The scene of Li Mo losing his temper at Zhu Ping'an in the Hanlin Academy was seen by many people. They looked at Zhu Ping'an with sympathy, and then silently decided in their hearts to keep a distance from Zhu Ping'an in the future, so as to avoid being implicated and suffering the wrath of the highest leader of the Hanlin Academy, which would be very bad.
Li Moyan just said that Zhu Ping'an came late. In fact, when Li Mo scolded Zhu Ping'an, the Hanlin Academy had not yet started work.
But, who can blame him for being a leader
Zhu Ping'an touched his nose, looked at Li Mo's figure striding away, smiled helplessly, and then continued his reporting journey to the Hanlin Academy.
The Hanlin Academy is located next to the West Garden. Because it is highly valued, the scale of the yamen is quite large. The yamen has three entrances, and rows of office buildings are arranged on the left and right. The first entrance is the official office. Zhu Ping'an, under the guidance of the servants, came to the hall responsible for the reporting of the newly promoted Hanlin. The other newly promoted Hanlin had basically completed their reporting when Li Mo scolded Zhu Ping'an, and had been assigned to specific buildings to work.
Zhu Ping'an was the last one to report in. The two scholars in their forties were in charge of the reporting.
The two attending scholars were both in their forties. One of them gave people a kind and gentle feeling, while the other was short, dark-skinned, and plain-looking, but gave people a feeling of being extremely conceited, with his head almost raised to the sky, seeming a little inhuman.
"Young master Zhu Ping'an greets the two adults." Zhu Ping'an entered the hall and bowed to the two bachelor scholars who were sitting at their seats and working.
"No thanks. You are Zhu Ping'an, a very talented young man. We should really look forward to young people." The gentle academician stood up and treated Zhu Ping'an with great courtesy, praising him with a warm smile.
But the other bachelor of the imperial court was different. He snorted and gave Zhu Pingan a pair of noses. Especially when the gentle bachelor of the imperial court said that Zhu Pingan was a young talent and a young man to be feared, the attitude of this bachelor of the imperial court was more obvious.
"Your Excellency, I am so honored. Ping'an was lucky enough to win the exam, but I don't deserve your praise." Zhu Ping'an declined modestly.
"Young people are full of vigor. It's good to be modest, but it's not good to lose the vigor. Haha, come sit down and drink tea, and we can chat while drinking." The gentle bachelor of studies smiled politely and asked Zhu Ping'an to sit down and drink tea.
"You're too polite, sir. I'll just stand there." Zhu Ping'an smiled and shook his head, insisting on standing while talking.
Generally speaking, even in modern times, there is no saying that you should sit down and talk to your boss when you first meet him, let alone in ancient times when hierarchy was more important.
The gentle scholar nodded in appreciation of Zhu Ping'an's persistence. He did not force Zhu Ping'an to sit down, but continued to tell Zhu Ping'an about the affairs of the Hanlin Academy.
Although the Hanlin Academy was only a fifth-rank government office, there were quite a few people in it. There was a fifth-rank Hanlin Academy scholar who was the Minister of Personnel Li Mo, who was the president of the academy (Hanlin Academy scholars were fifth-rank, and Li Mo's position as Minister of Personnel was much higher than this); there were also two fifth-rank attending readers, two fifth-rank attending lecturers; there were also two sixth-rank attending readers and two attending lecturers; there were nine eighth-rank doctors of the Five Classics, all of whom were hereditary and generally descendants of Confucius and Mencius; and there were more than ten people such as classics librarians, attendants, eunuchs, and clerks.
In addition, there are five people who are editors of the Hanlin Academy together with Zhu Ping'an, and there are more than ten editors, reviewers, and scholars in the Hanlin Academy.
There were more than forty official staff members in the Hanlin Academy, and there were even more minor clerks and runners without any rank.
In addition, during the conversation, Zhu Ping'an also learned the names of the two Hanlin Academy scholars, both of whom were famous figures in history.
The gentle scholar was named Li Chunfang, a famous prime minister in history who was the first in the imperial examination and the first in the imperial court after Xu Jie. Li Chunfang was from the same class as Zhang Juzheng, and was also the first in the imperial examination like Zhu Ping'an. Perhaps because they appreciated each other, he was quite gentle to Zhu Ping'an.
