The rise of the prince

Chapter 386 The Mystery of Jiazi Nine
The reason why the imperial palace is large is not always the residence of the emperor and his family.

The Changchun Palace is the upper court, the East Palace is where the prince lives, the Kunning Palace is the private residence of the emperor, and there are many residences for concubines in the north.

The occupants of the houses in the west are temporarily changed, and can accommodate a small number of court ladies and eunuchs on duty. Most of the eunuchs and court ladies live in the Beishan courtyard outside the palace, and go in and out of the palace gate in the morning and evening.

Shangzhi's personal guard camp was stationed inside the imperial city, Wu Desi guarded outside the imperial city, and camped near the Beining gate.

There are four gates of the Imperial Palace, Donghua Gate, Nanwu Gate, Xi'an Gate and Beining Gate.

The Beining Gate is connected to the harem and the emperor's residence. Ordinary people are not allowed to enter. There are elite Wude division heavy troops stationed outside the gate. It is also the only armed force stationed in the capital with a number of more than a thousand, directly obeying the emperor's orders.

Xi'an Gate is a side courtyard, in which a small number of maids and eunuchs on duty live, and there is also a training ground for Shangzhiqin Guards, and Shangzhiqin Guards are stationed in Tiecheng.

The South Meridian Gate is the main gate, and it is the gate through which ministers go when they go to court.If there are major events, such as the emperor's tour, the triumphant return to the wind, the officials of the ceremony, etc., all go through the Meridian Gate.

Donghua Gate is special, Donghua Gate is also called Wenqu Gate, and the results of the final imperial examination will be announced at Donghua Gate.

Inside the Donghua Gate is the place where hundreds of officials work, such as the Daqing Hall and the Chande Hall. That's why it's so big.

It is not only the residence of the royal relatives, but also an important court office.

Among them, the Daqing Hall is the largest, even surpassing the emperor's Kunning Palace and the Changchun Hall where hundreds of officials go to court.

The Daqing Hall is the office of the three provinces, each of which is divided into a large courtyard, each courtyard has a wide main hall with six doors and more than a dozen side rooms.

The three provinces are divided into Shangshu Province, Zhongshu Province, and Menxia Province.

The Zhongshu Province has the greatest power and is the highest authority in the central government.Responsible for drafting edicts and edicts, taking charge of the decision-making of orders, and various memorials are also annotated by Zhongshu for approval before they are submitted to the emperor for review.

In Zhongshu Province, there is a political affairs hall, which is the office of Zhongshu senior officials.

If the emperor issues an order, it will be reviewed first by the Zhongshu Province. If both Zhongshumenxia Pingzhangshi and Zhongshusheren agree, the Zhongshusheren and Hanlin University Scholars will draft the edict together.

Zhongshu Sheren was in charge of reviewing the content of the imperial edict, while Hanlin scholars were in charge of diction selection and writing.

After that, the imperial edict was handed over to Menxia Province.Menxia will review whether there is any error in the matter. If there is an error, Menxia Province will reject it and the imperial decree will not be issued. Therefore, Menxia Province also has another name "Fengfusi", which means to refute and seal up the imperial edict.

Once the Menxia Province has passed the review, the imperial decree will be handed over to the Ministry of Shangshu for execution. The Ministry of Shangshu has six departments: the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Officials. .

Therefore, the power of the Son of Heaven is not unlimited. When an imperial edict is issued, the prime minister can reject it.

Before the highly centralized era of Ming and Qing, it was not uncommon for emperors' edicts to be rejected.

Early in the morning, when the sun was rising, in the Zhongshu Provincial Court in the Daqing Palace, several Zhongshu Sheren were reviewing customs officials and memorials from various places.

They do not have the right to select, and are responsible for presenting the essence, indicating the solution, and then submitting it to Lord Pingzhangshi Wang Yue for approval.

And Wang Yue is the one who has the right to make decisions. After all, there are so many memorials every day, if they are all sent up directly, it is impossible for the emperor to read them all.

