IQ tax!
Here it comes!
Xu Lang is here to cut the melon!
[Oh no, his family is in decline, and he has been spoiled since he was a child, so he has no work to do. He is not even good at studying, and he has no achievements. ]
[In order to live a good life again, he became someone's lover. ]
[Then the other person said that there was only one person who refused to accept him, and he wanted his uncle to be with him, so he went back to convince his uncle. ]
[Awesome! ]
Awesome!
The prince, civil and military officials, and even the emperor in the bedroom were all numb.
They had only heard of emperors being rumored to be prostitutes in unofficial history, but they didn't expect to really encounter prostitutes.
And it was a pair of lovers together!
——Although Yaozu was not an emperor.
A certain real emperor's homophobia deepened, but he couldn't suppress his curiosity. He gritted his teeth and decided to continue listening.
So... which minister of his has such a bad taste?
[Oh! It's you, the new Minister of Works Bing Hui.]
[Minister Bing, are you too fond of having fun? Did you find this pair of lovers just because you like to see them humiliatingly watching their lovers being pulled into the room, or two of them entering the room together to serve you? !]
[How idle are they?]
[Could this be the... gambling father, sick mother, school-age sister, and broken him? 】
The old emperor looked at him with disdain: "What the hell is this?"
Then he said firmly: "Just for fun."
The new Minister of Works looked at him strangely.
He just... At first, he approached him because he had a sudden idea to see if he would be someone's lover behind his uncle's back. He thought there would be entanglement, anger, and then he would agree helplessly. But he agreed happily.
That would be boring.
Then he suggested that he would take his uncle in as well.
But he didn't expect that he would be someone's lover behind his uncle's back!
- Carry that back.
So...
so...
The new Minister of Works Bing Hui coughed: "Don't you think it's fun?"
The other ministers shook their heads stiffly.
Minister Bing sneered: "A father who gambles, a mother who is sick, a brother who goes to school, and a broken woman."
Emphasis: "Women."
"Hiss——"
The ministers coughed lightly, threw away the fantasy in their heads, and changed the subject: "Go on, go on!"
Minister Bing put his hands on his waist and pretended to adjust his waist belt.
[No wonder, I was wondering where Yaozu got so much cloth, it turned out that Minister Bing gave it to him. ]
[What a stingy person! ]
[How can this person be more stingy than the old emperor and Brother Jiaqian... He keeps a concubine, and actually gives the things he gave to his wife and two concubines at home to his concubine. ]
[His wife and concubines also know about this, and they don't mind at all? ! ]
[This... Is this considered a trick to control his wife and concubines? But it always feels weird. 】
Minister Bing quickly put down his hands on his waist.
—— Although he was a thief, he still felt a little embarrassed when he was pointed out in public.
【Fuck! The things he gave to his wives and concubines were almost the same as Pinduoduo's 9 yuan and 9 yuan shipping! 】
The rulers and ministers of Daxia were still confused about what "Pinduoduo" and "9 yuan and 9 yuan shipping" were, and then they heard the next sentence: 【It was said that they ate carp at home, and took ordinary carp that cost 16 or 17 wen per catty and pretended it was the Yellow River carp that cost 120 wen per catty. Ordinary carp has coarse meat and an earthy smell. The Yellow River carp is one of the "four famous fishes". He really dared to take it out. 】
What? !
Taking ordinary carp to pretend to be Yellow River carp? !
This matter directly caused a sensation among these central officials.
No... Brother, what do you want! You either stay honest or you secretly give some as a gift. This fake Yellow River carp... Don't you want to eat it yourself?
[He actually eats it himself, and he eats it with gusto. ]
[And sometimes when he goes to the real Yellow River carp stall, if he finds a fish dead, he will bargain and buy it back . After applying garlic sauce, it tastes the same as fresh fish!
] [After serving it on the table, he told his wife that this is a better Yellow River carp, because today is our important day, so he bought it specially for his wife. ]
[His wife was so happy... Damn, later he used the same routine on concubines, mistresses, distant cousins, and confidantes - this is the legendary heart-shaped stone, right? He gave one stone to seven people, saying that he only gave it to his true lover. 】
【You bought a dead fish and pretended it was a live fish, then coated it with garlic juice and gave it as a gift! You said today is an important day for us, right? 】
Minister Bing said, "Ah!", and he was justified.
