"Master Yunqi looks good. I think everything will go smoothly these days."
Could it be bad?
I heard that this guy is now a palm eunuch. Although Lao Zhu hates eunuchs, the rights of these eunuchs have been suppressed.
But I can't stand them. After all, they are the ones who accompany the emperor every day.
It's a three-way love meeting, and as long as they don't hold back, Lao Zhu will always be a little tolerant.
Are the cats and dogs around you no better than the ministers below who don’t know what they are thinking about and who are hard to control?
"so far so good."
After being promoted, Yun Qi was in a good mood and talked more to old acquaintances like Gu Chen.
"The Queen and His Highness the Crown Prince are here today. Mr. Gu has met the Queen. Don't worry, the Queen is the most lenient."
Since the Empress has recovered from her illness, Your Majesty's temper has also improved a lot.
Having been by the emperor's side all year round, he knew that the Queen's illness could be cured not only because of the miracle doctor Xiao, but also because of Master Gu.
Therefore, his attitude towards Gu Chen is also better.
"Thank you, sir, for reminding me."
Gu Chen felt completely at ease. He was summoned alone to the court for the first time after returning from Fujian.
Queen Ma and Biao'er are still there, which means it should be a good thing.
When they arrived at the back hall, before Gu Chen even raised his head, he smelled the aroma of food, Lao Zhu's praise, and the woman's soft laughter.
"Hey, Guangxi is here?"
Before Lao Zhu could speak, Queen Ma hurried up to greet him with a smile, followed closely by Biao'er.
Gu Chen quickly wanted to bow and bow, but was immediately stopped by Queen Ma who raised her hand. She looked at Gu Chen and smiled happily.
"A few days ago, I wanted to ask you to come into the palace to have a casual meal. I wanted to thank you properly."
"But I also thought that you have been away from home for three years, and I was afraid that I would be busy with many things, so I delayed saying thank you until now."
"You haven't eaten yet?"
"It's not a good idea to go on errands when you're hungry. Sit down and eat something quickly. When it's not so hot another day, I'll formally invite you and your wife to the palace for dinner."
"I have given your wife an imperial edict. Since you are a noble person of the fourth rank, I will give her a higher rank when you are promoted in the future."
While she was talking, the palace servants cleverly placed the dishes and chopsticks.
"My dear, is this...?"
"I haven't done anything, but I can't bear my mother's words of thanks."
Gu Chen was forced to sit down by Zhu Biao and heard these words again.
Only then did he realize that it was not Lao Zhu who was looking for him, but Empress Ma who specially invited him to dinner.
Although he knew it was about allicin, he still pretended not to know.
"Sit down first, we are all hungry."
Lao Zhu asked them all to sit down and eat, and his tone was rare and cordial.
"You went to Fujian and you didn't know that the garlic you and Dr. Xiao made cured our queen's illness."
"Although we are the king and you are the minister, our family still has to repay this life-saving grace, not to mention that we have always regarded him as one of our own family members in our hearts."
Gu Chen: "..."
Lao Zhu has a lot of his own family, so of course when he takes over the world.
I'm afraid they are not all brothers in the army, but members of your own family, right?
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Tell me what you want. This is not a reward, but a thank you."
Lao Xiao asked him for many ancient medical books. I wonder what Gu Chen would ask him for?
Gu Chen immediately said: "This is what I should do. It's just that I have been promoted and got a big house. Hasn't Your Majesty already rewarded me?"
Don't tell me, if you suddenly ask him what he wants, he really can't tell you.
Tell Xiongying not to worry about his daughter?
You haven't even written your horoscope yet, and people will say you're being sentimental later.
"Try this porridge. The Queen made it herself. We don't even get to eat it on weekdays."
Lao Zhu ate the porridge with a big meat bun, and ate several bites of side dishes to relieve his tiredness, and then explained to Gu Chen with a smile.
"I gave you a promotion and a big house to live in. It's to reward you for doing your job well, not because you saved the Queen."
"The Queen has said that when it comes to thanking others, you must thank them deeply. Only when your wishes come true will it be considered a success."
"But we are not roundworms in your belly, and we don't know what you want most, so we asked you to come over and ask."
Zhu Biao made the buns for him personally, and even gave Gu Chen a bowl of lean meat porridge despite the obstruction.
"Guang Xi, there are no outsiders here, just say whatever you want."
Biao'er winked at Gu Chen, it was rare for his father to be so generous.
If you pass this village, there won't be this shop.
