The gate is in the southeast corner of the house, occupying the position of the second room of the inverted seat house from east to west, and the depth scale is much larger than the inverted seat house, which is very prominent. The base of the gate is also much higher than the base of the inverted house, and the column height is also significantly higher than that of the inverted house, so the roof of this room rises abruptly among the houses along the street, which is particularly prominent.

There are six big red lacquer pillars on the plane, which are full of waist thickness, Fangshan has a middle pillar, and there is a wooden frame on the middle pillar, and the vermilion lacquer gate is installed in the frame. The door is located between the pillars of the door, by the frame, the door frame, the remaining plug, the horse board, the drum stone, the plate door, etc., the door is centered, so that the front of the door is very spacious, there is enough space of the size of half of the house, the beams are all exposed, this is the origin of the "wide beam gate".

This design makes the gate spacious and bright, which is very imposing.

The decoration of the gate is also very particular, the upper end of the gable head of the gate, there is a brick eaves that are picked out layer by layer, which is the head of the pan. The pan head is usually composed of four layers of bricks, which are cut and milled into the form of semi-mixing, furnace mouth, and owl, which are stacked and picked out, with beautiful curves. The two layers of bricks above the head of the pan are called eaves pulling, and then the square bricks that are obliquely drawn outwards are called the ridges. The drum stone carving at the gate is very exquisite, and the head of the hexagonal hairpin on one side is engraved with the pattern of four seasons flowers such as peony, lotus, chrysanthemum, and plum blossom.

Not far from the door, there are two shadow walls of skimming mountains, like an upside-down figure-of-eight, facing the gate. The shadow wall is one zhang high, one zhang six or seven feet long, the carving is exquisite, forming a small square in front of the gate, adding a bit of wealth and might.

In front of the door, four men in soap-colored clothes stood with sticks and sticks, looking arrogant.

There is a plaque hanging on the door, and two huge words are written on it: Xie Fu.

Here, it is the mansion of the heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials, Xie Sheng, Lord Xie.

The household department is in charge of finances, which is the most oily and watery; The officials were in charge of promotion and deposition, and were worshiped as gods by officials; The Criminal Department is in charge of life and death, and it is extremely majestic; The Ministry of War is in charge of the selection of military attachés, and it also has great power; The Ministry of Rites is responsible for ceremonial affairs, and it is the poorest; The Ministry of Engineering is in charge of construction projects, and often deals with carpenters or ordinary people, and is very despised by those upper-class people, which is a lowly job.

At that time, people called the six departments of households, officials, criminals, soldiers, rites, and workers: rich, noble, mighty, martial, poor, and cheap.

Lord Xie is a thirty-five years of the top three jinshi, just appointed by the emperor in August last year as the secretary of the ministry, although not a university scholar, did not enter the cabinet, there is no prince Shaobao, prince Taibao, young master Shaofu Shaobao, Taishi Taifu Taibao and other false titles, but just the official position of the official secretary of the ministry, this status, is enough for him to have great power.

The Ministry of Officials of the Ming Dynasty is in charge of the appointment and dismissal, assessment, promotion, and transfer of officials in the world.

There are four divisions: the Department of Literature and Selection, the Department of Seal Inspection, the Department of Auditing and the Department of Examination and Merit. The chief of the department is Langzhong, and the deputy chief is the outer officer, and his subordinate officials have the principal, the history of the order, the history of the book, etc.

The Department of Civilian Officials is responsible for examining the grades of civil officials, listing, awarding, selecting, and promoting, and handling monthly selections. The sealing department is in charge of the affairs of knighthood, secular office, grace, difficulty, invitation, and donation. The Department of Auditing and Honors is in charge of the system and lifelong maintenance of civil officials, and handles matters such as the succession, naturalization, and reinstatement of names and surnames of officials. The Examination Department is in charge of the division and discussion of civil officials, and handles the Beijing inspection and general plans.

Except for the appointment of military attachés in the military selection and Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of War, all the civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, except for those at the top, all the other civil officials were appointed from the Ministry of Officials.

The official in charge of the official, that is not an ordinary official, has always been a senior official. And there is no doubt that the official department is the top of this huge system. Even if you look at the entire Ming Dynasty, whether it is internal or local, in terms of power and importance, the Ministry of Officials can also rank in the top fifteen.

Even the top 10 is not out of the question.

In addition to the emperor, the elders, and a few respected old ministers, who else can have a status beyond the official department? Since the Wanli year and later, the rise of the slaves, there are many things in the east, so the status of the military department has risen, but it is still worse than the official department.

The first of the six parts.

The officials of the Ministry of Heaven are not called in vain.

What's more, now this official secretary, Xie Sheng Xie Lord, is very valued by the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen can almost be said to be the most powerful emperor in the Ming Dynasty except for Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, how many cabinet ministers have been replaced, and how many high-ranking officials have been killed? Although due to his own personality and ability defects, he has been played by the literati group and the civil official group for most of the past seventeen years, but at least in terms of killing, he has the style of his ancestor Hongwu Emperor Yongle Emperor.

Most of these people he killed should be killed!

Such as Yuan Chonghuan.

But there are indeed some people who don't deserve to die, Emperor Chongzhen is a very murderous and suspicious person, but he is such a person, he once praised Xie Sheng in public for being serious and quite effective. For Emperor Chongzhen, it is really not easy to say such a thing. Someone who really has the right appetite can make him so.

