yeah! The protagonist has answered!

Xu Yanqi never expected that the old emperor had so little confidence in him.

A relaxed smile appeared on the young man's face.

"As a prefect of a locality, one must know how to encourage farmers to cultivate mulberry trees, equalize taxes and servitude, be practical in collecting taxes, sincerely respect sacrifices, forgive punishments, show filial piety, show compassion for orphans and widows, and promote talents."

The prefect must encourage farmers to cultivate mulberry trees. This is It is still one of the assessment goals for being a prefect, but if you don’t even know when the crops will be planted, how can you persuade farmers to cultivate?

The prince-in-law's chest heaved a few times, his eyes were red, and he felt that he had been completely humiliated.

It's enough to find an official who understands farming to help with these trivial matters. Why should he, the prefect, have to understand them! The emperor was deliberately making things difficult for his daughter!

The young man curled his eyelashes again and said in a brisk voice: "What's more, Your Majesty believes that mulberry, jujube, persimmon and cotton are closely related to the survival of the people. As early as the first month of the fourth year of Tiantong, he ordered that all mulberry trees planted after the first year of Tiantong should be , jujube trees, are all exempted from taxation, which is enough to prove that Your Majesty attaches great importance to agriculture and mulberry. You want to be an official, but you don’t even understand the government orders, and you don’t know what Your Majesty likes, and you still feel that you are a talent that is not appreciated? "

It’s not enough to just talk, he also Complaining in his heart.

[Besides, even if you are talented but not appreciated, you still have to have talent.]

[Talent is like pregnancy, you can't hide it.]

The old emperor likes people like Xu Yanmiao who can speak for him!

He gave the eunuch a look, and the eunuch took note: After returning to the palace, remind the master that this person deserves a reward!

The old emperor looked at Xu Yanmiao, and became more and more satisfied, and at the same time heaved a sigh of relief.

It was him

You're overthinking. Xu Yanmiao is still a clerk in the Ministry of Personnel, responsible for issuing documents. He should know what kind of decrees are passing through his hands, whether they are new or reorganized old policies.

"Xu Yanmiao, you come and tell him at random when to plant mulberry, date, persimmon and cotton."

Xu Yanmiao: "..." The old emperor :

smiled

Xu Yanmiao: "... ..."

The old emperor was confused.

Could it be that... he didn't understand it either?

The old emperor slapped himself in his heart: I let you talk too much! I let you talk too much!

The next moment, he heard Xu Yanmiao calmly say: "The first month, the third month, the fifth month, the seventh month."

The Minister of Revenue: "Ah?"

No way? How come he remembered it was...

At the same time, the prince consort also looked at Xu Yanmiao suspiciously: "Is that so?"

Although he didn't understand farming time, this time sounded weird.

"What's the problem? "

Xu Yanmiao's rhetorical question was very smooth.

Moreover, there was no psychological barrier at all -

[Fortunately, although I don't know when to plant mulberry, dates, persimmons and cotton, but! The prince consort doesn't know either. ! It’s fine as long as you can fool this prince consort. 】

Others: “…”

So you are talking nonsense.

Seeing Xu Yanmiao so confident, the prince consort began to doubt himself.

Could it be... that's really the case, am I ignorant?

Xu Yanmiao remained calm and nodded slightly.

Yes, you are ignorant! Are you

not afraid of being exposed? After all——

【No way, no way, there really is no minister who doesn’t give the emperor face and jumps out to say that what I said is wrong?】

Minister of Finance: “…”

He has just stood up and I bowed with my hands together, and the movement was so big that I couldn't pretend that nothing had happened.

But don't panic.

The Minister of Revenue did not even pause, and raised his voice: "Your Majesty! I think that the son-in-law has not even mastered the farming time, but he is so shameless to tell the princess that the princess has delayed him. It is really... shameless! And he even wrongly accused the princess of this. I think, "The Prince Consort should be severely punished!"

The Prince Consort swallowed a few times and looked at the Minister of Finance. His teeth were itching and he felt inexplicably sad and angry.

Where did I offend you? You are so eager to step on me!

*

After getting the old emperor's nod, the guards rushed forward and forced the consort to kneel on the ground. The old emperor suppressed his impatience and turned to look at Princess Wanshou: "What do you think?"

This was the last chance.

The old emperor thought that if his daughter was still so stubborn and insisted on pleading for Liu Yi, he would lock them up together and let the couple be together.

Princess Wanshou was silent for a moment, then she closed her eyes and said: The

old emperor laughed out loud.

Liu Yi turned pale and was so frightened that he almost blurted out, "Princess, you—you won't always like me, right?"

Princess Wanshou sneered and suddenly I thought it was ridiculous.

It turned out that this person knew that I liked him. As Xu Langjun said, he knew that I was in love with him, so he acted recklessly.

It was false that he was talented but not appreciated, it was false that he had a noble character, and it was false that he endured humiliation and endured it . Injustice is even more fake! Everything is fake! So what has she been feeling guilty about and enduring all these years?

"Daddy, I'm tired and want to go back to the palace to stay for a while."

After getting permission, Princess Wanshou turned around and left. As her skirt swayed, a jade pendant fell from her waist. She didn't notice it, but the husband did.

Later, Princess Wanshou vaguely heard the husband seemed to pick up something and yelled something like "It's you", "Lantern Festival", "little girl", "ten years ago", " Admit your fault"... But as she walked further and further away, he gradually stopped hearing her.

*

The next day, at the court meeting, Xu Yanmiao and Princess Wanshou looked at each other

in bewilderment. Princess Wanshou was wearing her official uniform, with a blank expression on her face.

