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There are quite a few people who contributed books. Bibliophiles from the northern and southern provinces brought their bibliographies to the Imperial Academy one after another, and found at least a thousand unique copies in a short time.

Including Lead Hill Fischer.

Fei Yinghuan and Lou's couple, taking the opportunity of presenting the book, came to Nanjing to visit relatives. They hadn't seen their daughter for several years.

Walking in the alleys of the Forbidden City, Lou looked at the majestic palace walls and couldn't help feeling: "Going back for more than ten years, I never thought it would be like this. I heard that He'er rebelled in Luling. I was almost killed at that time." I fainted from fright, for fear of causing disaster."

"Madam still has courage. If my husband is at home, I will definitely cut off contact with He'er immediately." Fei Yinghuan smiled.

Fei Yinghuan has been really unrestrained these past few years, he doesn't care about anything, and lives in Hangzhou with his wife, concubine and young son, enjoying peace and happiness. He has already visited the scenic spots in Hangzhou, and occasionally went to Suzhou, and even went to climb mountains in southern Zhejiang.

Literature has not been left behind either. Dozens of poems are published every year. Regardless of whether the abbot is good or not, Hangzhou literati will rush to pass them on.

The couple were taken to a courtyard in the southeast of the Forbidden City, where they stayed tonight. The quilts were all replaced with new ones, and some court ladies were sent to wait on them temporarily, and they will wait until tomorrow to enter the palace to visit relatives.

There is an area in the Forbidden City where foreign ministers can live, mainly in the following situations:

First, if the cabinet ministers and central staff need to work overtime in an emergency, it is inconvenient to leave the palace at night and go home, so they stay overnight in a specific room.

Second, ministers were temporarily summoned to discuss matters with the emperor until night, and they could also stay overnight in the Forbidden City.

The maid in charge of serving the couple is not a maid in the harem, but more like a handyman in the Forbidden City. The leading female officer took out a waist card and said, "Your Majesty has an order that if the head of the country wants to read books, he can go to Wenyuan Pavilion to borrow books. This is a library card."

Fei Yinghuan couldn't sit still when she got the library card.

Lou smiled and said, "Go, I'll walk around here."

Fei Yinghuan went out with the female official. The female official seemed to have received an order and was serving as a tour guide for the king all the way: "In the palace wall to the north of here is the Hall of Spring Harmony. It is still vacant. Your Majesty has an order. Wait for the crown prince to go out." Move in after the age of ten."

Chunhe Hall, the Prince's East Palace, is not far from the Wenhua Hall where the cabinet works.

Fei Yinghuan smiled and nodded, the prince, his good grandson.

After walking for a while, the female officer pointed to the front and said, "This is the Wenhua Palace. The cabinet ministers and Zhongshu Sheren work here on weekdays."

cabinet?

Fei Yinghuan, who had never been a court official in his life, was a little jealous when he heard the name of the cabinet, and asked, "Can I go shopping?"

"Yes." The female officer smiled and led the way.

In some details, the Forbidden City in Nanjing is different from the Forbidden City in Beijing, which has been constantly revised, and it is also very different from the Forbidden City in the Qing Dynasty.

The Wenhua Palace in the Ming Dynasty was originally the prince's office and the place where the prince studied and studied, so it is relatively close to the East Palace. If a cabinet minister in the Ming Dynasty was suddenly named a scholar of the Wenhua Palace, and the emperor was still in poor health, it can generally be understood as a minister of Tuogu.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the princes were often young, and even the emperor deliberately did not appoint a prince. For example, Jiajing, in the early years, did not establish a prince, so the Prince's site, Wenhua Palace, was abandoned and became the place where the emperor held sutra banquets. Jiajing also built a side hall here to store medicines for alchemy.

The change in the function of the Wenhua Palace marked the complete collapse of the prince training mechanism in the Ming Dynasty, and the prince could not be familiar with government affairs before he ascended the throne.

Now, Zhao Han directly identified the Wenhua Palace as the office of the cabinet.

The main worship hall, the east and west side halls, and the Chuanxin hall where Confucius was sacrificed before the banquet were all transformed into cabinet offices. Although there are still many vacant offices, as the affairs of the state become more and more complicated, those vacant offices will definitely come in handy. It is not like the Ming Dynasty, where more offices were built all the time, and some cabinet offices were even moved outside the Forbidden City.

Fei Yinghuan came back to his senses suddenly, and asked: "Wenhua Palace has become the cabinet, so the prince's office is gone?"

The female official said: "On the west side of the Hall of Spring Harmony (East Palace), a new Yuanliang Hall has been built, which is the place where the prince takes care of affairs."

Fei Yinghuan stepped into the side door of Wenhua Hall, and saw a Chinese scholar in the small courtyard.

Zhongshusheren was holding a stack of documents, and he didn't take Fei Yinghuan seriously, thinking that he was a foreign minister who had been summoned to the cabinet to discuss politics. He nodded to Fei Yinghuan, then started to trot again, as if he was busy delivering documents to some department.

In each office here, there are many Zhongshusheren, and the secretaries in the Forbidden City are all called Zhongshusheren. Not only the cabinet, but also the Royal Imperial Household and other departments.

Fei Yinghuan walked around and saw all kinds of Zhongshu students, and they all seemed to be busy with their affairs. It was not easy for him to disturb, let alone contact the cabinet ministers, and he left Wenhua Palace after opening his eyes.

Wenyuan Pavilion is further south. Like Wenhua Palace, it is also a complex of buildings, housing many books and national archives.

