Gu Mingzhen picked up the memorials dropped by the little emperor one by one and advised, "Your Majesty, don't get angry. Anger is harmful to your health."
The little emperor said angrily:
"At your age, you still don't know how to explain things clearly. You're so vague and all you do is show off your knowledge! You write thousands of words, but you veer off topic by a mile. You talk for a long time but never get to the point! How clearly and clearly does Lord Fukuzawa write?! They actually have the nerve to say Lord Fukuzawa's memorial is not in accordance with the rules and is too crude and uncultured!"
Gu Mingzhen smiled and said, "Lord Fuze must have had little education, and he didn't ask anyone else to write for him. He wrote the entire memorial himself. His writing style and handwriting naturally wouldn't have impressed the ministers, but his reasoning is clear and his dedication to the people is truly remarkable."
Thinking of Xia Daohua's handwriting, the little emperor couldn't help laughing.
I don’t know how Xia Daohua did it, but the words on the memorial paper were written quite well.
It is certainly not comparable to those ministers. Overall, there is no order, and it is even a bit crooked, but it is rare that there are no missing limbs.
Moreover, the handwriting is very delicate, the ink is bright and moist, and it has a faint luster and fragrance.
Maybe it’s because women are naturally more careful?
Little did the emperor know that Xia Daohua was not very good at calligraphy, so she simply used a ballpoint pen. This not only made the marks look like brush strokes, but in fact, it was not much different from hard-tip calligraphy.
In order to write fewer words, Xia Daohua really racked her brains.
Unfortunately, her classical Chinese proficiency remained at the vernacular level of Ming and Qing novels. Even though she referred to some famous classical Chinese passages in history, her writings were inevitably too down-to-earth.
In the eyes of those ministers who are well-educated, it is naturally not worthy of being mentioned in public.
Their attack on her memorial started with its format and logic, which was reasonable.
Xia Daohua, upon hearing about this, felt no pressure at all. She threw out a bombshell, then completely let it go, completely ignoring the situation and leaving the rest to the little emperor and Gu Mingzhen.
After all, this country belongs to their family. If they themselves don’t care about it, how can they expect others to do so?
After about half a month, it was estimated that all the memorials criticizing Xia Daohua had been submitted to the court, so the young emperor started to discuss the matter again during the court meeting.
As a result of the discussion, the court became a mess. Two ministers who disliked each other rolled up their sleeves and started a fight.
At Gu Mingzhen's command, Li Gan led the cavalry in brocade uniforms to drag the two ministers out.
At this moment, the court, which was as noisy as a vegetable market, suddenly became quiet.
The young emperor angrily scolded, "I asked you to pool your wisdom, not to imitate the shrewd people in the market and fight and sulk! Do you still remember that this is the court? Do you still have any dignity as a minister?"
The court officials were silent for a while, but some still refused to admit defeat: "But isn't this all Lord Fukuzawa's fault?"
Xia Daohua smiled at him, and his official hat flew off his head and landed on the ground.
The official who had complained was suddenly startled.
Falling off the official hat in the court is not only a very unlucky omen, but also a crime of being disrespectful in front of the emperor!
Gu Mingzhen waved his hand, and the Jinwu Guards on the steps quickly dragged him down, resolutely preventing the Jinyi Cloud Cavalry led by Li Gan from taking the head.
The court fell silent again. The young emperor raged, "Don't hide your ideas. Tell me everything! Whoever tries to make a sawed-off gourd today will be disqualified from coming here again!"
After three noisy court meetings, the three projects of road construction, official postal service, and water conservancy projects were finally approved and supported by the majority of court officials, and were implemented with the capital as a pilot city.
Among the ten people-friendly policies proposed by Xia Daohua, the most controversial one was to have the Jinyi Yunqi inspect customs.
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