Bai Dalang got the appointment order of Tongbai County, because it was the busy spring season, so the time was urgent, and the appointment order given to him by the imperial court was very urgent, asking him to go to Tongbai County immediately and arrive within ten days.
Tangzhou is not very far from the capital, and Tongbai County is a little further away, and it will take five days, so he still has four or five days to prepare.
But he didn't plan to step on time, so after getting the appointment order, he spent a day saying goodbye to his classmates and friends, stayed at home with his family the next day, and set off on the third day after explaining the matter.
Cheng Linghui will take the child with him to the post, but not at the same time, he will go first, and wait until Tongbai County settles down before writing a letter, and then send people over here.
After dinner in the evening, the group of them sat together in the open room in the back garden and talked. Holding a cup of tea, Bai Dalang sighed: "I didn't expect to leave the capital right now. I'm quite reluctant after all these years."
In his life, um, although it wasn't long enough, the place he has stayed the longest so far, besides Mianzhou City and Qili Village, is the capital.
It's a shame to think about it.
Bai Dalang looked at Bai Erlang, "Your appointment order hasn't come down yet?"
Bai Erlang shook his head and said: "No, but I already know that His Majesty arranged for me to enter the Imperial Academy."
For the time being, the emperor suppressed people from telling him, and didn't make an announcement, but someone told him quietly in order to sell him.
Bai Dalang reached out and patted him on the shoulder, encouraging him, "Do it well."
This time, Bai Dalang felt that there were people in the court who were easy to handle. If Zhou Man hadn't stopped Li Shangshu from recommending him, he would probably have to wait a little longer.
He couldn't help but glanced at Bai Erlang, so brother, you have to work harder.
Bai Erlang couldn't comprehend the meaning of this look. When his brother looked at him, he immediately nodded and said, "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely not cause trouble."
Bai Dalang looked away, forget it, he'd better find Bai Shan and Zhou Man.
Bai Shan envied Bai Dalang a little, and sent him out of the city the next day and said: "Brother Datang, if you have time, please write more letters, let's exchange experience in managing the place."
Bai Dalang: "...do you have this experience?"
"That's why you need to study." Otherwise, why do you write letters so often
Bai Dalang nodded helplessly, "Okay, I understand, I will write to you."
After Bai Dalang left, Bai Erlang's appointment came down. This time, the Ministry of Officials set a time for him to report, which made him no chance to be lazy.
He packed up his things and met Bai Shan at the gate of the imperial city every morning to go to the Hanlin Academy.
He is Xinhanlin, and he mainly does odd jobs when he enters, looking for information for everyone, and the rest is to read books by himself, write some irrelevant articles and so on.
After getting acquainted with each other, the chiefs fully understand their abilities before deciding what kind of books they should write and what part they should be responsible for.
Bai Shan is currently participating in the compilation of a book about customs in various places, and is mainly responsible for the collection of customs in Jiannan Road.
So the books he read recently are all in this category.
Of course, this is only part of the work. His most important work is to sort out the emperor's papers, draft edicts, answer the emperor's inquiries about politics, and accompany the emperor to study and so on.
Bai Erlang doesn't have this job, so he spends most of his time in the Imperial Academy, much easier than Bai Shan.
At first, his boss didn't like to assign him tasks, so he was happy and relaxed, looking around for various small books in the Imperial Academy.
The collection of books in the Hanlin Academy is much more miscellaneous than that in the Chongwen Hall. Apart from some precious books, it also collected a lot of manuscripts and other things.
He didn't know what happened that day. He walked into a room after wandering around. The room was full of rolls of silk cloth, stacks of manuscript paper, and manuscripts that were not so beautifully bound. And the manuscript, at first glance, is not something that can be printed by a bookstore.
So he curiously went in and looked through it. It was amazing, there was everything inside.
Bai Erlang also saw the secrets of the former dynasty written by people from the previous dynasty.
It's not been a long time since the former dynasty, his father was born in the former dynasty, and he still studied in the former dynasty, although it wasn't very long.
Regarding the previous dynasty, his father only had one impression, and that was chaos!
Therefore, the secrets written by the people of the previous dynasty are very likely to be true.
Bai Erlang took a volume of books and looked around. He didn't find any place to read, so he simply sat down under the window on the side where the sun was shining, and sat cross-legged on the ground to read.
When Bai Shan came out from the palace and wanted to find him, he asked around, but no one had seen him.
A colleague laughed and said, "Maybe he left the imperial city?"
Leaving early, anyone has done it, most of the things in the Hanlin Academy are only about the amount, and it is enough to complete the task within the specified time, and the superiors generally do not make more demands on attendance.
But Bai Shan thought to himself: At this moment, everyone goes to the yamen, some go to school, no one is outside, what is he doing out there
Bai Shan felt that he must still be in the Imperial Academy, so he began to look for each room.
When the door was pushed open, Bai Shan almost believed that he had left early, but as soon as he entered the door, he realized something was wrong, looked around and saw Bai Erlang sitting under the window.
He looked up at the bookshelves, then backed out to have a look, and found that he had never found this corner, so he came in again and asked, "What books are in here?"
Bai Erlang said without raising his head: "It's all miscellaneous books. Come and read it. It was written by an internal official of the previous dynasty. It said that Emperor Ai of the previous dynasty loved beauties, and he specially ordered the whole country to pick and choose beauties. Many internal officials fought over it. I have to take charge of this errand even if I lose my head, and there was a murder case because of it.”
Bai Shan was not interested in this, he stretched out his hand and pulled out a roll of silk cloth, opened it and found that it was a roll of cursing the Emperor Ai of the former dynasty, and inside was a piece of white silk, he opened it, and there were maroon characters on it, which wrote the author's hometown And in his life, he was bestowed dead by Emperor Ai shortly after he finished writing this essay.
Bai Shan closed the silk cloth, wandered around the room curiously, and found several volumes of the daily life records of the previous dynasty on a bookshelf.
It was piled up on the bookshelf, only divided according to time.
He flipped through it, looked at the name of Qi Julang and the recorded time, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows. This was not recorded by Qi Julang.
Bai Shan put the silk cloth on it, and couldn't help asking the seniors of the Imperial Academy.
"Oh, you said that room is full of miscellaneous materials," he said: "You have to believe what one person says, but you can't believe everything. Most of them are private records, and many of them have strong emotions. My lord They believe that when compiling history, one must first discard emotions and treat everything as impartially as possible, so the things in that room are only for reference and are not included as official history.”
The words and deeds of the emperor and the ministers are generally not mixed with personal feelings by the living man, and he does not need to be talented. The most important thing is to be straightforward.
Even they seldom judge the merits and demerits of a person, they only narrate, wait for a hundred years, or even longer, for future generations to look at this period of history, and then make their own judgments.
But these unofficial histories are different. They themselves have a strong recognition of merits and demerits, and they wish that everyone in the world would agree with them, otherwise they would be the party of the wicked. Therefore, these things can be read, but they cannot be rashly used in history books.