Lin Yanchao was silent for a moment, and then said to Sun Chengzong: "Bo Xiu is good at literature and poetry, and Zhou Wang is good at the classics, but they are not good at dealing with such a tangled relationship in the officialdom. Now my life is not by my side, so you should pay more attention to the matters in the officialdom."

Sun Chengzong replied: "Students thanked their mentors, and they are willing to work hard for their mentors."

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "So have you known about Li Qing in Suzhou before?"

Sun Chengzong said: "Students just found out."

"Then how do you answer him?"

"The student has not answered him yet, so after he wrote a letter, he specially asked for advice from his mentor."

Lin Yanchao said seriously to Sun Chengzong: "As an official, the most important thing is to recommend the teacher and student. Yuan Fu not only has the friendship between teachers and students, but also to recommend the official career. But Liqing enforces the law impartially and asks for the people, which is righteous. It is really a embarrassment between the two. How should I answer it based on my own opinion?"

Lin Yanchao saw that Sun Chengzong's eyes changed slightly.

Sun Chengzong immediately said, "Report to my mentor, please forgive the students for their blunt words. We are officials just to enforce the law impartially and ask for the people. Otherwise, what will we do for the officials? Of course, students are the opinions of scholars."

"But the student is planning for his mentor. Now Yuan Fu is in the country and no longer restrains his family. If his mentor takes a step back at this time, then when Yuan Fu retires in the future, what will Yuan Fu and the people of the world think of his mentor? Therefore, instead of being complained about him now, he will save Yuan Fu from the future of his mentor's kindness."

"Students have a brief opinion, so please ask the teacher to take a clear look."

Lin Yanchao did not speak immediately when he heard this, but looked at Sun Chengzong, and the other party also lowered his head.

Then Lin Yanchao reluctantly smiled and said, "The charcoal fire in the house is very hot, you are sweating."

As soon as Sun Chengzong woke up, he immediately said, "I'll forgive my teacher."

Lin Yanchao waved his hand and smiled, "It's nothing wrong with ruthlessness, but your heartfelt words reminded me of a doubt in my heart. I wonder if the childish rope can be solved for me?"

Sun Chengzong said: "My teacher, Chengzong is willing to listen carefully."

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Many officials are very capable of speaking out and admonishing the affairs of the court when they are in low positions, and are so honest and loyal. But later in high positions, why are they more courageous and dared to speak, and even become treacherous officials in the mouths of people? This is something I don't understand."

"It's like Jia Sidao in the Southern Song Dynasty. When Kublai Khan attacked Ezhou, Jia Sidao was ordered to lead his subordinates to enter the city of Ezhou, which was encircled by the Yuan army, and surrounded the city with wooden sieges. At that time, Kublai Khan was amazed that Jia Sidao's talent was following the ministers. How could I use it if Jia Sidao's use it?"

"Another talking about loyalty and treason in others, if Sima Yi died of illness before the Gaopingling Incident, how should he make a conclusion?"

When Lin Yanchao said this, he couldn't help but think about his current situation.

After hearing this, Sun Chengzong hesitated for a long time, and after a while, he could only say: "The teacher is confused, and the students don't understand."

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, let me think about Li Qing's affairs again, you go back and rest first."

Upon hearing this, Sun Chengzong immediately stood up and left.

Just as Sun Chengzong left, Chen Jichuan sent a post here saying: "Your Majesty, Zhong Yuzheng, Yu Yuli and others are asking for a meeting."

Lin Yanchao knew that he could not refuse. They were all their old friends of the same year. He knew that he had returned to Beijing today, so he came to congratulate him. Lin Yanchao then ordered Chen Jichuan to invite people to meet in the flower hall, and he washed his face and forced himself to get in the hall.

From then on, Lin Yanchao met guests in the house for an afternoon.

As soon as the officials left here, the officials came over there. As for the officials who later sat in the living room and waited. For a long time, two or three groups of officials met at the same time.

After Lin Yanchao said a few words, he was free at night.

Lin Yanchao was very tired and didn't want to have dinner immediately. He was about to go back to the house to see his wife and children and go to rest.

