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Lin Yanchao felt a little hot, he had not confiscated such a large sum of money since he became an official.

To tell the truth, Lin Yanchao is not short of money at all, and his hometown dumps silver and crude medicine shops can give him dividends of two or three thousand taels a year. It's just that this money is all in Lin Qianqian's pocket, and Lin Yanchao can't take it.

For Lin Yanchao, all of them add up to almost one hundred taels a year. The expenses of Beijing officials are huge, as Wang Shizhen said in his notes, it is only six or seven hundred taels a year, of course, this is a tight life, if it is a loose life, a thousand taels a year is rich.

A while ago, Lin Yanchao had just received 1,500 taels of silver, which was enough for two years to not worry, and now Gu Xiancheng sent himself 2,000 taels in one go.

A few days ago, I just experienced the Jinyiwei incident, and I was just having palpitations.

Lin Yanchao was about to refuse, but Gu Xiancheng seemed to know what he meant, and immediately said: "This money is the ministry fee of the household department, and it was approved by the master of the hall, and the yamen still issued a ticket, even if this matter is brought to the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven has nothing to say." ”

Lin Yanchao couldn't help but say to himself, I am convinced, I can issue an invoice for any bribe, our Ming officials are really slippery!

As Gu Xiancheng said, the yamen department fee is a well-known bad rule in officialdom. When foreign officials do things, they have to find the household yamen, such as approving a slip and asking for money from the household department, so they have to have a good relationship with the household department.

In terms of the current officialdom, this is the word 'running the department and making money'.

After running the relationship, the money is not yours yet.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, bribery had been semi-open and semi-legal, and there was a fixed rule from top to bottom.

For example, if the money is approved, and the court promises to give you 100,000 taels of silver, if the household department only withholds 10,000 taels from you, it means that your hands and eyes are all over the sky, and the relationship in the household department is very hard, and people only dare to charge you 10%. And the 10,000 taels of silver that were withheld were called 'ministry fees', and this money finally fell into the pockets of various officials in the household department and the yamen.

And Gu Xiancheng gave himself the money from the ministry fee.

Why is that? Because the household department also has to pay bribes to the superior yamen! And the cabinet is properly the superior yamen of the household department.

Lin Yanchao said: "Brother Gu Nian, I don't mean anything else, when the East Fang has a book in charge, I still have to return the power in the future." Even if I don't have a book in charge, it won't take a few months, and as soon as the deadline for my turn to the inner court is up, I will have to go back to the Hanlin Academy to repair the book. I'm afraid I'll deserve this money. ”

Gu Xian grew up and smiled: "It turns out that Zong Hai is worried about this, you are underestimating Zhang Situ by saying this." As the so-called Mount Tai can not be measured, two thousand taels of silver, for Da Situ, is just a crack exposed in his fingers, not worth mentioning. ”

Lin Yanchao knew that the rules were like this, so he sighed and said, "So I will be disrespectful." ”

Ben Lin Yanchao still wanted to add a sentence, not as an example, but after thinking about it, this is too fake, so forget it.

Lin Yanchao accepted the money, Gu Xiancheng smiled, turned his head and looked around at Lin Yanchao's house and the furnishings in the house, and then said: "Zong Hai, you are too poor, not like an important minister of the court, you can't be too greedy for an official, but you can't be too clean!" ”

Lin Yanchao said with a smile: "Brother Xie Nian's words, I'm used to it. ”

Gu Xiancheng sighed: "Cheap things are expensive, and the ambition is to keep simple, Zonghai is a true gentleman." ”

At this point, the two talked about other topics.

Gu Xiancheng mentioned to himself that he was friendly with Zhao Nanxing and Jiang Shichang, the directors of the household department. Listening to the names of the two and Gu Xiancheng in front of him, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but think of the community organizations that affected the entire Ming Dynasty in the future, no, it should be called the Socialist Party.

Gu Xiancheng chatted with Lin Yanchao all night, and Lin Yanchao almost thought that he was going to talk until the next morning. But in the middle of the night, Gu Xiancheng suddenly said goodbye, Lin Yanchao saw that it was so late and wanted to stay with Gu Xiancheng for one night, but Gu Xiancheng resolutely refused and left.

When Lin Yanchao saw Gu Xiancheng like this, he could only understand it as 'celebrities and gentlemen have many eccentricities'.

On the second day, Lin Yanchao went to work in the cabinet.

After Lin Yanchao arrived at the room, several people in the east room were chatting and discussing things, and after seeing Lin Yanchao, they all bowed their hands together, which was completely the posture of the subordinates and the superiors. Obviously, they also knew that Lin Yanchao was assisting in the affairs of the East Room.

After seeing it, one person said: "Lin Xiu, the second assistant came to explain, saying that you will go to see him first after you go to the east room." ”

Lin Yanchao was not surprised when he heard this, he assisted in the east room, and he had a lot of things to hand over to Zhang Siwei.

So Lin Yanchao went to the cabinet to be on duty, today Zhang Juzheng and Shen Shixing's door outside the duty room was closed, obviously the two of them had not yet arrived at the office.

Lin Yanchao came to the door of Zhang Siwei's room, but saw that the doors of the inner and outer rooms were open, and several internal servants were cleaning.

Zhang Siwei took a bowl of tea, stood in front of the table, and stared out the window.

After Lin Yanchao reported outside the door, he came to Zhang Siwei to salute when he entered.

Zhang Siwei glanced at Lin Yanchao, and didn't mean to let him sit, but said lightly: "Lin Xiu, did you sleep peacefully last night?" ”

Lin Yanchao couldn't figure out the meaning of Zhang Siwei's words. Zhang Siwei was originally in charge of the entire cabinet, and as soon as Yu Zhongshu, the head of the West Room, left, his control over the cabinet was greatly reduced. He called himself now, probably with the intention of knocking it out.

So Lin Yanchao suddenly became vigilant in his heart, Zhang Siwei asked, this answer is nothing more than good or bad.

But the other party presupposed to ask so, Lin Yanchao couldn't follow the routine to drill into it. So Lin Yanchao replied: "Xia Guan read the official document in hand last night, and he was late for it without paying attention, and he couldn't remember when he fell asleep when he was tired. ”

Lin Yanchao seemed to answer Zhang Siwei's question, but he didn't seem to answer, Zhang Siwei's eyes lit up, and he pondered for a moment, so he asked: "Yuanfu uses you to assist the East Room, what do you think?" ”

Lin Yanchao thought for a while, and said cautiously: "Thank you to the two Zhongtang for their love to the lower officials, and the lower officials obey the arrangement." ”

Lin Yanchao's answer was so unremarkable, Zhang Siwei couldn't speak, so he could only change his tone and say: "Okay, since you are the assistant manager of the East Room, it is completely different from the original one-person work, and the cabinet department will let you go back and think about how to do things first." In this Wenyuan Pavilion, who do you need to explain to? The Cabinet Department doesn't want to ask Motosuke for a replacement in a few days. ”

Lin Yanchao listened to Zhang Siwei's words and knew that the other party was mentioning himself. That's right, Zhang Juzheng appointed himself as the assistant of the East Room, but at the moment, both the East Room and the West Room are responsible to Zhang Siwei, so I Zhang Siwei is the head of your Lin Yanchao, and since you enter the cabinet to do things, you will remember it clearly for me.

When Lin Yanchao heard this, he immediately expressed his 'loyalty' and said: "The lower officials should remember the words of the middle hall and must report everything to the middle hall." ”

Zhang Siwei smiled faintly and said: "That is the case, a few important matters, I will explain them to you first, and I will not be in a hurry for a while." (To be continued.) )