Qian Qianyi's father and son learned that the holy decree had arrived, and hurriedly prepared to go out to meet the holy decree, although Qian Qianyi was a retired elder, but Zhu Hongsan gave him the treatment of a master and enjoyed the treatment of a national first-class official, so Qian Qianyi put on the big red python robe rewarded by His Majesty, and put an incense case at the door to welcome the holy decree.

It was a young little yellow door who came to the door of the Qian Mansion and said with a smile: "I have seen the old Qian Ge, please prepare to meet the will of the Son of Heaven!" ”

At this time, all the men in the entire Qian Mansion had to come out and kneel at the door, even Qian Qianyi's eldest son Qian Sunai was not exempt from kneeling, because he did not have the identity of lifting people, and Zhu Hongsan's treatment for scholars was that they could raise people without kneeling. Qian Sunai is just a child, and he is still 108,000 miles away!

After Qian Qianyi saw that the family was ready, he led everyone and said, "The Qian Mansion welcomes the holy decree!" ”

The little yellow door nodded, opened the holy decree and read: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: Shangyuan County ordered Qian to belove, for the official is honest, the official reputation is very good, and he is among the best in the ministry selection, and he is specially appointed to be the prefect of Shuntian Mansion, and immediately enter the capital after receiving the decree!" ”

Qian Yiai was on fire for his future, and suddenly good news fell from the sky, Qian Yiai thought that the emperor was not blind, and really saw how hard he worked in Shangyuan, so he was promoted to his official position. Qian Yiai was overjoyed, stood up in front of Qian Qianyi, and quickly took the holy decree and said, "Thank you angel!" Come, get some silver taels for the angel! ”

A family member took out a silver dollar to the little yellow door, and at this time, Qian Qianyi also stood up and took the holy decree in Qian Yiai's hand to take a closer look, and found the doorway at a glance.

The Ming Dynasty decree has a fixed format, divided into edict and system, edict is the emperor's legal document, equivalent to the chairman's decree of later generations, this must be approved by the cabinet before the law can be implemented in the world. The system is said to be arbitrary, and the system is only issued to various officials in the officialdom, and most of them are the appointment and dismissal of officials, and personnel transfers, but they must also be approved by the cabinet before they can take effect.

There is also this Fengtian carrier, and it is also said that before the Ming Dynasty, the opening words of the holy decree were not all "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said", and there was a difference between the dynasties and dynasties. For example, the holy decree of the Tang Dynasty is generally reviewed and promulgated by the province of Menxia, and the text of the holy decree often begins with the word "under the door", and the beginning of "Su Zong's Decree to the Crown Prince to Supervise the State System" is "under the door, the foundation of the world ......"!

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the emperor's enthronement decree often began with "When the heavens are good, he is ordered by Ziming" to clarify the "orthodoxy" of the Son of Heaven. The writing format of the Song Dynasty's holy decrees generally inherited from the Tang Dynasty, but there were some changes, from Song Taizu to Song Huizong, the decrees issued when he ascended the throne all began with the word "under the door", and there were many who liked to start with "I Shao Ying Jun Life" or "I Ying Haotian's Lives". During the Yuan Dynasty, the opening words of the holy decree were always "In the immortal weather force, in the great blessing and shade, the emperor's holy decree is ......"! The first to use "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict" as the opening sentence of the holy decree was Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's birth, probably among all the founding emperors of China, is probably the lowest status of him, no matter how Liu Bang said it, he is also a militia captain, Zhu Yuanzhang is directly a stinky person who asks for food. It is precisely because there is nothing to emphasize that Zhu Yuanzhang is afraid that after winning the world, he is afraid that people will say that he is from a low background and has to talk about the mandate of heaven in everything he does, and he thinks that he ended the tyrannical rule of the Yuan Dynasty in accordance with the way of heaven, so he tells people at every turn that he is "acting in heaven, and he does not dare to be self-dictatorated". After the capital was established in Nanjing, Nanjing was renamed "Yingtianfu", and the largest Jinluan Hall in the palace was named "Fengtian Palace", and even sometimes called himself "Fengtian Fazu", which probably means that the emperor of Lao Tzu was given by God, and Lao Tzu ruled you on behalf of heaven.

Later emperors of the Ming Dynasty also emphasized that they acted in this way, so the content, format and wording of the holy decree became more and more formatted. For example, in order to show the absolute authority of "heaven" and "emperor", the beginning of the holy decree in the middle and late Ming Dynasty gradually evolved into a fixed format in which the first line of the word "Feng" was placed, the second line of "Tian Carrier" was placed at the top of the second line, and the third line of "Emperor Zhao said" was placed one square lower than the word "Tian" in the second line of "Tian Carrier".

The first half of Zhu Hongsan's decree is nothing, it is all in a fixed format, but the problem lies in the back. This kind of holy decree for the transfer of officials must be stamped with the big seal of the cabinet, and only the kind of legal document that says that the whole world is stamped with the emperor's jade seal, but this ordinary transfer decree in front of him is covered with the emperor's jade seal.

Qian Qianyi served as a cabinet elder, of course, this kind of mistake can be seen at a glance, and at the same time, Qian Qianyi also knows that the cabinet has a special care, according to the words of later generations, it is the secretariat, mainly in charge of the official seal of the cabinet, this kind of obvious mistake will never be made.

