The Ming Dynasty started with caution

The impeachment documents that Yan Chengjin asked them to copy were the six impeachment documents that the censors had sorted and arranged.

"There are not many impeachment documents here, maybe 500 copies per person."

Xu Tianxi was shocked. How many times would it be to copy each copy 500 times?

A slightly longer impeachment document even had tens of thousands of words.

How many words were there? Xu Tianxi forced himself to calm down and not count them, or he would faint.

Zhang Jiyu bowed slightly and said indignantly: "The censor's duty is to supervise, how can he copy impeachment documents like this?"

"Can you write impeachment documents?" Yan Chengjin was in a very good mood and asked back.

"Of course I can write impeachment documents!"

Zhang Jiyu was already indignant because Yan Chengjin had cut off his official career. Scholars have always dared to scold even the emperor. Now that he was angry, he didn't care that Yan Chengjin was his superior.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Tianxi cast a look of approval.

They came to the Censorate because of the imperial edict of Emperor Hongzhi, not necessarily to obey Yan Chengjin's orders.

"If you can write a memorial of impeachment, then impeach Liu Jian, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet."

Zhang Jiyu and Xu Tianxi were shocked.

If you can write a memorial of impeachment well, then impeach Liu Jian, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. What's the reason?

Yan Chengjin said: "Do you think the memorial of impeachment is not good enough?"

In fact, he was also very scared and not sure.

But his expression was very calm.

"Liu Jian repeatedly recommended talents to His Majesty and entrusted him with important tasks, but he returned without success. One is because of negligence and the other is because of nepotism. You are speechless and dare to say that you can write a memorial of impeachment?"

Xu Tianxi and Zhang Jiyu blushed and still refused to accept it.

"If you can't finish copying today, you will be expelled from the capital as an official for the crime of disobeying your superiors." Yan Chengjin said seriously.

Being expelled from the capital as an official is a great shame for Hanlin.

He went to ask His Majesty for an order, and he was 60% sure that he could get the order.

Xu Tianxi and Zhang Jiyu were so angry that they wanted to die. They held their own impeachment documents and found a place to start copying them.

Jiang Yun bowed slightly: "When I was in Hanyuan, I heard that the impeachment documents written by Lord Yan were the best in the Censorate. I volunteered to copy them again."

It was Lord Yan's blessing to be able to stay in the capital.

Based on his performance in the Hanyuan assessment, he would most likely be assigned to be a county magistrate.

It's not that the county magistrate is not good. The county magistrate only governs the people of a county, which is far less than being in the capital, where he can realize his ambitions.

He was grateful to Yan Chengjin and volunteered to copy them again to make up for his shortcomings with hard work.

Yan Chengjin nodded with satisfaction: "Among the three of you, I am most optimistic about you."

Jiang Yun almost shed tears, bowed slightly, held the impeachment documents, and found a desk.

Fengtian Hall,

After the court discussion, Li Dongyang glanced at Emperor Hongzhi: "I wonder why your majesty ordered Tianxi and Zhang Jiyu to go to the Censorate?"

Xu Tianxi was his student and had come to the mansion many times to listen to his lessons, which was different from the formal students who supervised the exams.

Liu Jian and Xie Qian were also confused.

"The Censorate has been vacant for a long time and urgently needs to be filled. I am also for the court." Emperor Hongzhi was a little worried and asked Xiao Jing: "Will my order harm the three Hanlins?"

They should have entered the six ministries and had a bright future.

But Yan Chengjin convinced him with one sentence:

The East Factory is your majesty's eyes and ears, and this is the eyes and ears of the capital. The Censorate is also your majesty's eyes and ears, and this is the eyes and ears of the world.

You will know which is more important after weighing it.

Emperor Gao imitated the old system of the Yuan Dynasty and established the Censorate.

It was to ensure peace in the world.

Xiao Jing didn't know how to answer, so she had to hold Fu Chen and said, "I don't know. Yan Chengjin turned out the impeachment memorials from the two capitals and thirteen provinces since your Majesty ascended the throne this morning, and asked Jiang Yun and the other two to copy them five hundred times."

Your Majesty, do you know whether it harmed anyone?

The Hongzhi Emperor was slightly stunned.

