After paying his respects to the three bigwigs of the Cabinet, Zhu Pingan accompanied Li Chunfang to pay his respects to a few senior officials of the Sizhi Cabinet in turn, and then it was to mingle with the other officials of the Sizhi Cabinet until around 10:00 am, when he settled down.
Zhu Pingan was assigned to Li Chunfang’s office room, which had three other officials in addition to Li Chunfang, plus Zhu Pingan’s total of five people.
This room was mainly responsible for clerical matters, such as drafting documents and edicts, presenting green words, and sorting zhengfu.
On the first day, Zhu Pingan, the newly promoted Cabinet Secretary Zhi Zhilang, was in the Wu Yi Hall, just like he used to go to the court for internship in his senior year, asking for advice, watching and learning from Li Chunfang and the others in handling the zhengzuo, uploading and downloading the paperwork, and other matters.
Oh, and running errands.
The Cabinet is equivalent to the political centre of the Ming Dynasty, from which many instructions are sent down to the six ministries, the Ducha Academy, the Da Lisi, the factory guards and other institutions, and in ancient times there were no telephones, faxes, emails and so on, so they could only be conveyed by human beings.
Zhu Pingan ran two errands today.
A leg is to the clan house, conveying Jiajing emperor gave edicts to Oracle the kings of the paperwork. Because the kings offer silver to fund military pay, among them: King Zhu Tingqi offer silver 5,000 taels, Ru Wang Zhu Youxin offer silver 3,000 taels, King Zhu Zaijian offer silver 1,000 taels, eight horses, King Zhu Zai (Tulun) offer silver 1,000 taels, Ninghua Wangfu auxiliary lieutenant offer silver 1,000 taels, to help the border pay, the Jiajing Emperor pleased with the offer of the kings of the silver award.
Another trip leg is to the Ministry of Justice, access to Yang’s murder case case file information. This is a death penalty review case.
Our country can be said to be the most prudent country on the death penalty, such as the Ming Dynasty now, any one death penalty case, will go through the state, county, province, (Road), province, the Ministry of Justice of the layers of review, and finally through the approval of the Jiajing Emperor, before the execution of the death penalty.
Now this Yang’s murder case will come to the Jiajing Emperor here, of course, the Jiajing Emperor’s business is the Cabinet of Ministers, so this case was transferred to the Cabinet of Ministers.
There is no investigation without the right to speak, so Zhu Pingan was sent to the Ministry of Justice to check the file information.
To the Ministry of Justice, looking at the full of nearly ten pounds of case file information, Zhu Pingan was confused. Luckily, one of the chief officers of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs had the Ministry of Criminal Affairs’ servants help Zhu Pingan to the entrance of the Western Garden. However, the way after the entrance of the Western Garden could only rely on Zhu Pingan himself.
By the time Zhu Pingan arrived at the Hall of No Ease carrying ten pounds of dossiers, his back was already sweating like rain and his hands were sore and weak.
After sending the dossier to the designated office room, Zhu Pingan returned to his seat, picked up the teacup and gulped a cup of herbal tea, feeling the herbal tea flowing in his throat and abdomen, as if he was getting a new life again.
“Hehe, Zi Hou is exhausted, right?”Li Chunfang asked with a smile.
“Fortunately, okay.”Zhu Pingan gasped back.
“Oh, it’s still good to be young, just now I went to the Du Chuan Yuan, now my legs are almost broken. Here, for you, this is one of the few benefits we have left.”Li Chunfang smiled and flirted, then handed Zhu Pingan a folding fan.
“Thank you, Ta-Jen Li.”Zhu Pingan’s eyes lit up at the sight of the folding fan, and after thanking Li Chunfang, he nonchalantly took the folding fan, swished it open, and gently fanned it twice, and a cool breeze trailed the fan, cooling it down a lot.
A few moments later, Zhu Pingan slowed down, while asking Li Chunfang for advice, while trying to sort out the folders.
