375, Queen Mother Jin
375, Queen Mother Jin
The Ministry of Revenue arrested so many people at once, leaving a lot of positions vacant.
The former Minister of Revenue was also arrested, and the position of Minister of Revenue became vacant.
Thanks to his achievement in catching corrupt officials, Lu Mingfei was directly promoted to the position of Minister of Revenue, becoming the youngest among the six ministers.
There were many voices of opposition in the court regarding his promotion from vice minister to chancellor within half a year.
At the morning court session, a censor even threatened to commit suicide in an attempt to force him to step down from his position as Minister of Revenue.
Fortunately, he was stopped by the guards nearby and failed to hit the pillar.
Lu Mingfei watched coldly as the censor performed the pillar-banging trick in front of everyone.
After the censor was restrained by the guards, he calmly produced the evidence he had gathered long ago. He looked at Prime Minister Wan and the officials of his faction and said with a smile, "What a coincidence! I have some evidence here of censor Qian accepting bribes."
"To prevent people from accusing me of wronging you, I will read it to you in front of everyone so that everyone can distinguish the truth from the false."
Then, he really read out the evidence in his hand in front of everyone.
"You, you are slandering me! I didn't do it, I didn't do it..." When Censor Qian heard what Lu Mingfei read out, he immediately went crazy and wanted to pounce on Lu Mingfei.
Fortunately, the guard nearby reacted quickly and grabbed the man in time.
Zhao Lang glanced at Censor Qian with a dagger-like gaze.
Lu Mingfei was afraid that if he continued to provoke the censor, who had a weak mental state, he would be driven crazy, so he stopped talking and handed the evidence in his hand to the Minister of Justice. "I have not slandered you. I believe that the Ministry of Justice will give you justice."
"If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself. Censor Qian, am I right?"
He knew that these censors were most concerned about their reputation, so what he did was like stripping them of their face and then throwing it to the ground and stepping on it. So it's no wonder that the other party went crazy and wanted to pounce on him to eat him.
When the Minister of Justice took the evidence, he looked at his former subordinate with complicated eyes.
Facing the gaze of his former boss, Lu Mingfei showed an innocent expression. He was really innocent. He was just defending himself when others were about to throw dirty water on him.
His behavior can at most be called self-defense.
Censor Qian looked at their Prime Minister Wan, and when he saw that their Prime Minister Wan had turned away his gaze, he knew that he had become an abandoned chess piece.
"Drag him away!" Zhao Lang waved his hand with a bad look on his face.
Two guards came forward and pulled Censor Qian away.
The farce of the morning court ended just like that.
After the morning court session ended, Prime Minister Wan left with a dark face.
At the same time that Prime Minister Wan left, Lu Mingfei received a piece of advice from his former boss, "Let me advise you, forgive others when you can."
"Thank you for your teachings, senior." He thanked sincerely.
The Minister of Justice looked at this junior with complicated eyes and walked away.
Behind him were several colleagues.
After the Minister of Justice left, Lu Mingfei walked to the side of the Regent.
Zhao Lang glanced at the direction the Minister of Justice had left and asked the young man who had come to his side, "Did he say anything to you?"
"Let's not kill them all and go too far." Lu Mingfei translated what the Minister of Justice had just said to him to Zhao Lang.
"I think he has become timid because he has been staying in a wealthy place for too long." Zhao Lang snorted and did not take the advice of the Minister of Justice to heart.
Lu Mingfei also knew some of the great achievements of his former boss. Now after making a comparison, he knew that what Zhao Lang said was correct.
However, it is also possible that people are no longer as impulsive as they were when they were young when they reached middle age.
But no matter what, he knew that the advice his former boss gave them was sincere.
"We should be more careful next time. Even a cornered dog will do something desperate. Don't forget that Prime Minister Wan has more power in Kyoto Prefecture than we know." He reminded Zhao Lang in a low voice.
Lu Mingfei still understood the principle of "better safe than sorry". If they were careless and the boat capsized, not only they would die, but also the others behind them.
Zhao Lang still listened to what his master Lu said. Meeting the look in his master's eyes, he finally nodded.
He nodded, not because he was afraid of what Prime Minister Wan would do to him, but because he was worried about the safety of his own Lord Lu.
It seems that we have to arrange more guards to follow Lord Lu, so as to prevent Lord Lu from getting into any accidents by accident.
***
After the morning court session, they all walked out of the hall.
However, today, as soon as they walked out of the hall, they met the palace maids sent by the Empress Dowager, who blocked their way.
"Your Excellency the Regent, the Empress Dowager would like to invite you over." The palace maid who came to invite someone looked up at their young and handsome Regent, then quickly lowered her head.
Zhao Lang did not answer immediately after hearing this.
