So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

After sending Yi Chutao and Lu Jiayan away one after another, Xiao Yueshan felt relieved when thinking that Jiang Saiyu (crossed out) and now Meng Yufu must be safe. The next step was the most difficult one, saving himself!

She first suggested to Shen that abducting the wives of officials in large numbers would be too eye-catching. If they really needed to be summoned, they could use the title of imperial concubine in the palace to keep them in the palace for a few days under the pretext of flower viewing, gathering, and learning etiquette. They could even organize a "socialite training class" so that outsiders would be proud of it and avoid speculation.

If there are women who are really useful and have strong technical abilities, they can be retained in the name of being recruited as palace ladies-in-waiting. There is no need to do everything at once, which will increase management costs and easily arouse public anger.

Later, she suggested that in order to understand the government, one must go to the front line. Without investigation, there would be no right to speak. She did not have a comprehensive understanding of the operating mechanism of this fictional dynasty. It would be better to put her in a place where she could have access to the institutional system to investigate for Shen.

Ever since Xiao Yueshan said that Shen Shi didn't have to follow Ke Shi's old path, Shen Shi basically listened to her suggestions, and everyone in Shou'an Palace began to respect her.

After hearing Xiao Yueshan's offer to do something for her, Shen was in a good mood. She immediately dressed her up as a little eunuch and asked Jin Yong, the head eunuch of Shou'an Palace, to take her to the Silijian to serve tea and be on duty.

The current eunuch Lu Dehou, who holds the seal of the Silijian, is fair, experienced, prudent, and has a deep foundation. He has always served the late emperor and is a guarantee left by the late emperor. Under his governance, the Silijian is in good order and everyone performs their duties, unlike the inner court in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which was full of chaos.

The Silijian had strict management, so Jin Yong used his connections to get her into the secretariat under the Silijian to serve tea. One of the eunuchs, Cao Hou, was from the same hometown as Jin Yong and could give her some advice.

The Secretariat is the institution responsible for handling all confidential documents such as imperial edicts. The eunuchs there are on duty in shifts, and once on duty they are not allowed to speak or move around freely.

Xiao Yueshan was always so nervous when she went to work that she dared not utter a word, for fear of causing trouble. Fortunately, she was of ordinary appearance and easy-going temperament. She did not stand out among the group of carefully selected eunuchs, and she managed to get by day by day.

Xiao Yueshan had already learned to write and discern characters at the Zhou family. Cao Hou saw that she was literate, quiet and respectful, so sometimes when he had too many memorials to submit, he would ask her to help sort them out.

To be honest, it was true that the king must be captured first. After serving tea in the secretarial office for a few days, she had already gotten a general idea of ​​the situation of this imaginary dynasty. At first, she was worried that the organization was too complicated and difficult to grasp, but she didn't expect that this dynasty was not exactly the same as any other dynasty and had its own system.

Xiao Yueshan roughly summed it up as: some people say, some people do, and some people watch.

The person who speaks is the core of power. Apart from the emperor, there are the prime minister and the cabinet. These people who are high up in the clouds only need to move their lips, and countless people will work hard for them.

The people who work in it are the administrative organs, which are the largest and most complex. They include the six ministries of Li, Revenue, Rites, Military, Punishments and Works, as well as the various central agencies which may or may not have power, such as the Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Taipu Temple, Honglu Temple, Dali Temple and Imperial College.

The local area is divided into nine prefectures and forty-eight states. Except for Fengtian Prefecture where the capital is located, the other eight prefectures have their own jurisdictions, and the forty-eight states are divided into counties with clear levels.

The people watching are the supervisory agencies, which are currently mainly composed of the Censorate where Zhou Yao is located and the Six Departments. This dynasty has not yet seen any overt secret agencies such as the East Factory and the West Factory. Xiao Yueshan guessed that they should still be mainly composed of secret guards.

This forms a stable pyramid-shaped power structure, with the top level having the lowest number of people but the greatest power; the middle level having an average number of people and moderate power; the grassroots having the highest number of people but the least power; in line with the "20/80 rule" that % of people hold % of the power. The small core of power at the top is empowered by people's thoughts, becoming the gathering place of power and the peak that most people want to climb.

The royal family and military officers have their own ranks and are in good order. It is worth mentioning that because the emperor is young, the previous emperor issued an order before his death to have his younger brother, the emperor's uncle, Prince Jin Chu Yuanming, Prime Minister Song Pu and four cabinet ministers assist in the administration. Currently, Chu Yuanming is the most respected person in the royal family.

Shen was stunned when she heard the news about Xiao Yueshan. She only worked in the inner palace and had never thought about understanding the world of the court. She found it very novel and relied on Xiao Yueshan even more.

Shen asked Jingzhu to compile a list of the time travelers they had found for Xiao Yueshan. She secretly noted down the family backgrounds of these people and could only politely say that Shen's current power was limited. Xiao Yueshan looked at her and shook his head.

I really don't know what Sister Shen was thinking. There are not many people who travel through time, and even fewer who can travel through time to aristocratic families and be discovered. She went to great lengths to get so many people here. Except for Meng Yufu, the other women are indeed not outstanding ladies from wealthy families.

However, Xiao Yueshan thought that Shen would not be willing to tell her about the person who could truly develop modern technology.

Xiao Yueshan also had her own selfish motives when serving in the Imperial Household Department. Ever since Cao Hou asked her to help sort out memorials, she had been keeping an eye out for any clues related to Zhou Yao.

But she entered the palace too late. Jiangzhou had already reported that the flood had subsided and people from all counties had returned to their hometowns to settle down. They praised the court for its wisdom and power and believed that people would live and work in peace and contentment after receiving relief money and food.

The life and death of a small seventh-rank official is so insignificant and not worth mentioning in the face of the huge imperial machine.

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Cao Hou was recently promoted and was able to enter the Imperial Household Department to participate in the approval of documents. He was about to become a eunuch in the imperial court. Xiao Yueshan could also enter and leave the inner chambers with Cao Hou.

But as a woman, she would be exposed if she continued this for too long. Fortunately, she had already found out almost everything she needed to know, and she planned to ask Shen to stop playing with fire in a few days.

Before, Xiao Yueshan only thought that his job was to face a mountain of documents and meetings every day, but when he came here, he understood what it meant to have piles of cases.

After practicing here for many days, she was forced to develop the ability to quickly obtain key information from the dazzling and endless official documents.

The Silijian received countless memorials every day. All the official documents from various ministries and various places were sorted by the Silijian, and the eunuchs selected the important ones to present to the emperor for his review. The rest were left to the eunuchs to write in red regular script according to the words in the cabinet ticket, and then "reviewed in red according to the cabinet ticket" and returned to the cabinet and various ministries to write formal edicts for execution.

The eunuchs who held pens and attended the hall wrote at a rapid pace, each one like a document machine. Xiao Yueshan felt under great pressure just following the classification, for fear that if he was slow, he would slow down the progress and put his life in danger.

In this central part of the empire, the life and death of thousands of people depended on the writing of any one person, but the eunuchs who held the pen only drafted their opinions, and the eunuchs who held the seal personally reviewed them. If he thought it was okay, he would stamp it and issue it; if he thought it was not okay, he would send it back for re-approval, just like a local emperor.

In the Imperial Household Department, Xiao Yueshan finally met the eunuch Lu Dehou. He was over fifty years old, tall, with a square face that was weathered, a straight and high nose, and a kind but mechanical smile on his face. With two slightly cloudy eyes that were deeply sunken in the eye sockets, he looked very cold. He was entrenched in the inner room like a tiger, and only two apprentices could bring the memorials into the room for review and stamping.