Sometimes the palace is sunny

Jiao Ru, the priest of the Ministry of Rites Wai Lang, from the fifth rank.

In Yanjing City, where the rich and powerful are everywhere and there are many officials like dogs, this official is really not big, but he is a bit special.

Due to the ancestral system, most officials of the Ministry of Rites come from the Imperial Academy, and Jiao Ru is no exception. He was a second-class Jinshi in the late emperor's time. He was admitted to the Imperial Academy at the age of 32. He stayed in the Imperial Academy for ten years and was released. After two county magistrates, he was promoted to be a member of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang, because of his extensive education and construction of schools in the local area.

It can be said that although he is not a senior official, he comes from a noble family. He wants to be popular and have an official reputation. He is just waiting to accumulate qualifications. position, or be released as a magistrate.

Such a noble and promising person was forced to death by a mere 300 taels of silver.

Hearing this for the first time, the six subjects were shocked.

For the officials of the Sixth Division, Jiao Ru's road to promotion is beyond the reach of most of them in their lifetime. He is neither a nobleman waiting to squander among the rich, nor is he a rough and ignorant general. Not even a high-ranking official, but from the fifth rank, only 300 taels, but a student of the emperor, but a Hanlin background, but just like them for more than ten years.

Injury to its kind.

But so.

"The gate of the Hall of Martial Heroes has been closed for a long time, and I don't know how to deal with this matter." A person finished copying a booklet for the matter, raised his head and said this sentence.

"How to deal with it?" A younger man was quite angry about the matter, "Just 300 taels of silver forced a Hanlin to death. Has there ever been such absurd thing since the Yongli Dynasty? The Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and Jinyiwei should give an explanation .”

"It's likely that Jinyiwei is overly persecuting. I heard that even Jiao Yuanwailang's cotton-padded clothes were taken off in the cold weather, just to make money."

As soon as these words came out, someone couldn't help raising their heads.

"Your Majesty ordered to check the old accounts of the Taipu Temple. If so many nobles don't check it, they will have trouble with the children from poor families. Hmph, I think the Sanfasi has already disregarded his shame in order to flatter him."

"How would those people dare to attack Xungui? In the past, they were weak and incompetent people, but now they are mixed with those women who are eager for quick success and short-sighted. It is even more unbearable."

"I heard that the news has spread to the Imperial Academy and the Imperial College, but I don't know what will happen."

"What can they do? Petition? If it really works...I'd better write a note."

"Let's write a note together and present it to His Majesty. Your Majesty's investigation of the Taipu Temple is an act that benefits the country. It must be a villain who took the opportunity to attack Qingliu."

A group of young people talked to each other during the incident, and became more and more angry. Some older people silently wrote their own documents and refused to raise their heads.

Just when there was almost only one voice in the entire six subjects, someone suddenly let out a chuckle.

This chuckle was extremely ear-piercing, because it sounded like a woman's voice.

"I really didn't know that a sinner who corrupted the court's money could be called Qingliu."

"Who is saying such offensive words?"

Everyone turned their heads to look over, and they saw a woman wearing an official hat with hairpin flowers lowering her head and laughing while copying documents.

"Ten years of studying hard in the cold window, but wanting to covet Mo's hundreds of taels of silver; ten years of studying hard in the Imperial Academy, but going to covet Mo's hundreds of taels of silver; while being admired by the people, he wants to covet Mo's hundreds of taels of silver Two coins... isn't it said that Qingliu is noble? How can such a person be praised as a model of Qingliu?"

Putting down the pen in her hand, the woman stood up slowly, wearing a blue brocade official gown and a bright red horse-faced skirt underneath.

"It turns out that to be honest is also called offense. I don't think these six departments need to be called six departments. The place where the affairs of the six departments should be inspected has become a place to defend corrupt officials, tsk tsk."

Facing the glaring gazes of a dozen men, the woman had no fear on her face, and she looked directly at them.

The person who just took the lead in saying that he was going to write a notebook strode up to her, raised his hand and put it down again.

"How do you women who are shaded by the grace of the Holy Grace know how hard it is for me and other poor families to study hard? Ha, do you know what a Hanlin is? And do you know how good the future of the murdered person should have been?"

"What a bright future?"

