No one dared to laugh!
"Some people are just like stinky tofu, ugly and smelly, but the more you eat them, the more delicious they become, leaving you with an endless aftertaste!" Baili Tang had already walked in front of Ye Chao. "Lord Ye, your daughter is truly remarkable. She can earn 20,000 taels in five days. Since she's so profitable, the imperial court will no longer provide your Ye Family Army with a single cent of military pay!"
Is this the punishment for Ye’s army?
This punishment may seem light, but it is actually very severe!!
Very heavy!!!
Ye Hongxue: Why didn't I refute it just now? How could he have your skills? He can cook roast duck and compose music... But why did I feel so relieved?
"Your Majesty!! Absolutely not!" Ye Chao kowtowed loudly and humbly. He had never imagined that Baili Tang would punish them like this!
The cunning ministers were all thinking about Baili Tang’s punishment for cutting off the military pay for the Ye family army.
Will the Ye family army rebel?
You, Ye Hongxue, have been deceiving and abusing the emperor to the point of disregarding the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues. You have no legitimate reason to rebel.
But what about the food, weapons, and war horses of the hundreds of thousands of Ye family soldiers? Baili Tang was able to earn 10,000 taels in five days because he exploited a huge loophole—actually, it was just shrewd marketing. Can you, Ye Hongxue, really earn hundreds of thousands of taels in just two weeks?
Are hundreds of thousands of taels enough?
The soldiers have families to support!
What should we do now that we have no money? Should we rob people? If the Ye Family Army robs innocent people, what difference will that make you no different from bandits?
So, no wonder Ye Chao immediately started to kowtow!
This is not a tyrant, this is a madman!
Baili Tang helped him up: "My dear, this floor is very expensive!" Don't break it!
This is why some ministers couldn't help but laugh!
Your Majesty, how can you feel sorry for the floor at this time?
Only then did Lord Zhang wink at Meng Fang: Believe in Your Majesty!
"Everyone, get up!" Baili Tang went to ask Grand Tutor Liang, "Grand Tutor, do you think my punishment is appropriate?"
Grand Tutor Liang bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I feel this measure is a bit harsh. You could set a time limit, say, two or three years. After all, a soldier's duty is to defend the country, not to make money."
The two prime ministers, including Hu Zhennan, also came out to second the motion.
Then many ministers also seconded the motion.
"I seem to have thought of another way to deal with the Ye family. I can do so without withholding military pay. However, Lord Ye, you must be punished with two thousand lashes of cane, and the execution must be completed within two years. If you have made meritorious contributions, the punishment may be reduced or exempted."
In addition, I will give General Ye a couplet to test him. If General Ye can answer it within two years, I will spare you; if you cannot answer it within two years, I will spare you.
I will decide your marriage. No matter who I betroth you to, even if it's Prime Minister Wang, Lord Meng who has multiple mistresses and visits brothels, an eighty-year-old man, a beggar, or Wu Dalang, you must not regret it!
Of course, you can ask everyone in the world to help you make this pair! However, anyone who helps you make a pair must first be punished with three hundred lashes of the cane!
What kind of pair could stump the world? Even within two years, no one could come up with a correct answer?
If he was beaten with 300 sticks at once, I'm afraid his life would be in danger, right?
"Father, two thousand lashes..." Ye Hongxue was only worried about this. She felt relieved! Humph, you tyrant, you still have some conscience!
"I'm fine, but you..." Two thousand lashes, another day of beatings, two years of beatings, an average of less than three lashes a day... He was worried that His Majesty's couplets were too tricky, what if...
"I agree!" Ye Hongxue said.
Everyone is looking forward to the couplets that His Majesty will write. Not long ago, His Majesty wrote: All the scholars in this generation are short-sighted, and they haven't come up with a couplet yet!
Baili Tang wrote: "Lonely and widowed in the cold classroom"!
The biggest difficulty of this couplet is that they all have the same radical, and the artistic conception is smooth and the meaning is coherent, which expresses the loneliness in the heart of a girl to the fullest!
It can be said to be the best of all time!
This couplet is so difficult! And it hides Baili Tang's punishment for Ye Hongxue: If you can't answer it, I will marry you to a dying old man and leave you as a widow!
Bitch!!
Everyone couldn't help but look at Zhang Dongzheng. Zhang Dongzheng quickly shook his head and said, "Don't even mention that I can't answer the question. Even if I could, I, a weak man, can't bear three hundred lashes from Your Majesty!"
Are you still a weak man?
Pooh!
"Eh? My dear ministers, come and take a look! Lord Ye and General Ye don't look alike. Are they biological children? Lord Ye, you adopted General Ye, right?" Baili Tang asked doubtfully. "I met a young man in Xiyun County who looks a lot like Lord Ye. Someone, call them to the palace!"
Soon, Chao Hong led Chao Man'er, Song Chi, Liang Erhu and Xiaolian to the hall.
The young man Baili Tang was talking about was Liang Erhu.
Some ministers began to talk among themselves. If it weren't for Ye Hongxue's outstanding military achievements, she, a woman, would not be qualified to attend the court... The tyrant emperor's behavior was too strange.
Most of the ministers first set their sights on Chao Hong, and then on Liang Erhu - could this chubby boy really be Marshal Ye's illegitimate son... Not to mention, the two look really alike!
Ye Hongxue also looked at her father in confusion, and the latter widened his eyes and shook his head.
Facing so many eyes, Chao Man'er wasn't afraid. Song Chi was afraid inside, but he managed to stay calm. Xiaolian was pretending to be calm, but her legs were already shaking. Only Erhu was so scared that he had already hidden behind everyone...
Chao Hong brought a few juniors and knelt down to salute!
"Everyone must be wondering what qualifications they have to enter this court.
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