As the imperial court officially awarded the three daughters Liuhong of the Song Dynasty and became female officials of the Ming Dynasty, the decree was issued to all ministries and yamen.
This news swept through the entire Yingtian City at the speed of a violent wind and began to spread outward at an extremely fast speed.
Ordinary people naturally only gossip about this.
People are curious about why the big shots in the court made such a decision, and why they set a precedent for the Central Plains dynasty in thousands of years.
People were even more curious about who the three female officials who became the imperial officials were, what they looked like, and what abilities they had that allowed the imperial court to make such a decision.
To ordinary people, having three women serve as officials in the imperial court is just one more thing that can be discussed for a long time.
For these people, there is no direct connection.
On the contrary, he had a strong interest in Song Liuhong and the other three.
So much so that rumors spread in Yingtian City on this day.
It is said that Song Liuhong was born with the appearance of a fairy. Recently, the emperor's grandson was defeated in the struggle for imperial power. Not only did he ask the royal family for the Wannu Palace in the Xicheng project, but he also used the imperial power as a request to get the royal family and the court to agree to allow the three daughters of Song Liuhong to be the queen.
official.
A colorful gossip became rampant in Yingtian City.
but.
The three daughters of Song Liuhong became officials.
But it caused a huge stir among the civil servants and the gentry class in Yingtian City.
In the court, those old Neo-Confucian scholars who objected were suppressed by Zhai Shan and others, so that the court petition was passed.
But that doesn't mean these people will keep silent from now on.
Among the people, there is even more resistance to this.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Section Corridor seemed particularly busy today.
Countless officials who could be classified as the backbone of Neo-Confucianism rolled up their sleeves one after another and were ready to fight when they received the news from the court and saw the decree.
This is the first time in thousands of years that the Ming Dynasty has experienced something like this, not just once or twice.
No matter what I did before.
Even things like the splitting of households between households and the Hongwu New Deal are considered normal by officials.
Throughout the dynasties, no one has done anything innovative.
For officials, opposition is just for the sake of opposition, and it is only because of their own interests.
These people also know best that for thousands of years in the Central Plains, there has been no truly long-lasting so-called unchangeable ancestral law.
It's just about profit.
Those who have interests will agree with it; those who have no interests or even want to cede their interests will naturally oppose it.
But.
Today, Ming Dynasty wants three women to become members of the official class.
Even if she is just a ninth-grade female official with the lowest official rank.
That's something they can't tolerate either.
This is another story.
The most deep-rooted thoughts for thousands of years tell these people that they must firmly oppose this matter.
Countless ancestors established laws and countless examples from past dynasties were dug out from the pile of old papers by these people.
There are even many people who have a certain tacit understanding with Zhu Yunxi.
They unanimously and tacitly brought Wu Zhao out, preparing to analyze this issue from another perspective of Zhu Yunxi, showing that women could not hold power, otherwise it would be a harbinger of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and based on this, they opposed Song Liuhong and the other three officials.
Officials who originally supported Hongwu's New Deal or opposed it all stood together with a tacit understanding this time.
A voice of opposition against Song Liuhong and the three officials is emerging rapidly, and there will be overwhelming opposition memorials, which will appear in the writings of these people, and will flood into the center of the cabinet like huge waves, rushing to the emperor.
In front of the prince and the emperor.
"The ancestors established the law!"
"A time-honored practice!"
"This must not be done!"
"..."
Located outside the Taiping Gate and on the bank of Xuanwu Lake, in the Yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the censors angrily waved the books they found in their hands, flying old dust, venting their dissatisfaction to their colleagues present.
Jiang Yi, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, sat silently in the courtroom with a teacup in his hand, watching the subordinates of the yamen in front of him perform these actions.
Jiang Yi was originally the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. When he decided to implement the Hongwu New Deal, he and Qi Zhu, the former Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, made adjustments to their official positions at the same time.
One became the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the other became the minister of the Ministry of Punishment.
Their superiors at the time, Zhao Mian, the Minister of Household Affairs, Wang Jun, the Minister of Industry, and others were all driven to the fourth road of Yingzhou.
Fundamentally speaking, Jiang Yi was the political loser under the Hongwu New Deal.
Under the original requirement set by the imperial court that officials must have conclusive evidence before initiating impeachment, the authority of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was greatly restricted.
Later, after Gao Yangzhi returned to the capital with his great achievements in stabilizing Jiaozhi Road and occupying the city road, he stepped into the cabinet and began to take charge of the power of the Three Laws Division.
The powers and responsibilities of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were once again restricted.
In the past two years, Jiang Yi has been sitting in the seat of Zuo Du Yushi of the Duchayuan, and it can be said that he is filled with deathly silence.