Gu Chen took a bite of the bun and instantly felt a smell of oil on his head. He quickly took a few bites of pickles to suppress the oil.
"Your Majesty, this is too sudden. I really can't think of what I want."
It’s early in the morning, eating mutton buns?
No wonder there are so many side dishes to accompany it.
Lao Zhu doesn’t know how to maintain his health!
It's okay if they don't, they won't all live that long. If they live to be a hundred years old, their ministers will want to die.
Zhu Yuanzhang put down his chopsticks and said, "Think about it carefully. You must say something. Otherwise, the empress will talk about it and think about it every day."
A girl spends her whole life asking others to owe her love, but she rarely owes love to others.
What's more, it's a life-saving feeling?
Therefore, she often talked about it, always wanting to give Gu Chen something so that she could feel more at ease, otherwise she would always be unable to sleep at night.
If the girl can’t sleep well, can he sleep well?
Seeing that this family had made up their minds today, they wanted him to make some requests or something.
But Gu Chen didn't want to use this opportunity casually.
So he thought for a while and then said: "I really don't know what I want. How about your majesty granting me a promise, and then I can ask for it from your majesty after I have thought about it?"
At critical moments, the emperor's promise can save lives.
"That's fine." Lao Zhu thought about it for a while, and then agreed readily: "Then I will make you a promise, and you can come to us when you have made up your mind."
Give Gu Chen a hundred courages, and he wouldn't dare to make any excessive demands.
After dinner, Gu Chen resigned and returned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an errand.
He now has a separate office, but he is never idle for a moment.
At the moment, Yue Peng, the leader of the censor patrolling the city, is reporting on his work with a small notebook.
"Last night, the censor who patrolled the city discovered that there were five prostitutes and officials. They were all beaten up and fined a total of fifty guan. Their families have used the money to redeem them..."
"Wait a minute." Gu Chen looked up and said in disbelief: "Only five people?"
so little?
This is the emperor's feet. If you throw a brick, you can hit several officials of the sixth, seventh, eighth or ninth grade, not to mention the arresters.
With so many people, only five of them were caught in a romantic relationship?
Is it possible that everyone has started to be reticent and afraid to make mistakes?
But it shouldn’t be. People are so strict about orange colors in modern times, so aren’t there a lot of them?
"It's quite a few, sir." Xue Peng said with a grimace: "We didn't catch anyone in the past few days. You don't know that those people are smart now."
"They are all enjoying themselves at home. Only those who have no money now will risk going to the building. If it takes a while, I'm afraid no one will be able to catch them."
According to the rules given by His Highness the Crown Prince, the money confiscated is divided into two, three and five cents.
If you catch the current censor, you will get a 20% reward, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will keep 30% as funds, and the remaining 50% will be confiscated by the Ministry of Revenue.
This means that as long as they catch a prostitute, they can have two accidents and get legitimate income.
But a long time passed this month, and only five censors who patrolled the city had made this money.
As for other fights and the like, they are prone to accidental injuries and are not very safe. Prison prosecutions are too brain-consuming.
Therefore, it is better to catch prostitutes. You can make money, you don't have to worry about your personal safety, and it doesn't use your brain. It is the best job.
Gu Chen reached out and took the fifteen dollars of funds that his department should receive, then quickly stuffed them into his own drawer and locked them.
"You should be more careful. The issue of money is secondary. The main thing is that we have to correct the atmosphere in the officialdom for His Majesty."
"If these officials are all going to have a good time and drink, how can they still think about doing things for the people and His Majesty, right?"
"So in this regard, you patrol censors must be careful and careful, and you must pay more attention to it. You must not let go of any fish that slips through the net."
"do you know?"
The Metropolitan Procuratorate in the early years of Hongwu could be described as an extremely clean Qingshui Yamen.
If they don't make some money legally, just rely on the Ministry of Household Affairs to mercifully grant them funds?
Then why not let those patrol censors who are on foreign missions die in misery?
In the three years since he went to Fujian, he has spent a total of thirty guan?
Not much, right?
Just like that, the Ministry of Household Affairs kept arguing with him for a long time, and in the end, Xisou Sosou only reimbursed him twenty-five thousand dollars. This was the result of his hard-earned arguments.
Otherwise, he would only be willing to pay twenty-two crowns. He had just thanked him and prepared a memorial to help the person in charge deduct the censor's funds.
Please.
He comes to work in the court to earn money, not to spend money to work, okay?
