Chapter 48: Daily Fights between the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice

At noon, in the small canteen of Dali Temple.

"Xie Shaoqing has really brought honor to our Dali Temple! We are also proud of this time."

Wang Siqing was so happy that he seemed two years younger. After all, since he became the Dali Temple Chief, the Dali Temple had never been so prominent. Cuju and dragon boat races were no problem for him.

When he was happy, Wang Siqing reached out and patted Xie Hui on the shoulder, muttering that the young are to be feared.

"You saw it yesterday. Old Zong Yongzhao fell into the water and couldn't get out for a long time. It was so funny. I should have brought paper and pen to draw his ugly appearance." Lord Wei, the deputy minister of Dali Temple, slapped his thigh and said it was a pity.

"At that time, Master Xie had not yet come to our Dali Temple. You don't know how hateful that old man is!"

Wei Wenyuan slammed the table and began to tell Xie Hui in vivid detail the incident when Zong Yongzhao visited the Dali Temple at the court meeting that day.

Zong Yongzhao was the right vice minister of the Ministry of Justice. He had previously visited the Dali Temple during a court meeting and said that the Dali Temple was very idle. Most of the cases in the capital were referred to Jingzhao Prefecture. If there were major cases, the Ministry of Justice was in charge. The Dali Temple only reviewed the documents when reviewing cases from various places. Many people in the Dali Temple were just sitting there doing nothing, so he wrote a letter requesting that the Dali Temple be laid off and their salaries be reduced.

This made everyone in the Dali Temple very angry. Another temple minister who had not retired yet was the ancestor of a pig butcher. He had a bad temper since he was a child. He almost got into a fight with Zong Yongzhao in the main hall. Later, he was fined one month's salary for "violating the discipline of the court meeting."

Although Shen Yun did not go up to fight, he was not idle.

He said to Zong Yongzhao: "Our Dali Temple is quiet, and the people of the world live and work in peace. If there are no more murders in Dazhao from now on, I am willing to resign immediately. Master Zong, do you want more cases for political achievements?"

These words made Zong Yongzhao blush. He pointed at Shen Yun and said that he was trying to change the concept and frame someone, and his intention was to kill him.

Although the emperor did not adopt Zong Yongzhao's suggestion to lay off staff and reduce salaries in the Dali Temple, the two departments became enemies because of this. Whenever they met each other outside, they would snort before leaving.

Xie Hui said that before this, he had not known that the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice had such a love-hate relationship.

"Whether the Dali Temple is busy or idle is none of his business. It's hard for him to worry about this. If you ask me, the Ministry of Justice is the one that does nothing. Now that the emperor's rule is stable, and those two idiots don't do anything rebellious, I think the prison in the Ministry of Justice is going to rust."

Today, life is stable. Who would have the guts to cause trouble?

It’s better for the Ministry of Justice’s prison to remain empty.

When the officials in the Dali Temple talked about these things every day, they never avoided Xie Hui, as if they had never regarded him as the emperor's nephew.

In fact, what Xie Hui didn't know was that this was simply because they didn't even think about it...

Of course Xie Hui would definitely not go and complain. He felt that what everyone said was right. Life was stable and peaceful, so why would one go about seeking death?

In his opinion, his uncle's role as emperor was quite boring. On the first day he went out of the palace in disguise to watch a play, and on the second day the imperial guards could kneel outside the Zhaoyou Palace and beg the emperor to put the country first.

One of the adults said thankfully, "We are lucky to have such a good life now. My eldest brother-in-law is in the Ministry of Personnel. When the family had dinner together on Dragon Boat Festival, I only heard him crying. It was so miserable."

He still feels sad when he thinks about it now.

The Ministry of Personnel is in charge of the appointment and dismissal of officials. Now the eldest prince and the third prince are secretly competing with each other. Whenever a position becomes vacant, both sides will secretly put pressure on the Ministry of Personnel to push their own people up. Unfortunately, they cannot offend both sides, so they are worried and exhausted every day.

At this point, everyone in the Dali Temple raised their teacups and drank tea instead of wine to celebrate the peace and tranquility in their Dali Temple.

…

In the afternoon, after taking a nap, Shen Yuan continued to think about writing his own story, when he heard Qingdai come in and say that the young lady had arrived.

Shen Yuan quickly put down his pen, asked Qingdai to clear the papers on the table, and ran out to greet his sister-in-law.

"Sister-in-law, why are you here? Is your brother out?" Otherwise, her brother would definitely not want his sister-in-law to come out.

"No, I asked your brother to read a book. I came here to tell you something."

Shen Yuan saw Yingchun holding a book behind his sister-in-law, so he nodded and pulled his sister-in-law to sit at the desk.

"Manman, take a look at this." He Ying took the book from Yingchun's hand and handed it to Shen Yuan.

Shen Yuan took the book and found that it must have been bound by herself. There was no writing on the cover, but Shen Yuan could see it after opening the first page, "Sister-in-law, you wrote this yourself."

It should be said that this is a book about the relationships among the major families in the capital. Shen Yuan roughly flipped through it. At the beginning, it was written about some families that had marriage relations with the Shen family or had close contacts with them, and at the end, it was the basic situation of some of the larger families in the capital.

From where each family is from, who is the current head of the family, who are the officials in the court and what official positions they hold, to their children, in-laws, which families they have good relationships with, and which families they have bad relationships with, all are written clearly. I don't know how much effort it took to write all this.

"Sister-in-law, I'm sorry to bother you. It must have taken you a long time to write."

"No, I also thought about this when I was at my mother's house a few years ago. Now I just added some new things. Now I have a lot of free time every day, so writing this is not a big deal." He Ying touched Shen Yuan's head, "I should have written it for you a few days ago, but your brother went home and delayed it these days."

Shen Yuan happened to sneeze at this time, and said to his sister-in-law, "It must be my brother who is talking about me and kidnapped me."

"Never mind him."

Shen Yuan opened the book and went straight to the page about Duke Jing’s Mansion.

He Ying did not ask why Shen Yuan was interested in the Jingguo Mansion. After all, she was present when the princess went to her villa. Seeing Shen Yuan watching, she took the initiative to speak about what she knew:

"In addition to his wife, Lady Jing, Duke Jing also has two concubines. However, the three sons and one daughter of Duke Jing are all born to his wife, and the two concubines have no children. This is why people say that Duke Jing and his wife are deeply in love.

When Lady Jingguo gave birth to her little daughter, she was already quite old. They managed to keep the child alive with great difficulty, but she was born prematurely. She was very sick when she was born, with heart and lung diseases. The imperial physician said that the capital was too dry and cold in winter, and it was not suitable for raising a child. It would be best for the child to go to the warmer south.

Shen Yuan silently noted in his mind that he had heart and lung diseases, "Then wasn't he sent away not long after he was born?"

"Yes, at that time, the wife of Duke Jing wanted to go with her daughter, but she didn't go in the end, so she had to hand the child over to the nanny. The Qin family and the wife's family have lived in the north for generations, so when they went to the south, they had to hand the child over to the servants, and then ask the disciples there to occasionally look after her."

"Mammy? Is that the mammy who has been following Miss Qin?"

He Ying shook her head slowly, "I don't know about that."