After reading the holy decree, Qian Qianyi asked: "This internal envoy, why is this holy decree covered with His Majesty's jade seal, and why is it not the seal of the cabinet?" ”

That little yellow gate was just an ordinary little eunuch, and he knew the details of the operation of this kind of imperial court power. After thinking for a long time, he said: "Qian Ge Lao, this is not known to the slaves, but there are a few lieutenants who came with the slaves, and they went to Nanjing to pass the decree to the cabinet, His Majesty will go to the whole world to set up nineteen provinces, and at the same time order the cabinet elders to go to Beijing to work, probably the people from the Military Aircraft Department will also cover the holy decree of Lord Qian with the jade seal!" ”

Qian Qianyi was taken aback when he heard Xiao Huangmen say this, and hurriedly asked, "Military Aircraft Department?" Do you say that all the decrees are issued by the military aircraft? ”

The little eunuch said uncontrollably: "Yes, there are three holy decrees, one for the cabinet, one for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and one for Lord Qian!" When the little eunuch saw that the decree was read out and that he had received more than a dozen silver dollars, he was so happy that he left the Qian Mansion with his hands and went back to Beijing to resume his life.

After Qian Yiai sent the angel away, he came back to see that his father was still here in a daze, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Father, the angel has left, let's go home!" ”

At this time, Qian Qianyi reacted, grabbed Qian Yuai's hand and said: "Son, you must not go to this official, Beijing is the tiger's den in Longtan, you must not risk yourself!" ”

Qian Yiai was a little unhappy when she heard her father say this, what did she become an official for? Isn't it still for this Qian family? 's father is old, the eldest brother Qian Sun Ai is not a reading material, he is still a child in his forties, the third Qian Lingai is less than six years old, he is still young, and now only he can support this family, why doesn't his father let himself become an official?

"Father, wouldn't it be nice to go to Suncheonfu? Governing the country and leveling the world together, isn't this what your father taught your son? ”

"Bastard, what the sage said is naturally true, but on the premise of ensuring your own safety! Right now... Qian Qianyi was just about to speak, and found himself standing at the door of the house, where there were many people, so he quickly pulled Qian Yiai closer to the house, came to the study and drove everyone out, and then told his son some secret things in the court!

"Son, you used to have a lowly official position, and you didn't know the role of the Military Aircraft Department, which is called in charge of the military aircraft and is responsible for the military, and the chief officer is only a five-grade civilian official. However, the great power in the hands of the Military Aircraft Department is terrifying, and the local governors are not in a good position to war, and the Military Aircraft Department has the right to directly dismiss the governors, and the cabinet must not interfere! ”

As for the military aircraft department, Qian Yiai still knows a little, after all, he has been a county magistrate in Nanjing for several years, and he always sees the military aircraft department's walking and showing off his might, and even the frightening Jinyiwei and Dongchang are not in his eyes. But this is the first time I have heard of the dismissal of the governor directly.

"Father, isn't the appointment and dismissal of the governor proposed by the cabinet and then submitted to the emperor for approval? Why does the Military Aircraft Department have the right to dismiss it directly? ”

"The dismissal of the governor is not the work of the military plane, but the emperor standing behind them! There is a rule in the Military Aircraft Department, which is called kneeling and receiving records, which means that the emperor's words cannot be objected to, but can only be implemented! ”

Qian Yiai gasped when he heard his father say this, Qian Yiai is now a member of the Ming Dynasty official system, and naturally knows the rules for the promotion of officials in the Ming Dynasty.

There was a complete set of rules for the promotion of officials in the Ming Dynasty, which was similar to the appointment and dismissal of cadres in later generations. After the Beijing officials go through the Beijing inspection once every six years, and the local officials go through the triennial general review, they are divided into upper, middle and lower nine classes in the archives of the officials, which is the main basis for the promotion of officials. After the officials are rated as superior, they are reviewed by the Ministry of Personnel, and then handed over to the Organization Department, and the four grades below are directly appointed and removed by the Organization Department, and the senior officials above the four grades are handed over to the cabinet and decided by the elders, as for the second grade governors, they are selected by the elders and handed over to the emperor to decide, but the emperor of the Ming Dynasty basically belongs to the rubber stamps and directly agrees to things.

Of course, this is the emperor before the Ming Dynasty, after Zhu Hongsan came to power, in order to prevent the officials from having too much power, the officials were divided into the organization department and the personnel department, the organization department was responsible for the appointment and dismissal of officials, and the personnel department was responsible for the assessment of officials, but even if the rights were separated, these two departments were also departments with heavy power.

Now Qian Yiai heard that the Military Aircraft Department only knelt down to receive the transcript, and could not raise any objections, didn't he become a minion?

Thinking of this, Qian Yiai asked: "Father, isn't the emperor fighting for power with the cabinet like this?" ”

Qian Qianyi sighed and said, "Hey! In the past, there were frequent wars in the country, and in order to ensure the smooth running of the war, several first assistants turned a blind eye to the practice of the Military Aircraft Department, and at the same time, the emperor still took care of the face of the cabinet. But now it's different, there is no major war in the country, and this strange department of the Military Aircraft Department should be abolished, and now the name of the Military Aircraft Department is used to give orders to the Interior, do you feel that you can endure it according to Ma Mingyuan's arrogance? That's why my father asked you not to go to Beijing, your official position as the emperor was not directly appointed by the cabinet, and if you go to Beijing, you will definitely become a pawn in the confrontation between the cabinet and the emperor, what do you say you are going to do? ”

Qian Yiai heard his father say this, and after thinking for a while, Qian Yiai said categorically: "Father, no matter whether Beijing is Longtan Tiger's Den, my son must go this time!" ”