Chapter 2 Coronation Ceremony
When Nie Yao was a child, he worked as a bandit with his father.
A lot of money was robbed from the rich.
The portion that Nie Yao got was turned into an agricultural product processing plant, a charitable orphanage, etc., but his father tended to spend money as soon as he had it, and many times it was no different from being cheated.
Later, Nie Yao asked his father to give all the money to him.
It is said that he was thrown into an orphanage.
If I have extra, I will help my father invest it.
He is my father's biological son.
Rather than letting his father get cheated, it would be better to give such a large sum of money to his own son.
"I see."
Nie Yao lay on the bed, his eyes vacant. "Tell Dad to wait a little longer. I'll have someone send the money to him later."
"Yes." Nie Zhixu completed his task and stood up, leaving a final word. "Father Qi said that he would come to the capital once in three months at the latest."
Coming to Beijing?
What are you doing?
Come to ask for money?
Nie Yao suddenly came back to life, his eyes wide with disbelief as he asked, "It must be so tiring to come this far. Didn't you try to dissuade Father from coming?"
"I'll give him the money."
"Just wait a little longer, it won't be long before the paper mill becomes profitable. Seriously, Brother Zhixu, trust me!"
He has said this too many times.
Nie Zhixu quickly lowered his eyes, not wanting his most adorable brother in the world to see the distrust in his eyes.
Afraid that he would be sad.
"I'll go back first, Brother Yao."
"Okay, goodbye, Brother Zhixu. Good night."
After the person left, Nie Yao could no longer sleep.
He lifted the quilt, put on his shoes and socks, and went to the study to work overtime.
Until dawn.
The butler knocked on the door and said it was time to go to the palace to attend the coronation ceremony of the new emperor.
Nie Yao washed, changed his clothes, and took a carriage to the palace.
Generally speaking, the emperor's enthronement ceremony would be grand and luxurious.
Although Nie Yao felt it was unnecessary, that was the rule.
He is just a corrupt official, how could he have the ability to change the ancestral system?
So, even though he was extremely reluctant, Nie Yao, the Minister of Finance who was in charge of the finances, still had to take out 30,000 taels from the tight treasury to host this banquet. That was 30,000 taels, which, if converted into coarse grain, would be enough to feed the idlers at the border for several days!
Even with this, those old guys are still not satisfied.
He raised his beard and said he would pay for it out of his own pocket.
He said, he said the old guys were so rich! Less than a hundred people, and in just two days they raised 800,000 taels of silver.
A full eight hundred thousand taels!
Nie Yao's eyes turned red with greed.
But it was no use being greedy, because the money was not paid into the Ministry of Revenue's account at all. Even if he wanted to help save some money, there was nothing he could do.
He could only tell his subordinates, who were like reincarnated starving ghosts, not to eat breakfast and save their stomachs for eating more in the palace.
“Gurgle gurgle—”
“Gurgle—”
A group of military officers just met up, and before they even said hello, their stomachs started growling. The key point is that these men didn't feel embarrassed at all, and even seemed proud.
"Why, you didn't eat either?"
"That's right! I only drank a bowl of water after practicing martial arts this morning, leaving my stomach empty for today's feast! I don't know how the feast will taste, but I feel like I could eat a whole pig!"
"What's a pig? I heard the imperial kitchen slaughtered a cow yesterday. Maybe we'll have some cow to eat today!"
Slurp, slurp.
The burly men gathered together, talking about either eating or fighting.
A vulgar and rough man!
The polite civil servants looked down upon this and followed the Prime Minister with contemptuous expressions on their faces.
It's not been a day or two since the two gangs looked down on each other.
Before Nie Yao returned to Beijing, military officers were not good at speaking and could not argue with the civil officials, so they always suffered losses. Even their military pay was often withheld by the civil officials who talked about morality but did not do their job.
Military officers only know how to fight.
They have no idea how to handle the intricacies of the court.
When angry, he can only be angry for a short time, and the damage he causes to civil servants is extremely low.
If this continues, civil servants will become more and more unscrupulous.
He was just short of climbing over the military officer's head.
Until the former Minister of Revenue had the audacity to withhold most of the military pay at the border, leaving millions of soldiers hungry and cold.
The general's son Nie Yao took off his armor and returned to Beijing.
As soon as he arrived, he chopped off the head of the then Minister of Revenue, opened the national treasury to send food and wages to the border, and later occupied the position of Minister of Revenue and held it until today.
"What are you looking at?"
"I didn't eat your food!"
"You civil servants just love to put on airs! What? You won't eat when the feast starts?"
Listen, listen, listen!
What are you talking about?
A dignified court official is so rude!
They are simply a disgrace to the Dayu Dynasty!
The civil officials were furious. In the past, they would have argued with these rude men, but today was the day the new emperor ascended the throne.
It is not advisable to add unnecessary details.
For the sake of justice, they had no choice but to swallow their anger, shake their sleeves, and turn away, out of sight and out of mind.
The auspicious time has arrived.
The court musicians played music together.
The emperor also came out at this time.
Nie Yao stood upright in the front row and saw the appearance of the new emperor at a glance - what an old swan!
The new emperor himself is a million times more handsome than his portrait!!
Of course, he looked very familiar. Nie Yao looked carefully for a while, and soon he was sure: the new emperor was the young man he had met in the palace.
You are so brave.
Ju Ran Ge'er dressed up as a man and ascended the throne to become emperor.
What's even more shocking is that the new emperor's unparalleled beauty looks nothing like the old toad of the previous emperor. Instead, he bears some resemblance to Prime Minister Dou, who was said to be a handsome and elegant young man in his youth.
Nie Yao's mind works very quickly when he wants to think.
The key is clear once you think about it.
So cool, so cool.
He dares to do such things.
And there was no intention of killing him to silence him.
Are you sure he won't turn against you?
Nie Yao had never met the new emperor, so he was a little unsure and lowered his eyes in thought.
Eight hundred and thirty thousand taels of silver.
Nie Yao thought that today's ceremony would be extravagant, complicated and wasteful, so he was prepared to stand for a whole day and put several large pancakes in his sleeves.
It ended up taking two hours.
After paying homage to heaven and earth, the new emperor ascended the throne without even paying homage to his ancestors. He took the imperial seal, and all the civil and military officials knelt in homage.
That's it.
That's it!
No, aren't they too blatant?
Are they afraid that others don’t know that they hate the late emperor?
I have never seen Dou Jinyuan so arrogant and wild before.
Does it mean that once you gain power, your true nature will be exposed?
Nie Yao was guessing in his mind.
I was a little absent-minded while eating.
At the banquet.
The military officers didn't think there was anything wrong with such a short ceremony. After all, Nie Yao had done this before, skipping the complicated procedures and spending all the little money on food.
The civil servants felt very frustrated.
Every old face is green.
They couldn't understand why Nie Li Nie was so angry about the coronation ceremony today? They had clearly been on high alert and hadn't let that damned Nie Yao participate in the ceremony!
"absurd!"
Finally, the Minister of Justice couldn't stand it anymore and slammed the table.
Bang!!
The military officers who were eating and drinking were stunned and looked at Guan Gu who made the noise.
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