Can you blame him! Yellow River carp is so expensive! Since dead fish is cheap, he can still make the taste of dead fish become the same as that of live fish, there is no need to spend that money!
And it's not rotten meat that has been dead for several days. How can it be inedible if it has just died not long ago! ! !
His colleagues: "..."
began to desperately recall whether there was something wrong with the food at the banquet in his house.
The old emperor, who was lying straight in the bedroom, was shocked and almost stole the corpse.
Yuan Zheng, is this the Minister of Works you recommended to me? !
You said he was stingy, but you didn't say he was stingy in this way!
A person like this would not use inferior products to save money when he went to the Ministry of Works, right?
—— If the Minister of Revenue knew his thoughts, he would definitely complain: How is it possible. Your Majesty, he just wants to save money, but you want to save his life.
Xu Yanmiao continued to flip through. To be honest, he felt that being stingy to this extent had made Minister Bing become an "adjective" like Grandet.
[He also took a bracelet made of water foam and pretended it was an ice jade bracelet and gave it to his wives and concubines. His wives and concubines didn't recognize it and liked it very much. ]
[Wow, no matter if it’s for his own use or for his wives and concubines, everything in his house is plated with gold. His family always thought it was pure gold, which is hilarious, because most people wouldn’t cut it open to see, right?]
[The blood-stained jade pendant that his wives and concubines discarded was made by embedding the jade into the seam of a live sheep’s leg. When it was taken out a few years later, blood threads would appear.]
[Then, he gave this thing to Yaozu. It’s hilarious, Yaozu still shows it off every day.]
[666t6! I don’t know what to say. 】
【There is also the one he gave to his father-in-law, which is said to be an ancient tripod from the period of the Six Kingdoms. Many people were envious and wanted to buy it, but his father-in-law listened to his daughter's instructions and absolutely did not sell it. Wow, it was a newly made tripod in the past ten years, but it was corroded with acid and a dragon was painted on it with wax, and it suddenly became a thousand-year-old tripod! 】
【His wives and concubines knew about his cheating in the past few years, and everything in the family, including the things he used and the things he gave to them, were all fake. 】
【The copperware he gave to Yaozu, which was said to be two or three hundred years old, was actually buried in a salty land two or three years ago. 】
【The parrot he gave to Uncle Yaozu was as big as a chicken. Uncle Yaozu always thought that he had not taught the parrot to talk. Who would have thought that this "strange thing" was a chicken that had been plucked using a special method and then had green feathers grown back! It's unbelievable. He kept a mistress but couldn't even bear to give away a parrot. I'll kill you! 】
【No wonder his wives and concubines didn't care about things being given to others. They were fake! They were all fake! 】
The ministers were already stunned.
Even Gao He secretly gave a thumbs up to the new Minister of Works.
There's no comparison, really no comparison! This is completely living in counterfeits. And it's voluntary.
The most important thing is that Bing Hui himself is also using those counterfeits!
Minister Bing smiled in his heart, not ashamed, but proud: "Do you know how much money I save every year!" He pointed with his finger: "At least this amount!"
The other ministers twitched their mouths: "Money is not saved." Minister
Bing: "Then if you don't save, you will lose the money you don't save."
Minister Bing: "A turtle grows hair for a thousand years, it is a rare thing. The thousand-year-old green-haired turtle that appeared on the market before, you competed to bid for this "living jade" and spent 40,000 yuan. I applied ginger juice on the back of an ordinary turtle, and it grew green hair soon, saving a full 40,000. Ha!"
Other officials: "...It's not a matter of money."
That's a thousand-year-old green-haired turtle, what you bought is rare! Can your ordinary turtle grow green hair in the same way!
Minister Bing said arrogantly: "People with different ideals cannot plot against each other!"
Then he stepped out of the line and stabbed the pet he was playing with in the back: "Your Highness, this person is my mistress..."
Jiabao's face turned pale.
Although he did this, he still hoped that he could be innocent in the eyes of others.
Minister Bing: "The silk cloth in his hand was given by me. It has nothing to do with the weaving ladies in Luo County. I gave him inferior products because I often wear inferior products. Besides that they are not as comfortable as other silk cloths, they also fit him well, so I gave them to him."
Jiabao could no longer kneel down: "You gave them to him?! Weren't they replaced by me in the middle?"
Minister Bing wondered: "Who told you that?"
