Take the system to ancient times

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Ren Tianze's birthday.

The banquet was scheduled for the evening, but the Ren family had been busy since the morning.

And since three days ago, Menzi began to receive birthday gifts one after another.

Those who gave gifts in advance couldn't even enter the door, but said a few festive words to the door and asked the door to convey it on their behalf.This is obviously a bit of negligence, but these people didn't realize it at all, and not only did they not realize it, they would breathe a sigh of relief when the sect accepted the gift and wrote down their names.

Gein, those who gave gifts in advance were all people who were not qualified to attend the birthday party of Ren Xiang.

These are some petty officials of the fourth, fifth and sixth ranks—only the third rank is eligible to face the court, and of course the fourth, fifth and sixth ranks are petty officials—although they all work for Dayong, they may not see Ren Tianze a few times throughout the year.

In fact, such people don't need to give gifts at all, and they don't need to curry favor with the powerful ministers, because even Ren Tianze can't remember who they are.

But when everyone gives gifts, you have to give them too.

Because if you give it away, Ren Xiang can't remember you, but if you don't give it away, your immediate boss will try his best to remember you.

This custom originated three years ago, when Ren Tianze celebrated his birthday, a sixth-rank official felt that he would no longer work under the Prime Minister, so he didn't go.

Unexpectedly, somehow this news was known by his immediate superior, who was a senior Ren fan, and believed that the sixth-rank junior official was disrespectful to Ren Xiang, so he tripped up the sixth-rank junior official everywhere in his work.

There was a current manager who didn't like you, and it didn't take long for the sixth-rank official to be unlucky. He was caught for serious dereliction of duty, and his official position was wiped out in one go.

"The terrible thing about wild brainless fans is that one fan is top ten black!"

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"Huh? What did you say?"

Xie Zimo asked.

Did he tell Xinghe a story just now, did he talk about anything strange?

"Oh, nothing."

Xinghe didn't want to explain what a fan is called a fan, let alone explain what is a fan and what is a black, so he directly told Xie Zimo: "The wind is too strong, you misheard."

Hey, this is too perfunctory!

Xie Zimo came here early in the morning. According to him, the Ren family must be in a hurry today, and even Xinghe’s maids and servants didn’t have time to pay attention to him, so he came to accompany his good brother and tell him about the family banquet by the way. Some unwritten rules.

"Generally speaking, those who can receive invitations for Ren Xiang's birthday banquet every year are officials of the third rank and above, as well as the mistresses, mistresses, and legitimate sons and daughters of the eight major families. Therefore, those below the third rank can only give gifts in advance.

So today, starting from the morning, people who come to the banquet will come one after another, and when the time comes, all the gifts received by your family will be gifts from senior officials above rank three. "

As he said that, he made an exaggerated expression of surprise and envy: "That polite one can make you envious to death."

Xinghe snorted and asked him: "The banquet didn't start at noon, why did someone come so early?"

"Because first come, first served."

Xie Zimo shrugged, he learned this gesture from Xinghe.

"The more expensive the status, the more you have to be the last to appear. Naturally, those with low status can only arrive early. If you accidentally make a wrong order and arrive later than your respectable person, you will be laughed at. If a respectable person is narrow-minded Some, maybe they will be retaliated against."

That's right, this is an unspoken rule that has existed since ancient times.

"This kind of banquet must also invite female relatives." Xinghe suddenly thought of something and felt a little scary: "Wouldn't Duanmuwei also come? She is fully qualified to get an invitation."

Xie Zimo sneered when he heard the words: "Duanmuwei will fall ill during these few days every year."

Xinghe was surprised: "Duanmuwei is sacrificing for love?... No, she is a crazy woman. If she has the opportunity to meet Ren Tianze, she will never give up the opportunity... Who did it? Cui Shi? Cui Shi poisoned her?"

In a blink of an eye, he deduced a reasonable possibility, but guessed the wrong candidate.

Xie Zimo smiled happily: "It's not Cui Shi, you will never guess who it is!"

"Don't be fooled!" Xinghe frowned.

Xie Zimo really didn't want to whet his appetite, but he didn't say it directly, but detoured a bit: "Duanmu Wei is willing."

"Willingly?" Xinghe thought for a while, and couldn't help being dumbfounded: "Impossible!"

Ren Tianze is the only one who can make Duanmuwei willing, but Xinghe really can't imagine that Ren Tianze poisons Duanmuwei every year.

Xie Zimo knew what he was thinking when he saw him, and couldn't help scolding him: "Of course Prime Minister Ren wouldn't poison him! He just told Duanmuwei that he didn't want to see her on her birthday!"

Xinghe was even more stunned: "I'll go... This sentence is worse than poisoning..."

Xie Zimo spat that he deserved it.

After listening to a play about an infatuated woman's heartbreaker, Xinghe, who had satisfied her desire for gossip, was satisfied, and the two of them chatted in the yard for a long time, and the number of people gradually increased in the afternoon.

"I didn't expect that there were so many officials above the third rank in the Great Yong Dynasty?"

The Ren family entertained guests, naturally the male guests were in the front hall and the female guests were in the backyard. It was not easy for Xinghe to go to the backyard, but the front hall alone was already crowded with people.

Most of these adults have a teenager with them, who is their legitimate son.When the adults greeted each other, these teenagers also gathered together to communicate and play. Of course, these people were greeted by Ren Xingzhou and Ren Xingyun. Originally, Xinghe should also go to help say hello, but Xinghe used the excuse of being with Xie Zimo to leave the matter to him. pushed.

Cui still wished that he would make fewer contacts, and thinking about what he was determined to do today, he agreed.

As for Ren Tianze, who was supposed to come out to entertain you adults, he didn't show up at all.

"Big brother is capricious."

Xinghe clicked his tongue, and asked strangely: "How did Ren Tianze become the prime minister? Did he not offend the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty?"

Xie Zimo retorted angrily: "This is called character! Why should Mr. Ren flatter the rich and powerful!"

Xinghe rolled his eyes, as expected he had nothing to say to fans.

"Still flattering the dignitaries, is he the biggest dignitary in Dayong?"

What is Ren Tianze doing?

He really didn't plan to come out to greet guests, but it was definitely not because of some ghost setting that he didn't flatter the powerful.

No, he was flattering the rich and powerful.

Here comes the emperor.

The current emperor's name is Duanmu Jingcheng, Duanmuwei's younger brother from different mothers, and the youngest son of the first emperor.

Before his death, the first emperor had no intention of leaving him the throne. He had an elder brother who was ten years older than him. He was a bit violent and impulsive, but with a little tempering, he could become a good emperor.

The most important thing is that he is a descendant and was established as the prince early.

And Ren Tianze was originally the right-hand man prepared by the late emperor for the former prince.

It's a pity that the first emperor was blind and didn't see that Ren Tianze was really a hero.

Ren Tianze didn't like the former prince at all, so he designed to kill him, promoted Duanmu Jingcheng, who was still young at the time, to a high position, and then became the auxiliary minister himself.

Duanmu Jingcheng was supported by Ren Tianze, but he was Ren Tianze's puppet since he was a child, so he loves and hates this young auxiliary minister and power minister, with contradictory hatred.

Specifically, every year on Ren Tianze's day, the emperor would personally come over to celebrate Ren Tianze's birthday, but he never gave Ren Tianze any gift that fit Ren Tianze's wishes.

The reason why Ren Tianze doesn't come out to meet guests every year is because he has to receive the puppet emperor in his study in his study every year.