"You go, I'll go with the others." Lu Mingfei didn't know why the empress dowager wanted to ask Zhao Lang to go, because the empress dowagers would send people to ask Zhao Lang to go every now and then.
In fact, he had some idea of what the Empress Dowager was thinking.
A woman who lost her husband and is helpless in the harem, to put it bluntly, just wants to find someone to rely on.
Now, apart from Prime Minister Wan, the most powerful person in the court is the Regent Zhao Lang. The Empress Dowager in the harem should also know what Prime Minister Wan is thinking.
Therefore, in the mind of the Empress Dowager, she probably felt that Zhao Lang, a descendant of the Zhao family, was more trustworthy.
However, there were some things that others didn't express, so even if they had some guesses in their hearts, it was difficult to directly expose them. So in this matter, Lu Mingfei never mentioned his own thoughts or unhappiness.
But as smart as Zhao Lang was, he could see what the woman in the harem was thinking of him.
"Go tell your master that I have other things to do today and I will see her another day." Zhao Lang said this and left. He didn't want to see the woman in the harem today.
"Lord Regent, you..." The maid who came to invite the guests stepped forward to stop him when she saw that the Lord Regent had just left. "Please go."
"Get out of here!" Zhao Lang was in a bad mood and was about to kick someone. However, just as he raised his foot, a hand held it down.
The one who held Zhao Lang's hand was Lu Mingfei.
He shook his head imperceptibly at the man.
There were so many people here that they couldn't say anything. He could only squeeze the hand of this bad-tempered man and use silent actions to calm his emotions.
"Perhaps the Queen Mother wants to see you because she has something to discuss with you?"
Zhao Lang looked at the young man who was speaking steadily, and finally took a deep breath and exhaled. He then followed the palace maid who came to invite him away.
Seeing Zhao Lang leaving with the palace maid, Lu Mingfei secretly breathed a sigh of relief and left the palace with his colleagues with a normal expression.
***
Not long after, Zhao Lang followed the palace maid who led the way to the palace where the Queen Mother lived and saw the woman sitting in the room waiting for him.
"What do you want from me?" He didn't have a good face towards this woman, and he didn't take her seriously.
Upon hearing this, Queen Mother Jin did not answer directly, but waved her hand and asked the palace maids in the room to leave first.
A cup of tea was placed in the Regent's hand, and the maid carrying the tray and the other palace maids left the room together.
The last maid to arrive did not close the door of the house.
The door was open and two palace maids were standing guard at the door.
But they were all palace maids serving the Empress Dowager, so it didn't matter whether the door was closed or open.
Jin looked at the man standing there and asked, "Are you just standing there talking to me?"
"If you have something to say, say it quickly. If you're fine, I'll leave first." Zhao Lang didn't want to waste time with this woman here.
"I called you here today to discuss the emperor's education." Jin Shi could see that the regent was getting impatient with her. But for herself and her son, she had to find a way to win Zhao Lang over to their side.
How could Zhao Lang not see through this foolish woman's thoughts? Could this foolish woman not think that he was helping her son consolidate the throne by sitting in the position of regent?
He didn't say anything, just looked at the woman, wanting to hear what she wanted to say to him.
Seeing Zhao Lang remained silent, Jin continued, "The emperor told me the day before yesterday that he couldn't understand what the teachers were teaching him."
"So, I wanted to discuss with you whether we can replace some teachers for Huang'er?"
"I heard that Lord Lu, who returned to the capital this time, was a top scholar and very talented. Could he..."
"No!" Zhao Lang refused without waiting for Jin to finish her words.
Hearing Zhao Lang's refusal, the smile on Jin's face disappeared without a trace. She looked at the cold-faced man and asked, "Why not?"
"What is your relationship with Mr. Lu? I heard that he is living in your house now..."
"Do I need to tell you what my relationship with him is? Empress Dowager, I advise you not to care about things that you shouldn't care about. Just be a good Empress Dowager in this harem." Zhao Lang glanced at the woman and left.
The woman sitting in the room looked at Zhao Lang's departing back and angrily threw the teacup on the table to the ground.
Zhao Lang, who had not walked far, heard the voice coming from behind him, but he did not stop.
[It seems that he was too kind to that woman, which is why she wanted to put her hands on him!] Thinking of this, Zhao Lang narrowed his eyes slightly.
Seeing the eunuch chief waiting outside, he directly ordered: "The Empress Dowager has caught a cold. Send a few people to take good care of her."
"Yes, I understand." The eunuch chief replied with his head down.
Zhao Lang took out a purse from his arms and threw it to the old eunuch, then walked away.
"Thank you for the reward, sir." The eunuch chief received the reward and thanked the departing regent.
After finding out what happened in the courtyard, he asked people to replace the eunuchs and maids around the Queen Mother with a few taciturn old eunuchs, old maids, and maids who stayed by her side to "take good care of" her.
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