But this is not a good thing, counting all these years, there are not a few people who were praised by him one day and questioned by him the next day.

Chongzhen ascended the throne at the age of seventeen, and when he was in the palace of King Xin, the daily price was only reading, so the book was full of anger. If he can look at it and talk speculatively, he will give him a heavy responsibility, complete trust, no doubt, and full support. Just like when Yuan Chonghuan answered correctly on the platform, he was immediately promoted to the governor of Jiliao, and he was the secretary of the military department, and he monopolized the power of Liaodong...... But once he becomes a little suspicious and makes him feel that you have betrayed his trust, he will want to break you into thousands of pieces before he can vent his hatred.

However, it is obvious that today's Xie Sheng, at least not being suspected by Chongzhen, is in a rising period.

Although Chongzhen still can't fight the civil official group, and the governance of the country is also a mess, most of the things are concealed by the civil officials below, but his majesty and voice in the court are still very heavy, unlike the Wanli Emperor, who wants to manage the gentry class to collect a commercial tax and is scolded by the civil officials - because Chongzhen doesn't know the stubble of collecting commercial taxes at all, as long as it is a tax increase, the first thing that comes to mind is to press on the heads of the peasants.

In fact, this emperor, no matter whether he died unjustly, heroically, innocently, or deservedly, he could not hide the fact that he was actually extremely incompetent in governing the country. Maybe it's because of the fetters of the civil class, or maybe it's because the Ming Dynasty is on the verge of being hopeless—but no matter what, the facts are the facts.

He may make a living as a conservative Taiping monarch, but becoming the emperor in the last years of the crumbling Ming Dynasty is not only his misfortune, but also the misfortune of hundreds of millions of Li people in the Ming Dynasty - in fact, the Ming Dynasty was not irretrievable when Emperor Chongzhen first ascended the throne. If there is really a king with great talents, it may not be irretrievable, not to mention others, if he can have the ability of Tang Wuzong, the Ming Dynasty may not be finished so quickly.

Only, there are no ifs.

No matter what you say, now that he has gained his trust, Xie Sheng's position is very stable, and there are signs of rising, and even a few cabinet ministers are giving him a few points.

One thing can show the trust that Emperor Chongzhen now has in him - this mansion was not Xie Sheng's, who moved in shortly after he was appointed as the secretary of the ministry in August last year. And this mansion was built by the great eunuch Li Guang during the Hongzhi period, and was rewarded to Xie Sheng by Emperor Chongzhen.

There are clouds in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there is the world in the Ming Dynasty, and the sixteen generations are handed down, and the ancestors and the ancestors are outside, which can be called Renzong, Xuanzong, and Xiaozong. Filial piety is the only way to be frugal and frugal, diligent and loving the people, conscientious in the way of Baotai to maintain profits, and to make the order of the dynasty to be peaceful, and the people and things to be healthy.

Ming Xiaozong was regarded as the lord of Zhongxing, and his year name was Hongzhi, so it was also called Hongzhi Zhongxing.

Hongzhi Zhongxing, you can't say no, but compared with other Zhongxing in history, such as Guangwu Zhongxing, Xuanzong's Tianbao Zhongxing, etc., it is really a bit big. The overall national strength of the Ming Dynasty, during the Hongzhi period of Chenghua, actually showed a declining trend.

Emperor Hongzhi is a very kind-hearted person, and he has a good temper, and he has the style of a benevolent person. It's just that he can't change some of the usual mistakes of the Ming Dynasty emperors - for example, favoring eunuchs.

The problem of eunuchs was always a big problem in the Ming Dynasty, except for the eunuchs of Hongwu, Jianwen, and Jiajing, who did not show much performance, the problems of the eunuchs of the rest of the dynasties were more or less. Although the Hongzhi Dynasty did not have famous eunuchs such as Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch Li Guang was still very famous in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Like his Lao Tzu Chenghua, Hongzhi is actually a Buddha and a Taoist, and Li Guang has won Hongzhi's trust because he can refine the art of alchemy and water left path. Because of Li Guang's instigation, Hongzhi built a large number of buildings and built Wanchun Palace, Shou'an Palace, etc.

After that, Hongzhi's trust in him became more and more deep, and naturally, Li Guang began to be domineering, relying on the emperor's favor to do evil.

He first followed the old practice in the Chenghua period, and pretended to grant himself an edict to his own minister. Later, he seized the land in Gyeonggi without authorization, monopolized the profits of salt trafficking, and made tens of thousands of profits. Build a luxurious mansion and lead the Yuquan landscape around the front and back of the house. In the matter, Ye Shen, Yushi Zhang Jin and others were impeached one after another, but Xiaozong ignored them. In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, Li Guang persuaded Xiaozong to build Yuxiu Pavilion on Wansui Mountain. After the pavilion was built, the little princess died. Soon, a fire broke out in the Qingning Palace. The diviner said that Li Guangjian Yuxiu had committed a New Year's taboo, and the Empress Dowager was furious and said a lot of heavy words, and then Li Guang committed suicide because of the fear of sin. After his death, his house was raided, and he was given a book that registered many official bribes, with the names of the ministers of civil and military affairs, and the number of thousands of stones of yellow and white rice fed. Xiaozong didn't understand it at first, and wondered how much Li Guang could eat? Will you be able to eat all the rice you delivered?

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