Lin Yanchao went back to the house and found out that there were also customers on Lin Qianqian who were visiting Lin Yanshou's wife Zhen, who had been saying something for a while.

When Lin Yanchao returned to the house, Zhen happened to say goodbye and meet him.

"I've seen my uncle." Zhen bowed.

Lin Yanchao said: "It turns out that he is my sister-in-law, why don't you eat supper and go back?"

Zhen said: "Uncle has just returned to Beijing and dare not worry. I will come back to disturb me later."

Seeing that there were tears on Zhen’s face, Lin Yanchao didn’t ask much, so he ordered two old ladies to send Zhen out of the mansion.

Lin Yanchao returned to the house and was about to ask Lin Qianqian, but Chen Jichuan came and said, "Your Majesty, Master Yanshou is here."

Lin Yanchao was surprised, why did the couple do something wrong one after another?

Lin Yanchao was about to ask Lin Qianqian before talking, but Chen Jichuan said, "Master, Master Yanshou came in a four-carriage sedan."

Lin Yanchao frowned when he heard this and immediately said, "Follow me to go to the sedan hall first."

Lin Yanchao came to the sedan hall and first looked at Lin Yanshou's four-carrying sedan, then saw several sedan chairmen drinking tea and asked, "Are they all sedan chairmen who come with my brother?"

Chen Jichuan replied: "Yes, the master, four sedan chairmen, four followers, and a total of more than a dozen accompanying people."

After Chen Jichuan said that, Lin Yanchao's face was no longer good-looking.

Then Lin Yanchao returned to the living room and saw that Lin Yanshou was already waiting.

As soon as he saw him, he smiled and said, "My brother Zong, you have finally returned to Beijing."

Brother Zong?

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Brother, I hope you and your sister-in-law will come here. I should have come to my house in person."

Lin Yanshou smiled and said, "It's okay, I know you have been obedient to the Shangshu, so I'll come to see you in person. Are my parents and grandpa at home okay?"

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "It's all good. This time they came to Beijing, they asked me to bring you something and then ask someone to deliver it to your mansion. By the way, you haven't come to write to me anyway, how have you been in Beijing in the past two years?"

"By the way, I've seen the warm sedan outside..."

Lin Yanshou smiled and said, "Brother, you have seen it too. This is a newly ordered sedan shop from the east of the city. How about it? If you like it, use it. Oh, I forgot that you are going to sit in the eight-carriage sedan now. What does it mean in the play that is the eight-carriage living room."

"Brother," Lin Yanchao asked with a smile, "I wonder what official position my brother is now?"

Lin Yanshou cleared his throat and said, "There are hundreds of households in Beijing..."

Lin Yanchao interrupted: "These hundreds of households with salary are official positions donated by the Zhen family for their efforts to do so for their brother."

Among the military officers of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called salary is that the court gives you a salary every month, but you don’t care about the affairs. This is usually a position for noble families to have idle meals. The Zhen family was not a grandfather to get a job of giving Lin Yanshou the official position of a hundred households, and they definitely have a lot of effort.

Lin Yanshou snorted and said, "That's not the Zhen family intends to curry favor with me for your sake, brother."

Lin Yanchao's eyes were fixed and he paused, "I won't talk about the matter of the Zhen family for now, but I have a hundred families with salary, and I am a sixth-rank military officer at least. So what's going on with this warm sedan?"

"The court has a rule that military officers who travel with orders are not allowed to use warm sedan chairs, but only show sedan chairs. It is fine if the elder brother uses warm sedan chairs, but only the prefect is the prefect and the officials at the level of Lang Office can use them. How can you overthrow me, brother?"

Facing Lin Yanchao's example, Lin Yanshou said, "Oh, my brother Zong, don't train people as soon as he comes to Beijing... The one you mentioned is an old calendar. Which official in Beijing does not use sedan chairs in the magnitude of the magnitude of the sedan chair? Everyone turns a blind eye. Besides, brother, you are now in eight living quarters. It's not an exaggeration to use it as my brother, haha."

Lin Yanchao's teeth were clattering when he heard this. In the past, he had the strength to explain to Lin Yanshou, but he was a little tired today and had a good temper. He immediately slapped the table and said, "Others are others, but I have the final say in the capital!"