Xu Yanmiao was filled with anxiety. She was very confused: "Princess Wanshou?"

How could this person be here?

Princess Wanshou lowered her head slightly, raised her sleeves to cover her face, and said helplessly: "Daddy said that the emperor has made a solemn promise. He appointed me as a clerk in the Ministry of Revenue yesterday. I should at least go to the government office for a few days. Therefore, At five o'clock in the morning, he ordered someone to wake me up."

The fifth watch is from three to five in the morning.

Xu Yanmiao looked at her sympathetically.

Congratulations, welcome to join the army of social animals!

Seeing that her face looked strange, he asked, "Did the princess not rest well last night?"

Princess Wanshou pressed her sore eyes and nodded, "I didn't sleep all night."

Speaking of this, she was full of resentment.

Even if she was disappointed with her husband, she had just lost a love. She was originally depressed, sad, and upset in her bedroom, looking at the moon and crying at the sky, unable to fall asleep for a long time. Suddenly, a group of palace maids rushed in and said, "Your Highness! His Majesty asked you to go to court!" She was completely sick.

After a long day of chaos, she had to wear an official uniform, a hair tied up and an official hat, and walked through most of the harem in a daze. She was almost out of breath before she rushed to the court room to wait for the assembly.

All her melancholy and sadness were gone. She was very sleepy and now she just wanted to lie on the bed and have a good sleep.

Xu Yanmiao felt even more sympathetic, but did not say anything, just bowed silently.

After the court meeting began, Xu Yanmiao turned her head and found that Princess Wanshou was very sleepy, but she just didn't dare to sleep.

[This princess is really honest. She actually insisted on not sleeping.]

Xu Yanmiao couldn't help but sigh.

[We are at the back of the line, which is relatively hidden. If we are really sleepy, we can close our eyes for a while and no one will notice. There is no need to worry about sleeping and causing trouble. This kind of court meeting does not mean much to us small officials who issue documents. In the previous dynasties, officials below the fifth rank did not have to attend regular court meetings. The old emperor just couldn't stand the officials sleeping and being lazy, so he increased the number of people attending court meetings!

Princess Wanshou looked at him with tears in her eyes and thought: You are such a good person.

Not only did he help her to resolve her feelings about her husband, but he also taught her how to be lazy!

However, after saying this, all the civil and military officials in the court could hear it, and she was even more afraid to sleep!

So, at the court meeting, Princess Wanshou tried hard to force her eyelids to stay open. As for her husband... he was no longer necessary when it came to sleeping.

Although Xu Yanmo was not asleep, he was also in a daze, waiting for the eunuch to announce the end of the court.

Then, both of them were awakened by the same voice -

"I heard that Your Majesty imprisoned Prince Consort Liu for treason yesterday. I have something to say."

"First, the prince consort is the husband, the princess is the wife, and the husband is the wife. How can the prince consort be charged with treason when he insults his own wife?" "

Second, if he is not treasonous, the case of Duke Song's family should be reconsidered, and they should not be deposed and exiled. This is a heavy punishment for a minor crime, which undermines the judiciary."

"Third..."

In addition to him, several other people also stood up and said a lot to the old emperor. The main idea was that since the princess was the wife of the prince consort, she should fulfill her husband's duties, be gentle, obedient, and regard her husband as the heaven, instead of looking for her parents' home when there was a conflict, and doing things that violated ethics and morality, such as sending her husband to prison and causing her parents-in-law to be demoted to commoners. It

really opened Xu Yanmiao's eyes.

He nudged the arm of the military clerk with his elbow, and the military clerk silently turned his body slightly and moved a few steps to the side.

Xu Yanmiao did not give up and continued to nudge him with his elbow, forcing the clerk of the Ministry of War to turn his head and whisper: "What are you doing?"

Didn't you see that His Majesty was on the verge of rage after hearing what those censors said?

Xu Yanmiao also whispered: "Do you know who those stubborn old men are?"

The clerk of the Ministry of War did not want to answer. He did not want to be involved in these things at all.

But Xu Yanmiao continued to harass him tirelessly, and finally harassed the clerk of the Ministry of War to speak up -

"These people are all censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate..."

The clerk of the Ministry of War squinted his eyes and looked over there, pointing at the first person who stood up.

"He is a fourth-rank Right Deputy Military Governor, surnamed Cui and given name Yi. He is also a legend, a real farmer's son. On his way to study, his family was so poor that he had no food to eat many times, and he had to rely on the help of neighbors. He is different from those so-called farmer's sons who claim to be farmers' sons but are actually farmers and scholars with a few tenant farmers."

"Cui Yi... Cui Yi..." Xu Yanmiao murmured to himself: "I think I have seen this name somewhere."

The pupils of the military department clerk trembled, and he squeezed out a voice in fear: "Should...or...or...don't...don't think about it..."

However, it was too late.

Xu Yanmiao pondered for a moment, revealing a look of sudden enlightenment.

So the furious emperor, Cui Yi who was making an impassioned speech, and the ministers who were as cowardly as to avoid being shot by the old emperor, heard a loud voice in their hearts——

【Cui Yi! Isn’t he the henpecked man? Half a month ago, he was drinking outside and didn’t come home at night. His wife was very angry and spread the word that Cui Yi was fooling around late at night and wanted to beat him to death. Cui Yi was so scared that he didn’t dare to go home, fearing that his wife would block him outside the government office. He even pretended to be sick and took sick leave, hiding in the nearby mountains and living like a wild man for several days. 】

【No wonder she called her husband "wife" so loudly...】