Fei Yinghuan showed his waist card and went in. In view of the destruction and loss of a large number of books in Wenyuan Pavilion in Ming Dynasty, the management of Wenyuan Pavilion is more strict and standardized today. Generally, books are not allowed to be borrowed, they can only be read here, and even if they are borrowed, they must be registered in detail.

Fei Yinghuan only returned to his residence after reading until evening.

Lou asked curiously, "How is it in the Forbidden City?"

Fei Yinghuan said: "I only went to Wenhua Palace and Wenyuan Pavilion, which is worthy of the royal atmosphere. Wenyuan Pavilion has a huge collection of books, which is vast, and I don't know which one to read first. Many books have never heard the names."

Lou asked with a smile, "Do you want to stay?"

Fei Yinghuan laughed when he was told, "Your Majesty wants to compile the "Complete Book of the Beginning of the People". Not only will it be revised and included in the "Yongle Dadian", but also books from the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty will be added. This must be an unprecedented masterpiece. Why don’t you want to participate if you come from a scholar background?”

Lou reminded: "Don't ask your daughter to speak for you. You go straight to ask the emperor for permission. The emperor was raised by us. With his temper, it would be better to go straight. It is a bad policy to ask your daughter to speak."

Fei Yinghuan pondered for himself, nodded and said, "That's the reason."

The next day, the couple were invited to the Imperial Garden, where they finally saw their son-in-law and two daughters.

"Father, mother!"

Fei Rumei rushed forward directly, without the reservation of a concubine at all.

Lou was very happy. Her daughter's appearance showed that she was doing well in the palace, and her personality was still as lively as before.

Fei Rulan was much calmer. She followed Zhao Han, accepted the salute and greeting from her parents, and then smiled and talked to her parents to make things happen. She is a queen, she must carry it, otherwise it will be disrespectful.

"Mother-in-law, father-in-law, please sit down." Zhao Han smiled.

"Don't dare."

The couple quickly responded, but they dared not agree to such a friendly address.

Seeing that they were a bit cautious, Zhao Han asked, "How is the father-in-law?"

Fei Yinghuan said: "I built a house by the West Lake, and I feel comfortable reading and traveling around the lake. I also met many literary friends and created a Xizi Literature Club, aiming at revitalizing Vietnamese and Chinese literature."

"That's good, I'm afraid that the two elders won't get used to it." Zhao Han said.

Zhao Han asked again: "Can Hangzhou still be prosperous?"

Fei Yinghuan replied: "Business is becoming more and more prosperous. The Qiantang River estuary is too silted up, and large sea-going ships cannot enter. The goods along the Qiantang River are transported to the eastern suburbs of Hangzhou for storage, and then transported to Ningbo by offshore merchant ships. Carrying goods and sailing to sea. Not only does Ningbo have a port, but Zhoushan on the other side has also built a secondary port. Zhoushan also has a Buddhist pagoda, more than 20 feet high, which can be seen by sea ships at night."

This kind of pagoda actually functions as a lighthouse, and there are quite a few in the coastal and river areas.

After chatting about Hangzhou, Zhao Han asked, "Have you ever returned to Qianshan Mountain?"

Fei Yinghuan said: "I have to go back every Chinese New Year."

Zhao Han asked: "Is the old friend still safe?"

Mrs. Lou replied: "Master Fei Shan of Hanzhu Academy has recently suffered a stroke and has been bedridden, making his movements quite inconvenient. I heard that he is old and haggard, and I fear that time is running out. Fei Ruyi has rushed back to Qianshan to take care of him."

"Oh, what a pity." Zhao Han was indeed a little sad. Principal Fei had treated him well in the past.

There is also Cai Maode, the former Jiangxi school supervisor, who is also a good person, and once planned to accept Zhao Han as a disciple.

This Mr. Cai has been dead for several years.

The defending army offered the city to surrender, and Li Zicheng broke through the city and entered. Cai Maode led the officials and soldiers to fight, but he refused to escape after breaking out of the encirclement, so he chose to commit suicide to serve Chongzhen. There were 16 officials who committed suicide together with him, including dozens of family members. At that time, Zhao Han had already conquered Nanjing, so he could go south and join Zhao Han.

Chongzhen went too far, only giving Cai Maode the posthumous title of "Zhongxiang", but he was unwilling to give another posthumous gift.

It is equivalent to the emperor acknowledging your loyalty, but complaining that you lost the city and land, and there is no way to get any reward after death.

At that time, there were very few people who could commit suicide for the emperor. Even if no actual reward was given, a posthumous official title would be fine, at least to make loyal officials more beautiful after death. As a result, everyone saw that Cai Maode, together with sixteen officials, died vigorously but was hated by the emperor.

When Weng and his son-in-law talked about their old friends, the more they talked, the more embarrassing they became.

When it was almost noon, Fei Yinghuan suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I would like to contribute a little bit to compiling the "Complete Book of Minshi"!"

Zhao Han thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Alright. But the compilation of "The Complete Book of Minshi" can only be done after the completion of "History of the Ming Dynasty". The head of the country can go back and make some preparations. Enter. Hmm... the head of the country is in charge of the Jibu, so we can start from this aspect."

Fei Yinghuan was overjoyed that he was appointed to be in charge of the collection department, making him one of the major deputy editors of the book.

Just as Fei Yinghuan was about to get up to thank him, several female officials and maids ran over in a panic: "Your Majesty, the prince fought with someone, and... was injured."

Zhao Han smiled instead of anger: "This is very strange. Someone dared to beat the crown prince. In my opinion, the crown prince might strike first. Ask why, and don't punish those children indiscriminately. It is normal for children to fight. The injuries are not serious, and the big things can be turned into urine."

(Tomorrow three more.)