The Political Affairs Hall is on the left side of Zhongshu, and it is an isolated small courtyard, in which only Lord Wang Yue and Lord Yu Chengan can enter and leave.

Wei Guoan looked at the excerpt casually, and at the same time answered some questions for his new colleague Qidong.

After a while, a gatekeeper sent several new memorials, and they were about to put them back into the cabinet. At a glance, he saw one with a thin red line on the corner.

Glancing at it, I saw that several colleagues were concentrating on the memorial, and hurriedly got up and walked over to receive the new memorial sent by the gatekeeper.Seeing this, the gatekeeper bowed and retreated. He quietly took out the book inlaid with red thread in wax, then took off the red thread, and took a look for himself.

At first glance, it really is Master Yu's melody.

While carefully putting Mr. Yu's notebook in his sleeve, he went to the desk on his right hand side to record, and wrote several memorials one by one, when and who entered the closet.

He wrote Yu Chengan's memorials into the cabinet, but in fact they were kept privately by him. The other books were honestly put into the corresponding cabinet one by one according to their origins. The cabinets for filing memorials are arranged according to the heaven and earth, a total of 120 .

All major events must be recorded in the record, and can only be submitted to the emperor after being instructed by Wang Yue.

But Wei Guoan knew it well, Mr. Yu had explained that if it was handed over to Wang Yue, the melody would most likely not appear in front of the emperor.

However, he was not in a hurry, and the emperor was not a fool. In order to prevent the prime minister from monopolizing power, he only showed him the memorials he wanted to see.

The emperor will also randomly check ten unreviewed memorials every half month, which is called the half-month inspection. The last ten-day inspection was supposed to be on August [-]th, but at that time the court was closed, so it was necessary to make up after the Mid-Autumn Festival. .

The ten copies of the monthly inspection were randomly selected by Fu Anlai, the head of the inner court department in the palace. Although scholars and warriors had disputes, they were considered a united front in one point, that is, looking down on eunuchs, so the relationship between officials and the eunuchs of the inner court department has always been bad.

Wei Guoan was no exception. It was impossible to ask eunuchs to do things, but he still had a way.

The memorials are divided into cabinets in the Zhongshu. Each cabinet represents a different place and a different department. It is named after the ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches. Sheren took ten books from the corresponding cupboard and handed them to the eunuch, who then handed them over to Kunning Palace, which could be tampered with.

Time passed slowly, Wei Guoan carefully hid Prime Minister Yu's folder in his sleeve, then sat down and continued to deal with official duties. During the period, he chatted with his colleagues and drank tea for a while, and it was noon before he knew it.

Wei Guoan didn't intend to leave, but his colleagues were surprised when they saw it and said, "Master Wei, won't you go home for dinner?"

"Hahaha, everyone go first, everyone go first, there are still a few excerpts I haven't finished reading, I'll be back in a while." He cupped his hands and said.

"Master Wei is conscientious, he is really a role model for my generation."

"Hahaha, then I'll leave first, Master Wei, take your time, the state affairs are important, but remember to take care of yourself."

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After everyone left slowly, he carefully put the memorial in his sleeve into the "Jiazi" cabinet and counted down to the ninth volume.

Jia is the head of the ten heavenly stems, and Zi is the head of the twelve earthly branches.

All the official memorials that can enter the imperial city will be placed in this cabinet and registered without approval.If it is reasonable to come from behind, this book should be placed at the top, and Zhongshu Sheren reviewed it from bottom to top.

But Wei Guoan has been a member of Zhongshushe for nearly ten years, and he has figured out some tricks. Every time the emperor makes a random inspection, there will be the number "Jiazi Nine", which refers to the ninth book of the Jiazi cabinet on the upper left.Because Jia and Zi are respectively the number one in the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the number nine is also the number, and Jiazi's nine is the number one in the world, which means forever, the emperor presumably means it is auspicious.

But in this way, he has an opportunity to take advantage of!

After finishing this, he took out the cooked pork and pastries that he had prepared earlier from under the table and ate them with tea. The reason why he did not bring mutton was because the smell of mutton was too difficult to hide.

(End of this chapter)