Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

The second month after Ruyi and Li Changyu's wedding was completed, on June 20th, the imperial edict arrived and Li Chang was reinstated as the former chief of the Dali Temple.

In early August, the families of Li Chang and Qin Yunhe returned to the capital together to return to their respective posts, just in time for the busiest autumn review and tax collection of the year.

Soon, Tian Fen, an official at the Censorate, was transferred to the Ministry of Personnel for his meritorious service in impeaching corrupt officials.

Although he is still a sixth-rank official, he has a promising future.

One day, Qin Yunhe and Tian Fen met on the road, and the other was walking with his head held high as usual.

He served the court but was demoted. However, he managed to revive himself at the age of nearly fifty. Qin Yunhe admired him very much.

However, Tian Fen’s impeachment this time has implicated many people, and I wonder if there will be any more unexpected events.

In November, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple recommended the merit of one of his quick hands, hoping that Your Majesty would specially decree that his son be allowed to be registered as a good official.

It is said that this detective not only arrested many important criminals and solved many cases, but also had a good reputation in the countryside. His son was also a careful and proper clerk, and had a lot of experience in poetry and books.

Although most of the court officials did not support it, the emperor had been considering returning the meritorious son to good deeds in recent years. Taking this opportunity, he ordered someone to verify the matter and immediately decided to allow the son of the constable to return to good deeds.

Naturally, there were still many opponents in the court, but in the end, the son of the constable was rehabilitated into a good householder.

Afterwards, taking advantage of this opportunity, the emperor once again urged the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites to jointly draft a regulation to allow the untouchables to return to good deeds through merit.

Even though they were unwilling, the Ministry of Personnel could no longer shirk its responsibility this time and eventually drafted a set of regulations that seemed very strict.

However, although the regulations are strict, it is indeed gratifying that after so many years things have finally made some progress.

In February of the following year, Qin Yunhe was appointed as the Left Censor-in-Chief and concurrently the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Justice. In the same year, he was appointed as the Chief Officer of the Autumn Trial and presided over the Autumn Trial.

Qin Yunhe rose from being a magistrate to a censor and then to a circuit censor. He had rich experience in solving countless cases and was adept at applying the law.

Moreover, he was careful and fair in judging cases. Whenever the results of the Autumn Trial presided over by him were submitted for discussion in the court, they would always receive the approval of the court officials and the Nine Ministers.

In the same year, Li Chang was promoted to the position of Dali Temple Secretary.

In the third year, Qin Yunhe was promoted to Left Vice-Chief Censor and concurrently served as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice.

In April, a candidate from Huguang came to Beijing and said that Xinghua Prefecture had suffered a flood and asked the court to open the granaries to provide disaster relief.

The Governor-General of Huguang submitted a memorial stating that he had ordered the prefect of Xinghua to open a charity granary to provide relief to the victims, and that the flood was not serious and the situation had stabilized.

In June, some disaster victims, having overcome numerous dangers and hardships, rushed to the capital, saying that after the flood in Xinghua, the people had no rice to eat and many people starved to death.

The emperor was furious and appointed Qin Yunhe as an imperial envoy to rush to Xinghua to find out the truth and comfort the victims.

When Qin Yunhe arrived in Xinghua, he learned that although the Governor-General of Huguang had ordered the prefect of Xinghua to open the granaries for relief, the prefect of Xinghua and the magistrate of Tongyun had pretended to obey the order but secretly disobeyed it, resulting in widespread famine in the area.

While Qin Yunhe was trying to comfort the refugees, he ordered the prefect of Xinghua and the magistrate of Tongyun to open the charity granary and release grain immediately.

However, the prefect of Xinghua and the magistrate of Tongyun were hesitant and delayed in every possible way. Qin Yunhe made a careful investigation and found out that there was not much grain stored in the charity granary of Tongyun County, the county attached to the prefecture capital that was the hardest hit by the disaster.

Qin Yunhe questioned the prefect and the county magistrate, and made further investigations, and found out that due to successive years of peace and prosperity, the prefect and the county magistrate had secretly sold the grain in the charity granary at a low price to grain merchants who made a profit.

