Chapter 26
Is this some kind of cuckold counterattack?
The emperor and his officials couldn't help but think.
They had just heard yesterday that the Xirong Emperor had ten cuckolds. They were gloating over it but regretted that the system did not have enough melons to share. But they never expected to hear today that the Xirong Emperor was going to cuckold the emperor.
Do all of you emperors enjoy cuckoldry so much? All the officials silently asked themselves.
Chu Huan suddenly realized: [So this is how battles between countries work.]
This is just like a real business war where the chairman takes secret photos, steals the official seal, and slashes the competitor's tires.
It is so plain and simple that people suspect it is fake. The exciting business wars full of conspiracies and tricks shown in TV dramas are real.
emperor:? ! !
Officials:? ! !
No, no, no, no—normal national wars are not fought with real swords and guns on the battlefield, nor are they calculated back and forth in the court. This is not it! Absolutely not!
Don't tarnish our reputation!
Don't underestimate our plan!
Unfortunately, no matter how loud they shouted in their hearts or how strong their desire to clarify themselves was, Chu Huan and the system could not hear a single word.
Chu Hua: [Last time, when I heard about the Queen keeping a concubine, you didn't tell me the whole story.]
The system felt a little aggrieved: [Everyone has so many melons, I can't see them all. Besides, there can't be too many melons, so I don't dare to use them casually.]
[Didn't the clues about the Fushou Cream and syphilis all tie together because of the Western Rong this time? I was wondering, if they could target officials and their families, why weren't the Empress and concubines safe? Just a quick investigation...]
[Goodness! The young man's story about selling himself to bury his father was fake. The dead man wrapped in the straw mat was the man who had transmitted syphilis to Liu Yue. The young man even played a pity game in front of the Queen, saying his father was a philanderer and his mother hanged herself, and that he was copying books to earn money to pay for his studies. How pitiful and sympathetic he was.]
Chu Huan: “…”
[He arranged for both his parents to die. Hmm, what a filial son.]
emperor:? ? ?
Officials: ???
A son like this is still filial? Is this a sarcasm? It must be ironic!
The system continued: [This life story was directly applied to a man with syphilis. His family actually had a son who copied books to earn money for his studies, but his father sold him to a brothel.]
Selling daughters to brothels is common, but selling a son, especially an only child, is extremely rare. The man, fearing criticism, concealed the fact, saying his son had run away, which ultimately benefited the man.
Hearing this, Chu Huan fell silent, and the emperor and the officials didn't know what to say.
To insist on copying books to earn money and study in such adversity, one must be a person with extremely strong will, but he was ruined by his own father.
Some fathers are truly unfit to be fathers!
Chu Huan sighed: [People always demand filial piety from their children, but never demand love from their parents.]
[It's not that just giving birth to a child is enough. He's a person of flesh and blood. He can't grow up just by drinking wind and dew. Is this what it means to survive on your own...?]
[Forget it, let's not talk about it.] Chu Huan felt a little bored after hearing about such a scumbag. [Let's continue.]
The melon-eating system, however, became timid: [Sister Huan, this person is from Xirong. You and the Queen are already strangers, and this person has taken a lot of detours. The melon is a bit expensive.]
After we get off duty, let's go to the place where the Queen keeps her mistresses. We'll find a chance to get to know her and build a closer relationship. We can buy it later, okay? It'll save a lot of energy.
Chu Huan thought for a moment: [That's fine.]
Officials:? ! !
You can do it, but we can’t!
How can you stop eating melon halfway? It's such a big melon!
How did the Empress keep a concubine? How did the Xirong Emperor cheat on the Dasheng Emperor? Why don't you elaborate on this?
The emperor's face turned black.
Because the content of that gossip involved the Queen, he intercepted part of the report and never passed it on to the ministers. Who knew it would still be exposed!
Seeing that Chu Huan was really not curious, the system didn't intend to say anything now in order to save energy. They were worried about another problem.
Chu Huan's conversation with the system will be heard by everyone within a radius of fifty meters, without any discrimination.
In this case, as soon as she ran to the substitute's mistress and talked to the system for a few words, or started eating the hot melon on the spot, the people nearby would know about it, and the Xirong people would also know about it.
What should we do? The emperor and his ministers were all a little panicked.
