The officials in the court all paid homage to each other according to etiquette.

After meeting the officials of the Fourth Division, they became officials of the Department of Affairs.

The Department of Affairs has two officials, with the position of the ninth rank. The Department of Affairs mainly deals with outside government offices, communicates with official documents and forwards.

In addition to the three departments and four departments, the Ministry of Rites also has the Huitong Hall, the Casting Bureau, and the Jiafang Department.

Huitongguan is a specialist in dealing with foreign countries. The Ming Dynasty always regarded itself as a state of the Celestial Empire and a major central country. It did not attach great importance to foreign affairs and treated foreign countries as a tribute country.

Therefore, later US Secretary of State Kissinger commented on China that China has not had any experience in interacting with equal powers for thousands of years.

This was especially true in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

During the Qing Dynasty, the emperor wrote a letter to US President Lincoln, saying that I have inherited the will of heaven and polite the world, and regards China and foreign countries as one family, and are no different from each other.

Therefore, the status of Huitongguan can be imagined, so this is the subordinate to the Ministry of Rites.

In the diplomatic affairs of the Ming Dynasty, the host and the host and the host and visiting envoys of the foreign countries were responsible for the Ministry of Rites, while the translator of the Siyi Pavilion was responsible for the Taichang Temple.

As for the casting and sealing office, there is no need to mention it.

Finally, there is Jiaofangsi. Jiaofang officials were very honored as third-rank officials in the Yuan Dynasty, but in the Ming Dynasty, they were only the ninth-rank officials.

The Jiaofangsi is not just a legendary offender’s wife and daughter, but actually contains a large number of music books. Famous prostitutes such as Dong Xiaowan and Li Xiangjun, all of whom were born in the Nanjing Jiaofangsi.

To put it simply, Jiaofangsi is the only income-generating department under the Ministry of Rites.

The Ministry of Rites is a well-known Qingshui yamen. It is so poor that the Ministry of Rites wants to use money, and when they ask for money, they always ask the Ministry of Rites to take it. For example, today, Lin Yanchao is in office, or officials are promoted.

Where do these public expenses come from? They are the "meat selling money" of Jiaofangsi.

The atmosphere of the Northern Rites Ministry is still better. As for the officials of the Southern Rites Ministry, they directly receive guests and have a banquet in the Jiaofangsi.

Therefore, this is often laughed at by officials in the capital and scholars. However, officials of the Ministry of Rites just turned their eyes and turned a deaf ear to it. There is no way to do this. Who told you that you are the poorest among the six ministries?

Then Lin Yanchao returned to his yamen office and had his own reception banquet where officials took office in the evening.

However, it is said that Lin Yanchao's office is the Western Yamen, and the Eastern Yamen is the Left Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Rites. Therefore, when he reaches the level of the Assistant Minister in the officialdom, he is also considered to be a bit qualified to "open a mansion and build a tooth".

The West Yamen was next to the main hall, and the left assistant minister Yu Shenxing accompanied Lin Yanchao in a blazing robe to walk through a Wuliang red gate and came to his yamen office.

The minister’s office is not as good as the office where the minister is located.

The Secretary’s Office Hall has a lobby, two halls and three halls, and the Minister has only two halls, the front hall and the back hall.

The front hall is three rooms wide, and the plaque above the head is written with a line of words "Heavenly Rules and Kingdoms Law and Human Relations".

Before the front hall, the Confucius, the officials of the Zhitang, and the written officials of the hall came to worship. About twenty or thirty people were like this, and they held their breath and knelt down the steps.

Lin Yanchao did not speak, but looked at the government office with his hands behind his back, and Yu Shenxing beside him also remained silent.

The officials kept kneeling down and did not dare to look up and get up without Lin Yanchao's instructions.

Yu Shenxing thought to himself when he saw this scene, Lin Yanchao took office and took action to punish his subordinates, so he was not inconvenient to say much about this.

At this time, Lin Yanchao asked Shenxing: "Brother Yuan, how do you think this yamen is a little old?"

Yu Shenxing smiled and said, "Brother Zonghai, he refers to the dilapidated yamen."

Lin Yanchao said: "That's right."

Yu Shenxing smiled and said, "Brother Zonghai doesn't know that although our ritual office is poor, it is not without money. However, Da Zongbo believes that to build the yamen, he must raise it from the Jiaofang Department. This move is really indecent, so he would rather not move the money."

"In addition, the yamen also have money to envy, but you also know that the Minister of the Haishi asked Dazong to ask for money every few days to use it for the charity school in the capital, so the matter of building the yamen stopped."

When Lin Yanchao heard this, he immediately looked at Chen Li with awe and nodded, "As for this, no matter how poor we are as an official, we cannot be poor in education."

Speaking of this, Lin Yanchao looked at the kneeling officials below and said, "Get up!"

All the officials stood up. No official who could serve in the Ministry of Rites had a background, but who dared to speak in front of Lin Yanchao?

Lin Yanchao directly eloquently said to them: "As the saying goes, officials look at officials for three days, officials look at officials for ten days. You are all old officials in the yamen. I have read your resumes. I have not been in the Ministry of Rites for more than ten years, and I have served countless officials."

"Since I took office, I heard that slim officials were the most bullying officials. For these people, all the tricks of cheating, deceiveing ​​the superiors, and slandering them, they could just do it..."

Listening to Lin Yanchao's words, there were already people among the officials below who were secretly sweating.

