The old emperor still has his charm, and the young prince is youthful and lovely
For dozens of breaths, no minister came out to report.
Xu Yanmiao: [Wow! They say that if there is something, report it, and if there is nothing, leave the court. Is today a rare day without anything? Am I too unlucky? I was just planning to draw a blind box. ]
Ministers: "..."
We also want to move, and we don't want to be reserved here, but we don't want to be stripped naked in front of our former colleagues or even newcomers!
Hateful, but if we don't move, Xu Yanmiao can sense that something is wrong even if he is a fool, not to mention that he is not a fool. They
looked at each other.
'You go?'
'Why don't you go?'
'I'm sixty, you have to respect the elderly!'
'I'm forty, you have to love the young! '
Another official twisted his body, hesitantly raised his feet, and couldn't muster up the courage to put his boots on the ground for a long time.
The dozen or so new tribute scholars were so shocked that they dared not breathe.
'What is this sound? What is a blind box? Gossip... Could it be Fuxi Gossip? What's there to be afraid of? '
'Why do they all look like they are walking on thin ice? '
'Is this the officialdom? It's so terrifying! '
Everyone was in a panic, but they didn't dare to raise their heads.
Li Ying - the son of Li Shihu who had been lost for many years and found that the dynasty had changed after returning to the court. In the second year after Li Shihu's return, he served as a fifth-rank doctor of the Ministry of Justice, affiliated with the Ministry of Justice.
After taking a look at the current atmosphere and the confusion on Xu Lang's face, he decided to watch the excitement (cross it out) and share the worries for the emperor.
- And he admitted that he couldn't stand the new person assigned to their Ministry of Justice among the new tribute scholars.
"Master Dong." Li Ying smiled at this person and slowly said, "You just took office as the Master of Guangdong Qingli Division. Don't you think there are any crimes in Guangdong that need to be presented to Your Majesty?"
- The Guangdong Qingli Division of the Ministry of Justice is responsible for all crimes in Guangdong to prevent inappropriate charges and sentencing.
However, above the Master is the Yuanwailang, and above the Yuanwailang is the Langzhong. How can it be that he, a Master, can't go out to report on affairs!
Master Dong's dark eyes flashed with a sense of frustration.
I don't know if the other party is used to bullying new officials, or because he knows that his father-in-law has become his ex-father-in-law, so he can't wait to jump out to target him in order to please his ex-father-in-law.
His father-in-law is an official of the Hanlin Academy! Even if he is a fifth-rank official, he can suppress the fifth-rank official who is not from the Hanlin Academy!
But no matter what, your superiors have called you out, and unless you quit, you have to endure it no matter how aggrieved you are.
Dong Zhushi stepped out: "Your Majesty, I have something to report!"
All officials breathed a sigh of relief.
The scapegoat is here!
[Wu Hu! Finally here! ]
Xu Yanmiao's eyes swept over Dong Zhushi, and then looked at the system.
[Oh! It's you! Mr. Liu's ex-son-in-law! ]
The word "ex" directly pierced Dong Zhushi's heart.
Who is this person! Can he speak!
Dong Zhushi: irritable.jpg
[Let me see...]
Dong Zhushi cursed in his heart: What are you looking at! You just came out of the mountains, haven't you seen people before! Two eyes and a nose, what's so good about it!
Li Ying suppressed his gloating and looked at him with a squint.
'You will know what Xu Lang is looking at later.'
'Letting your own brother seduce someone else's daughter to elope, how shameless!'
Even when the chaotic world was in the early days, his stepfather wanted to marry his mother, knowing that if he used coercion and inducement, his mother might compromise for the sake of her mother-in-law and young son and follow him without a name or status, he still insisted on letting the matchmaker come to the door and propose marriage in a formal manner, with all the three matchmakers and six ceremonies ready!
'Pah!'
[Wow! Mr. Liu is such a generous father-in-law. He has been helping Dong Zhushi’s fellow villagers, parents, sister, brother, and cousins from his third uncle’s and second uncle’s families for nearly ten years, and he has spent three thousand taels of silver! 】
【Wow! That’s one million and two hundred thousand! 】
【This does not include the positions he arranged for them and the favors he spent. 】
【This Dong Zhushi is really shameless. His father-in-law is so sincere, and you let your idle brother seduce someone else’s daughter? 】
Wow!
Lian Hang seemed to be very distressed.
