"My dear minister, I think you think too much. That old bastard Dingbei Hou will call you brother. Aren't you afraid that you can't bear it? Don't lose your arms and legs." The emperor said without giving any face.
Marquis Dingbei and Duke Zhenguo are people feared by everyone in the capital. Ma Aiqing actually wants to take advantage of him. He must have eaten too much soybean food.
"Your Majesty is right. I am old and confused." Minister Ma now thinks he must have been kicked by a donkey for daring to think such a thing.
"It seems that you are not senile yet, and there is still hope," the emperor said jokingly.
"Your Majesty, I have devoted my life to you. Is this okay for you to treat me?" Ma Shangshu was upset! How could he think so hard and say such words, and now he was being laughed at by the emperor.
"You brought this upon yourself, don't blame me." The emperor quickly distanced himself from the blame.
"Yes, I was wrong. I'll take my leave!" Minister Ma didn't want to talk to the emperor anymore. The emperor always liked to rub salt into his wounds.
"Okay, you run away when you can't win the argument with me. What a coward!" The emperor continued to anger Minister Ma.
Minister Ma was having a hard time enduring this. He wanted to curse and even beat the emperor, but he didn't dare and couldn't, because a beating would result in the execution of all nine generations of his family.
Minister Ma fled from the imperial study in a hurry, as if there was a wild beast chasing him.
Eunuch Shen had just settled the people and returned to the imperial study to report to the emperor, when he saw Minister Ma hurriedly walk out of the imperial study without even responding to his call.
“Your Majesty, the people have been settled.” Eunuch Shen saluted and reported to the emperor.
"Okay, I understand. Go and call Doctor Zheng and Grand Secretary Jiang to come into the palace." The emperor said to Eunuch Shen.
"I obey your order!" Eunuch Shen took the order and went to invite someone.
Half an hour later, Zheng Jiantie and Jiang Zhongtian followed Eunuch Shen into the palace and went to the imperial study.
"Your Majesty, I, the Grand Secretary, pay my respects to Him. Long live the Emperor!" Zheng Jiantie and Jiang Zhongtian paid their respects to the Emperor.
"Uncle, uncle of the king, please stand up quickly." The emperor said to Zheng Jiantie and Jiang Zhongtian.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zheng Jiantie and Jiang Zhongtian thanked the emperor.
"Uncle, uncle-in-law, I called you here this time to tell you that the ice maker has arrived in the capital. I arranged for him to go to the courtyard. You should go there to meet them tomorrow." The emperor told them the purpose of calling them here.
"Your Majesty, is Li Yun also in the yard?" Jiang Zhongtian said excitedly. He wondered if he would be able to see that extraordinary woman tomorrow.
"No, she has something to do and cannot come to the capital for the time being," said the emperor.
"I thought I could see the person, but I didn't expect I still have to wait." Jiang Zhongtian looked disappointed.
"Uncle, if you want to see her in the future, you can see her every day." The emperor couldn't bear to see his uncle disappointed, so he revealed some inside information to him.
"Your Majesty, what do you mean? Is Li Yun going to live in the capital for a long time?" Jiang Zhongtian asked the emperor with a puzzled look on his face.
"I don't know about that. That's not what I want to talk about," said the emperor.
"Another thing, has the emperor already decided to make her a county lord?" Zheng Jiantie thought of the previous mention of making Li Yun a county lord, and felt that the emperor must be talking about this.
"I have indeed decided on a title for her, but it's not a county princess, but a princess." The emperor told Zheng Jiantie and Jiang Zhongtian about conferring the title of princess on Li Yun.
"Princess? Your Majesty, isn't this too high a title? I'm afraid other ministers will object, and I'm also afraid that the Censorate will come out to stop it." Jiang Zhongtian felt that it was not appropriate when he heard that the emperor wanted to confer the title of princess on Li Yun. Conferring her the title of princess simply for making ice would surely raise objections among many ministers.
"No, I won't let the Censorate say anything. Mr. Jiang, have you forgotten that Ju is the Chief Censor?" Zheng Jiantie quickly came out to guarantee that the Censorate would never say anything that would be detrimental to Li Yun.
"Just a princess, I feel that I have wronged Li Yun.
Don't you know that the curved plow, harrow, rice-throwing tray, and waterwheel she invented all benefited the country and the people? And the laws she enacted were all for the benefit of the people. Such an extraordinary woman who works for the people, I wanted to make her a princess, but unfortunately the Prince of Jin disagreed, so I had to make her a princess instead. The emperor revealed all of Li Yun's details to his uncle and the prince's brother-in-law.
"Prince Jin? The emperor means that Fei'er has been found." Zheng Jianguo looked at the emperor excitedly.
"I found him. He is in Qingshan Village. He sticks to Li Yun every day and refuses to return to Beijing." The emperor said unhappily. This prince only wants the princess and doesn't want his father anymore.
"The emperor means that Fei'er likes Li Yun. Didn't the emperor say that Li Yun is already married? How can she be with Fei'er?" Zheng Jiantie just happened to like Li Yun very much. Now that he heard that she was a fickle woman, he looked down on her.
She is already married and has a husband, but now she is pestering Fei'er. It's really unreasonable.
"Li Yun did get married, but on the day of her wedding, her husband was drafted into the army and died in battle a month later.
So she's still a virgin, and Fei'er is very fond of her. My uncle and the emperor's uncle are both aware of Fei'er's situation. It's rare for him to like women, and he's not allergic to Li Yun. So the Empress and I have decided to let Fei'er marry Li Yun as his consort. What do you think, my uncle and the emperor's uncle? "The Emperor told Zheng Jiantie and Jiang Zhongtian about his and the Empress's decision, hoping they would agree.
"I have no objection. I am happy that Fei'er has found happiness. I also think it is most appropriate for the emperor to confer the title of princess on her. With the status of princess, those ministers will not be able to object even if they want to." Jiang Zhongtian said.
It is indeed unacceptable to confer her the title of princess just for making ice, but if she is given the title of princess because of her farming tools such as the curved plow and the harrow, it would be enough to silence the gossips.
"I have no objection. If Fei'er likes him, no matter his identity, as long as it does not violate the moral bottom line, everything else is acceptable." Zheng Jiantie said.
Knowing that Li Yun is Yuanbi and has made magical farm tools that can help the people, she is qualified to be Fei'er.
The emperor, Zheng Jiantie and Jiang Zhongtian talked in the imperial study for an hour before Zheng Jiantie and Jiang Zhongtian left.
The next day, during the morning court session, the emperor showed the laws prepared by Ma Youcai to the ministers in the court. After the ministers had read them, they began to discuss them.
Of course, there are people who agree and people who disagree.
After a fierce debate between the two sides, those who agreed finally defeated those who opposed, so the revision of the law was handed over to the Ministry of Justice, assisted by the Censorate and the Dali Temple.
The emperor took his ministers to Zhonghe Hall and ordered people to bring a curved plow and a harrow, and plowed the land in front of the ministers.
The ministers were shocked to see that the emperor plowed a large piece of land in just a quarter of an hour without even getting out of breath or blushing.
In the past, the emperor would be out of breath after half a minute.
The emperor told his ministers that this was called a curved plow, a farming tool. With the curved plow, the people would not have to work so hard during spring plowing.
After hearing the emperor's words, the ministers all wanted to give it a try, and the emperor asked the ministers to use it themselves once.
The ministers who tried it all praised it, saying that anyone who could make such agricultural tools would be a lucky star for the Jin Dynasty.
The emperor also began to use the harrow in front of his ministers. In the end, the ministers also used the harrow to plow the land. They felt that the harrow was easier to use than the curved plow.
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