"... Now the headquarters hall is in the yamen. Regardless of whether you have heard of the reputation of the headquarters hall in the past, since the headquarters hall is in office, you will put away your thoughts. If you find someone who relies on the power of the government and is rich and possesses a good fortune, don't blame the headquarters hall for smashing his job. If you are guilty, you should go to jail!"

When all the officials heard this, they all bowed and said, "The villain is careful to respect the teachings of the ministry and dare not have any intention of deceiving them."

Seeing this scene, Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "Kongmu, bring the roster!"

Kong Mu immediately handed over the roster, and Lin Yanchao named him one by one. Every official who deserved the roster responded, and Lin Yanchao looked at it carefully. This made these people feel distressed.

They have served many Shangguans in the past, and they know that Lin Yanchao is the hardest to deal with, and they will have their hard life in the future.

Yu Shenxing looked at Lin Yanchao. When Lin Yanchao was in the Hanlin Academy, he was a humble gentleman and got along well with his colleagues. Later, he heard that after he arrived in Guide, he rectified the local area and severely punished the powerful, which was beyond his expectations.

Only after returning to the Beijing Renbu Hall did he feel that Lin Yanchao's style of conduct really had a bit of decisive and decisive style.

He began to worry that Lin Yanchao was young and could not suppress these slippers, but today it seemed that he was thinking too much.

Yu Shenxing said: "Today, Linbutang is in office. You must collect all the habits of the past yamen and think more about your actions. Otherwise, if you commit a crime, Linbutang will not be as easy as possible to talk to me."

After the yamen officials visited, Yu Shenxing accompanied Lin Yanchao to the hall for a walk.

The front hall of this yamen is a place where public affairs are handled to the outside world, while officials handle public affairs in the back hall. On both sides of the front hall are the official hall and the official room.

Behind the back hall are several matching rooms, and the entire Western Yamen is the same.

The Western Yamen said it was an independent government office, but in fact it was too small, not as good as the county yamen, nor as good as the government yamen when Lin Yanchao was in Guide.

But this is the office of the Ministry of Rites.

From a table in the Hanlin Academy to a yamen today, it is no longer the same.

After walking around Lin Yanchao, Yu Shenxing immediately left.

Other officials also left except those on duty.

Lin Yanchao immediately called Kongmu first, cleaned up a room in the back hall for his future rest, and then asked Chen Jichuan and his entourage to move his objects and official seals to the hall.

While he was talking, the officials outside reported that Dong Sicheng, the doctor of the host and guest office, asked for a meeting.

Lin Yanchao smiled when he heard this. He could talk at the evening banquet, but it was not easy to speak in public.

So Lin Yanchao couldn't help but think about which of the following officials from the Lang Office came to see him first after he took office, but unexpectedly it was Dong Sicheng.

Dong Sicheng bowed to Lin Yanchao and said, "Dong Sicheng, the head and guest department, paid a visit to the master of the ministry."

Lin Yanchao smiled and helped him up and said, "I haven't taken office yet today. I don't have to see you and come to the back hall to talk."

Dong Sicheng was not only Lin Yanchao's same year, but also had a prominent family background. His grandfather was Mao Kun, who was as famous as Tang Shunzhi and Gui Youguang.

He himself was the grandson of the former Minister of Rites Dong Fen, and the son of Dong Daochun.

Now the first assistant Shen Shixing and the third assistant Wang Xijue are all disciples of Dong Fen. Shen Shixing's second son also married Dong Fen's granddaughter.

Therefore, in the Jinshi period of the same year, Dong Sicheng and other background, Lin Yanchao, who was comparable to the three-year rank, was even more popular.

However, with such a background, Dong Sicheng is very humble and has no place to rely on his background as an official and a person. He is a very good friend.

On the contrary, his grandfather Dong Fen had a bad reputation in the court, and the people were full of grievances in the village, and the reputation of the grandparents and grandchildren was really different.

Dong Sicheng said congratulations to Lin Yanchao, and then explained his official duties. He said goodbye and said nothing, but he had already expressed his attitude.

A moment later, Wang Ke, the doctor of the Arts and Systems Department, was received.

Wang Keshou and Lin Yanchao were also in the same year. This person was very capable and honest, so he was highly valued by Shen Shixing. Therefore, he was promoted to the position of the rank of the ritual and system department and was the leader of the Four-Secret Office.

Wang Keshou bowed and treated Lin Yanchao as soon as he saw him, and he was very respectful.

Lin Yanchao asked Wang Keshou how many business matters he had, and the other party said everything, which made Lin Yanchao very satisfied. It seemed that he was interested in getting closer to him.

After Dong Sicheng and Wang Keshou left, the other doctors of the departments, Yuanwailang, suddenly came one after another as if they had a tacit understanding, and they followed one by one, and never met each other.

Lin Yanchao sent away one after another, without any leisure time.

If the officials in the yamen said that they were angry because Lin Yanchao had just arrived at the yamen and had a threat.

Then when they saw the officials from various departments rushing to meet Lin Yanchao, they felt balanced.

In front of this new minister, let alone a minor official like them, even the fifth-rank officers of each department were respectful.

When Lin Yanchao took office, he didn't dare to fall behind when he met him.

This stopped until lunch.

However, at this time the prestige of the new ministry was spread from the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

According to the sayings, Shen Li was old and had nine ministers, so he had long given the affairs of the Ministry of Rites to the two ministers.
Chapter completed!