Chapter 258: The Storm is Coming

The next morning, the sun was shining.

Lin Haoran, as usual, appeared at the door of the Hanlin Courtyard on time. first glanced at the Forbidden City from afar, and then plunged into this large office and continued his career in Hanlin.

followed the porter Lin San to say hello and went inside. When he passed through the three gates, he watched the Hanlin attendant walk out with a pair of panda eyes on the top of the high arch, and saluted the Shangguan.

In essence, there is no relationship between the two of them, after all, the repair and inspection hall and the lecture and reading hall are two departments, and the two departments have no restrictions on personnel rights and financial rights.

It's just that the Ming officialdom attaches great importance to these courtesies, like Lin Haoran is just a newcomer in the repair hall, but even if it is a revision of old qualifications, he has to be respectful.

Gao Gong also seemed to have a good impression of Lin Haoran, a young Hanlin cultivator, and immediately returned the salute, and took the initiative to chat a few words, and then hurriedly went to breakfast.

When Lin Haoran walked into the repair and inspection hall, the official walked over with the book and said with a smile: "Master Xiu, you are the first to arrive today!" ”

When Lin Haoran was drawing, he also glanced at the historian's seat over there, and it was really empty. However, most of the officials behind him were already occupied.

Officials and officials are in two classes. Unlike later generations, the officials of the Ming Dynasty will always be officials, and it is absolutely impossible to become officials.

After Lin Haoran asked for a pot of ginseng tea, he wrote "Daming Treasure Banknote" on the paper.

When Sun Jixiang saw those four words, he took the order and left, and soon brought a bundle of information about the Daming treasure banknotes, each of which seemed to have been carefully selected.

With these years of contact, Lin Haoran became more and more sure that this talented subordinate official has an extremely high level and knowledge, and is even above him, a senior official.

Lin Haoran glanced at Sun Jixiang again, and found that there was nothing unusual about this little old man's appearance, as if he was an ordinary old scribe. However, he didn't explore anything, and after taking a sip of ginseng tea, he began to flip through the books.

In the eighth year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty announced the cessation of gold and silver trading and the introduction of the official currency of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Treasure Banknote.

This was supposed to be a measure for the benefit of the country and the people, but in the face of greedy rulers, it was just a tool for accumulating wealth. By the time of the first year of Hongxi, the Daming treasure banknotes were almost unusable on the market.

It is precisely in this way that the Daming treasure banknotes were gradually replaced by gold and silver. In addition to deriving the backward model of paying taxes in kind, it has also improved the status of overseas gold and silver, and also catalyzed the contradiction between maritime merchants and maritime ban policies.

After realizing that the elevation of the status of overseas gold and silver had brought great disadvantages to the Ming Dynasty, Lin Haoran wanted to study how this official currency had risen and fallen and whether there was any possibility of reviving again.

Just saw the data of Zhu Di's indiscriminate distribution of Daming treasure banknotes, he knew. Without the power to restrain this desire to issue money, even if it succeeds in establishing a new official banknote, it will be a ruin for the rulers.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty still had to follow the silver trumpet model of the Qing Dynasty, and the major ticket numbers printed their own banknotes to meet the market, which weakened the status of overseas gold and silver to a certain extent.

While he was sipping tea and reading a book, other historians walked in one after another to start their day's work.

The Hanlin Academy was originally a quiet institution, and the group of people they were responsible for revising history were even more free.

In fact, the history is so long, and the things to be repaired have already been completed. Now, even if it is to be rebuilt, it is just to stand on the basis of the predecessors, copy and write, and fine-tune some things.

Time passes in the sea of books, and everyone in the repair hall is busy with their own work, and everyone does not affect each other and works in different directions. Some people are honestly revising history, some people are racking their brains to write green words, and some people are doing nothing.

At noon, Xu Wei called him to eat together, and Zhu Dashou and Mao Xuanyuan went together.

The news that Wu Shilai and Zhang Chong were assigned to the wilderness came to the border, so when the four of them arrived at the dining room, several tables in the neighborhood were talking about this matter.

"The calamity of the strict party is worse than the calamity of the party!"

"How can the saint be deceived by the traitor Yan Artemisia and let the loyal and good be wronged!"

"Elder Xu Ge actually wants to get rid of the country, but unfortunately his strength is not strong after all!"

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After learning that these two ministers had suffered such a blow, everyone also gritted their teeth. There are those who denounce Yan Dang, those who sympathize with Wu Shilai and Zhang Chong, and those who strongly support Xu Jie.

Lin Haoran sat down with the three companions, quietly being a bystander, watching the gang of colleagues indignant. Although he doesn't like Yan Dang, he is not interested in Xu Jie.

Xu Jie is not really a loyal person, just a snobbish bureaucrat.

What he did was more out of selfishness, just to send a signal to the Holy One. If he really wants to bring down Yan Hao, I am afraid that he will use more strength, and even put on armor himself, and will definitely not just instruct the two protégés to write a letter of impeachment, and a vigorous "downfall of Yan" action will end in a tiger.

But he didn't know if Xu Wei had the chromium mark of Yan Dang on his body, or if he had seen through the mystery, he followed Lin Haoran and ate the food quietly.

Zhu Dashou seemed to be in a good mood, so he started the topic, and joked with the three of them: "Now that Wu Shi is coming to the border, Brother Yu Chen finally has time to eat with us this time!" ”

"I don't dare to get too close to Yu Chen, but I don't want to get into trouble!" Xu Wei picked up a piece of tofu and joked.

Among the four of them, although Xu Wei was the oldest, he was the most fond of joking, so everyone laughed when they heard the words, and they didn't take his words seriously.

"Senior Brother Yu Chen's move...... Something is wrong! Mao Dianyuan stopped his chopsticks, frowned and shook his head.

Lin Haoran knew that they were talking about Tao Dalin, the 35-year-old leader of Jiajing. He once helped Wu Shilai, a fellow villager, finalize the draft of the impeachment of Yan Hao, and in recent days, he has visited Wu Shilai in his cell every day, and he resolutely stood on the opposite side of the Yan Party.

It's just that Lin Haoran didn't have much contact with this Hanlin editor, so I don't know if he is a political speculator or an upright stream. However, listening to Zhu Dashou talk about his old past, he believed that Tao Dalin belonged to the latter.

"What's wrong! What if the Yan party is so powerful, he still dares to put his hand into our Hanlin Academy! Zhu Dashou retracted the outstretched chopsticks and said proudly.

I have to say that the Hanlin Academy does have a transcendent status. They are not under the control of the ministry, and the key to promotion lies in the cabinet or the emperor, so it is difficult for the strict party to give them a mix.

When he returned to the repair hall, Lin Haoran got the news that Wu Shan, the master of the academy who had never shown up, finally showed up and appeared in the Hanlin Academy.

If it was yesterday, Lin Haoran would definitely be a little happy, and he would have sighed that he finally had something to do. It's just that now, he can't be happy.

The stinky face last night was still vivid, and Wu Shan, who had been seeing the dragon all the time, suddenly appeared, most likely coming at him, and he came to settle accounts with him on purpose.

Things did go in a bad direction, and the three of them were soon summoned.

"Brother Ruoyu, are you alright?" Xu Wei saw that Lin Haoran was inappropriate, and immediately asked with concern.

"It's fine!" Lin Haoran shook his head and followed the two of them together, but he was extremely pessimistic in his heart.