Chapter 2591: Legacy
Manbao lay propped up against the pillows, legs crossed, toes twitching. She was still thinking about the mannequin that kept dying and coming back to life in the classroom. Hearing this, she said nonchalantly, "Zheng Erlang's injury is much better. I touched his head today and found that the bones are already growing. Although he still refuses to speak in front of people, I checked his control of his right hand. Now he can write well with one stroke, unlike before, when he couldn't control the weight of the stroke. So I think his aphasia will heal in time."
"The Qizhou land case is a matter for your Secretariat and the various ministries, and has little to do with our Imperial Hospital." Man Bao rested his hands behind his head and said leisurely, "I've thought about it carefully today. This kind of thing is too tiring and requires too much energy. I'll just treat it as a story and not be too curious."
Bai Shan spread out the quilt halfway, patted her feet, and motioned her to lie down. Hearing this, he asked, "Why did you suddenly have this realization?"
Manbao moved in, making room for him to make the bed. He looked at the top of the mosquito net and sighed, "I've discovered that if you act too curious, someone will take advantage of your curiosity and trick you, like County Magistrate Guo."
She snorted, "County Magistrate Guo has greatly satisfied my curiosity today, but his intentions are not quite so good. So I've decided to just listen to his stories from now on and not ask about things that have nothing to do with our Imperial Hospital."
Bai Shanxiao asked, "Can you hold it in?"
Manbao tried hard to hold his breath and said, "I will try my best."
Controlling your curiosity is indeed a difficult thing.
Bai Shan folded the quilt partly, drove the mosquitoes out of the mosquito net, added a piece of incense to the incense burner and lit it, then went to bed.
He lay side by side with Manbao and nodded, "Yes, you should control your curiosity."
Manbao asked him curiously, "Did you take the initiative to ask them about the matter?"
"No," Bai Shan said, "When the incident first happened, I was a little worried about you, so I went to the Ministry of Revenue and took the initiative to inquire about some things. Later, I learned that this matter involved aristocratic families and land seizure, so I stopped discussing it in public."
Unless the emperor asks.
However, for such a major matter, the emperor would not ask these young servants to take charge for the time being.
Manbao swayed his feet and sighed, "My parents should be back home by now, right?"
Bai Shan calculated the days and said, "If it doesn't rain on the way, we should be able to arrive tomorrow afternoon. If it rains, we'll probably have to wait another two days."
After the spring planting was completed and it rained for a few days, Old Zhou and Qian packed up their things and went back to Qili Village with Mr. Bai and his wife.
At that time, Manbao was still in the palace rescuing Zheng Erlang and could not leave the palace to see them off.
"I don't know how my eldest sister's pregnancy is going," Manbao said sadly. "Being an official really doesn't bring freedom. I don't know when we can go back to Qili Village."
Bai Shan said: "Then I guess we have to wait until we are sent out. It has to be a position that is not in a hurry to take up."
Manbao's eyes lit up slightly, and he began to think, "What kind of leave should we apply for to go back? I've already taken my wedding leave, and I can't wait until I give birth before I can go back, right?"
Bai Shan quickly said: "Not really, I still have my family leave."
Bai Shan calculated and said, "Mianzhou is a thousand miles away. Officials can take 25 days of vacation every three years, but..."
Bai Shan turned his head and looked at Man Bao and said, "Your father-in-law and mother-in-law have been living with you in the capital for the past few years. The Ministry of Personnel may not approve this leave."
Only when parents are far away in their hometown will the Ministry of Personnel calculate the home leave based on the official's distance from home. Moreover, Zhou Man has vacation time, but Bai Shan does not, as he has not been an official for three years.
Bai Shan stroked his chin and thought, "Maybe we can try the back door."
Manbao immediately turned to look at him, his eyes sparkling, "Whose backdoor?"
"Of course it's your Majesty's, who else could it be?" Bai Shan said, "Things like vacations are just a matter of a word from your Majesty. Just wait, I'll find the right time to speak to your Majesty later."
Manbao: "We have to find a time when he is in a good mood."
Bai Shan nodded, "I know, he's been in a bad mood recently. This case is likely to cause more trouble. I don't think he'll be in a good mood in the first half of the year."
Bai Shan was right. Although the melons from other people's houses were delicious, the emperor would find out that he was the one who suffered the loss while eating them. How could he be in a good mood?
The more the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice sent to Qizhou investigated, the more information they sent back, and the worse the emperor's mood became.
Arriving at the Queen's palace, he drove out all the palace maids and eunuchs, then angrily told the Queen, "They are simply parasites of the state. Every good piece of land in Qizhou has been taken by them. In the past two years, the Ministry of Revenue was short of money, and we had to endure the shortage of money when we wanted to buy official land. But they sold it to those people at less than one-third of the price we offered to the Ministry of Revenue. What else can they do but parasites?"
The Queen poured him some tea to calm him down, then asked, "What did Lord Wei and the others say?"
"What else can I say?" the emperor said, "Of course I'll investigate further. If we find evidence, I can reclaim some of the land. If not, I'll just have to swallow my loss."
He took a deep breath and said, "I really don't understand. People like the Five Surnames and Seven Families have long made no contribution to the country and the people. Why do officials in the court and scholars all over the world still respect them?"
If it weren't for this, he wouldn't be so restrained in doing things.
The Empress then asked, "Didn't Your Majesty and the late Emperor also claim to be descendants of the Longxi Li clan?"
emperor:……
The Queen said, "All people in the world are the same. They yearn for illustrious ancestors, they yearn for illustrious origins themselves, and they also yearn to make friends with such illustrious people."
The emperor frowned, then sighed after a long pause, "I know these aristocratic families have hundreds or even thousands of years of history, far surpassing even our own. What the world yearns for is the power they represent. Unless their power is destroyed, this hierarchy, this obedience, will persist."
The Queen then asked softly, "Your Majesty, are you going to destroy their power?"
The emperor was silent for a moment before shaking his head. "No, I do not wish to fight them. Fighting will only result in mutual destruction. Besides, the world has only been at peace for a short time, and my old wounds are still there. How can I allow the people of the world to be dragged into war again?"
The queen breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly.
The emperor said, "Let's give it to the crown prince, or even the next emperor's grandson."
He said, "We'll wait until the country becomes strong and the emperor has more say. Zi Tong, I can't possibly witness all of this. You're the only one who can come and see it. You must watch carefully."
He has to die before he can pass the throne to the crown prince, but the queen mother can exist.
The emperor made plans and whispered to the queen, "Please remember this first. When I die, tell the prince."
The Queen said, "Please stop talking nonsense. Also, you've told me so many things to tell the Crown Prince that I'm almost forgetting them all."
"Then take a small notebook and write it down. These are my last words. You must remember them."
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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