Are they going to let those lowly bastards from Xirong covet their Dasheng's heaven-fallen treasure? No! Absolutely not!
Just now, Lin You was eating melons while reporting, and he managed to report the whole thing at the same time.
The biggest thing was over, and the Jinyiwei suppressed Wu Ru and Liu Yue.
Whether they did it voluntarily or under duress, they both worked for the Western Rong and harmed the people of Dasheng. They were both charged with treason and their end would not be good.
Wu Ru knew that he could not escape death, and he was dejected and didn't care about anything anymore.
Liu Yue didn't know what frightened her. She was a little dazed and confused, and didn't even notice Chu Ping in the queue.
Chu Huan felt a little uncomfortable when she saw Aunt Liu, who used to pay so much attention to her appearance and dressing, now looked disheveled and disheartened.
The war between countries actually targeted a group of women in the harem, making them addicted to drugs, contracting syphilis, and even giving birth to children out of wedlock.
Even if they can escape from the clutches of drug addiction and syphilis, they will be stripped of their skin and it will be difficult for them to survive well in this era.
The methods used by the Xirong Emperor are too despicable!
Chu Huan felt a surge of anger in her chest: [Tong'er, I want to make penicillin.]
The system was stunned for a moment: [Do you want to save those who have syphilis? ]
Chu Hua nodded: [Traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture may not be very effective, so Western medicine is still necessary.]
I know it's difficult, and requires a lot of time and luck. The chances of success are slim. Even if I do succeed, there might be allergies, insufficient purity, or side effects, and I won't be able to save them in time. But I'll still try my best. It's better than just accepting my fate.
[And if it were truly developed, it could cure everything from injuries to infections, and would be a great boon to both the nation and the people. Consider it... a blessing.]
She still doesn't know why she was given a second chance at life, but she just takes it as a way to thank God for the blessing he bestowed on her and to give back to the country that gave birth to and protected her and her family.
System: [I don't think there's anything I can do to help, so just cheer Sister Huan up!]
Chu Hua: [How could there not be? You could share those fresh melons with me when I'm frustrated and frustrated, to cheer me up and give me more motivation to research.]
[Huh? Yeah, that's settled then!] The system happily used some melons to spread flowers.
One person, one rule, reached a consensus on this.
After the court session, the emperor summoned the Imperial Hospital to make a judgment: "Penicillin, do you know anything about it?"
The Imperial Hospital Judge shook his head: "I have never heard of this."
"Forget it." The emperor actually guessed that there might not be any truth when Chu Huan said that, but he was a little unwilling to accept it.
There were quite a few civil and military officials and their families infected with syphilis. This was because Xirong's plan had just started. The degree of infection among those people was relatively mild and they were discovered early, so they were temporarily treated with acupuncture and medication.
After that, if the condition does not improve or even worsens, we can only hope that Chu Huan can develop penicillin as soon as possible.
In order to have time to make penicillin, Chu Huan wanted to finish the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue as soon as possible.
She was not stupid enough to take on too much. Even if one person had three heads and six arms, it would be impossible for him to finish all the work.
In order to improve efficiency, assembly line work was adopted and the officials of the Ministry of Revenue were divided into several groups: one group for copying, one group for proofreading, one group for calculation, and one group for verification. As their skill proficiency improved, the speed increased sharply, so fast that the Minister of Revenue, the Vice Minister of Revenue and others all exclaimed in surprise.
And she would go home on time every day after finishing her shift to prepare.
Three days later, everything Chu Huan needed was arranged, and she would be able to start the first experiment soon, which would be a little more relaxed.
【Come on, have some melon. 】
System: [The green hat of the Xirong Emperor, or the green hat of the Dasheng Emperor?]
Ministry of Revenue official: “…”
Jinyiwei: “…”
The system is corrupted by the company of bad people, and has been completely led astray by Chu Huan - it gets particularly excited when the topic of cuckoldry is mentioned.
Chu Huan was slightly stunned: [Why is there an option for Xirong? Aren't you trying to save melon energy?]
The system snorted proudly: "As an excellent melon-eating system, 188 has learned to be self-reliant. He has accumulated over 20,000 melon energy in three days. Of course, he can afford to indulge himself!"
