Xiangye

Chapter 244 Registration
Gao Wen had heard about Tian Yize's question about whether the wife of Jiaofang Division could read it, and took it for granted.

It turned out that the Ming Dynasty implemented a strict household registration system.The Jiaofang Division is a national music institution in name, but in fact it is a government-run brothel.The women inside are all family members and children of criminal officials. Once they are enriched into the Jiaofang Division, they are considered lowly.If you give birth to a child in the future, you will also be a pariah.Men are slaves and women are prostitutes.

The brothel Chuguan in the outside buys women as prostitutes, and at any rate they also choose those with good facial features.After entering the building, you have to ask the master to carefully tune it for ten years before coming out to pick up guests.So, most of them look good.After working for a few years, if you meet a benefactor, you can still be redeemed.As for the girls of the Jiaofang Division, because they are hereditary, there is no possibility of leaving the family and becoming a good person.Moreover, like other yamen, the people inside are all employed, and there is no reasonable elimination mechanism.Therefore, the official prostitutes inside are very ugly.

Therefore, there are ten ridiculous sayings in the capital: tea soup at Guanglu Temple, prescriptions at the Taiyuan Hospital, prayers for gods, swords and guns at the arsenal, workshops at the Ministry of Warfare, food and clothing at the Nursing Home, wife at the Jiaofang, and the Constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. , Guozijian Academy, Imperial Academy articles.

The other eight items are inevitably meant to be ridiculed, but the prescriptions of the Taiyuan Hospital and the words of Si Poniang in Jiaofang are well deserved.

The Tai Hospital was for the emperor to see a doctor, and every time he took a pulse and prescribed medicine, he bore a huge risk.Once the wrong medicine is used and the emperor eats good or bad, he will be held accountable, and his head will be lost if it is not good.There are many accidents, and the imperial doctors are also smart. When prescribing medicines, they don't use any medicines that are strong and effective. Only licorice, Bupleurum, and Radix Ginseng are used to deal with it, and the taste is not bad.

Of course, if this kind of sweet water like the red herbal tea of ​​the later generations wants to cure the disease, then hell!
Similarly, the women of the Jiaofang Division are too ugly, but they are all cheap, so we have to take care of them.Although the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were low, moral men like Hai Rui were actually very rich. What kind of poverty do you have to go to prostitutes?
Tian Yize's words reminded Gao Wen: I am a man who aims to be a Jinshi, and reputation is important. This time I am an official, it is better not to have anything to do with Jiaofang Secretary.

After returning to the Ministry of Rites, I waited for a long time until the director of the Ministry of Rites Temple worshiped the Qing officials. No, the doctor had a nap and slept beautifully before seeing anyone.

He was an official in his forties, with a good-looking appearance, a Chinese character face, and a very dignified appearance.When he met everyone, he always had the unkind, stinking face of a Feng Xianguan.

Gao Wen went up to pay a visit, "Your Majesty has seen Lang Zhong."

The doctor frowned: "You are Gao Wen?"

Gao Wen: "It's the next official, arriving today."

"I've heard of you a long time ago. You're Xu Youzhen's disciple. Let's take care of ourselves and step down!"

The doctor's attitude seemed a little blunt, and he also reported his dislike to Gao Wen.Gao Wen didn't know what offended him, he was a little confused.After retiring, I thought about it, because my teacher Xu Youzhen didn't have a very good reputation, and others hated him, so I got bored with him by the way.

Gao Wenli rubbed his chin under the eaves, and cried out in his heart: Xu Youzhen is a well-known treacherous official in history, and it's just a coincidence that I became his disciple.At that time, I was just a little boy, what could I do?Also, the standards of loyal and treacherous officials in the Ming Dynasty are quite chaotic, at least in the eyes of later generations, it doesn't seem to be the case.

Well, I can't control that much, I'll stay in the Ministry of Rites for a while first.

The central office of the Ministry of Rites is not big, with only a dozen rooms and five courtyards.The ancestral priest lives alone in a small courtyard with three rooms, one for the doctor, one for the foreigner, and one for the book office, but he doesn't know where to go, what should he do?
There were people coming and going in and out of the yard, but no one took a second look at Gao Wen, as if he was invisible.

Gao Wen looked around again, but he didn't know where he should go.Although he is a well-informed person who has never been stage fright, he still feels a little at a loss.

While he was in a daze, a book came over: "Is it the new Governor Gao?"

Gao Wen cupped his hands and saluted: "It is Gao Wen."

The book office looked impatient: "Since you have already registered and still haven't left, why do you still want to stay here?"

Gao Wen was stunned: "Why, I can't be here?"

"Of course, this is the office of Langzhong and Yuanwailang. If you want to stay here, wait until you get a Jinshi exam and order Hanlin."

Gao Wen quietly stuffed a silver coin into his hand, and said in a low voice, "Isn't it my first time here, I don't know anything, so I still ask for advice."

Seeing the money, the book office's face became better, and he said, "the priest of the Ministry of Rites has another yard in the city. The chief and you governors have to go there." He said an address.

Only then did Gao Wen suddenly realize that when the Ming Dynasty was founded, it was indeed a large society with a small government, and there were not many people in a central ministry.At the beginning, the imperial court was founded, the country was poor and weak, and there were not many things.

After 70 to [-] years of recuperation, capitalism has sprouted, domestic peace has risen, and the market has prospered.No matter how many times the country's population and economic volume have doubled.If a dozen or so officials in a ministry want to manage such a large country, they are beyond their capabilities.In particular, the Ministry of Households, a professional agency that manages population and taxation, had a total population of less than [-] million when the Ming Dynasty was founded.

As a result, central government agencies began to expand dramatically, hiring and recruiting a large number of temporary personnel.The six yamen cannot accommodate so many people.As a result, all ministries and divisions set up subordinate agencies in the city, as did the Ministry of Rites and the Division of Officials.

After thanking the book office, Gao Wen came out from the Ministry of Rites.After walking along Chang'an Avenue for a long time, I turned into an alley and finally saw a large courtyard.

This courtyard is quite grand, with a stone lion standing at the door and guarded by a porter.

After stepping forward to explain the purpose of coming, the porter let out an "ouch" and said, "It turns out that you are the governor. I just heard that you are coming. The chief and everyone are waiting for you! Hurry up, hurry up, go down and change clothes with your subordinates."

After entering, Gao Wen was really surprised by the size of the place inside.

Unlike ordinary houses, there is no screen wall after entering the gate, but a long passage.On both sides of the passage are two gardens.

Walking through the passage, there is another gate, and behind the gate is a large garden with lush osmanthus trees.The garden is surrounded by rooms.There are passages on the front, left and right sides, and there is a yard behind the passage.

Judging from the official office of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites, it is even bigger and more imposing than the entire Ministry of Rites.It seems that the country is really rich.

In late autumn, when everything was bleak, Gao Wen couldn't help but cheer up when he saw the green osmanthus trees everywhere: This place is really nice!

(End of this chapter)