The woman hooked her lips and smiled: "Is it a future where you can be greedy for money? Is it a future where you can borrow money from the Taipu Temple for several years without paying it back? I used to watch men in the inner house, and I thought you were doing the imperial examinations for the sake of being able to I didn’t expect you to do some great things that benefit the country and the people. You are just doing it for personal gain. People who seek personal gain don’t even pay a few hundred taels of silver, and you still feel very sympathetic. Do you sympathize with the burnt, or sympathize You can no longer be greedy for ink from the Taipu Temple?"

Her gaze swept across the faces of everyone in front of her.

One could see the straightforward contempt on her face.

Suddenly, a man in a green official robe stepped forward and slapped the woman hard.

"Snapped!"

The face was knocked to one side, and the woman's official hat with plum blossoms on her head fell to the ground.

"Ignorant women and children dare to run rampant in the six subjects! Do you think I..."

"Snapped!"

The woman who was beaten actually took advantage of this man's unpreparedness to slap her back.

"Do you think I will be afraid of you if you can't say it?"

The slap was not over. The woman was holding a wooden box containing documents in her hand, but she used it as a weapon to slap the man in the face just now, and now she made persistent efforts to knock off the man's official hat.

"Crack! Crack!"

Not only did she move her hands, but she also moved her feet. When the red skirt was lifted, it turned into a pair of sheepskin boots embroidered with plum blossoms. They were delicate and cute, and they were very vigorous when kicked on people.

Someone wanted to stop her, but she took a picture of him to the side.

The woman who was still full of vigor just now was like an enraged tiger, even though she was fighting indiscriminately, she should have a killing intent to give it to me.

This is not over yet, she flicked her long hair that had been scattered in a bun, and she shouted:
"Hurry up, people! The Sixth Division gang has done something to our female officer!"

There happened to be a few female officers who came to pick up the documents outside, and they rushed in immediately upon hearing the noise. For a while, the red dresses and hats fluttered in the corridors of the sixth department. Among the female officers, there was a slightly taller and stronger one, who probably had some fights With skill, she picked up an inkstone on the table, which still had ink in it, and made a big fuss about those who came to stop her. She directly threw the inkstone as a dart on the head of a man who was about to attack her colleagues.

When the guards arrived, they saw that four or five female officials were fighting on par with a group of more than a dozen.

Forced to be pulled up by the guards, the female officer who had just led the fight, that is, Sheng Ling'er, the director of the procuratorate of Duanji Hall, had one hand on her hip, and the hairpin in her hand was stained with blood from someone.

Seeing that the one who hit her just now was being dragged up like a dead dog in the incident, she put her hands on her hips and sneered:
"Didn't you say that you men have worked hard for ten years? I, Sheng Ling'er, tell you that we female officials are able to stand here today because we have suffered more, read more books, and suffered more than you. , endure longer loneliness, even if it is a fight! It is better than you! Because we have come here, we are not afraid of death, not life!"

The corridors of the Sixth Division, which were still in chaos just now, were quiet.

Sheng Ling'er grabbed a handful of her long hair, raised her head and said: "This official is half a grade higher than that one. He beats the superior, and the crime is aggravated."

The excitement here has long been spread to the Hall of Martial Heroes. After a while, a little eunuch ran over quickly:

"Your Majesty has ordered that all the troublemakers in the corridors of the six departments be brought to the imperial court together."

Sheng Ling'er just raised her eyebrows, then lowered her head and picked up a distracted needle from the ground, corrected it with her hands, and handed it to her colleague with disheveled hair.

A total of more than [-] people from the Wuying Hall entered in a file, stood in two distinct rows, and then knelt down and kowtowed to plead guilty.

On both sides of them are elders and ministers, and the one with the lowest official position is also a young minister of Dali Temple.

The young sovereign descended from his throne in his robes.

"I really didn't expect that the corridor of the Sixth Division could become a place for wrestling. Oh, this is because someone slapped a circle around the eye, who moved the hand?"

His Majesty was standing in the row of the six departments, and when he bent down, he saw a person whose eyes were swollen from being beaten.

On the other side, a woman said softly: "Your Majesty, it was my minister who beat me. I know I was wrong. Please punish me. But seeing my colleagues being surrounded and beaten, I really have no choice but to act."

"Siege? It turns out that the ministers of the six subjects that I have carefully selected will still be beaten."

His Majesty was clearly smiling, but the staff of the sixth department were sweating profusely.

"Since you are so rich in martial arts, why don't you go to the army to serve, and you don't have to be the six subjects of admonishing and picking up things."

Shen Shiqing just finished speaking.

People from the sixth department are already kowtowing again and again.

She still laughed.