The pride in his tone was so strong that Chu Huan wanted to rip the system's head off.
Ministry of Revenue official: “…”
Jinyiwei: “…”
What you call being self-reliant means diligently investigating corruption during the day, and at night, after Chu Huan falls asleep, you hum along while doing imperial examination questions and eating melons?
Do you know how miserable the entire court is because of your behavior of working for twelve hours a day?
The Jinyiwei who recorded the conversation between one person and one unified person had to be replaced for more than a dozen times because of muscle cramps in their hands. Due to the shortage of manpower, people were transferred from the Twelve Prisons. The eunuchs' physical fitness was not as good as that of the Jinyiwei, so more than twenty people had been replaced.
Commander Lin You and all the Jinyiwei were either catching corrupt officials or on their way to catching corrupt officials for twelve hours a day. He had not had a good night's sleep in four days, and the dark circles under his eyes were as heavy as those of an iron-eating beast.
This is the first time that the Zhenfu Division has urgently expanded its recruitment since the current emperor ascended the throne.
The newly recruited employees were sent out to work without much training. This excited the group of newcomers and they worked hard, and once they worked hard, they all gave in.
The Ministry of Revenue had to check the accounts and collect the money seized from corrupt officials. The extra money in the treasury had to be distributed to various departments that had been crying out for money for a long time. This was the first time they experienced the feeling of counting money until their hands cramped.
The above is the impact of investigating corruption during the day, and the impact of doing imperial examination questions at night is even more excessive.
Chu Huan spent a lot of money to get so many sets of examination papers for Chu Qin, which included the top three candidates and outstanding Jinshi in every imperial examination since the current emperor ascended the throne, as well as the speeches, policy essays, poems, etc. of some officials. The hidden gossips in them were countless.
The emperor and his officials were so busy with government affairs during the day that they wanted to relax by eating some melons. However, the latest melons were either about corruption or the imperial examinations, mixed with bribery, cheating on test questions, taking exams for others, and murder. They had no choice but to continue working overtime.
The Ministry of Justice did not have enough officials, so it dragged the Dali Temple into the fold, and the two departments went down together, hand in hand.
The military generals who did not have to take the imperial examinations or investigate cases, after several days of watching the imperial examinations, were able to discuss the imperial examination questions with the civil officials.
The civil servants who entered the officialdom through the imperial examination had an increasing sense of crisis. They increased their work efficiency again, compressed their sleep time, and studied hard, fearing that they would lose to a child whose job was to eat melons.
The military generals looked at it and thought, "Oh no, the civil officials are rolling up? Then we can't lose either!"
Start daily exercises and train your subordinates. Forget about books, as they are not what military generals are good at. But think about it, even a child in the melon-eating system works so hard, so the fathers and grandfathers who have children and grandchildren should not be too lazy.
Okay, isn't it just a roll? I followed it with my nose pinched!
The civil officials saw that the military commanders had already won. How could the civil officials in such a prosperous era lose to the military commanders? Don’t we have any dignity?!
Roll! Roll till death!
You rolled it up, I rolled it up, and he rolled it up, and the whole court was in a mess.
I’m so tired, please!
Chu Huan and the system had no idea that they were almost driving the entire court crazy, and they were still happily watching the show.
The system waved its hand and said proudly: [I bought both!]
After a while, the system, having finished eating the melon, came back with a laugh: [Wow, hahaha—Sister Huan, you definitely can't imagine how bizarre the Xirong Emperor is!]
Chu Huan's curiosity was piqued: [What's going on?]
System: [In order to cuckold the Dasheng Emperor, he found several women who looked somewhat like the Dasheng Emperor on the border between Xirong and Dasheng to have children with. He then picked out the son who looked most like the Dasheng Emperor and sent him here!]
Chu Hua: [Oh wow!]
Officials from the Ministry of Revenue and Embroidered Uniform Guards: Oh my!
Chu Huan extended a tentative paw: [So, who does the Xirong Emperor like, the Dasheng Emperor or the Dasheng Empress?]
Does the young man know that his biological father is the Emperor of Xirong? Will he think he is the son of the Emperor of Dasheng after seeing him? Who is cuckolding whom?
System: [Huh? ? ?]
Ministry of Revenue officials and Imperial Guards: Eh!!!
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