Bai Dalang got the appointment order from Tongbai County. Because it was the busy time of spring, time was urgent. The appointment order given to him by the court was very urgent, asking him to go to Tongbai County immediately and arrive within ten days.

Tangzhou is not very far from the capital, but Tongbai County is a little further away. It only takes five days, so he still has four or five days to prepare.

However, he did not intend to waste time, so after receiving his appointment, he spent a day saying goodbye to his classmates and friends, spent the next day at home with his family, and left on the third day after explaining the matter.

Cheng Linghui will take his children to take office with him, but they will not leave at the same time. He will go first and wait until Tongbai County has settled down before writing a letter. Then he will send the people there.

After dinner in the evening, a group of them sat together in the open pavilion in the back garden and talked. Bai Dalang held a cup of tea and sighed: "I didn't expect to leave the capital right now. I have been reluctant to leave it for so many years."

His life, well, although it is not long enough, the place where he has stayed the longest so far, besides Mianzhou City and Qili Village, is the capital city.

Thinking about it, I feel quite reluctant to part with it.

Bai Dalang looked at Bai Erlang, "Your appointment order hasn't come down yet?"

Bai Erlang shook his head and said: "No, but I already know. His Majesty arranged for me to enter the Hanlin Academy."

The emperor suppressed it for the time being and refused to let anyone tell him or make an announcement, but someone secretly told him in order to sell him out.

Bai Dalang reached out and patted him on the shoulder, encouraging him: "Do it well."

There was someone in the court who was easy to do, and this time Bai Dalang felt it. If Zhou Man hadn't stopped Li Shangshu from recommending him, he would have had to wait a little longer.

He couldn't help but glance at Bai Erlang, so brother, you have to work harder.

Bai Erlang couldn't understand the meaning of this glance. When he saw his brother looking at him, he immediately nodded and said: "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely not cause trouble."

Bai Dalang withdrew his gaze, forget it, he'd better look for Bai Shan and Zhou Man.

Bai Shan was a little envious of Bai Dalang, so he sent him out of the city the next day and said, "Brother, if you have time, please write more letters and let us exchange experiences in managing the place."

Bai Dalang: "...Do you have this experience?"

"So you have to study." Otherwise, why would you write letters so often?

Bai Dalang nodded helplessly, "Okay, I understand and will write to you."

Bai Erlang's appointment came only after Bai Dalang left. This time, the officials set a time for him to report, which gave him no chance to be lazy again.

He packed his things and met Bai Shan at the gate of the Imperial City every morning to go to the Hanlin Academy.

He is a new Hanlin, and he mainly works as a handyman. He looks up information for everyone, and the rest is to read books and write some irrelevant articles by himself.

After they get familiar with each other and have a full understanding of their abilities, the superiors decide which type of books they should write and which part they should be responsible for.

Bai Shan is currently participating in the compilation of a book about customs from various places, and is mainly responsible for the collection of customs in Jiannan Road.

So the books he has read recently are all in this category.

Of course, this was only part of the job. His most important job was to compile notes for the emperor, draft edicts, and respond to the emperor's political inquiries. He also had to accompany the emperor to study and so on.

Bai Erlang did not have this job, so he spent most of his time in the Hanlin Academy, which was much easier than Bai Shan.

At first, his boss didn't like assigning tasks to him, so he took it easy and rummaged around the Imperial Academy looking for various small books to read.

The collection of books in the Hanlin Academy is much more miscellaneous than that of the Chongwen Hall. In addition to some rare books, it also contains many people's manuscripts and the like.

I don’t know what happened that day, but he was wandering around and entered a room. The room was full of rolls of silk, piles of manuscript paper, and manuscripts that were not so beautifully bound.

And the manuscript, at first glance, is not something that can be printed by a bookstore.

So he curiously went in and looked through it, and it was incredible to see that there was everything inside.

Bai Erlang also saw the secrets of the previous dynasty written by people from the previous dynasty.

The previous dynasty was not that long ago. His father was born in the previous dynasty and went to school in the previous dynasty, although it was not a very long time.

His father only had one impression about the previous dynasty, and that was chaos!

Therefore, the secrets written by people from the previous dynasty are very likely to be true.

Bai Erlang took a volume of books and looked around. He didn't find any place to read, so he simply sat down under the window where the sun shined, sitting cross-legged on the ground and reading.

When Bai Shan came out of the palace and looked for him, he asked around and found that no one had seen him.

A colleague laughed and said, "Maybe he left the imperial city?"

Everyone has done it before leaving early. Most of their affairs in the Hanlin Academy are only about quantity and completing the tasks within the specified time. The bosses generally don't have too many requirements on attendance.

Bai Shan secretly thought: At this moment, everyone is going to the Yamen and going to school, and no one is outside at all. What is he doing out there?

Bai Shan felt that he must still be in the Hanlin Academy, so he started to search from room to room.

When he opened the door, Bai Shan almost believed that he had left early. However, as soon as he entered the door, he noticed something was wrong. He looked around and saw Bai Erlang sitting under the window.

He looked up at the bookshelves, then exited and looked again. He found that he had never found this corner before, so he came in again and asked, "What book is in here?"

Bai Erlang said without raising his head: "They are all miscellaneous books. Come and take a look. They were written by an internal official of the previous dynasty. They said that Emperor Ai of the previous dynasty loved beauty and specially ordered a nationwide selection of beauties. Many internal officials argued over it.

I had to take charge of this job even though I had lost my head, and a murder was caused because of this."

Bai Shan was not interested in this. He stretched out his hand and pulled out a roll of silk. When he opened it, he found that it was a scroll criticizing Emperor Ai of the previous dynasty. There was a piece of white silk inside. He opened it and saw that there were maroon characters on it, writing the author's place of origin.

In his life, he was sentenced to death by Emperor Ai shortly after writing this message.

Bai Shan closed the silk cloth and wandered around the room curiously. On a bookshelf, he found several volumes of daily living records from the previous dynasty.

They were piled on the bookshelf and divided only according to time.

He flipped through it and looked at Qi Julang's name and the recorded time. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. This was not what Qi Julang had recorded.

Bai Shan put the silk cloth on it and couldn't help but go to ask the seniors of the Hanlin Academy.

"Oh, you said that room, it's full of miscellaneous materials," he said, "One person's words cannot be disbelieved, but one cannot trust them all. Most of them are private records, and many of them contain extremely strong emotions. Your Excellency,

They believe that when compiling history, one must first abandon emotions and treat everything as fairly as possible, so the things in that room are only for reference and will not be included in the official history."

When recording the words and deeds of the emperor and ministers, they generally do not mix personal feelings, and do not need to be literary. The most important thing is to be straightforward.

They even seldom judge the merits and demerits of a person. They only narrate the story and wait for a hundred years or even longer for future generations to look at this period of history and make their own judgments.
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