Jiabao was going crazy: "I guessed it!"
Who would have thought that a minister (although he was a concubine and the other party was a doctor) would give his concubine inferior products!!!
Jiabao: "That's not right! You showed me the voucher. Those Shafang cotton, Shu brocade, Changshan silk... all have their origins! There are records of which cloth shop wove them and which embroiderer sewed them!"
Minister Bing: "Those things are easy to forge."
Jiabao was greatly stimulated: "Then, the good paper you gave me..."
Minister Bing: "I collected waste paper used by others. The white frost on the melon peel can wash off the ink on it, making the paper as white as new."
Jiabao's body shook: "Then...then the human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum you gave me, which is worth tens of thousands..."
Minister Bing: "It's a mountain yam."
Jiabao's eyes went dark, and he held on with difficulty: "Honey can't... ..."
Minister Bing smiled embarrassedly: "I'm looking for someone specifically. There is a kind of beekeeper who feeds sugar to the bees, which can increase the honey production, but the honey will have a lot of sugar taste. If I expose this, I can let the other party sell it cheaply."
Jiabao collapsed: "Why do you do this!!!"
Minister Bing was innocent: "Like that honey, if it is mixed with sugar, will it not taste sweet and have no honey taste? It's just not that good. It's unnecessary to spend a lot of money to buy pure honey. It's very... very..."
Xu Yanmo subconsciously said: "IQ tax?"
Minister Bing's ears moved, and he said loudly: "Yes! Very IQ tax!"
- Just look at the literal meaning, you can fully understand what this word is talking about.
Minister Bing argued: "As long as the clothes are wearable, what's wrong with buying fake cloth just to save face! Young people should not be so vain! You won't eat the human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum anyway, you just take it out to show off. In this case, there is no need to spend a lot of money to buy it, mountain yam can be used to disguise it! Waste paper can be restored to white paper, why spend a lot of money to buy new paper? It's such a waste - don't you find those white papers convenient to use!"
The colleague who "vainly" wears real Shujin: "???"
The colleague who spent a lot of money to buy a human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum for collection two months ago: "???"
The colleague who thinks it is a waste to buy new paper to write: "???"
Bing Hui, what do you mean? !
After a short silence, Jiabao uttered a faint voice: "Is there nothing true?"
It can't be that from the beginning to the end, only he was selling the ditches and it was true?
Minister Bing: "Yes, every..."
Before the words "the salary I pay you every month" were uttered, the king and ministers of Daxia heard Xu Yanmiao say in a clear and loud voice: [Yes, the aphrodisiac you and your uncle took was real.]
Minister Bing almost immediately felt the strange eyes of his colleagues, as if he was on edge.
He took a deep breath and said softly in his heart: Xu Lang, there are actually some things that don't need to be said.
[Oh! Aphrodisiac...]
Minister Bing screamed: "Anyway, that's it! Your Highness! I think this case can be judged!"
Xu Yanmiao's inner voice was interrupted at once.
But it was the other officials who were scratching their heads.
What kind of aphrodisiac is this? Is it useful? If you have something good, don't hide it, just tell us!
We also need it urgently!
However, the single college student didn't need this thing. Since he was interrupted, he simply paid attention to the judgment of the prince.
The prince: "..."
This... Actually... I...
forget it, let's go back and see if I can ask Minister Bing directly.
The prince paused for two breaths and looked at Jiabao: "You are guilty of false accusation. You said without any evidence that Xie County Marquis protected Zhi Niang..."
Jiabao said anxiously: "I... I was seduced by Luo County's county magistrate!"
The prince was speechless and continued: "But it was you who came to beat the drum. Moreover, from what you said before, you knew that the silks came from Minister Bing, but you still chose to frame Zhi Niang, so you committed the crime of false accusation..."
The prince recalled the Xia law and sentenced according to the law: "You sued Xie County Marquis for favoritism and perverting the law. If this crime is convicted, Xie County Marquis will be beheaded. And you falsely accused Zhi Niang of selling fake silk. If this crime is convicted, Zhi Niang will have to return the money and be flogged forty times."
"So, you should be flogged forty times first, and then..."
Jiabao was shocked and scared, he sat back, opened his mouth and couldn't speak.
He had little knowledge of the law, and was used to lying to bully his sisters. He never thought that he would end up like this after he opened his mouth -