Li Dongyang was stunned. The impeachment memorials from the local censors were different from those in the capital.

Due to the long journey, it took two months to send an impeachment memorial back to the capital.

Therefore, the local censors wrote the impeachment memorials in great detail to avoid the court from sending people to investigate if there were any unclear points.

Xiao Jing continued, "Lord Yan also asked three Hanlin to impeach Mr. Liu, saying that Mr. Liu's recommendation of talents was inappropriate and caused losses to the court."

Liu Jian was stunned for a moment and became angry.

Emperor Hongzhi and Li Dongyang looked normal. What this boy said was the truth.

"My decree has been issued, so it cannot be taken back. These three Hanlin scholars will stay in the Censorate. I want to see how Yan Chengjin can reorganize the Censorate."

Censorate, duty room.

It was time to go off duty. Yan Chengjin took the teapot with him, and the three were still copying hard.

Five thousand times, if it was Zhu Houzhao, he might be able to copy it all, because he would cheat.

But normally it is definitely impossible to copy it all.

Yan Chengjin sent Hu Zong and others to the border in order to reorganize the Censorate. The censors who entered the Censorate naturally had to undergo an assessment.

After Yan Chengjin left, the three Hanlin scholars put down their pens and said anxiously.

"We will definitely not be able to copy it all today. Will Lord Yan really expel us from the capital tomorrow?"

"Your Majesty's approval is required to dismiss the censor as an official. Your Majesty will definitely not..."

Zhang Jiyu's voice became weak when he said this.

Wasn't it Emperor Hongzhi who issued the decree?

The three looked at each other, then lowered their heads and copied silently.

It was late at night, and unless His Majesty agreed, they could not stay in the palace.

The three of them took their own bags, packed up the impeachment documents and went home to copy them by lamplight.

Early in the morning,

Yan Chengjin got up, drank a bowl of millet porridge, and took a sedan chair to the Censorate.

The duty room was empty.

The doorman reported in a low voice: "Sir, the three of them took the impeachment documents home to copy last night, and they must have forgotten the time."

At this time, outside the Meridian Gate, three scholars came with old and new impeachment documents on their backs.

The officials attending the court cast sympathetic eyes.

"Five thousand times, even the fastest Hanlin in the Hanyuan will need five days to copy."

"Look at the black faces of these three people, they must have been up all night."

Li Dongyang looked over, a little distressed for his disciples, and quickened his pace.

Jiang Yun looked at Xu Tianxi: "Have you finished copying, brothers?"

"Only fifty times." Zhang Jiyu said.

Xu Tianxi said: "I copied all night, and I only copied fifty-two times. If the court really demotes me to an official position for such a weak request, it's fine."

The three were all scholars in their early twenties, and they were full of blood.

The superior made such a weak request, which was clearly persecuting them, and there was no shortage of excuses to accuse them.

After not sleeping all night, coupled with the resentment towards Yan Chengjin, when they arrived at the Censorate, the three were ready to take off their official clothes.

But when they arrived at the Censorate, they found that...

Yan Chengjin was not there.

Early morning, Fengtian Hall.

Only Zheng Qian stood behind Yan Chengjin, and the team of the Censorate seemed a little weak.

After the cabinet and the six ministries finished their reports,

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Yan Chengjin and frowned slightly: "I heard that you ordered three Hanlin to copy the impeachment documents 5,000 times."

"Your Majesty, it's 500 times, 500 copies of impeachment documents." The censors might not let go, and Yan Chengjin had to correct it.

Recalling that they saw three Hanlin carrying a large bag of impeachment documents in the Guangting just now, the corners of the officials' mouths twitched slightly, and their faces became strange.

Emperor Hongzhi was a little angry and reprimanded: "What's the difference, 500 times 500 is 250,000 times, isn't this deliberately making things difficult?"

"This is an entrance examination. Your Majesty and all the officials know that they can't copy it all. If they can copy it all, it's fraud and they can't be censors." Yan Chengjin said.

After hearing these words, Emperor Hongzhi felt as if he had suddenly realized something.

After a long time, he said, "I think we can set up more such assessments in the future."

Yan Chengjin's face suddenly darkened. Your Majesty, you are really bad. This is exactly what I want.