by blooming translation

court ranks

• Grand Secretariat (內閣, Nèigé)
• Senior Grand Secretary or Chief Assistant (首輔, shoufu)
• censorate department.
  • palace branch ( (殿院))
    • censors that monitored the behaviour of officials during audiences
  • admonish branch (台院)
    • censors that monitored the behaviour of the emperor
  • detection branch (察院)
    • censors that monitored the behaviour of local officers
  • monitor censors (監察御史)
    • they would tour the country in circuits to ensure the proper discharge of the funcionts of the government and good performance of local officials.
• nine ministers (九卿, jiǔ qīng)
  • high ranking officials that runned the central government in the political system of the Qin and Han dynasties
  • in ming dynasty, they were refered to the Grand Secretariat, plus the censorate, the office of transmission and the Grand Court of Revision.
    • each of these nine ministers had a vice minister (少卿, shaoqing.)
• grand servant (太仆/太僕) imperial stud of minister coachman
  • was in charge of the emperor's chariots, carriages and horses, as well as the equine-related affairs for cerimonies and also regarding the government pastures.

address forms:

• bengong (本宫)
  • "this princess", "this palace", "this one from the palace", in an arrogant tone
• momo (嬷嬷)
  • old female servant/granny
• furen (夫人)
  • wife of the master, lady in charge of the household
• laoye (老爷)
  • lord, mestre da casa
• hou (侯)
  • marquês..?
• yatou (丫头)
  • servant girl
• daren (大人)
  • respectful title used towards superiors, higher in hierarchy (literalmente signigica "grande pessoa")
• shi (氏)
  • like "mrs."

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