Qin Yunhe immediately dismissed the prefect and the county magistrate and sent them to the capital to be tried for crimes. At the same time, he ordered people to mobilize grain from nearby counties that were not affected by the disaster for emergency relief.

At the same time, he submitted a memorial to the capital, explaining the situation.

The emperor thought it feasible to mobilize the nearby charity granary for emergency relief, and ordered it to remain in Xinghua to arrange relief for the victims.

It was not until August, when the disaster situation in Xinghua had stabilized and the victims had been properly resettled, that Qin Yunhe was ordered to return to Beijing.

The following year, Li Changyu went to Beijing for the spring examination, was selected as the third place in the palace examination, and was appointed as an editor in the Hanlin Academy.

Qin Zheng also passed the imperial examination and was admitted to the Hanlin Academy as a scholar.

Qin Ci entered the Imperial Academy as a student with the help of an official recommendation.

Qin Yunhe felt sorry for Fan Hong's failure in the imperial examination and encouraged him to try again next time.

A year later, Qin Ci graduated from the Imperial College and was appointed the chief clerk of the Imperial Observatory. Later, for some reason, he was sent out to be a county magistrate.

After that, Qin Yunhe was ordered to go to the local areas many times to handle cases reported in Beijing. He made decisive judgments and handled matters fairly, which won the emperor's favor. Two years later, he was promoted to the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate.

Another autumn review.

After the discussion in the court and the court was over, a messenger came to report: "Sir, Minister Wu wants you to go to the autumn trial to discuss it."

Qin Yunhe finished writing the memorial in his hand, put down his brush, stood up, straightened his sleeves, and said, "Let's go."

(End of the article)

--------Supplementary explanation on the evening of November 11th----------

This article has been finished for two months. I originally wanted to wait until the side story was finished before writing these words, but I saw that many friends were disappointed with the ending, and some of the plot arrangements were incomprehensible. Thinking that my side story has not been finished yet, I took advantage of the modification permission this time to add this explanation.

Some friends said that the ending was a bit hasty. Actually, it was mainly because the novel was so unpopular at that time and I was so busy that I was in a bad mood. But even so, I had carefully considered where to end the novel.

In his previous life, Qin Yunhe completely broke down and decided to fight to the death after he found out his daughter had passed away and learned the truth about her being sold, so in this life, I thought I should at least write about him watching his daughter get married.

In this life, my daughter not only has a better environment to grow up in, but also has a happy marriage. I feel that seeing my daughter live a perfect life like this can completely fill the hole in Qin Yunhe's heart.

At this point, Qin Yunhe's life can be considered truly complete.

As for after that,

No matter how reluctant he was, as time went by, Qin Yunhe had to face the death or misfortune of some important people.

So stopping here is the best ending for Qin Yunhe.

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Then there is Fan Hong.

Some friends think that Qin Yunhe is not good to Fan Hong and only favors his wealthy disciples.

Friends, from the beginning Fan Zheng never seriously said that he wanted Fan Hong to become his disciple. He just said that if he had known that Qin Yunhe would accept disciples, he would have asked Fan Hong to become his disciple (because people always say that, I even went back to check, and it was indeed the case, I remembered it correctly, why are there always friends who are dissatisfied with this).

At that time, Fan Hong was already studying with the teacher in the school.

In fact, it was Feng who had been making a fuss. She felt that Qin Yunhe was unwilling to teach Fan Hong - doesn't everyone know what Feng is like?

And think about it, when picking autumn vegetables, Qin Yunhe actually agreed to let Fan Hong take lessons with him. You can't assume that he doesn't want to teach Fan Hong just because he said he wanted to take lessons instead of becoming his disciple.

Why didn't Fan Hong come at that time? Because he was worried that if he took lessons with his uncle, his mother would make a fuss and blame his uncle if he didn't learn well. He was also afraid of disappointing his parents' expectations.

Didn't everyone notice that when Feng and Fan Zheng were arguing fiercely, Yu Ru and Qin Yun allowed Fan Hong to stay at home and take classes with Li Changyu?

Some friends may think that Qin Yunhe was not treating Fan Hong well by not formally accepting him as his disciple, and they also think that Li Changyu passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi because of Qin Yunhe's teaching.