Same as Jiang Yi.
Nowadays, the censors working in the Metropolitan Procuratorate are working much harder than in the past.
In the past, they just needed to hear something.
Or to be more explicit.
As long as it is within their interests and they need to target someone politically, they can write lengthy impeachment memorials at will and then place them in court meetings one after another.
But not anymore.
In most cases now, the cabinet will demarcate a certain place where some problems may arise, and then the Metropolitan Procuratorate will send a censor to investigate.
But at the same time, there will always be people from Jinyiwei secretly investigating.
This eliminated the local benefits that the people in the Imperial Procuratorate wanted, and then he returned to the court and wrote a memorial to bring peace to the world.
Zhu Yunxi and Gao Yangzhi wanted to build the Metropolitan Procuratorate into a specialized internal inspection yamen for officials, but the life of the officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was becoming "increasingly miserable", and they were naturally not happy with this.
In recent years, the government has been very strict and harsh, but they still dare not say anything.
But today is different.
The imperial court wanted three women to serve as officials, which completely impacted everyone's inherent thinking.
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Just for this reason, these officials who were already dissatisfied with the court's numerous reforms in recent years broke out all at once.
The anger in front of the hall continued, but Jiang Yi, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, sat high on the throne, as steady as Mount Tai.
"Colleagues!"
"Just think about it, if we let the three Song and Liuhong women become officials today, what will happen in the future? Do you want me to wait until I get home and carry water to wash the feet of my mother-in-law?"
"Since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, men and women in our Central Plains have been in harmony with yin and yang. Men are in charge of external affairs and contribute to the world. Women are in charge of domestic affairs, supporting their husbands and raising children."
"If men are outside and women are inside, they can harmonize the world and bring peace to the country. But now that the imperial court allows those three women to serve as officials, it can be said that there is an imbalance of yin and yang. If things go on like this, I am afraid that the court will be full of female officials, and I am afraid that the old events of Wu Zhao will happen again!"
"For the great Ming Dynasty, for the people of the world, and for the combination of yin and yang."
"Gentlemen!"
"Please submit this personal memorial to your Majesty Qing to change the female official's proposal!"
The convener stood on the steps below the front porch of the hall.
It is full of sonorous voice and emotion.
Those who gathered were infected one after another.
Start shouting and cheering in agreement.
In front of the nearby public houses in the distance, the new censors who later joined the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the young censors from the Xinxue Department looked at the wave of opposition in the main yamen with solemn expressions.
The imperial court will probably be involved in a dispute over female officials for a long time.
No one expected it.
After the beginning of the 31st year of Hongwu, such a huge shock and turmoil would erupt in the court situation.
And today.
It was not just in one of the Metropolitan Procuratorate's offices that such a wave of opposition occurred.
Almost all yamen were performing common things at the same time.
Oppose women to serve as officials!
On the contrary, in Shanglinyuan Prison, the years are peaceful as always.
The hired farmers were busy carrying farm tools in the fields at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain and began to prepare for spring plowing.
After discussing the latest trends in the imperial court, the officials of Shanglin Yuanjian began to imagine when new species would be sent from the New World, so that they could once again show their talents in the court.
Yuan Sutai is particularly leisurely now.
Probably because he is really old, the officials of Shanglinyuan Prison now have only one request for this prison officer.
Live a little longer.
As a result, everyone rushed to save Yuan Sutai's life.
Even if the governor's office is required to send troops and horses to escort the Shanglin Garden Supervisor officials to the Southern Expedition Army and collect new species from the forefront of the Southern Territory, countless Shanglin Yuan Supervisor officials are rushing to do it.
They were now afraid that something bad would happen to the body of Yuan Sutai, the Imperial Young Master, because he left the capital.
After Yuan Sutai complained several times that he had become a mascot to no avail, he could only reluctantly accept the current reality.
So Yuan Sutai, who was free, turned to another, bigger matter, but one that was approved by all the officials of the Shanglin Garden Supervisory Office.
He wants to write a book.
Write an unprecedented agricultural book.
In Yuan Sutai's grand vision, this agricultural book should not only have a summary of agriculture and animal husbandry, but also the impact of agriculture on society, and how the development of agriculture can affect the world.
and possible further development of agriculture.
After the cabinet learned about this matter, it was immediately recognized by all cabinet members and immediately asked the Ministry of Accounts to leave a sum of money.
As long as the Young Master of the Ming Dynasty and Yuan Sutai, the supervisor of Shanglinyuan, need it, they can withdraw this money and use it without restriction.
Then the matter reached the ears of Zhu Yunxi, who still had the power to supervise the country at that time.
at last.
