The palace seal was passed down from the period of Queen Shotoku and was awarded to palace officials with merits and achievements. It is divided into three grades: bronze, silver and gold.
It has been followed to this day. According to the different departments and bureaus, the patterns on the palace seals are different. Just by looking at it, you can know where the person has made contributions.
Palace servants with palace seals receive the great honor of royal recognition, while the status of palace servants without palace seals cannot be compared with it.
In other words, the palace seal is another set of things in the palace that enhance the status of the palace people in addition to the rank. Sometimes it is even more important than the rank.
Just like Old Man Qian, his rank is much lower than Zhang Defa, but he has a Golden Palace Medal, so he dares to go directly to the Queen Mother to ask Lihua to farm.
And the Queen Mother will not blame the old man for his recklessness.
If it were Zhang Defa, he wouldn't dare even if he had 10,000 heads.
This is the advantage of the palace seal. Everyone inside and outside the palace recognizes that a palace official who has made a mistake has a palace seal on his body. The punishment department must carefully examine the person and seek lenient treatment beyond justice.
Therefore, Martha focused on the palace seal.
It's just that he put in all the effort and effort, but got nothing.
It’s not that he’s incompetent, it’s really hard to get!
Each department and bureau in the harem has a limited number of palace seals, and there are only so many difficult things to report to allocate palace seals. Each one is so difficult, and many people have tried it, but they have all failed.
Madana's own textile bureau has several palace seals waiting to be picked up.
The Weaving Bureau is the most important department in the palace besides the Shang Palace Bureau. It is in charge of various royal productions and is involved in all aspects of the palace's clothing, food, housing and transportation, such as royal jewelry, weaving of precious clothing materials, firing porcelain, etc.
Take the firing of porcelain as an example. When some porcelain is fired, poisonous gas will be released. If you are not careful, it will poison a whole nest and cause a big disaster.
But this kind of porcelain has gorgeous patterns and is deeply loved by the royal family.
Another example is purple, which is one of the most noble colors and is used in many royal costumes. However, whether inside or outside the palace, it is difficult for dyeing shops to dye pure purple. After dyeing, the color is easy to fade and unstable, so dyeing a purple dress is very expensive. Huge.
If these problems can be solved, corresponding palace medals will be awarded.
Others, such as the imperial pharmacy, the imperial dining room, and even the weapons bureau outside the palace, also have their own difficulties and corresponding palace medals and rewards.
For example, the Ordnance Bureau has been looking into researching harder and more flexible materials to make weapons.
In fact, all these problems that can be solved have been solved, and those that cannot be solved have continued.
Some of them have been passed down for decades and no one can solve them to this day, which has become a difficult problem accumulated in history.
All departments and bureaus have given up hope of solving the problem.
However, Madana did not believe in evil and went around various departments and bureaus to find solutions to the problems, pondering over these problems in addition to daily errands.
He had seen it once and spent a lot of energy trying, but all failed.
He even asked Guan Guan to go to Zhang Defa to try to solve Zhang Defa's major concern - to rearrange the Cangchen Palace to ensure the emperor's satisfaction.
The result was still a failure, so I returned to the weaving bureau dejectedly.
In the end, he was discouraged and getting the imperial seal became his heartache.
He would go for a walk every day to see if anyone had solved those difficult problems.
The heads of various departments and bureaus are also used to his presence. When they see him coming, they all say hello and give a joking salute: "Hey, Mr. Ma is here again."
Whenever Martha heard it, she would wave her hands and refuse to recognize the title. He thought the name was not worthy of the title and was frightened by it.
That afternoon, Martha was not on duty and was very busy. As usual, she went to visit various departments.
As soon as he left the weaving bureau, a master and a servant came towards him. The girl was holding a basket filled with something heavy.
Martha glanced at the basket, but saw nothing wrong with it, and then looked at the master.
I saw that the master was very good-looking, with big peach blossom eyes, a smile on his face, and small pear dimples on each cheek. Just one look at him made him feel like he was bathed in spring breeze.
Martha didn't dare to look any further, and lowered her head to salute by the roadside, thinking that perhaps a concubine from some palace had gone the wrong way.
Places like theirs are the place where slaves and craftsmen stay. They don't attract the attention of their masters. They have no flowers, no grass, no scenery. Usually, there are few palace concubines here.
Just when he thought he was leaving, a pleasant voice sounded in his ears: "My father-in-law, how do I get to the Royal Porcelain Department?"
The Imperial Porcelain Department is the department in charge of imperial porcelain. The imperial kiln for firing porcelain is outside the palace and is under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Porcelain Department, under the Weaving Bureau.
Martha was a little surprised. Could it be that this master wanted to receive some porcelain?
But no master came in person.
Martha was a little confused, but without thinking much, she gave him directions.
The master thanked him and left with the girl.
Madana and others left and also left to wander around other departments and bureaus to see the palace seal that he was thinking about.
At dusk, Martha came back after completing a circle, but still found nothing.
If he can't do something, others can't do it either. The palace seals are all well taken care of, and no one can take them away.
It’s another day that’s neither salty nor bland.
But when he returned to the weaving bureau, he found that the atmosphere was wrong.
The head of the Weaving and Dyeing Department ran back and forth, with purple dye splashed all over his body. His expression was crazy, and he shouted: "It will work this way, it will work this way, hahaha, it's solved, hahaha, the disease that has been in my hands for many years is in my hands."
Solved..."
People nearby were in small groups, doing no errands, discussing what had happened, and being very excited.
Madana went over and listened and was shocked: "What?! The imperial seal of the Department of Weaving and Dyeing has been taken off?"
Just this afternoon?
Someone told him excitedly: "Yes, it's amazing! Also, not only the palace seals of the Department of Weaving and Dyeing were removed, but also those of the Imperial Ceramics Department. Hey, you don't have to go there, the person in charge has already left.
Yu Kiln, I didn’t come back.”
Martha took a step forward and wanted to go to the Royal Ceramics Department to confirm. Hearing this, he stopped and stared with his mouth open, as if he was listening to a book from heaven.
He went out all afternoon, and the palace seals of two divisions were taken off one after another?
How is that possible!!!
He quickly chased after him and asked who the two people who had received the imperial seal were from.
Everyone agreed that she was a familiar little palace maid, carrying a basket and offering solutions to difficult problems on the spot.
The head of the Weaving and Dyeing Department originally didn't take it seriously, but let people try it if it was optional.
Then I saw the little palace maid taking out bottles and jars from the basket and mixing a vat of purple dye out.
Everyone in the Weaving and Dyeing Department was shocked. The manager quickly asked people to try dyeing a piece of cloth. In order to speed up the effect, they did not follow the usual process, but dried the cloth directly with fire.
It stands to reason that the color of cloth dyed in such a simple and crude way is very poor, it is easy to fade, the dyed color is uneven, and it may not be the desired color.
But the result was completely unexpected. Although the color of the cloth appeared uneven due to the rough process, the color was very good. It did not fade at all after rinsing and rubbing, and the color was very firm.