But think about it, how did Qin Yunhe teach Yuger?

When I have nothing to do, I take him to raise insects and fish, play games, and pick autumn vegetables. His homework is not tight. When the house is being repaired, I let him and Ruyi run around and play. The main purpose of my education is to have fun.

Later, Qin Yunhe went to Beijing for examinations for half a year. He was appointed as a magistrate just a few months after his return. How could he have so much time to teach Li Changyu?

What would happen to Feng if Fan Hong also attended class like this?

When Fan Hong was in elementary school and laying the foundation, was it really good for him to follow Qin Yunhe's lessons?

Moreover, why do some people think that Li Changyu was able to pass the imperial examination entirely because of Qin Yunhe?

Others have private schools at home, and there are teachers in the private schools. Given the conditions of the Li family, even if the teacher they hired is not as good as Qin Yunhe in the exam, his teaching experience must be good.

In fact, is it possible that the person who laid a solid foundation for Li Changyu and helped him develop good study habits was the teacher in other people's private school?

Didn't Qin Yunhe say that when he was the magistrate, he took Li Changyu with him and felt that the teacher in the private school had taught Yu Ge'er well?

In fact, the Li family doesn’t need their children to learn much from Qin Yunhe.

It was nothing more than that Li Changyu wanted to be close to Qin Yunhe. Paying respect to Qin Yunhe would not only make the child happy, but also allow him to make friends with a new nobleman.

It would be better if Qin Yun could teach better, but it doesn't matter if he can't teach well. He has a foundation, and if it doesn't work, he still has his own teacher.

If there were not enough teachers, they could take their children to find better ones. Even without finding a teacher, the Li family had good friends among the gentry, and they would bring their sons to ask for advice when they had tea together.

Fan Hong can't do it, he has to take one step at a time.

Of course, we cannot deny the contribution and role Qin Yunhe played in Li Changyu's growth. At least he was able to pass the exams at all levels. His policy theory, answering strategies, and coping experience must be better than the master's.

But he not only taught these to Yuger, but also to Fan Hong.

Even if everyone didn't believe Qin Yunhe's intentions towards Fan Hong, didn't they also believe his intentions towards Chen Er? When Chen Er wanted to start Chen Kang's education, Qin Yunhe also recommended the school where Fan Hong was.

If he didn't think the teacher of that school was good in the local area, why would he recommend it?

The old teacher who has been teaching for many years must understand better than Qin Yunhe how to lay the best foundation for children.

In fact, Fan Hong wanted to take classes with Qin Yunhe out of admiration and to gain his uncle's approval.

After Qin Yunhe counselled Fan Hong when Feng came to propose marriage, when they met again, was Fan Hong much more cheerful and even teased Li Changyu?

Friends, in the whole article, Qin Yun was so busy that he almost died of exhaustion, but why did anyone blame him for not taking good care of Fan Hong? o(╥﹏╥)o......

Feel sorry for Qin Yunhe, and also feel sorry for the author.

When I was writing this article, the main character was busy, and I was busy outside the article. I was almost exhausted. And every time I had to write an important plot, it happened to be the busiest time. I was speechless.

You really can't hold on and finish it, right? Hey, guess what? You're not busy anymore. Isn't that infuriating?

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Some friends also feel it is a pity that Fan Hong failed to pass the imperial examination.

There is no way around this. In fact, I had thought about it from the very beginning. Li Changyu and Fan Hong, one would pass the imperial examination and the other would pass the juren examination.

It is a bit outrageous that such a small place, which is not as prosperous and literary as Jiangnan, has so many Jinshi (imperial examination candidates) and all of them are nephews and disciples of the Qin family.

Although it is true that the more successful a family is, the easier it is for their sons and nephews to pass the imperial examinations and become officials, it still seems a bit outrageous that two disciples passed the imperial examinations at the same time.

As for who of the two became a Jinshi and who became a Juren, I was actually also struggling with it. In the end, I felt that it was more reasonable for Li Changyu to become a Jinshi.

In fact, in the original setting, the two people were one Jinshi and one Juren, but neither of them entered officialdom.