"Brother Zong Bo, why are you doing such a big fire? Just a sedan chair, okay, everything will be followed by you."

Lin Yanchao said: "What else is there?"

"I'll leave if it's okay." Lin Yanshou stood up and looked listless.

Lin Yanchao stood up and said earnestly: "I am far away from my hometown and I am an official in Beijing. Looking around, I can only rely on my brothers in Beijing, so I have some things that I understand more about."

Lin Yanshou smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll go back first."

After Lin Yanshou left, Chen Jichuan came here to report again: "Master, the Ministry of Etiquette sent someone to send a guard of ceremonies."

"See you!"

Lin Yanchao sat back again, but saw two officials from the Ministry of Rites kowtow to Lin Yanchao as soon as they entered the door and said, "The villain has met the uncle of the clan!"

Lin Yanchao said: "Although the headquarters has just arrived in Beijing, we have to wait until the New Year to start the seal before taking office. You are really interested in sending the ceremonial guards."

The two officials hurriedly said that they didn't dare to take it.

After a moment, the Ministry of Rites presented Lin Yanchao with a ceremonial guard for travel. The court rules were that officials above the fourth rank were allowed to use brown covers when traveling, but this was outside the Beijing, and only the first and second rank officials in the Beijing were allowed to use umbrella covers.

These second-rank officials are different from those of fourth-rank officials. They use silver slaughter as the top, tea-brown slaughter as the surface, red silk as the inner, and three eaves on the upper and lower sides.

This is used by officials for shade when traveling, and the court usually creates a set for officials.

In addition, there is also a set of curtains with golden flowers and embroidered yarn. When officials were tired on their way, they set up curtains and surrounded them and rested on the road, so as not to watch by passers-by.

Lin Yanchao nodded carefully when he saw each other.

The official smiled and said, "The official sedan chair of Da Zongbo is ready. Should I check it out first?"

Lin Yanchao said: "Okay."

After the official got the order, he immediately ordered someone to carry the sedan chair to the courtyard.

This official sedan is a large eight-carriage sedan, but it is much more grand than the official sedan I used to be when I was the Minister of the Secretariat.

The top of the sedan chair is slightly convex and extends parallel to the four sides of the sedan chair into an eave. There are more than one foot long ears hanging down at the corners of the sedan chair, which can float when there is wind. As for the sedan chair body, it is wrapped in red oil cloth, which makes it look noble and warm.

There is a wooden bar on the left and right of the sedan chair through red oil cloth to the front and back. There is a wooden bar in front and back of the two bars. As for the front and back of the sedan chair, two short wooden bars are tied under thick ropes and are wrapped with horizontal bars. In this way, two people in front, left and right of the sedan chair, two people in the back, left and right of the sedan chair, a total of eight lifts.

Lin Yanchao opened the curtain of the sedan chair again, but saw that the sedan chair was fully arranged, and the sedan chair was covered with badger skin mattresses, and the pedal was hollow and the charcoal basin could be placed for heating. As for the spacious area in front of the sedan chair, another table could be placed for officials to work on the sedan chair.

If the table is not placed, officials can sit comfortably in the sedan chair.

Lin Yanchao sighed when he saw this, that it was probably the case when traveling in the first class in later generations.

Lin Yanchao remembers that carrying the sedan chair eight was an extremely civil servant. As for today, when Zi was carried by sixteen people, Zhang Juzheng was carrying the sedan chair thirty-two when he returned home, it was undoubtedly a bit too much.

Seeing that Lin Yanchao did not express his opinion, the official thought he was dissatisfied and said quickly: "Yu Dazong and Shen Dazong also used this sedan chair. If Dazong was dissatisfied, we could change to a new sedan chair."

Lin Yanchao heard this and said, "How much does it cost to change another one? Our Ministry of Rites is a poor yamen, so just use it."

The official smiled and said, "I heard that Dazong Bo is a clean official for a long time. The villain admires him very much. He is also the sedan chair owner. Do you want to check it out?"

Lin Yanchao said: "Let's see it together."
To be continued...