Gu Mingzhen picked up the memorials dropped by the little emperor one by one and advised: "Your Majesty, don't get angry. Anger is harmful to your health."
The little emperor said angrily:
"You are old, but you don't know how to explain things clearly. You are so vague and just show off your knowledge! You wrote thousands of words, but you strayed from the topic. You talked for a long time but didn't get to the point! How clearly did Fukuzawa write?! They even had the nerve to say that Fukuzawa's memorial was not in accordance with the rules and was too vulgar and uncultured!"
Gu Mingzhen smiled and said, "I think Lord Fuze has never read much, and he didn't ask anyone else to write the memorial for him. He wrote the entire memorial himself. The writing style and handwriting are naturally not in the eyes of those ministers, but the reasoning is clear and he is wholeheartedly for the people, which is rare."
Thinking of Xia Daohua's handwriting, the little emperor couldn't help laughing.
I don’t know how Xia Daohua did it, but the words on the letter were written quite well.
It is certainly not comparable to those ministers. Overall, there is no order, and it is even a bit crooked, but it is rare that there are no missing limbs.
Moreover, the handwriting is very delicate, the ink is bright and moist, and it has a faint luster and fragrance.
Maybe it’s because women are naturally more careful?
Little Emperor didn't know that Xia Daohua felt that she was not very good at writing with a brush, so she simply used a signature pen to write. This not only looks like the traces of a brush, but in fact, it is not much different from writing hard pen calligraphy.
In order to write fewer words, Xia Daohua really racked her brains.
Unfortunately, her classical Chinese proficiency remained at the level of vernacular novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Even though she referred to some famous classical Chinese passages in history, what she wrote was still inevitably too down-to-earth.
In the eyes of those ministers who are well-educated, it is naturally not worthy of being mentioned in public.
It was reasonable for them to attack her memorial starting with its format and logic.
Xia Daohua heard about this, but she felt no pressure at all. She threw out a big bomb and then left it alone, completely becoming a hands-off boss, leaving the rest to the little emperor and Gu Mingzhen to worry about.
After all, this country belongs to their family. If they don't care about it themselves, how can they expect others to take care of it?
After about half a month, it was estimated that all the memorials criticizing Xia Daohua had been submitted to the court, and the young emperor started to discuss the matter again during the court meeting.
As a result of the discussion, the court became a mess. Two ministers who disliked each other rolled up their sleeves and engaged in a fight.
At Gu Mingzhen's order, Li Gan led the cavalry in brocade uniforms to drag the two ministers out.
At this moment, the court, which was as noisy as a vegetable market, suddenly became quiet.
The little emperor angrily scolded, "I asked you to gather your wisdom, not to learn from the unruly people in the market and fight and get angry! Do you still remember that this is the court? Do you still have any dignity as a minister?"
The court officials were silent for a while, but some refused to admit defeat: "But isn't this all Lord Fukuzawa's fault?"
Xia Daohua smiled at him, and his official hat flew off his head and landed on the ground.
The official who had complained was suddenly startled.
Falling off the official hat in the court is not only a very unlucky omen, but also a crime of being disrespectful in front of the emperor!
Gu Mingzhen waved his hand, and the Jinwu Guards on the steps quickly dragged him down, resolutely preventing the Jinyi Cloud Cavalry led by Li Gan from grabbing the head.
The court fell silent again. The little emperor said angrily, "Don't hide your ideas. Tell me everything! Whoever wants to be a sawed-off gourd today will not be allowed to come again!"
After three noisy court meetings, the three projects of road construction, official postal service, and water conservancy projects were finally recognized and supported by the majority of court officials, and were implemented with the capital as a pilot.
Among the ten people-benefiting policies proposed by Xia Daohua, the most controversial one was to let the Jinyi Yunqi inspect customs.
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