I have said before that if I were in ancient times, I would probably choose to pass the imperial examination but not become an official, because being an official is too tiring.

As for why Li Changyu was allowed to enter the Imperial Academy in the end, it was because they wanted Qin Yunhe to be more complete in the end. In this way, Li Changyu would be in the capital, and Ruyi could go home to see her parents often.

Originally, I thought that if Fan Hong was to pass the imperial examination, then Li Changyu would be allowed to stay in the capital for a long time with Ruyi in the name of preparing for the exam.

But then I thought, no.

In ancient times, if a man did not do well in an exam, his mother-in-law would blame his daughter-in-law after a while. We don’t know what the ancients were thinking. Can a daughter-in-law learn for him? Can a daughter-in-law force knowledge into his head by pressing his head?

Everyone thinks it's a pity that Fan Hong didn't pass the imperial examination, but in fact, in ancient times, passing the imperial examination was a way to cross the social class and change one's family. The imperial examination was not only respected in the countryside, but also qualified to be an official.

Moreover, as long as Qin Yunhe, Qin Zheng and others were in the capital, local officials of all ranks would treat Fan Hong with some courtesy, and he could just walk sideways in the countryside - of course, Hong'er would definitely not do that.

Even if he becomes a teacher or a county magistrate, he doesn't have to worry about his superiors bullying him - but I still feel privately that he is not suitable to be an official.

What he had always wanted was the recognition of his parents and uncle, to go with his uncle to pick some autumn vegetables, and to grow a pot of flowers like Yuger.

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In addition, some friends feel that the author gave Zhao Ping more scenes, making Zhuzi's family almost become the protagonists. There is actually a reason for this.

In the original setting, Qin Si would not pass the imperial examination.

He would fail the exams for several years, then serve as a teacher for two terms, and then resign and return home. However, when I really wrote that, I suddenly felt sorry for him.

He was adopted when he was young, and he had to take care of his adoptive father who was in poor health. A few years later, his adoptive father and biological father passed away one after another, and he had to take care of his biological mother and his useless brother, and manage the livelihoods of both sides. I felt particularly sorry for them, and I was still hesitant until Qin Yunhe went to Beijing to take the imperial examination. In the end, I gritted my teeth and let Qin Si pass the imperial examination.

It was precisely because of my reluctance that the subsequent plot had to be adjusted, making the previous description of Zhao Pingzhuzi's family ineffective.

To be honest, I regret it so much.

Originally, Qin Si would not have passed the imperial examination. So what would happen if Qin Shi passed the imperial examination and was appointed as an official and wanted to take his own team to the office?

Zhao Ping is actually the team I prepared for Qin Shi.

If you want a family to be loyal to you, there must be some support, right? Those settings are the support.

Otherwise, why would Zhao Ping, who already had a family and a career, abandon his family and career and travel all the way with Qin Shi to take up a post in a place where he was unfamiliar with the place? His family would not be short of money later.

At that time, Zhao Ping had just finished his studies and was familiar with the ways of the government. He even had some experience in solving cases through osmosis, and his brain was quick, so he could follow Qin Shi to take up the post.

Qin Yunhe had already established himself in the capital by then, and he no longer needed Zhuzi to be around all the time. Zhuzi could also accompany Qin Shi to his new post to help him establish his foothold and then come back.

The setting of Zhao Ping and Qin Shi is more like friends. Zhao Ping can help Qin Shi a lot and even have the opportunity to return to good family...

However, because Qin Si passed the imperial examination and became an official, Qin Shi's team no longer needed Zhao Ping's family, so all those preparations were wasted.

It seemed like Zhao Ping's family had received a lot of care for nothing but had never given anything in return - although Zhuzi and Zhao Ping had actually worked hard and been paid for their work, there were still many friends who could not understand.

It seems like I mentioned Zhuzi's family for nothing, it's so confusing...

I just can't bear it a little bit. The plot has changed significantly. If Zhuzi's family really exists, will they feel unwilling?

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This article is a work I wrote while learning, so there are many imperfections. Thank you again for your support, and I hope this supplementary explanation will help future readers have fewer regrets and confusions.

I just don’t know if readers who have read it before will see this paragraph.