Two thousand taels are in front of you.

Lin Yanchao felt it was a bit hot. He had never collected such a large sum of money since he became an official.

To be honest, Lin Yanchao is not short of money at all. He is in his hometown, Qingyin Shop and the raw medicine shop, which can give him a dividend of two or three thousand taels a year. However, this money is all in Lin Qianqian's pocket, and Lin Yanchao can't take it.

For Lin Yanchao, the salary was about 100 taels per year. The capital official's expenses were huge. As Wang Shizhen said in his notes, it only cost six or seven hundred taels per year. Of course, this is a tight life. If you live a loose life, you will be rich by one thousand taels per year.

A while ago, Lin Yanchao had just earned 1,500 taels of silver, and he was enough to worry about the past two years, but now Gu Xiancheng sent him two thousand taels in one breath.

I just experienced the Jinyiwei incident a few days ago, and I was still scared.

Lin Yanchao was about to refuse, but Gu Xiancheng seemed to know what he meant and said: "This money was paid by the Ministry of Revenue, and the Master of the Jingtang Department approved it. The yamen still issued an invoice. Even if this matter was taken to the emperor, the emperor would not say anything."

Lin Yanchao couldn't help but think, I'm convinced, I can issue an invoice if I do bribes. Our Ming officials are so kind!

For example, the yamen department fee mentioned by Gu Xiancheng is a famous bad rule in the officialdom. For foreign officials, they need to find the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of the yamen of

In the current officialdom, this is the four words "going to the office to make money".

After running through the relationship, the money is not yours.

By the Ming Dynasty, it was already a semi-public and semi-legalized bribe, and there was a fixed rule across the country.

For example, if the money is approved, the court promises you to give you 100,000 taels of silver. If the Ministry of Revenue only intercepts you 10,000 taels, it means that you are well-informed and have a strong relationship in the Ministry of Revenue, and only dares to collect 10% of you. The 10,000 taels of silver that are intercepted is called "ministerial fees". The money will of course end up falling into the pockets of various officials in the Ministry of Revenue's office and handwritten by hand.

And Gu Xiancheng took the money he gave himself from the Ministry of Ferry.

Why is this? Because the Ministry of Revenue also wants to bribe the superior yamen! The cabinet is definitely the superior yamen of the Ministry of Revenue.

Lin Yanchao said: "Brother Gu Nian, I don't mean anything else. When the East House has a secretary of the commander, I still have to pay back the power. Even if I don't have a secretary of the commander of the commander of the Ministry, it will take less than a few months. Once the time limit for the inner court reaches, I will have to go back to the Hanlin Academy to prepare the book. I am afraid I will be ashamed of this money."

Gu Xian smiled and said, "It turns out that Zong Hai is worried. You are too underestimating Zhang Situ. As the saying goes, Mount Tai cannot be a foot-by-step. Two thousand taels of silver are just a crack in the fingers for the Great Situ. It is not worth mentioning."

Lin Yanchao knew that the rules were like this, so he sighed, "I will be disrespectful."

Lin Yanchao also wanted to make a statement, but then he thought that this was too false, so let's forget it.

Lin Yanchao received the money, Gu Xiancheng smiled, turned around and looked at Lin Yanchao's house and the decorations in the house, and then said, "Zonghai, you are too poor, not like an important official in the court. You should not be too greedy for an official, but you should not be too polite!"

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Brother Xie Nian is used to the words."

Gu Xiancheng sighed: "There are precious things and the body is worthy of one's own life, and he is determined to keep simple and simple. Zong Hai is a true gentleman."

The two of them talked about this and started talking about other topics.

Gu Xiancheng mentioned to himself that he was kind to the head of the Ministry of Revenue and Jiang Shichang. Listening to the names of the two and Gu Xiancheng in front of him, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but remember that it would influence the entire community organization in the late Ming Dynasty in the future. It was wrong, so it should be called the social party.

Gu Xiancheng and Lin Yanchao chatted with Lin Yanchao all night, and Lin Yanchao almost thought he was going to talk until the next morning. But in the middle of the night, Gu Xiancheng suddenly said goodbye. Seeing that Lin Yanchao was so late, he wanted to stay Gu Xiancheng for one night, but Gu Xiancheng refused and left.

Seeing Gu Xiancheng like this, Lin Yanchao could only understand it as "there are many quirks in the famous scholars."

On the second day, Lin Yanchao went to work in the cabinet.

After Lin Yanchao arrived at the imperial edict room, several books in the east room were chatting and discussing matters. After seeing Lin Yanchao, they bowed and bowed. This was completely the attitude of subordinates to follow their superiors. Obviously, they also knew that Lin Yanchao was in charge of the east room.

After seeing him, one person said, "Ms. Lin, the assistant, just now, told me that you would go to see him first after you arrive at the east room."

Lin Yanchao didn't think it was surprising that he assisted in the east room and had many things to hand over to Zhang Siwei.

So Lin Yanchao went to the cabinet to pay the room. Today, the door outside the pay the room of Zhang Juzheng and Shen Shixing was closed, and it was obvious that the two had not arrived at the yamen yet.

Lin Yanchao came to Zhang Siwei's door, but saw that the doors in the inner and outer rooms were all open, and several internal servants were cleaning.

Zhang Siwei served a bowl of tea, stood in front of the table, staring out the window.

After Lin Yanchao reported outside the door, he immediately came inside and came to Zhang Siwei to pay tribute to him.

Zhang Siwei glanced at Lin Yanchao and said lightly: "Comrade Lin Xiu, how could he sleep peacefully last night?"

Lin Yanchao could not understand the meaning of Zhang Siwei's words. Zhang Siwei turned out to be the one who was in charge of the entire cabinet. As soon as the Xifang was in charge of the Central Secretariat, his control over the cabinet was greatly reduced. He called himself now, probably because he had the intention to beat him up.

So Lin Yanchao suddenly felt alert. Zhang Siwei asked this question, and the answer was nothing more than good or bad.

But the other party presumed that this question was asked, Lin Yanchao could not follow the routine. So Lin Yanchao replied: "The official read the official document on hand last night, and was too late to read it inattentively. When he was tired, he couldn't remember when he would go to bed."

Lin Yanchao seemed to answer Zhang Siwei's question, but seemed to have no answer. Zhang Siwei's eyes sterned, he thought for a while, and then asked, "Yuan Fu is in charge of the east room, what do you think?"

Lin Yanchao thought for a while and said carefully: "Thank you for your kindness to the lower officials, and the lower officials obey the arrangements."

Lin Yanchao's answer was so clear that he could not express his feelings. Zhang Siwei couldn't speak, so he could only change his tone: "Okay, since you are the assistant manager's east room, it is completely different from the original one. This cabinet department asked you to go back and think about how to do things. In this Wenyuan Pavilion, who do you need to explain to? This cabinet department does not want to ask Yuanfu to change his people in a few days."

Lin Yanchao heard Zhang Siwei's words and knew that the other party was mentioning him. That's right, Zhang Juzheng appointed him to assist in the east room, but now both the east room and the west room are responsible for Zhang Siwei, so I, Zhang Siwei, are your Lin Yanchao's head. Since you have entered the cabinet to do business, I will remember it clearly for me.

After hearing this, Lin Yanchao immediately expressed his loyalty and said, "The officials remember the words of the Zhongtang and will report everything to the Zhongtang."
Chapter completed!