Chapter 1773: So Happy to See the Emperor
Manbao saw them arguing and quickly stepped between them. "Come on, stop arguing. You're still brothers. Bai Er, you must be trying to copy my homework again. Be careful or I'll tell the teacher and punish you."
Bai Er was stunned and pointed at her, saying, "You, you are biased! He's your junior brother, and I'm injured, but you don't comfort me and instead stand on his side."
Manbao took a look at his fingers and felt a little miserable. It was winter, so it must be very painful. So he said, "I'll apply medicine to you later."
Bai Shan said: "Give it to me, let me, your senior brother, take good care of him."
Bai Erlang, who was still holding up his fingers, began to tremble slightly, and was not very willing to let Bai Shan take the lead.
Yin Huo was full, so he put down his bowl and chopsticks and said, "Let me do it. Do you have any medicine with you?"
Koko has it, but Manbao thought about it and shook his head, "I'll go back and get it later."
After dinner, Manbao took the three of them to get medicine while muttering to Bai Erlang, "How old are you and still copying homework?"
Bai Erlang insisted, "I'm not copying. I'm just taking a look to understand how it's written."
"You've been reading for a quarter of an hour. I could see you were about to copy, and yet you asked Yin Huo how to change the sentence so it didn't look like you copied it."
Manbao looked at Yin Huo.
Yin or nodded.
Bai Erlang did not argue, but just sighed sadly.
Manbao said to Baishan: "Give him some extra lessons before going to bed tonight."
Bai Shan nodded.
Bai Erlang's expression became even more bitter.
But no matter how bitter his expression was, it was not as bitter as those from the aristocratic families.
On November 15th, when Manbao sat in his seat again at the grand court meeting, the Dali Temple made a judgment on the Xu Yu case and reported it at the grand court meeting.
Yang Rong and Yu Shui were identified as the main culprits. Although he denied it and the evidence was not sufficient, he was still believed to be aware of and involved.
Of course, because he did not admit it and there was no sufficient evidence, he was only sentenced to exile and his property was confiscated.
In addition, although the spies found in the palace this time failed to find the bandit leaders, they did find some important people they were connected to outside the palace. The Dali Temple will continue to investigate.
At first, Manbao thought the sentence was too light and was just an attempt to smooth things over.
Just when I was wondering if the prince would get angry, I remembered that he was not in the palace.
So after leaving the court, he could only walk out with his head down and low-key, pretending that he had nothing to do with this matter.
Now that her backer was gone, she felt like she had to live a little more humbly.
But she soon learned from various channels that the sentence was not light at all. Because the Ministry of Revenue was busy at the end of the year, all the talented people from Chongwenguan like Bai Shan were seconded to the Ministry of Revenue.
A lot of things were confiscated and needed to be registered, but the Ministry of Revenue was short-staffed and they were very busy.
So when they met up at Chongwen Hall that night, they told Manbao, "This time, the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Revenue found an excuse to seize a lot of land and property. Not to mention Yang Rong's family, there are also many other families."
Bai Shan said: "They are all in good positions, or some manors. The Dali Temple found an excuse and then confiscated them by the Ministry of Revenue."
He shook his head and said, "Although we only do some record keeping in the Ministry of Revenue, I've seen many people who went out to confiscate things from the Ministry of Revenue have been injured and are very resentful. I don't think they can do this for much longer."
The Xin Dynasty had only been established for about thirty years, and the bandit spirit in everyone had not yet disappeared. Ministers would quarrel in the court, not to mention outside.
As a result, within two days, Bai Shan came back happily and whispered to her, "The Ministry of Revenue has confiscated a lot of things from Yang Rong's house, not only a lot of land, but also the land, salt fields, and forest farms they set up in the Jiangnan area."
Manbao was puzzled. "The fields and saltworks are fine, but shouldn't the mountains and forests belong to the imperial court?"
"They bought a lot of forest from the local government. I heard they're specifically looking for ancient trees that are hundreds of years old, which are very valuable." Bai Shan now understood the meaning of the things Yang Heshu gave him. He whispered, "The Ministry of Revenue has collected so many new things. The national treasury will definitely be much fuller next year. Didn't you complain last time that it would be difficult to get money from the Ministry of Revenue to build a local medical office after Brother Yang left? Now that we have this money, it will be much easier to convince the Ministry of Revenue to give us money."
Manbao's eyes lit up slightly, and he fell into deep thought, "Xiaoxue Brother Yang is really considerate. It's really unfair for him to go to Xiazhou like this."
Bai Shan asked, "What do you want?"
Man Bao said: "It's a pity that the emperor hasn't been sick recently, otherwise I could recommend Brother Yang to him when I go to treat him."
As soon as she said this, the next morning, an eunuch from the Taiji Palace came to ask her, "Your Majesty, please ask Imperial Physician Zhou to come over."
Manbao's heart tightened, and she subconsciously thought that the emperor had known what she and Bai Shan had said yesterday, and he was coming to settle the score with her.
As she was about to leave with the eunuch nervously, the eunuch looked at her with a puzzled expression, "Doctor Zhou doesn't bring a medicine box?"
Manbao reacted and immediately ran to get the medicine box, then asked, "Your Majesty, is he ill?"
The emperor's health condition could not be inquired casually, but Zhou Man was the imperial physician, and this was one of her duties. Besides, she also had to see the emperor, so the eunuch replied, "Yes, he feels a little unwell today."
Manbao breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he wasn't looking for her to settle the score.
As for why she had just said the night before that she hoped the emperor would be sick, and the emperor fell ill the next day, Manbao didn't want to think about it at all.
The weather is so cold, and people eat grains, so it's normal for them to feel the cold and heat and get sick.
Manbao ran to Taiji Hall with his medicine box to see the emperor.
The emperor was still working normally in his study, but he sniffed from time to time, obviously having caught a cold.
It was not very serious, and it was not time to suspend court and rest. However, since the emperor had been seriously ill last time due to carelessness, he did not dare to be too negligent about such minor illnesses and pains.
So as soon as he felt unwell, he asked someone to go to the Imperial Hospital to ask for help. However, he thought it would be too alarming to ask Xiao Yuanzheng to treat such a minor illness, and he was not used to asking other imperial physicians, so he asked someone to call Zhou Man.
Manbao saluted the emperor and asked, "Your Majesty, would you like to see a doctor now?"
The emperor thought about it and didn't want to review the memorials anymore, so he put down his pen and walked to the couch behind the screen to sit down and let her see him. Manbao immediately followed him in happily with the medicine box.
The emperor rolled up his sleeves and placed his hand on the pulse table. He felt Zhou Man was too happy and couldn't help asking, "What's the good news?"
Manbao shook his head.
The emperor asked, "Then what are you happy about?"
Manbao restrained his expression and said, "No, Your Majesty, I'm still distressed and worried about your illness. How can I be happy?"
The emperor just looked at her face without saying anything. Even though she thought she had restrained her expression, in the emperor's eyes, what thoughts could a child of this age hide?
He usually didn't want to pay attention to it, but when he did, he saw the joy that she couldn't hide between her eyebrows.
Gu Zhong brought the tea and asked with a smile, "Could it be that Imperial Physician Zhou is happy to see the Emperor?"
Manbao nodded immediately, "Yes, yes, I just want to see Your Majesty happy."
I had diarrhea so badly that I was in a trance and almost said "see you tomorrow"
See you at four o'clock in the afternoon
(End of this chapter)
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