What a loud slap. How miserable. Being called shameless, although he is indeed shameless, he can’t even refute that he is not shameless. It’s too miserable, too miserable.
Hee hee.
Dong Zhushi forced himself to keep smiling.
He was not familiar with Xu Yanmiao's voice, and had no idea who was criticizing him like that.
And judging from the reactions of other ministers before, this voice was not only heard by him, but by all officials! He
was so embarrassed!
[Hahahahaha——]
[So now after ordering his daughter to divorce him, he will ask him to pay back the money. ]
[A full three thousand taels of silver! He was so worried that his hair was almost falling out. ]
[He went to ask his friend and family for the money, but no one was willing to give it to him. They all avoided him. It was so funny. He helped a group of ungrateful people. ]
[But maybe he enjoyed it? ]
Who enjoyed it!
Manager Dong almost let out two "Haha" sounds from his throat, but when he glanced at the corner of his eyes, he saw that the seniors were staring at him eagerly, waiting for him to lose his composure, just like a group of vultures waiting for the death of a living thing. He
immediately gritted his teeth and pretended that he didn't hear anything.
Suddenly, an uncomfortable feeling of frustration rushed into his heart.
Seniors: Yes, that's the expression! It's the kind of frustration of being scolded but having to hold it in and not being able to refute!
Seeing that the newcomers didn't escape either, they felt much better: )
[But anyway, father-in-law... Bah! It's easy to call him that. Anyway, Master Liu is really a good father-in-law.]
When Xiao Bai Ze called him father-in-law, Liu Bingwen's expression suddenly became strange.
Actually... if... it doesn't seem to be impossible?
Although letting Xiao Bai Ze be his son-in-law is equivalent to the whole family running naked, if Xiao Bai Ze really likes his daughter, even if he runs naked, will he not consider the interests of his family!
His eldest daughter is still charming.
His second daughter is smart and capable.
His youngest daughter... forget it, she was raised too delicate and too naive, not suitable for Xu Lang.
If his daughter is not good enough, he doesn't mind his son! Isn't it good for Long Yangzhi? He is very open-minded!
Misfortunes and blessings go hand in hand. As long as the interests are appropriate, a mere eight...
[Huh? This? Is there such a thing? Scholar Liu is a bit miserable...】
【This can be regarded as leaving a name in history in another sense, right?】
【Who first spread the rumor that Scholar Liu was defeated and captured, and in order to save his life, he kowtowed a thousand times to the enemy leader and was forced to wear women's clothes, just because the enemy leader loved his sister but couldn't get her, so he used him as a substitute meal?】
The sky gradually brightened, the fish belly white floated lightly on the top of the mountain, and the sunset light jumped out, dyeing Liu Bingwen's face red. Slander
!
Pure slander!
Who spread such a rumor! He was only ten years old in the first year of Tiantong. Before that, when there was a war, how could he, a child under ten years old, be defeated and captured, and how could his sister be loved!
Would the enemy leader love a girl under ten years old? !
Hard. Fists hardened.
Liu Bingwen gritted his teeth. In his heart, he cursed the rumormonger a thousand times.
Especially when Xu Yanmo said: "Ah... This matter was clearly the deeds of a soldier whose name was not passed down during the war on the weekend. As a result, because of Liu Xueshi's still good reputation, this matter was put on him? 】
【Now when people talk about Liu Meigong, they always mention: "I know, that Liu Bingwen who dressed up as a woman to take his sister's place as a concubine."】
【It's miserable, so miserable, really miserable...】
Liu Xueshi no longer cares whether he is miserable or not.
He is almost numb.
Wind... what wind? !
He stared blankly ahead without blinking for a long time.
The ministers beside him quickly glanced at Liu Xueshi's snow-white skin and flowing beard, and remembered that this person had a nickname, "Liu Meigong", so it was not surprising why the people would put the rumor of "once dressed up as a woman" on him.
But... the word "charm still exists"...
the ministers suddenly felt sour.
Xu Yanmiao, you are a former examiner of the imperial examinations. Don’t you think it’s wrong to describe a handsome man as having “still charming”?
*
Xu Yanmiao not only didn’t think it was wrong, he also recalled a joke that was played on the Internet.
[The old emperor still has charm?]
Emperor Tiantong: “…What?”
[The young prince is youthful and lovely?]
The prince himself: “…Huh?”
The two of them had their pupils trembling.
Is this what people say about them? !