Mongolia Iida Khan and attacked Datong, under the banner of the Duer, Xin Ai committed Liaodong Xinxing Fort, the military situation of the four folds; Household and Industry Department of the two reported the amount of silver used in the side of the military pay, reported a shortage of silver, please add taxes; Xuanfu, Datong two provinces have serious famine, people do not think food, but to people to eat, the Department of the Army on the request of the amount of borrowing money to relieve the army payroll;
Pirate Wang Zhi sent under the big head Xu Hai, Chen Dong, Xiao Xian, hemp leaf, etc., seduced the Japanese pirates more than 10,000 people, sailing more than 1,000 ships from Zhoushan, Zhejiang, Xiangshan County and other places to disembark, hijacked Taizhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, captured the fortress, killing and capturing the inhabitants of East Zhejiang, the commotion, Jiangnan, north of the Jiangnan at the same time the emergency ……
Summarised, the folding is mainly three problems, one is the northern captives, one is the southern Japan, there is a lack of money.
Daming is now really internal and external problems ah, Zhu Pingan looked at the zhangfang, can not help but frowned ……
In the capital in the afternoon, the sun hanging in the sky is like on fire, baking the heaven and earth, the water placed outside the courtyard is hot and scalding, the ground is almost smoking, there is not a trace of wind, sweltering heat makes people can not breathe.
Listening to the rain garden’s female master Li Shu after lunch, with a bowl of homemade ice cheese, and let people go to the ice cellar to get a few pots of ice in the bedroom to cool down, and divided the buns little maid, qin’er a few big maids each a pot.
With the ice basin cooling, the room temperature is several degrees lower than outside, outside the baking, the house is cool and comfortable.
Afternoon nap.
Baozi little maid was on duty in the master bedroom’s suite, taking advantage of the young lady’s nap, she also removed her outer clothes and only wore her inner shirt, closing her eyes and squinting for a while on the couch.
Because last night’s suite on night duty she had insomnia again, so, this time she closed her eyes, she couldn’t help but fall asleep leisurely.
I don’t know how long I slept for.
By the time the bun little maid woke up rubbing her eyes, the sun outside was already nearly halfway to the west, and the sunlight wasn’t so poisonous anymore.
Bad, how to oversleep, Miss up did not, today is not also about the second miss them enjoy lotus.
Baozi little maid hastily grabbed a handful of sleep messed up head, a bone from the couch sat up, anxious can’t not.
Just at this time a little girl in the living room carrying a basin of ice came in, saw the buns little maid woke up, then ate and laughed, ”Painting sister, you can wake up. Just now, Miss saw that you were sleeping soundly, she didn’t let anyone call you, and took Sister Qin’er to the back garden to enjoy the lotus. Miss can love you, let us not call you, let you sleep more, specially give you a half day off.”
Ah?
The bun little maid heard the words, her little mouth suddenly couldn’t close, thinking of Miss treating herself so well, her heart was sweet.
Just at this moment, the living room resounded with a burst of footsteps, the footsteps were a bit rambling, as if the pace was fluttering unsteadily.
Then a strong smell of alcohol was detected.
Then he saw Zhu Pingan hiccuping, wearing a blue veil scented leaf crown on his head askew, and walking in with wobbly steps.
“Auntie, you’re back so early this morning. Miss went to the back garden with Second Miss and the others to enjoy the lotus, they haven’t returned yet.”
The bun little maid subconsciously pulled on the thin blanket to cover herself below the neck, she was only wearing her inner shirt at this time, her little face was flushed with shame.
“Well ……”
Zhu Pingan nodded and headed towards the master bedroom, only to stumble after two steps and almost hit the door.
Only then did the little bun maid have the hindsight to realise that Auntie had drunk too much, her face was red and she smelled of alcohol all over her body.
“Auntie, be careful …… Locket, go to the kitchenette and bring a bowl of antidote soup for Auntie.”The bun little maid did not care about what she was wearing, she was busy getting down from the couch, holding Zhu Pingan, for fear that Zhu Pingan would crash and fall, at the same time letting the little girl, Lian’er, go to the kitchenette to serve the antidote to the wine soup.
“No, no need, I’m not drunk, help me to the bedroom to lie down for a while.”Zhu Pingan shook his head and waved his hand with a big tongue.