This agricultural book by Yuan Sutai has a formal name.
"Hongwu Agricultural Book"
The result is that, in addition to the already complicated work of editing and compiling books, the noble scholars of the Hanlin Academy have one more person to search for various information for the "Hongwu Nongshu" of Shanglin Yuanjian who does not know when it will be released.
task.
Editor-in-Chief Yuan Sutai.
Xie Jin, assistant to the cabinet, co-edited it, and all Hanlin bachelors from the Hanlin Academy edited it.
The ultimate final.
This Hongwu Nongshu, which has not yet been determined how to start, has an additional title written by Emperor Hongwu himself.
today.
News from the DPRK was naturally sent to Shanglinyuan Prison as usual.
At this time, Yuan Sutai was looking through the latest agricultural books collected from the Hanlin Academy.
A young official in the prison walked slowly into Yuan Sutai's study in the Yamen.
The young official's complexion is somewhat dark.
After being admitted to the Shanglinyuan Prison as a candidate the year before last, this young official was immediately sent to the Southern Territory.
A year later, he returned to Shanglin Garden Prison with several new species.
There are many young officials like him who are able to take root in farming.
They were all selected by Yuan Sutai personally.
He is the rising star of Shanglinyuan Prison who has high hopes for him.
I saw a young official walking in.
Yuan Sutai raised his head with a smile on his face: "The Heshu is here."
Heshu is the word for young official.
It looks very dreamy.
Heshu nodded, walked up to Yuan Sutai with a smile, and took out a hot roasted sweet potato from his arms: "This morning the chef behind the Yamen roasted it specially. It took several hours to slowly test out the warm carbon. It was just finished.
The student thought that the young master's favorite food was roasted sweet potatoes, so he brought one over."
Yuan Sutai moved the book in front of him to the side with a smile, and took the roasted sweet potato from He Shu's hand with both hands.
He Shu skillfully took a piece of paper from the pile of waste paper and spread it in front of Yuan Sutai.
Only then did Yuan Sutai start peeling the roasted sweet potatoes.
Heshu watched the old and young masters begin to focus on their favorite roasted sweet potatoes, and whispered from the side: "Young Master, many people in the city have begun to write memorials. Just now, a few people from the Sixth Class Gallery came over and said...
I hope you can also come forward and say a few words, but we were sent away by the people from Shanglinyuan."
Yuan Sutai had just peeled off one end of the roasted sweet potato in his hand and was about to eat it. When he heard these words, he immediately stopped what he was doing and raised his head, his brows already frowning slightly.
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Heshu had a smile on his face and said with a smile: "The students thought the same way. At that time, they told the people who came over outside the yamen that if they dared to come over and talk nonsense again, the students would lead people to send several carts of compost.
Leave it on their doorstep."
Composting has been around since ancient times.
But the current compost in Shanglin Yuanjian is an improved one.
More fertile.
But there is also a drawback.
That means the smell is greater.
As soon as the freshly piled compost is opened and someone comes close to it, tears and runny noses will flow from the manure.
As expected, Yuan Sutai was immediately amused and laughed non-stop.
He stretched out his fingers, which were darkened by peeling sweet potatoes, and pointed at the grass tree in front of him: "You! You! When I first came to our place, I said you were a slippery boy. Until now, you still haven't.
You're in full form, aren't you afraid that those people will fight you on the spot and impeach you later?"
Heshu, however, smiled and snorted: "If they dare to impeach the students, the students will make their families deprived of food from now on!"
In the past two years, Shanglinyuan Supervisor has not only been studying how to increase food production, nor just studying new species found outside.
By the way, methods were developed to control grain production.
This word control can be discussed carefully at this time.
At this moment, Yuan Sutai placed his finger heavily on Heshu's forehead, and said with a solemn expression: "It's best for you to stop doing things like this that are harmful to Tianhe! You can make any kind of joke, this is about food.
No joke!"
He Shu immediately put away the smile on his face, nodded repeatedly, and said seriously: "Students don't dare, students are just saying angry words. Recently, students are still thinking about whether they should go to the cabinet with their colleagues in the office, please
The Navy will allocate a ship and we will go to the New World in person to join our colleagues in front."
Seeing that the young man understood the importance, Yuan Sutai felt relieved, but shook his head: "Let's put this matter aside for a while. I heard Jie Ge mention it once a few days ago. There should be a ship back from the New World soon.
I'm afraid you will be very busy by then."
He Shu hummed and turned his eyes.
"Come to think of it, it's still your fault."
Yuan Sutai was puzzled for a moment and looked at Heshu doubtfully.
Heshu's face once again showed a smile.
"If you weren't old, how could those people have enough to eat and have nothing to do all day long?"