This is too scary…
The ministers saw that their lively smiles had frozen, and they had already begun to pinch their thighs skillfully.
Several of the new tribute scholars had their legs weakened, and before they fell to the ground, their predecessors stretched out their hands and helped them stand up.
Ji Sui's former adopted son looked at his colleague who had kindly held him up, his face pale and his body shaking like a flower ravaged by a strong wind: "He--"
"Has he always been like this? So audacious?"
Look at what he just said! The emperor still has his charm, and the prince is still young and lovely, are these words a human can say! Are these words he can hear!
His colleague - Jie Huai, who is also a compiler in the Hanlin Academy, looked up at the sky and sighed: "Just get used to it."
- This is the precious experience from the predecessors.
Ji Sui's former adopted son was stunned.
He heard it, that is to say, even the emperor doesn't care about what the other party said, otherwise he would have dragged him down and beheaded him, and he wouldn't let the ministers become "habitual".
On Mr. Liu's side, a nosy colleague asked him gently: "How is it, are you still tempted by Xiao Bai Ze as your son-in-law?"
Liu Bingwen turned pale and shook his head dully.
He couldn't bear it.
He really couldn't bear this power.
Sorry, he was too reckless before.
*
The old emperor thought he was the blind box.
He was watching the ministers' excitement, but suddenly it affected him.
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After listening to Dong Zhushi's report on the criminal case in Guangdong, the eunuch took the opportunity to hold up a piece of ice. The old emperor cast a look of praise, grabbed the ice and put it on his forehead, and the cool touch immediately calmed his brain.
He knocked on the dragon chair, expressed his views on the case, and discussed the verdicts of some cases with officials from the Guangdong Qingli Division of the Ministry of Justice. This memorial was over.
Before the next memorial came, the old emperor interrupted without hesitation: "When I built the palace in the past, I was in a hurry and built it by filling the lake. Therefore, the imperial city is low and the internal flooding is serious. However, the country was not rich before, so I could only increase the drainage to reduce the suffering. Now thirty-four years have passed, and I want to rebuild the palace, but I don’t want to waste people’s money. The Ministry of Works should calculate the cheapest modification cost and report it to me as soon as possible."
Even if he had mountains of gold and silver, the old emperor was still as frugal as ever.
After a pause, the old emperor said: "In addition to the imperial palace, there are also various palaces and villas. They are dilapidated after twenty or thirty years. Let's renovate them together this time." He
also issued a target: "At least it should be several hundred thousand taels of silver less than the renovation cost calculated by the Ministry of Works in the tenth year of Tiantong. But you must not cut corners."
The Minister of Works felt that if he was not standing in the front row, he would want to reach out and touch his hair to see if it was still on his head.
Your Majesty, you are asking too much of the Ministry of Works.
[Wow!]
The sound of nature rang out.
[I thought no one could do what the old emperor asked!]
Ministry of Works: “!!!”
Who!
Who is it!
Xiao Bai Ze, Xu Shentong, please, have mercy and save us!
Gao He was also shocked.
He quickly looked around secretly.
There is actually someone who can save money more than him? ! He must see it!
[Brother Jia Qian, it turns out to be you!]
The people in the Ministry of Works were at a loss.
Brother Jia Qian... who is it?
Gao He: ? ? ? ?
Me? !
Although he was the only scholar in the village and had to take care of the village's road, bridge, canal, well and house construction because the village was poor, he helped the villagers save a lot of money and the things were solid - but can a rural mud house be the same as a palace!
Although he was well aware of the various ways the workers were lazy, cut corners, and used inferior materials, and he could supervise them so that they dared not be careless - but can a rural mud house be the same as a palace!
Although he knew how to bargain and had the nerve to bargain, and after bargaining, he could even get people to give him a few to more than ten kilograms of building materials - but can a rural mud house be the same as a palace!
Although he...
Never mind! Anyway! Xu Lang, you have caused me so much trouble!
But the old emperor didn't care.
The old emperor immediately set his sights on Gao He.
This man could actually save him hundreds of thousands?
[Awesome, Brother Jia Qian, he submitted his plan half a month later and directly reduced the budget by one million silver to the old emperor. Hiss - and it's not a shoddy project.]
"?!"
How much?
One million? !
The old emperor's sight suddenly became hot.
Gao He was stunned for a moment.
Subconsciously, he expanded his previous experience of saving money by ten or a hundred times, from the needs of the village to the needs of the palace, and thought about how much he could bargain for...