing'er also clearly stated the family rules, ordering each of the servants to recite them, those who could not recite them within ten days, would be expelled from the house and would not be hired again, and would conduct spot checks regularly in the future, those who had recited and forgotten, would be expelled from the house and would not be hired again.The same requirements apply to newly recruited servants.The purpose of memorizing the house rules is to abide by the rules. Anyone who violates the house rules will be punished with a salary, and those who are serious will be banned. If they have been beaten, they will never be hired.

In fact, Lin Qing'er originally wanted to sign a death contract with his servants. It would be easier to manage and have higher loyalty. In the future, he would be able to have a family and have children. Those famous families all use this method.But the old lady insisted on not agreeing to this point. She always felt that it was too easy for her son to come to the official position. Maybe one day he would return to his original form. It would be too expensive to raise servants like a big family. Hands are a big hassle.

Therefore, most of the servants of the Wang family signed a ten-year or five-year contract of living. However, under Lin Qinger's heavy code, the whole Wang family still showed some orderliness, which was at least a hundred times better than the chaos before.After Wang Xian became the commander of Beizhen Fusi, the servants in the mansion became even more solemn, lest they offend the second wife and sue the terrible spy chief, the second master...

But they obviously worried too much, because Wang Xian was busy with official duties, Lin Qing'er never bothered him with trivial matters at home, and digested everything by himself, so he was completely unaware of these changes in the family.I only know that my family is becoming more and more like everyone...

(End of this chapter)