Another conceited scholar was also very famous. His name was Yuan Wei. Yan Ne, Guo Pu and Li Chunfang were all called "the prime minister of Qingci". His Qingci level could be said to be the best in the world. The famous Qingci in history, "The black tortoise in Luoshui first presented auspiciousness, the yin number is nine. The yang number is nine, nine times nine is eighty-one. Numbers are connected to the Tao, the Tao is in harmony with Yuanshi Tianzun, one sincerity has feelings; the red phoenixes in Qishan presented auspiciousness, the male one chirped six times, the female one chirped six times, six times six is thirty-six, the sound is heard in the sky. The Heaven gave birth to Emperor Jiajing, may he live forever." was written by him.
Yuan Wei was very quick-witted and his poems were excellent. Emperor Jiajing would often send a note to the cabinet and the Hanlin Academy in the middle of the night, asking people to write poems. Yuan Wei could always finish them in one stroke, and they were very much to Jiajing's liking. In addition, when there was something new in the court, or there was an auspicious omen that needed to be praised, Yuan Wei's articles were always outstanding and appreciated by Emperor Jiajing.
Therefore, although Yuan Wei did not hold a high official position, he was very favored by Emperor Jiajing because of his Qingci, and he developed an increasingly conceited character.
Looking at Yuan Wei's conceited face, Zhu Ping'an silently gave a thumbs up to the history books in his heart. The history books recorded that Yuan Wei was conceited about his literary ability, and if he was not satisfied with the work of others, he would slander and ridicule them.
It was estimated that he had seen the Qingci that he had written for the imperial examination. After all, that Qingci was a revision of Gong Zizhen's by himself, and was definitely not as good as Gong Zizhen's original text. It was very consistent with Yuan Wei's character that he was ridiculed by Yuan Wei.
According to historical records, Yuan Wei was exaggerated since childhood. The day before he was born, his father and mother dreamed of a black dragon descending from the sky and circling on the roof of his house for several circles before soaring into the sky. As expected, when he was born, Yuan Wei was a little black child. Other children were fair-skinned, but he was black, with bright eyes. His parents thought he was the reincarnation of a black dragon and treated him very well. Yuan Wei did not disappoint them. He was determined to be smart since he was a child. At the age of five, he could match the couplets of the county magistrate. At the age of ten, he learned eight-part essays and could recite them after reading them once. At the age of seventeen, he was admitted as a county student. He ranked second in the provincial examination, first in the joint examination, and won the third place in the palace examination.
Yuan Wei was only the third place in the imperial examination, but now he is the first place in the imperial examination. He is unhappy. In addition, Li Chunfang's words about himself as a young talent must have made the conceited Yuan Wei unhappy.
It took Li Chunfang almost ten minutes to introduce the affairs of the Hanlin Academy to Zhu Ping'an, and then the topic officially turned to Zhu Ping'an's assignment.
"Okay, I'll stop here with my introduction to the Hanlin Academy. Let's get back to the point. The Hanlin Academy is managed by the Dean, but Lord Li is usually very busy, so the general affairs of the academy are handled by us, the Bachelor of Reading and the Bachelor of Lectures." Li Chunfang said in a calm tone:
"Today, Lord Li came to the Hanlin Academy despite his busy schedule and roughly arranged your tasks. According to Lord Li's instructions, Zihou, you are responsible for the archiving and sorting of classics such as classics, history, and collections. Our Hanlin Academy has a vast number of classics, and their placement is irregular. I'm sorry to bother you with this matter. Zihou, you will be mainly responsible for this matter. If there are other matters to be arranged, you can arrange them. But the main thing is this matter. The workload is large and the task is heavy, so Zihou will take more care of it."
After hearing about the matters that Zhu Ping'an was in charge of, everyone else in the hall looked at him with sympathy or gloating.
Archiving and organizing classics is arguably the worst, most tiring, most hopeless, and most unlucky job in the Hanlin Academy.
Generally speaking, this kind of task is the job of the dean to punish Hanlin who has made mistakes.
Alas, what a pity for wasting such a number one scholar. (To be continued.)