Chapter 416: Smart and almost demonic
"Your Majesty, you..."
In the study, a middle-aged man in crimson court robes handed over four or five memorials: "Your Majesty, these are the memorials that the Queen Mother of Heaven has revised. Take a look... this place, and here..."
He pointed out one by one: "The Queen Mother of Heaven is smart and almost demonic. She deliberately exposed these flaws because she didn't want the emperor to find out that she is too smart. If you don't consider the emperor, the Queen Mother of Heaven can handle it cleanly by herself."
The emperor chuckled: "I knew that every time she aroused my evil fire, it was to divert my attention."
But he was the emperor after all, how could he be fooled so easily?
But he also liked Yue'er, so he was willing to cooperate with her to be deceived and pretended to know nothing.
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is truly a genius. Look at the way she proposed to govern the country. It starts with enriching the people, and the key to enriching the people is frugality. This political view is not difficult for a man, but the Queen Mother was raised in the inner palace since she was a child. The skills she learned are just the skills of the imperial concubines. Yet, she can have such insights. It is rare."
"There is also this, you see... In any way to govern a country, one must first enrich the people. It is easy to govern when the people are rich, but difficult to govern when the people are poor. How do we know this? When the people are rich, they will be at peace in their hometowns and value their families. When they are at peace in their hometowns and value their families, they will respect their superiors and fear crimes. When they respect their superiors and fear crimes, it is easy to govern. When the people are poor, they will endanger their hometowns and neglect their families. When they endanger their hometowns and neglect their families, they will dare to bully their superiors and break the law. When they bully their superiors and break the law, it is difficult to govern.
Therefore, a well-governed country is always rich, while a chaotic country is always poor. Therefore, those who are good at governing a country must first enrich the people, and then govern it." That is to say, in any way to govern a country, one must first make the people rich.
It is easy to govern when the people are rich, but difficult to govern when the people are poor. When
the people are rich, they can live in their hometowns with peace of mind and value their industries. When they live in their hometowns with peace of mind and value their industries, they can respect officials and fear crimes. If the people respect officials and fear crimes, it is easy to govern. If
the people are poor, they will not be at ease living in their hometowns, and they will despise their own industries, and dare to offend their superiors and violate the law. If the people dare to offend officials and violate the law, it will be difficult to rule. Therefore, in a peaceful dynasty, the people will be prosperous for a long time, and in a turbulent dynasty, the people will be poor for a long time. Therefore, it is easier to rule if the people are made rich first. This is not the view that a woman in the inner house should have at all. Even the officials in the court may not have such a view. Otherwise, there would not be so many corrupt officials in the Great Yan Dynasty. Those who only want to enrich themselves are the culprits who cause the court to lose the support of the people. The emperor took a serious look at it, put away the careless smile on his face, stood up, and did not take his eyes off the memorial: "You describe her as a woman in the inner house, which is already despising her. Even I admire her intelligence and wisdom." He even felt inferior to her. Yue'er had mentioned "the great harmony of the world" before. At that time, he asked what "the great harmony of the world" meant. Yue'er answered and said that she saw it in Jiang Aiqing's study. But later, he talked to Jiang Aiqing about this in a roundabout way, and he found that Jiang Aiqing only had a superficial understanding of this statement and did not understand what the great harmony of the world meant. It can be seen that this is not something in Jiang Aiqing's study at all, but Yue'er herself realized it after reading a lot of books. It's just that she was afraid that she was too smart and would make him jealous, so she pretended to be innocent and cute, and gradually let down his defenses. He now fully understands Yue'er's true character, but he has already fallen deeply in love with her. Even though he knows that she is very capable, he still loves her so much. "Your Majesty, we can't go on like this!" The official in crimson court robe showed a look of panic on his face: "If the mother is strong, the son will be weak, and if the mother is weak, the son will be strong. The more capable the Queen Mother is, the more dependent His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be on her. If this goes on, the Jiang family's relatives will be too powerful, and their ambitions will grow, which is not good for the country!" "Thank you, my dear minister, it's too early to say that." The emperor smiled: "Jiang Yankun is a smart man, he should know that if he dares to have the slightest disobedient intention, I will make the Jiang family disappear in the blink of an eye. Yue'er's achievements are beyond his dreams, and he is only panicking now. How dare he control my son?" He can send the Jiang family to the sky because of his favor to Yue'er, and he can also bring the Jiang family into the mud because of his son. But the Jiang family is Yue'er's mother's family after all, and he doesn't want to touch the Jiang family unless it is absolutely necessary. If the outside world speculates that Yue'er has fallen out of favor and disrespects her, this is not what he wants. Because he knows that Yue'er and the Jiang family's ambitions are only for glory and wealth, not the supreme power above the imperial power, so he allows Yue'er to use her wisdom in state affairs, and allows Jiang Yankun to seek benefits for the family without affecting the prince. Because even if it is not Jiang Yankun, there will be someone else. At least whether it is Yue'er or the Jiang family, they will make concessions for the interests of Xiaotuanzi. Since it is indulgence to indulge anyone, why doesn't he indulge his beloved woman? Scholar Xie sighed: "But human desires are endless. Can the emperor guarantee that the Queen Mother will never have the intention of replacing her?" The emperor's wise eyes were shining with stars: "This is something I have to worry about. My dear minister Xie, there is no need to say more." This means that he will go down a path to the end and will not listen to anyone's advice. "Creaky--" the door of Yu's study was opened. As soon as Scholar Xie walked out, several ministers surrounded him: "What's the matter? What does the emperor say? Does he want to take back the power from the Queen Mother?" "Do I need to ask this? Of course we will take it back. The emperor is not stupid. Will he allow a woman to ride on his head and call the shots? This is not conducive to the stability of the court." Jiang Yankun snorted coldly: "I have never heard of this. When the emperor is here, who can ride on his head? No matter how powerful the Queen Mother is, it was given by the emperor. I have never heard of the Queen Mother sitting in the court to govern, right?" As soon as he spoke, all the officials who had defected to the Jiang family started quarreling with those people at the door of Yu's study. Although they did not necessarily agree with the Queen Mother being in power, they were eyeing the position of the Crown Prince's advisor, hoping to have the opportunity to be a close minister to the Crown Prince in the future. "Bang!" "Bang!" The door of the study was hit hard by something, and the sound of porcelain breaking rang out sharply. The ministers who had just been cursing at each other fell silent. When they reacted, they realized that their quarrel had been heard by the Emperor.
The door was opened again, and Wang Dequan shook the whisk in his hand: "The emperor said that those who insulted the Queen Mother just now will be fined for three months and beaten with 15 sticks. If they do it again, they will not be forgiven. And those who just spoke without restraint and implicated His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will all be dismissed and investigated after the Mirror Department investigates."
There was another wailing.
There was no need to test the emperor's attitude this time. Those who offended the Queen Mother and the Crown Prince would have no way to survive.